King Of Quacks
King Of Quacks  
Podcast: True Weird Stuff
Published On: Sun Sep 08 2024
Description: Today's True Weird Stuff - King Of Quacks   Curtis Howe Springer was a radio evangelist, self-proclaimed medical doctor and minister. In 1944, he laid claim to 12,000 acres of land in California's Mohave Desert and created his own town. The only problem? The land wasn't his. He was also a medical fraud who used his radio show to sell fake miracle potions. Springer was the ultimate con man known as the "King of Quacks."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.