Keep It Weird: A Strange & Unusual Podcast

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Age of Dissidents Jul 31, 2020

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Surprise Weirdos!

It's been 1 year and 9 months since we last dove into one of your FAVORITE topics and we figured... it was time.

This week we are discussing CONSPIRACY THEORIES!! Ashley is joined by Handsome Joe as they discuss multiple facets of modern conspiracies and showing you that, in fact, they've been around longer than you think.

Ashley is going to be focusing on the Anti-Vaccine movement and the history of Vaccine Hesitancy while sharing facts and debunking the most famous myths.

Joe is not only bringing a psychological profile of the type of person who gets sucked into conspiracy theories but he's also going to be teaching us WHY conspiracies seem to be running rampant in the world today.

As usual with these bad boys: WARNING: This episode contains discussions involving politics and can be stress inducing.

Year of the Witch Bottle Jul 24, 2020

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Good Morning Weirdos. I'm Ashley Strange and this is my cohost Lauren Derp and we're here to bring you the news!

This week we are bringing our YouTube segment THIS WEEK IN WEIRD to the big stage! This Week in Weird is where we share with you all the weirdest news stories from around the world that are happening RIGHT NOW!

This week we've got missing persons (with a twist) voodoo, true crime stories, scientific discoveries, kooky towns, sea monsters, the GROSSEST STORY EVER TOLD, screaming skies and one wacky case of old DNA!

Join our Facebook Group to access links to all the stories we shared on today's episode!

Make Some Illinoize Jul 17, 2020

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Hey y'all!

Welcome to PART TWO of our Hometown Haunts ILLINOIS episode!! Couldn't you just?

Last week we shared stories about aliens and ghosts and it was REAL SPOOKY. This week gets a TAD darker with Lauren covering some very disturbing and some very confusing true crime stories. But don't worry! All that terror will be broken up by Ashley's kooky tales of crazy characters, the impressiveness of Native American civilizations, and a very strange story about a young girl who's body was taken over by a stranger.

For cryin' out loud, lets get to the show!

This week's topics:

Robert Pershing Wadlow (The tallest man in recorded history)

Deaf Bill Lee (An Alton IL legend)

The 1987 murder of the Dardeen Family of Ina Illinois

Cahokia Mounds

The Mad Gasser of Mattoon

The Watseka Wonder (A possession story)

The 1984 murder of the Hendricks Family in Bloomington Illinois

Terror in the Land of Lincoln Jul 10, 2020

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Ope! You betcha, weirdos it's time to drink some pop and eat some puppy chow because we're headed to the midwest, y'all!

This week Ashley and Lauren are going to their home state of ILLINOIS for a very special two part HOMETOWN HAUNTS episode!

The close encounters, murders, spooky old buildings, possessions, Native American landmarks, poltergeists, the most haunted small town in America, the tallest man in recorded history, and so much more!!

This Week's topics include:

The Bartonville State Hospital aka the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane

UFO encounters - Centralia/Mt Vernon/Fairfield & The St Clair Triangle/Southern Illinois Incident

The Macomb Firestarter

John Otto & his transmission from space

The many hauntings of Rockford University

Jane Addams, Hull House, and the Devil Baby

& The Enfield Horror

Paints, Thangs & Automobiles Jul 03, 2020

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Hi Weirdos!

In the last 3-1/2 years of our show Ashley & Lauren have covered a TON of weird objects. Robert the doll, Annabelle from The Conjuring fame, the antikythera mechanism, even the Betz Sphere when we teamed up with Florida Men on Florida Man.

This week we decided to throw together some of the CRAZIEST objects in the world. We've got haunted paintings, cursed cars, possessed clothing, ancient mysteries, and even a murderous toy.

Tune in to learn about

The Crying Boy: A painting by Giovanni Bragolin

James Dean's car "Little Bastard"

Anne Baker's Wedding dress

The Ubaid Statues of Iraq

& an Elmo plushie that's out for revenge.

Vaticinium ex Eventu Jun 26, 2020

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Hallelujah, Weirdos!

It's part two of our discussion on PROPHECIES!! Last week Lauren taught us all about Nostradamus his many predictions. This week Ashley is tackling BIBLICAL prophecies!

But before we even get into those-- we have to take a look at the good book. When was the bible written? Who wrote it? How many translations are there? Where did those new verses come from? Who the heck put that parable in there? So that we can answer questions like "are the prophecies legit or did they cheat?", "Why do Conservatives hate gay people", "Are we experiencing the end-times?", and so much more!

WARNING: This episode contains discussions about religion. All information within was provided by theological historians and language experts. If you want more information, please visit our Facebook Group to find provided links!

Nostradam-yaass Jun 19, 2020

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Yaass, predict that future boiiii.

This week is all about prophecies, baby! Some people are downright FAMOUS just for knowing the future and some prophecies just don't hold up to scrutiny.

This week is part one of our prophecies discussion and Lauren is teaching us all about a totally normal dude named Nostradamus. JUST KIDDING he's mega famous and he sold drug lozenges and he saw the future.

We'll learn about his life, his career, his struggles, and obviously his predictions and which ones seem to have come true!

Ghost Haircuts & New Friends Jun 13, 2020

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Hi Weirdos! Are you ready to get scared? Are you ready to CRY?!

Welcome to another week of Listener Ghost Stories where Ashley and Lauren sit down and tell each other the creepiest, scariest, weirdest, most touching real life scary stories that we can find! Whether you're sending them in or we're making new friends on the internet-- the world is FULL of the strange and unusual.

This weeks stories feature ghosts who can drive, ghosts who can text, ghosts who need haircuts, creatures in rivers, glitches in the matrix, and more!

Please donate to the Black Lives Matter Movement- there is a link in our Instagram and Twitter bios! The world deserves justice for the men and women who are effected by police brutality. The men and women who are disproportionally Black or BIPOC. This country needs a change- a change that will be good for all of us! We are not safe until everyone is safe.

Music: Several pieces by composer Ross Budgen (@rossbugden)

Turn Around, Bright Eyes May 29, 2020

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Paranormal Investigation

Suit up, Weirdos! This week we've got a little treat for you! Ashley took Joe on his very first paranormal investigation! And she didn't even have to bribe him!

Ashley and Joe have lived in the same apartment for over four years and have separately as well as simultaneously witnessed strange activity. Electrical anomalies, shadows creeping on the walls, closet creatures, couch ladies, sickening smells, and yes- even physical touch!

So since we're stuck at home anyway we figure this is the PERFECT time to investigate our very own haunted apartment!

As usual, we play several clips from the investigation that are best heard through headphones so snag a pair of those if you want to get a real close listen.

The Black Knight Lives May 22, 2020

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Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na BLACK KNIGHT!

Welcome to another week of ALIEN ABDUCTIONS!

This week the girls are bringing you two absolutely crazy alien abduction stories: Lauren's takes place in Pascagoula Mississippi and involves two coworkers, Charles Hickson & Calvin Parker, and a fishing trip gone wrong. Ashley's takes place in the UK and involves the disappearance of a man named Zigmund Adamski.

We discuss the problems (or lack thereof) of people with paranormal and supernatural stories booking interviews and writing books and we fight back by putting a REVERSE CURSE on Philip J Klass.

And sweet Lauren throws in a little extraterrestrial reconnaissance conspiracy theory as a treat...