RIP WEIRDOS!  Welcome to Keep It Weird, the podcast for all things strange and unusual, terrific yet terrible, bogus and beautiful and everything in between!

A couple times a month we get together to chat about something WEIRD and of course this week is no exception.  We are going to be taking a trip into the past with a crazy story of reincarnation, storming into a television network to yell at them for creating another horrific reality tv show and visiting a foreign country on the other side of the planet to join a protest!

Ashley starts us off with DONT FEAR THE REAPER and the story of Jenny Cockell, an English GENIUS (no joking around) who has had memories of her past life (excuse me, LIVES) since she was four years old.  In the 90's she was not only able to find the home she lived in in her life before, she was also able to find all of her surviving "children" and reunite them.  

Lauren takes us into REALITY TV CORNER as we explore TLC's 2013 reality tv hit "Best Funeral Ever."  Ok, maybe it wasn't so much of a hit, it only lasted a season and a half but boy was it packed with unique, special and sometimes downright STRANGE funerals.

Then, we hop into WHERE IN THE WORLD IS KEEP IT WEIRD GOING as Ashley takes us for a brief trip to South Korea as we explore the B4 movement.  Bihon, Bichulsan, Biyeonae, Bisekseu: No marriage, no childbirth, no romance, no sex.  It turns out that women DON'T need men to survive and in a lot of cases, it's actually detrimental to our health to be near them.  Sorry not sorry!

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Jenny Cockell & Her Past Lives

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/jenny-cockell-mary-sutton-reincarnation-case

https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/jenny-cockell-reincarnation-irish-children

https://www.hypnotherapysouthwest.co.uk/cockell.html

 

Best Funeral, Worst Reality TV Show

https://www.avclub.com/tlc-s-best-funeral-ever-showcases-unique-ceremonies-in-1798178859

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/04/golden-gate-funeral-home-lawsuits/

 

B4 You Leave

https://www.thecut.com/2023/03/4b-movement-feminism-south-korea.html

https://www.service95.com/4b-movement-explainer/

 

TW: foul language, religion, apocalyptic imagery

I'm a loner, Weirdo. A rebel. And you are entering KEEP IT WEIRD: the podcast for all things strange & unusual. We get together every other week and chat about SOMETHING WEIRD and of course this week is no exception.

We are SINGING OUR PRAISES, we are ALIGNING OUR CHAKRAS and we are SPEAKING IN TONGUES this episode is ALL about religion.

Ashley starts us off with one of our favorite segments WHAT IF GOD WAS ONE OF US as we learn all about the RAPTURE. What it is, when it was created and how it differs from what is *actually* in the bible. Ruh Roh.

Lauren takes us into a WHERE IN THE WORLD IS KEEP IT WEIRD GOING and the answer to that question.... is Utah. Utah in the 1930's to be exact, when Mary Ogden brought her spiritualist movement to a hollow rock in the middle of freaking no where and things got weird.

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Rapture Rapture Read All About It

https://www.neh.gov/article/rise-rapture-horror-culture#:~:text=Originating%20in%20the%20early%20nineteenth,Reference%20Bible%20(1909)%20and%20its

https://www.ucg.org/world-news-and-prophecy/the-rapture-a-popular-but-false-doctrine

https://www.bible.ca/rapture-origin-john-nelson-darby-1830ad.htm

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nelson_Darby

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism

 https://www.wrmea.org/2015-october/the-scofield-bible-the-book-that-made-zionists-of-americas-evangelical-christians.html

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._I._Scofield

 Marie's Place aka HOME OF TRUTH

https://moabgeartrader.com/2020/01/13/home-of-truth-marie-ogdens-attempt-to-raise-the-dead/

https://www.businessinsider.com/home-of-truth-ghost-town-religious-colony-photos-2022-6#while-there-were-reported-to-be-about-100-residents-at-the-communes-peak-the-town-was-largely-deserted-in-1937-following-the-aftermath-of-an-attempt-to-resurrect-a-dead-member-of-the-commune-according-to-atlas-obscura-a-woman-died-of-cancer-and-ogden-refused-to-bury-her-insisting-she-could-bring-her-back-to-life-the-same-source-reported-14

 

