Latest Weirdcandy Podcast Episodes
Perseus the Legendary Hero
Weird Candy - June 04, 2024 08:00 - 45 minutesSend us a Text Message. Perseus was a major hero in Greek mythology and even today, his name is surely one of ancient history’s most familiar. But who, exactly, was he? He famously slayed the terrifying Gorgon Medusa, a seemingly impossible task, completed through sneaky stealth and trickery. U...
The Beale Ciphers
Weird Candy - May 21, 2024 14:00 - 56 minutesSend us a Text Message. The Beale ciphers are several coded messages, originally published in an 1885 pamphlet. This pamphlet purports to tell the story of frontiersman Thomas Beale, who (along with his party) mined quantities of gold, silver, and jewels (currently worth approximately $38 milli...
The Amherst Mystery
Weird Candy - May 14, 2024 08:00 - 48 minutesSend us a Text Message. In the late summer of 1878, a sleepy Nova Scotia town found itself in the middle of a mystery. Unexplained banging sounds rang from a home on Princess Street, buildings combusted into flames and a disturbing message was scratched above a young woman's bed: "Esther Cox,...
Flat Earth Theory
Weird Candy - May 07, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. Of all the conspiracy theories that litter the Internet, the flat Earth conspiracy is quite possibly the most curious. After all, the ancient Greeks figured out the planet's shape (and even its circumference) in the third century B.C. But a fringe society founded in th...
Irelands Vanishing Triangle
Weird Candy - April 30, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. Ireland's Vanishing Triangle is a term commonly used in the Irish media when referring to a number of high-profile disappearances of Irish women from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Several other women were also murdered within the triangle and their cases remain unsol...
Weird But True
Weird Candy - April 16, 2024 19:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. This week we dive into a number of weird but true stories. You truly need to hear these to believe them. Support the Show.
Puckwudgies
Weird Candy - April 09, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. According to legend, Pukwudgies can appear and disappear at will, shapeshift, lure people to their deaths, use magic, launch poison arrows, and create fire. Native Americans believed that Pukwudgies were once friendly to humans, but then turned against them, and are bes...
What's the Deal With Tunnels
Weird Candy - April 02, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. Why do tunnels seem cause such strong feelings? Is it the fear of not knowing what lies in the dark? Is it the cold damp air? Is it maybe some primal fear left over from the early days of our species? This week we look into multiple tunnels, from the simply haunted to th...
Raelianism
Weird Candy - March 19, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. Raelism, or the Raelian Movement, is another UFO religion and claims to be the largest. The Raelians are the followers of a cult founded in 1974 by the French auto racing journalist Claude Vorilhon. They have had two symbols to represent their cult; a swastika embedded o...
Munich Manual of Demonic Magic Part 2
Weird Candy - March 05, 2024 15:00 - 51 minutesSend us a Text Message. Today we conclude our study of the Munich Manual of Demonic Stuff. Support the Show.
Munich Manual of Demonic Magic
Weird Candy - February 27, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. The Munich Manual of Demonic Magic or Liber incantationum, exorcismorum et fascinationum variarum is a 15th-century grimoire manuscript. The text, written in Latin, largely deals with demonology and necromancy. The text is a fully digitally restored facsimile copy, but s...
Demon Summoning Rituals
Weird Candy - February 14, 2024 02:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. This week we scour the interwebs for some esoteric demon summoning rituals, and have fun commenting on and critiquing their methods. Support the Show.
Miami Mall Aliens
Weird Candy - January 30, 2024 09:00 - 57 minutesSend us a Text Message. After a New Year’s incident at a Miami mall sparked a massive police response, social media users started spreading some out-of-this-world claims. Videos circulating social media show dozens of police cars and shadowy figures at Bayside Marketplace, located about 5 mile...
The Dark Web
Weird Candy - November 29, 2023 19:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. This week we take a look at just how disturbing the dark web can be. Word warning weirdos don't go there yourself. Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREE Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commi...
Creepy Stories for Halloween
Weird Candy - October 31, 2023 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. This week we celebrate spooky season with a verity of creepy stories from around the world. Happy Halloween weirdos. Support the Show.
