True Weird Stuff
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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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- Poisonous Poo: The Dirty Secret of Lewis & Clark · 1 h 29 min · Episode 189Today's True Weird Stuff - Poisonous Poo: The Dirty Secret of Lewis & Clark In 1804, Lewis and Clark set out on their legendary expedition across the American West, unaware that…
- The Terrible Tale of Sawney Bean: Scotland's Cannibal Clan · 1 h 24 min · Episode 222Today's True Weird Stuff - The Terrible Tale of Sawney Bean: Scotland's Cannibal Clan For centuries, the legend of Sawney Bean has haunted Scotland. According to the terrifying…
- The Hermit of Gully Lake · 1 h 34 minToday's True Weird Stuff - The Hermit of Gully Lake In 1944, Willard MacDonald jumped from a moving military train to escape fighting in World War II and vanished into the…
- The Ogress of Reading - The Serial Killer Who Murdered Babies for Money · 1 h 32 min · Episode 186Today's True Weird Stuff - The Ogress of Reading: The Serial Killer Who Murdered Babies for Money In Victorian England, desperate mothers entrusted their babies to a seemingly…
- Your Beautiful Ankle - The Bizarre History of Ankle Beauty Contests · 1 h 42 min · Episode 185Today's True Weird Stuff - Your Beautiful Ankle - The Bizarre History of Ankle Beauty Contests Once upon a time, a woman's ankle was considered so alluring that entire beauty…
- For the Lady, a Lysol Douche · 1 h 31 min · Episode 184Today's True Weird Stuff - For the Lady, a Lysol Douche Today, you use Lysol to clean the kitchen or disinfect the bathroom. But for decades, it was marketed to American women…
- Deadly Belle - The Serial Killer Who Lured Men to Her Murder Farm · 1 h 41 minToday's True Weird Stuff - Deadly Belle - The Serial Killer Who Lured Men to Her Murder Farm Known as one of America’s most notorious female serial killers, Belle Gunness lured…
- Tilt-A-Whirl: From a Kitchen Table to the American Midway · 1 h 27 minToday's True Weird Stuff - Tilt-A-Whirl: From a Kitchen Table to the American Midway Long before the Tilt-A-Whirl became a fixture of carnival midways across America, it began…
- Olney House of Horrors: The R.C. and Eugene Horsch Serial Killer Mystery · 1 h 35 minToday's True Weird Stuff - Olney House of Horrors: The R.C. and Eugene Horsch Serial Killer Mystery A routine arrest near Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell lead police to a decaying…
- Revisiting Bloody Benders: America’s Killer Family (Airdate 9/4/2026) · 38 minToday's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Bloody Benders: America’s Killer Family (Airdate 9/4/2026) For pioneers traveling the lonely Kansas prairie, the Bender family's roadside…
- Revisiting Charlie No-Face - The Tragic Truth Behind the Green Man Legend · 48 minToday's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Charlie No-Face - The Tragic Truth Behind the Green Man Legend For decades, teenagers in western Pennsylvania whispered about a faceless…
- Revisiting Rest In Peace: The Church Built Over a Pit of Corpses · 1 h 18 minToday's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Rest In Peace: The Church Built Over a Pit of Corpses In the 1800s, London was running out of room for the dead. At Enon Chapel, bodies…
- Revisiting Hammer Time - The Hollywood Love Triangle That Ended in Murder · 55 minToday's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Hammer Time - The Hollywood Love Triangle That Ended in Murder In 1922, former showgirl Clara Phillips became convinced her husband was…
- Revisiting Teenage Nazi Hunters - The Sisters Who Became Nazi Assassins · 1 h 7 min · Episode 176Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Teenage Nazi Hunters: The Sisters Who Became Nazi Assassins Freddie and Truus Oversteegen were teenage girls who exploited society's…
- Revisiting Ballsy: The Prison Doctor Who Experimented on Thousands of Inmates · 1 h 5 min · Episode 175Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Ballsy: The Prison Doctor Who Experimented on Thousands of Inmates At California's San Quentin Prison, Dr. Leo Stanley believed crime could…
- Revisiting Human Product 12 - The Man Secretly Injected With Plutonium · 1 h 13 minToday's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Human Product 12 - The Man Secretly Injected With Plutonium In 1945, Ebb Cade survived a car accident near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, only to…
- Revisiting The Enema King: Louis XIV's Strangest Obsession · 1 h 3 min · Episode 173Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting The Enema King: Louis XIV's Strangest Obsession Louis XIV was known as the Sun King, but history gave him another, far less majestic…
- Revisiting Shock Doc - Inside Bellevue’s Horrific Child Psychiatry Experiments · 1 h 19 min · Episode 172Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Shock Doc - Inside Bellevue’s Horrific Child Psychiatry Experiments Dr. Lauretta Bender became one of the most controversial child…
- Revisiting Corpse Medicine - When Doctors Prescribed Human Remains · 31 min · Episode 171Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Corpse Medicine - When Doctors Prescribed Human Remains Before modern medicine, some cures came from the grave. For centuries, Europeans…
