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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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89:07

The Pineys

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/09/20

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Pineys The Pine Barrens of New Jersey may be a forbidding wilderness, but people have called the place home for hundreds of years. It's also where folks have reported sightings of a terrifying beast, capable of a blood-curdling scream that can send chills down the sturdiest spines. It's the legend of the Jersey Devil that haunts the Pineys.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Legend of the Pines

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/09/13

Today's True Weird Stuff - Legend of the Pines Joe Mulliner was known as the “Robin Hood of the Pines.” Forced to flee his home in 1779, Mulliner went on a crime spree through the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey...never killing anyone, but robbing and kidnapping his way into the history books.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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76:57

King Of Quacks

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2024/09/08

Today's True Weird Stuff - King Of Quacks Curtis Howe Springer was a radio evangelist, self-proclaimed medical doctor and minister. In 1944, he laid claim to 12,000 acres of land in California's Mohave Desert and created his own town. The only problem? The land wasn't his. He was also a medical fraud who used his radio show to sell fake miracle potions. Springer was the ultimate con man known as the "King of Quacks."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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74:28

Big Muddy Monster

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/08/17

Today's True Weird Stuff - Big Muddy Monster Summer, 1973. Police in Murphysboro, Illinois started receiving phone calls about the presence of a large creature. Some saw a tall, muddy beast with glowing red eyes lurking around wooded areas. Others heard a shrieking noise that terrified even the police officers who were investigating. It's a cold case that's never been solved...the mystery of the Big Muddy Monster.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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71:01

Adios, Yda!

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/08/09

Today's True Weird Stuff - Adios, Yda! Yda Addis was a brilliant and famous writer in California in the late 1800s. She was also someone whose personal life was full of turmoil. Constant legal battles, a nasty divorce, charges of defamation and attempted murder took their toll on Yda. Then one day, out of nowhere, she disappeared...never to be heard from again.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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80:13

Here Be Sea Monsters

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/08/02

Today's True Weird Stuff - Here Be Sea Monsters Cultures all around the world have myths and legends about the terrifying creatures that inhabit the ocean - from massive sea serpents, to sirens and merfolk. We take a look at the history of folks who encountered or dedicated their lives to searching for monsters in the deep blue sea.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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78:20

Shock Doc

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/07/26

Today's True Weird Stuff - Shock Doc In the 1950's, the CIA launched a program aimed at developing methods for interrogating and controlling human behavior; part of the program involved funding tests on children. Dr. Lauretta Bender at Bellevue Hospital would conduct electroshock therapy on kids as young as three years old to treat childhood schizophrenia. The CIA called it "Project Artichoke."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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73:42

Prize Prison

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/07/19

Today's True Weird Stuff - Prize Prison It's the wildest reality show in TV history. Susunu! Denpa Shōnen was known for placing contestants in extreme situations for entertainment purposes. This is the story of Nasubi, a comedian who spent 15 months naked and alone in an apartment. Cut off from the world, he was forced to enter magazine sweeptakes until he won $8,000 in prizes. He did this completely unaware that his challenge was being livestreamed 24/7.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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75:48

Pay Phone Bandit

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/07/12

Today's True Weird Stuff - Pay Phone Bandit He didn't rob banks. He wasn't a serial killer. However, James Clark left the FBI dazed and confused for years as he stole $500,000 in quarters right under everyone's nose. He was known as the Pay Phone Bandit.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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64:35

Deadly Circus

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/07/05

Today's True Weird Stuff - Deadly Circus Gypsy the elephant had a temper. She was part of the W.H. Harris Nickle Plate Circus, and in 1902, Gypsy killed her trainer and went on a rampage through the streets of Valdosta, Georgia. Animals have long been used in circus performances, but no amount of training changes the fact they're still wild animals.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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70:19

