The Some Weird Podcast

We're back for a 7th season and we're kicking it off with supernatural trials. There's all kinds of defenses to use in a murder trial but have you ever heard of the ‘Bear Walker Defense'? It's definitely a thing. Not into true crime? No problem! What do you think about real estate law? Did you ever buy a house only to find out later it was haunted? The case of Stambovsky v. Ackley resulted in America's only known legally haunted house. Some weird, b'y!   Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages.   Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com   Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at  SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on X @SomeWeirdPod

This is our last episode for Season 6. We welcome back our guest host Ted and we talk about more stories from Newfoundland and Labrador. We talk about the origins of the Screech In Ceremony where you can become an honorary Newfoundlander in just a few easy steps. Then we visit a forgotten monument that was meant to commemorate the completion of the Trans-Canada Highway. Finally, we reminisce about food and beverage that are native to or common in our province.   We are taking a short hiatus to prepare for Season 7. Please stay subscribed so you'll be notified as soon as our our new episodes are available. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages.  Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com   Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at  SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on X @SomeWeirdPod

This episode was inspired by the super popular and super awesome video game and HBO adaptation “The Last of Us”. In the series, cordyceps evolve to spawn a zombie pandemic but is this more than science fiction? While nothing of this magnitude is likely to happen, the fungus ergot has been cited as the possible cause of an event in 1951 where many people in a small town had some pretty intense hallucinations after eating bread made from questionable flour. Ergot is also a possible explanation for the 1518 Dancing Plague in Strasbourg where it is said hundreds of people were compelled to dance even though they were exhausted and in pain. Some people even lost their lives. The potential cures for the Dancing Plague were almost as weird as the affliction itself!    Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages.   Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on X @SomeWeirdPod

No brand new episode this week. Instead, please enjoy this remastered episode from our first season. Get ready for the creeps as we get personal with our experiences with sleep paralysis or, as it is called in Newfoundland, The Old Hag. In this nightmare fuel episode, we look at its origins across multiple cultures, what the heck is going on when we sleep and dream, and how can we prevent this terrifying encounter from happening.   Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages.   Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com   Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at  SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on X @SomeWeirdPod

In this episode we look into the namesake of Munchausen's Syndrome. This is a condition where people fake being sick in order to gain sympathy from others. Then we look at the very strange case of Gypsy Rose Blanchard who suffered her whole life at the hands of her own mother who had the related Munchausen's By Proxy Syndrome where a caregiver fakes or induces illness in their dependent to get sympathy from others. Spoiler alert: It did not end well for Gypsy Rose's mother.   Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages.   Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com   Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at  SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on X @SomeWeirdPod

Newfoundland and Labrador, joined Canada in 1949 with its own fully formed society. Many aspects of our cultural heritage persist today including our language and folklore. In part 1 of this bonus re-release episode we share listener stories including death tokens, a ghostly chicken, the Old Hag and more. In part 2, we'll share stories of heroes and legends from the Newfoundland Rangers to the rescue of almost 200 Americans from their shipwrecked Truxtun and Pollux by civilians in a small outport community to the possibly supernatural origins of Father Duffy's Well. Then, we are so proud to bring you folklore and tradition specifically from Labrador. Ever hear of the evil polar bear the Nanurluk? What about the tradition of Nalujuk Night? You better watch out, you better not cry or you'll face the Nalujuk on Old Christmas Day.   Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages.   Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com   Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at  SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on X @SomeWeirdPod

Human bodies are generally made up of the same stuff but some peoples' chemistry does some pretty freaky reactions. In this episode we talk about Gut Fermentation Syndrome where your body turns your gut into its very own microbrewery when you eat carbohydrates. We also delve into the mysterious case of Gloria Ramirez whose trip to the ER resulted in several people around her getting sick. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com  Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on X @SomeWeirdPod

High school students have had “Macbeth” on their required reading list for generations so we are all at least somewhat familiar with the play: witches tell a guy he will become king and his ambition drives him to do terrible things and eventually causes his downfall. You may also know that it is bad luck to say “Macbeth” in the theater but why is that? In this episode we will examine possible reasons and let you know what to do to break the curse should you accidentally invoke it.         Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages.   Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com   Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at  SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on X @SomeWeirdPod

