History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

The 1946 Atlanta Winecoff Hotel Fire was the most deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rod Ferrell claimed to be a 500 year old Vampire named Vesago. In 1996, the teenager and self proclaimed leader of a group of teens known as the "Vampire Clan" brutually murdered an elderly Florida couple.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On September 15, 1959 Paul Harold Oregeron arrived at the Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School in Houston Texas to enroll his son. He was carrying a briefcase full of dynamite.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Christmas Eve 1971, seventeen year old Julianne Koepcke was on a flight to visit her father. Suddenly, the plane was struck by lightening and Julianne was thrown from the aircraft and landed in the middle of the Peruvian rain forrest. Badly injured, the teenager would survive 10 days alone in the jungle.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In February 1959, nine experienced hikers died of mysterious circumstances in the Ural Mountains.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How an American POW joined forces with a Russian woman to defeat the Nazis.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In 1982, Larry Walters achieved his life long dream to fly when he attached some weather balloons to his lawn chair.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Clifford Robert Oslon was a notorious Candian Serial Killer who charged the police $100,000 to show them where he hid his victim's bodies.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Stacey Ruth Castor loved money and she was willing to kill for it.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Catherine the Great ruled Russia with an iron fist between 1762 and 1796. She had her husband killed to seize power and was known for her insatiable sexual appetite.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Known as the BTK Killer, Dennis Rader was responsible for the deaths of 10 people between 1974 and 1991.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Koro is a panic disorder in which a patient is under the delusion that his penis is shrinking or retracting. In October 1967, Koro reached epedemic levels in Singapore.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is horrific story of mental illness, self-mutilation and murder. Listener discretion is advised  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On July 5, 1919, 22 year old Bella Wright's body was found along a rural road in England. She was last seen in the company of a man on a green bicycle..Now nearly 100 years later, the case remains unsolved.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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