High Strangeness surrounds the world, cropping up here and there, imbuing ordinary reality with weirdness and dunking normal people into strangeness and wonder. Follow us as we explore a reality that is stranger than any fiction.
John Frum tells his experiences with death, life, rebirth and alien abduction with Barbara. Trigger Warning: the episode contains descriptions of sexual encounters, some non-consensual. If these sorts of things bother you, or if you let your kids listen with you, please skip this episode.
Illustrator, musician, Comics writer and artist Todd Purse joins Barbara to talk about his own personal vision of the Other and how he hopes it influences his child. And art. And folklore. They talk about lots of things.
Hayley sits down with Morganna and Barbara and tells tales of a ghost and his hidden treasure, a Lady in White, precognitions, missing time missing objects and more.
James Salsido returns to the podcast to tell Barbara about a mysterious light and a strange cat.
Elen Sentier is a life-coach, teacher, practitioner of old ways of traditional British magic, and a transpersonal psychotherapist. She visits and talks with Barbara about the old ways and how she's bringing them to her businesswomen students in the 21st century.
Morgan Daimler and Cat Heath return to the podcast and answer listeners’ questions about elves and fairies. We only got through half the questions in two hours, so we will record a part two episode in the future.
Morganna and Barbara welcome a neighbor from just across the ridge, Katherine Ziff, to talk about her books. They include the history of the former Athens Lunatic Asylum, working with children and art, and the history and creation of homeopathic flower essences.
Morgan Daimler returns to the podcast and she and Barbara discuss how Madame Blavatsky's interpretations of fairies through the lens of Theosophy changed Western understandings of them considerably.
Tim Renner and Chad Redding hang out with Morganna and Barbara, catching up on everyone's projects both mundane and paranormal. Books, bookbinding, printing, paper making, watercolor pigments begin the discussion which then swings around to the nature of The Greys, and of course, those mysterious lights that just seem to follow us around. There's more, of course.
Octavian asked Barbara a question: Is there a safe way to seek contact with fairies? It's a question many people might have, so we made an episode about it.
Paranormal writer and experiencer, AP Strange joins Barbara to tell his childhood stories of growing up with poltergeist activity. Yes, there's a Muppet involved
Zoe Burnett returns to the podcast to discuss the paranormal in cinema with Barbara. The two discuss how films with nuclear families as a central theme explore the weirdness that surrounds us, and how those movies teach us what the paranormal is and is not.
Steve Berg returns to the podcast to finally talk with Morganna and Barbara about the weirdness of Nebraska. And there's a lot of it!
Morganna and Barbara settle in for a conversation about the sacred nature of anomalous lights with r
Christine is an artist who specializes in friendly oddities like cryptid faeries, she talks with Barbara about art, weirdness and a MIB encounter. You can find her art on Instagram under the name Crescent Hare.
Barbara and Morganna look back at the weirdness of 2022, and forward to the weirdness of 2023 in a lighthearted little mother/daughter talk. Next week, they'll return to their regular once a week schedule of Keelian podcast magic.
Josh Cutchin drops in on Barbara and the two folklore nerds get weird with the Yuletide Season. Wild men and women of the Alpine and Nordic regions are discussed and the traditions are enumerated, with family stories, music and fun.
Morganna and Barbara welcome Steve Berg to talk about Weird Nebraska. But then they forgot to ask about it. Don’t worry—He’ll be back.
Barbara settles in for a long conversation with her old friend Dan Trout, about the Umnothings, a special tree, and a curious cryptid.
Author, Adventuress and Cemetery Aficionado Tui Snyder joins Barbara for a wide-ranging conversation about beautiful cemeteries and their sculptures.
Morganna and Barbara are joined by Mike Pingleton and the trio talk herpetology, cryptids, The Loveland Frogman and The Other.
Morganna and Barbara answer listeners questions in celebration of the 100th episode of 6 Degrees of John Keel.
Professor WHAM and Barbara talk about Dr. Jacques Vallee's new book, "Trinity: The Best Kept Secret," and a series of blog posts WHAM wrote on the subject of the sacredness of secrecy and silence. A deep exploration of the topic of UFOs, nuclear weapons, Indigenous peoples and their history, and spirits and how all of these topics intersect.
The Three Weird Sisters are together again. This time, Susan and Kiki join Barbara to talk about how Witches celebrate the holiday of Samhain, or Halloween. There's lots of laughter and fun, but there's real talk too as the witches discuss honoring the ancestors, dealing with loss and working with grief. But the heavy bits are leavened with love and funny stories of what to do with jack-o-lanterns after the holiday is over.
Barbara is joined by Catherine Heath, author of Elves, Witches and Gods: Spinning Old Heathen Magic in the Modern Day. The two talk about elves, fairies, dowsing, animism, shadow people and growing up in a Spiritualist family, and so much more.
Deb Fate-Mental, trained herbalist, shamanic practitioner and witch, visits with Barbara to tell the stories of she and her family involving ghosts, lots of fae, a nightmare creature, and an owl who led her to a very magical place by a river.
Chad returns to visit with Morganna and Barbara while the three talk about the spiritual changes that occur in the fall. Myriad topics are covered, including harbingers of autumn, shadowy figures near the woods, pawpaws and persimmons,Morganna's goblins, and a mysterious voice that appeared from nowhere.
Barbara talks with Drew Demler, about his meaningful experiences with owls, lights in the sky, and orbs in the woods. He talks about how these visitations have changed him as a person, and have broadened his life.
Alex Matsuo, author, ghost hunter and all-around wonderful person, visits with Morganna and Barbara to talk about her new book, the ethics of ghost hunting and shares some of her favorite haunted experiences in the field.
Octavian of the Strange Dominions Podcast talks magic with Barbara. A wide range of topics including Western Ceremonial Magic, the conjuring of spirits, Traditional Witchcraft and folk magic, Bigfoot the Fae, blood, Hecate and more are discussed in this meeting of magical minds.
