AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE! OI! OI! OI! What's up you beautiful kooks! This week we've got a "rough one" in the realm of true crime...and that's the epitome of hyperbole as far as understatements go! The boys are taking a look at the infamous Adelaide "Family Murders", which to this day remains surrounded by unanswered questions and conspiracies even roughly 50 years after they were committed. It's fairly common knowledge that there was definitely more than one perpetrator but only one man has ever been convicted for this series of five disturbingly brutal, psychosexually sadistic murders. Once again we try our absolute damnedest to maintain a "comedy" podcast while delving into particularly dark subject matter...but you gotta laugh to keep from crying, right? RIGHT? Heh...yeah, sure. Of course. (As we collectively drop to floor in the fetal position). WE'RE GONNA GET THROUGH THIS...TOGETHER! All this plus another regular instalment of "What's Weird This Week?" Enjoy! XOXO

Opening/closing theme: "Ghost Town" by Aves, also featuring "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (instrumental version) by Kylie Minogue...cuz she's Australian, as well as an extra special appearance by The Muppets!

SOURCES:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_Murders

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevan_Spencer_von_Einem

-https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/lost-diary-gives-south-australia-police-new-lead-into-alan-barnes-murder-by-the-family/news-story/eaf66c4823f20f55981177c02d2bb657

-https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7465455/Gay-leader-Lewis-Turtur-reveals-inner-workings-Family-sex-abuse-ring.html

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HEYYOOO! What's up all you beautiful kooks! WOOOO! It's good to be back from those...dark, DARK times we are living in. Ho hum! Kiss my bum! We're all here to have some fun! This week we finish out our three part series on all of the peripheral weird shit surrounding the Lewis & Clark expedition, including: cryptids, espionage, banking conspiracies, syphilis, suicide, the potentially accursed ground upon which this great-ish country is built, along with various segues concerning Fleece "The Booty Warrior" Johnson! All this plus a personal heartfelt "What's Weird This Week" in which we illustrate both our mature willingness to better ourselves/provide early indicators for our eventual mental instability! Also...A HOMOCIDAL RAMPAGE! This one's got it all folks! Give it a gander...don't cost nothin'!

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Opening/closing theme: "Ghost Town" by Aves, also featuring "Having A Roni" by one Robert Van Winkle

SOURCES: "The Murder of Meriwether Lewis & The Suppressed History of America" by Paul Schraig & Xaviant Haze, as well as "Book 1:THE NINE" of Peter Levenda's "Sinister Forces" Trilogy (BUY THE BOOKS!)

-https://www.walb.com/2025/02/25/man-charged-with-14-murders-including-death-firefighter-ups-worker-police-say/

-https://lewis-clark.org/members/meriwether-lewis/lewis-as-master-mason/

-https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.sup.missing

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YOOOOO! What's up you beautiful kooks! This week the boys continue their trek in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark to look into some of the weirder aspects left out of the records of their exploration, including the enduring enigma of America's many mysterious mounds and just how little we REALLY know about their purpose or origins! We'll also be speculating upon the state of primordial America & there's even talk of terrifying "giants" and nightmarish "little deavils" (or are they malevolent spirits?), as well as an examination of old Tom Jefferson's evil bastard chess master tactics meant to destroy the Native American way of life while also robbing them blind! This one get's pretty dark but gosh darn it, we do our damnedest to occasionally make it just a tad bit more disturbing, disgusting, and busting wide open with a whole lotta chuckles! (DISCLAIMER! May not contain anything close to actual "chuckles" but more likely the USDA recommended minimal allotment of bugs and rat feces.) ENJOY!

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Opening/closing theme: "Ghost Town" by Aves, also ft. music found through YouTube searches which may or may not be legally problematic but if anybody want's to be a bummer & make a whole thing out of it, then please ask nicely and we'd be more than happy to rectify any mistakes made on our part

SOURCES:

-https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01993HXW6/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20suppressed%20history%20of%20america&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-pd-bk-d_de_k0_1_14&crid=14HU8AQO73128&sprefix=the%20suppressed

-https://www.amazon.com/Sinister-Forces-Political-Witchcraft-1-Feb-2011/dp/B012J18LYO/ref=sr_1_4?crid=14MWITKKO55K0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Q7HpkxqEU6qvN9yKhxXYUUuXcRirhpDjhhc3P2BnrK1GLKewazKNIRpZeTSXBgFenyFDfeoygvPncsMjOFIY6bqkuxmUzHJdnquCeAzZ_SVsEgFHRFo10k921zbFbxParLXA3M_16nuJmE3m5LQ8QgOm9N47KP-tb7mfZp1xha8Mgh4kTmK1Up1SZR6nrlDUah44X4YOE6ow8NfMs1b5lka2CogLDfbVq-TDm9TySho.Lb8SC4VI2pwqbmvY0Y3wNa6fjKC3cHsf3sPZxYKAJoI&dib_tag=se&keywords=sinister+forces+peter+levenda&qid=1740631205&sprefix=sinister+forces%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-4

W.W.T.W. Articles:

-https://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/fingerprint/goldfish-robbery-028593

-https://www.vice.com/en/article/2-teens-busted-trying-to-launch-meth-into-louisiana-prison-with-a-cannon/

-https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/europe/france-jackpot-stolen-credit-card-scli-intl/index.html#:~:text=The%20criminals%20broke%20into%20Jean,worth%20500%2C000%20euros%20(%24525%2C000).

