Otherkin Talk Podcasts

No friends? No problem. At least in 1987 when a genius made a tape of himself absorbed by your every word and just really getting you. He called the video Rent-A-Friend and at $49.95 for a new best friend it was a hell of a bargain.By Weird World Podcast

When David Hahn got a chemistry set age 10, it was only a matter of time before he got his Atomic Energy badge in the Boy Scouts. From there it was only a little more time before he built a workable nuclear reactor in his mom’s potting shed.By Weird World Podcast

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First came the scratches in the wall of the farmhouse on the Isle of Man. Then growls and hisses and screeches. Then Gef the mongoose told the Irving family all about himself. Because he was a talking mongoose. And soon the world wanted to hear what Gef had to say.By Weird World Podcast

The Aswang of the Philippines can be a witch that curses, a shape-shifter, and a vampire-like creature that sucks your blood and viscera. And then there are the actual monsters…By Weird World Podcast

Who was that mysterious leather-clad stranger who each month tramped through the same small towns in New York and Connecticut - for over 30 years? Was he an old French fur trader? A zombie? A lonely man who just— wait, did you say zombie? We vote for zombie.By Weird World Podcast

Why shouldn’t we text each other by tapping on telepathic snails? Why shouldn’t we use bats to drop bombs and dolphins to do - well, all sorts of things? No one can say we haven’t tried, because we have, and this episode tells us how.By Weird World Podcast

We’ve always had fun with animals. Playing frisbee with dogs. Chatting with parrots. Using canaries to tell us if a coal mine will kill us. Turning pigeons into bombs. Using leeches to predict the weather. The usual stuff.By Weird World Podcast

In early 1900s Oklahoma, the Abernathy brothers decided they wanted to go see the new governor’s mansion in Santa Fe, NM. 1,300 miles away. On horseback. Alone. They had to ask their dad for permission first - since they were nine and five years old. He said go for it. Sources https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/19/ultimate-free-range-ki…

We don’t want to give it away, but Jack Lohrke led a charmed life on his travels from minor league baseball to World War II and back again.By Weird World Podcast

So what did happen to those unlucky Roanoke colonists? Were they absorbed into the native population? Were they massacred? Enslaved by the Spanish? Lost at sea? Victims of a nefarious plot? Let’s follow the breadcrumbs.By Weird World Podcast

It’s Oscar night so we bring some strangeness from the annals of the Academy Awards. And we’re not even counting Will Smith’s slap-down of Chris Rock.By Weird World Podcast

When John White finally got back to Roanoke he found nothing - no daughter, no granddaughter, and none of the other 100+ colonists. The Lost Colony quickly became legend as every search brought no sign of where they had gone.By Weird World Podcast

The legendary lost colony. 140 people disappear from an island off the North Carolina coast, never seen again. We start at the beginning with the rarely told story behind how the Roanoke Colony came to be before it got lost.By Weird World Podcast

We are releasing this week’s episode early to update everyone on the Sherri Papini “kidnapping” case (Episode 72). Karma just might actually be a thing…By Weird World Podcast

With nothing more than a girlfriend and a flashlight to guide him back, it is not surprising that Peter Gibbs disappeared when he soared his little plane into the dark Scottish night. That was mystery enough, but then they found his nearly pristine body four months later lying in plain sight on previously searched ground. Where had he gone? Why had…

Alice Roth loved baseball. She loved her hometown Phillies and especially star center fielder Richie Ashburn. So when he came to bat against the New York Giants on a hot August night in 1957 you would think she would have been paying close attention. You would think.By Weird World Podcast

In 1911, the man who would be known as Ishi walked into a slaughterhouse near Oroville, California. He had given up. His people had been wiped out. He could no longer live the ways his ancestors had for millennia. He was the last of his kind, but he was not done yet.By Weird World Podcast

Mental institution, murder and creepy rotting buildings being slowly reclaimed by the forest. We took a Weird World road trip to visit a possibly haunted abandoned hospital in Gold Rush Country California.By Weird World Podcast

The coroner in Beaumont, Texas said Greg Fleniken has been beaten so badly on September 15, 2010 that his innards were a bloody, ruptured mess. But Room 348 was pristine. No one suspicious had gone in or out of the room the entire night. He had a thousand dollars in his wallet and a cigarette still in his hand. What really happened to Greg Fleniken…

They sang. They danced. They did comedy. They did tragedy. They read moralistic essays. They also dodged fruits and vegetables and pulled shotguns on their audience. They were The Fabulous Cherry Sisters and they were nothing if not entertaining, intentional or otherwise.By Weird World Podcast

In 2004, a high school student working at a McDonald’s in Kentucky was pulled into the manager’s office. There was a police officer on the phone. He said someone had accused her of theft. He asked her manager to detain her. She did. Then things got very out of hand.By Weird World Podcast

Following some electronic bread crumbs, investigators were able to trace the last mysterious hours of Flight 370. But the biggest questions remained - what exactly happened, why, and perhaps most compelling, who?By Weird World Podcast

At 1:19 am on March 8, 2014 the pilot of Malaysian Flight 370 said “Goodnight, Malaysian three-seven-zero” to air traffic control as the plane headed out of Malaysian air space. That was the last anyone ever heard from him and the other 238 people on board. In Part 1 we track exactly what happened that morning through the initial frantic searching …

To ring out the old year we have a quick hit about falling fish in Texarkana. Now for more falling meat in Kentucky…By Weird World Podcast

We went out and found you more strange, unusual and horrifying Christmas traditions and stories because tis the season. Merry Christmas everyone!By Weird World Podcast

