Fortean History and Much More with EsoterX – The Weird Part

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Episode 30: James J. Strang: The Other Mormon Prophet and the Unknown History of Mormons in Wisconsin

Tonight, I talk with Elder David August of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints-Strangite about James J. Strang, his claims as a prophet, his unique teachings, and his assassination at the hands of a government conspiracy. Elder August and I also discuss the very little known history of Strangite Mormons in and near Wisconsin, including buried plates, Beaver Island, the surviving church in Burlington, and much more!

https://www.ldsstrangite.com/: The Weird Part

Episode 29: Fortean History and Much More with EsoterX

I am pleased to welcome Fortean and paranormal researcher and fantastic blogger Aaron AKA Esoterx. We talk historical (and extremely well-documented) weird incidents, paranormal court cases, the nature of unexplained phenomena, and so much more!

https://esoterx.com/: The Weird Part

Episode 28: Going Deep with Jason Andrews

This collaboration with Jason Andrews, host of the Paranormal Patio podcast, starts off as a discussion of deep caves, strange artifacts, and Hollow Earth Theory. It proceeds to become a wildly eclectic conversation about all sorts of things! 

Episode 27: Facts, Perceptions, and Narratives: 26 Years of the Jonbenet Ramsey Case

As the 26th anniversary of one of America’s most infamous and tragic unsolved murders approaches, I’ll be discussing how perceptions and narratives overpowered the facts in the minds of the public, the press, and even the police. I’ll share my changing views of the case, point out flaws in popular commentary, and propose a theory of my own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey: The Weird Part

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/18/bp.00.html: The Weird Part

https://c1n.tv/jannscottlive/peter-hofstrom-rip-convinced-intruder-killed-jonbenet/: The Weird Part

http://web.dailycamera.com/extra/ramsey/2001/john_dep.html: The Weird Part

https://www.the-sun.com/news/6079622/jonbenet-ramsey-evidence-cold-case-murder-killer-pageant/: The Weird Part

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cases_That_Haunt_Us: The Weird Part

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/581/transcript: The Weird Part

https://money.cnn.com/2016/12/28/media/burke-ramsey-defamation-lawsuit-cbs/index.html: The Weird Part

https://www.salon.com/2022/11/10/jonbenet-ramsey-case-to-be-re-investigated-by-cold-case-review-team-in-2023/: The Weird Part

Episode 26: The Painter of Light and the Biker in Black

In an absolutely fascinating turn of events, a close friend of famous wholesome “Painter of Light” Thomas Kinkade is led (by paranormal experiences) to discover the squeaky-clean Christian artist’s dark side and alter-ego Ed Akink- and the noir art he created! 

Special thanks to Ancient Spirit for the intro music “Ladder of Madness”

Episode 25: Black Friday- The Resurrection Of The Weird Part

It’s great to be back! I’ll be discussing some updates, future episodes, the Driftless region, weird news, bizarre crimes, caves, the space program, and much more!

Episode 24: Strange Objects Found In Human Bodies

Episode 24: Strange Objects Found In Human Bodies

Episode24-Implants.mp3

Morgellons disease, alien implants, government implants, Whitley Strieber, a personal experience, and more!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5811176/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/morgellons-disease/art-20044996
https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/morgellons-disease-what-is-it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_implants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley_Strieber

Episode 23: Dogman, Nephilim, and Much More with Special Guest Bettina Moss

This episode special guest Bettina Moss, an experiencer, investigator, researcher, and broadcaster, joins me to discuss the Dogman phenomenon and the conversation goes in some fascinating directions!  For technical reasons, this interview had to be done in two sections.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/bmoss.cryptonormalencounters/permalink/1424798571296335

Bonus Content: Wormwood on Netflix

This a brief review of the documentary series Wormwood available on Netflix.   Many have heard the story of government scientist Frank Olson getting dosed with LSD, without his knowledge or consent, by the CIA, leading to his jumping or falling from a 13th-story window in New York City and dying in 1953.  But what if that is only a cover story and the truth is much worse?  

https://www.netflix.com/title/80059446

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

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/06/from-mind-control-to-murder-how-a-deadly-fall-revealed-the-cias-darkest-secrets

Episode 22: The Men In Black With Ashley Hilt

This episode, special guest Ashley Hilt, a paranormal investigator, researcher, film-maker, and podcaster, joins me to discuss the Men In Black phenomenon.

https://anchor.fm/onwednesdayswetalkweird

Episode 21: The Mandela Effect

What is it?  What isn’t it?  What the hell?

How do so many of us remember things that apparently never happened?

https://fionabroome.com/

https://www.readersdigest.com.au/true-stories-lifestyle/thought-provoking/44-mandela-effect-examples-that-are-seriously-mind-bending

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092804/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/dilemma-or-dilemna

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/moreso_dilemna.php

https://graspingforobjectivity.com/2014/09/the-dilemna-dilemma.html/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119008/

https://ourcommunitynow.com/film/sinbads-shazaam-the-strange-case-of-a-movie-that-doesnt-exist

Episode 20: One Mystery Solved, One Continues

In an update to the last episode, an unknown figure reappears- and his nature is revealed. Meanwhile, more information is available on a UFO event from the 1980’s that has been a mild but decades-long obsession.