Trigger Warnings: mental health disorders, death, incest

  Hi Weirdos! Welcome back to KEEP IT WEIRD - the podcast for all things strange and unusual, creepy yet casual, funky n' fresh and always a little silly.  Every month we get together to talk about something WEIRD and this week is no exception.   Ashley & Lauren have a lot of STUFF to talk about this week.  Ancient stuff, creepy stuff,  'TOO MUCH' stuff.   Lauren starts us off with one of our sponsored segments ANCIENT ARTIFACTS (with Addie Rife!)  In it she teaches us about some 100 year old mermaid mummies out of Japan that researchers were able to X Ray to see what the heck was actually going on.  It turns out PT Barnum's Fiji mermaid was much older than we initially thought it was.  But why the heck were they frankenstein-ing these fish monkeys to begin with?? (To learn about how YOU can sponsor a segment of our show head to www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast & check out our donation tiers)   Then Ashley brings us into a brand new segment AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL where we discuss stories out of American History that make you scream WHAT?!  Today we're learning about the lives of the Collyer Brothers, their infamous mansion in Manhattan, & their incredibly tragic deaths.  Known as America's First Hoarders, their home was in such horrific conditions that still to this day NYC police officers refer to dangerous hoarder homes & buildings to "Collyer's Mansions."  Check out some links below for more information on today's topics. Follow us on social media @keepitweirdcast.  Leave us a review on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio or wherever you happen to be listening/watching from.  SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/keepitweirdpodcast.   DONATE to our show at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast   Fish Monkey, That Funky Monkey https://www.livescience.com/human-behavior/conspiracies-paranormal/haunting-mermaid-mummy-from-japan-is-a-gruesome-monkey-fish-hybrid-with-dragon-claws-new-scans-reveal   ManHoarding in ManHattan https://creativehistorystories.blogspot.com/2020/08/manhattans-first-hoarders-tragic-story.html https://www.firehouse.com/home/news/10529720/collyers-mansion-conditions https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2020/10/17/the-sad-story-of-the-collyer-brothers-and-the-question-of-do-we-own-our-stuff-or-does-our-stuff-own-us      

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

TW: death, overdose, missing persons, mental health, poisoning  

Hi Weirdos!  Welcome to season 8 of Keep It Weird!! 

  First off, lets just get the business end out of the way.  There is NO video for this episode.  We're taking it back to the old school.  NOT by choice, we recorded episode 1 and 2 last weekend and our video files did NOT make it out alive.  What, did you think this would go smoothly?  Did you think we could just JUMP BACK IN to the show we've been doing for over 7 years and things would just WORK OUT?  That's not the world we're living in, baby.  lol   That being said SEASON 8 is going to be full of strange and horrifying stories, hilarious and interesting guests and far more of ASHLEY & LAUREN than we ever imagined you guys would be into.   In this first episode, we're just dipping our toe & testing the waters.  We're updating you on what's been going on in our world, what we've done over hiatus, and our absolute favorite things that have happened in the last three months.   We discuss the missing Kate Middleton, the Miami Mall aliens in Florida, how sad we are to have missed Willy's Chocolate Experience in Glasgow and we even give a quick update on those men found dead in their friends backyard in Missouri.   We also wouldn't leave you hanging on the creep factor-- we close out the show with some creepy real life ghost stories sure to send a chill up your spine.  

Keep It Weird brings you the strange and unusual every Friday!

We love the paranormal, supernatural and true crime, and you better believe we chat about it- but we also realized that every aspect of our lives here on Earth can get WEIRD!! We discuss sports, fashion, strange cities, our weird bodies, science, space, the ocean, and yes... even sex.

Let your freak flag fly.

Hi Weirdos!! 

Did ya miss us?!  We have officially been on hiatus since December of 2023 and it's time to dust off our denim and ge back in the saddle!

This is just a little treat for you as we prep for SEASON 8 of our show which will be starting VERY soon (like next week soon) 

A couple hundred of you have already heard these clips because you are OFFICIAL WEIRDOS FOR LIFE and are members of our patreon.  But for those of you who are NOT members of our patreon-- here is a sneak peek of what you've been missing this year!

We've had THREE RETURNING GUESTS: Tyler, Mike & Madi back on the show to tell us some of their personal spooky stories.  Lauren's parents came on the show!! What!! We talked about death and dying, crazy news stories, true crime, conspiracies, bad valentines, maggots on airplanes and so much more.

Hope you enjoy this little clip-isode and we hope it gets you pumped up for another season of strangeness :)

 

Please consider joining our patreon at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast to help us produce this show.  In return you'll get discounts on merch, opportunities to participate in the show & 2-3 bonus episodes every month.

