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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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The Phantom Barber
2d 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
1w 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
2w ago01:37:22Summary 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
3w ago01:21:29Summary 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
4w ago01:23:07Summary 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.
SummaryAmelia's SOS
Apr 1801:39:54Summary readyGet 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 Earhart simply vanished — swallowed whole by the Pacific, leaving nothing behind but silence. But what if there wasn’t silence? What if, in the days after her disappearance, faint and frantic distress calls crackled through the static? Amateur radio operators claimed they heard her pleading for help. A warship reported similar transmissions. And yet, history brushed them aside as hoaxes.
SummaryRevisiting Tripping Johns
Apr 1000:46:00Summary readyToday'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. We're doing something a little different in this episode; we're providing live commentary as we listen back to "Tripping Johns."
SummaryRevisiting Talking To Heaven
Apr 300:56:01Summary readyToday'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 gone? Or maybe you believe in an eternal soul that recycles itself lifetime after lifetime? What if you could know, what if you did know what happens when we die? In this episode, you’ll hear from internationally acclaimed spiritual medium James Van Praagh.
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