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Each week, host John Hinson takes a look at weird, crazy, and forgotten stories from the history of humankind. He covers true crime, paranormal, and other strange stories and tries to put some humor into it, or maybe he's just an apathetic dick - that's up to you to decide.
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A collection of short stories, each connected to Forget What You Can't Remember by a minor character, a passing situation, or an unanswered question therein. While giving more depth and more details to the people and events of that novel, nine more narratives are revealed. Sex, pain, violence and zombies, tech support for a flying city, religious prophecies fulfilled, true love and lasting marriage, re-engineered doomsday devices, gourmet cannibalism, and a whole lot more. What happened to t ...
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After 25 years working in homicide, former Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin is sitting down across the interview room table from cops, crims, addicts, victims, small-time cheats and big-town lawyers, asking them to share their stories. One of the country’s most successful podcasts, I Catch Killers reveals the reality of life and death inside the justice system. Gary talks about the big things with an open mind - good and evil, hope and suffering, joy, tragedy - and redemption. I Catch ...
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Among the Dirt and Trees is a podcast that dives into the stories behind true crime cases that occur out in nature through short and sweet episodes that work for even the busiest schedules. Join our host, BreeAnn, as she ruins the forest, the desert, the beach, the ocean (and pretty much anywhere else with fresh air) one case at a time. New episodes are released every Monday and Wednesday and guaranteed to make you never want to leave your couch! 🔪🌲
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What’s worse than death? How about meeting your end on the high seas, marooned, while sharks swim hungrily by? Or being trapped in a toppled ship in the middle of a bustling city? Set sail with Charlotte and Patrick as these landlubbers delve into the depths of history to find the weirdest, scariest and just plain stupidest marine disasters in history. Show art provided by Stevie Jude.
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In an effort to educate and normalize, two therapists, Ryan Engelstad and Hayley Roberts, talk candidly about mental health and illness through the lens of movies, music, books, and TV. Common pop culture mental health tropes are analyzed, and the accuracy of their portrayals are in question, for better or worse. PopPsych can be raw and real, and very serious; it can also be very funny. If we really want to normalize the conversation about mental health, then we need to start having real and ...
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This week, Jessica brings us part one of the unbelievably insane story of Shelly Knotek; a woman whose name has become synonymous with terror. Knotek's crimes are a stark reminder of the darkness that can lurk within a person and in someone’s home. We delve into her life and the events that led to her descent into madness. We examine the methods sh…
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“Sit down, shut up and f*** off.” Those are the words coffin confessor Bill Edgar shouts when he crashes a funeral to reveal the deepest, darkest secrets of the dead. From burying cash under a coffin to removing a widow’s intimate toy before her family discovered it, the private investigator joins Gary Jubelin to share some of the wildest secrets f…
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Send us a Text Message. This week we're doing something a little different and talking about some strange clubs and organizations from history! Learn about the Church of the Hammer, The International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, the Ripper Crew, and the Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George." Like the show on Facebook…
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Bill Edgar was a teenager when he stole a rifle, climbed his school’s clock tower and planned to kill the teachers. After suffering years of sexual abuse at the hands of teachers and his grandfather, he couldn’t go on. Bill Edgar soon became a street kid and spent years locked up at Boggo Road Jail mingling with the most notorious crims of the ‘80s…
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Listen to episode 1 of our new series, The Missing 49 Million. It was supposed to be 'bigger than Google' so how did it all go so wrong? Meet Alan Metcalfe, the Aussie man who claimed to have found the secret to AI in the Bible and convinced hundreds of investors to part with their money. 49 million dollars has vanished into thin air, join Alex Tur…
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Kendra takes us back to the spiritual realm this week as a sort of follow up to our Near-Death Experiences episode, this time we are exploring reincarnation. Specifically, we will look at real life stories of children who claim to have lived previous lives where scientists were able to verify the statements they made and even visit with the familie…
