AboutTrue Weird Stuff

The story behind the stories.

Who finds them, who tells them, the voices you hear, and the awards they’ve picked up along the way.

The team  How it’s done  The awards  The voices  Get in touch

Doc, Sheri and Max on a doorstepL–R: Kary “Doc” Bowser · Sheri Lynch · Max Sweeten

Your official Tweirdo team

Sheri Lynch in a fedora and glasses, arms folded

Sheri Lynch

Writer & host

Sheri Lynch is what happens when you drop a weird little nerd into the wilderness with no TV, radio or phone. By the time she found civilization, it was too late to try being normal. Writer, award-winning broadcaster, lover of all things odd — especially when they turn out to be true. Just don’t get her started on the Puritans…

  • Amelia's SOS
  • The Littlest Survivor
  • A Real Stiff
Max Sweeten

Max Sweeten

Director

Max had odd interests growing up: serial killers, the Manson Family murders, the Roswell Incident and tales of Bigfoot. He brings his voice work and soundscaping to the podcast, and has won two Signal Awards for his production work. Max loves a road trip — and has an incredible talent for finding good spots to dump a body.

Doc at the microphone in the studio

Kary "Doc" Bowser

Producer

Doc is an award-winning podcast producer, and the kind of hardcore introvert people mean when they say, “You’ve gotta watch the quiet ones.” Rather than have his neighbors tell a Netflix crew that “he mostly kept to himself,” he channels that energy into sitting alone in a room, producing one of the weirdest podcasts in the world.

Heather Elizabeth

Heather Elizabeth

Director of digital

Our Digital Witch has always had a taste for the weird. A devout tarot reader, amateur astrologist and, in her youth, a ghost hunter, she grew into the occult while learning to take a few things with a healthy skepticism. Finding the true behind the tall tales — and sharing those stories — is one of Heather’s favorite hobbies.

Tony Garcia

Tony Garcia

Executive producer

Tony Garcia is a partner in Now! Media and executive producer of True Weird Stuff. He got his start in audio in college, creating America’s first and only New Wave music countdown show. His projects have earned NAB Marconi Award nominations and three Gracie Allen Awards, and Radio Ink named him one of Radio’s Top Leaders in 2024, 2025 and 2026.

One story. Told properly.

Every episode starts with a true story that sounds made up — and then the hard part: finding a way into it that nobody has used before.

Sheri never tells two stories the same way. Her episode on Ted Kaczynski being experimented on at Harvard by the CIA isn’t told as the story of the Unabomber. It’s told through a question: what is a hermit? Even the physics-heavy episodes are built as stories: one takes you underground, into a former gold mine in South Dakota, where scientists are hunting for the reason anything exists at all.

What she writes isn’t an essay. It’s a production script, with every musical transition and sound effect written in and a cast of voice actors reading the parts. Max directs — sometimes sounding out names phonetically in languages he doesn’t speak — and Doc produces. Between Sheri and Max, every episode takes 14 to 20 hours to make.

And some of them start with you. The show takes requests, and one episode was even written by a listener.

Sheri and the cast in an elevator
“I try to find a different way every single time to tell the story. I’ve made my life very hard. But that’s my brand.”— Sheri Lynch

Seventeen awards, so far.

The show

  • Best History PodcastWomen Podcasters Awards 2026
  • Best History PodcastPodcast Awards 2025
  • Best Paranormal/History PodcastSignal Awards 2024
  • Best History PodcastWomen in Podcasting Awards 2024

The episodes

All 5 award-winning episodesStart with the winners

The voices of True Weird Stuff

Don Morgan

Don Morgan

Greensboro, NC’s Don Morgan has spent a lifetime in performing arts and novelty bands — solid training for the miscreants and unsavory characters True Weird Stuff keeps throwing his way. Off-mic, he strives to live a moral life. Sheri calls Don her muse, and is always hunting unhinged characters for him to play.

Check out Don in Unholy City →

Erin Cox

Erin Cox

Erin lives in Minnesota with her wonderful fork-lifting husband, dogs and cat. Her road to voiceover ran through the Navy, roller derby, the Connecticut School of Broadcasting and radio. Off-mic she cooks, sings along to old country songs, plays Mario Kart, watches Drag Race, owns too many cookbooks, and gets outside when Minnesota weather permits.

Check out Erin in Amelia's SOS →

Sam Moore

Sam Moore

Sam Moore is a voice you’ll know from KGAY 103.1, Sunny 106.5 and Palm Springs Speaks. He joined the crew in 2025, voicing the news articles woven through each episode, and by day fixes frustrating tech across the desert. He’s been talking professionally since 2016 — and weird since 1970.

Check out Sam in the award-winning Doomsday Clock: 89 Seconds To Midnight →

Caramia

Caramia

Caramia is truly a weirdo, with an obsession with bugs and existentialist philosophy — and our go-to for any voice acting in French. Usually buried in a thesis on environmental and technological obligations, Caramia surfaces to paddleboard, hike, cook, or hit a brewery with partner Elizabeth and cats Pepper and Maple.

Check out Caramia in Casket Girls →

Elizabeth Jordan

Elizabeth Jordan

Elizabeth is a secret weirdo: shy on the outside, quick and dry underneath, and our go-to singer — with a little coaxing. Usually buried in homework or environmental news, she escapes to swim, paddleboard, hike, or, in her words, bed rot. She takes real pride in making Caramia laugh.

