SoFlo Weird Show is a podcast featuring weird stories for weird people. In this episode we feature true crimes stories like the odd romance of a Key West physician and his corpse bride; Miami's own cannibal and a man who was found dumping body parts out of a car window. Then we tell the tale of Weird Town USA, in Gibsonton Florida,  a place where people from circus sideshow acts once lived.  sofloweird.com

Creepy People

Florida is famous for being infamous.  Turbulent times plagued South Florida in the 1980's.  Cocaine cowboys ran wild in Miami, the drug trade was amassing billions of dollars and there was a rapid increase of immigrants arriving on our shores. In the midst of all this chaos, National Geographic photographer and native Floridian Nathan Benn was tasked with the assignment of returning to his hometown to feature Florida and all it's glory.  A Peculiar Paradise is his book which contains a vast collection of his photographs taken while on assignment.  We talk with Nathan about his experiences.

PeculiarParadise

Jim Sass is his name and he has a very unusual bookstore called Abraxas.  With approximately 150,000 books  it's a treasure trove for book lovers, avid learners and truth seekers.  Jim has been a longtime resident of Daytona and has bore witness to it's transition from a seedy seaside town to a bustling tourist community.  We sat down with Jim to talk about Daytona's more troubling times including witchcraft murders and serial killers.

The Book Wizard Of Daytona Beach

In true Florida Man style a team of weirdos discuss real headlines of bizarre crimes and the stupid people who commit them.  Like the Case of the Toxic Tush, where a fake doctor performs botched beauty procedures by injecting fix a flat and cement into the rear end of would be patients; or the man who robs an adult bookstore using a sex toy.  It’s all true, it’s all weird and of course, it’s only in Florida.

Weird Crimes And Stupid People

The SoFlo Weird Show meets up with the Nomadic Travelers, Jason Lawrence and Nicole Potter. This dynamic duo offers travel tips and personal experiences for people seeking adventures both in the US and abroad. We met them in Florida and decided to talk about their journeys and find out if they’ve discovered anything weird. It turns out; they know the very small town that can lay claim to having the world’s biggest things. And there’s a spooky story behind the town of Story Indiana. What may be the weirdest though is how they met and became the Nomadic Travelers. Then we take a look at some of Florida’s roadside
oddities like the Possum Monument, Cement Alligators and the World’s Smallest Police Station.

The Nomadic Travelers

I'm a native Floridian and veteran television producer who's trying a new mode of storytelling.  I'm always on the lookout for a good story and the weirder the better!

Mia Laurenzo

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