True Weird Stuff

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…

True Weird Stuff is a history podcast hosted by Sheri Lynch, with 179 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Sheri Lynch hosts True Weird Stuff, a history show with 179 episodes published.

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  Revisiting Hammer Time - The Hollywood Love Triangle That Ended in Murder

  Aug 14, 202655 min

  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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  Episode #176

  Revisiting Teenage Nazi Hunters - The Sisters Who Became Nazi Assassins (Airdate 8/7/2026)

  Aug 7, 20261h 8m

  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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  Episode #175

  Revisiting Ballsy: The Prison Doctor Who Experimented on Thousands of Inmates

  Jul 31, 20261h 6m

  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

  Jul 24, 20261h 13m

  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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  Episode #173

  Revisiting The Enema King: Louis XIV's Strangest Obsession

  Jul 17, 20261h 4m

  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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