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True Weird Stuff

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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96:40

The Hobo King

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/07/18

The Hobo KingIn the decades before the Great Depression, it was common for folks known as hobos to wander fromtown to town searching for work, dangerously hopping on and off moving trains to reach their next destination. A man named Jeff Davis believed that hobos deserved a chance to care for themselves, and in 1913, he opened a hotel where hobos would provide for each other in exchange for lodging. This concept spread across the country, and Jeff Davis would become known as

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84:05

Revisiting Sea Demon

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/07/11

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Sea DemonYou’re at the beach, standing at the water’s edge. Shielding your eyes from the sun glaring off the water, you gaze out at the far horizon. Did you see it? Was it a trick of the light or was it...a fin? You’re about to hear a shark tale unlike any other. One that makes Jaws look like Finding Nemo. This is the terrifying true story of...the Sea Demon.

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36:30

Revisiting We The People

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2025/07/04

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting We The PeopleIn honor of the 4th of July, here's the episode we did aboutGouverneur Morris, the man who coined the term "We the People."

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107:43

Nazi Farm Part 2

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/06/27

Today's True Weird Stuff - Nazi Farm Part 2In Nazi Farm, Part 1 we discussed the origin of Colonia Dignidad, the Nazi religious cult established by Paul Schäfer in Chile. In this episode, we dive deeper into Colonia Dignidad'srelationship with Chilean dictatorGeneral Augusto Pinochet.Schäfer's alliance with Pinochet's regime led to Colonia Dignidad becoming a place where Pinochet's enemies would be brutally tortured...or worse.

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88:37

Nazi Farm Part 1

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/06/20

Today's True Weird Stuff - Nazi Farm Part 1Paul Schäfer was a Nazi who, after World War II, would go on to become a minister. When Schäfer was accused of abusing two young boys at hisorphanage, he fled to Chile and started a community called Colonia Dignidad. Though this 53-square-mile compound looked peaceful on the outside,Colonia Dignidad was a horrific nightmare. Violence, abuse, forced separation of families, and an alliance with a Chilean dictator were just a

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72:16

Order of the Pug

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/06/13

Today's True Weird Stuff - Order of the PugThe rise of Freemasonry in 18thcentury Europe led to conflict within the Catholic Church. Theirdisdain of thesesecretfraternal orders led toPope Clement XII banning Catholics from joining them. However, that didn't stop a group of Catholics from creating their own secret society, one based on loyalty, trustworthiness, steadfastness...and wearing a dog collar. This group was known as the Order of the Pug.

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26:23

Revisiting A Killer Pool

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/06/06

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting A Killer PoolWith Sheri feeling under the weather this week, we thought it'd be a good time to re-release the first episode of True Weird Stuff. Sheri shares the details of growing up with a neighbor down who was as nice as could be...until the day he snapped and went on a killing spree.

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77:42

Killer Eyes

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/05/30

Today's True Weird Stuff - Killer EyesFritz Angerstein was a German mass murderer who killed his wife and 7 other people on November 30 and December 1, 1924. For centuries, people wondered if it might be possible for the humaneye to record the last image it saw before death, leading to the practice of forensic optography. Even though it would eventually be debunked, forensic optography was admitted as damning evidence in the trial of Fritz Angerstein. It claimed that his face

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97:57

Murder Farm

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/05/24

Today's True Weird: Murder Farm (Airdate 5/23/2025)

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83:57

Mammoth Feast

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/05/16

Today's True Weird Stuff - Mammoth Feast (Airdate 5/16/2025)In 1901, an expedition teamin Siberia discovered a nearly perfectly preservedmammoth locked in permafrost for 44,000 years. Various tales of the consumption of mammoth meat have been around for centuries, but none like theExplorers Club's 47th Annual Dinner in 1951.The exclusive meal was rumoured to have included a host of exotic delicacies, including pieces of 250,000-year-old woolly mammoth meat. It wouldn't be

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86:51

Adam & Eve Declassified

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/05/09

Today's True Weird Stuff - Adam & Eve DeclassifiedIn the 1960s, the CIA classified a book called The Adam and Eve Story. The book claims thatEarth undergoes catastrophic events approximately every 6,500 years, leading to the destruction and rebirth of civilization through disasters like pole shifts and mass extinctions. The book became declassified in 2013, but even then, only several dozen pages were made available...and the reason the CIA has kept the details of this

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92:36

Casket Girls

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/05/03

Today's True Weird Stuff - Casket GirlsIn the 1700s, the French colony in Louisiana had a population problem: there weren't enough women. And so the French government rounded up and shipped over hundreds of women across the Atlantic to marry male settlers and help “civilize” the growing colony. The women carried what little belongings they had in smallwooden trunks that looked like mini coffins, which is why the women were known as the Casket Girls.

