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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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85:15

The Baroness

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/04/05

Today's True Weird Stuff - The BaronessIn 1929, Friedrich Ritter and his mistress took off to an uninhabited island in the Galapagos to start their new life together. But their peaceful paradise was interrupted by other inhabitants, including a woman and her two German lovers. With tensions rising and questions lingering around her sudden disappearance, this is a story about the mystery of the Baroness.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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68:54

The Ghost Of Ed Neal

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2024/03/29

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Ghost Of Ed NealOmaha, 1890. Allen and Dorothy Jones were brutally murdered at their farm. The culprit? A man named Ed Neal...or so they say. Little is known about who he was or where he came from, but the actions of this ruthless killer sparked bloodlust in a town hellbent on revenge.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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78:01

The Devil Himself

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/03/22

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Devil HimselfIt was a beautiful, 22-bedroom mansion that was built in 1350. But the sprawling country home in County Wexford called Loftus Hall is also known as the most haunted mansion in Ireland. Stories have been passed down of a spirit that wanders the halls, but even darker than that, Loftus Hall has been haunted by the devil himself.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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77:50

Turning The Bones

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2024/03/15

Today's True Weird Stuff - Turning The BonesYou know the story of President Abraham Lincoln and his assassination at the hands of John Wilkes Booth. But did you know Honest Abe's body was sent on a two-week funeral procession? 1,600 miles and over 400 stops across 7 states. Things were smooth at first, but once the decay started to set in, his corpse "was not a pleasant sight."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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74:33

On Her Nerves

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2024/03/09

Today's True Weird Stuff - On Her NervesShe was known as the Giggling Granny...but behind the warm smile of Nannie Doss was the heart of a cold-blooded murderer. In 1954 she confessed that over the course of nearly 30 years she'd killed 11 people: four husbands, two children, one of her sisters, her own mother, two grandsons, and a mother-in-law. The casual killing of her own family members made Nannie Doss one of history's most notorious female serial killers.See omnystudio.com/listener for

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67:00

Shhh, It's Mars

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2024/03/02

Today's True Weird Stuff - Shhh, It's MarsHumanity dreams of the day when we can inhabit Mars. However, it wasn't long ago that even great thinkers and inventors were convinced Martians were there first..so much so that the U.S. government instituted a "National Radio Silence Day" to listen for signs of extraterrestrial life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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79:22

I Do, I Do, I Do

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/02/24

Today's True Weird Stuff - I Do, I Do, I DoShe had it all. Money. Eight different husbands. Her name in the headlines. Was she a free spirit? An impulsive woman in love with love? The life of Monaei Lindley ended in the same way she lived it...in a blaze of glory.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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65:17

Unholy City

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2024/02/17

Today's True Weird Stuff - Unholy City He called himself "The Comforter" and "The Emancipator." William E. Riker was a religious cult leader who preached what he called, "The Perfect Christian Divine Way," the belief in celibacy and racial and gendered segregation. In the 1920s and 30s, he purchased 200 acres of land to establish a town built on white supremacy. He called it...the Holy City.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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81:05

The Boy From Mars

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2024/02/10

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Boy From Mars James Leininger said he used to be a Navy Pilot whose plane was shot down during WWII. Ryan Hammons remembered his life as former actor Marty Martyn. Boriska Kipriyanovich claimed he was a Martian who was reborn as a human. Researchers have spent decades studying the one thing they have in common: all three believe their soul was reincarnated and could describe their past lives in great detail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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48:04

Charlie No Face

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/02/03

Today's True Weird Stuff - Charlie No Face Raymond Robinson was only 8 years old when he was severely injured in an electrical accident. The incident left him so disfigured that he spent the rest of his life avoiding being out in public during the day...choosing only to go on long walks under the cover of darkness. Stories spread of an elusive, disfigured man wandering the streets late at night...and so began the legend of Charlie No-Face.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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65:24

Ballsy

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/01/27

Today's True Weird Stuff - Ballsy Dr. Leo Stanley was the chief surgeon at San Quentin State Prison from 1913 to 1951. His horrific, pro-eugenics legacy included performing inhumane surgeries on inmates as a way to rehabilitate them...from thyroid removal to transplanting testicular glands from executed prisoners to living inmates. His belief in surgical cures for criminal minds made him a medical Frankenstein.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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55:03

Hungry Puppet

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/01/20

Today's True Weird Stuff - Hungry Puppet Ronald William Brown was a Christian TV puppeteer; he was also a pedophile, sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for the hundreds of lewd and disturbing images of children in his possession. But his desires were much darker than wanting to abuse children. Ronald William Brown discussed in detail his desire to torture, murder, and eat them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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59:31

Skinned

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/01/13

Today's True Weird Stuff - Skinned This is the story of a wallet made from human skin. The journey of Antoine LeBlanc to America in search of a better life. The rage of being screwed over by his bosses, the Sayres...and in return, murdering them in cold blood. And a town so outraged they executed LeBlanc, and used his remains to create keepsakes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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74:42

Flat Tire, Lonely Road

True Weird Stuff ·

2024/01/06

Today's True Weird Stuff - Flat Tire, Lonely Road In 1973, Dionisio Yanca arrived at a hospital in Bahia Blanca in a state of total amnesia. Days later, as he regained his memory, he retold his extraordinary experience: a bright light consumed the area around him as three humanoid beings approached him on the side of the road at night and took a sample of his blood. Dionisio even recounted his story multiple times while under hypnosis. Some people would kill for the chance to encounter alien life,

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62:57

The First War On Christmas

True Weird Stuff ·

2023/12/23

Today's True Weird Stuff - The First War On Christmas Imagine living in a world where people hated Christmas...so much so that they banned people from celebrating it. We're not talking about some grumpy, green-colored mean one, or a cold-hearted miser. These were Puritans in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th Century...people like Governor William Bradford and Reverend Increase Mather. Their hatred of Christmas showed no restraint, these folks made the Grinch look like a saint.See

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