Cryptid Encounters
Weird Candy - October 10, 2023 14:00 - 51 minutesSend us a Text Message. This week we bring you various cryptid encounters from all over world. From bigfoot to possible aliens, maybe even things you've never heard of. Check out these first hand accounts for some mystery and laughs. Support the Show.
Edgar Allan Poe
Weird Candy - September 19, 2023 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. Edgar Allan Poe was a poet, short story writer, editor, and critic. Credited by many scholars as the inventor of the detective genre in fiction, he was a master at using elements of mystery, psychological terror, and the macabre in his writing. Join us as we talk about ...
The Philadelphia Experiment
Weird Candy - September 05, 2023 08:00 - 58 minutesSend us a Text Message. Allegedly, in the fall of 1943 a U.S. Navy destroyer was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, in an incident known as the Philadelphia Experiment. Records in the Archives Branch of the Naval History and Heritage Command hav...
The Roswell Incident
Weird Candy - August 22, 2023 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. On July 8, 1947 Public Information Officer Walter Haut of the Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico issued a press release indicating that a flying saucer had been found in the desert. By the next day, the Army had changed their tune, stating the object had act...
The Squonk
Weird Candy - August 08, 2023 16:00 - 36 minutesSend us a Text Message. The squonk is of a very retiring disposition, generally traveling about at twilight and dusk. Because of its misfitting skin, which is covered with warts and moles, it is always unhappy...Hunters who are good at tracking are able to follow a squonk by its tear...
The Smurl Haunting
Weird Candy - August 01, 2023 08:00 - 56 minutesSend us a Text Message. The Smurls moved into a house on Chase Street in West Pittston, Pennsylvania in August 1973. They claimed that the premises were disturbed by a demon that caused loud noises and bad odors, threw their dog into a wall, shook their mattress, pushed one of thei...
Fred and Rose West
Weird Candy - July 25, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. One of the most infamous serial killer couples in British history are Fred and Rose West from Gloucestershire, England. Over twenty years, they raped, tortured and murdered an unknown number of girls and women, including two of their own daughters. Their gr...
The Book of Shadows Part 2
Weird Candy - July 18, 2023 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. This week we continue our deep dive into the book of shadows. Support the Show.
The Book of Shadows
Weird Candy - July 12, 2023 16:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. Gerald Gardner, the "father of Wicca", first introduced the Book of Shadows to people that he had initiated into the craft through his Bricket Wood coven in the 1950s. He claimed that it was a personal cookbook of spells that have worked for the owner; they...
Urban Legends
Weird Candy - July 04, 2023 08:00 - 49 minutesSend us a Text Message. Every town seems to have its own urban legends. This week we dive into some of our favorites. I wont spoil it here, check out the episode and see if we cover your favorites, or maybe find an urban legend that you've never heard before. Support the Show.
Cellular Memory
Weird Candy - June 27, 2023 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. The theory of cellular memories states that memories, as well as personality traits, are not only stored in the brain but may also be stored in organs such as the heart. In 2009 Harvard Medical School defined cellular memories as “a sustained cellular resp...
Son of Sam
Weird Candy - June 13, 2023 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. Berkowitz grew up in New York City and served in the United States Army. Using a .44 Special caliber Bulldog revolver, he killed six people and wounded seven others by July 1977, terrorizing New Yorkers and gaining worldwide notoriety. Berkowitz eluded the ...
Djinn
Weird Candy - June 06, 2023 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. Jinn, especially through their association with things unseen, have always been favorite figures in North African, Egyptian, Syrian, Persian, and Turkish folklore and are at the center of an immense popular literature, appearing notably in The Thousand and O...
The Bennington Triangle
Weird Candy - May 30, 2023 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. The Bermuda Triangle is a patch of ocean in the western North Atlantic Ocean. It’s near Florida and Bermuda and is famous for being the site of mysterious disappearances and spooky happenings. If you believe the legends, Vermont is also home to a cursed area...
The History and Hauntings of the Lemp Mansion
Weird Candy - May 23, 2023 08:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. Said to be one of the ten most haunted places in America, the Lemp Mansion in St.Louis, Missouri, continues to play host to the tragic Lemp family. Over the years, the mansion was transformed from the stately home of millionaires to office space, decaying in...
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