Charles Schulz Kind Of Killed Off A “Peanuts” Character

In the 1950s, Charles Schulz introduced a new character to his comic strip "Peanuts." Barely a year later, she was gone... and may have met a horrific end at the hands of the cartoonist!

By |2025-07-12T08:09:27-04:00July 12, 2025|Categories: Cruel Weird Awful, Podcasts|Tags: , |

“Half-hangit Maggie” Dickson Survived Her Own Execution

In 18th Century Scotland, there was a woman who was sentenced and put to death, but lived through it all to win the nickname “Half-hangit Maggie.”

By |2025-06-29T07:32:27-04:00June 28, 2025|Categories: Cruel Weird Awful, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Bombing Your Way To Stock Market Success Is A Bad Investing Strategy

It was one of the most convoluted and over-thought plots in the history of crime: a guy tried to manipulate the stock market with bombs.

By |2025-06-21T11:14:17-04:00June 21, 2025|Categories: Cruel Weird Awful, Podcasts|Tags: , |

Defense Scheme No. 1: The Secret Canadian Plan To Invade The US

This year has not been a record one for US/Canadian ties, but at least it's not like 1921, when a Canadian military official worked up a secret plan to invade a bunch of northern US cities. (And, for that matter, the US had a northern invasion plan too.)

By |2025-06-14T07:59:31-04:00June 14, 2025|Categories: Cruel Weird Awful, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Pope Stephen VI Put A Papal Cadaver On Trial For Heresy

We start our third season with a timely story, about a new pope. Though unlike popes of this time, this one decided the best way to use his new job was to exhume his predecessor’s remains and put them on trial for heresy.

By |2025-06-07T13:45:44-04:00June 7, 2025|Categories: Cruel Weird Awful, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

Who, I Say, Who Could Have Expected Ten Cent Beer Night Would End In A Ballpark Riot

Some situations are just destined to go wrong. Like the time in 1974 that Cleveland hosted Ten Cent Beer Night at the ballpark and the game ended in a forfeit/drunken riot.

By |2025-01-31T07:52:06-05:00August 31, 2024|Categories: Cruel Weird Awful, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

When Marketing Cars To Women, Creepy Anonymous Letters Aren’t Your Best Bet

In 1994, an ad campaign for a car company somehow misjudged its ad campaign so badly that the whole effort landed the company in court.

By |2024-12-01T12:11:55-05:00August 24, 2024|Categories: Cruel Weird Awful, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Musician Gram Parsons’ Remains Went On One Extra Strange Trip

Gram Parsons saw his life take some strange turns... but nothing as strange as what happened in his afterlife.

By |2024-12-01T12:12:27-05:00August 17, 2024|Categories: Cruel Weird Awful, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

A Couple Months Before The US Entered World War II, Vermont Declared War On The Nazis

In 1941, one of the United States recognized a state of war for a very technical reason, months before the country formally entered the second World War.

By |2024-12-08T17:27:51-05:00August 10, 2024|Categories: Cruel Weird Awful, Podcasts|Tags: , |
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