Marc W Shako’s Weird World
The history of mankind is riddled with the weird and the wonderful; bizarre people, strange places and odd events. For centuries, we’ve told each other fantastic stories around campfires and in darkened rooms. Tales of ghosts, UFOs, and conspiracies, but are these stories exactly that: Stories? There’s only one way to find out! Enter Marc W Shako’s Weird World.
Episodes
This time we’re looking at the subject of a 1977 book, and a 1979 film which has spawned a franchise of dozens of movies including one released as recently as 2024 and one of the most infamous haunted houses in history. It is 112 Ocean Avenue, better known as the Amityville Horror House.
Today, the story of what really happened at 112 Ocean Avenue is buried under layers of myth, rumour and controversy. Another famous haunting...
To the uninitiated, this might seem like a strange topic, but if the official narrative to the Oklahoma City Bombing were a novel, the sheer number of plot holes is verging on embarrassing. In this conspiracy episode, I’ll lead you through some of the most glaring. Enough said... Let's Get Weird!
LINKS:
John Doe #2
https://websleuths.com/threads/oklahoma-bombing-1995-who-was-john-doe-number-2.438696/
Britain’s Roswell! A bizarre UFO case with multiple witnesses at a US air base right here in good old Blighty as something descended into the forest in the early hours of one dark, wintry morning. One of the best documented cases on record, and one some claim has been debunked, but we’ll just see about that!
RIP Nick Pope =(
LINKS
Jim P’s notebook: https://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/2022/04/2010-it-was-...
From cursed movies like The Omen and cursed furniture (no, seriously!), to cursed cars like the Porsche Spyder owned by James Dean, curses are something that never fail to send a shiver down your spine - I scoured the internet and found some of the most examples for you!
LINKS
Busby's Stoop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby%27s_stoop_chair
The Conjure Chest
https://eerierift.wordpress.com/2021/10/10/the-cursed-chest-of-jacob-cool...
One of the most famous cases in the UK, not too far from my own back yard! The Black Monk haunted 30 East Drive in Pontefract, a regular looking house but what was going on inside the walls of the property was far from normal. Join me for this terrifying real-life poltergeist tale!
LINKS
Two Girls, One Ghost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmE7itqd_U
More on the Black Monk https://paranormalcasefiles.com/p/the-black-monk-of-...
The sinking of the Lusitania, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, Iraq I & II, the list goes on… For a lot of the 20th Century, so many wars were started under dubious circumstances.
Here we’ll look at some of the worst examples of times countries sent their best and brightest into battle when, had they been made aware of the full story, they may not have been so eager to lay down their lives.
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The grand daddy of them all! I thought seeing as every major UFO case is somewhere’s Roswell I’d better look at the original!
Did a UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947 or was the excuse for the ages true and the whole thing nothing more than a weather balloon?
There have been a couple of episodes where I thought I knew what was going on but the more I dug, the more I realised there could be more to ...
For a while now, folks have been going missing in US National Parks under very suspicious circumstances. Is this straightforward or could there be more going on than meets the eye?
David Paulides started digging and found some strange paralels between the cases. He also found more cases than he bargained for and mystery of The Missing 411 was born!
In this episode, I’ll look at some of the strangest cases that will make you s...
For our final episode in this series, we have some more stories of the paranormal. This time from social media site Reddit where user posed this question:
“A man once said if you want a good story just ask any random person if there was ever an event in their life they can not explain. Someone almost always has one weird thing that has happened to them. So Reddit, regardless of whatever you believe about the world, what&rsquo...
2nd August 1980. The waiting room at Bologna train station is packed, but the hundreds of passengers amassed there are about to have their thoughts of travel plans, dinner arrangements and daily worries scattered to the four winds, because in a moment, a huge explosion will rip through the station.
Sadly, it just the latest in a series of attacks that will work in favour of the right-wing leadership, drawing the left-leaning public...
On 4 October 1967 something crashed into the murky waters of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. What? According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police files, a UFO. One of my all time favourite UFO stories, this one has sightings from multiple witnesses (including policemen and pilots), radar evidence and physical evidence. No wonder they call it "Canada's Roswell".
Let's Get Weird!
#letsgetweird #ghoststories #UFOs #mysteries #conspiraci...
We’ve all seen the photographs: a blackened, charred spot in tucked away in the corner of a closed room, everything else around it seemingly untouched, but lurking conspicuously on the fringe of that scorched black patch, a perfectly preserved untouched human limb.
Today we’ll be sifting through the ashes for answers to the age old conundrum: what is spontaneous combustion, from famous cases to some possible explanation...
Back in episode 4 I told you about some real life experiences I’ve had with the paranormal. I also mentioned that as a kid growing up I spent a lot of time at my Nanna’s pub and that place was seriously haunted. I never saw anything there myself… but my family did. These are their stories. Ready for more spookiness? Let’s get weird!
#letsgetweird #ghoststories #UFOs #mysteries #conspiracies
Intro Music: Sla...
In this episode we take a (quick) look at the origins of the term Conspiracy Theory and the influence of language THEN we dive into 4 shocking "conspiracy theories" that turned out to be absolutely true. Let's Get Weird!
#letsgetweird #ghoststories #UFOs #mysteries #conspiracies
Intro Music: Slasher by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio karl@whitebataudio.com Outro Music: Lone Wolf by GuilhermeBernardes Here’s a link to the P...
On our last UFO episode, I said 95% of UFO sightings can be written off as nothing: weather phenomena; misidentified aircraft; mistakenly identified stars or planets. I also said 5% cannot be explained. Within that subset, there’s an even smaller subset of inexplicable deaths. Today, we’ll be looking at 5 times UFO encounters ended in tragedy. This time, it’s Bizarre UFO Deaths. Let’s Get Weird!
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One night in 1996, Brian Bethel was sitting in his car about to deposit a cheque when two boys appeared at his window. Instead of exiting his vehicle, Brian stayed in his car because something about the kids unnerved him deeply. It was only when one of the kids moved closer he saw what was wrong. It was a night he’d never forget and the birth of a mysterious new phenomenon. Who or What are the Black-Eyed Children?
Some first-hand tales of my personal experiences with the paranormal!
#letsgetweird #ghoststories #UFOs #mysteries #conspiracies
Intro Music: Slasher by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio karl@whitebataudio.com Outro Music: Lone Wolf by GuilhermeBernardes Here’s a link to the Podcast site on Podbean https://marcwshako.podbean.com/
Socials https://www.facebook.com/marcwshako https://x.com/MarcWShako https://...
On the 28 November 1953, Frank Olson, a US Army biochemist and biological weapons researcher, is in a room on the 13th floor of the Hotel Statler in New York City. He’s also in the middle of a severe psychotic episode. Sometime around 2am, Frank plummets thirteen storeys from the hotel window to the damp streets below. An obvious suicide, right? Not so fast.
At the time of his death, his blood was coursing with the drug lyser...
95% of UFO sightings can be written off as nothing: weather phenomena; misidentified aircraft; mistakenly identified stars or planets. 5% cannot be explained. Today, I’ll be looking at one case I think falls into that 5%.
UFOs, mysterious deaths, Men in Black, this one’s got the lot... it’s the Maury Island UFO.
In the mid 1960s the town of Point Pleasant, Virginia was besieged by a year-long series of sightings of a strange winged creature which culminated in the deaths of 46 people. The creature was the size of a man with glowing red eyes and huge bat wings and filled those unfortunate enough to see him with a bottomless dread.
List of Mothman sightings https://www.singularfortean.com/news/2017/6/10/a-timeline-of-the-chicago-flying-human...
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