Geoffrey Pyke’s colleagues called him “Professor Brainstorm” and during WWII he dreamed up some of the craziest weapons of war ever. Giant ice ships, sideways-jumping snow tanks, and shooting soldiers through pies into enemy territory. But when Pyke spoke, both Lord Mountbatten and Winston Churchill listened.…

When 12 boys and their soccer coach went into a cave near their home in Thailand, they figured they would be inside an hour at most. It turned out to be more like 17 days. Water rising, no food, probably inbred subhuman cave monsters waiting to feast on human flesh, and the only way out was a torturous tunnel completely submerged.…

Southwestern Idaho had too many beavers in 1948. They needed to go. But how? That’s easy - by parachute. Genius.By Weird World Podcast

Someone slaughtered four people at the Booher farm in Alberta, Canada in 1928. The police were stumped. Lucky for them, they had one of the foremost psychologists in the world visiting from Austria at the time. Even more fortunate, Maximilian Langsner could not just heal minds, he could read them. Langsner would find their murderer.…

No, they didn’t poison us. They actually tried to prevent companies from poisoning us. But they did this by poisoning people. Confusing, yes, but fascinating. Sources: https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/food/a23169/poison-squad/ The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by Deborah Bl…

Linda Cortile was sleeping soundly in her 12th floor Manhattan apartment when three aliens came and beamed her onto their spaceship at 3:15 in the morning. What made her story different was this: people had actually witnessed the event. And not just two government agents named Richard and Dan, but a whole bunch of freaked out people watching from t…

Was it the Jenglot? Or the Baby Cages? The Jersey Devil Tree? The Moroccan Moonstone? Or the Man-eating Tree of Madagascar? Finally, we’ll find out…By Weird World Podcast

Something was terrorizing the countryside around Bedburg in Germany in the late 1500s. First cattle, then children, then women. Disappeared, dismembered, devoured. Was it wolves? Was it the devil? Or was it a little bit of both? Disclaimer: There are descriptions of attacks / murders and of old-timey torture and execution methods in this episode.…

It started with a monk and nun executed for their illicit affair in 1362. The nun came back to haunt the scene of her demise. Then came a headless coachman. Then a poltergeist started tossing around candlesticks and scrawling messages on walls. Harry Price went ghost hunting. But only fire could expunge the evil from this place. Or did it?…

El Cucuy hides in your closet or under your bed. In the dark. And he does not just do mean things to you if you are bad. He eats you. Oh, and El Cucuy sometimes attacks grandmothers. He is just all around bad.By Weird World Podcast

When 13-year old Eleonore Zugun found a coin on the ground and spent it, her grandmother told her Dracu the Devil would make sure bad things happened to her. Bad things did.By Weird World Podcast

Halloween is the perfect time for a fact or fiction episode. This one centers on strange things: tiny little vampires, moonstones, a demonic tree, man-eating trees and, worst of all, baby cages. Listen, then vote for the weird thing you think is B.S. We’ll reveal the fake strange thing on Halloween.By Weird World Podcast

How powerful is belief? Powerful enough to kill? To some indigenous Australians, the mere pointing of a bone can seal a terrible fate.By Weird World Podcast

For almost seven years Cindy James was harassed, attacked, and terrorized. Did Cindy have a vicious enemy who would not rest until she was broken or dead? Or was Cindy’s enemy much closer to home?By Weird World Podcast

Jack Wheeler was a stridently conventional man. West Point grad, military veteran, White House aide. Everything about Jack Wheeler was normal - until two days of strange behavior that culminated in his body being found at a landfill in Delaware, beaten to death.By Weird World Podcast

Over 30 years, Alan Smithee directed more than 25 feature films. He was praised by Roger Ebert. He directed such stars as Richard Widmark, Burt Reynolds, Robert Duvall, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster and Keanu Reeves. Alan Smithee was a major Hollywood player. It turns out, though, that Alan Smithee did not exist.…

Robert Pakington was a wealthy English reformer during the reign of Henry VIII. Who knew that what happened to him on a walk to church in 1536 would change the world forever in a very ugly way.By Weird World Podcast

As law enforcement gave up on ever catching the only successful hijacker in the nation’s history, the question became - who was DB Cooper? Was it the smoke jumper? The terrible skydiving instructor? The transgender woman? The mass murderer? Let’s find out.By Weird World Podcast

The moment Flight 305 touches down in Reno, the authorities swarm. But DB Cooper had already leapt into the rainy night somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Where did he jump? Did he survive? And, if so, where did he go?By Weird World Podcast

An aggressively normal man bought a one-way ticket on Flight 305 to Seattle, ordered a bourbon and soda, then told the flight attendant he had a bomb in his briefcase. And so started one of the most remarkable mysteries ever.By Weird World Podcast

Jetpack Jerry (not his real name) has been spotted 6,000 feet up in the air around LAX. Alien? Angel? Psychotic? Eccentric billionaire? Awesome dude? That guy who invented the Segway (oh, wait, he’s dead)? Jetpack Jerry joins Lawnchair Larry and the Balloon Boy in the Weird World aviation hall of fame.…

Callback updates: Japanese brown bears wreaking havoc in Hokkaido and Murder Hornets coming back to America. Oh, and we forgot to tell you we are taking a little summer break, but we will be back soon.By Weird World Podcast

For one unnamed family in Italy, weirdly copious sweating, high blood pressure, dilated eyes, stiff limbs and impotence were more ominous than they might be for most people. For this family, they signaled the onset of not days of sleeplessness, not weeks, but months, maybe even years. That never ends well.…

When Ed Bielek saw the movie, The Philadelphia Experiment, something sparked in his primal memory. Something from his past in Montauk on Long Island, New York. In a flash, Bielek realized he could add to the lore of time travel, telepathy, and government conspiracies with his own remarkable experiences. Be forewarned, this episode goes to 11.…