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!

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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/