Episodes

  • Revisiting We The People
    Jul 4 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting We The People

    In honor of the 4th of July, here's the episode we did about Gouverneur Morris, the man who coined the term "We the People."

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    37 mins
  • Nazi Farm Part 2
    Jun 27 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - Nazi Farm Part 2

    In Nazi Farm, Part 1 we discussed the origin of Colonia Dignidad, the Nazi religious cult established by Paul Schäfer in Chile. In this episode, we dive deeper into Colonia Dignidad's relationship with Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet. Schäfer's alliance with Pinochet's regime led to Colonia Dignidad becoming a place where Pinochet's enemies would be brutally tortured...or worse.
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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • Nazi Farm Part 1
    Jun 20 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - Nazi Farm Part 1

    Paul Schäfer was a Nazi who, after World War II, would go on to become a minister. When Schäfer was accused of abusing two young boys at his orphanage, he fled to Chile and started a community called Colonia Dignidad. Though this 53-square-mile compound looked peaceful on the outside, Colonia Dignidad was a horrific nightmare. Violence, abuse, forced separation of families, and an alliance with a Chilean dictator were just a few of the ways Paul Schäfer maintained control over his Nazi cult with an iron fist.

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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Order of the Pug
    Jun 13 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - Order of the Pug

    The rise of Freemasonry in 18th century Europe led to conflict within the Catholic Church. Their disdain of these secret fraternal orders led to Pope Clement XII banning Catholics from joining them. However, that didn't stop a group of Catholics from creating their own secret society, one based on loyalty, trustworthiness, steadfastness...and wearing a dog collar. This group was known as the Order of the Pug.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Revisiting A Killer Pool
    Jun 6 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting A Killer Pool

    With Sheri feeling under the weather this week, we thought it'd be a good time to re-release the first episode of True Weird Stuff. Sheri shares the details of growing up with a neighbor down who was as nice as could be...until the day he snapped and went on a killing spree.

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    26 mins
  • Killer Eyes
    May 30 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - Killer Eyes

    Fritz Angerstein was a German mass murderer who killed his wife and 7 other people on November 30 and December 1, 1924. For centuries, people wondered if it might be possible for the human eye to record the last image it saw before death, leading to the practice of forensic optography. Even though it would eventually be debunked, forensic optography was admitted as damning evidence in the trial of Fritz Angerstein. It claimed that his face and an axe were the last images his victims saw.

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Murder Farm
    May 24 2025

    Today's True Weird: Murder Farm (Airdate 5/23/2025)

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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Mammoth Feast
    May 16 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - Mammoth Feast (Airdate 5/16/2025)

    In 1901, an expedition team in Siberia discovered a nearly perfectly preserved mammoth locked in permafrost for 44,000 years. Various tales of the consumption of mammoth meat have been around for centuries, but none like the Explorers Club's 47th Annual Dinner in 1951. The exclusive meal was rumoured to have included a host of exotic delicacies, including pieces of 250,000-year-old woolly mammoth meat. It wouldn't be until decades later that examinations of a sample of the meat from that legendary dinner would solve the mystery, once and for all.

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    1 hr and 24 mins