From Batman to Spiderman to The Tick and everything in between, superheroes are engrained in our pop culture. Whether you are a fan or not, you know the usual story: a seemingly normal person has an extraordinary experience that grants them some superpower that they must determine whether to use for the power of good or evil. It's great entertainment! But there are some real people who claim to possess actual superpowers. In this episode, we look are two such superpowers: human magnetism and infallible recall. Would you want one of these powers?    Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on X @SomeWeirdPod

At some point in our ancient history, we figured out we need to handle the mortal remains of our dearly departed. There have been three main methods: bury, cremate, mummify. But there have also been those on the fringe who figured they had a better idea. In this episode we are talking about a couple of these unique and questionable postmortem decisions. First, we look at magical necropants from Icelandic folklore and then the Hand of Glory aka the Ultimate Skeet Tool. Do we tie in a Newfoundland story? You bet your sweet cotton socks we do!    Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at  SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on X @SomeWeirdPod

Some people think we only get one life to live and others think our spirit or soul returns again and again in different bodies. While past lives have never been 100% scientifically proven, The Division of Perceptual Studies at The University of Virginia has been studying this possibility for decades. In this episode we present two such cases. First, an American boy named James Leininger who remembered a past life as a WWII pilot. Then, the case of the Pollock Twins who are British girls who believed they were the reincarnations of their sisters who died in a car accident before they were born. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at  SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on X @SomeWeirdPod

Every year we hear about someone randomly poisoning Halloween candy. This is a persistent urban legend but is based on a true story that happened in Texas in 1974. In this episode we will tell you all about piece of sh*t Ronald Clark O'Bryan's unimaginable crime. Then, on a much needed lighter side, we learn about the folktale of Stingy Jack and how the Jack O'Lantern came to be. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages.   Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com   Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at  SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on X @SomeWeirdPod

The Mandela Effect is a very weird phenomenon where a significant number of people remember an event or piece of pop culture clearly in one way while a different significant number of people remember the same thing in a very different way. The term was coined by a paranormal researcher named Fiona Broome who posted on the Internet that she clearly remembered South African civil right leader Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s. To her surprise, she learned she was not the only one who had this memory. In this episode, we discuss some examples of the Mandela Effect and explore both supernatural and scientific explanations.     Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages.   Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com   Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at  SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on X @SomeWeirdPod

Based on listeners votes we present Newfoundland-themed stories about statues, pirates and tables! Special guest Trivia Ted is all about statues great and small. Where did they come from and why do we have them? Barry gets into famed pirate Peter Easton and his possible buried treason which is allegedly protected by a ghost. Then Crissy tells table-centric urban legends from Memorial University of Newfoundland.   Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com   Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at  SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod or Instagram SomeWeirdPod

Forget the Tinkerbell image of fairies and join Crissy and Barry as they expose the dark side of the Newfoundland Fairies. Be careful of fairy paths when you are out in the woods and, whatever you do, do not allow yourself to be found without a shovel! Also, what is the deal with bread? Find out in "The Fairies".   Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages.   We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com   Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at  SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod or Instagram SomeWeirdPod

There have been people in the world gifted with greater resilience that most. Call them survivors or just call them lucky. In this episode we tell the story of the multiple attempts to end the mad monk Ra-Ra-Ras-pu-tin lover of the … well, you know and of even more attempts to un-alive a poor, unfortunate man named Michael Malloy. One was targeted to end his growing power and influence over the rulers of pre-revolution Russia and the other was targeted for life insurance. Both were as tough as a carpenter … the bug not the builder. This will all make sense after you listen to this wild episode of The Some Weird Podcast. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod or Instagram SomeWeirdPod

Aviation Disappearances In this episode we dive in to the origin story of one of the world's most mysterious places – The Bermuda Triangle with the tale of Flight 19. What could have happened to this seemingly normal military exercise at the dawn of The Cold War? Then, we tell you about the modern disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370 which seemed to have blipped out of existence in 2014. These aviation disappearances are definitely some weird! Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod or Instagram SomeWeirdPod

Do you have a favorite sports team? Barry does. It's the Cleveland Browns. He loves them. That's weird enough but in this episode, Barry tells us the far weirder story of a war that broke out between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 where the catalyst was a soccer game. Then, Crissy turns the clock way back to the1859 when there was almost a war between the United States and the future country of Canada over a pig that just couldn't stay away from a farmer's delicious potatoes. We hope you enjoy these stories about weird wars. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod or Instagram SomeWeirdPod

