Death of Lobster Boy
History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History
Tim Scott
4 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2023
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Grady Stiles Jr. became famous on the carnival circuit as “Lobster Boy”. Despite his success on stage, his personal life was in shambles.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I'm I'm Hi, everyone, and welcome to history dweaves. |
| 0:29.1 | I am Tim. |
| 0:30.1 | Welcome to the podcast where we take a delighthearted look at the dark side of history. |
| 0:35.8 | Today we're going to talk about the death of lobster |
| 0:39.4 | boy. How about that, Brandy? I'm very excited. Have you ever seen this guy on a on a American |
| 0:49.5 | horror story? Yep, I remember I'm on American Horror Story. The lobster boy? Yeah, it's a, the, the life of |
| 0:56.6 | Gary Stiles Jr., who was better known as lobster boy, because of a deformity he had that |
| 1:05.9 | made his hands and feet appear to be lobster-like. |
| 1:13.8 | And on the show, you know the old thing about hands, you can tell a man's endowment by his hands in his feet. |
| 1:23.3 | And this guy had pretty good claws on him. |
| 1:26.0 | And on the movie, he was banging everything to walk. |
| 1:29.1 | So you think he was pretty well hung there. |
| 1:32.2 | Oh, he was like a woman. |
| 1:33.5 | First of all. |
| 1:33.9 | He was like a hammer to me. |
| 1:34.9 | He was just nailing everything to walk. |
| 1:36.4 | He was, but he was doing it with his claws, not his. |
| 1:40.1 | Yes, he was doing it with his claws. |
| 1:41.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:42.0 | Is there a thing with Claus Devil in the female world? |
| 1:48.5 | Brandy, have you ever dated a lobster boy? |
| 1:52.5 | No. |
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