Loving the Strange

On this week’s LOVING THE STRANGE, we’re talking about the spookiest objects to start of a month of spooky.

Possessed bunkbeds? We’ve got them.

Possessed dolls? Yawn. Obviously.

Plantation mirrors. Check.

https://the-line-up.com/haunted-objects

https://www.ranker.com/list/tallman-house-haunting/erin-wisti

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/07/metro/maine-citys-series-strange-events-are-giving-off-some-serious-stephen-king-vibes/

And dummies.com, which refuses to connect.

This week’s podcast is all about the weird, wild drinking traditions in our world, plus some random facts, which led us down a wormhole (thanks, Dee!) to discover a woman who crushes things with her breasts.

We hope she’s okay. Allegedly, she has a house on an island in Maine. Maybe we’re neighbors?

RESOURCES

https://www.thrillist.com/vice/17-weird-drinking-laws-from-around-the-world-crazy-liquor-laws

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/worlds-strangest-drinking-customs_n_5758554

https://www.lastnightoffreedom.co.uk/ideas/drinking-traditions-around-the-world/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYMNFDtw9aI

This week on the podcast, we’re all about the creepy, disturbing, weird, strange things that have happened to you.

Creepy stories are …. fun? Especially when they aren’t about you. So this podcast, we’ll be sharing some of our own creepy stories, some listeners’ creepy stories and some from that magical land called REDDIT. And we’ll be talking a tiny bit about the science which makes some people seem creepy.

https://ideas.ted.com/what-makes-a-person-creepy-and-what-purpose-do-our-creep-detectors-serve-a-psychologist-explains/

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-scariest-thing-that-has-ever-happened-to-you-2

Hey, Welcome to LOVING THE STRANGE, where we celebrate the weird and embrace the heck out of it.

This week, in honor of Shaun Farrar, our own Florida man, we are talking about Florida men.

In ancient times, so back in 2013, Florida man became a meme because there were just so many weird and bizarre news articles (mostly police beats) about Florida men doing weird and criminal and often dumb things.

Both CNN and the Miami News Times claim that Florida men aren’t that naughty or bizarre compared to their equivalents in other states, but it’s just because the freedom of information laws in that state make it pretty easy to peruse police beat.

The  Columbia Journalism Review says that Florida Man is “one of journalism’s darkest and most lucrative cottage industries”, because “stories tend to stand as exemplars of the mythical hyper-weirdness of the Sunshine State, but more often simply document the travails of the drug-addicted, mentally ill, and homeless.”

We’ve got our very own Florida man here and at least one in the chat so let’s go!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zsmXHAqg8

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7bmp8a/weird-florida-news-america-florida-man

https://nypost.com/article/crazy-florida-man-headlines-that-made-the-meme/

https://www.boredpanda.com/hilarious-florida-man-headings/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

In honor of Shaun aka “The Talent” and his birthday, we’re talking about some weird/cool/strange/mind-blowing things people do to celebrate their birthday.

We’re talking our birthdays, birthday traditions, birthday facts and mishaps.

Check it out.

RESOURCES

https://www.weirdfacts.com/en/weird-fact/2850-weird-birthday-facts.html

https://didyouknowfacts.com/24-people-share-awful-birthday-stories/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/salimahmccullough/surprise-parties-that-went-from-perfect-to-disastrous

https://thewonderlist.net/12-strange-ways-celebrating-birthday-different-parts-world/

https://medium.com/illumination-curated

Today on Loving the Strange, Carrie is sick, so Emily is filling in with Shaun as they talk about people being lying sillies on social media.

https://www.boredpanda.com/liars-caught-lying-exposed-social-media/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Tonight we’re talking about weird hobbies. And on the podcast itself we talk a lot more about this than we do in these notes. We even talk about WHY people have hobbies.

What I like is when people who don’t even realize that their hobbies are weird or maybe just embarrassing.

Coburg Banks has a list of weird hobbies people actually put on their resume, and while they aren’t weird? It is a bit strange to put them down for a potential employer. We’re talking about things like.

“I like sex.”