Season 5: Bonus: The Montreal Screwjob Here is a special bonus episode for you wrestling fans out there! This story was originally cut for time from our Weird World of Wrestling episode but we are glad that we can present it for you this week. The Montreal Screw Job is the story of how WWE owner Vince McMahon and his co-conspirators plotting to screw over Canadian professional wrestler Brett ‘The Hitman' Hart in 1997… or is the story of one of the greatest ‘works' of al time? Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod or Instagram SomeWeirdPod

Get ready for a trip down the rabbit hole with stories about Conspiracy Theories that turned out to be true. First, it's all about MKULTRA and the quest for mind control then we look at the lengths Big Tobacco went through to refute the scientific proof that cigarettes are hazardous to your health. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod or Instagram SomeWeirdPod

Happy Holidays to all! In this **remastered** episode from Season 1 we talk about Christmas Mummering in Newfoundland, a truly unique tradition of dressing up in the craziest of homemade disguises and traveling house to house performing and dancing for payment of booze and Purity syrup. Sounds fun, right? But, as always, there is a darker side. What happened to make this Christmastime tradition illegal for 100 years and how do horse skulls fit in? Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Here is North America, we have Christmas traditions like hanging stockings on the mantle, setting out milk and cookies for Santa, and putting a decorated tree in our homes. But Christmas traditions are as diverse as the people who celebrate them. In this episode, we look at some of the weirdest Christmas traditions from around the world. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Some hoaxes are meant to scam you out of money. Some are to prove a point with fake news. Some are just for fun. In the 1860s, a staunch atheist wanted to prove the bible story of giants roaming the Earth a fraud and came up with an expensive and elaborate hoax now known as The Cardiff Giant. You can still see it in Cooperstown, NY along with the baseball hall of fame! Over a hundred years later, a mystery person launched and internet campaign to save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. This was purely for fun but it ended up being used as a tool to teach kids about internet safety. Want to check it out? The site is still up: https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Werewolves. Today we think of them as a classic Halloween costume or a recurring movie monster but stories of these beasts have been around for hundreds if not thousands of years. In this episode we will talk about the werewolf mythos including, but not limited to, the Michael J. Fox vessel Teen Wolf. We then take a turn to the possibly true story of The Southend Werewolf. Did some poor afflicted Englishman really turn into a werewolf? Was he suffering from lycanthropy? Did Ed and Lorraine Warren exorcise the beast? Who knows?! But we had fun talking about it! Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

The Some Weird Podcast goes to Greenland! This gigantic icy island has been our semi-obsession ever since we told the story of a Greenland shark choking on a moose hide on one of Newfoundland's majestic beaches. We will tell you all about an elite military group called the Sirius Dog Sled Team and one time when they had to fight the bad guys. We also have the story of Project Ice Worm. This Cold War era super-secret under-the-ice military base was intended as a strategic defense against communism but was it really viable? Learn all about it in the episode. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

In this inaugural episode of Season 5 we finally feature weird stories from one of Barry's all time favorite sources of entertainment: professional wrestling. We talk about how a carnival side show attraction grew into the multi-million-dollar sports entertainment spectacle we know it as today. And since we specialize in bizarre stories, we tell about the strange tale of one professional wrestler who lived on the lam for years after writing bad checks, to being mistaken for a victim of the Jonestown massacre, to finally being caught after being arrested for attempted murder. It's a twisted tale centered around an industry that we put firmly into the Some Weird file. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

We'll be back with all new full-length episodes on Halloween 2022. Check out the trailer to see what is in store this season of the Some Weird Podcast! There's one thing about it: stories out there are Some Weird! Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

This is the really real final episode of Season 4. In this second part of a two-parter Barry tells us about some of the strange holidays and observances we celebrate in Newfoundland and Labrador. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or reach us on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

We have so much material for our final episode of Season 4 that we turned it into a 2-parter! In this episode we are joined by our returning guest Trivia Ted to talk about the a surprising reaction to Canadian confederation from a group of Newfoundland scallywags, a Newfoundland dog who rescued young defenseless children from the Seine and quiz ourselves on weird Newfoundland sayings and culture. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or reach us on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Our brains are probably the most complex things in the known universe. These mega organic computers control our bodily functions and also our minds. If we are lucky, our minds remain clear and all is good but sometimes something can go so wrong that we experience terrifying delusions. Both Capgras Syndrome and Cotard's Syndrome are incredibly rare mental conditions. Sufferers of Capgras think someone close to them has been replaced by a double and those with Cotard's Syndrome may think that parts of their bodies do not exist or even that that are already dead. These are definitely some weird! Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or reach us on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