The Camel Girl

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/06/28

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Camel Girl Ella Harper was born with a rare orthopedic condition that caused her knees to bend backward. During a time when sideshows and oddities were extremely popular, Ella joined W. H. Harris's Nickel Plate Circus, becoming a featured act in the show. Because she walked on her hands and feet, she became known as The Camel Girl.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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87:55

Footsie

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/06/21

Today's True Weird Stuff - FootsieElvis Presley. Quentin Tarantino. Jack Black. They're just a few of many people who admittedly have a foot fetish. But serial killer Dayton Leroy Rogers' love of feet took a gruesome turn. He murdered at least eight women in Oregon in the 1980s; some of the bodies were found with their feet severed because Rogers had a kink for killing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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85:17

Baby Broker

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/06/14

Today's True Weird Stuff - Baby BrokerGeorgia Tann was a social worker who ran a child kidnapping and adoption scheme starting in 1924. Georgia ran the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, and for over 20 years she would take children from poor families and sell them to wealthy families for a hefty profit. She would even steal newborns from mothers in prisons and mental wards. Georgia Tann stole over 5,000 children during the course of her black-market baby ring.See omnystudio.com/listener for

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87:24

Secret City

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/06/07

Today's True Weird Stuff - Secret CitySarov is a town in Russia that no longer exists...officially, that is. In the 1940s, Sarov was removed from all unclassified maps, and the entire town was transformed into a center for research and development of nuclear weapons. Dozens of cities like these popped up in the Soviet Union at the time, as Stalin led the charge to bolster their nuclear weapons program. But strict rules and harsh conditions meant...sometimes mistakes were made.See

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91:19

The Mad Scientist

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/05/31

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Mad ScientistJack Parsons was one of the fathers of the American space age who helped put man on the moon. He invented solid rocket fuel, co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he was also an occultist. He was written out of a lot of NASA's history because of his antics: he was the leader of a black-magic sex mansion, ate menstrual cakes, and was frenemies with L. Ron Hubbard. Jack Parsons was the definition of a mad scientist.See omnystudio.com/listener for

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79:57

The Devil Went Down To Georgia

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/05/24

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Devil Went Down To GeorgiaThe Georgia Guidestones were a monument that stood in Elbert County, Georgia for 42 years. Often called the "American Stonehenge," the creators believed society would eventually collapse, and built the monument as a guide for humanity after the apocalypse. However, conspiracy theorists believed the Georgia Guidestones were tied to Satanism, and in 2022, the monument was destroyed by an explosive device...and the person or persons involved

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66:53

Teenage Nazi Hunters

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/05/17

Today's True Weird Stuff - Teenage Nazi Hunters Meet Freddie and Truus Oversteegen. Freddie was a wife and mother. Truus was a sculptor and painter. But long before that, these two sisters spent their teenage years as part of the anti-Nazi Dutch resistance during WWII. They used their lethal skills and innocent charm to eliminate Nazi soldiers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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72:56

Human Product 12

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/05/10

Today's True Weird Stuff - Human Product 12 Society has a long history of conducting terrible experiments on humans, often without their knowledge or consent. In 1945, Ebenezer Cade was in a car accident and needed medical attention, but doctors injected an unknown substance into him just to see what would happen. It turns out he was a guinea pig for their tests on the effects of radiation; he was the first of 18 men, women, and children who were secretly injected with plutonium.See

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71:24

Glass Closet

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/05/04

Today's True Weird Stuff - Glass ClosetLiberace was one of the great performers of his time. His flamboyant style on and off the stage are what made fans love him, and made the gossip magazines love to hate him. Despite the tabloids relentless insults and rumors about his sexuality, Liberace found himself crying all the way to the bank.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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65:31

The Enema King

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/04/26

The Enema King Once upon a time in a faraway land, there lived a very powerful king. He was quite good at being a king, and ruled for longer than any other monarch in the history of the whole world. But even a king chosen by God is still just a human being. Beset by all the troubles and mischief a human body can get up to. Yet his heart was glad because his people called him The Sun King, and not the other nickname he’d so richly earned: The Enema King.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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