Weird World Podcast

The Wehrlis

A podcast that explores the unknown, the unexplained, the mysterious, the unsolved and the just plain strange. Bizarre crimes, disappearing people, odd creatures, creepy phenomena, it's all here. We won't solve every mystery, but we'll try to separate truth from fiction and let you decide.

  • 1 hour 18 minutes
    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.

    25 April 2024, 11:26 pm
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    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.

    18 April 2024, 6:00 pm
  • 56 minutes 4 seconds
    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.

    11 April 2024, 5:19 pm
  • 48 minutes 56 seconds
    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.

    28 March 2024, 4:54 pm
  • 1 minute 9 seconds
    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?

    21 March 2024, 6:23 pm
  • 15 minutes 48 seconds
    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.

    18 March 2024, 4:43 am
  • 25 minutes 51 seconds
    Weird Bit 60 - DB Cooper - Case Closed???

    This Just in: Man Confesses to Being DB Cooper!
    Well, kind of. It was more the guy's wife who confessed to her son, but he had to wait until she died to tell anyone. And this is at least the sixth person to confess to being DB Cooper but this one just might be the real thing. Maybe.

    7 March 2024, 6:59 pm
  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    Episode 314 - Abraham Lincoln Unravels a Murdery Mystery

    When two brothers are accused of murder by a third brother, it looks bad for them. Evidence piles up. There is going to be a shotgun trial. Luckily, they lived in Springfield, IL in 1841 and they could hire a young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln to solve the mystery and save their necks.

    29 February 2024, 9:36 pm
  • 1 hour 24 minutes
    Episode 313 - If You Are What You Wear And You Wear These Things, You're An Idiot

    If you bought a pair of JNCO jeans in 1998 you probably bought a pair of Google Glasses in 2013, but hopefully skipped the thong jeans fad a few years later. From bustles to  bullet bras to window pants, we take a tour of some of the strangest fashions to ever humiliate a willing public.

    22 February 2024, 5:44 pm
  • 38 minutes 36 seconds
    Episode 312 - Devil Monkeys Among Us

    Everyone knows there are no monkeys native to North America. But what if everyone is wrong? Wouldn't that monkey be able to run fast, leap far, attack moving cars, eat sheep and occassionally people? Of course they would. And we would call them Devil Monkeys.

    15 February 2024, 7:29 pm
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    Episode 311 - The Strange Tale of the Colombian Twins

    When a woman saw a butcher at a grocery store in Bogota that looked eerily like a co-worker, it would set in motion a chain reaction that would end in a shocking revelation. And a certain hospital would have some explaining to do.


    8 February 2024, 5:00 pm
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