Strange Country

If you can conjure up the accent of an old upstate farmer better than Beth, then we've got a spot for you in our award-winning podcast. We don't think you can, she's that good. Find out about the strange tale of four brothers who grew up dirt poor in Munnsville, NY and who ended up the focus of a small town murder mystery. Who died, who lived, how did they live and were they as happy as Beth and K...

Quoth the Raven "Pray tell, my gentle listeners/readers, do listen to Strange Country Episode 13. It is filled with midnight dreary and tales of woe. Not as bad as that story of Juliet and her Romeo, but you get what I'm saying. Dark, people. Dark. And leave your garbage out of cans so I can easily get to it. I know I can make tools and stuff, but can you throw me a bone every now and then?" Yes,...

Hey...hey Gephyrophobians! This episode of Strange Country is for you. If you didn't like driving on a bridge, you definitely will like it even less thanks to episode 12. Kelly and Beth talk about the ghost drivers on the Grace Memorial Bridge in Charleston, S.C.

Strange Country Episode 11 features special guest and talented comedian Madelein Smith as Beth, Kelly and Madelein try to actually get to the story. Should Kelly rethink her position on witches? Is it ever ok to feed adult women donuts? And will you ever take your kids trick or treating again? Listen in for all the answers as well as to hear the special parable of the traveling pube. As always cit...

How much do you think about facial hair? Get ready to dive deep, and get hairy when we discuss the life of Joseph Palmer, a man persecuted for wearing the beard, in Strange Country Episode 10. It was a strange time when men were expected to be clean shaven, or else they would be attacked in fear of the free-thinkers. It's a good thing Beth wasn't around back then, she may have joined in. Tune in a...

In episode 9 of Strange Country, Beth and Kelly open up a bag of worms or a box of cats as they discuss the Battle of Gettysburg, ghosts and engage in a little readers' theater. This episode came about as a suggestion from a loyal listener/reader who's son's camera went all kablooey while taking pictures at Devil's Den. Theme music: Resting Place by  A Cast of Thousands Sources used in the making...

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 u...

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...

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 Bet...

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...

Welcome to Strange Country, a podcast devoted to bizarre, surreal and extraordinary stories that make America the weird place it is. f you don't know what it means to enter into a Collyer Mansion, you will now. Listen as we explore the sad, twisted story of two brothers in New York City who literally couldn't find their way out of a paper bag-they just kept stuffing it with newspapers, baby carria...

Welcome to Strange Country, a podcast devoted to bizarre, surreal and extraordinary stories that make America the weird place it is. Co-hosts Kelly and Beth are former newspaper reporters turned school librarians who have always had a soft spot for a good story--the stranger the better. In their inaugural episode, Beth and Kelly talk about Maggie and Kate Fox, two young sisters who claimed they co...