Hear Ye, Hear Ye weirdos!
Welcome to another WACKY episode of your favorite WEIRD show! On Keep It Weird, each week we get together to talk about something strange and unusual and this week we have monsters of all shapes, sizes and species.
You never know where we will go or what we will find so it’s best to be extra prepared. Grab your thickest gloves (Trust me) make sure you’ve got your sleep masks ready and fire retardant clothing wouldn’t hurt.
Lauren starts us off with a MISS FRIZZLE as we take our magical school bus into the human body to answer the question “Can humans hibernate?” We discuss whether or not ancient man ever slept for months at a time, if there is a chance we can make it happen again, and would it be used for space travel or just for those of us who want to skip the hot sticky summer?
Ashley takes us back in time for an ancient MONSTER WATCH as we discuss the existence of DRAGONS! The legend of a dragon has existed all throughout history– within cultures who had no contact with each other. Did they actually exist at one point? Are they a creation shared through a collective consciousness? Or are they just the scariest thing we can think of?
Then it’s time to solve a crime in a super depressing TRUE CRIME TIME where nobody dies! But honestly, maybe it would have been better if they did. Lauren tells the story of Carlos- a man who was held captive by his own brother and sister for over TWENTY YEARS in what we now know… is a giant bird cage.
And finally we wrap it up with some immersion therapy that literally makes things worse. A JEEPERS CREEPERS (God I hate this so much) featuring TARANTULAS. Everything you never wanted to know about God’s most creepy creature.
Check out the links below for more details on today’s topics!
Human Hibernation
https://www.healthline.com/health/can-humans-hibernate
Dreaming of Dragons
https://allthatsinteresting.com/dragon-legends
Birdhouse from Hell
https://medium.com/true-horror-stories/boy-trapped-in-large-birdhouse-for-20-years-150c2809ade6
Terrible Tarantulas
https://ansp.org/about/press-room/releases/2015/tarantulas-facts/
https://kissagator.com/blog/11-nearly-unbelievable-things-about-tarantulas/
Make sure you LIKE this video and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel so you’ll be the first to know when a new video or clip is uploaded. FOLLOW us on social media @keepitweirdcast to partake in Medium Mondays, Tarot Tuesdays & Witchy Wednesdays. Check out our MERCH at www.keepitweirdpodcast.com/merch. And last but not least, please consider donating to our PATREON at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast where you will get AD FREE episodes, TWO bonus episodes a month, discounts on merch and a monthly newsletter written by your ghostesses with the mostesses.
Grab your tin foil hats and your barf bags, you're in for a rough one!
Hi weirdos welcome to another episode of KEEP IT WEIRD, the podcast for all things strange and unusual. Each week we get together to chat about something WEIRD and sometimes GROSS and this week it's GROSS!
Ashley starts us off with a REAL OR HOAX segment featuring the sad, strange and especially sick story of Mary Toft- a servant who lived in the 1700s who tried to make it out of her impoverished life with a fraud so vile it's hard to even type it up. Let's just say it involves innocent bunnies being shoved up a vagina. There's no way to beat around that bush.
Lauren swoops in to save the day with a CONSPIRACY THEORY that Queen Elizabeth I wasn't quite herself. In fact, she was so much so not herself that she was a man. Sure, part of the reasoning behind this conspiracy theory is misogynistic AF - but it's interesting nonetheless.
Debbie Downer brings us down again with a new segment called JEEPERS CREEPERS (I hate this so much) in which we discuss an incurable genetic disease called Fatal Familial Insomnia that kills you in less than a year by ENSURING you never enter REM again. And REM is my favorite part of sleep!
And finally, Lauren fails to cheer us up by taking us on a trip for a WHERE IN THE WORLD IS KEEP IT WEIRD GOING segment-- and Back to Tokyo we go! But this time there is no delicious Ramen. There is only hell. Meet us at the hottest date spot in Japan- the Meguro Parasitological Museum! Or you can call it by it's shorter name-- THE PARASITE MUSEUM. Home of the world's longest tapeworm!
