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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