- Revisiting King of Quacks: The Greatest Medical Fraud in American History · 1 h 12 min · Episode 170Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting King of Quacks: The Greatest Medical Fraud in American History Curtis Howe Springer claimed to be a doctor. He wasn't. He also claimed to…
- Revisiting The Baroness: The Galápagos Murder Mystery Nobody Solved · 1 h 25 min · Episode 169Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting The Baroness: The Galápagos Murder Mystery Nobody Solved The Galápagos Islands were supposed to be an escape from the world. But for a…
- Revisiting Unholy City: The Cult Leader Who Built His Own Town · 1 h 5 min · Episode 168Today'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…
- The Phantom Barber · 1 h 36 min · Episode 167Today'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…
- Bloody Bishop · 1 h 37 min · Episode 166Today'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…
- Revisiting The Living Corpse: The Man Who Made a Career Being Buried Alive · 1 h 37 min · Episode 165Today'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…
- The Morlok 4 · 1 h 21 min · Episode 164Today'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…
- The Hello Girls: The Women Who Helped Win WWI...and Were Forgotten · 1 h 23 min · Episode 163Today'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…
- The Angel Makers: The Village That Poisoned Its Husbands · 1 h 29 min · Episode 162Today'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…
- Revisiting Beavers On The Moon · 1 h 12 min · Episode 161Today'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…
- Amelia's SOS · 1 h 39 min · Episode 160Get 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…
- Revisiting Tripping Johns · 46 min · Episode 159Today'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…
- Revisiting Talking To Heaven · 56 min · Episode 158Today'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…
- Killer Ouija Board · 1 h 26 min · Episode 157Today'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…
- Cursed Bread · 1 h 43 min · Episode 156Today'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…
- The Jumper · 1 h 13 min · Episode 155Today'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…
- Open Wide · 1 h 36 min · Episode 154Today'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…
- Scarlett Sisters · 1 h 31 min · Episode 153Today's True Weird Stuff - Scarlett Sisters Born into Southern privilege, sisters Ada and Minna Simms escaped violent marriages, stumbled into show business, and eventually…
- Jeffrey Epstein, Vampire · 1 h 31 min · Episode 152Today'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…
- Swing Your Partner · 1 h 30 min · Episode 151Today'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…
- Chronovision · 1 h 24 min · Episode 150Today'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…
- Internal Sunshine · 1 h 30 min · Episode 149Today'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…
- The Perfect Baby · 1 h 25 min · Episode 148Today's True Weird Stuff - The Perfect Baby In 1919, a toddler known as one of America’s “Perfect Babies” vanished from his New Jersey home. Searchers scoured the woods…
- Lynnewood Hall · 1 h 17 min · Episode 147Today's True Werid Stuff - Lynnewood Hall Lynnewood Hall was built as a monument to wealth, power, and permanence—an American Versailles, commissioned by the Widener family…
- Tiny Pedro · 1 h 11 min · Episode 146Today's True Weird Stuff - Tiny Pedro In 1932, a prospector blasting for gold in Wyoming uncovered something no one expected: a tiny mummified human seated upright in a cave…
- The Award Winning "Doomsday Clock" · 1 h 33 min · Episode 145Today's True Weird Stuff - The Award Winning "Doomsday Clock" True Weird Stuff is currently on hiatus, but Sheri and Max will be back with a brand new episode next week. Until…
- The Award Winning "Once Upon A Shroom" · 1 h 22 min · Episode 144The Award Winning "Once Upon A Shroom" Sheri and Max have placed True Weird Stuff on hiatus through the holiday season. Today, we present to you another one of their award…
- The Award Winning "Cokey & Lucky" · 1 h 22 min · Episode 143Today's True Weird Stuff - The Award Winning "Cokey & Lucky" Sheri and Max have placed True Weird Stuff on hiatus as we enter the chaotic crunch time of the Christmas season, In…
- The Phantom Killer · 1 h 37 min · Episode 142Today's True Weird Stuff - The Phantom Killer In 1946, the twin cities of Texarkana were gripped by terror; an unknown person began attacking couples in the night, murdering…
- Dopey & Sad: The Year In Review · 55 min · Episode 141Today's True Weird Stuff - Dopey & Sad: The Year In Review It's been quite the year for the True Weird Stuff crew. We won awards and spent countless hours writing and editing…
- Revisiting The First War On Christmas · 59 minToday's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting The First War On Christmas We're off for the Thanksgiving holiday, so in honor of Christmas here's a tale about a group of Grinches who…
