Wanna Hear Something Weird?

Wanna Hear Something Weird?

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Wanna Hear Something Weird? episodes

  • Disclosure Day (Movie Review)
    The day has finally arrived: disclosure is here! Well, at least at the movie theater. This week, Tom and Laura head to the Alamo Drafthouse to give their mostly spoiler-free (until the end!) review of Steven Spielberg's massive new sci-fi blockbuster Disclosure Day. They discuss how the film tackles Edward Snowden-style whistleblowers, alien artifacts shaped like toilet paper rolls, and why a cardinal flying into Emily Blunt's room gives her psychic powers.

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    54 min
  • The Four Alien Races

    This week we're breaking down the cosmic hierarchy and looking at the four most commonly reported types of aliens. Are they visitors from other planets, or are they interdimensional beings that have been here the whole time?


    First, we tackle the classic Grays, from their 1960s pop culture debut with Betty and Barney Hill to theories that they might just be future humans who overdid it on the gene editing and lost their reproductive organs. Then, we look at the Nordics: the tall, blonde, benevolent space-Swedes who want us to get rid of our nukes (and might be using Grays to do their dirty work). After that, things get truly wild as we dive into the David Icke-popularized conspiracy of shape-shifting, blood-drinking Reptilians allegedly running global politics and hiding out in underground bases. Finally, we discuss the Mantids, the terrifyingly calm seven-foot-tall praying mantis beings who rule the abduction supervisory boards and can apparently turn invisible at will.


    Join us as we figure out what all these guys' deals are, discuss why future humans would use an eye-needle machine without knocking you out, and explain why a public coffee date is the only acceptable way to meet an extraterrestrial.

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    48 min
  • Remote Viewing
    Did an administrative assistant really pinpoint the exact coordinate location of a downed Soviet bomber lost in a dense African jungle using nothing but a map and a pen? This week we're covering the incredible history of Remote Viewing, a highly structured psychic protocol that the US government spent decades—and millions of dollars—funding. How did Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton use psychic grid-mapping to locate a 19th-century shipwreck on his very first dive? We explore the Cold War's wildest "Eight Martini Results," debate whether the human mind is just a radio antenna picking up signals across space and time, and question if we're all cheating ourselves out of finding hidden treasure.

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    47 min
  • Men in Black
    Who exactly are the Men in Black? This week, we dive deep into the uncanny history of the world's most unsettling, pale-skinned party poopers. We look at the very first MIB encounter during the 1947 Maury Island incident, an incredibly bizarre 1976 visit involving disappearing coins and drawn-on lipstick, and the sheer chaos they caused during the Mothman sightings in Point Pleasant—including attempting to drink Jell-O and vanishing from basements. Are they interdimensional "ultra-terrestrials" playing cosmic tricks on our limited senses?

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    51 min
  • Celebrity UFO Encounters
    Do aliens seek out the rich and famous, or are they the ones pulling the strings in Hollywood? This week we explore the strange world of celebrity UFO sightings, from Kurt Russell being the first pilot to report the 1997 Phoenix Lights to Goldie Hawn’s “benevolent” encounter with silver beings in the back of a car. We also discuss Elvis’s telepathic visions, Dan Aykroyd’s run-in with a Man in Black, and John Lennon’s naked UFO spotting in New York City.

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    52 min
  • The Varginha Incident
    This week we’re traveling to 1996 Brazil to dive into the Varginha incident, famously known as "Brazil’s Roswell." Did a cigar-shaped craft crash in the mountains, leaving behind pieces of "memory metal" that defied the laws of physics? We discuss the three young women who came face-to-face with a brown, oily creature with three horns and glowing red eyes, and the tragic story of the military policeman who allegedly died after handling the being with his bare hands. Also, Tom explains why his podcasting skills make him the perfect candidate to lead the FBI, and we look into the recent string of disappearing scientists with high-level security clearance.

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    49 min
  • Levitation

    It’s one of humanity's most elusive superpowers: levitation. This week dive into the life of St. Joseph of Cupertino, the 17th-century "Flying Friar" whose flights were witnessed by hundreds—including a stunned Pope Urban VIII—and eventually got him sequestered by a very skeptical Church.


    Also, Tom recounts a Transcendental Meditation training video featuring "yogic flying" that looked suspiciously like a room full of people hopping cross-legged on mattresses.

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    47 min
  • Bob Lazar is Full of Shit

    Since 1989, Lazar has claimed he was recruited to reverse-engineer alien spacecraft at S4, a secret facility near Area 51, where he encountered a sleek "sports model" saucer powered by element 115. But is Bob Lazar a misunderstood genius whose records were scrubbed by the government, or is he just the UFO community’s most committed bullshitter?


    UFO Guy Bob Lazar’s Lifetime of Cons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPW6jr24FiQ

    Believing Bob Lazar - Part One - https://old.reddit.com/r/ufo/comments/o003pc/believing_bob_lazar_part_one_educational/

    More at https://medium.com/@signalsintelligence

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Havana Syndrome
    This week we’re investigating the unsettling mystery of Havana Syndrome, the series of “Anomalous Health Incidents” that have plagued US diplomats and CIA agents around the globe. Is it a clandestine Russian microwave weapon that can fit in a backpack? We explore the history of the Moscow Signal, the terrifying potential of “voice to skull” technology, and why Laura Bush might have been an early target.

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    53 min
  • Atlantis

    It’s one of history's most enduring mysteries: the lost civilization of Atlantis. From a 19th century congressman who convinced Charles Darwin it was real, to psychic Edgar Casey predicting the discovery of an underwater stone road in the Bahamas decades before divers actually found it, to a 25-mile-wide circular formation in the Sahara that matches Plato's description almost exactly — the rabbit hole goes deep. Really deep. Like, possibly-under-Antarctica deep. 


    We through the major theories: a pre-Ice Age global civilization wiped out by a comet, crystal-powered technology misused by the morally corrupt, a misremembered volcanic catastrophe, and of course, aliens setting up a base of operations on a nice island before conveniently flooding the evidence.

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    50 min

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Love unsolved mysteries and unexplained events? Join Laura Anderson and Tom Reynolds each week as they dive into the weird and wonderful universe of bizarre true tales, odd histories, ghosts, aliens,…

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