“Drinking.”

“Hacking.”

“Farmville.”

“Talking.”

“Honestly, I like doing nothing.”

“Escapology.”

“Time travel.”

“Snake skin collecting.”

“Arguing with people online.”

“Ferret racing.”

“Stalking celebrities.”

“Being awesome.”

“I have 14 cats.”

“Crash dieting.”

And out in the regular world, there is the hobby of mooing. There is actually a moo-la-palooza in Wisconsin where people try to sound like a cow.

People also collect in-flight sickness bags, navel fluff, and ecstasy pills. A guy has done this for two decades.

And they throw their wives around.

There’s even the pretty cool hobby of Toy Voyaging, as explained by Stupid Hobby is “ToyVoyagers are traveling toys that are passed from person to person. To continue its journey, toys can be released into the wild for somebody to find. Their travels are tracked on a website. Each toy carries a unique identification number on a tag. A message on the tag encourages anyone who comes into contact with it to go to the website and update its Travelog with photographs.”

But our fave? It’s got to be guerrilla gardening. Listen to the podcast and find out why.

https://www.coburgbanks.co.uk/blog/friday-funnies/50-strange-hobbies/

https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-strangest-hobbies-in-the-world.php

https://showme.co.za/hermanus/lifestyle/10-of-the-weirdest-hobbies-in-the-world/

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/15-strange-hobbies-around-world-7345374

https://blog.essaytigers.com/17-weird-hobbies-for-students-that-will-change-your-life/

https://hobbyknowhow.com/hobby-guide/creepy-hobbies-and-dark-hobbies/

https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/4i2tuc/what_are_some_really_bizarreweirdgrossscary/

Shaun is one of those guys who likes learning about inventions and always dreams of making an idea into a reality.

Carrie? Not so much.

From mousetrap pistols to selfie toasters, we’ll be exploring LIVE, the weirdness of this world.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/642634/weirdest-inventions-2000s

https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/20-weirdest-inventions-ever

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2241075/Proof-old-fashioned-vibrating-belt-machines-actually-good–dont-lose-weight.html

On this week’s podcast it’s like we’re channeling our inner toker and talking about all the strange things to think about when you think about strange things.

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/50-weird-thought

https://bestlifeonline.com/weird-amazing-facts/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/shayli/33-profound-questions-for-stoners-2bgtz?bffbmain=&utm_term=4ldqpgp&epik=dj0yJnU9MjFXNkdZYXhUd2gybXlfbll6VC1mbWVVWUcxWG5JQjAmcD0wJm49QUV2UEtTM3dqQkt3SjFzQlpZRURlUSZ0PUFBQUFBR0VOa3dz#4ldqpgp

This week on the podcast, we discuss the theories of Bigfoot

Is Bigfoot real or not?

That’s the first question.

A Smithsonian Magazine article says,

“Giant footprints puzzle residents,” a headline in the Humboldt Times announced in 1958 and since then, there’s been a growing cultural obsession with the possibility of a large bipedal furry creature roaming around.

When the famous Patterson-Gimlin tapes happened in the late 1960s, people became even more excited especially since it was filmed in the same area as the alleged Wallace hoax.

For some cryptozoologists, the problem is that there are so many hoaxes that even believers like Maine’s Loren Coleman, founder of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland say, “Technology has ruined the old cryptozoology.”

Ben Crair writes for the Smithsonian,

And that might be true, but the feelings/thoughts behind Bigfoot are changing in the United States and Canada and much of that change is coming from a YouTube channel howtohunt, where the host, a backwoods hunter and guide, shares emails from listeners who have seen/heard/believe in Bigfoot.

A lot of those stories are about Bigfoot being nefarious. He’s not some chill guy that you want to hang out with in Harry and the Hendersons or a slightly annoyed and bullied sasquatch in Jack Link’s commercials. Instead, Bigfoot is potentially part of a much bigger conspiracy that might involve nuclear scientists and aliens, not someone to cuddle.

That juxtaposition isn’t new.

See the rest of the notes, including our sources at carriejonesbooks.blog