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  Revisiting Human Product 12 - The Man Secretly Injected With Plutonium 24.07.2026 1u 13min

  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, only to become part of a secret experiment. Without his consent, doctors injected him with plutonium to study how radiation moved through the human body. Also known as "Human Product 12,” Cade became the first of 18 victims of one of the most disturbing human radiation experiments in American history.  
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  Revisiting The Enema King: Louis XIV's Strangest Obsession 17.07.2026 1u 3min

  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 majestic nickname. At Versailles, doctors prescribed them for everything from headaches to digestive problems. Convinced that enemas were the key to good health, Louis XIV received them by the thousands, making enemas both a medical treatment and a status symbol.
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  Revisiting Shock Doc - Inside Bellevue’s Horrific Child Psychiatry Experiments 10.07.2026 1u 19min

  Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Shock Doc - Inside Bellevue’s Horrific Child Psychiatry Experiments   Dr. Lauretta Bender became one of the most controversial child psychiatrists in America. At Bellevue Hospital, she used electroshock therapy on children diagnosed with childhood schizophrenia. Her work became tangled in the dark history of government-backed mind control research and society's terrifying faith in experimental psychiatry.
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  Revisiting Corpse Medicine - When Doctors Prescribed Human Remains 03.07.2026 30min

  Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Corpse Medicine - When Doctors Prescribed Human Remains   Before modern medicine, some cures came from the grave. For centuries, Europeans swallowed powdered skull, drank human blood, and consumed ground-up mummies in the belief that the dead could heal the living. It sounds like folklore, but corpse medicine was once accepted as a real treatment for everything from headaches to epilepsy.
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  Revisiting King of Quacks: The Greatest Medical Fraud in American History 26.06.2026 1u 12min

  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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  Revisiting The Baroness: The Galápagos Murder Mystery Nobody Solved 19.06.2026 1u 25min

  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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  Revisiting Unholy City: The Cult Leader Who Built His Own Town 12.06.2026 1u 5min

  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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  The Phantom Barber 05.06.2026 1u 36min

  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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  Bloody Bishop 29.05.2026 1u 37min

  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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  Revisiting The Living Corpse: The Man Who Made a Career Being Buried Alive 22.05.2026 1u 37min

  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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  The Morlok 4 15.05.2026 1u 21min

  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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  The Hello Girls: The Women Who Helped Win WWI...and Were Forgotten 09.05.2026 1u 23min

  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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  The Angel Makers: The Village That Poisoned Its Husbands 02.05.2026 1u 29min

  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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  Revisiting Beavers On The Moon 24.04.2026 1u 12min

  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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  Amelia's SOS 18.04.2026 1u 39min

  Get 15% off OneSkin with the code TRUEWEIRDSTUFF at https://www.oneskin.co/trueweirdstuff  #oneskinpod #sponsored   Today's True Weird Stuff - Amelia's SOS   In 1937, the world was told that Amelia Earhart simply vanished — swallowed whole by the Pacific, leaving nothing behind but silence. But what if there wasn’t silence? What if, in the days after her disappearance, faint and frantic distress calls crackled through the static? Amateur radio operators claimed they heard her pleading for help. A warship reported similar transmissions. And yet, history brushed them aside as hoaxes.
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  Revisiting Tripping Johns 10.04.2026 46min

  Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Tripping Johns   One of our first episodes of True Weird Stuff was about the CIA dosing unsuspecting men with LSD and luring them to surveillance brothels. We're doing something a little different in this episode; we're providing live commentary as we listen back to "Tripping Johns."  
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  Revisiting Talking To Heaven 03.04.2026 56min

  Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Talking To Heaven   What happens when we die? Are you a person who believes that we flicker into and out of existence like earthbound fireflies, here and then gone? Or maybe you believe in an eternal soul that recycles itself lifetime after lifetime? What if you could know, what if you did know what happens when we die? In this episode, you’ll hear from internationally acclaimed spiritual medium James Van Praagh.  
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  Killer Ouija Board 28.03.2026 1u 26min

  Today's True Weird Stuff - Killer Ouija Board   Some say the Ouija board is just a game. A toy. A harmless way to pass the time. But in 1933, Dorothea Turley—once celebrated as America’s ideal of beauty—found herself trapped in a life she no longer wanted. Isolated, restless, and searching for answers, she turned to a Ouija board. What she got back was a sinister command: kill your husband.
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  Cursed Bread 21.03.2026 1u 43min

  Today's True Weird Stuff - Cursed Bread   In 1951, a quiet French village descended into chaos after people began hallucinating, screaming about monsters, and even jumping from windows—all after eating bread. Officially blamed on contaminated grain, the case took a darker turn when connections to CIA LSD experiments and the mysterious death of a government scientist surfaced. Was this a tragic accident… or a secret test on an entire town?  
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  The Jumper 14.03.2026 1u 13min

  Today's True Weird Stuff - The Jumper   On November 28, 1953, a man crashed through a tenth-floor window at New York City’s Hotel Statler. His name was Frank Olson — a scientist working on some of the most disturbing top-secret programs of the Cold War. Days earlier, the CIA had secretly dosed him with LSD. The official story? A troubled man had a breakdown and jumped. But decades later, new evidence raised a terrifying possibility: Frank Olson didn’t jump...he was thrown.