Associated Press article, Fond Du Lac Commonwealth Reporter March 28, 1988

Laura J. Merisalo, The Journal Times (Racine, Wisconsin) March 28, 1988

Laura Kuehn, The Oshkosh Northwestern March 28, 1988

Episode 19: Maybe the Fae and Other Strange People

Here I describe some experiences I and others have had with some very weird individuals.  Who were they?  What were they?

Episode 18: Dr. Stephen Kaplan and the Vampire Research Center

A Ph.D-level researcher, Dr. Stephen Kaplan and his wife Roxanne pursued the scientific study of actual vampires- and claimed to have found some!  I hope you enjoy this look back into a lost chapter of paranormal investigation, and some weird facts I found along the way.

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wisconsin) October 5, 1980

The Capital Times (Madison Wisconsin) October 15, 1980 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1986/10/31/fangs-for-the-memories/83d07e38-000c-467e-9d9d-26e30b640c4e/

https://epage.pub/doc/vampires-are-stephen-kaplan-incomplete-ydg1zmom52

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Kaplan_(paranormal_investigator)

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/novemberdecember/feature/when-bram-met-walt

http://truelegends.info/paranormal/oyster.htm

Episode 17: Paranormal Buffet with Special Guest Joshua Cutchin

The Weird Part has a unique treat this episode as I welcome author, researcher, investigator, and musician Joshua Cutchin.  The discussion goes all over the place but includes the Fae Folk/Fairie phenomenon, Bigfoot, women in white, UFOs, cryptids, alien abduction, MIB, high strangeness, paranormal smells, time distortion,consciousness, Antarctica, Atlantis, and much more!

https://www.joshuacutchin.com/

Episode 16: Small Town Evil with Special Guest Karma Wilde

This week I have a fascinating conversation with paranormal experiencer and citizen investigator Karma Wilde. Wilde has encountered true evil behind the facade in small town, USA, personally. She has founded a unique online group, P-4 (paranormal for the missing and lost), for the psychically gifted to help uncover answers in unsolved crimes and disappearances. We discuss spirits, unsolved mysteries, the drug trade, cult activity, dark magick, corruption, psychic abilities, a possible serial killer, and much more!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/3025091087806874

Episode 15: Special Guest Ashley Hilt

This week, I’m pleased to welcome Fortean investigator, documentary filmmaker, and podcast host Ashley Hilt.  In a rollicking discussion, we talk about Mothman, Bigfoot, Fortean investigations, personal experiences, UFOs, the Loveland Frogman, bizarre little-known cryptids, ghosts and ghost investigations, UAP disclosure, secrets of the space program, lake monsters, reincarnation, trans-species transplants, conspiracy theories, trauma and the paranormal, spirituality, and much more!

https://linktr.ee/wednesdaystalk

https://www.facebook.com/ashliey.hilt

Episode 14: Special Guest Shajuana Coleman

The Weird Part welcomes its first guest: paranormal investigator, podcaster, and independent journalist Shajuana Coleman. We discuss ghosts, folk magic, paranormal investigations, Bigfoot, reincarnation, personal experiences, cult tactics, and much more!

Note: This episode contains some technical glitches in the recording, but I decided not to interrupt the flow of conversation to attempt to edit them out.

https://webbparanormalgroup.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/different-dimensions-w-shajuana-coleman/id1494720702

https://thewebbradio.com/different-dimensions/

Episode 13: Comyns Beaumont, Tartarianism, and the Post-Truth Society

In this episode I discuss some extreme examples of crackpot revisionist history, including what could be called British-Everythingism, the mysterious empire that built the U.S. Federal Building in Chicago, and a missing thousand years….

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153686.Eccentric_Lives_Peculiar_Notions

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

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-27/inside-architecture-s-wildest-conspiracy-theory

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tartaria/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko)https://www.reddit.com/r/Tartaria

Bonus Content- Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.