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What's up folks! Hope you're all doing EGG-celent! This week the fellas are gearing up for an expedition in the footsteps of famous explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, two of the most well known and revered American explorers in all of historicity! Except this time around we'll be concentrating on all of the weirdness they left out of the history book, including such oddities as: monoliths and standing stones, mounds, the various pre-Columbian explorers who came to America before there was such a thing, and even giants, gnomes, the fountain of youth, out of place artifacts, and even "banking conspiracies" as well as the weirdness which surrounds Meriwether's mysterious death! WOOOOOO! Get ready for a most EGG-cellent adventure loyal listeners! All this plus an EGG-citing new "What's Weird This Week?" Bon Voyage!

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Opening/closing theme: "Ghost Town" by Aves, also featuring "Electric Pow Wow" by A Tribe Called Red

SOURCE: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01993HXW6/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20suppressed%20history%20of%20america&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-pd-bk-d_de_k1_1_15&crid=2N277OOLIJ11W&sprefix=THE%20SUPRRESSED%20

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HEYYOOOOOOOO! This BONUS episode is a quick short while we're on hiatus that covers historical, folklore, and/or magical & mystical ritual mutilation, the practice of divination via human organs or deformities, monstrous births, abominable omens, & reading the future through "teratascopy" (or the interpretation of prophecies through the reading of meat malformations and metamorphosis through mutation.) IT'S EXTRA GROSS, EXTRA WEIRD, & UTTERLY DISGUSTING! Plus a quick insight into the modern (-ish) myths of the "comprachicos" or "child buyers", high society and royal freakshows, the brujo familiars known as "imbunche", India's despicable "chelas" & the making of un- fortunate, disfigured "rat children". Is there a connection between these extreme ritualistic & criminal body mods all throughout history from different cultures? This is definitely one of the much more far out there and theoretical topics which currently plague Mike's mind. Give it a listen then be sure to tune back in next week when the fellas embark on a dark American expedition hidden from the history books!

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Ft. music from the album "New York. Addis. London." by Mulatu Astatke and "Vibes From The Tribes" by Yesterday's New Quintet

SOURCES:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/teratoscopy#:~:text=Entries%20linking%20to%20teratoscopy&text=and%20meaning%20"marvel%2C%20monster%2C,sign%2C%20wonder%2C%20monster."

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

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

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

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

https://wehd.com/94/Teratoscopy.html

*Google image search for "TERATOMAS" at your own risk

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This episode the boys are covering the C.I.A.'s control of Candy Jones, MKULTRA, Project: MONARCH, mind control, & Michael Jackson. Say whaaaat? There's actually quite a bit of connective tissue...BELIEVE IT...OR NOT! Also, a whole lotta drug talk! All this plus "What's Weird This Week?" where we cover YET ANOTHER incident of fast food instigated assault, some black market narcotic stock tips, and a Musky old "ratzi"! Give it a listen and get CONFROSTIGATED!

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Opening/closing theme: "Ghost Town" by Aves, also featuring "Little Green Bags" (Instrumental Version) and "Enigma" by Enya or some shit

SOURCES :

https://www.amazon.com/Control-Candy-Jones-Donald-Bain/dp/1522839100

https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/cold-fries-case-236901

https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/frontline-against-fentanyl *

*"Worm" (don't ask)

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/1/21/musk-accused-of-giving-nazi-salute-during-trump-inauguration-celebrations

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SWEET DREAMS EVERYBODY! This week we're talking about sleep paralysis and it's connections to alien abduction, witchcraft, and demonology (amongst other things...DIRTY things!) That's right, there's a weird as hell sexual component to this mysterious sleepy brain glitch and the fellas get IN. TO. IT! What the hell is up with sleep paralysis? Give this episode a listen and find out all about it. AND NO! We won't be talking about our dreams the whole time, we really ZAZZED this one up for ya folks! ENJOY!

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Opening/closing theme: "Ghost Town" by Aves, also ft. "Budos Rising" by The Budos Band

SOURCES:

*https://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/crack/counselor-crack-275694

*https://x.com/Kazi5isAlive/status/1875915662474010907

*https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4361477

*https://www.burlingtonnews.net/abductionflourescents.html

*https://moneymorning.com/2012/02/22/why-chimps-throw-poop-and-17-other-examples-of-government-waste/

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