Check out Elizabeth in Ice Pick to The Brain →

Zane Nash

Zane Nash

Growing up with Sheri as his stepmother, true and weird is all Zane has known. He never guessed he’d write songs like Kitty Best Friend, create music for a podcast — including the True Weird Stuff theme — or land voice roles. Pretty weird, he’d say. But weird is all he’s ever known.

Check out Zane in Mother & Ghost →

Frances J

Frances J

Lifelong bookworm, experiencer, queen of the desert. She also happens to be our host’s mom, with a lifetime of unsettling tales of her own. Fran never dreamed she’d end up a voice actor, but she’s a natural.

Check out Fran in The Littlest Survivor →

Lamar Richardson

Lamar Richardson

Lamar has always lived his life in the most unweird way possible — or so he says. This is a dude who went joyriding out by the Georgia Guidestones and once kept a pet alligator in a kiddie pool. Now, whenever an episode needs a simple country man, a southern police officer or a Bible-believing firebrand preacher, he gets the call.

Check out Lamar in the award-winning The Bunker →

Charly King

Charly King

Charly is a British astrologer living in Key West Florida, who feels right at home among the weirdos. She’s obsessed with space. our solar system and the planets, including Earth! Charly brings the horoscopes to Bob & Sheri, and hosts The Horoscope Vault. If she ever asks for your date and time of birth, prepare to be read like the diary you thought you’d hidden. She happily lends her voice to True Weird Stuff. We didn’t have to talk her into being weird, she arrived that way.

Check out Charly in Jill the Ripper →

Kevin Nash (cowboy hat)

Kevin Nash

Kevin sleeps with one eye open - when your wife writes and hosts TWS and wakes up in the middle of the night to ponder cannibalism and trans-dimensional travel, it do be like that. Kevin is an artist and carpenter, and voices our cowboys and outlaws and the occasional lawman. He's way, way weirder than he thinks. Typical Aquarius man.

Check out Kevin in On Her Nerves →

Brittany Lynch

Brittany Lynch

Brittany is the true weirdo everyone wants on their trivia team — she knows something strange and off-putting about almost everything. Her dark humor has one rule: always punch up. Violet’s mom, proud wife to Danny (aka El Jefe), and a champion of other people’s dignity. Her attitude isn’t bad — she’s simply from New Jersey.

Check out Britt in the award-winning Cokey & Lucky →

Carolyn Thornton

Carolyn Thornton

Carolyn is a one-woman whirlwind. Nothing she can’t do — from building a shed, to staging a house, to whipping up a meal for a crowd. If Carolyn is for you, ain’t nobody strong enough to go against you. And she loves playing the baddies.

Check out Carolyn in Scarlett Sisters →

Evie Rose

Evie Rose

Evie Rose hails from a long, proudly peculiar line of weirdos and is fairly certain she’s part Fairy, part Viking princess. She’s our first call for creepy-child and wizened-old-woman voices, is devoted to axolotls, and sings from morning until night — whether or not anyone has requested a song.

Check out Evie in The Angel Makers: The Village That Poisoned Its Husbands →

Emily Kohn

Emily Kohn

Emily started singing in choir at four, earned a Bachelor’s in Theater, and performed at Carnegie Hall in 2020. The former frontwoman of metal band Chaotic Neutral makes stage wigs and horror-film effects makeup — and this banker-by-day dreams so vividly we suspect she’s astral projecting into other timelines.

Check out Emily in Cursed Christmas Ghost →

Sherri Harsch Wellman

Sherri Harsch Wellman

Sherri’s favorite things include haunted houses, ghosts, Bigfoot, and animals — in Mexico, she spent more time feeding the strays at an abandoned resort than on the beach. She wrangles infants and toddlers by day, and treasures the quiet of an abandoned house or a spooky dark forest.

Check out Sherri in Asylum Ladies →

Carla Richardson

Carla Richardson

Carla is a full-time Realtor who loves her work. Off the clock she enjoys her grandbabies and sippin’ wine while her man Lamar cooks — trying to get a word in, since Lamar never shuts up. We asked her to voice a sweet southern lady, and she’s right good at it. She’s not a weirdo yet, but we’re not giving up.

Check out Carla in the award-winning The Living Corpse →

Stuart Watson

Stuart Watson

Stuart Watson seems normal enough… and that’s a little weird! He’s a happily married father of four grown kids who seems well adjusted enough. A winner of three Peabody Awards and 10 Emmys, he has worked in TV, radio, podcasting and print, producing and anchoring 500 podcasts and writing a couple of books.

Check out Stuart in Murder Farm →

Beth Latino

Beth Latino

Beth is a proud Long Islander who believes life is best enjoyed with good friends, great laughs and just the right amount of reality TV. She’s always up for a good murder, mahjong with the ladies or a competitive game night with the fam. A creative at heart, Beth loves getting her hands dirty in the pottery studio.

Check out Beth in Asylum Ladies →

Also heard on the show

  • Ashley Palmer Fischer
  • Becky Story
  • Bridget Goolsby
  • Cool King Chris Michael
  • Dave Robertson
  • Jeff Davis
  • Miss Emma Grace Smith
  • Robert Fischer
  • Robert Palmer
  • Robert Tansy
  • Stacy Robertson
  • Thom Tonetti
  • Tripp Helms
  • Vivian Fischer
  • Wendy Tonetti

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