True Weird Stuff
by Now! Media
True Weird Stuff is a podcast hosted by Sheri Lynch about... well... True Weird Stuff. We cover just about anything from Bigfoot to the things that go bump in the night.
Episodes
The Boy From Mars
1h 21m · PublishedToday'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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Charlie No Face
47m · PublishedToday'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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Ballsy
1h 5m · PublishedToday'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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Hungry Puppet
55m · PublishedToday'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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Skinned
59m · PublishedToday'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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Flat Tire, Lonely Road
1h 14m · PublishedToday'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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The First War On Christmas
1h 2m · PublishedToday'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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Cursed Christmas Ghost
1h 9m · PublishedToday'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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Beamed Up
1h 13m · PublishedToday's True Weird Stuff - Beamed Up
In 1943, the USS Eldridge, a U.S. Navy ship, allegedly teleported from Philadelphia to the waters of Norfolk, Virginia. Some claim that during this experiment some men on the ship disappeared permanently…while others reappeared, with their bodies fused into the metal of the ship. Was this a real government cover-up, or does teleportation only exist in the minds of those who boldly go where no man has gone before?
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The Red Crown
1h 9m · PublishedToday's True Weird Stuff - The Red Crown
You’ve heard of Bonnie and Clyde. But before one of the most infamous crime sprees in American history came to a bullet-riddled end, Bonnie, Clyde, and their cohorts foundthemselves cornered by the law in a motel in Parkville, Missouri. With no other choice but toshoot their way out, this is the tale of The Barrow Gang at The Red Crown.
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True Weird Stuff has 71 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 55:25:31. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on February 22nd 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 8th, 2024 11:40.