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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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55:20

Dopey & Sad: The Year In Review

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2025/12/06

Today's True Weird Stuff - Dopey & Sad: The Year In ReviewIt's been quite the year for the True Weird Stuff crew. We won awards and spent countless hours writing and editing dozens of stories that may or may not have been lost to time. We don't have a story for you in this episode, per se, but it is the tale of how we've managed to build True Weird Stuff into something we're really proud of. Rula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with

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59:21

Revisiting The First War On Christmas

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2025/11/29

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting The First War On ChristmasWe're off for the Thanksgiving holiday, so in honor of Christmas here's a tale about a group of Grinches who hated theholiday. The Puritans in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th Century, people like Governor William Bradford and Reverend Increase Mather, hated Christmas so much that they chose to ban it. Rula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and

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87:27

Road Zoo

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2025/11/22

Today's True Weird Stuff - Road ZooAs cars and family road trips exploded across America in the early 20th century, hundreds of mom-and-pop zoos sprang up along the highways, promising exotic animals, cheap thrills, and quick profits. But behind the quirky billboards and hand-painted signs, many of these zoos operated with little to no oversight. Lax regulations opened the door for questionable practices: cramped cages, animal mistreatment, and even the smuggling of

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96:51

The Fall of Fatty

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2025/11/15

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Fall of FattyIn 1921, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was one of Hollywood’s biggest stars—beloved, bankable, and untouchable.But a wild party at San Francisco’s St. Francis Hotel changed everything. When young actress Virginia Rappe fell mysteriously ill and later died,Arbuckle was accused of murdering her, igniting one of the first major celebrity scandals in American history.The tabloids turned the tragedy into a

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76:21

Gorillas in the Myth

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2025/11/08

Today's True Weird Stuff - Gorillas in the MythLong before Bigfoot roamed through modern folklore, there was another giant said to haunt the jungles. For centuries, explorers called it a monster, a savage man-beast that couldn’t possibly exist. Then one day, proof was uncovered. From cryptid legend to reality, this is the tale of the gorilla and its emergence from the mythical shadows.

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78:36

Bright Lights, Big Sleepy Revisited

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2025/10/31

Today's True Weird Stuff - Bright Lights, Big Sleepy RevisitedThis was one of thefirst True Weird Stuff episodes wedid...it's a deeplypersonal story forSheri,who shared the time sheand her family experienced a "lost time" phenomenon. This episode has been updated to include a newly recorded Post-Mortem, in which Sheri reveals new information she recently learned while visiting her mom.

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69:36

Flat Earth City

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2025/10/25

Today's True Weird Stuff - Flat Earth CityWilbur Glenn Voliva was a self-proclaimed prophet, flat-earth crusader, and autocratic ruler of Zion, Illinois. This fiery preacher took over John Alexander Dowie’s religious utopia in the early 1900s, ruling with an iron fist, Volivabanning everything from whistling to reading newspapers on Sundays. But his most infamous crusade was against science itself: Voliva loudly declared that the Earth was flat, even offering thousands

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96:52

The Littlest Survivor

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2025/10/18

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Littlest SurvivorIn 1846, the Donner Party set out westward seeking new land and opportunity, but their journey turned into a nightmare when they became trapped by snow in the unforgiving Sierra Nevada. Starvation, freezing temperatures, and impossible choices claimed the lives of many members of the Donner Party. Eliza Donner Houghton, the youngest survivor and among the last to be rescued, witnessed the loss of both parents and bore witness to

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95:08

A Demon Named Bob

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2025/10/11

Today's True Weird Stuff - A Demon Named BobIn 1878, a quiet town in Nova Scotia became the stage for one of the most chilling hauntings in North American history. After a near-death experience, a young woman named Esther Cox began to suffer strange attacks — unseen forces that scratched messages into walls, set fires, and hurled objects through the air. Was she the victim of a violent haunting, or the center of a psychological storm misunderstood by her time?

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72:56

Liar, Liar, Plants on Fire

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2025/10/03

Today's True Weird Stuff - Liar, Liar, Plants on FireIn 1966, Cleve Backster, an interrogation specialist for the CIA, claimed to have discovered something shocking: plants seemed to respond to human thoughts and emotions. He came to this conclusion by hooking up plants to a polygraph machine to measure their response. His controversial experiments with polygraphs suggested that living things might share a hidden form of communication, and sparked a wave of fascination and

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84:27

The Terrordome

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2025/09/27

Today/s True Weird Stuff - The TerrordomeHolmesburg Prison in Philadelphia became notorious for unethical medical experiments conducted on inmates from the 1950s through the 1970s. Prisoners, many of them poor and Black, were lured into participating with small payments; doctors also lied to prisoners about the risks. Under dermatologist Albert Kligman, inmates were exposed to chemicals, viruses, asbestos, and other toxic chemicals that caused lifelong physical and

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81:14

Wild Child

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2025/09/19

Today's True Weird Stuff - Wild Child (Airdate 9/19/2025)In 1797, a young boy was discovered in the woods of France. He would eventually be found and taken into towns tobe cared for by the locals. This boy, knownas Victor, couldn't speak, was covered in scars, and behaved like a wild animal. Victor would escape many times, but he was eventually taken in by a French physician, who vowed to turn Victor into a civilized member of society.

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82:15

Our Lady Of The Attic

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2025/09/12

Today's True Weird Stuff - Our Lady Of The AtticBlanche Monnier’s story is one of the most chilling true tales from 19th-century France. Once a vibrant young woman from a respected family, Blanche mysteriously vanished—only to be discovered 25 years later, imprisoned in a dark, filthy room by her own mother. Malnourished, covered in filth, and hidden away from the world, Blanche’s shocking ordeal became headline news across Europe, exposing the horrifying

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78:32

Sin Eater

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2025/09/06

Today's True Weird Stuff - Sin EaterThe practice of people eating a meal after a loved one's funeral is common, but the combination of eating and death used to have a morbid relationship in some religions. Certain people were called upon to placebread on the deceased's body, then eat the bread as a way to "consume" the person's sins. They were known as Sin Eaters, and these social pariahs were doomed to carry the burden of others' sins into eternal damnation.

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249:20

Madames of Mayhem - A True Crime Marathon

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2025/08/29

Today's True Weird Stuff - Madames of Mayhem - A True Crime MarathonWe have four chilling tales of women you don't want to cross. Nannie Doss loved her husbands...until she got tired of them and decided to murder them.Baba Anujka, the world's oldest serial killer, used her scientific knowledge to poison her victims. Megan Hess and Shirley Koch were a mother/daughter duo who illegally sold body parts through their funeral home. Georgia Tann, aka the "Baby Broker," ran an

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103:59

Ghost Ship

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2025/08/22

Today's True Weird Stuff - Ghost ShipA bizarre distress signal. A vessel discovered adrift. An entire crew found deceased withtheir faces frozen in terror. Since the 1940s, the legend of the SS Ourang Medan has been shrouded in mystery. Different accounts tell different stories. How did the crew die? Did the Ourgang Medan even exist at all? Only the souls of those on board know the truth about this ghost ship.

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101:49

The Living Corpse

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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)

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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

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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

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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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