True Weird Stuff

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Pig Lady Haunting</p> <p> </p> <p>Forbidden love, deception, murder…and a mystery that has remained a mystery for more than a hundred years. The double homicide of a married preacher and his equally married mistress. From the eerie crime scene to the complete circus that was the trial, this is a story where there can be no justice.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Talking SETI with Dr. Seth Shostak</p> <p> </p> <p>When it comes to aliens, you probably either think an invasion is imminent, or that the government is running a massive disinformation campaign to conceal military technology. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer for the SETI Institute. SETI as in, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. No tinfoil hats, no wild theories…just the facts.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - We The People</p> <p>If you had to shout out some of the founding fathers of the United States of America, chances are your go-to guys would be George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin Franklin. But there was another architect of American independence...the guy who coined the phrase, “We the people”.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - The Bone Wars</p> <p> </p> <p>Once upon a time, there were two men who lied and tricked and undermined each other every chance they got. They weren’t warriors or soldiers...kings or conquerors. They were a couple of paleontologists...both hellbent on being the world’s authority on dinosaurs.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - The Fifth Commandment24</p> <p>Have you done one of those DNA tests – like 23 & Me or AncestryDNA? It can be so much fun, learning that your ancestors come from places you’d never dreamed of. Until the moment you learn that spitting into that little vial might reveal that you aren’t exactly who you think you are. Because your mother or your father isn’t who they claim to be.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff Episode - Subproject 68</p> <p> </p> <p>Imagine going into a hospital for something minor…and finding yourself restrained. Injected with paralyzing drugs, zapped with massive amounts of electro-shock treatments, and placed in a medical coma for weeks and sometimes months on end. A blacked-out helmet strapped to your head; a voice droning on and on into your ears for up to 20 hours a day. At the end of it, you may not remember your own name – and you never consented to any of it. Welcome to the CIA’s secret experiments on unsuspecting humans: Subproject 68.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird - Time Travel</p> <p> </p> <p>Time. We always seem to be giving it, taking it, and running out of it. We always, always want more of it. And we dream of being able to control it. We dream of machines that would let us skip through time as easily as we move through space, in our cars, trains, and planes. What if time travel was possible? There are people who claim THEY are time travelers…do you believe it?</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Sea Demon</p> <p>You’re at the beach, standing at the water’s edge. Shielding your eyes from the sun glaring off the water, you gaze out at the far horizon. Did you see it? Was it a trick of the light or was it...a fin? You’re about to hear a shark tale unlike any other. One that makes Jaws look like Finding Nemo. This is the terrifying true story of...the Sea Demon.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Talking to Heaven</p> <p> </p> <p>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.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Cattle mutilation stories are all weird. And all sound kind of similar, don’t they? There’s the dead animal, missing various body parts – with no blood or tracks or footprints or evidence of any kind. Something is happening to these animals. Something we can’t explain. 50+ years, 10,000+ cattle…that’s no load of bull. So, what is it?</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Bloody Benders </p> <p>You’re heading west, with big dreams of staking your claim to one of those parcels of land promised in the Homestead Act. Word has it there’s a family up the road yonder that takes in travelers. Nothing fancy, just a simple cabin over in Labette County. They say the daughter talks to the dead, but you know how folks like to gossip about their neighbors. Just go on up the road a ways – and ask for the Benders’ place. And then, hope to God you make it alive.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Weird Taxidermy</p> <p> </p> <p>Ever looked around your house and thought, what this place needs is a taxidermied rat wearing a Victorian frock coat? Maybe sporting a couple of human teeth? There’s a whole world of taxidermy beyond mounted deer heads and crouching bobcats. In this episode, you’ll meet a guy who turns roadkill into weird, strange, make-believe creatures…and you’ll also meet a woman who wanted to help her dad decorate his taxidermy shop. With a human foot.<br>Check out more of Matthew Fite's taxidermy on Roguewolf Taxidermy's Facebook and Instagram: <a href="http://facebook.com/roguewolftaxidermy">facebook.com/roguewolftaxidermy</a> | <a href="http://instagram.com/roguewolf_taxidermy">instagram.com/roguewolf_taxidermy</a></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Prohibition was such a weird and terrible idea that it’s hard to believe it really happened. But this is the story of Daisy Dell Simpson, one of only 12 female Prohibition agents hired by the IRS to help bust bootleggers, gangsters, and speakeasies.