Episode 348: Siegfried and Roy - Part 3

Sinisterhood

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True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

By 2003, the highest-paid act in Vegas was selling out nightly shows, performing a spectacle of magic, lions, tigers, jaguars, and even an elephant. But one October evening, the act veered off script, and one of the stars paid a heavy price. This week’s episode is Siegfried and Roy: Tigers, Tragedy, and the Truth - Part 3.

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0:00.0	By 2003, the highest paid act in Vegas was selling out nightly shows, performing a spectacle of magic, lions, tigers, jaguars, and even an elephant.
0:09.1	But one October evening, the act veered off script, and one of the stars paid a heavy price.
0:14.3	This week's episode is Sigfried and Roy, Tigers' Tragedy in the Truth, Part 3.
0:24.8	Thank you. Roy. Tiger's Tragedy in the Truth, Part 3. A bump in the night, your heart fills with dread, probably a murder or who wants you dead.
0:33.3	It could be a ghost, a demon or worse, Perhaps you're the victim of a witch's curse.
0:40.5	It's hopeless.
0:41.3	You're doomed.
0:41.9	You'd call a priest if you could.
0:44.1	You'd rather just listen to who.
0:47.6	Sinisterhood.
0:50.9	I'm going to kill you.
0:57.5	Well, TW on this one, and that's Tiger Warning.
1:00.7	Yeah.
1:01.4	Or what's about to happen.
1:02.6	Yeah.
1:03.1	There's a tiger warning.
1:05.4	Inns and else.
1:06.7	If you don't like descriptions of animal attacks, then this one's not for you.
1:14.4	Or medical follow-ups to animal attacks, which is pretty much the extent of this episode.
1:20.2	We got like moment by moment of what happened that night, which I've always wondered as a kid.
1:25.4	You kind of hear this is such a milestone in pop culture and you've seen it made fun of and all this stuff.
1:30.7	And to, like, get down into the granularities of it gives a whole different perspective.
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