True Weird Stuff

The Enema King Once upon a time in a faraway land, there lived a very powerful king. He was quite good at being a king, and ruled for longer than any other monarch in the history of the whole world. But even a king chosen by God is still just a human being. Beset by all the troubles and mischief a human body can get up to. Yet his heart was glad because his people called him The Su

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Baroness In 1929, Friedrich Ritter and his mistress took off to an uninhabited island in the Galapagos to start their new life together. But their peaceful paradise was interrupted by other inhabitants, including a woman and her two German lovers. With tensions rising and questions lingering around her sudden disappearance, this is a story about th

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Ghost Of Ed Neal Omaha, 1890. Allen and Dorothy Jones were brutally murdered at their farm. The culprit? A man named Ed Neal...or so they say. Little is known about who he was or where he came from, but the actions of this ruthless killer sparked bloodlust in a town hellbent on revenge.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Devil Himself It was a beautiful, 22-bedroom mansion that was built in 1350. But the sprawling country home in County Wexford called Loftus Hall is also known as the most haunted mansion in Ireland. Stories have been passed down of a spirit that wanders the halls, but even darker than that, Loftus Hall has been haunted by the devil himself.See omnys

Today's True Weird Stuff - Turning The Bones You know the story of President Abraham Lincoln and his assassination at the hands of John Wilkes Booth. But did you know Honest Abe's body was sent on a two-week funeral procession? 1,600 miles and over 400 stops across 7 states. Things were smooth at first, but once the decay started to set in, his corpse "was not a pleasant sight."S

Today's True Weird Stuff - On Her Nerves She was known as the Giggling Granny...but behind the warm smile of Nannie Doss was the heart of a cold-blooded murderer. In 1954 she confessed that over the course of nearly 30 years she'd killed 11 people: four husbands, two children, one of her sisters, her own mother, two grandsons, and a mother-in-law. The casual killing of her own fa

Today's True Weird Stuff - Shhh, It's Mars Humanity dreams of the day when we can inhabit Mars. However, it wasn't long ago that even great thinkers and inventors were convinced Martians were there first..so much so that the U.S. government instituted a "National Radio Silence Day" to listen for signs of extraterrestrial life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's True Weird Stuff - I Do, I Do, I Do She had it all. Money. Eight different husbands. Her name in the headlines. Was she a free spirit? An impulsive woman in love with love? The life of Monaei Lindley ended in the same way she lived it...in a blaze of glory.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's True Weird Stuff - Unholy City He called himself "The Comforter" and "The Emancipator." William E. Riker was a religious cult leader who preached what he called, "The Perfect Christian Divine Way," the belief in celibacy and racial and gendered segregation. In the 1920s and 30s, he purchased 200 acres of land to establish a town built on white supremacy. He called it...th

Today's True Weird Stuff - The Boy From Mars James Leininger said he used to be a Navy Pilot whose plane was shot down during WWII. Ryan Hammons remembered his life as former actor Marty Martyn. Boriska Kipriyanovich claimed he was a Martian who was reborn as a human. Researchers have spent decades studying the one thing they have in common: all three believe their soul was reinc