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Medicine has come a very long way since the early days of bloodletting and leeches. But once upon a time, human beings trusted a very different kind of cure…the kind that doesn’t come from a fancy laboratory or a big chain drugstore. Some of our ancestors opened wide and swallowed the stuff of nightmares: blood. Bone. Human flesh.</p> <p> </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Scientists are increasingly using AI and machine learning in their search for extraterrestrial life, and one man’s algorithm may be the biggest breakthrough yet…leaving us one step closer to the biggest question a human gazing at the infinity of the stars can ask: Where is everybody?</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Who doesn’t love a bunny rabbit? Especially the ones that tote baskets of candy. But rabbits are so much more than the cotton-tailed critters of fairy tales and cartoons. Being all cute and harmless and fluffy has helped them keep their freaky secrets…secret. Until now.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Bloody Prankster (Airdate 3/31/2023)</p> <p> </p> <p>Are you one of those people who cook up a successful April Fools’ prank? If you’re lucky, the worst that happens is a little embarrassment, maybe some hurt feelings. But if you’re unlucky, terribly unlucky, that prank can end in bloodshed. In murder.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - That's A Bigfoot!</p> <p> </p> <p>Vast, seemingly empty landscapes…not a road, not a house, not a cell tower in sight. People have experienced things that we don’t have simple explanations for. I can’t convince you Bigfoot is real. But it’s not such an impossible idea…just a weird one.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>We head to the Emerald Isle for a St. Patrick’s Day tale of marriage and murder, fairies, and folklore. It’s a story that changed Irish law and, 100 years later, still reeks of mystery, magic, and the unmistakable stench of burning flesh.</p> <p> </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Witches, serial killers, and Paul Revere all team up in a story of why a very standard kind of courtroom evidence that could help condemn you to prison might actually be total garbage. Oops! So much for taking a bite out of crime.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Owning a small business can be super tough. Sometimes you have to get creative just to make ends meet. Maybe that’s why a mother/daughter funeral business got into the illegal body parts game. Gruesome – but a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>The 90’s amirite? While the world was fixated on a certain blue dress, a couple of humans were bolted by their boots to the outside of the space shuttle, zooming around the planet at more than 17,000 mph, trying to capture a rogue satellite with their hands. Because the company wanted to save some money. Oh my GOD.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Bet you think your DNA is, well, you. Think again. You might have started life as a twin and never knew it – and your vanished twin’s DNA just might be riding shotgun alongside your own.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Bright Lights, Big Sleepy (Airdate 2/10/2023)</p> <p>A late night, a twisting mountain pass – blinding lights ahead. A traffic stop? Maybe. But explain the 12+ hours of lost time…the sickness…and why no one in Sheri’s family will talk about it. This one gets personal – and very, very weird.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Tripping Johns (Airdate 2/3/2023)</p> <p> </p> <p>Nothing to see here – just the government slipping unsuspecting men LSD and luring them back to surveillance brothels. Welcome to the early days of the CIA.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Wax On, Head Off (Airdate 1/27/2023)</p> <p> </p> <p>One of the world’s most famous tourist attractions has a very dark past. Every artist and entrepreneur has to start somewhere – why not with a basket of freshly guillotined heads?</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Not Easy Being Green (Airdate 1/20/2023)</p> <p> </p> <p>Kids get lost, so when a couple of children turned up at the edge of an English village speaking a strange language, wearing odd clothes it was weird, but no big deal. Except – these kids were a very bright green…</p> <p> </p> <p> </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - A Killer Pool (Airdate 1/13/2023)</p> <p>Anyone can snap…even the nice man down the street. The one you babysit for, the one who has a smile for every kid in the neighborhood. Until that terrible bloody night that ended in murder and a manhunt.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>Teasing True Weird - (Airdate 1/6/2023)</p> <p> </p> <p>Something truly weird is coming. Sheri will have more details in the next Oddcast, but here's a little preview of what we've been working on in the shadows.</p> <p> </p> <p>True Weird Stuff is a podcast hosted by Sheri Lynch about very true and very weird stuff! </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

<p>True Weird Stuff is a podcast hosted by Sheri Lynch about very true and very weird stuff! </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>