True Weird Stuff

For the Lady, a Lysol Douche

Today's True Weird Stuff - For the Lady, a Lysol Douche   Today, you use Lysol to clean the kitchen or disinfect the bathroom. But for decades, it was marketed to Ameri

Deadly Belle - The Serial Killer Who Lured Men to Her Murder Farm

Today's True Weird Stuff - Deadly Belle - The Serial Killer Who Lured Men to Her Murder Farm   Known as one of America’s most notorious female serial killers, Belle Gun

Tilt-A-Whirl: From a Kitchen Table to the American Midway

Today's True Weird Stuff - Tilt-A-Whirl: From a Kitchen Table to the American Midway   Long before the Tilt-A-Whirl became a fixture of carnival midways across America,

Olney House of Horrors: The R.C. and Eugene Horsch Serial Killer Mystery

Today's True Weird Stuff - Olney House of Horrors: The R.C. and Eugene Horsch Serial Killer Mystery   A routine arrest near Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell lead police to a

Revisiting Bloody Benders: America’s Killer Family (Airdate 9/4/2026)

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Bloody Benders: America’s Killer Family (Airdate 9/4/2026)   For pioneers traveling the lonely Kansas prairie, the Bender family's

Revisiting Charlie No-Face - The Tragic Truth Behind the Green Man Legend

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Charlie No-Face - The Tragic Truth Behind the Green Man Legend   For decades, teenagers in western Pennsylvania whispered about a

Revisiting Rest In Peace: The Church Built Over a Pit of Corpses

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Rest In Peace: The Church Built Over a Pit of Corpses   In the 1800s, London was running out of room for the dead. At Enon Chapel,

Revisiting Hammer Time - The Hollywood Love Triangle That Ended in Murder

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Hammer Time - The Hollywood Love Triangle That Ended in Murder   In 1922, former showgirl Clara Phillips became convinced her husb

Revisiting Teenage Nazi Hunters - The Sisters Who Became Nazi Assassins

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Teenage Nazi Hunters: The Sisters Who Became Nazi Assassins   Freddie and Truus Oversteegen were teenage girls who exploited socie

Revisiting Ballsy: The Prison Doctor Who Experimented on Thousands of Inmates

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Ballsy: The Prison Doctor Who Experimented on Thousands of Inmates   At California's San Quentin Prison, Dr. Leo Stanley believed 

Revisiting Human Product 12 - The Man Secretly Injected With Plutonium

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Human Product 12 - The Man Secretly Injected With Plutonium   In 1945, Ebb Cade survived a car accident near Oak Ridge, Tennessee,

Revisiting The Enema King: Louis XIV's Strangest Obsession

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting The Enema King: Louis XIV's Strangest Obsession   Louis XIV was known as the Sun King, but history gave him another, far less maje

Revisiting Shock Doc - Inside Bellevue’s Horrific Child Psychiatry Experiments

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Shock Doc - Inside Bellevue’s Horrific Child Psychiatry Experiments   Dr. Lauretta Bender became one of the most controversial chi

Revisiting Corpse Medicine - When Doctors Prescribed Human Remains

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Corpse Medicine - When Doctors Prescribed Human Remains   Before modern medicine, some cures came from the grave. For centuries, E

Revisiting King of Quacks: The Greatest Medical Fraud in American History

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting King of Quacks: The Greatest Medical Fraud in American History   Curtis Howe Springer claimed to be a doctor. He wasn't. He also c

Revisiting The Baroness: The Galápagos Murder Mystery Nobody Solved

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting The Baroness: The Galápagos Murder Mystery Nobody Solved   The Galápagos Islands were supposed to be an escape from the world. But

Revisiting Unholy City: The Cult Leader Who Built His Own Town

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Unholy City: The Cult Leader Who Built His Own Town   His followers called him a prophet. Everyone else called him dangerous. In t

The Phantom Barber

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Phantom Barber   In the summer of 1942, paranoia gripped the town of Pascagoula, Mississippi. An unknown intruder began sneaking into hom

Bloody Bishop

Today's True Weird Stuff - Bloody Bishop   In 1976, a respected U.S. diplomat named  William Bradford Bishop murdered his wife, mother, and three sons. He drove their bo

Revisiting The Living Corpse: The Man Who Made a Career Being Buried Alive

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting The Living Corpse: The Man Who Made a Career Being Buried Alive   Before modern mortuary science, being buried alive was a real an