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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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101:49

The Living Corpse

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/08/16

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Living CorpseTaphophobia is the fear of being buried alive. During the Victorian Era, people being mistakenly buried alive was so common that extensive measures were taken to prevent it. But throughout history, there have been individuals like "Country" Bill White, a man who made a career out of burying himself alive for the fame and notoriety. He will forever be known as The Living Corpse.

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77:21

Vanished (Airdate 8/8/2025)

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/08/08

Today's True Weird Stuff - VanishedIn 1768, Owen Parfitt was a crippled, old man sitting on his front porch like usual. When his sister returned to bring him inside, he was gone. It was impossible that he'd left on his own, and no one had seen a thing. Every search turned up empty-handed, and Owen Parfitt was never seen again. Was he kidnapped? Was he a victim of the supernatural? The disappearance of Owen Parfitt remains a mystery to this day.

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100:47

Human Livestock

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/08/01

Today's True Weird Stuff - Human LivestockIn the 20th century, the American Eugenics Society promoted its ideas of "racial betterment" through publications, lectures, and even at state fairs. Entire families would jump at the chance to be scrupulously evaluated at these exhibits. The prize for winning these "Fitter Family" contests? Being deemed worthy of passing on your genes to improve the white race.

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84:04

People Chow

True Weird Stuff ·

2025/07/25

Today's True Weird Stuff - People ChowWebster Edgerly was the creator of a social movement known as Ralstonism. His self-promoted pseudoscience was based upon his advocacyof racial eugenics and strict health and hygienehabits. That's why in 1902, Edgerly's Ralstonism movement would end up partneringwith popular food brand Purina, whose whole-grain cereal Edgerly considered to be the perfect food for his faithful followers.

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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

True Weird Stuff ·

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

True Weird Stuff ·

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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