I don't want a lot for Christmas, there is just ONE thing I need and it's YULE!! 

  HO HO HO Merry Christmas and Blessed Yule to ALL the wonderful weirdos of the world.  Here is your gift, it's our SEASON SEVEN FINALE!    This episode is ALL about the reason for the season... which is apparently witchcraft.  Joining us for this end of the year party is our resident green witch LAURA LAREAU!! (@leaves_and_lore)  We're going to be discussing the story of the three wisemen (did you know they were PAGAN PRIESTS?!) modern Christmas traditions that had pagan origins and ways to make your holiday season a little more witchy.   We're also going to tell some Yuletide Ghost Stories, play FMK (F*ck, MERRY, Kill) with some of our favorite holiday movies & characters and we play a little bit of Christmas trivia to see who is the holly-jolliest of all.   We want to thank you guys from the bottom of our hearts for still hanging with us after all these years.  We hope that we taught you a lot this year, made you laugh, creeped you out, gave you chills and brought you peace & joy.   Please consider donating to our show at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast to help us produce season EIGHT next year!   You can donate as little as $1 and as much as $50 ONCE or monthly and in return you'll get discounts on merch AND 2 bonus episodes every month (Including the months we are on hiatus)   Follow us on social media @keepitweirdcast to stay up to date with what we're up to over our break   LIKE this video and SUBSCRIBE to our channel if you're feeling naughty.   Take good care of yourselves, treat everyone you meet with kindness and always KEEP IT WEIRD.   Creepy Christmas Music by MYUU   Special thank you to all of our cohosts: Amy Hanselmann, Julia Firmand, Laura Lareau & Nyk Sutter-Downs.  And to our special guests this year Greg & Dana Newkirk, Joe Ochs, Billy Roach & Lindsey Brisbane

It’s a bright Hawaiian Christmas Day and we’re here to F*CK SH*T UP.

Welcome Weirdos to our last REGULAR episode of the season!  It’s time to get a little festive!

This week we have FOUR gruesome, creepy, mind-bending, strange stories for you to feast your ears (and eyes!) on.

Lauren starts us off with a beautiful vacation into a PARANORMAL PARADISE!  She teaches us about the legend of Hawaii’s MOST HAUNTED HOUSE- The Kaimuki House- and the (Japanese??) ghost (cat??) that lives inside it

Ashley swings us around to a CONSPIRACY THEORY that Human Beings could not have been originally FROM planet Earth and the proof of that lies in our wittle babies.  Humans are the only mammals on the planet that need YEARS to be able to care/fend for themselves… but why is that? Is it because this isn’t our planet?

Lauren comes back at us with a TRUE CRIME TIME that has a Christmas twist!  On December 25 1929 in Germantown, North Carolina Charles Davis “Charlie” Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children.  What on Earth could have driven him to do such a horrific act?

And finally, to lighten things up a bit, Ashley finishes off the episode with a new segment all about URBAN LEGENDS!  But not the ones we are familiar with here in the US— we’re traveling to Ukraine to investigate the mystery of the BLACK VOLGA and then hitting up South Korea to see if there’s anything behind their fear of electric fans.

Check out some links below if you want to learn more about today’s topics.

 

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Haunted Hawaiian House

https://the-line-up.com/hawaiis-most-haunted-house

https://theoverlyopinionated.com/2018/08/02/the-most-terrifying-haunted-house-in-hawaii/

Human Earth Baby

https://www.livescience.com/54605-why-are-babies-helpless.html

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-humans-give-birth-to-helpless-babies/

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49733888

Christmas Horror Story

https://horrorobsessive.com/2020/12/21/christmas-mass-murder-the-lawson-family/

 

Sub-urban Legend

https://vocal.media/horror/the-black-volga

https://www.bionity.com/en/encyclopedia/Fan_death.html

https://www.tbsnews.net/feature/wheels/black-volga-76333

 

Hi Weirdos!  Welcome to another episode of KEEP IT WEIRD— the podcast for all things strange & unusual!

Every week we get together to chat about all things WEIRD and this one is a bit of a doozy.

We only have TWO segments for you today as they are a little bit more hefty than our usuals but don’t worry, we’re packing the same punch.

