Texas: Slang for Crazy

Once a cemetery, Rogan Field has a pretty creepy past. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

In 1946 a series of horrific murders led to one of Texas' most terrifying cold cases. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Dr Scheffey was known for leaving surgeries covered in blood, so why did it take so long to get the orthopedic surgeon to stop practicing? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

It may be difficult to find Luci Zahray online, but her information has helped to create hundreds of fictional poisonings. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

In 2020, a demolition failure led to the temporary creation of one of Dallas' most photographed landmarks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Texas Hill Country has a very unique winery: the Rhino supporting Rhinory. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

In late 2021 Texarkana had one heck of a weird rain storm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

If you're traveling the scenic route between Wimberly and Blanco, you may find yourself on the Devil's Backbone --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Billy Bob's in Fort Worth is known for more than just an indoor riding ring. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

At Dave's Pawn shop in El Paso, a mummified finger is rumored to belong to an infamous Mexican outlaw. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Just outside the city of Marfa, strange lights float near Highway 90, but what are they? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

A grisly discovery in 1965 remains one of Houston's strangest unsolved murders. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Thrifting sometimes leads to the discovery of treasures, but no one was expecting to find a 2,000-year-old Roman Statue at the Goodwill. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

When a Texas town dried up, one woman would not be moved from her husband's side. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

A Texan ended up being Gucci's secret weapon. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

This week San Antonio locals are mourning the loss of our local celebrity, Hispanic Elvis. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

LBJ was known to go "all the way" and sometimes that involved interactions with a body part he liked to call "Jumbo." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

A strange statue in Dallas has an even weirder history. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Joseph Farley made the news for his unicycle and not a stitch of clothing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

For Texans, the Alamo is often considered a holy site. In 1982 Ozzy Osbourne made a big mistake by peeing there. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

What do you do when the nicest man in town is guilty of murdering one of the meanest women in town? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Infamous burlesque dancer Candy Barr has been mostly forgotten, but this Texas woman deserves to be remembered. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

In 1981 a politician in the Texas Legislature became the hottest mystery since the Dallas finale. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Blinky could have died a horrible death, but he was reborn as the most famous horn toad in America. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

A wronged woman took revenge in one of the most brutal car related deaths in Houston history. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Described as a cult by almost everyone who has come into contact with it, The Church of Wells is at the center of many controversies. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

In the town of Lajitas, a politician really did have cloven hooves. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

The Most Wicked Man on Earth has a set of papers at one of the highest institutions in Texas. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Near San Juan Mission, a set of train tracks is the site of one of San Antonio's most beloved ghost stories. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

In 1969 something with fur and scales stalked couples at lovers lane at Lake Worth. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Is this story of a murderous baby more than a creepy pasta? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

In the 1970's a nightclub in San Antonio supposedly set the stage for a strange encounter with the devil. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Is it ghosts or just time that haunts this former stage coach inn? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Today a simple plaque reading Oswald labeled the grave of one of the most famous presidential assassin's in US History. However, his body didn't exactly rest in peace. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Gertrude Beasley published a painful and true memoir about growing up in Texas. Just 10 days after returning to the US, she would go missing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

A mysterious woman in white makes for an uncomfortable hitch hiking story. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

In the late 1990s the Satanic Panic was still alive and well in Texas. Caught in the crossfire were four Latinx women who were guilty of nothing but being gay. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

John Wesley Hardin was a folk hero, and kind of a terrible person. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Consciousness Development of Body, Mind and Soul, sounded like a new age group, but with multiple death attributed to their practices, Terri Lee Hoffman made a name for herself she'd rather have avoided. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

A Texas politician is likely the reason we refer to some people as mavericks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Just outside of Austin you can find the only clothing optional park in Texas, Hippie Hollow. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Are those graves in a parking lot? In the Houston area, that just might be the case. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

A reporter in Abeliene's strange story launched a creepy pasta obsession. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Over 50 years ago a young woman was found in a hotel pool under mysterious circumstances. Today thanks to genetic testing and a community that wouldn't give up on a mystery we know who she was. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Texas has a county road labeled 666, and the story associated with it is pretty chilling. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Bette Graham figured out a way to get rid of her mistakes and helped the whole world. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

There are certain phrases Texas loves, but how does our most popular slogan tie into a trash problem? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

What do an old train tunnel and thousands of bats have in common? A tiny Texas State Park. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Charles Albright seemed like a strange suspect for a string of grisly murders, but his history would prove otherwise. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

If you want to check out Stonehenge or Easter Island heads, travel no farther than Ingram, Texas. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support

Johanna Troutman's silk skirts and moxie gave Texas its very first flag. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/texas-slang-for-crazy/support