Weird World Podcast

The money pit seems a perfectly devised trap - dig tantalizingly close to the treasure and the sea fills it yet again, wrecking your dreams. We end the Oak Island story with a deep dive into its history and if the money pit was devised by man or God.

Chalino Sanchez had left behind a dangerous life in Sinaloa and by the early 1990s had become a narcocorrido singing star in the U.S. He had killed, had been shot, and sang of the exploits of the cartels. In May 1992 he returned to Sinaloa for a tour. Halfway thru his performance at a sold out club in the state capital he received a note from a fan. Chalino's face went white...

What is at the bottom of the Oak Island Money Pit? We have theories. So many theories. Buried priate treasure. Loot from a French pay ship (which is a thing). Marie Antoinette's smuggled jewels. Knights Templar treasure, also smuggled. Rosicrucian stuff, something to do with Shakespeare. Or something more mundane?

Among get rich fantasies, finding buried treasure is harder than inheriting from a forgotten uncle, but way more fun. Oak Island has been enticing and frustrating treasure hunters for over 200 years with its impossibly well-protected money pit. In the first of a three-parter, we start with Oak Island's fascinating origin story.

40 miles outside of Idaho Falls, a skeleton crew run a micro nuclear power plant. They are poorly trained with little experience. One mundane task is to handle fuel rods that could explode if moved a few inches too far. And one of those workers has been drinking too much...

From AI Jesus to AI fakery to insanely irresponsible AI-fueled kid's toys to an AI end of the world, we explore some recent AI headlines that point the way to a scarier future.

The U.S. Navy went all out looking for Amelia Earhart or her plane but never found a shred. Since then, many have searched and some have claimed to have spotted the remains of the lost aircraft if not even of Amelia herself. What happened? Did they find temporary solace on a tiny isle? Were they captured by the Japanese? Was it a planned disappearance? Or did they simply run out of fuel and ditch the little Lockheed Electra into one fo the loneliest places on the planet?

Amelia Earhart set out to be a pioneer and she was. She flew fearlessly, broke records, and even found time for forward-looking fashion. When she set out to be the first woman to circumnavigate the world, she knew the second to last leg landing on tiny Howland Is. in the vast Pacific would be the most dangerous. It was. Part 1 of 2.

At nearly 7 square miles, Griffith Park is an urban wilderness in the heart of Los Angeles. The land was a gift from Col. Griffith J. Griffith. That was very generous. He was less generous to his wife Tina seven years later when he… Well, you'll see.

Nikola Tesla was an acknowledged genius. He had countless patents for a huge variety of inventions – the first remote control, the Tesla Coil, alternating current, and best of all he had nothing to do with the Cybertruck. So is he said he had invented a death ray, you would have to believe him. Or would you?

If you're walking home through a dark forest in West Africa and hear a cry like that of a strangled man, you'd better run. The Kikiyaon is about to swoop down on you with its razor talons and sharp shoulder spurs. Part giant owl, part human, the Kikiyaon is a cryptid to be feared.

You can't avoid political news these days, though you would probably like to. We promise these stories are more likely to say "WTF?" than WTF!"

Instellar comet / alien craft possibly coming for us 3I Atlas passed out from behind the sun settled all of our questions. It is, we can say for sure now, either a comet or an alien spacecraft probably bent on our destruction.

31 Atlas is only the third interstellar object tracked into our solar system, a strange visitor from very, very far away. And while most scientists believe it to be a comet, there are enough questions to cause some folks to wonder if it is something … unnatural?

More classic creepypasta with tales of insomniac Russains, a disappearing town in Kansas, a wikipedia-obsessed figure skater, a mysterious puppet show, an overly animated amusement park dog, and the tragedy of a closed door.

Creepypastas - those spooky and terrifying stories that have the run of the internet - have become an art form. Here we share the best of the best, the most iconic and creepiest of creepypastas. In Part 1, we hear about a battle-scarred killer, a terrifyingly slender man, a killer proud of his masterpiece, and an eeriely calm woman with a kitten in her mouth.

If you're driving through the moors of Dartmoor keep a tight grip on the wheel. And if your car suddenly careens off the road, look down at the wheel and you just might see a pair of ghostly, and very hairy, hands atop your own. They mean you harm.

For one night in 1987, the Stocksbridge Bypass in Yorkshire was alive with spectral activity. Ghost children dancing, a ghost monk terrorizing constables, a police car battered by something unseen. What was the cause of this horror and will it return?

What's crawling between the walls of your old apartment building? Roaches? Rats? The cast of "Only Murders in the Building"? Ruthie May McCoy found out in the worse way that it could be something so much worse.

Forests are spooky. That is just a straight up fact. Here are three stories from those spooky places: North Carolina's Devil's Tramping Ground where nothing grows but fear; the Scottish highlands where you stop into a haunted bothy at your own risk; and the infamous tale of a frighteningly tenacious forest stalker who just wanted to know how to get to Bells Canyon.