Check out the links below if you want to read more about today's WEIRD stories. Please like this video and subscribe to our YouTube channel, follow us on social media @keepitweirdcast (Instagram/Twitter/TikTok) and if you REALLY love our show head over to www.patreon.com/
Mary Toft
https://www.theparisreview.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/
Queen Elizabeth Conspiracy
https://www.historicmysteries.
FFI: Fatal Familial Insomnia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.bbc.com/future/
Tokyo's Parasite Museum
They’re here, weirdos
And hopefully they come in peace because we are S.O.L. if not. Hi! We’re interrupting our regularly scheduled program to bring you up to speed on all things UFO!
This week Ashley is breaking down the latest UFO news including the whistleblower, David Grusch, who claims that not only are UFOs real but that the US government has PHYSICAL EVIDENCE and gosh darnit we deserve to know about it!
We also breakdown WHY it is important for us to know about the UFOs– important for ALL humankind, not just ET enthusiasts– and we take a look back at some important UFO and Extraterrestrial moments throughout our show that may give us an idea of what is going on behind the scenes… and what we may have to look forward to.
And because I can't get enough high strangeness, I've sprinkled in some REAL audio clips of UFO encounters, as a treat.
A link to every episode referenced in Unidentified: Eyes on the Skies here just in case you can’t get enough.
Friends in High Places:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/friends-in-high-places/id1204749824?i=1000473959418
Baa Baa Blacksheep Incident:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-baa-baa-blacksheep-incident/id1204749824?i=1000575853182
The Greatest Discotheque in the Universe:
The Truth Is Out There (Close Encounters of the Joe Kind Part 2):
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-truth-is-out-there-close-encounters-of-the-joe/id1204749824?i=1000389637642
Clips used throughout include:
St. Helens, Washington/March 1, 1981 - St Helens Police Officers
Levelland, Texas/November 7, 1957 - Bob Pierpoint, CBS News, reports on the Levelland, TX UFO incident
Exeter, New Hampshire/September 3, 1965 - Officer Eugene Bertrand, Jr. and Officer David Hunt observe craft and strange animal behavior
Highland, Illinois/1982- Police dispatch regarding "huge" UFO
Subscribe to our YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/keepitweirdpodcast. Follow us on social medias at @keepitweirdcast. And please consider donating to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast. All proceeds go towards producing the show.
Happy June, Weirdos!
And welcome to another strange and unusual episode of KEEP IT WEIRD! Each week we get to hang out and chat about some of the weirdest things we know.
This week Ashley starts us off teaching us about the CARRINGTON EVENT! An electromagnetic storm that took place in 1859 that sent the US and parts of Europe into the dark(er) ages. What are the chances of it happening again? And what will happen to us when it does?
Then Lauren dives into one of the strangest unsolved mysteries we've ever heard-- The Tromp Family road trip. A seemingly normal family in Australia up and vanishes and slowly return one by one... and no one... can say WHY?! What is going ON with these Tromps?!
And finally we take a trip to the open ocean as we find out the freaking KRAKEN IS REAL! Ok, maybe not, but in 1978 a US NAVY destroyer was rocked by a squid that is calculated to be over three times bigger than any we've ever found...
Make sure you're following us on social media @keepitweirdcast, rate us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, join our Patreon at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast to donate to our show and get goodies in return, and subscribe to us on YouTube where you can WATCH the episodes and catch all the silly visual gags you missed by only using your ears.
Carrington Event
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/are-we-ready-for-the-next-big-solar-storm
Tromp Family Road Trip
https://medium.com/@matt1199/the-bizarre-tromp-family-road-trip-8268896e0c27
Kraken vs US Navy
https://creativehistorystories.blogspot.com/2020/12/when-kraken-attacked-united-states-navy.html
Good day, weirdos!
Your girls are back for another week of WEIRD and this week is all over the place.
From psychic visions to sex trafficking, killer weather to kidnapping, and even some terrifying technology to keep you awake at night.
