Episodios

  • Revisiting The First War On Christmas

    Revisiting The First War On Christmas
    Nov 29 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting The First War On Christmas

    We're off for the Thanksgiving holiday, so in honor of Christmas here's a tale about a group of Grinches who hated the holiday. The Puritans in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th Century, people like Governor William Bradford and Reverend Increase Mather, hated Christmas so much that they chose to ban it. Rula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/trueweirdstuff #rulapod
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    59 m
  • Road Zoo

    Road Zoo
    Nov 22 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - Road Zoo

    As cars and family road trips exploded across America in the early 20th century, hundreds of mom-and-pop zoos sprang up along the highways, promising exotic animals, cheap thrills, and quick profits. But behind the quirky billboards and hand-painted signs, many of these zoos operated with little to no oversight. Lax regulations opened the door for questionable practices: cramped cages, animal mistreatment, and even the smuggling of dangerous species that sometimes resulted in serious injuries—or worse.
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    1 h y 27 m
  • The Fall of Fatty

    The Fall of Fatty
    Nov 15 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - The Fall of Fatty

    In 1921, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was one of Hollywood’s biggest stars—beloved, bankable, and untouchable. But a wild party at San Francisco’s St. Francis Hotel changed everything. When young actress Virginia Rappe fell mysteriously ill and later died, Arbuckle was accused of murdering her, igniting one of the first major celebrity scandals in American history. The tabloids turned the tragedy into a feeding frenzy, but the truth of what really happened that night remains murky over a century later.
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    1 h y 37 m
  • Gorillas in the Myth

    Gorillas in the Myth
    Nov 8 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - Gorillas in the Myth

    Long before Bigfoot roamed through modern folklore, there was another giant said to haunt the jungles. For centuries, explorers called it a monster, a savage man-beast that couldn’t possibly exist. Then one day, proof was uncovered. From cryptid legend to reality, this is the tale of the gorilla and its emergence from the mythical shadows.
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    1 h y 16 m
  • Bright Lights, Big Sleepy Revisited

    Bright Lights, Big Sleepy Revisited
    Oct 31 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - Bright Lights, Big Sleepy Revisited

    This was one of the first True Weird Stuff episodes we did...it's a deeply personal story for Sheri, who shared the time she and her family experienced a "lost time" phenomenon. This episode has been updated to include a newly recorded Post-Mortem, in which Sheri reveals new information she recently learned while visiting her mom.
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    1 h y 19 m
  • Flat Earth City

    Flat Earth City
    Oct 25 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - Flat Earth City

    Wilbur Glenn Voliva was a self-proclaimed prophet, flat-earth crusader, and autocratic ruler of Zion, Illinois. This fiery preacher took over John Alexander Dowie’s religious utopia in the early 1900s, ruling with an iron fist, Volivabanning everything from whistling to reading newspapers on Sundays. But his most infamous crusade was against science itself: Voliva loudly declared that the Earth was flat, even offering thousands of dollars to anyone who could prove it was round.
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    1 h y 10 m
  • The Littlest Survivor

    The Littlest Survivor
    Oct 18 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - The Littlest Survivor

    In 1846, the Donner Party set out westward seeking new land and opportunity, but their journey turned into a nightmare when they became trapped by snow in the unforgiving Sierra Nevada. Starvation, freezing temperatures, and impossible choices claimed the lives of many members of the Donner Party. Eliza Donner Houghton, the youngest survivor and among the last to be rescued, witnessed the loss of both parents and bore witness to fear, desperation, and horrors no child should endure.
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    1 h y 37 m
  • A Demon Named Bob

    A Demon Named Bob
    Oct 11 2025

    Today's True Weird Stuff - A Demon Named Bob

    In 1878, a quiet town in Nova Scotia became the stage for one of the most chilling hauntings in North American history. After a near-death experience, a young woman named Esther Cox began to suffer strange attacks — unseen forces that scratched messages into walls, set fires, and hurled objects through the air. Was she the victim of a violent haunting, or the center of a psychological storm misunderstood by her time?
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    1 h y 35 m