EXTRA WARNING: NOT SUITABLE FOR ANYONE UNDER 18 We at The Some Weird Podcast are animal lovers so it was inevitable that we would do an episode dedicated to weird animal stories. We start with a good old conspiracy theory and a couple of stories of parrots who helped solve murders. Then things get real weird when we delve into the world of a secret dolphin experiment where one researcher took her work a little too personally. Hold on to your horses because this one is a doozy! Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or reach us on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Do you ever wish you could change the weather? Why does it rain on the weekend when you want to go to the beach or for a hike but then the sun shines bright on Monday morning just in time to go back to school or work? Unfortunately, Mother Nature cares very little for your weekend plans. But did you know that there is a conspiracy theory that says HAARP can manipulate weather? That one is dubious at best. But consider the case of Charlie Hatfield the Rainmaker. His story seems to show that at least one person was able to conjure rain through science…maybe a little too good. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or reach us on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

The Some Weird Podcast does not have a new episode this week because we were affected by COVID. Fortunately, we are able to present a remastered version of our very first episode: The Bell Island Boom. We have been able to polish the audio and edit the story to be more aligned with our current episode style. We will be back in 2 weeks with a brand new episode. In this episode we ponder what could have caused a mysterious BOOM over the Bell Island in April of 1978. Was it natural? Was man-made? Was it a heavenly bowling tournament? Who tried to figure it out and what do the experts think? How can Barry weave wrestling into the conversation? All these questions and more are explored in “The Bell Island Boom”. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Do you think psychic powers are real? Or are they just fun parlor tricks meant for entertainment? In this episode, we tell the story about a man named Peter Hurkos who claimed to have psychic abilities and who consulted on various criminal cases including that of the Boston Strangler. Then we flip it 180 degrees to talk about the Amazing Randi; a man who claimed to be a charlatan and a liar and who set out to debunk these so-called psychics. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Not everyone lives within the confines of socially agreed upon limits whether by choice or by happenstance. In this episode we present the stories of The Green Children of Woolpit and The Bush Boys of British Columbiaand how the people of the communities they wandered into reacted to these strange and seemingly feral people. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. We are always looking for story ideas. You can submit your ideas or your personal stories or learn a little more about us and the podcast at our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Talk about pop music? Don't mind if we do! Did you know that perennial party song ‘Louie Louie' was investigated by the FBI for possible obscene lyrics? Or that the 80s power ballad ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart' was originally meant to be a vampire love song? The stories behind these two mega hits are some weird. We also welcome Alan from the Super Hits podcast to lend his expertise concerning all things pop music related. Check him out on all the socials @SuperHitsCast Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

The Jersey Devil and Murder at the Devil's Teeth We are finally bringing you weird stories from New Jersey. Do you know why the NHL team is called the Devils? The people of the Garden State voted on this name as homage to their very own Pine Barrens dwelling chimera: the Jersey Devil. What are its origins and is it still roaming around to this day? It's really weird! Then, we travel back in time to the Satanic Panic of the 1970s and the unsolved possible murder of a 16 year old girl who some people think was a cult sacrifice. If you like these stories from NJ and want to learn more, be sure to check out www.WeirdNJ.com. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Ever hold a deep, dark secret? Do you think you will have something to confess on your deathbed? In this episode we tell the story of a Cleveland bank robber who kept his secret for over 40 years only to confess to his astonished wife and daughter just before dying and the story from the Wild West of a man who confessed to murdering an acquaintance for mispronouncing “Newfoundland”. We also have a special guest! Ted, one of the cohosts of the Narbos and Broomheads podcast and ½ of Ted & Barry's Social Distancing Trivia, presented us with a series of short deathbed confession stories. Some were true and some he totally made up. Did he trick Crissy and Barry? How well will you do with your guesses? Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

One of the horrible truths of our world is that every day, people go missing. It's heart-wrenching to the loved ones and many times, the missing are never found. But in some miraculous cases the missing are returned. In most of these scenarios, this is the best thing that could possibly happen. But in some cases, there are often more questions than answers. Sometimes when we look deeper, the cases are just weirder. In this episode we are going to present the case of Bobby Dunbar and the case of Danny Filippidis. What on Earth happened when they were missing? All I can guarantee is it was some weird. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

