Wide Atlantic Weird
Episodes
We Need To Talk About Chris Jericho And Joe Rogan (with Dónal Gill)
25 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Things get a little serious at the cabin in the woods this week as Cian and Dónal talk about problematic podcast hosts Chris Jericho and Joe Rogan. B...
Roots Of Horror: John Wyndham And The Day Of The Triffids (with Neil Philips of UK Wildlife Podcast)
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An empty, apocalyptic London, survivors proposing radical utopias - and all while 9-foot, monstrous carnivorous plants roam the streets? It must be TH...
Fake News: The Fictional Life Of Hulk Hogan Part 1 (with Dónal Gill)
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like arch-conspiracy fiend Alex Jones, wrestler Hulk Hogan has had to claim in court that his real self is seperate from his in-ring persona - and tha...
BONUS MICRO-EPISODE: The Vanishing Hitchhiker of Cobh
12 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since we were in the area - a very brief ghost story/urban legend for you from County Cork.
St Kevin's: Cork's Abandoned Victorian Asylum
11 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Every town has that one spooky abandoned building, the one that seems to naturally gather scary stories and urban legends. On the west side of Cork Ci...
The Jewel Of Seven Stars: Bram Stoker's Spooky Egypt Part 1
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
*NOW UPDATED WITH EXTRA BONUS MATERIAL!* On this episode, enter the Wide Atlantic Weird cabin-in-the-woods to find the place stuffed with mummified ca...
Ancient Astronauts, Religion & Science In Prometheus (2012) (with Daffy Price)
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Prometheus, made with a decent amount of creative control by increasingly-eccentric director Ridley Scott, is a sorta-maybe prequel to the Alien movie...
Rumour Control: The Unbelievable Development Hell Of Alien 3 (with Ian Stokes)
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christ on a bicycle, you just wouldn't believe the madness that went on behind the scenes during the making of ALIEN 3. An astonishingly bleak, gothic...
The Land Beyond The Forest: The Mythical World Of The Uberwald
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Digging up an old script at the Cabin In The Woods, Cian addresses an old topic, a suitably spooky and Gothic one for an unseasonably cold summer’s ...
A Franchise Nobody Wanted: The Rest Of The Blair Witch Mythos (with Ian Stokes)
30 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Some months ago we did an episode solely about the first Blair Witch movie from 1999. We're doing everything else in the franchise (two movies and a b...
Edwardians And Dinosaurs: The Prehistory Of 'The Lost World'
17 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World is the proverbial ‘not-terrible’ dinosaur story. Let’s face it, besides Jurassic Park, there aren’t many...
The Shores Of Hell: History And Memories of DOOM (with Ian Stokes)
10 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1993, the world of gaming was changed forever by Doom, a fast-paced game with action and horror elements that was hugely controversial for its viol...
It Never Gets Respect: Metallica and the making of St Anger (with Dónal Gill)
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Another strange tale from the world of music here as Cian and Donal delve into Metallica’s infamously difficult phase during the recording of their ...
Twisted Pair: Is Neil Breen Self-Aware? (with Ali Keane)
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A proper, enjoyable 'bad movie' needs to have been made with by someone who truly believes in what they're doing, without irony. Cian and Ali enjoy a ...
Dead Men Working In The Cane Fields: The Zombies of William Seabrook's 'Magic Island'
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As something of a follow-up to our last episode about the birth of the ‘Spooky New Orleans’ archetype, join Cian for a lockdown bottle of ale on t...
Lafcadio Hearn In New Orleans
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The popular image of New Orleans as a spooky, mysterious city full of witchcraft and voodoo needs no introduction. But few know that the city owes thi...
What You Did Not Create: Slipknot And Nu-Metal Nostalgia
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for a look back at a strange world: 2001 was a different time. A time of baggy jeans, wallets on chains, and a strangely heavy, angry, and p...
Choose-Your-Own-Satanic-Panic: Fighting Fantasy And House Of Hell
05 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Cian for a quarantine session of brandy and nostalgia at the cabin in this much-delayed episode. If you fondly remember reading (and cheating) th...
Geraldine Cummins: The Cork Psychic
04 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the world in the midst of difficulties and upheaval, we bring you a brief update on the Wide Atlantic Weird status, as well as a short episode ab...
All Of Them Witches: Margaret Murray And The Witch-Cult Hypothesis
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Lovecraft is a great way to discover new writers and strange old pseudoscientific theories. In this episode I discuss how through Lovecraft I ...
American Militia 2: The Shadow Of Waco (with Ali Keane)
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second of our American Militia episodes, we examine the horror that was the 1993 Waco Siege. In February of that year, the Bureau of Alcohol, T...
The American Folkhorror Of The Blair Witch Project
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1999, a supposedly-real ‘horror film’ was released that showed us virtually nothing while filling us with a terror of virtually everything. Tho...
Chariots Of The Slobs: Jack London And The Ancient Aliens
29 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sitting by a roaring fire in the Wide Atlantic Weird cabin, Cian delves into a potted history of the Ancient Aliens theory – once a fringe, almost-d...
American Militia 1: The Road To Ruby Ridge (with Ali Keane)
23 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cian and Ali begin their deep dive into the American militia (or Patriot) movement. There are some odd beliefs very particular to America at play here...
BONUS EPISODE: Pitching Bad Movie Ideas To The Asylum (with Ali Keane)
16 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On a dark and stormy night, as London is pelted with rain and lashed by intense winds, the WIDE ATLANTIC WEIRD crew serves you up a BONUS EPISODE. Enj...
