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Episode 46: The Battletown Witch Festival Part 2

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - November 01, 2023 01:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
This episode is best viewed on YouTube on S.B. Pearce's channel. Find it in the Strange Bluegrass Playlist. Join S.B. Pearce as she attends the 2nd annual Battletown Witch Festival in Brandenburg, Kentucky. Hear the tragic story of Leah Smock, a gifted young lady accused of witchcraft. Ultimat...

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Episode 45: The Battletown Witch Festival - Part 1

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - October 20, 2023 12:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Join S.B as she speaks with Annie Hamilton Emond with the Meade County Tourism Bureau about their unique festival in Brandenburg, KY. The festival celebrates the unique life and tragic death of Leah Smock, the last witch burned in the United States. 

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Episode 44: International Paranormal Museum, Somerset, KY

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - May 29, 2023 16:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Join S.B. Pearce as Kyle Kadel gives a spectacular tour of the International Paranormal Museum and Research Center in Somerset, Kentucky. Thousands of items from Cryptids to haunted objects come together to create a unique experience for visitors.

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Episode 43: Freaks and Dracula

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - April 06, 2023 16:57 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
S.B. is stunned to learn that one of the Godfathers of Horror film was a Kentucky Native. Join her as she explores Tod Browning's incredible life and career. 

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Episode 42: Don't Tell Me What To Do

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - January 18, 2023 23:18 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Join S.B. Pearce as she explores the history of book banning in the Bluegrass State and the challenges facing our Public Library system due to the passing of SB 167.

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Episode 41: Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - January 04, 2023 02:17 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
S.B. Pearce just learned that the state gemstone is the fresh water pearl...or is it? Join her as she discovers something really odd about a few of our state's strange official designations. 

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Episode 40: Apple Valley Hillbilly Gardens & Toyland

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - July 18, 2022 21:17 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
I love a good pun. I also groan but giggle at corny dad jokes. Join me at the Apple Valley Hillbilly Garden and Toyland in Calvert City, Kentucky where I received the coolest tour ever by the super talented proprietor, Keith Holt. Additional images and video footage will be posted to the Strange...

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Episode 39: Kentucky Meat Rain

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - May 21, 2022 19:51 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
We've all heard the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs" and the song "It's Raining Men"is an iconic dance classic. Water spouts can make it rain fish and there was once a blood rain in Tennessee. Have you ever heard of the time it rained meat in Kentucky? Join S.B. Pearce as she interviews Kurt ...

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Episode 38: A Noble, or Nobel, Endeavor

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - April 17, 2022 17:44 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Kentucky has always made significant contributions to the world that progress humanity or community, we just aren't always given credit where credit is due. However, a few notable scientists were certainly credited with the highest honor possibe in the world. Join S.B. Pearce as she explores Ken...

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Episode 37: The Sweetest Gal

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - March 02, 2022 01:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
A happenchance post by her friend, Heather G. brought an amazing character to S.B.'s attention. Her love of dance urged her to do as deep of a dive as is possible for this particular sweet gal from Cloverport. 

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Episode 36: It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's A Balloon?

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - February 18, 2022 22:26 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
An incident that occurred in Franklin, Kentucky in January 1948 was pivotal in the creation of Project Bluebook - a major government study of unidentified fling objects. Join S.B. Pearce as she explores this unique connection to the UFO mania that seized the nation. 

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Episode 35: Silent Night

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - December 24, 2021 16:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Today marks the 140th anniversary of the worst Christmas Eve tragedy that has occurred in Kentucky. Join S.B. Pearce as she shares the tale of murder, arson, mobs and vigilante justice that rocked the Bluegrass state in the late nineteenth century. *Sorry for the thumping sounds - kids are hom...

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Episode 34: The Things That Burn

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - December 01, 2021 04:09 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Where there is smoke, there is often fire, but what if you live somewhere with misty mountain tops? Join S.B. Pearce as she explores the underground coal fires of Kentucky. As it turns out, hell is just a short car ride from here. 

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Episode 33: Yes, it's aliens! No, it isn't!

