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True Weird Stuff

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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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  • Avg 1 hr 14 min
  • English

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  • #163
    May 9 · 1 hr 23 min

    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.

  • #162
    May 2 · 1 hr 29 min

    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.

  • #161
    April 24 · 1 hr 12 min

    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.

  • #160
    April 18 · 1 hr 39 min

    Amelia's SOS

    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.

  • #159
    April 10 · 46 min

    Revisiting Tripping Johns

    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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