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94:03

Doomsday Clock: 89 Seconds To Midnight

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2025/04/26

Today's True Werid Stuff - Doomsday Clock: 89 Seconds To MidnightCreated in 1947, the Doomsday Clock was established by a group of atomic scientists to represent to the public the likelihoodof a human-made global armageddon,whether it's the looming threat of nuclear war, bioterrorism, or cyberwarfare. Over the years, the Doomsday Clock has found itself inching closer to midnight, and January 2025, the clock was set to 89 seconds before midnight...the closest it's ever been to

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98:45

The Arkansas Ghost

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/04/18

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Arkansas GhostJanuary, 1929. A man named Connie Franklin moved to Stone County, Arkansas. The alleged 20-something began courting a 16-year-old girl named Tiller Ruminer, and on March 9th, 1929, the two were on their way to obtain their marriage license when a group of men attacked them. Tiller survived the brutal assault, but Franklin was tortured to death, and his body was burned in the woods. Months later, a pile of ashes and charred bones

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87:33

Reliving The Black Eyed Kids

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/04/11

Today's True Werid Stuff - Reliving The Black Eyed KidsIn 1996, reporter Brian Bethel said he had an encounter with two children that left him terrified. Sitting in his car in a parking lot late at night, Bethel was approached by two young boys whose eyes were as black as coal. In the decades since Bethel shared his story, others have claimed to have similar encounters with children with pitch-black eyes asking for help, or asking to enter the person's home. Are these

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106:38

Another Icepick To The Brain

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/04/04

Today's True Weird Stuff - Another Icepick To The BrainRosemary Kennedy was part of the powerful and highly esteemed Kennedy Family. Rosemary was born with intellectual disabilities at a time when children with special needs were highly stigmatized. When she was 23 years old, Rosemary's father ordered her to have a lobotomy. The procedure left her permanently incapacitated, and her family would keep her mostly hidden from the public for the rest of her life. (NOTE: This was

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108:38

Headless Valley

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/03/28

Today's True Weird Stuff - Headless ValleyThe Nahanni Valley in the Northwestern Territories of Canada is a beautiful area that's home to strange and deadly tales, including the story ofFrank and William McLeod. The two brothers set off into the Nahanni Valley in hopes of discovering a fortune in gold. Years later, their skeletons were found at an abandoned camp...and their heads were missing. Hence the reason the area became known as the Headless Valley.

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101:07

The Last Duel

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/03/21

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Last DuelThe most famous duel in American history was between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr in 1804. The premiere way of settling disputes and upholding unwritten codes of honor, the act of dueling would gradually fall out of favor over the 19th Century. However, dueling was still commonplace in Southern states like South Carolina. That is, until a duel in 1880 betweenColonel E.B. Cash and Colonel William Shannon forced the state to ban the

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77:48

Jill the Ripper

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/03/15

Today's True Weird Stuff - Jill the RipperIn 1888, the people of the Whitechapel district of London were terrorized by someone on a ruthless killing spree. Over 100 suspects were named, including a woman named Mary Pearcey. In 1890, Mary was convicted of brutally murdering her lover's partner and child, and Mary was sentenced to death. The brutal nature of the killings would lead to a theory decades later that claimed Mary Pearcey was the was the infamous Jack the Ripper.

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70:26

Mirror, Mirror

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/03/08

Today's True Weird Stuff - Mirror, MirrorMargaretha von Waldeck was the real-life inspiration for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Born to a noble family during the Holy Roman Empire, Margaretha's mother passed away when she was 4 years old. Her father, Count Philip IV, would go on to remarry a woman namedKatherina von Hatzfeld. Katherina despised her stepdaughter, and had Margaretha sent away. Though beautiful and poised to make a name for herself in the history books,

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