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.

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Society & Culture Documentary

Update frequency: every 2 days
Average duration: 6 minutes
Episodes: 405
Years Active: 2022 - 2025

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True Stories #404 - Well Suited

Bolaji Badejo went to a London pub for a drink and became one of the luckiest men in the world.

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00:06:37 | Mon 01 Sep 2025

True Stories #403 - The White Death

Simo Häyhä became known throughout 1939 Finland as "The White Death." He also made history.

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00:06:49 | Fri 22 Aug 2025

True Stories #402 - The Mayor of Monowi

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

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00:06:01 | Mon 18 Aug 2025

True Stories #401 - Blue Plate Special

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

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00:06:58 | Fri 08 Aug 2025

True Stories #400 - The Good Shepherd

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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00:06:52 | Mon 04 Aug 2025

True Stories #399 - Lucky Shot

Richard Williams was a tennis champion who should have been a dead man.

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00:05:53 | Fri 01 Aug 2025

True Stories #398 - Creature Comforts

A hotel in Belgium is renting emotional support animals!

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00:05:30 | Wed 30 Jul 2025

True Stories #397 - A Whole New Ball of Wax

Oil workers kept getting injured on the job. Their solution was literally fashioned from the ground up.

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00:07:24 | Mon 28 Jul 2025

True Stories #396 - The Throne Room

A Queen refused to sit on the throne, and she had royal reasons.

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00:04:49 | Fri 25 Jul 2025

True Stories #395 - The Rocket Man

John Stapp strapped himself to a rocket...for science!

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00:07:06 | Wed 23 Jul 2025

True Stories #394 - Go Ahead. Test Me.

History has seen its share of scientists who've experimented on themselves (with mixed results).

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00:06:33 | Mon 21 Jul 2025

True Stories #393 - Rent Free

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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00:06:01 | Mon 14 Jul 2025

True Stories #392 - The Maxim Machine Gun

Inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim would invent the first machine gun...and be a case of strange irony.

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00:05:54 | Wed 09 Jul 2025

True Stories #391 - Hard Headed

New York's Philip Contos insisted on riding his Harley Davidson without a helmet. He paid an ironic price.

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00:04:58 | Mon 07 Jul 2025

True Stories #390 - The Punishment Cells

Russia's prison system is its own terrorist organization.

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00:07:24 | Mon 30 Jun 2025

True Stories #389 - In His Site

Computer guy Brian McCracy got stung by a traffic camera, but he got his sweet revenge.

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00:06:57 | Fri 27 Jun 2025

True Stories #388 - Friends in High Places

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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00:07:10 | Wed 25 Jun 2025

True Stories #387 - A Holy Terror

One 9th Century Pope took his revenge on a predecessor...and made history in the strangest of ways.

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00:06:44 | Mon 23 Jun 2025

True Stories #386 - Weird Wills

What will you leave to others in your Last Will & Testament? Some final requests have been incredibly odd.

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00:06:41 | Fri 13 Jun 2025

True Stories #385 - A Change of Heart

49-year-old Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov died of a heart attack. Or did she?

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00:04:42 | Wed 11 Jun 2025

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