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  Tilt-A-Whirl: From a Kitchen Table to the American Midway 18.09.2026 1ч 27мин

  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, it began with a strange little experiment involving an inventor, his young son, a wooden chair, and a kitchen table. Discover the surprisingly weird history of the iconic carnival ride, from Herbert Sellner’s original 1920s invention to the family tragedies and lasting legacy that made the Tilt-A-Whirl an American amusement park classic.
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  Olney House of Horrors: The R.C. and Eugene Horsch Serial Killer Mystery 11.09.2026 1ч 35мин

  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 decaying house filled with hidden compartments, mysterious chemicals, fake IDs, and possible connections to multiple missing women. At the center of the investigation are Eugene Horsch and his late father, R.C. Horsch, a pornographer, counterfeiter, fugitive and author who once described himself as a serial killer. Did Philadelphia police stumble onto a house of horrors hiding decades of murder, or does the disturbing evidence point to something else?
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  Revisiting Bloody Benders: America’s Killer Family (Airdate 9/4/2026) 04.09.2026 38мин

  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 roadside inn seemed like a welcome refuge from the hardships of the frontier. Then, travelers started disappearing. As suspicion turned toward the seemingly ordinary family, one of America's most chilling frontier mysteries began to unfold. By the time authorities arrived, the Benders had already disappeared, leaving behind countless questions surrounding this serial killer family.
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  Revisiting Charlie No-Face - The Tragic Truth Behind the Green Man Legend 28.08.2026 48мин

  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 faceless figure walking the roads at night. They called him Charlie No-Face, or the Green Man. But behind the urban legend was Raymond Robinson, a real man horribly injured in a childhood electrical accident, who chose the cover of darkness because daylight brought cruelty, fear, and stares.  
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  Revisiting Rest In Peace: The Church Built Over a Pit of Corpses 21.08.2026 1ч 18мин

  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, bodies were crammed beneath the church floor while worshippers gathered above the stench of decay. As overcrowded graveyards became a public health nightmare, George “Graveyard” Walker exposed the horrors hiding beneath the city’s chapels and burial grounds.
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  Revisiting Hammer Time - The Hollywood Love Triangle That Ended in Murder 14.08.2026 54мин

  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 husband was having an affair with 19-year-old Alberta Meadows. What followed was one of Los Angeles’ most sensational crimes: a jealous confrontation, a claw hammer, and a murder so brutal the press gave Phillips a chilling nickname: the “Tiger Woman.”
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  Revisiting Teenage Nazi Hunters - The Sisters Who Became Nazi Assassins 07.08.2026 1ч 7мин

  Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Teenage Nazi Hunters: The Sisters Who Became Nazi Assassins   Freddie and Truus Oversteegen were teenage girls who exploited society's tendency to underestimate them, turning innocence into one of the most effective weapons against the Nazi occupation. Their courage, deception, and deadly missions remain among the most extraordinary stories of WWII.
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  Revisiting Ballsy: The Prison Doctor Who Experimented on Thousands of Inmates 31.07.2026 1ч 5мин

  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 crime could be cured through surgery. Over the course of decades, inmates became subjects in a series of bizarre and disturbing experiments involving forced sterilizations, gland transplants, and testicles taken from executed prisoners. Stanley claimed he was advancing science. Others saw something far more sinister: a prison doctor using human beings as laboratory specimens.  
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  Revisiting Human Product 12 - The Man Secretly Injected With Plutonium 24.07.2026 1ч 13мин

  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 1ч 3мин

  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 1ч 19мин

  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 30мин

  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 1ч 12мин

  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 1ч 25мин

  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 1ч 5мин

  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 1ч 36мин

  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 1ч 37мин

  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 1ч 37мин

  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 1ч 21мин

  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 1ч 23мин

  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.