After we get our Vanderpump excitement out of the way Lauren starts us off with a TRUE CRIME TIME teaching us about the strange disappearance of Theresa Ann Bier. Her uncle took her camping one day in 1987 and she hasn’t been seen since… I wonder… who did it.
Then Ashley takes us into the way WAY back machine with a little history lesson on King Richard III. This is a new segment called CALL MISS CLEO where we discuss PSYCHIC visions and after 500 years of looking for the lost King’s remains - he was found. But the only explanation for his discovery may lie in the paranormal.
Lauren swings us forward juuuuust a tad as with an IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT as we venture into 1948 when the small steel town of Donora Pennsylvania was nearly choked to death by a killer fog.
And finally Ashley wraps it up with a TERRIFYING TECHNOLOGY update where we learn that we currently have the ability to READ MINDS. And no that is not a euphemism… we can read actual thoughts.
Check out some LINKS below if you want to read up on today’s stories! Follow us on social media @keepitweirdcast and join our Facebook Group to join in on our online fun!
If you have an extra $1, $5 or $10 this month consider donating to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast - it’s how we make all the money for this show and that money is what keeps this ball rolling so if you like what you hear/see… don’t hesitate to send us some of your hard earned cash.
Also, hey, check out the Macabre London podcast, would ya? It’s freaking fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/@MacabreLondon
Disappearance of Theresa Ann Bier
https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/theresa-ann-bier?format=amp
Discovery of King Richard III
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56374/unearthing-richard-iii-luckiest-find-history
Donora Death Fog
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/killer-smog-claims-elderly-victims
https://www.aiche.org/chenected/2011/10/donora-death-fog-crisis-led-modern-air-pollution-laws
Terrifying Technology
Tech that aims to read your mind and probe your memories is already here | MIT Technology Review
https://news.utexas.edu/2023/05/01/brain-activity-decoder-can-reveal-stories-in-peoples-minds/
Hey Weirdos!
This episode isn't JUST weird organ stories.... but it kind of is. Welcome back to KEEP IT WEIRD your main source of the strangest of the strange. Each week we get together to chat about something WEIRD and this season we are ramping it up- Helter Skelter style. Only a true weirdo knows what that means...
This week the girls start by giving some LISTENER GHOST STORY UPDATES along with TWO new chilling tales of terror for your listening pleasure.
Lauren clues us in on some recent COW MUTILATIONS happening in the US of A and we recall a case we covered recently that looked an awful lot like the human version of these cruel bovine murders.
Then Ashley closes us out with a piece on CELLULAR MEMORY-- and if that is what is the cause of inheriting the attributes of your ORGAN DONOR. Some people receive a new heart and just get to live another day. Others receive a heart and start enjoying different food... different music... different genders?? Is it possible that memories are stored in our cells?? Or is there something else going on...
Make sure you're following us on Instagram and Twitter @keepitweirdcast and join our Facebook Group/Like our Facebook Page! Give us 5 stars on iTunes (if you're a true blue weirdo) and take a minute to peruse our Patreon at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast to find ways you can DONATE to our show and receive TWO bonus episodes a month, discounts on merch, and a monthly newsletter!
Check out these links if you want to read more from today's episode!
Cow Mutilations
https://www.kcra.com/amp/article/6-cows-texas-found-dead-tongues-cut-out/43681606
https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/mystery-mounts-as-cattle-turn-up-dead-without-tongues-in-texas/amp/
Organ Transplant/Memory Transferrence:
BONUS LINK: 1988 San Paolo Mutilated Man
https://conspiracytheories.in/the-disturbing-case-of-the-mutilated-man/
Get out your paranormal sticks, weirdos! It's time for some SCARY STORIES!
This was a wild bunch, let me tell you. Two stories left us speechless and that is RARE.
This week is a fan favorite: LISTENER GHOST STORIES! Ashley & Lauren get together to share sometimes terrifying, sometimes sweet, but always creepy REAL life scary stories sent in by YOU, the listener.