We're back! It's your favorite sister brother team from Newfoundland with a brand new season of The Some Weird Podcast; a podcast about strange and unusual stories told by your cohosts Crissy and Barry. This season will have stories about people who were lost and found under very bizarre circumstances. Stories behind some WTF deathbed confessions. We'll talk about unusual ways humans have employed animal helpers. For the first time, we'll have stories from Crissy's adopted home of New Jersey, USA. And, of course, we'll dedicate at least one episode to yarns from everyone's favorite place, our home, Newfoundland and Labrador. So, if you need a break from it all and you want to share a laugh and maybe even learn something, join us every other Monday for brand new episodes available on Apple, Spotify, Google and wherever you get your podcasts. There's one thing about it: Stories out there are Some Weird! Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

So here we are, the last episode of the third season of the Some weird podcast. So far this season, we have told you some extraordinary tales about aliens, strange medical conditions, and inspirations for some of the scariest movies ever filmed. For this episode, we decided to go back to where it all began, Newfoundland. It as the inspiration for the genesis of the podcast. And although we have branched off to tell stories from all over the world, we didn't want the entire season to go by without dedicating an episode to our homeland. But we are going to do it with a twist…For this episode each host are going to each tell your three stories. Two will be real, one, a complete fabrication. We invite you, the loyal listeners to play along and see if you can figure out which ones are real and which fake. So sit back, and get ready to play a guessing game, guaranteed to be some weird. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Ever have a dream where something in the dream mirrored something in the real world? I can remember having a dream where I was sitting in class in my elementary school and I heard the bells of the church that was next door ringing only to wake and realize that my real-life alarm clock was going off (probably longer than it should have). It's pretty common for things happening in real life to affect things happening in the dream life. Usually when this happens, you realize what is going on, give yourself a ‘yes b'y' and move on with your life. But what if the opposite were true? What if things in the dream world affected things in the real world? Given how strange dreams sometimes are, that seems quite a lot more terrifying yet this exact thing was surprisingly common among a specific group of mostly men in the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Horror king Wes Craven caught wind of this story and the idea of a villain who hunted his victims in their sleep was formed. That's right – the 1984 classic “A Nightmare on Elm Street” was inspired by true events that were, indeed, some weird. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Death is a part of life. Although they are polar opposites you can't have one without the other. Dealing with the loss of a loved one can be very difficult. Death can also be very cruel taking someone from this Earth way too soon and making them suffer as they make their journey to the other side. When this happens, you take time to mourn your loss. You don't ever truly get over it but eventually you learn how to cope without your loved one. You remember the good times, honor their memory, and go on living because that is what your loved one would want you to do. Some people are better equipped to deal with loss than others. There's no playbook on how to do it. One of the natural emotions is denial. You say to yourself “that's not true. I just spoke to them last week.” For most, you eventually come to accept the cruel fact that death is a part of life. But how long does it take to get to this point? Are some people in denial to the point that it didn't happen? Or think that they can actually bring someone back? For this episode of the podcast we are going to share a few stories of people who tried to cheat death and the lengths they would go through in order to do so. There is only one way to explain these stories that you are about to hear and that is: Some Weird. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Tale as old as time. No, not Beauty and the Beast: a story of bestiality and Stockholm Syndrome thinly veiled as a romance for the ages and cleaned up and sanitized by Disney for your viewing pleasure. No not that one, I am talking about a much older story: that of the eternal struggle of good vs evil. This theme is woven in the threads of almost all our stories at some level. If you are a Christian or even if you are familiar with Christian iconography, these are personified as the omnipotent creator and one and only God and Satan, the fallen angel and devil himself. In 1971, a humorist named William Peter Blatty published a horror novel that would be turned into a movie often dubbed the most terrifying film of all time based on this exact struggle. That novel and subsequent movie was, of course, The Exorcist. Spoiler alert: The Exorcist tells the story of an innocent young girl who becomes possessed by a demon after she uses a Ouija board and of the Catholic priests who exorcise said demon after must persistence and turmoil. Good triumphs over evil and there is much rejoicing. Where on Earth did Blatty come up with such a dark and disturbing story? Well, as it turns out, he did not need to look too far. The idea actually came from of an article he read in a Washington newspaper. This article was about the supposed real-life possession and exorcism of a young boy in 1949. Blatty was all in – he changed it from a boy to a girl and dramatized the events and the horror movie industry was never the same. So why are we at the Some Weird Podcast doing a whole episode about this? Simple: the real story was far more terrifying. Nowadays, the tagline “Based on a true story” is pretty loose but if we are to believe the diaries of the priests who were there in 1949, we can certainly say that truth is stranger than fiction or, if you are a Newfoundlander like us, we can certainly say that true story that inspired The Exorcist is some weird. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Have you ever heard the expression “your mind is playing tricks on you”? you wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. As you stumble your way to the door, you catch a glimpse of a shadowy figure out of the corner of your eye. Or, maybe you go to the local grocery store and see a monkey man hanging around the train tracks behind the building. You quickly shake your head to refocus and suddenly the figure is no longer there. Did you imagine it? You couldn't have. It looked real. It felt real. These mind tricks are for the most part quick and painless. It happens for a second and the illusion goes away. Despite the trick only lasting a short period of time, the memory of it lasts much longer. Maybe even forever. Think about how vivid that memory is and of how much of an impact it had. Now, imagine if that mind trick just doesn't go away. What if that trick was actually reality to you but unknown to the rest of the world? The human mind is a powerful thing. It can create works of art and inventions that can change the world. But it is also fragile. Just like you can catch a cold or break a leg you can become mentally ill. It was something that was taboo to talk about years ago but luckily the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues have come a long way. Long gone are the days of getting a free fruit basket for admitting someone to a mental institution. Of all the mental health issues that exist, one the strangest, excuse me, some weirdest, of these conditions is the Folie A Deux aka the madness of two. This condition is defined by an individual experienced delusional beliefs and hallucinations that are transferred from one person to another. That's right: you can pass the tricks in your mind onto somebody else. I know what you're thinking: “this can't be real”, right? Before you decide, have a listen to a few stories about this phenomenon. Guaranteed to be some weird. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

