Ho ho ho and a ha ha ha, Weirdos! We hope you had a VERY Merry Christmas yesterday- but fear not! The Yuletide season isn't over until you are visited by three ghosts!

TW: foul language, death, aliens, wet bones etc

Welcome to KEEP IT WEIRD, the podcast for all things strange and unusual, merry and bright, tender and mild and everything in between. Everytime we get together we chat about something WEIRD and CHRISTMAS is no exception!

This week the ghosts of Christmast past (Lauren Ogle) present (Laura Lareau) and future (Ashley Casseday) gather to tell each other spooky Christmas tales, try to solve some Christmas mysteries (aka Christ-eries) teach each other some crazy Christmas facts, prepare for the upcoming New Year, play yuletide games & teach billionaires some serious life lessons.

Join us for our annual office Christmas party and bring that holly jolly with ya! We're going to learn about Lady Krampus, some YULE-F-Os, Santa's OG costume, the inspiration for his deer AND his wet, squishy bones and so much more.

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The Future is Female, Weirdos!

And here we are, bringing you THE FUTURE!! Well, stories from the past to hopefully inspire your future.

TW: foul language, hoarding, kidnapping, violence

Welcome to another episode of KEEP IT WEIRD! The podcast for all things strange and unusual, girly & ghoulish, frightningly feminist, Double X Chromosomed & everything in between!

Everytime we get together we chat about something WEIRD and this week we get to do that with one of our all time favorite recurring guests. Your Weird Report cohost AMY HANSELMANN is here to rage against the man-chine with us!

Oh yes it's LADIES NIGHT here on the weird cast and we're looking at some historical women who SHOULD be mega famous but instead are lucky to even be footnotes in our history books. Why? BECAUSE THE PATRIARCHY.

Lauren starts us off with ANNIE JUMP CANNON - an American astronomer who catalogued over 350,000 stars and whose work was instrumental in the development of the stellar classification system that we still use today! A member of the Harvard Computers, a suffragette and a member of the National Women's Party-- Annie was a CHAMP

Next up Amy guides us through the many lives of MARION STOKES- a television producer, businesswoman, MACINTOSH investor, civil rights activist, librarian and archivist who yeah, sure, may have had an obsession that got out of control when she started recording and archiving hundreds of THOUSANDS of hours of television news footage spanning over 35 years and taking up several apartments worth of space...... but we love her for it.

And Ashley brings us home with the story of the FORTY ELEPHANTS - an all-female London crime syndicate who terrorized the UK for multiple centuries specializing in SHOPLIFTING. They used the class and sex stereotypes of their day to their advantage, sewing secret compartments into their layers and layers of clothing, crossdressing, manipulating, blackmailing and even full on mugging to steal millions of dollars worth of goods from THE MAN.

Join us in celebrating these incredible women from history's pass who all left their mark on our world, as faded as it may be. We salute you, ladies!

Check out some links below if you want to read more about today's topics!

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CANNON

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/annie-jump-cannon

https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/annie-jump-cannon

STOKES

https://recorderfilm.com/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/marion-stokes-television-news-archive

ELEPHANTS

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/forty-elephants-south-londons-supreme-shoplifters/

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250219-a-thousand-blows-how-a-women-only-gang-menaced-victorian-london

https://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-forty-elephants/

BOO, Weirdos!!

Did we scare you? Not yet? Well buckle up because this week we have another episode of REAL SCARY STORIES!!

We're talking ghosts, we're talking aliens, we're talking INTERDIMENSIONAL BEINGS, imaginary friends, ghost animals, premonitions, alien abductions and even a little bit of the SHINE and all of these stories happened to REAL PEOPLE!! Some were sent in by you, our faithful, loyal, funny, beautiful, interesting, intelligent weirdos. And others were found online (reddit) where we have the privelage of constantly making new friends.

This episode has MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS and is best enjoyed through a set of headphones but don't worry! If that's not your bag we have a Music & Sound FX FREE episode on our Patreon at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast-- it's public, you don't have to donate to our show to listen!