On this LGS we have ghosts, we have vampires, we have zombies, we have missing time, we even have tears in the fabric of our very UNIVERSE.
Thank you to everyone who wrote in to us and/or allowed us to share your personal tales of terror! If anyone ever wants to send us your story please do so by emailing us at keepitweirdpodcast@gmail.com with the subject line LISTENER GHOST STORIES OR you can call us at 626-686-1821 and leave us a voicemail.
As usual, THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS THAT MAY BE JARRING TO SOME LISTENERS. There is a music/sound effect free version of this episode available for free at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast
(Also, PS: This episode will not be featured on our YouTube channel as we believe LGS is a more enjoyable soundscape but you can check out clips from the video version of this episode by visiting our social media @keepitweirdcast on Instagram & Twitter)
Who knew Hell was so fashionable?!
Hey weirdos, welcome to another episode of Keep It Weird; the podcast for all things strange and unusual, stylish and sultry, electronic and psychic and everything in between.
This week Lauren teaches us about WANG SAEN SUK; a Buddhist HELL GARDEN located in Bang Saen city, Chonburi province, Thailand! It’s also known as Thailand's Hell Horror Park and it is FULL of some of the most disturbing statues you may ever see! Yay!
Ashley is diving into the mystery of the DODLESTON MESSAGES- a year and a half long unhinged prank? A hoax to drive up book sales? Or was it actually a ghost from 1546 talking to a couple via their 1985 computer?
Lauren finishes off the episode with a couple CONSPIRACY THEORIES - One being PROJECT SUNSHINE which sounds so light and fun but actually has to do with dismembering the corpses of babies?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! HELP. And then the gals tear apart the CHALLENGER Conspiracy that appeared online a few years ago claiming that the victims of the space shuttle challenger disaster of 1986 are actually alive and well and just decided to start new lives and abandon everyone they ever loved for no reason.
Follow us on social media @keepitweirdcast and check out our Patreon at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast to find ways that you can help out the show and get bonus episodes!
You have to every once in a while, right? Maybe not in the way our titular character did it but in your own.. special... safe.. and consensual way.
Hey weirdos! Welcome to another FANTASTIC episode of Keep It Weird; the podcast for all things strange and unusual, apocalyptic and dystopian, creepy, kooky and all things BUCKWILD.
This week Lauren tells us the story of a man in Australia who is looking for dead bodies in all the wrong places for an ART INSTALLATION of all things. She also takes us to a spooky train track in Arkansas that has been haunted by a bouncing light for over fifty years.
Ashley is bringing us a kidnapping where not all was as it seems... but the kidnappers motives aren't surprising to the gals at all. And we're ending the show with THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT kind of. Apocalypses happen all the time-- this particular apocalypse took place in Serbia in 1908 and we all it the Tunguska Event. To this day no one knows what caused it... or if it could happen again.
Check out some links below if you'd like to read more on the stories featured in this episode.
Follow us on social media @keepitweirdcast and check out our Patreon at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast to find ways that you can help out the show and get bonus episodes!
Dead Body Art
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64898393
The Kidnapping of Julian Buchwald & Carolynne Watson
Gurdon Ghost Light
https://www.tripsavvy.com/gurdon-light-2211874
http://aboutlittlerock.com/the-mystery-behind-the-gurdon-ghost-light/
Tunguska Event
https://earthsky.org/space/what-is-the-tunguska-explosion/
https://www.britannica.com/event/Tunguska-event
Greetings Gotham City!
It's me, the classic character, Joker-Riddler-Penguin! And I'm here to wreck all your trains!
This will all make sense in approximately 45 minutes to an hour but in the meantime HELLO and welcome weirdos to another episode of KEEP IT WEIRD with Ashley Casseday & Lauren Ogle.
Each week we get together to teach each other strange science, tell creepy stories, and share magical thoughts and this week we've got quite the variety for you.
Ashley is starting us off with a WHAT IF GOD WAS ONE OF US by teaching us the Gospel of Mary Magdanele and how her ideas of the Christian faith shifted by her own reading of these amazing biblical books that didn't make it into the final draft of the bible.
