This week, the World-Weary women take on the amazing and ancient origins of much-loved games. Cassiopeia looks at the epic past of Lacrosse and its spiritual and ceremonial importance in Native American history. Violet introduces backgammon's ancient ancestor, The Royal Game of Ur: learn how historians solved the puzzle of mysterious 4500 year old board games found in the tombs of a ruined desert city.

This week, the World-Weary women try their luck at strange stories of fortune and misfortune! Violet presents the tale of a cursed Irish farmer and his search for a cure to his decade long string of bad luck. Cassiopeia delivers freaky coincidences in the incredible account of a flight attendant who defied all the odds to survive.

Music: "The Red Fox Tavern" by Curran Son.

This week, the World-Weary women experience a Claus encounter of the Father Christmas kind. Cassiopeia presents Santa's evil twin, Krampus, and his contemporaries: horrific folkloric creatures that strike terror in the hearts of children every Christmas. Violet lifts the lid on the OG Santa's ancient tomb, explains why Christians have been pinching bits of his corpse for 1000 years and how his miracle bone juice is the gift that keeps on giving.

This week, the World-Weary women deliberate over dinosaur stumpers. Violet asks important questions such as why have dinosaur remains been shot into space, do advanced reptilian lifeforms exist on distant planets and are alien reptoids haunting an Irish castle? Cassiopeia uncovers the fossil mysteries of Deinocheirus, the "terrible handed" dinosaur.

This week, the World-Weary women recall tales of nightmares turned real! Cassiopeia talks true "trouble in paradise" stories and cautions against day-dreaming at sea. Violet discusses the verified case of an office manager who accurately foresaw a plane crash in his recurring nightmares as well as the unlucky Flight 191 mystery(plus a bonus haunted trailer park).

This week, we hop aboard the World-Weary express and journey into the fascinating realm of railway mysteries. Violet explores the St Louis Ghost Train: legendary phantom lights that illuminate an abandoned Canadian trackbed at night. Cassiopeia explains how a ghostly encounter led to the discovery of a mass grave of 19th century Irish railway labourers and the sinister cover-up surrounding their deaths.

In this Special Episode from the World-Weary Bunker, Cassiopeia & Violet unlock their secret podcast vault and read mysterious true accounts that were never meant to see the light of day: A police officer attending to a suspected burglary makes a chilling find, a couple camping by a river are spooked by a strange creature in the water, a prospective buyer discovers the true story behind a haunted house and a father and son survive a close-encounter with a UFO.

This week the World-Weary women drop into the dark realm of true theme park tragedies. Cassiopeia explains how a day out at Dreamworld, Australia became a nightmare when a malfunctioning river ride caused the death of four adults. Violet looks back at the 1922 electrical storm that caused a crowded Ferris wheel to fall into the estuary waters off of Clason's Point, New York.

This week, the World-Weary women seek ancient secrets buried long ago and hidden in caves! Violet inspects the fabled "hieroglyphic" Dropa stones: were they evidence of an ancient alien crash-landing in Mongolia or is there a more archaeo-logical explanation? Cassiopeia explains the fascinating research that has been conducted on Stone Age cave art "codes" which may expose the origins of human writing.

This week, the World-Weary women unlock their archives of terror. In 1883, a children's variety show in Sunderland, England resulted in a tragic stampede: Cassiopeia discusses how the Victoria Hall disaster led to the invention of push-bar emergency doors. Violet reopens the 1930's case of the Halifax Slasher: Were random razor-blade attacks on the residents of a Yorkshire town caused by mass hysteria or did they have a more sinister origin?