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True Weird Stuff

Wild Child

True Weird Stuff

Now! Media

History, Science, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9655 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Today's True Weird Stuff - Wild Child (Airdate 9/19/2025)

 

In 1797, a young boy was discovered in the woods of France. He would eventually be found and taken into towns to be cared for by the locals. This boy, known as Victor, couldn't speak, was covered in scars, and behaved like a wild animal. Victor would escape many times, but he was eventually taken in by a French physician, who vowed to turn Victor into a civilized member of society.
 
 

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A little bonus content, little conversation, some bloodthirsty stuff right after the episode.

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Before all that head chopping during the French Revolution, the job of keeping

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important records, things like baptisms, marriages, and deaths fell to your local priest. But do you

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know something that made those revolutionaries grind their teeth? The power of the Catholic

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Church in France. And that's why in 17 teeth, the power of the Catholic Church in France.

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