Lauren TRIES to lighten the mood by talking about how plants in A BIT O' BIOLOGY might be able to talk and hear but it ends up being kind of depressing because we realize how many plants we've killed over the years.
Ashley brings us around to an UNSOLVED MYSTERY as we try to solve the case of the runaway train in Hoboken New Jersey in 2016 and the ominous evil Dr Seuss message that preceded the crash.
And Lauren finishes us off with an (as usual) very special DERP CORNER where we try to understand why a man in a high speed chase would choose the slowest getaway car in history. Check out some links below for further education!
Gospel of Mary Magdalene http://gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm https://time.com/5210705/mary-magdalene-controversial/
Plants Making Sounds https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stressed-plants-cry-and-some-animals-can-probably-hear-them/
2016 Hoboken Train Crash https://www.paranormalcatalog.net/unexplained-phenomena/new-york-tv-station-broadcasts-bizarre-warning-before-hoboken-train-crash
Derp of the Week: Tony Saunders https://www.huffpost.com/entry/school-bus-theft-dead-deer_n_642daa2be4b0b51a6cdeadba
Welcome to the wonderful world of weird!
This week we have an extra CREEPY episode for you that may make you rethink that old radio you still keep in your garage.
This week Ashley is detailing the history of the discovery and research of ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENON otherwise known as EVPs
A lot of people don't realize that the study of these strange voices coming through our radios and showing up on our recordings has existed since we discovered Radio Waves! And since radio waves are a natural part of our world... how do we know they aren't carrying voices from beyond the grave? From another dimension? From our own MINDS?!
We cover past research into who is working on this study today and we even share a handful of our OWN EVPs we've captured over the years so you can hear them again (or for the first time!) Be aware-- you may need headphones to hear these bad-boys clearly.
Lauren rounds out our episode with a brand new segment where we travel to RUSSIA to find a city thats all about.... chess? And an alien told them to build it? What is happening?
And of course we end our episode with a thought provoking WEIRD question that we'd love you to answer by calling 626-686-1821 and leaving us a message!
Hello Weirdos and welcome to episode 2 of season 7!
As we covered last week- this season EVERY episode is a Helter Skelter and we cover a VARIETY of weirdness for you each episode!
This week Ashley and Lauren have a conversation about the idea of past lives and how they could potentially effect the lives we live today.
Lauren teaches us about how our sense of smell is our strongest sense tied to memories and how losing our ability to smell can lead to a variety of mental health and neurological problems. Yikes
Ashley brings a handful of (failed) government experiments and weapons involving our furriest friends - pigeons, cats and bats!
Make sure you check out this episode on our YOUTUBE channel to watch all the gags/videos/pics you missed while only using your ears by heading to www.youtube.com/keepitweirdpodcast
Follow us on social media @keepitweirdcast Check out our Patreon for a TON of bonus content at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast
GIVE US A CALL at 626-686-1821 and leave us a message that we might play on a future episode of the show!
And most importantly, until we meet again-- Keep It Weird!
HELLO YOU STRANGE BEAUTIFUL CREEPS and welcome to SEASON SEVEN of Keep It Weird!!!
Ho-Ly Sn-ap-ple season seven, can you believe it? After six full years of content... we think it's time to shake things up a bit. This season we're trying something a little different- as opposed to the episodes being "themed" every episode will be a Helter Skelter. EVERY episode is going to be chock full of the weirdest of the weird. Weird news, spooky stories, monsters, murders, aliens, mysticism, things in butts, you name it... we've got it.
This week Ashley and Lauren have a theological history lesson, we find an awesome law enforcement program in Australia, a kitten almost KILLS a guy, we trash talk some (honestly probably very sweet and undeserving) celebs, and we finish it off with the big Kahuna-- Murphysboro Illinois' BIG MUDDY MONSTER. A bigfoot-like creature who terrorized a small midwest town in the 1970's and could possibly still be there today....
