Episode 410 - Oreo-Gate: When Cookies Kill
Remember the peanut allergy craze, when every other kid felt their throat constrict at the sight of a Snickers bar and Southwest Airlines ha...
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A podcast that explores the unknown, the unexplained, the mysterious, the unsolved and the just plain strange. Bizarre crimes, disappearing people, odd creatures, creepy phenomena, it's all...
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20 of 312 episodesEpisode 408 - Betty and Barney Hill's Long Drive Home - Part 1
The Hills figured they would get home to Portsmouth, NH no later than 3 a.m. after their late honeymoon in Canada. They would not. A strange...
Episode 407 - Culinary Craziness
Remember when we all used to eat things laced with radium? No, of course, you don’t, because you’re alive. But people used to eat irradiated...
Episode 405 - Why Dogs Should Wear Pants and Other Bold Ideas of G Clifford Prout
Who hasn't been embarrassed at a friend's house when their dog licks its balls right in front of you. Or their ca brazenly showing off its b...
Weird Bit 75 - Mail Babies
Have you ever seen your postal carrier walking around with that big bag over their shoulder and thought - I wonder if I could mail my baby?...
Episode 406 - Mars One: The Dream That Never Died Until It Did
The Mars One program was called an interplanetary Fyrefest. That's harsh. It was the dream of a Dutchman to send brave astronauts to coloniz...
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Episode 405 - Why Dogs Should Wear Pants, and Other Bold Ideas of G. Clifford Prout
Who hasn't been embarrassed at a friend's house when their dog licks its balls right in front of you? Or their cat brazenly showing off its...
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Episode 404 - Divorce, Alpine Style
What's the best date for a new couple? Dinner and a movie? A concert? A rave? Maybe something cultural like a museum? Or perhaps a steep cli...
Weird Bit 74 - Weird World Weird News Weird Bit: The UFO Files
In our first Weird World Weird New Weird Bit (WWWNWB, rolls off the tongue), we report on the recently released UFO files. Some puzzled astr...
Episode 403 - Winning the Nobel Prize for Murder: The Missing Scientists Conspiracy
What if it wasn't just RFK, Jr. driving away the best scientists in America? What if someone was abducting or killing the nation's best brai...
Episode 402 - This is Zodiac Killing - Part 2
Part 2 of the Zodiac case focuses on the the potential additional victims of the killer that may have gone unnoticed. But Zodiac is probably...
Episode 401 - This is Zodiac Killing - Part 1
America’s most famous monster cemented his status as much with his attention-seeking toying with press and police as he did with his demente...
Episode 400 - First Zodiac?: The Cheri Jo Bates Murder Mystery
Was there a Zodiac murder before we knew the name? The method was similar, the victim, and then the boasting letters to the police and paper...
Episode 399 - When Your Dad Starts A Sex Cult
Content Warning: There is talk of suicide, sexual assault, coercion and manipulation. Please skip this episode if you need to. Maybe he had...
Episode 398 - Flashpoint: The Trinity UFO Crash - Part 2
The two boys who had seen the UFO crash in the New Mexico months before Roswell waited until they were old men to tell their story. They had...
Episode 397 - Flashpoint: The Trinity UFO Crash - Part 1
Most folks date the modern UFO era from 1947. Kenneth Arnold saw those skipping saucers in Washington and Roswell became extraterrestrial cr...
Episode 396 - EBay's Revenge
In 2019, a niche website focused on e-commerce made a passing reference to some minor legal trouble the head of eBay was in. Months of surve...
Episode 395 - Oak Island Treasure - Part 3
The money pit seems a perfectly devised trap - dig tantalizingly close to the treasure and the sea fills it yet again, wrecking your dreams....
Episode 394 - Chalino's Last Note
Chalino Sanchez had left behind a dangerous life in Sinaloa and by the early 1990s had become a narcocorrido singing star in the U.S. He had...
Episode 393 - Oak Island Treasure - Part 2
What is at the bottom of the Oak Island Money Pit? We have theories. So many theories. Buried priate treasure. Loot from a French pay ship (...