What a Weird Week, a Weird News report Fri May 29 2026: Creepy Puppet and Pet Translator?!

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Scott discusses various weird news stories from the week, including a creepy puppet and a pet translator.

Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird news and interesting stuff that happened this week. See bottom of shownotes page for a transcript of the podcast episode. To Subscribe/ get in touch/ other/ see www.shownotes.page . Thanks for rating and reviewing along with subscribing ! These are the shownotes for Season 7, Ep 22 first published May 29, 2026. 10 Saved By the Bell Cereal https://people.com/general-mills-debuts-saved-by-the-bell-themed-cereal-boxes-exclusive-11982080 9 Scary Paragliding/ Airplane Mishap https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYu0zLyvZIs/ 8 Dog Translator https://www.odditycentral.com/animals/controversial-ai-powered-pet-translator-boasts-a-95-accurracy-rate.html 7 Police seek owner of very creepy puppet https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/05/27/Stoneham-Massachusetts-creepy-puppet/7051779883178/ 6 Doorbell ringing bears are back https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/05/21/bear-doorbell-Sparta-New-Jersey/5501779382850/ 5 New octopus discovered. It's small and blue and researchers may be freakin' out about it? https://studyfinds.com/blue-octopus-changed-deep-sea-science/ 4 (tie) We are not having fun, but here's something you might want…

People in this episode

Host: Scott

Topics covered

• weird news
• comedy
• pet translator
• creepy puppet
• octopus discovery
• paragliding mishap

Keywords

• weird news
• puppet
• pet translator
• octopus
• paragliding
• cereal

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: General Mills, Oddity Central, UPI, Study Finds

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