Lauren goes first as she teaches us all about a 66 year old UNSOLVED MYSTERY known as THE BOY IN THE BOX! We learn about the discovery of the body, the autopsy reports, the investigation, the theories and where we are with the case today.

Ashley then heads into TERRIFYING TECHNOLOGY where we attempt to rank and review the technology present in episodes of Black Mirror.  From uploading your consciousness to bringing back the dead with AI to human yelp reviews to killer robo dogs.  We attempt to decide WHICH future tech is the worst case scenario and we look at a few technologies that actually exist or are being created today that seem to have been inspired by this horror sci fi show!

If you want to read more about the subjects discussed in today’s episode check out the links below!

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Boy in the Box

https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/the-boy-in-the-box

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11696709/Inside-65-year-hunt-identify-Philadelphias-Boy-Box-cold-case-murder-victim.html

 

Terrifying Tech/Black Mirror

https://www.ranker.com/list/black-mirror-technology/mariel-loveland?ref=browse_list

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11814423/Five-times-Netflixs-Black-Mirror-predicted-future-tech.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/creepiest-technologies-tech-examples-ai-2019-8

https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/sc-punishment-list/

https://medium.com/i-human/9-terrifying-technologies-that-will-shape-your-future-befa688d247

 

 

WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST, Weirdos!! 

  A new Titanic Conspiracy Theory is here, hot off the presses! Welcome to KEEP IT WEIRD, the podcast for all things strange & unusual and the BEST place to find fear and fun.   This week we've got FOUR strange segments for you starting off strong with a WHERE IN THE WORLD (Is Keep It Weird Going?!) Lauren is taking us to bright and sunny.... Connecticut?  Yep, that's what my notes say.  We're going to Connecticut to check out the world's only (??) CHRISTIAN theme park!  Theme park is... a bit of a stretch, admittedly, but HOLY LAND USA is an American landmark that should probably be torn down for safety reasons.  Built in the 50s and officially shut down in 1984 this abandoned death trap has been sitting on a hill in Waterbury for almost FOUR decades and you can learn all about it here.   Next up is ANCIENT ARTIFACTS with ADDIE RIFE!  Ashley is going to be teaching us all about an artifact from the 1800s that has seen more of the world than either of our two hosts.  If you guessed that the artifact was Napoleon Bonaparte's penis then you should play the lottery.  Find out where Napoleon's penis is and where it's been and what it looks like today!    Lauren sings My Heart Will Go On with a CONSPIRACY THEORY all about our favorite boat.  And our favorite banker?  He's basically the only banker we know.  JP Morgan (of Real Housewives fame) MAY have been behind the sinking of this famous ship all in the name of greed.  Find out why "Titanic Truthers" believe this wild conspiracy.   And finally, Ashley sends us packing with a brand new segment CREEPY CLOWN WATCH!! Pretty self explanatory, we'll be learning all about a creepy killer clown from Chicago IL!  No not THAT creepy killer clown, a different one!   Charles "Conway the Clown" Cramer (and his wife Mary) for sure killed one woman, but may have killed more, in Chicago in the early 20th Century.  What came of the traveling circus couple after the murder(s)?  Listen to find out....   Check out some links below if you want to do more research on today's FASCINATING topics!    Follow us on social media @keepitweirdcast to stay up to date on episode releases, peep some of our funniest clips, contribute to future segments & participate in giveaways!    Please consider donating to our PATREON at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast.  You can donate as little as $1 and as much as $50 to our show and get bonus episodes, discounts on merchandise & sponsored segment opportunities in return!  AND you help us produce our show and ensure many new episodes to come.       Your Move Holy Land (USA) https://www.ranker.com/list/rise-and-fall-of-holy-land-usa/erin-mccann https://www.adamquirk.me/blog/2017/9/5/murder-at-holy-land-usa https://www.flickr.com/photos/roadtripmemories/albums/72157603616821181/   Napoleon's Member https://allthatsinteresting.com/napoleon-penis https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92126411   Banker Busts Boat for Banknotes https://www.businessinsider.com/titanic-sinking-conspiracy-theories-2018-4#jp-morgan-was-behind-the-whole-thing-5 https:/www.washingtonpost.com/news/jpmorgan-titanic   Killer Clowns from Chicagoland https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67075/1912-chicago-had-one-legged-murderous-clown https://husheduphistory.com/post/155996532703/sentence-the-clowns-chicagos-forgotten-murder