Check out this episode on YOUTUBE if you want to see photos, video clips and some very silly sight gags you may have missed by only enjoying this episode with ONE of your senses.
Here is a clip from our latest episode of KEEP IT BEARD presents: Sacré Bleu, Lásagneu!
Keep It Beard is just ONE of the series featured on our patreon- each month Ashley and Amy Hanselmann get together to play games and share silly, spooky, strange stories!
This month Ashley brought a collection of strange stories featuring NAMES YOU KNOW. We'll hear a story about Dan Rather & REM that ends in a murder, a very dark smudge on the history of Jameson Irish Whiskey, and we find out how Garfield became the friendly face of beach cleanup in France
Amy is telling us all about the ACID BATH KILLER which is as horrifying as it sounds, truly. We discuss his crimes, how he was caught, and how some people just aren't cut out to be criminals.
If you want to hear the rest of this episode, are a fan of our show or just want to help an indie pod out on their journey, please consider joining our patreon at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast!
Here's a clip of our latest episode of KEEP IT BEARD presents: A Very Suspicious Log
Keep It Beard is just one of the series featured in our patreon- each month Ashley and Amy Hanselmann get together to play games and share silly, spooky, strange stories.
This month Ashley is bringing some NYE stories! Hauntings that ramp up on December 31st, Murders that took place right around the New Year and even NYE Party Monster.
Amy brings along a NYE heist along with some other heists this same (dare I say brilliant?) crew pulled off before eventually getting caught (womp womp)
If you want to listen to the full episode (along with close to 100 other bonus episodes) head over to www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast and donate to Keep It Weird! Every penny we make goes to producing the show and ensures that we come back season after season.
We can't wait to see you for more FULL eps of Keep It Weird in 2023!
Auld Lang Syne Weirdos!
It's time to say goodbye to 2022 AND season 6 of our show! I know I know, that's a huge bummer BUT we still have a Christmas/New Years special AND you can join our patreon at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast to get ahold of all of our BONUS episodes AND you can check out our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/keepitweirdpodcast where we have a ton of bonus material!
Before that though it's time for a 2022 YEAR IN REVIEW where we leave no stone unturned on all the strangest, coolest, wildest, scariest, grossest things that happened this year that we haven't talked about on the show yet.
Ashley is bringing us the year's most fascinating ARCHAEOLOGICAL finds- The golden city of Luxor, The Endurance ship, Saqqara's necropolis, a brand new Egyptian Queen and even an ancient Roman fast food restaurant!
Lauren's main drag this week is TRUE CRIME- We touch on the Idaho College murders and give updates to the Delphi murders, Gabby Petito's family, the Murdochs, Bobby Durst, Lori Vallow, and even our old friend (or foe??) Adnan Syed!
We cover some things we learned on TikTok this year and some CRAZY discoveries in the world of SCIENCE! This episode really has it all.
You can also WATCH this episode on YouTube if you like seeing our faces and want to support our channel!
Okay, kids. This is Ashley and Lauren signing off. We'll see you in 2023!
Welcome to the SUNSHINE STATE, weirdos!
Home of Mickey Mouse, gators, oranges and the infamous Florida Man! And we have a Florida Man with us today to help show us around his home state. WAYNE MCCARTY from Florida Men on Florida Man joins us as we take a look at some of the strangest stories we could find from the strangest state in our country.
Ashley is bringing us the story of a CANNIBAL FOG that's rumored to have roamed the state for CENTURIES and a small town near Daytona Beach that is also known as the psychic capital of the world!
Lauren is, of course, bringing the CRIME and boy did she have a lot to pick from. She starts off with the story of Kolby Parker who killed his grandfather... for his ears?! And finishes our episode with a collection of hilarious Florida Men who were arrested for very silly crimes.
Wayne is bringing some tales submitted by listeners of their show that you may not hear literally anywhere else! An urban legend of a roughed up deer that serves as a bad omen for anyone who sees it and a decade old journal of descending madness found in an abandoned cabin in the Ocala National Forest.
