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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 Teenage Nazi Hunters - The Sisters Who Became Nazi Assassins (Airdate 8/7/2026)
6d ago01:07:58Summary readyToday'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 tendency to underestimate them, turning innocence into one of the most effective weapons against the Nazi occupation. Their courage, deception, and deadly missions remain among the most extraordinary stories of WWII.
SummaryRevisiting Ballsy: The Prison Doctor Who Experimented on Thousands of Inmates
2w ago01:05:44Summary readyToday'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 be cured through surgery. Over the course of decades, inmates became subjects in a series of bizarre and disturbing experiments involving forced sterilizations, gland transplants, and testicles taken from executed prisoners. Stanley claimed he was advancing science. Others saw something far more sinister: a prison doctor using human beings as laboratory specimens.
SummaryRevisiting Human Product 12 - The Man Secretly Injected With Plutonium
3w ago01:13:24Summary readyToday'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 become part of a secret experiment. Without his consent, doctors injected him with plutonium to study how radiation moved through the human body. Also known as "Human Product 12,” Cade became the first of 18 victims of one of the most disturbing human radiation experiments in American history.
SummaryRevisiting The Enema King: Louis XIV's Strangest Obsession
4w ago01:03:37Summary readyToday'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 nickname. At Versailles, doctors prescribed them for everything from headaches to digestive problems. Convinced that enemas were the key to good health, Louis XIV received them by the thousands, making enemas both a medical treatment and a status symbol.
SummaryRevisiting Shock Doc - Inside Bellevue’s Horrific Child Psychiatry Experiments
Jul 1001:19:08Summary readyToday's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Shock Doc - Inside Bellevue’s Horrific Child Psychiatry Experiments Dr. Lauretta Bender became one of the most controversial child psychiatrists in America. At Bellevue Hospital, she used electroshock therapy on children diagnosed with childhood schizophrenia. Her work became tangled in the dark history of government-backed mind control research and society's terrifying faith in experimental psychiatry.
SummaryRevisiting Corpse Medicine - When Doctors Prescribed Human Remains
Jul 300:30:36Summary readyToday's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Corpse Medicine - When Doctors Prescribed Human Remains Before modern medicine, some cures came from the grave. For centuries, Europeans swallowed powdered skull, drank human blood, and consumed ground-up mummies in the belief that the dead could heal the living. It sounds like folklore, but corpse medicine was once accepted as a real treatment for everything from headaches to epilepsy.
SummaryRevisiting King of Quacks: The Greatest Medical Fraud in American History
Jun 2601:12:20Summary 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
Jun 1901:25:34Summary 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
Jun 1201:05:49Summary 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
Jun 501:36:15Summary 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.
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