The Witch (2015): Religion and Superstition In Movies (with Dónal Gill)
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, a fantastic horror/historical film called The Witch made the rare decision to take the religion and worldview of its characters seriously. Ci...
Contagion And Conspiracies: The Coronavirus (with James Lynch)
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wondering what all the hype is about? As the hype builds, Cian phones friend of the show and man of medicine James Lynch for a brief chat about the Co...
A Winter Weird Fiction: What Was It? –by Fitz-James O’Brien
02 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While a winter gale rocks the Essex woods, Cian stokes the fire and cracks out a remarkable story written in the mid 19th Century by a fellow Corkman....
Disappearances In National Parks
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While driving across England, Cian reads some classic accounts of mysterious disappearances from wilderness areas and national parks in the US in an a...
What's In The Cards: Testing Extra-Sensory Perception Using Zener Cards (with Faye Sewell & Ali Keane)
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cian quits the cabin and travels to London where he’s joined by Faye from Youtube’s The Ghost Trail and Ali from punk band The Scuts to test wheth...
Forest Of Fear: The Dechmont Woods UFO Encounter
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cian leaves his Essex cabin in search of mystery: join our host on the first Wide Atlantic Weird road trip as he travels to Scotland to investigate th...
Monsters Of The Week: A Retrospective of The X-Files (with Chris Joyce)
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE: If you have a low tolerance for banter, you can safely skip the first 20 mins. In the early 90s, when we didn’t really have much to worry abou...
Vegetable Horror: The Seed From The Sepulchre by Clark Ashton Smith
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cian digs out an old favourite from the days of pulp magazine adventure and horror: a short story by Clark Ashton Smith from 1933 about a trip down a ...
The Ghost Trail: The Making Of A Youtube Show (with Faye Sewell)
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Things are getting about as festive as they ever do in the Wide Atlantic Weird cabin: the forest around is bare, and the fire is roaring. It’s the r...
All Those Who Wander: Unsettling Stories of Hiking And The Great Outdoors
02 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stories of hiking and camping in remote places frequently feature elements of isolation and horror. On a sunny day on the porch of the Wide Atlantic W...
The Coming Of The Greys: An Interrupted Journey (with Chris Joyce)
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On a brilliantly starry, starry night, Cian leaves the Wide Atlantic Weird cabin to wander through the woods, sit by the railway tracks, and phone his...
Fake News In Science: Tabloid Lies About Wildlife (with Neil Philips from UK Wildlife Podcast)
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Poor public understanding of science is leading to an overall dumbing-down of decision-making around the world; environmental, political, and otherwis...
Bigfoot Before 1958 Part 2: It's Evolution, Baby!
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cian thinks longingly of his days in the Pacific Northwest while sipping on a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale round the campfire at the Wide Atlantic Weird Cab...
The Coming Of The Greys: One From The Vaults (with Chris Joyce)
11 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We all know what aliens look like – small grey guys with big heads, right? Over coffee with sometime co-host Mr Chris ‘Spooky’ Joyce, Cian plans...
Sphere Itself: Getting Your Head Round The Flat Earth Theory (with James Lynch)
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Flat Earth Theory – so obviously wrong, and bonkers, that it isn’t even worth talking about, right? While Cian enjoys a morning coffee on the ...
Bigfoot Before 1958 Part 1: The Prehistory Of A Legend
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1958, enormous footprints found near Bluff Creek, California made Bigfoot a worldwide phenomenon, elevating the mystery primate to cryptozoological...
Monsters Of Britain: Plesiosaurs and Alien Big Cats (with Neil Philips from UK Wildlife Podcast)
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cian is joined by naturalist and wildlife photographer Neil Philips to discuss what makes British monsters different (and sometimes similar) fro...
Cryptids In Classic Fiction: The Desrick On Yandro by Manly Wade Wellman
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to the beasts that hide from man, nobody did backwoods Americana mystery creatures quite like Manly Wade Wellman. His character John the...
Cryptids in Classic Fiction: The Horror-Horn by E. F. Benson
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When reports of the so-called 'Abominable Snowman' first filtered from the peaks of the Himalayas to Western Europe during the golden age of mountaine...
Only A Paper Moon: The Inevitable Apollo Moon Landing Hoax Episode (with James Lynch)
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Somehow the Wide Atlantic Weird Bunker has gotten itself blasted into Earth orbit, and from there, host Cian samples a fine session IPA and speaks wit...
The Yowie: Australia's Bigfoot, Or An Invented Cryptid?
04 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE: the style and format of the show was very different back in these days! But we think you'll still enjoy it. Cian is fascinated by the origins of...
The Strange World of Post-Truth and the Death of Expertise (with Dónal Gill)
23 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Conspiracy theories, UFO folklore, fringe beliefs - they all have something in common, and it's something worrying. A thread of anti-intellectualism r...
Send In The Clowns: The 2016 Creepy Clown Panic
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE: the style and format of the show was very different back in these days! But we think you'll still enjoy it. The bizarre episode of mass hysteria...
The Ballad of Alex Jones and Joe Rogan
09 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cian downs a Theakston's Old Peculiar and gets a little serious in this episode about conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his frenemy and all-round bro...
The First UFO: The Kenneth Arnold Sighting
10 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE: the style and format of the show was very different back in these days! But we think you'll still enjoy it. Join Cian by the fire to discu...
The Strange Case of British Bigfoot
02 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE: The format and style of the show was VERY different back at the start! We still think you'll enjoy it though. In this paranormal-themed episode,...