Don't Lose Your Head
True Weird Stuff
Now! Media
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Today's True Weird Stuff - Don't Lose Your Head
How did William Guldensuppe become the most famous man in New York in 1897? It was all thanks to the fiendish antics of his lover, Augusta Nack, and her side piece, Martin Thorn. They lured Guldensuppe into a murderous trap. His body parts were scattered across the city. This love triangle was sure to make…HEADlines.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey true weirdos, we've got some bonus content for you at the end of the episode. Stick around if you want. |
| 0:06.0 | The average human male head weighs about 10 to 12 pounds, give or take. You've maybe rolled a bowling ball heavier than that. |
| 0:15.0 | And that head, home of the human brain, the seed of the mystery of consciousness, wasn't designed to float. At least not for |
| 0:24.0 | long. That's handy, though, because you're trying to get rid of it. It's leaky and gruesome, |
| 0:30.4 | and if anyone catches you with it, you're in big trouble. That's why you went to the effort |
| 0:36.7 | of sealing the head in plaster of Paris and wrapping |
| 0:39.8 | it tightly in oil cloth. The East River, that's a good spot. Yeah. Look, the grim bundle has already |
| 0:47.9 | vanished, pulled beneath the dark, swift, relentless current. Now you can finally be together. |
| 0:56.2 | Now she's yours and yours alone. |
| 0:59.2 | That thick brood is gone and no one will ever learn the truth of why or how he disappeared. |
| 1:06.3 | But hurry now, she's waiting and there are more bundles to be disposed of before this night. |
| 1:13.3 | And this nightmare |
| 1:14.3 | is over. |
| 1:18.0 | And they got a small beam of light against the mirror. |
| 1:20.4 | I'm going to go. |
| 1:23.3 | Real, |
| 1:23.9 | wow. |
| 1:24.7 | I am. |
| 1:25.6 | Oh. |
| 1:26.6 | I don't know. Yeah. Real weird stuff. |
| 1:37.9 | Stuff. |
| 1:40.8 | It's been nearly 100 years now that Americans have enjoyed running water and indoor plumbing, |
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