THIS EPISODE IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN VIDEO FORM ON YOUTUBE so please head over and check it out there!
It's time to strap on those safety goggles again, Weirdos, because we're doing SCIENCE MAGIC again this week with more ALCHEMY!
This time around Lauren and Ashley are going back through time and highlighting some famous (and not so famous) alchemists who changed the world... for better or for worse.
Ashley brings us Mr Gravity himself Sir Isaac Newton- a secret alchemist and occultist who used this mysterious magical science in a lot of his research that helped him develop theories we STILL use today. Along with honorable mentions Doctor Sex Magic Aleister Crowley and even, believe it or not, Joseph Smith- the founder of the LDS church.
Lauren is all about the ladies, taking it back to ancient Egypt and studying the works of Mary the Jewess and her student Cleopatra the Alchemist (not to be confused with the other Cleopatra) and how without them our skin would be awfully saggy and happy hours would be awfully boring.
Don't forget to follow us on social media @keepitweirdcast and please consider donating to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast to help us produce the show!
Eureka, Weirdos!
We've discovered a new obsession! A fascinating and sometimes SEXY spiritual science called ALCHEMY!!
This is part one of our alchemy series and like the thousands of female alchemists before us we are rushing for those test tubes.
Ashley starts us off with an introduction to alchemy. What is it? Where did it start? How did it go from an attempt to turn metals into better metals to a spiritual journey of trying to turn yourself into a better person? To live eternally?? What does sex have to do with any of it?
Lauren is teaching us all about the coveted Philosopher's Stone! Was it a stone? Why does everyone want it? Has anyone ever actually found it? What does Harry Potter have to do with any of this?
We explore the humble beginnings of The Great Work and marvel over the many, MANY amazing discoveries and inventions that we have today thanks to the pursuit of this wacky magical pasttime.
Next week in part two we are going to be discussing several KEY PLAYERS throughout the history of alchemy, their contributions and whether they achieved their Magnum Opus.
Consequences, ok? This episode is all about consequences.
Hi Weirdos! Welcome to another HELTER SKELTER- the episodes with no theme or topic in sight. This was SUPPOSED to be a paranormal investigation but SOMEBODY didn't show up. (The ghosts. The ghosts didn't show up)
In our Helter Skelter episodes we each bring a handful of strange things/happenings/and goings on in the world to scream, cry and laugh about.
This week Ashley is bringing a few short clips from the paranormal investigation episode that never was, a brand new conspiracy theory and a handful of TV, Movie and documentary recommendations for fellow weird lovers.
Lauren is bringing us a story about an animal attack that actually may shed some light on a very famous true crime case and a new PSA from our lovely friends at the National Park Services.
So sit back, relax and put your strange shoes on because we're heading out into the weird wide world!
Happy Halloween Boils & Ghouls!
As usual we are bringing you some SPOOKY SCARY STORIES to send chills down your spine and to raise your electricity bill for all the LIGHTS you'll have to keep on! It's time for LISTENER GHOST STORIES!!
This week we have ghosts, djinn, alien abductions, murders, and even a mysterious phone call... from beyond?? But most importantly... this week we have Handsome Joe. That's right for the FIRST TIME ever we are welcoming a guest into the SACRED SPACE that is Listener Ghost Stories and who better to invite in than the loud, angry, handsome personality we all know and love.
We thought it would be fun to try and creep Joey out this week and boy did we ever succeed. He gasps, he grunts, he screams and he even kicks a woman in the face... eh you'll just have to listen to find out.
As usual LGS are best when listening through a set of HEADPHONES and WARNING: there are sound effects that may be jarring so if you are listening and driving or slicing or operating heavy machinery-- be aware.
The music in the episode is provided by Vivek Abishek, White Bat Audio and Kevin Macleod.
It's time to get comfy, cozy AND cool with some seriously DARK cults!
This week Ashley is BUSY GETTING MARRIED so Lauren is joined by a very special surprise guest-- our resident CULT expert and fashionista- you remember him best from the Queen Mary investigation- TYLER SCHUELKE!
