True Weird Stuff

By Now! Media

True Weird Stuff is the award-winning podcast hosted by Sheri Lynch. Surprising, odd, bizarre - and sometimes insane. Always true. Let us tell you a story…

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How many episodes does True Weird Stuff have?

The podcast currently has 172 episodes available.

True Weird Stuff episodes:

June 26, 2026 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 claimed to be a minister. That was questionable, too. Yet somehow he convinced thousands of people to trust him with their health, their money, and their dreams. Selling miracle cures from his desert empire, Springer built a fortune on deception and became one of the most successful medical frauds in American history...the self-crowned King of Quacks.
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1h 13min
June 19, 2026 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 for a handful of European settlers, jealousy, betrayal, and suspicion turned their isolated paradise into the setting for one of history's strangest mysteries. When the self-proclaimed Baroness of this remote island suddenly vanished, everyone became a suspect.
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1h 26min
June 12, 2026 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 the hills of California, cult leader William E. Riker built a community known as Holy City...a town founded on racial segregation, strict control, and his own twisted interpretation of Christianity. What began as a religious movement grew into one of the strangest cult compounds in American history.
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1h 6min
June 05, 2026 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 homes at night, not to steal valuables, but to cut the hair of sleeping children. As the attacks escalated into violence, mass hysteria took hold. A shadowy figure called “The Phantom Barber” terrorized families, then suddenly vanished without a trace.

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1h 37min
May 29, 2026 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 bodies 275 miles to a swamp and set them on fire. Bishop vanished soon after, abandoning his car near the Great Smoky Mountains. He spent nearly 42 years on the FBI’s Most Wanted list and was never captured. No one knows if he died in those mountains…or if he simply became someone else.

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1h 38min
May 22, 2026 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 and terrifying possibility. But in mid-century America, one man turned that fear into a career. Meet “Country” Bill White, aka "The Living Corpse." Country Bill spent over two years of his life underground, chasing world records across drive-in theaters and car dealerships. This is the strange, wildly American story of a man who made a living cheating death.

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1h 38min
May 15, 2026 The Morlok 4
Today's True Weird Stuff - The Morlok 4

In 1930, four identical baby girls were born against impossible odds. The medical marvel of the Morlok quadruplets brought hope to a society ravaged by the Great Depression. But what the world didn't see was the strict, authoritarian home life behind closed doors. As their fame grew, so did their father’s control, transforming their celebrity into captivity.

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1h 22min
May 09, 2026 The Hello Girls: The Women Who Helped Win WWI...and Were Forgotten
Today's True Weird Stuff - The Hello Girls: The Women Who Helped Win WWI...and Were Forgotten

Before women could vote or officially serve in the Army, 223 American women were sent to the front lines of World War I to run battlefield communications. They worked under bombardment, wore gas masks at their desks, and connected 26 million calls that helped secure Allied victory. They were sworn in as soldiers...and then denied recognition for 60 years. This is the story of the Hello Girls.

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1h 24min
May 02, 2026 The Angel Makers: The Village That Poisoned Its Husbands
Today's True Weird Stuff - The Angel Makers

In a quiet Hungarian village with no doctor and no escape from abusive marriages, the women found salvation in a midwife called Auntie Suzy. She delivered babies by day and, by night, brewed arsenic from flypaper. Husbands, lovers, parents, even children began to die. For nearly twenty years, no one asked questions. Mysterious deaths in the community became the status quo, creating the murderous legacy of the Angel Makers.

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1h 30min
April 24, 2026 Revisiting Beavers On The Moon
Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Beavers On The Moon

Claims that the Apollo 11 moon landing was a hoax have existed for decades. Meet the grandaddy of moon landing conspiracy theories, Bill Kaysing. He believed the Apollo Moon landings between 1969 and 1972 were faked. However, this isn't the only lunar conspiracy...The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 went as far as to trick people into believing that animals lived on the moon.
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1h 13min

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