It’s been a big season for Weird World Adventures — and it turns out the adventures aren’t limited to the screen. Malorie Mackey, host and creator of Weird World Adventures, now streaming Season 2 on Amazon Prime and Roku via the Fawesome app, has announced that she and director / producer Michael Maldonado are expecting a baby.
The news came directly from Malorie herself, who shared the announcement with the warmth and candor that fans of MaloriesAdventures.com have come to expect from the woman behind the unusual travel brand. The announcement came straight from a charming video released at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner. For those who have followed along with Malorie’s adventures over the years, through Transylvanian castles, Icelandic volcanoes, German fairy tale forests, and the haunted hikes of the Great Smoky Mountains, this feels like the most exciting chapter yet.
“Every expedition starts with not knowing what you’ll find,” Malorie has said of her approach to exploration, and it seems that philosophy extends beautifully to life itself. Malorie and Michael have long been a creative partnership as much as a personal one, with Michael’s work behind the camera providing the visual language that makes Weird World Adventures so immersive and transportive. Together, they have built a show that feels genuinely curious — never sensational, always searching — and that ethos comes directly from who they are as people and collaborators.
For long-time fans, Michael Maldonado is a familiar presence both in front of and behind the lens. His direction gives the show its particular atmosphere: unhurried but electric, grounded but open to the uncanny. As Malorie has explored everything from the voodoo underworld of New Orleans to the fairy tale origins of Germany to death traditions around the world, it has been Michael’s vision that translates her fieldwork into something visually stunning. The two of them make Weird World Adventures what it is, and they are about to make something else together entirely.
The timing feels fitting. Season 2 of Weird World Adventures is one of the most ambitious the show has ever produced — twelve episodes spanning multiple continents and centuries of human storytelling, from the legends of Salem and the myths of Appalachia to the hidden elves of Iceland. It is a season about the stories we tell, the traditions we carry, and the strange and wonderful things we pass down through generations. And now, quietly threaded through all of it, is the knowledge that Malorie and Michael are preparing for a new great adventure.
Parenthood, for someone like Malorie, is unlikely to mean slowing down. After all, the two already have a beautiful daughter back at home. If anything, it will mean raising another small new human in the company of great stories, wide-open landscapes, and the firm conviction that the world is stranger and more magnificent than it first appears. Honestly? That sounds like the best possible upbringing.
Congratulations to Malorie and Michael on this remarkable new expedition. Season 2 of Weird World Adventures is streaming now — free internationally on Amazon Prime, free on Roku via the Fawesome app, and available for purchase on Amazon Prime US. Watch it as a celebration of the couple at its center, who are, as ever, headed somewhere extraordinary.
