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True Weird Stuff is the award-winning podcast hosted by Sheri Lynch. Surprising, odd, bizarre - and sometimes insane. Always true. Let us tell you a story…
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Revisiting Unholy City: The Cult Leader Who Built His Own Town
Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Unholy City: The Cult Leader Who Built His Own Town His followers called him a prophet. Everyone else called him dangerous. In the hills of California, cult…
The Phantom Barber
Today's True Weird Stuff - The Phantom Barber In the summer of 1942, paranoia gripped the town of Pascagoula, Mississippi. An unknown intruder began sneaking into homes at night, not to steal…
Bloody Bishop
Today's True Weird Stuff - Bloody Bishop In 1976, a respected U.S. diplomat named William Bradford Bishop murdered his wife, mother, and three sons. He drove their bodies 275 miles to a swamp and…
Revisiting The Living Corpse: The Man Who Made a Career Being Buried Alive
Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting The Living Corpse: The Man Who Made a Career Being Buried Alive Before modern mortuary science, being buried alive was a real and terrifying possibility. But…
The Morlok 4
Today's True Weird Stuff - The Morlok 4 In 1930, four identical baby girls were born against impossible odds. The medical marvel of the Morlok quadruplets brought hope to a society ravaged by the…
The Hello Girls: The Women Who Helped Win WWI...and Were Forgotten
Today's True Weird Stuff - The Hello Girls: The Women Who Helped Win WWI...and Were Forgotten Before women could vote or officially serve in the Army, 223 American women were sent to the front…
The Angel Makers: The Village That Poisoned Its Husbands
Today's True Weird Stuff - The Angel Makers In a quiet Hungarian village with no doctor and no escape from abusive marriages, the women found salvation in a midwife called Auntie Suzy. She…
Revisiting Beavers On The Moon
Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Beavers On The Moon Claims that the Apollo 11 moon landing was a hoax have existed for decades. Meet the grandaddy of moon landing conspiracy theories, Bill…
Amelia's SOS
Get 15% off OneSkin with the code TRUEWEIRDSTUFF at https://www.oneskin.co/trueweirdstuff #oneskinpod #sponsored Today's True Weird Stuff - Amelia's SOS In 1937, the world was told that Amelia…
Revisiting Tripping Johns
Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Tripping Johns One of our first episodes of True Weird Stuff was about the CIA dosing unsuspecting men with LSD and luring them to surveillance brothels.…
Revisiting Talking To Heaven
Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Talking To Heaven What happens when we die? Are you a person who believes that we flicker into and out of existence like earthbound fireflies, here and then…
Killer Ouija Board
Today's True Weird Stuff - Killer Ouija Board Some say the Ouija board is just a game. A toy. A harmless way to pass the time. But in 1933, Dorothea Turley—once celebrated as America’s ideal of…
Cursed Bread
Today's True Weird Stuff - Cursed Bread In 1951, a quiet French village descended into chaos after people began hallucinating, screaming about monsters, and even jumping from windows—all after…
The Jumper
Today's True Weird Stuff - The Jumper On November 28, 1953, a man crashed through a tenth-floor window at New York City’s Hotel Statler. His name was Frank Olson — a scientist working on some of…
Open Wide
Today's True Weird Stuff - Open Wide In the early 1900s, psychiatrist Dr. Henry Cotton claimed he could cure mental illness by removing hidden infections in the body. His theory led to a shocking…
Scarlett Sisters
Today's True Weird Stuff - Scarlett Sisters Born into Southern privilege, sisters Ada and Minna Simms escaped violent marriages, stumbled into show business, and eventually pivoted into running…
Jeffrey Epstein, Vampire
Today's True Weird Stuff - Jeffrey Epstein, Vampire How do you build a conspiracy theory? Start with a villain. Add power. Stir in mystery. True Weird Stuff examines the internet's bizarre claim…
Swing Your Partner
Today's True Weird Stuff - Swing Your Partner From 17th-century folk traditions to 20th-century propaganda, the square dance traveled a long road before landing in your elementary school gym.…
Chronovision
Today's True Weird Stuff - Chronovision In 1972, a Vatican priest claimed he built a machine that could watch past events like a television...everything from ancient Rome to the crucifixion of…
Internal Sunshine
Today's True Weird Stuff - Internal Sunshine William J.A. Bailey wasn’t a doctor, but he convinced the public to trust him anyway—selling radium-laced water as a cure for nearly everything. One…
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True Weird Stuff has published 170 episodes since January 2023, covering topics in Documentary, History.
True Weird Stuff is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 1h 11m.
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