Skinned
True Weird Stuff
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4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Today's True Weird Stuff - Skinned
This is the story of a wallet made from human skin. The journey of Antoine LeBlanc to America in search of a better life. The rage of being screwed over by his bosses, the Sayres...and in return, murdering them in cold blood. And a town so outraged they executed LeBlanc, and used his remains to create keepsakes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus content and conversation. |
| 0:09.3 | People accumulate a lot of stuff over a lifetime, an attic or basement full of boxes, lots of a junk, really, but some treasures,ique Christmas ornaments. Box of old army uniforms. |
| 0:23.8 | A giant plastic bag full of other plastic bags. Some old pots and pans, a carton of Kodak |
| 0:31.5 | color slides, a ceramic Easter bunny, one ear long broken off. But wait, wait, what's that? It looks like an old |
| 0:41.1 | leather wallet, but it's shriveled and brittle and a weird color. Keep it or toss it. I guess |
| 0:49.2 | that depends on your taste. After all, a wallet made from the skin of a notorious executed killer isn't for everyone. |
| 0:57.6 | And they got a small beam of light against the mirror. |
| 1:18.3 | Oh, real, wow. True. Weird stuff. |
| 1:30.3 | Today, Morristown, New Jersey is one swanky, expensive place to call home, which makes sense. It's only about 30 miles outside of Manhattan. Location, location, location, which means your bank account better be massive, massive, massive. |
| 1:38.2 | The median home price in Morristown is about double the national average. The downtown has epic charm and the restaurants are fantastic. |
| 1:46.9 | The place is loaded with history. |
| 1:49.7 | They call it the capital of the American Revolution. |
| 1:53.8 | It was the site of General George Washington's winter headquarters. |
| 1:58.1 | Now, don't go getting any fancy ideas about that. |
| 2:02.2 | Washington's Continental Army all but starved and nearly froze their musket balls off during those brutal New Jersey |
| 2:08.2 | winters. Kids, we don't even know a winner like the ones those 10,000 troops shivered through |
| 2:14.1 | in their meager bed rolls on that frozen ground? |
| 2:18.4 | A couple of fun facts about Morristown's revolutionary war history before we move on. |
| 2:24.0 | Benedict Arnold, that legendary traitor, was court-martialed at the Dickerson Tavern in Morristown in 1779. |
| 2:31.5 | And the town is home to a military installation with a name straight out of a cartoon. Fort Nonsense. |
| 2:39.4 | Built on a hill overlooking the town, it was meant to serve as an observation post and a place for soldiers to retreat. |
| 2:46.0 | As fate would have it, the British never once attacked Morristown, so the hilltop fort was never used as intended. |
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