The Some Weird Podcast

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.

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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?

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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.

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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/

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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 [email protected] or reach us on twitter @SomeWeirdPod