Today's True Weird Stuff - The Fifth Commandment24 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 23, 2023•44 min•Ep. 24
Today's True Weird Stuff Episode - Subproject 68 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...
Jun 16, 2023•37 min•Ep. 23
Today's True Weird - Time Travel 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? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 09, 2023•33 min•Ep. 22
Today's True Weird Stuff - Sea Demon 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 02, 2023•41 min•Ep. 21
Today's True Weird Stuff - Talking to Heaven 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 26, 2023•53 min•Ep. 20
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? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 19, 2023•38 min•Ep. 19
Today's True Weird Stuff - Bloody Benders 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 aliv...
May 12, 2023•38 min•Ep. 18
Today's True Weird Stuff - Weird Taxidermy 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. Check out mor...
May 05, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 17
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 28, 2023•35 min•Ep. 16
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 21, 2023•31 min•Ep. 15