B'ys. What was on the go in colonial times? European nations were fighting over which sovereign got to own lands all around the globe. Lands which were already clearly occupied by people but still acquired for the glory - or perhaps more precisely for the coffers - of this crown or that. The sun never set on the British Empire, am I right? Look at our own island of Newfoundland – here was Britain's first colony and through the jigs and the reels over a few hundred years even our own parents were not technically born in Canada but rather in Newfoundland, a not-really-independent semi-colony of the fast-fading British Empire that was governed by a Royal Commission of officials appointed by His Royal Majesty's government. But the British weren't the only baddies. The French were equally imperialistic despite their loud and involved support of American independence (I'm looking at you, Lafayette. Yes, I've seen Hamilton). While they were gifting the Americans the Statue of Liberty and singing about guns and ships, they also held these beliefs to be self-evident but only for white land-owning men. Their support for American independence probably had everything to do with their historic rivalry with Britain and far less to do with the pursuit of liberty. Case in point: Haiti. The French colonized the western side of the island now known as Hispaniola in the early 1600s because of its rich sugar and coffee and to work these plantations they accumulated tons of slaves from West Africa. These people came from cultures that were both similar and conversely disparate but they had one incredibly unfortunate circumstance in common – they were all people struggling to remain people in the unfathomable institution of slavery. Guess what? You cannot keep a peoples' spirit down and in the case on Haiti, the slave population rose up and in 1804 defeated their French oppressors and declared their independence becoming the only slave population to do so in all of history. In the 200 hundred years of a slavery though, a distinct Haitian culture emerged borrowing from various West African cultures and one of the most recognizable parts of this culture is what we call Voodoo or Voodun. When we think of Voodoo we think of the voodoo doll (not a real thing), possession, sacrifice and all manner of strange practices at least from the Western eye's perspective. But above all of this is the idea of the zombie. In voodoo, the zombie is a person whose free will has been removed. Whose soul belongs to someone else and who can do nothing but what its master commands. Is it really that strange that fear of becoming a zombie is a method of social control given the history of slavery in Haiti? But this is more than a fairy story told to keep you off a forest path at night. Scientists have tried to find the source of the alleged zombie powder that can give the appearance of death with the absence of pain for medical reasons and in the story of at least one Haitian man, they may have done so. But there is more than just the science of slowing a person's vitals. There is the magic of the soul, the magic of the voodoo teachings. There is an art to creating the zombie and the whole thing is some weird. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

