SoFlo Weird Show

The SoFlo Weird team hits up The Miami Book Fair in search of weird writers. This event draws more than 300 national and international artists from around the world making it ground zero for eclectic storytellers. We discover a secret plot to kill George Washington with New York Times bestseller Brad Meltzer. Then we talk with the one and only snowman expert Bob Eckstein, an award winning illustrator, New York Times bestseller and cartoonist for the New Yorker. It's a classic case of weirdness fueling creativity resulting in success.

Florida ranks third in the nation for Skunk Ape sightings. How do we know that? We rely on reports of eye witness accounts and legend trippers who investigate such claims. The SoFlo Weird Show caught up with Florida's own Indiana Jones of legend tripping, Rob Robinson who's written a how to book on the subject. Still not sure what it is? Think about the 1980's movie "The Goonies" or today's "Stranger Things", legend tripping is all about adventure and searching for the truth. Be it a ghost story, Big Foot, UFO's or water monsters, these adventure seekers are always on the hunt.

The SoFlo Weird Show meets up with The Nomadic Travelers, Jason Lawrence and Nicole Potter. This dynamic duo offers travel tips and personal experiences for people seeking adventures both in the U.S. and abroad. We met them in Florida and decided to talk about their journeys and find out if they’ve discovered anything weird. It turns out; they know the very small town that can lay claim to having the world’s biggest things. And there’s a spooky story behind the town of Story Indiana. What may be the weirdest though is how they met and became the Nomadic Travelers. Then we take a trip down memory lane and talk about some of Florida’s roadside oddities like the Possum Monument, Cement Alligators and the World’s Smallest Police Station.

In true Florida Man style a team of weirdos discuss real headlines of bizarre crimes and the stupid people who commit them. Like the Case of the Toxic Tush, where a fake doctor performs botched beauty procedures by injecting fix a flat and cement into the rear end of would be patients; or the man who robs an adult bookstore using a sex toy. It’s all true, it’s all weird and of course, it’s only in Florida.

Turbulent times plagued South Florida in the 1980's. Cocaine cowboys ran wild in Miami, the drug trade was amassing billions of dollars and there was a rapid increase of immigrants arriving on our shores. In the midst of all this chaos, National Geographic photographer and native Floridian Nathan Benn was tasked with the assignment of returning to his hometown to feature Florida and all it's glory. A Peculiar Paradise is his book which contains a vast collection of his photographs taken while on assignment. We talk with Nathan about his experiences. www.sofloweird.com

SoFlo Weird Show is a podcast featuring weird stories for weird people. In this episode we feature true crimes stories like the odd romance of a Key West physician and his corpse bride; Miami's own cannibal; and a man who was found dumping body parts out of a car window. Then we tell the tale of Weird Town USA, in Gibsonton Florida, a place where people from circus sideshow acts once lived. www.sofloweird.com

Jim Sass is his name and he has a very unusual bookstore called Abraxas. With approximately 150,000 books it's a treasure trove for book lovers, avid learners and truth seekers. Jim has been a longtime resident of Daytona and has bore witness to it's transition from a seedy seaside town to a bustling tourist community. We sat down with Jim to talk about Daytona's more troubling times including witchcraft murders and serial killers. www.sofloweird.com