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The one thing that we all share is grief, death, and fear. And in Celtic mythology, the real fears in general, come from death and grief. Grief is the only thing that we all share, and where there is grief, there is death, and where there is death there is The Banshee. The Banshee is one of the most famous and one of the most used of the creatures of Irish folklore. The modern idea of the Banshee...

In the northwest lands of Europe, the old world of great barbarian people spread across the vast areas of Western and Central Europe. These people transitioned this land into the iron age. they were a culture among the greatest technologies of the ancient world and laid the foundation of Western European civilization. These people were Craftsmen of metal, makers of chariots, builders of roads, exp...

600 years ago England has torn apart in a series of bloody battles in a game over the throne. In the course, of 30 years the crown changed heads 7 times, and over 10,000 were slaughtered. It was one of the bloodiest and most turbulent times in English history. It was known as the Wars of the Roses. These wars were pivotal in England’s history and the outcome of this last great medieval war would d...

600 years ago England has torn apart in a series of bloody battles in a game over the throne. In the course, of 30 years the crown changed heads 7 times, and over 10,000 were slaughtered. It was one of the bloodiest and most turbulent times in English history. It was known as the Wars of the Roses. These wars were pivotal in England’s history and the outcome of this last great medieval war would d...

Who is your OddBallers Podcast host?? Who is she? What is her journey into making OddBallers Episodes, starting her podcast, how does she spend her time, and was college worth it?   Follow Elizabeth Weyers on Instagram @eaweyers.  Follow Oddballers on Instagram and Facebook @OddBallersPodcast Music Credits to Elizabeth Weyers Thank you to all the supporters, welcome to season 2 of OddBal...

OddBallers will be back for a Season 2 starting February 2022! New topics, new guests, and the same great oddities!  Join us for Season 2 of OddBallers.  Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @OddBallersPodcast This is OddBallers. Writer and Journalist Elizabeth Weyers dives deep into popular culture, and media to explore any and all topics odd and interesting. From witch hunts, to trendin...

Christmas is the time of giving, the time of cheer, a great festive holiday where trees are decorated, lights are hung, and chestnuts are roasted by an open fire. Christmas is a time of merry gentlemen, eggnog, rewatching Christmas Vacation for the 1000000 times, spreading time with family, and yeah also that big guy in the red. Santa, Old St. Nicholas, Kris Kringle, Papa Noel, no matter what you...

Jamestown was one of the first American colonies and one that is only briefly mentioned in school and in American History. I imagine it is because it is full of betrayal, loss, religious turmoil, politics, death, and so many dark and grizzly mysteries and stories that we might just want to forget about it. Or paint over it much like Columbus. But like another colony in America, one that was only a...

In school, we were taught that in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and then a century and a half later in 1620, the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. But what about all of the stuff that happened in between. I am here to let you know that after Columbus’s voyage of murder, rape, slavery, and colonization, the mysteries and dark discoveries of the New World did not slow down any. Because in bet...

Let's get spooky!  Trick or treating, spooky ghouls, foggy cemeteries, and Spooky scary skeletons, all things that we as Americans associate with Halloween. That grand old holiday at the end of October that you either love or you hate, desperately. I have never met someone who is just meh about Halloween. You are either all in or all out. I am definitely all in. Horror movies, costumes, scary...

Join Elizabeth Weyers as she interviews a practicing Hellenic Hereditary Hedge Witch. Follow Oddballers on Instagram and Facebook @OddBallersPodcast Music Credit--- Theme- Elizabeth Weyers

After the 200 years of persecution and witch hysteria known as the burning times fizzled out in Europe it took a transatlantic flight to the new world, America. There it poisoned a small village in Massachusetts known as Salem. In the year 1692, the social, political, and economic climate of Salem was as rocky as Massachusetts bay and they plummeted into the vast darkness of rooting out the devil...