What is time? Not an easy thing to define yet we are all slaves to it. I wish I could do that, but I don't have enough time. Excuse me, do you have the time? Oh no, I'm going to be late. But time is not just the hours minutes and seconds in which we schedule our daily routines, history is defined by time. Watch a John Hughes movie and you are instantly brought back to a moment in time, specifically the 1980's. That is, if you are as old as the Some Weird Podcast hosts. Hear a disco tune? That's the 1970's. Watch Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner in a field in upstate New York during a three day music festival, the 1960's. For people that lived through these times, all it takes is one little cue and BAM, your mind instantly brings you back. You don't go there physically, it's just a vivid memory brought on by a sound, sight or smell. The idea of time travel is as old as the first fog. From Doc Brown creating a time machine out of a DeLorean to the Vatican having a chrono trigger to view all of history's greatest events, many people have tried to figure it out. We'll let you decide if they've been successful. One thing about these people is that they were trying to go back in time. Is it possible for someone to slip through time? Could someone be walking through the forest and suddenly be transferred 100 years in the past unbeknownst to them. Could it be that time keeps on slippin' slippin slippin', into the future? Many people have claimed to have experienced this phenomenon and we here at the Some Weird Podcast are going to share a few of these stories with you. I just hope we have enough time. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

Human beings have invented some pretty impressive stuff. From the wheel to the printing press to the iPhone and beyond in, from the perspective of all of time, the blink of the eye. Some human-made experimental weapons may have even caused our friends at the Dyatlov Pass Incident from our last episode to flee their tent in the dead of the Russian winter to meet their deaths. Speaking of everything that has ever happened ever, here's a question for you: is time travel possible? Seems impossible but let's says it is not. Let's say you travel back in time to Europe to the early 1600s and show the townsfolk what level of Best Fiends you've reached on you iPhone (no internet required). Not only would this totally normal 21st century thing seem impossible to them but you'd probably also find your ass thrown into the closest pond with an anxious crowd watching to see if you'd float and are therefore a witch who must be executed or sink and drown proving your innocence but also you're dead. My point is this – maybe given the right smarty pants people in the right circumstance time travel is possible. In this episode, we'll tell you about a couple of guys who claimed to invent their own version of a time machine. I don't know how true these stories are but I do know this: they are some weird. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

On January 23rd, 1959, a 23 year old engineering student named Igor Dyatlov led a group of ten experienced hikers on an expedition to earn his grade 3 certification. At the time, this was the highest certification available in the Soviet Union and brought great honor to those that achieved it. On what should have been a trip of a lifetime ended in disaster when "an unusual event of unknown origin" caused all but one member of the group to perish in the harsh winter climate. The circumstances around their deaths have left people baffled as to what caused them to meet their ultimate demise. There are a lot of theories as to what happened, some plausible and some.....well let's just say they're out there. The only thing people can say about what happened with certainty is that it was Some Weird. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

On a clear morning following a raging thunderstorm in November of 1980, the family of a 32 year old British Columbian man named Granger Taylor woke to find him missing and in his place was this bizarre note: Dear Mother and Father, I have gone away to walk aboard an alien spaceship. As recurring dreams assured me a 42 month interstellar voyage to explore the vast universe, then return. I am leaving behind all my possessions to you as I will no longer require the use of any. Please use the instructions in my will as a guide to help. Love, Granger Neither he nor his remains were ever seen again. Some people think he actually did willingly go with aliens on a spaceship. Others think he walked away to start a new life albeit here on Earth. Still others think his life ended there and then on a BC mountainside. Whatever actually happened to Granger Taylor over 40 years ago is still unknown and is most certainly Some Weird. Warning: some language or themes may not be suitable for all ages. Check out our website: www.someweirdpodcast.com Have your own story or your own take on our stories? Email us at SomeWeirdPodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @SomeWeirdPod

The Some Weird Podcast is back with Season 3! We've explored Newfoundland and Labrador and the rest of Canada in seasons 1 and 2 and now we are venturing out with 10 all new episodes featuring some of the weirdest stories without borders all presented with our Newfoundland flair. We've got UFOs, time slips, and the real life stories behind some of our favorite horror movies just to name a few. These stories are guaranteed to be some weird, b'y!