This week Lauren and Tyler have some VERY disturbing, creepy, crawly, sick and twisted CULTS. Lauren brings us a somewhat well known man, with a possibly less well known cult. Henry Lee Lucas, also known as The Confession Killer, who CLAIMED to have taken the lives of over 3,000 people was ALSO involved with a cult that... may have never existed? It's kind of like ANTIFA.. a lot of people have stories to tell.. but theres no... actual.. proof.
And Tyler bring us the story of the Cult of the Black Jesus out of Papua New Guinea! It never had an official name but the leader, Steven Tari, referred to himself as black Jesus.. so what else would we call it? This monster was a Lutheran bible student who not only said he was Christ, but murdered, raped many women he kept as sex slaves, and was even accused of cannibalism before his grisly end... but I'll let Tyler give you the creepy deets.
They wrap up the episode with a really compelling conversation about the value of a show like Netflix's DAHMER but also the cringeworthy-ness of people who treat serial killers like celebrities.
Double, Double TOIL and TROUBLE! Fire burn and cauldron bubble!
Here at Keep It Weird we are a BIG FAN of witches! And we know that witchcraft isn't EVIL and witches don't worship the DEVIL. But sometimes... witches can be scary. Witches CAN be wicked. And sometimes witches can even KILL.
This week we are joined by our resident green witch and curator of WITCHY WEDNESDAYS- our friend Laura Lareau! The three of us each bring an infamous witch from history who gave brooms and black cats a bad rap. Whether thats because the hexxed and cursed like THE BELL WITCH, held black masses like LA VOISIN or simply told a terrible tale and peed in a cake like TITUBA!
Dont forget to participate in our SOCIAL MEDIA HALLOWEEN GIVEAWAYS!! All you have to do is like and comment on our horror movie posts on Instagram and Facebook, tag us in your Spooky Season Festivities (whatever they may be!) or join our Patreon at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast!
You get points for every comment, like, tag and donation and at the end of the month we'll tally them up and you can win FREE MERCH, a SIGNED copy of The Feminine Macabre Volume 2 or even a ZOOM PARTY with Ashley and Lauren!
Happy Spooky Season Weirdos!
To kick off our favorite month we thought we'd break down all the things we LOVE about fall, the aspects of spooky season we think are OVERRATED, our favorite fall movies, some hidden gem horror you may not have seen, we answer listener questions AND we do a little Halloween Trivia!
This episode IS a video ON our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/keepitweirdpodcast. It was a blast to record, it's so nice to get some face-time with each other now that we live SO FAR away from each other! You can definitely expect more video episodes from us in the future so make sure you give this one some LOVE!
This is definitely an episode that is begging to be WATCHED so if you CAN- watch the full episode on YouTube - there are gags you can't see and clips from all the movies we discuss.
We hope your month is incredibly spoopy so far, we've got so many more tricks and treats to go! Follow us on social media @keepitweirdcast to participate in our HALLOWEEN GIVEAWAYS, tag us in your photos this month anytime you do something festive, and JOIN OUR PATREON for a HANDFUL of points!
Happy Haunting!
Hey Weirdos!
Wow, six years huh? That's a long time, a lot of episodes and a TON of topics. In those six years new information has come to light, DNA evidence has given us some answers, robots have evolved and in some cases-- scary situations got even scarier.
This week Ashley and Lauren are revisiting six stories that they shared on past episodes that have NEW information!
We get to find the identity of multiple Jane Does AND the famous Somerton Man (Taman Shud case) we check in on SOPHIA the robot to see what the heck her android ass has been up to, we hear from scientists who prove that a very famous theory in the Dytlov Pass Incident COULD be possible and we check in to see if the United States military has started taking sexual assault cases a little more seriously (Spoiler alert: they haven't.)
This episode was a lot of fun, it was really cool to revisit old stories we shared on the show and finally get some answers... and in some cases... even more questions
Join us next week as we FALL into OCTOBER