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Keep It Weird: A Strange & Unusual Podcast

Release Date: 09/19/2025

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Keep It Weird: A Strange & Unusual Podcast

Please enjoy the first 20 or so minutes of this month's WEIRD REPORT!!  The Weird Report is where we break down the last 30 or so days worth of strange news headlines, true crime updates, horror entertainment announcements and more! Our beloved Amy Hanselmann had to sit this one out this month but as a special treat our good friend KIT RYAN stepped up to the plate! You've heard her name several times over the years and now you finally get to hear her voice! (OR if you're a true blue fan of mine you've already heard her voice when you hopped over to the EROTIC THRILLER CLUB podcast to...

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Hi Weirdos! Check out this preview for our April 2026 Gab Sesh Patreon episode.  We're going to be living on Patreon while we finish this life transition so if you want to hear the FULL episodes along with hundreds of hours of bonus content we've uploaded over the years head over to patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast and join us!! We'll be back on the main feed as SOON as we can but until then it's Patreon central babyyyy!! This week we just needed time for a catch up. We talk about life stuff - Joe and I's move, our new jobs and most importantly Wilder's new imaginary friend/demon! We chat...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Dust to Dust, Weirdos! Welcome back to KEEP IT WEIRD!! The podcast for all things strange, unusual, paranormal, supernatural, creepy, gross, scary, sticky and everything in between! Everytime we get together we chat about something WEIRD and this episode is no exception.  WE'RE BACK from a brief hiatus so dont mind us as we spend the first fifteen or so catching you up on life stuff but dont you worry we make our way to the strange quickly as Lauren brings us into a WHERE IN THE WORLD (is Keep It Weird Going?) and we travel (astrally) to NORWAY! Ålen, Norway to be exact in a 15 mile...

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Shout!  Shout!  Let it all out, weirdos!!  TW: sound effects and music that may be disturbing to some listeners ((You can always find a sound effect/music free version of the scary stories episodes on our Patreon for free! )   Welcome to KEEP IT WEIRD, the podcast for all things strange and unusual, spooky and scary, creepy and crawly and everything in between!  Everytime we get together we talk about something WEIRD and this episode IS a little something special-- because it's time for SCARY STORIES!!    Lauren has three LISTENER STORIES sent in...

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Dust to Dust, Weirdos!

Welcome back to KEEP IT WEIRD!! The podcast for all things strange, unusual, paranormal, supernatural, creepy, gross, scary, sticky and everything in between!

Everytime we get together we chat about something WEIRD and this episode is no exception.  WE'RE BACK from a brief hiatus so dont mind us as we spend the first fifteen or so catching you up on life stuff but dont you worry we make our way to the strange quickly as Lauren brings us into a WHERE IN THE WORLD (is Keep It Weird Going?) and we travel (astrally) to NORWAY!

Ålen, Norway to be exact in a 15 mile valley known as Hessdalen where for almost an entire century very strange lights have been appearing in the sky.  No matter the weather, regardless of day or night these lights show up in bright whites, yellows and reds - sometimes for over an hour!  Sometimes they streak through the sky, other times they sway slowly back and forth.  But what the h e double hockey sticks are they?!  UFOs?!  Plasma?  Ball lightning?  A natural phenomenon we literally don't know about yet?!  We break down the scientific discoveries that we DO know along with all the questions we still have about the HESSDALEN LIGHTS.

Then Ashley takes a different look at the sky in an ITS THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!   Something is headed our way and its massive.  3i/Atlas is the third interstellar object (that we have ever observed) to pass through our solar system and it's en route as we speak!  Most experts believe it's a comet, although some are more skeptical of it's behavior.  But that's not why we're here-- we're here to talk about what some OTHER folks believe this object to be.  Something called the BLUE STAR KACHINA aka SAQUASOHUH- an apocalyptic prophecy from North America's own Hopi Native Tribes.  This bright blue star is said to come from far away and crash into our skies in the "Day of Purification" and is described as a "world engulfing cataclysm" that will end life as we know it for everyone who isn't truly Hopi.

The only problem is that the legend didn't actually come from Hopi legends and it was written by a white man in the 60s.  OOPS!! Ah well, we'll get em' next time boys.

Lauren finishes off the show with a mini segment called TIK TOKS THAT BRING ME JOY where she introduces us to three different content creators that have helped her get through the last month or so we've been away.

As usual check out some links below if you want to do some more reading on today's topics! 

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Flashing (Hessdalen) Lights (lights lights lights)

https://naturphilosophie.co.uk/identifying-the-unidentified-the-hessdalen-light-phenomenon-norway/

https://www.michelegargiulo.com/blog/hessdalen-lights-mystery

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229680-600-norse-ufos-what-are-the-glowing-orbs-of-hessdalen/

Hessdalen.org

Goodbye Cruel World

https://www.ketchum.house/post/blue-star-on-the-horizon-a-cosmic-invitation-to-a-new-world#:~:text=The%20convergence%20of%20Hopi%20prophecy,end%E2%80%94but%20the%20greatest%20beginning%3F

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18ab5OC2YWTi_gLHGf9aGYP5zTOfuaCdRuAprQTKDEyc/edit?tab=t.0

https://www.bedlamfarm.com/2015/06/08/the-queen-of-the-blue-star-prophecy/

https://theskylive.com/articles/2025/07/3i-atlas-a-month-by-month-observing-guide