Keep It Weird: A Strange & Unusual Podcast

Hi Weirdos!

Welcome to a sneak peek into our fabulous PATREON!! This week Lauren and I are swamped with work, potty training, day care and prepping for our Near Death Experience series starting next week. So instead of leaving you BORED and LONELY we are releasing a previously released Patreon Bonus episode!

This episode is very special to me because it features not one, but TWO, of my best friends in the world. My patreon cohost Amy Hanselmann surprised me with a special guest appearance by my other best friend LEAH CAMPBELL.

Leah is a former MORTICIAN (Muahaha) and she let us pick her brain and ask her all of our burning questions about what it's like to embalm a body (Spoiler alert: Tales from the Crypt lied to me) her strangest funeral stories, the worst body mishap, and the politics and hopeful future of the death service industry.

And to round it all out I (Ashley) also get to talk about eels! We hope you enjoy this look into our private world and that maybe it encourages you to finally join our patreon if you were on the fence before!

Happy Halloween, Weirdos!!

As usual, our Halloween special is a fan favorite- LISTENER GHOST STORIES!! This year we packed in NINE terrifying tales to give you goosebumps and a few nightmares to kick off your special, spooky weekend!

This episode is full of shadowy beings and close encounters. And in the end we're left wondering who the hell they are. Are they paranormal? Supernatural? Inter-dimensional? Or, possibly even worse... are they completely human? And why the HELL are they in my house!?

Turn off the lights, get under the covers, throw in a set of headphones and turn up the volume and get ready to get scared.

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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

https://medium.com/@skylar.aries/true-crime-the-odd-disappearance-of-theresa-bier-was-bigfoot-to-blame-3ad7ede159f0

Discovery of King Richard III

https://theconversation.com/the-lost-king-why-are-we-still-obsessed-with-richard-iii-after-500-years-192887#:~:text=Richard%20III%20sat%20on%20the,his%20young%20nephew%20Edward%20V.

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

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/5/4/23708162/neurotechnology-mind-reading-brain-neuralink-brain-computer-interface

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/

TW: child abuse, murder, sexual assault, poisoning, execution Hi Weirdos! Welcome back to Keep It Weird, the podcast for all things strange & unusual! As with our last episode, there is no video for this episode WOMP WOMP our bad but have no fear!! Videos will be back in episode 3. THIS WEEK HOWEVER, Episode 2 of Season 8, we are getting pretty dark. Usually we like to balance out the darkness with the light (as above, so below - praise Baphomet) but hey sometimes it doesn't work out that way. Lauren is starting us out with a new segment called REALITY TV CORNER and is introducing us to some REALLY messed up reality tv shows that, not surprisingly, did not make it further than a season or two. THE SWAN on Fox wherein "ugly" women were given full plastic surgery makeovers to win a chance to compete in a beauty pageant and KID NATION on CBS which should have just been called "Child Endangerment: The Series." Then Ashley takes the lead to teach us about a man named Jolly who was not very Jolly at all. Louis Joyland West has some of the clearest and most nefarious connections of ANY scientist to the CIA's top secret (now declassified) program MK ULTRA (1953-1973) and one event he is connected to is so horrific... so monstrous... and so suspicious that you will struggle to believe it. Check out some links below if you want to do your OWN reading on the topics we discussed today. Follow us on instagram & twitter @keepitweirdcast. Subscribe to our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/keepitweirdpodcast. Join our PATREON to get two bonus episodes every month + discounts on merch at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast. Every penny goes toward producing this show. Reality TV Corner https://www.reddit.com/r/ask/comments/14y8qg7/what_is_the_most_unethical_reality_tv_show_ever/ https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/22/remembering-swan-noughties-controversial-offensive-reality-tv-series-10962780/ https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/05/04/that-time-reality-tv-made-a-real-life-lord-of-the-flies/ Jolly West/MK ULTRA https://theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon-west/ https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief https://hekint.org/2024/01/25/louis-jolyon-west-m-d-a-dangerous-doctor/ ReplyForward Add reaction

Hey Weirdos!

It's time for another check-in don't ya think? Last time we had one of our talks it was because I was feeling lost and hopeless after the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain.

This time I'm coming around because I've had friends from all walks of life coming to me in the last few weeks telling me that they are experiencing such debilitating anxiety (some for the first time in their lives) and they don't know how to deal with it and they need help.

I can only assume that if my inner circle is experiencing this... some of you have to be, too. So this is just a simple reminder that you aren't the only one feeling this way and that there IS a light at the end of the tunnel.

Just be kind and hang on. We love you.