True Stories with Seth Andrews
Inspired by the classic radio broadcasts of Paul Harvey, "True Stories" episodes are short vignettes (averaging five minutes in length) featuring strange, compelling, and entertaining human stories from our past and present. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-stories-with-seth-andrews--5621867/support.
Episodes
August 1, 2025 • 5 mins
Richard Williams was a tennis champion who should have been a dead man.
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July 30, 2025 • 5 mins
A hotel in Belgium is renting emotional support animals!
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July 28, 2025 • 7 mins
Oil workers kept getting injured on the job. Their solution was literally fashioned from the ground up.
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July 25, 2025 • 4 mins
A Queen refused to sit on the throne, and she had royal reasons.
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July 23, 2025 • 7 mins
John Stapp strapped himself to a rocket...for science!
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July 21, 2025 • 6 mins
History has seen its share of scientists who've experimented on themselves (with mixed results).
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July 14, 2025 • 6 mins
Warehouse owner Arnold Segale gave one of his tenants an extension on their rent, and he helped to change the world.
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July 9, 2025 • 5 mins
Inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim would invent the first machine gun...and be a case of strange irony.
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July 7, 2025 • 4 mins
New York's Philip Contos insisted on riding his Harley Davidson without a helmet. He paid an ironic price.
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June 30, 2025 • 7 mins
Russia's prison system is its own terrorist organization.
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June 27, 2025 • 6 mins
Computer guy Brian McCracy got stung by a traffic camera, but he got his sweet revenge.
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June 25, 2025 • 7 mins
Elmer Bendiner was the navigator of a B-17 bomber during World War 2. His plane should have never returned from its mission, but strange luck would visit him that day.
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June 23, 2025 • 6 mins
One 9th Century Pope took his revenge on a predecessor...and made history in the strangest of ways.
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June 13, 2025 • 6 mins
What will you leave to others in your Last Will & Testament? Some final requests have been incredibly odd.
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June 11, 2025 • 4 mins
49-year-old Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov died of a heart attack. Or did she?
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June 9, 2025 • 5 mins
A stranded man in a winter storm attempted to chop his way out of the woods.
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June 2, 2025 • 6 mins
A mysterious corpse from the 1800s remains one of the most widely known (and kissed) faces in the world.
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March 12, 2025 • 6 mins
If "you've got mail" at this box in Susami, Japan, you've just received a remarkable souvenier.
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March 10, 2025 • 6 mins
An airline just for men? Welcome to the sexism of the sixties.
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March 3, 2025 • 6 mins
Joe Woodland drew a line in the sand...literally!
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