True Stories #242 - The Woman Without a Face
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@thethinkingatheist.comTrue Stories #242 - The Woman Without a Face
#TrueStories #ShortPodcast #RealLifeMystery #HiddenDangers #IntriguingTales
@trueinspiring.bsky.socialThe Drive-In Movie: The New Jersey Inventor Who Tested It with a Bedsheet and a Sprinkler
Before the drive-in became a summer night of popcorn, taillights, and kids in pajamas, it began with a lawn sprinkler. In a New Jersey driveway, Richard Milton Hollingshead Jr.
@trueinspiring.bsky.socialGrandma Gatewood’s Long Walk
The oddest little roof on the Appalachian Trail may have been a plastic shower curtain, carried by a 67-year-old grandmother in sneakers who had decided she didn’t need much else.
@trueinspiring.bsky.social“Feliz Navidad” Is the Christmas Song Everyone Knows; the Sweet Part Is Why José Feliciano Made It So Short
A few bright syllables, a guitar’s warm strum, and suddenly a room can feel like someone opened the oven door on Christmas cookies.
@trueinspiring.bsky.socialThe Week Guam Stood Atop Its Soccer World
The odd little magic of soccer is that a ball can roll across a field in Dededo and make a country of more than a billion people suddenly feel very close. For Guam, the scoreboard didn’t need poetry.
@storycollider.bsky.socialParents. They have a funny way of planning your whole life for you. 😅
This week, Kat Arney and Kevin McNulty wrestle with who their parents expected them to be — and who they actually are.
🎧 Listen tomorrow!
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@trueinspiring.bsky.socialBaseball’s Longest Game Had 19 Fans Left, and Pawtucket Turned Them Into Regulars
The lights at McCoy Stadium kept shining into Easter morning, long after the coffee had given up and most sensible people had gone home.
@trueinspiring.bsky.socialThe Bells Tucson Took Home
Somewhere in Tucson, hundreds of small ceramic wind chimes once appeared like friendly secrets, bright bits of clay waiting for strangers to notice them. They weren’t for sale, and they weren’t lost.
@pandemicatheseries.comThey banned me from Truth Social for being too honest...
@thethinkingatheist.comTrue Stories #243 - Miracle Mike
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@trueinspiring.bsky.socialThe View-Master and the Oregon Cave Trip That Began with a Funny-Looking Camera
Near the Oregon Caves, a vacation camera looked less like a camera than a small mechanical sandwich: two Kodak Bantams fastened together, ready to blink at the scenery in stereo.
@trueinspiring.bsky.socialEmily Roebling’s Victory Rooster
The first carriage over the Brooklyn Bridge carried a woman with years of hard-won knowledge in her head — and a rooster in her lap.
@trueinspiring.bsky.socialThe Candy That Lit Up Genoa
On a Nevada evening, with the mountains going dark around Genoa, the answer to the town’s streetlight problem cooled on kitchen tables in neat, sugary squares.
@trueinspiring.bsky.socialA Christmas Story’s Leg Lamp, and the Bad Eye Exam That Lit Up a Cleveland House
The whole thing began with a lamp so silly it almost dared you to love it.
@trueinspiring.bsky.socialTed Kooser’s Valentine List Got Lovably Out of Hand
A small poem in the mail can feel like a hand on the shoulder, especially in February, when Nebraska has had plenty of time to be gray.
@trueinspiring.bsky.social‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ and the 3 a.m. Honolulu chair that helped it happen
@thethinkingatheist.comTrue Stories #244 - The Clearwater Monster
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@missgypsyannette.bsky.socialHaven't watched True Stories (1986) for a minute and it felt like a David Byrne night.
Why do the greatest films often overlooked when released, but shit like Twilight and Transformers bring in the masses?
I hate the masses
@trueinspiring.bsky.socialThe Winthrop Santa Who Used an Airplane for a Chimney
The wind around a lighthouse can make even a Christmas bundle feel like it needs a seatbelt. Out in Boston Harbor, Santa didn’t arrive by sleigh or chimney.
@everythingaction.bsky.social#DavidByrne told some #TrueStories 40 years ago when the movie opened on October 10th, 1986 #JohnGoodman #SwoosieKurtz #SpaldingGray #AnnieMcEnroe #PopsStaples #TitoLarriva #StephenTobolowsky #TalkingHeads #80sMovies
