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

    Revisiting King of Quacks: The Greatest Medical Fraud in American History
    Jun 26 2026

    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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    1 h et 12 min
  • Revisiting The Baroness: The Galápagos Murder Mystery Nobody Solved

    Revisiting The Baroness: The Galápagos Murder Mystery Nobody Solved
    Jun 19 2026

    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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    1 h et 26 min
  • Revisiting Unholy City: The Cult Leader Who Built His Own Town

    Revisiting Unholy City: The Cult Leader Who Built His Own Town
    Jun 12 2026

    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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    1 h et 6 min
  • The Phantom Barber

    The Phantom Barber
    Jun 5 2026

    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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    1 h et 36 min
  • Bloody Bishop

    Bloody Bishop
    May 29 2026

    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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    1 h et 37 min
  • Revisiting The Living Corpse: The Man Who Made a Career Being Buried Alive

    Revisiting The Living Corpse: The Man Who Made a Career Being Buried Alive
    May 22 2026

    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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    1 h et 37 min
  • The Morlok 4

    The Morlok 4
    May 15 2026

    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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    1 h et 21 min
  • The Hello Girls: The Women Who Helped Win WWI...and Were Forgotten

    The Hello Girls: The Women Who Helped Win WWI...and Were Forgotten
    May 9 2026

    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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    1 h et 23 min