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Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham dreamed of being the best in the world. But even when he won gold at the Beijing Olympics, he still wasn’t world number one. From there, he spiralled. The Aussie athlete joins Gary Jubelin to share the reality of the Games, why he lived off two minute noodles and how he broke free from the dangerous cycle of drugs. Cat…
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Send us a Text Message. It's a new month, which means a new Weird Fun Bag! We're looking at the stories of Edwin Rist, Dana Brown, and the Tromp Family. Like the show on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OurWeirdWorldPod/ Follow John on Twitter and Instagram @TheJohnHinson Follow the show on Instagram @OurWeirdWorldPod Want more John? Everyone wa…
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Olympic gold medalist Matthew Mitcham made history with his near-perfect dive, but his life was far from it. The champion athlete had a lonely childhood, battled depression from the age of 14, punished himself for having gay thoughts and escaped his feelings with drugs and alcohol. Fighting a crippling fear of failure, Matthew just wanted to be per…
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Welcome to Lab Reports 9! We apologize for the audio. We tried! Not our best but we love our Lab Reports episodes! Don't miss out on these unique stories! Thank you for listening! --- Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and anywhere else you listen to podcasts!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Follow Lucid Lab Podcast on social media (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube…
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Tracy Hall was in love with a man who never existed. In the space of 24 hours, Tracy’s life erupted beneath her. Hamish McLaren stole almost $8 million from his victims - but Tracy was his last. Joining Gary Jubelin, Tracy reveals what Hamish McLaren said when he called her from jail, how she rebuilt her life, and why becoming a victim of fraud cou…
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Send us a Text Message. This week we're wrapping up our series on American murderers with the stories of Dorothea Helen Gray, Ray Copeland, and Andre Thomas. Like the show on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OurWeirdWorldPod/ Follow John on Twitter and Instagram @TheJohnHinson Follow the show on Instagram @OurWeirdWorldPod Want more John? Everyo…
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Tracy Hall fell in love with Max Tavita. Life was perfect. There were family holidays, they looked at buying houses, and they’d planned their future together. But it was all a web of lies. Within 18 months, he’d fleeced her of $300,000 in her life savings. She was left with nothing, and the man she knew as Max Tavita was in fact one of Australia’s …
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Estibaliz Carranza was a smart, beautiful, young woman with her whole life ahead of her. Her dream was to get married and start a family. It is all she wanted. But things didn't go as planned. Instead of ‘happily ever after’, she was arrested and prosecuted for the disappearance and death of two of her partners. Why? Join us to hear about what led …
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John Price’s severed head was boiling in a pot with veggies, his skin was hanging in one piece on a butcher’s hook in the doorway and the walls were covered in blood. That was the crime scene retired detective Robert Wells walked into in 2000. Robert joins Gary Jubelin to talk about how he ran the murder investigation, and what it was like when he …
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Send us a Text Message. This week we're starting a two-part series on some wild murderers from the United States. Tune in to learn about the Harpe Brothers, Phillip Jablonski, and Juan Corona. Like the show on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OurWeirdWorldPod/ Follow John on Twitter and Instagram @TheJohnHinson Follow the show on Instagram @OurW…
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Retired detective Robert Wells worked a one man station, had a gun stuck in his belly, attended car accidents alone where people were dying - but the case that still haunts him is the murder of John Price. Stabbed to death in his own home, his girlfriend Katherine Knight skinned and butchered him before serving him on dinner plates. Can’t get enoug…
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Outside of Juarez, Mexico in the 1970s, Ervil LeBaron led a fundamentalist sect of the Mormon religion known as the Lambs of God. Ervil would gather many followers and lead them down a treacherous path that involved killing their own family members in the name of God. By the time it was all done, there would be over 30 people killed but Ervil would…
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No swearing, no smoking, no gossip and no alcohol. That’s what Peter Lyndon James promises the addicts who stay at his “tough love” rehabilitation centre, Shalom House. The reformed criminal has helped hundreds overcome addiction, but to do that, he has to take the prison out of the prisoner. Can’t get enough of I Catch Killers? Stay up to date on …
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Send us a Text Message. While we've talked about people (mostly women) killing their husbands to cash in on life insurance before, we've never had an episode dedicated to it! This week, we're looking at the stories of Audrey Marie Hilley, Jerry Michael Williams, and shenanigans in the town of Vernon, FL, to see the lengths people go to for money. L…
