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The Hermit of Gully Lake

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Hermit of Gully Lake In 1944, Willard MacDonald jumped from a moving military train to escape fighting in World War II and vanished int

Oct 23
1 h 34 min

The Ogress of Reading - The Serial Killer Who Murdered Babies for Money

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Ogress of Reading: The Serial Killer Who Murdered Babies for Money In Victorian England, desperate mothers entrusted their babies to a

Oct 16
1 h 32 min

Your Beautiful Ankle - The Bizarre History of Ankle Beauty Contests

Today's True Weird Stuff - Your Beautiful Ankle - The Bizarre History of Ankle Beauty Contests Once upon a time, a woman's ankle was considered so alluring that entir

Oct 9
1 h 42 min

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

Oct 2
1 h 31 min

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

Sep 25
1 h 41 min

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,

Sep 18
1 h 27 min

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

Sep 11
1 h 35 min

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

Sep 4
38 min

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

Aug 28
48 min

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,

Aug 21
1 h 18 min

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

Aug 14
54 min

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

Aug 7
1 h 07 min

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

Jul 31
1 h 05 min

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,

Jul 24
1 h 13 min

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

Jul 17
1 h 03 min

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

Jul 10
1 h 19 min

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

Jul 3
30 min

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

Jun 26
1 h 12 min

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

Jun 19
1 h 25 min

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

Jun 12
1 h 05 min

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Such a well written and engaging podcast. I eagerly await each week’s True Weird episode. Sheri, Max, Heather and the crew do a great job with each episode. I never miss the show.

CatharineinNorthCarolina · May 2025

I’m a lover of all things horror and spooky and a little paranormal. Every time I listen to a podcast I learn something. Max produces amazing show after amazing show. Sheri and Max are both very engaging with a great sense of humor. The little voiceovers and sound effects are like little sparks of weird joy. Best Podcast Out There. Period.

PattiCake38 · May 2025

Content is great and it well-researched. So it’s content-driven, but not at the expense of great production. For most podcasts like this, it’s one or the other, so it’s refreshing to have both. (Apparently they won best podcast from Signal in some category.) Hard to pinpoint what you may learn about from episode to episode - but I’ve never been let down by it. 100% excellent - they also won a signal award

Boogerpickerpro · Apr 2025

I’m not a history buff nor do I like Sci-fi but this podcast is amazing. It’s part history but in such an interesting way and on things one would never learn about in classic history lessons/books. And Sheri and Max are great at telling the stories and their discussions afterwards are not to be missed as you can learn so much from them. Love love love ♥️

Dumm and dummer · Feb 2025

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