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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  • Mirror, Mirror
    Mar 8 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - Mirror, Mirror

    Margaretha von Waldeck was the real-life inspiration for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Born to a noble family during the Holy Roman Empire, Margaretha's mother passed away when she was 4 years old. Her father, Count Philip IV, would go on to remarry a woman named Katherina von Hatzfeld. Katherina despised her stepdaughter, and had Margaretha sent away. Though beautiful and poised to make a name for herself in the history books, Margaretha's short life would play out like a fairy tale...minus the happy ending.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Brain In A Jar
    Mar 1 2025

    Brain In A Jar

    Phineas Gage was an American railroad foreman who survived a traumatic brain injury. In 1848, an iron rod shot through his skull and destroyed a chunk of his left frontal lobe. Though he survived the accident, the damage to his brain drastically altered his personality. Gage's story became a catalyst for modern neuroscience, which has advanced to the point scientists are now able to develop a brain in a jar.

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • The King's Rhinoceros
    Feb 22 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - The King's Rhinoceros

    In the 1500s, King Manuel of Portugal gifted Pope Leo a beautiful, white elephant as a gesture of obedience to the Vatican. Unfortunately, the majestic beast passed away after only two years. To make up for it, King Manuel tried to ship Pope Leo a rhinoceros named Ganda; however, the rhino met its demise in a shipwreck before it could make it to Rome. The only good thing to come from this debacle was the immortalization of Ganda by an artist who created a sculpture without ever having seen a rhinoceros.

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    1 hr and 19 mins

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Great Storytelling

Sheri is an amazing storyteller. I look forward to every new episode! Glad I stumbled upon this show!

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Love you Bob & Sheri

Sheri is an amazing story teller , Bob is lucky to have her as his work wife!!

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