The still-unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace pose many unanswered questions.  Yet the facts may have already been discovered and then throughly covered up.  This extremely well done true-crime series, originally on USA Network, is a must-see for those interested in conspiracy and what goes on behind the scenes.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6233618/

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/murder-rap-greg-kading/1105318009

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

LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records’ Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal, Atlantic Monthly Press

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/labyrinth-randall-sullivan/1126257385

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/chaos-merchants-michael-douglas-carlin/1123196929

Episode 12: John Murray Spear and the Electric Christ

In the 1850’s, former Universalist minister, abolitionist, and progressive activist John Murray Spear became deeply involved with Spiritualism.  He and his followers were led by non-human entities to attempt to create a “New Motive Power”- an electric machine that would house the Spirit of God and bring about a technological utopia.

https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268022006/the-remarkable-life-of-john-murray-spear/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/571569/spiritualist-god-machine

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/new-motor

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/06/the-bizarre-mechanical-messiah-of-john-murray-spear/

http://greyfalcon.us/God%20machine.htm

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/spear-john-murray-ca-1804-1887

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

Episode 11: Rebecca Brown and the Worldwide Satanic Conspiracy

At the height of the 1980’s Satanic Panic, disgraced ex-physician Rebecca Brown re-invented herself as a spiritual warrior and deliverance minister. Accompanied by her friend “Elaine”, a self-described former bride of Satan, Brown quickly had two books published by Jack Chick. Despite being quickly exposed as a complete fraud by by more responsible Christians, Brown went on to have a successful career in Evangelical Conspiritainment until her death in 2020. Were her works key in creating a mindset prevalent in America today?

https://www.answers.org/satan/brown.html

https://swallowingthecamel.me/2011/06/26/the-prodigal-witch-viii-elaine/

https://www.scrollpublishing.com/store/article-rebeccabrown.html

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rebecca_Brown

https://www.paperbackswap.com/Rebecca-Brown/author/

I was really pleased to appear on Recluse’s podcast “The Farm” and discuss Devil’s Lake lore, cults, the Smiley Face Killers, and much more! Steven has a ton of esoteric knowledge and we had a fascinating conversation.
This episode is available right now.

https://www.thefarmpodcast.com/

#StevenSnider, #DevilsLake, #lore, #unsolved, #cults, #Lovecraft, #SaukCounty, #derleth

I was very happy to appear on Seriah Azkath’s podcast “Where Did The Road Go?” along with Taylor Bell from “The Green Lion Podcast”.
We had a fascinating conversation, based on discussing weird events in my life, but kind of flowing in a lot of directions.
It’s available to Seriah’s patreons now, to the world next week.
https://www.patreon.com/SeriahAzkath/posts

https://www.wheredidtheroadgo.com/

https://greenlionpodcast.sounder.fm/

Episode Ten: Communists From Outer Space

Exploring the ideas of 20th Century ultra-leftist leader Juan Posadas: why extraterrestrials are Communists, the benefits of nuclear war, and talking with dolphins.

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340777/i-want-to-believe/

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/j-posadas-argentina-trotskyism-ufos

 http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/176_trots.shtml

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/i-want-to-believe-gittlitz-posadism-ufos-apocalypse-communism-1202692978/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Posadas

https://www.marxists.org/archive/posadas/1968/06/flyingsaucers.html

Episode Nine: Giant Skeletons of Wisconsin

Episode 9: Giant Skeletons of Wisconsin

Episode09-GiantSkeletonsInWisconsin.mp3

Multiple incidents of giant skeletons discovered in Wisconsin and the theories that surround them.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/12/20/issue.html

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93510775/leader-telegram/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49880207/giant-human-skeletons-found-at-lake/

The absurdity of “investigating” Wisconsin’s ancient burial mounds

https://captimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/deadlocked-state-supreme-court-decision-protects-effigy-mounds/article_b7846234-bff6-5884-9a5d-4fa84b3f8778.html

https://www.christianity.com/wiki/angels-and-demons/who-were-the-nephilim-in-the-bible.html

I was delighted to be interviewed by Barbara A. Fisher for the fascinating podcast “6 Degrees of John Keel” for the episode that will broadcast Wednesday 1/26.

http://6degreesofjohnkeel.com

Episode Eight: Thoughts On The Tower Of Babel

I’m sharing some theory and conjecture on the actual meaning of the Biblical story of the “Tower to reach to Heaven” and the Divine confusing of languages.
Why does “God” speak in plural and seem intimidated by humankind working together?  Hopefully this will be some thought-provoking speculation.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/4882/a-history-of-god-by-karen-armstrong/

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/When-God-Had-a-Wife/Lynn-Picknett/9781591433705

https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/19110/who-is-the-us-in-genesis-117

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

Episode Seven: The Lane Bryant Massacre

How can a mass  shooting that left five people dead and one wounded go unsolved for nearly 14 years?  Was there a key flaw in the suspect’s description from day one?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-lane-bryant-suspect-sketch-st-0202-20180201-story.html

https://abc7chicago.com/archive/8975873/

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/02/26/illinois-lane-bryant-killer-heard-saying-im-losing-it-in-11-call.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/news/ct-sta-lane-bryant-anniversary-st-0202-20160201-story.html

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

https://youtu.be/A109Cd1PFTI Link to the 911 call

https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-140-cowboy-bob-5-15-2020

Note: this case has been discussed a lot on Reddit.  Thanks to users “boxofsquirrels”, “theothersideofaloop”, “JKeel99”, and “TroyEsc”.

Top photo: 1930’s zeppelin from the Hal Dick Collection, Wichita State University Library