Strange Country

Do people Shit Out Their Sin?

How long do you have to listen today to know what our topic is for this episode? Find out as Kelly and Beth start to get the hang of this podcast thing. And now it's time to clean out the cobwebs, and detritus. Kelly and Beth have another story, an homage to hoarders, of a family who can't quite bring themselves to cleaning up a damn thing. And it smells...bad. Join us for the story of Grey Gardens and the Beale family. It's a mother-daughter story that literally goes from the dream life on the Hampton Coast to dinners made and eaten in single beds, feces of all sorts piling up, and Strange Country details that are sure to intrigue. Will Kelly and Beth get the vacation of a lifetime at the Beale House? Stay tuned and keep listening to Strange Country. We love you, readers, and listeners!

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Welcome to Strange Country, a podcast devoted to bizarre, surreal and extraordinary stories that make America the weird place it is. In episode 7, co-hosts Beth and Kelly explore the compelling tale of Mary Mallon, and Irish cook who made a whole bunch of people sick, but never lost her spark and salty tongue. You know it's rockin' when it's Typhoid Mary time!

Welcome to Strange Country, a podcast devoted to bizarre, surreal and extraordinary stories that make America the weird place it is. In episode 6, there are many reasons to hang on to this episode from Kelly and Beth's ramblings to Annie Edson Taylor's trip of a lifetime. If you want to hear the actual Strange Country story of Annie Taylor, skip ahead to minute 29, but we will also take you down a trail of rat kings, civil war widows and of course many unrelated things.

Welcome to Strange Country, a podcast devoted to bizarre, surreal and extraordinary stories that make America the weird place it is. In episode 5, co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss the Oneida Community, one of the most successful utopian societies in US, and the man behind it John Humphrey Noyes. Ready for a little complex marriage everybody?

Maybe you've seen the red historical marker near Cazenovia Lake or been an avid reader of the Chips & Shavings column in the Mid-York Weekly so you already know the story of Lucy Dutton. Listen as Strange Country takes you on a journey along the roads in Madison and Onondaga counties as "Crazy Luce" trudges through snowdrifts and heatdrifts, her heart a-broken and her face a-lined. Kelly and Beth talk about their own experiences with mental health because nothing since comedy podcast more than deep depression.

Welcome to Strange Country, a podcast devoted to bizarre, surreal and extraordinary stories that make America the weird place it isMaybe you never heard of Lizzie Borden, the woman accused of allegedly hatcheting her parents to death on August 4, 1892. Or maybe you dressed up like her, like some co-host of Strange Country, for a biography project in middle school guaranteeing you would never date until college. Either way now is your chance to learn more as Beth and Kelly in episode 3 explore the first trial of the century that captivated the world, and launched one of the creepiest children's nursery rhyme of all that will make your shoulder hair stand on end.