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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