True Stories with Seth Andrews

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 22, 2025 6 mins
Simo Häyhä became known throughout 1939 Finland as "The White Death." He also made history.

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Elsie Eiler literally became a small town savior...by becoming mayor.

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Could you eat a delicious steak...if it was dyed blue?

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August 4, 2025 6 mins
Finn the police dog was horribly injured by an assailant. His story changed the laws in England, and it also warmed the hearts of millions.

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August 1, 2025 5 mins
Richard Williams was a tennis champion who should have been a dead man.

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A hotel in Belgium is renting emotional support animals!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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