True Weird Stuff

Today's True Weird Stuff - I Do, I Do, I Do

She 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.

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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.

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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 Kipriyanovichclaimed 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.

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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.

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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 criminalminds made him a medical Frankenstein.

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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.

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Today's True Weird Stuff - Skinned

This is the story of a wallet made from human skin. The journey ofAntoine 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.

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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, but Dionisio only wished to forget the events of that fateful night.

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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 likeGovernor William Bradford andReverend Increase Mather. Their hatred of Christmas showed no restraint, these folks made the Grinch look like a saint.

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Today's True Weird Stuff - Cursed Christmas Ghost

In the late 1800s, May Yohé had it all: a successful musical theatre career. A handsome, royal husband. A lavish, extravagant lifestyle. And then...it was all gone. If you're the superstitious type, you'd believe she was yet another victim of the most famous jewel in the world. Passed down to her husband, Lord Francis, those who've inherited it have suffered great misfortune. That's the power of the curse of the Hope Diamond.

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