Lost Legends: The 10 Wildest Weightlifters of the 1930s!

Описание: Lost Legends: The 10 Wildest Weightlifters of the 1930s!

💪 The Wild World of Weightlifting in the 1930s | Strange As It Seems Archives 🏋️‍♂️

Step back in time to the Golden Age of Strongmen with this jaw-dropping deep dive into one of the most bizarre and inspiring chapters of the Strange As It Seems archives! Hosted by Jeff Hix, curator and grand-nephew of Strange As It Seems creator John Hix, this episode uncovers astonishing true stories of real-life superhumans—all backed by original letters, photographs, affidavits, and newspaper clippings from the 1930s.

🔎 What You’ll Discover in This Episode: • Louis Yansky, the 114-pound weightlifter who could press 149 pounds overhead with one hand!
• Rolandow, the man who lifted 655 pounds with a single finger!
• Ringman Mach, the "Central American Wonder Athlete" with... nipple-lifting feats 😳
• A 739-pound man married to an 89-pound woman who could lift four men at once!
• The amazing tale of H.E. Mann, who carried a bull—yes, a full-grown bull—on his back!
• The Strongman Prohibition of the 14th century!
• Vintage vaudeville acts, forgotten heroes, and super-agers still lifting in their 70s and 80s
• And the infamous rivalry between John Hix and Robert Ripley that climaxed at the 1939 World's Fair

📜 Every single story is proven true with original documents and archive materials—because as John Hix said at the bottom of every comic strip, "If you doubt this, write for proof to the author!"

😂 Along the way, enjoy some classic dad jokes, time-traveling theories, and stories so strange… they must be true.

🧠 Perfect for fans of:
Ripley’s Believe It or Not, vintage comics, weightlifting history, physical culture, vaudeville, archival storytelling, forgotten Americana, and wild-but-true tales of human strength and spirit.

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00:00 Introduction
01:42 Self-promoting strongmen
03:32 Rolandow & Warren Lincoln Travis
07:15 Captain Ringman Mach
08:40 Ray van Cleef, Arthur Danderand & Morris Bloom
10:22 Albert Renard & the naked truth
11:08 Pre 20th century strongmen
13:41 Stranger lifters
19:41 Old timer strongmen
22:06 Even stranger lifters
26:38 Tony Terlazzo
27:34 The 1939 World's Fair & Ripley's Odditoriums