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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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Revisiting King of Quacks: The Greatest Medical Fraud in American History
Yesterday01:12:20Summary readyToday'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 be a minister. That was questionable, too. Yet somehow he convinced thousands of people to trust him with their health, their money, and their dreams. Selling miracle cures from his desert empire, Springer built a fortune on deception and became one of the most successful medical frauds in American history...the self-crowned King of Quacks.
SummaryRevisiting The Baroness: The Galápagos Murder Mystery Nobody Solved
1w ago01:25:34Summary readyToday'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 handful of European settlers, jealousy, betrayal, and suspicion turned their isolated paradise into the setting for one of history's strangest mysteries. When the self-proclaimed Baroness of this remote island suddenly vanished, everyone became a suspect.
SummaryRevisiting Unholy City: The Cult Leader Who Built His Own Town
2w ago01:05:49Summary readyToday'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 leader William E. Riker built a community known as Holy City...a town founded on racial segregation, strict control, and his own twisted interpretation of Christianity. What began as a religious movement grew into one of the strangest cult compounds in American history.
SummaryThe Phantom Barber
3w ago01:36:15Summary readyToday'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 valuables, but to cut the hair of sleeping children. As the attacks escalated into violence, mass hysteria took hold. A shadowy figure called “The Phantom Barber” terrorized families, then suddenly vanished without a trace.
SummaryBloody Bishop
4w ago01:37:09Summary readyToday'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 set them on fire. Bishop vanished soon after, abandoning his car near the Great Smoky Mountains. He spent nearly 42 years on the FBI’s Most Wanted list and was never captured. No one knows if he died in those mountains…or if he simply became someone else.
SummaryRevisiting The Living Corpse: The Man Who Made a Career Being Buried Alive
May 2201:37:22Summary readyToday'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 in mid-century America, one man turned that fear into a career. Meet “Country” Bill White, aka "The Living Corpse." Country Bill spent over two years of his life underground, chasing world records across drive-in theaters and car dealerships. This is the strange, wildly American story of a man who made a living cheating death.
SummaryThe Morlok 4
May 1501:21:29Summary readyToday'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 Great Depression. But what the world didn't see was the strict, authoritarian home life behind closed doors. As their fame grew, so did their father’s control, transforming their celebrity into captivity.
SummaryThe Hello Girls: The Women Who Helped Win WWI...and Were Forgotten
May 901:23:07Summary readyToday'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 lines of World War I to run battlefield communications. They worked under bombardment, wore gas masks at their desks, and connected 26 million calls that helped secure Allied victory. They were sworn in as soldiers...and then denied recognition for 60 years. This is the story of the Hello Girls.
SummaryThe Angel Makers: The Village That Poisoned Its Husbands
May 201:29:56Summary readyToday'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 delivered babies by day and, by night, brewed arsenic from flypaper. Husbands, lovers, parents, even children began to die. For nearly twenty years, no one asked questions. Mysterious deaths in the community became the status quo, creating the murderous legacy of the Angel Makers.
SummaryRevisiting Beavers On The Moon
Apr 2401:12:58Summary readyToday'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 Kaysing. He believed the Apollo Moon landings between 1969 and 1972 were faked. However, this isn't the only lunar conspiracy...The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 went as far as to trick people into believing that animals lived on the moon.
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