TW: foul language, death, public shootings, sleep paralysis, death by hanging

No links this week but a HUGE shoutout to Brewability in Engelwood Colorado (brew-ability.com) VIVEK ABISHEK who composes all the spooky music you hear in our ghost stories episodes, reddit users LeakyAssFire, just-another-gringo & r33dstellar as well as listeners Kelsie, "D" and our anonymous weirdos for letting us tell your scary stories.

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Well Hello, Weirdos! Long time, no SEE!!

Welcome to Keep It Weird, the podcast for all thing strange and unusual, stalker-ish and sleepy, spooky, scary and everything in between.

We wanted to keep things EXTRA SCARY for another month because October was so crazy busy so welcome to SECOND OCTOBER!! October Part Two!

This week Lauren starts us off with a rare TRUE CRIME TIME and the story of the Kuykendall Family Phone Stalker! In 2007 someone was able to not only clone the phones of the Kuykendall family but also somehow WATCH THEM INSIDE THEIR HOUSE. It's a case that remains unsolved to this day and boy oh boy do we hate that.

Then Ashley takes us to a PARANORMAL PARADISE as we explore some real life haunts out of the legendary village of SLEEPY HOLLOW!! It may not be haunted by a headless hessian soldier, but that doesn't mean the place isn't crawling with old 16th century ghouls! Classic wailing women, the ghost of an American traitor, a witch of the wood and possibly even some new world FAE!

Check out the links below if you want to do some more reading on this week's episode.

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KUYKENDALL STALKER

https://medium.com/tftunderworld/restricted-caller-from-death-threats-to-constant-spying-the-chilling-case-of-the-washington-state-8f2c7bc03297

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/TheLaw/story?id=3312813&page=1

SLEEPY HOLLOW

https://sleepyhollowcountry.com/category/ghosts-spooks/

https://visitsleepyhollow.com/the-other-ghosts-of-sleepy-hollow/

Hail to the Cardinal, Hail to the White, Weirdos!!

Welcome to a very special Halloween episode-- It's our WEIRD CENTRALIA LIVE SHOW!!

This month Lauren and Ashley had the pleasure of traveling to Centralia, IL to perform to a sold out audience at the Centralia Area Historical Society Museum!

We got to chat about ALL THINGS C-TOWN including, but not limited to: The Orphans, May Fete, the Thunderbird, Violin Anne, the 1947 Mine Disaster, Copple's Mansion, the Perrine House & Perrine's Orchard!

We laugh, we cry, we SCREAM - this episode is a lot of things. I HIGHLY recommend watching this ep on YOUTUBE (www.youtube.com/keepitweirdpodcast) as we also did have a slideshow presentation and you'll be able to see all the things the audience is reacting to: Old photos, newspaper clippings, even a couple videos!

This was one of the most special weekends of our lives and that's all because of the people of Centralia. Everyone who shared their stories with us, taught us about the town's history, invited us to the town museum (Thank you Rick Dodson, Mike Middleton and Jessycka Nix Coleman!) FED us (thank you Simply Soul LLC!) rented us a place to stay (thank you Mallory Fisk!) lent us some audio visual equipment and bought tickets and came out to see our show. We were floored!

This show was meant to be a CELEBRATION of Centralia and I do believe we accomplished our goal. I feel closer to my hometown than ever before... and maybe a little more creeped out by it.

GO ORPHANS!!!!

TRIGGER WARNING: Actually NO cursing-- unless you count "heck" so good for us! But we do talk about death, murder, suicide, slavery AND man-eating birds; so be aware.

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Yaaaassss, Weirdos!

Welcome to SPOOKY SEASON!!! You know what that means. Pumpkins. Horror movies. Ghouls. Girls, gays & theys!

This week is a very special episode where we are celebrating QUEER HORROR!!

Our special guest this week is an American author, playwright and theater director of (get this) HELLGATE HIGH Mr. Laramie Dean!!

We are exploring the horror genre all the way back to the gothic novels of the 1800's to the campy gore of the 80s and to our explicitly queer films today. The LGBTQA+ community has always found representation in the horror genre - sometimes they had to hide their queerness, sometimes they got it WAY wrong but nevertheless their stories and films have inspired generations of us throughout the last century and a half and for that we are eternally grateful!

So join us as we chat Mary Shelley, James Whale, John Waters, Interview with the Vampire, Chucky, and so much more.

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