The origin of witches starts even before King Saul and the Old Testament. These ancient deities were called creation goddesses and were all-powerful beings. Witches have not always been seen as evil and gruesome before even the story of King Saul deities and entities existed in mythology and lore and history that were more benign. But how then did this benign image of a witch turn maligned, and wh...

Happy International Podcast Day podcasters, listeners, and enthusiasts!  Find out how you can be a part of the celebration by going to https://internationalpodcastday.com Follow Oddballers Podcast on Facebook and Instagram @Oddballerspodcast

Join Elizabeth Weyers with another small business September episode with a woman in business. We are here today with the owner of Custom Threads and Design. An embroidery and screen printing company out of Woodward, Iowa. She is a very busy woman, between setting up the Woodward Farmers’ Market, Homeschooling her kids, she is also a business owner. This episode is all about how to embroider, and h...

OddBallers Podcast introduces Small Business September! Highlighting small businesses from all walks of life. The 2021 theme is Women in Business. Join Elizabeth Weyers as she shares a never before heard completely raw and uncut Interview with founder, owner and instructor of Showtime Dance and Tumbling Studio Carlene Mehls Coleman.  Find and follow Showtime Studio on Facebook at @ShowtimeDanceAnd...

OddBallers Podcast introduces Small Business September! Highlighting small businesses from all walks of life. The 2021 theme is Women in Business. Join Elizabeth Weyers as she interviews CEO and Founder of Skylar Grace Company, Skylar Cunningham so find out just what it takes to create and run a business during college, covid, and the age of social media.  To check out Skylar's products head...

What is trending? How about the Olympics, mental health, Covid-19, Horror Movies, and much more. Join Elizabeth Weyers will fan the favorite University of Iowa Graduate and Writer Abbey Fouts as they discuss the biggest topics in the news.  Follow Us on Instagram- @OddballersPodcast Music Credit-- OddBallers Theme- Elizabeth Weyers

At first glance, you might see Colorado as just another state in the western part of American. But with a closer look, it has as exciting of a past as places like New England or Washington D.C. and New Orleans. The history that Colorado has to offer is more than just the history of our past, it holds the history of the planet deep in the mountains. Geologists for centuries have rushed to colorful...

What lies deep in the mountains.  Beyond the tree line and up to where the oxygen is thin. What stories and bits of the past have frozen to the rocks and have been forgotten, or turned to legends and reduced to stories we tell children around the campfires to scare them into eating their vegetables? What are they? What stories have we forgotten? Colorado is built on tall tales and legends, st...

Happy Independence Day! Just some fun facts about fireworks that you may not have known, but you will be all the smarter for it!  Lowkey catfishing you in this episode but it's short and sweet and fun, and I hope you find it banging!  Enjoy! Join Elizabeth Weyers in a message about Fireworks! Follow Us on Instagram- @OddballersPodcast Research- https://www.celebratesafely.org/history-of-...

The idea of magic is something that humans have searched for throughout all of history. They have hoped that magic was something that exists, to look into the future, change the past and help them along in the present. To defeat enemies, manipulate love, and gain power greater than any other. But in the search for this magic, humans learned that they would not find it alone and so they began to fi...

We are obsessed with death and dying. But we also fear it. We are trying to find ways to get out of it, ways to alter science and live longer, to be brought back, ways to defy the great gift of life we were given. It is a radiant addiction that humans have, and the only thing that humans seem to be more obsessed with is death, which is to figure out what comes next. What happens after death despit...

The Fear of asylums runs deep in our culture as Americans, and really runs in the bones of most of humanity. You have to admit there is something creepy and odd about abandoned buildings with peeling paint, chipped windows, that are overgrown, outdated, and neglected. By the looks of our media and entertainment we seem to tell a different story, we seem to keep one of the darkest and most overlook...

The mind is a curious place, and the human mind is one that is far from being understood, even with today’s modern medicine we cannot seem to figure it out. The brain is so complicated that it does not even understand itself. But oh have we tried to understand the mind, to learn its facets, to fix it, change it in some way. Today even with our modern medicine and technology mental health is still...