Episode 331 - Crushing Puppies and Murdering Bad Singers

Ever want to squeeze a puppy too hard or bite a baby's toes? You’re not alone, it's called Cuteness Aggression and you need to be careful. Then we veer into folks in the Philippines killing people for singing "My Way" in Karaoke bars. Listen, just stick to "Don't Stop Believing" and everyone goes home safe.

Music Credits:

Cuteness Aggression song by Anthony Vincent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmTufAQz5MI

My Way by Paul Anka and Frank Sinatra

Weird Bit 64 - Weird News Special Report - Cocaine Sharks!

If you’re planning on going into the ocean, change your plans. If you are in the water right now while you’re listening to this podcast, get out now. Did you even read the title of this episode!? Get the f**k out of the water!

Episode 330 - The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold - Part 2

We pick up the story of the oldest missing person case in New York City with the suspects - who might have done harm to Dorothy? We then explore the best theories of what happened to the young woman now missing over 110 years. Was it murder? Suicide? Or had Dorothy had enough of the lap of luxury?

Episode 329 - The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold, Part 1

People go missing all the time, but when rich young women from Manhattan high society disappear while shopping in the middle of the day on Fifth Avenue it creates a stir. In Part 1 we track Dorothy Arnold's steps until they vanished, then the first halting attempts to find her which seemed more concerned with avoiding scandal than finding Dorothy.

Episode 328 - The Revolutionary Life of PUF

If being different is hard in the 21st Century, imagine what it was like in Revolutionary War era America. So when Jemima Wilkinson recovered from a severe illness and remade herself as a genderless magical creature named PUF you have to figure things got complicated.

Episode 327 - The Moving Coffins of Barbados

If ghosts had raves would they have them in crypts? In Barbados, apparently the answer is yes. How else do you explain how every time the Chase family crypt was unsealed for a new entrant the heavy lead coffins already there would be strewn across the stone floor like matchsticks?

Episode 326 - The Devil Baby of Bourbon Street and the Origin of the Grunch

Possibly the spawn of devil baby testicles (we'll explain), the Grunch is a chupacabra-like creature that terrorizes the swamps and bayous outside New Orleans. Is it real? If it wasn't, would so many people keep losing their cats?

Episode 325 - One Nation, Under Kids

Would you take a bunch of kids from their homes, deny all contact with family, and see if they could survive on their in a New Mexico ghost town? You would if you were a CBS TV executive and had no moral compass. But then we wouldn't have had the sh*tshow that was "Kid Nation."

Episode 324 - How Flat is the Earth? Part 4

Finally, we get to the answer - is the earth flat and how do we know? Then we wrap it up with what happened to Bob Knodel's expensive gyro experiment and Mad Mike Hughes' daring rocket test.

Episode 323 - How Flat is the Earth? Part 2

We continue our deep dive into our flat earth even though we don’t know how shallow the crust is. What exactly does a flat earth look like (think a sprial of continents around the North Pole at the center of a disc)? And what do scientists have to say about why the earth might actually be round?

Episode 322 - How Flat is the Earth? Part 1

Never have more people believed the earth is flat than right now. We know this is true because the concept of a flat earth is surprisingly recent and has really only exploded this century. We start a three-part deep dive below the flat surface of the earth by tracing its history up to the modern day.

Weird Bit 62 - Osama Bin Laden Action Figure!

Sure, Osama Bin-Laden was popular in some quarters in the early 2000s, but action figure popular? And would the CIA make that Osama action figure? And send them to kids in Afghanistan? There has to be more to that story. There is.

Episode 321 - Mr. Dreamy

He has a receding hairline over a round face and thick dark eyebrows. You don't know him and have never seen him - except in your dreams. He is "This Man," the dream invader who might calm you or guide you - or terrify you. And thousands of others have seen the same man in their dreams too.

Episode 320 - Vampire Dog of Cumberland

Two words: Vampire. Dog.

Episode 319 - George Kenney and the Principles of Hypnosis

George Kenney was a school principal who thought he could help troubled kids through hypnosis. If that sounds like a bad idea you're wrong. It was a horrific idea.

Episode 318 - Found and Lost: The Mysterious Fate of the Fausto

In 1968, the Fausto and its crew disappeared on a routine run between two Canary Islands. Their rescue four days later was a miracle. But that was just the beginning of the inexplicable saga of the boat that was found, lost, found, and finally lost again.

Episode 317 - Weird News - April 2024

It's been a while, but we have some good ones. Flying snakes, the shocking number of gay animals (personal trigger warning for Ron DeSantis), getting high on snake venom, AI turned on its masters, brain worms, the music police of Chechnya, the coming insect invasion, and the dangers of minor earthquakes in New Jersey coinciding with total eclipses of the sun.

Episode 316 - Down A Weirder Rabbit Hole: Alice In Wonderland Syndrome

You might feel tiny, you might feel like a giant. You might think your head has ballooned and floats to the ceiling where you can look down on those around you. You might be high. You might have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. It might also be called DVPBR, I've heard it both ways.

Episode 315 - Don Decker, Strange Rainmaker

Don Decker was under a lot of stress when he was staying with friends after his grandfather's funeral. He hallucinated, he collapsed, he could barely hold it together. Then it started to rain - inside the house. Then again at a nearby pizza place. Then again in a prison cell. Don Decker was not your usual rainmaker.

Stay tuned to the end to hear about Carey’s recently experienced unexplained phenomena. And, let’s hear from our audience, did every family have a point and shoot camera at the ready in 1983?

Weird Bit 61 - Quick Cryptid Corner - The Deadly Octopus of Oklahoma

You may not think there are any octopuses in Oklahoma. Heck, you may not think there are any freshwater octopuses anywhere. But you might be wrong. There might be a reddish, horse-sized tentacled creature in several Oklahoma lakes that will drag you down to your death. Sorry, Oklahoma Tourist Board.