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Reformed drug addict Peter Lyndon James was only nine years old when he was first sent to prison. For the next 26 years, the career criminal felt trapped, spending much of his life in and out of jail. But one moment changed everything, and he broke free. Can’t get enough of I Catch Killers? Stay up to date on all the latest crime news at The Daily …
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Outside of Juarez, Mexico in the 1970s, Ervil LeBaron led a fundamentalist sect of the Mormon religion known as the Lambs of God. Ervil would gather many followers and lead them down a treacherous path that involved killing their own family members in the name of God. By the time it was all done, there would be over 30 people killed but Ervil would…
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Maria Korp’s decomposing body was found in the boot of her car. When former detective Narelle Fraser saw Maria, she got into the cramped car and laid beside her near-lifeless body. Desperately looking for any small sign of life, Narelle rested her head on Maria’s chest. Ever so slowly, it moved up and down. Narelle walks Gary Jubelin through the ca…
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Send us a Text Message. This week we're looking at 3 stories of guys who tried to be heroes...and actually convinced people of it because we're all pretty gullible. We're covering the stories of William James Clark, Bill Jakob, Wilhelm Voigt. Like the show on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OurWeirdWorldPod/ Follow John on Twitter and Instagram…
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Anna Sharpe was pregnant with her second child when she and her 20 month old daughter, Gracie, vanished. But the killer was hiding in plain sight. Former detective Narelle Fraser joins Gary Jubelin to share how she solved the murders - and what lengths she went to in retrieving Anna and Gracie’s bodies. Can’t get enough of I Catch Killers? Stay up …
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In this week's harrowing episode, Jessica gives us the chilling details of the attempted murder of Alison Botha; a story that captivated the world with its tale of terror and survival. Alison's ordeal began on a fateful night in 1994 when she was abducted, brutally assaulted, and left for dead by her attackers. Against all odds, Alison found her wa…
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From catching killers to preventing terror attacks, Dr Dave Gawel spent decades protecting Australia. If nothing happened, he was doing his job. In this episode, the counter terrorism expert joins Gary Jubelin to discuss radicalisation, recruitment, how experts manage threats in real time, and the intense pressures faced in the fight against terror…
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Send us a Text Message. This week is the 11th edition of the Weird Fun Bag series where we cover the stories of Tan Youhui, William Kogut, Bashir Kouchacji. We also have new music beds for the show, so let us know what you think! Like the show on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OurWeirdWorldPod/ Follow John on Twitter and Instagram @TheJohnHins…
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Two weeks. Four murders. That was Dr Dave Gawel’s reality early in his career. He spent three days chasing a gang of street kids who attacked a child with a sledgehammer and murdered a young woman in a paddock. That woman was Janine Balding. On this episode of I Catch Killers, the counter terrorism expert recalls his early police days, and explains…
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Listen to episode 1 of our new series inside the global cocaine industry - where profits are counted up in millions and losses measured out in murders. This worldwide investigation from The Times, Sunday Times and NewsCorp Australia, reveals how the drug business works like any multi-billion dollar corporation. Cocaine Inc. is hosted by Fiona Hamil…
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We are traveling to Transylvania on this week's episode, but not just to visit the origin of Dracula lore. Instead, we will be exploring the creepy happenings of the nearby Hoia Baciu Forest. There are tales of UFOs, disappearances of people and animals, ghosts, portals to other dimensions and some odd vegetation going on here. We will cover it all…
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When Billy Moore was first locked away in a Thai prison, he shared a cell with a dead person for three days. For years he slept on a cell floor with 70 inmates, ate soup with chicken eyeballs and navigated the deadly politics of brutal prison gangs. This is what it takes to survive one of the world’s most notorious prisons. Get episodes of I Catch …
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Send us a Text Message. This week we're looking at strikes from history because every generation is lazy and don't want to work no more. Learn about the Haymarket Affair, the Ludlow Massacre, and the Battle of Blair Mountain. Like the show on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OurWeirdWorldPod/ Follow John on Twitter and Instagram @TheJohnHinson F…
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