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - November 18, 2021 23:29 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Inspired by comic Corey Ryan Forrester and the recent announcement by the United States government regarding Unidentified Flying Objects, S.B. Pearce was inspired to dive into the phenomena of crop circles in Kentucky. Na-nu, na-nu, y'all!

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Episode 32: The Halloween Sessions Part 5

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - October 31, 2021 20:44 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
S.B. shares the strange happenings that surrounded her family in their Louisiana home before they finally decided to return to Kentucky. Even her husband was convinced that something was wrong in that house. 

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Episode 31: The Halloween Sessions Part 4

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - October 29, 2021 02:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Hear what happens when a very gifted boy in California moves into the family dream house...is it really as wonderful as it seems? Follow him on his journey to Kentucky where he gets a warm welcome from the Bluegrass state's most peculiar residents. 

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Episode 30: The Halloween Sessions Part 3

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - October 25, 2021 19:07 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Hospitals and care facilities are no strangers to death. Hear what happens when those who have passed on can't seem to find their way out. Join S.B. Pearce as she chats with her sister Carla about the things she has encountered when those residents do more than die in the hallowed halls of heali...

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Episode 29: The Halloween Sessions Part 2

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - October 12, 2021 15:48 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Some folks have the kind of openness that allows them to experience many different kinds of paranormal or supernatural activity throughout their lives. Brandi is one of those gifted people. Join S.B. as she talks with a dear friend about their many encounters in Kentucky. 

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Episode 28: The Halloween Sessions Part 1

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - October 05, 2021 21:11 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Kentucky has always had more than its fair share of paranormal happenings but unbeknownst to eight year old S.B., she was about to experience her first...before she even knew what a haunting was. 

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Episode 27: Let Them Come!

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - September 22, 2021 03:14 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Join S.B. Pearce as she explores the life and times of Mary Ann Haney, a Caldwell County woman who rose to international fame in the 1920s during the heyday of circus entertainment. Mabel Stark was her stage name and she was the ultimate master and trainer of the Sumatran tiger. She was also the...

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Episode 26: Reviving the Corpse

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - August 31, 2021 20:49 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Inspired by the book "Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs and Other Questions About Dead Bodies" by author and Ask A Mortician YouTube personality, Caitlin Doughty, S.B. takes a closer look at Kentucky's corpse laws and how some folks just don't give a damn about respecting the dead. 

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Episode 25: Akashic Awareness

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - August 26, 2021 21:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
This time, S.B. and her sister head to Elizabethtown in Hardin County to visit an unusual store called Akashic Awareness owned by Mark and Shelly James. Check out their in depth interview with Mark the dives deep into the concept of Akashic Records, religious history, science, quantum physics an...

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Episode 24: Kentucky Highlands

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - July 31, 2021 04:25 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Join S.B. Pearce as she travels to Emminence, KY to explore the only permanent Renaissance Festival in the state. Hear interviews, music, medieval fighting and more from her excursion that took her back in time to 1320. You might be surprised at some of the information she shares!

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Episode 23: It Wasn't Jacob Cooley's

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - July 14, 2021 20:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Stories abound across the internet of the famous Jacob Cooley's chest, a furniture that carries an evil curse that plagued a Kentucky family for over a hundred years. S.B Pearce and her husband, William, set off on a road trip to look at this nefarious home furnishing as they discover more detai...

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Episode 22: Mushrooms & Satan

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - June 16, 2021 21:23 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
S.B. Pearce and her sister Carla go on a field trip to a place that invoked fear and intrigue their entire childhoods. Although many may be familiar with the basic history of the "mushroom mines" in Lawton, Kentucky, S.B. managed to dig up a pretty major lost detail about the place that is highl...

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Episode 21: Wine, Chapels, and Little People

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - May 30, 2021 18:45 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Join S.B. Pearce as she road trips through Kentucky with a friend to visit what was once the tiniest church in the world and to check out a mysterious place that supposedly was sized for little people. You'll be surprised at the long historical reach of the chapel. 

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Episode 20: Don't Be Coy

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - May 18, 2021 02:21 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Join S.B. Pearce as she explores the life and times of a notorious Kentuckian that worked his way to Alcatraz Prison and what he did once he got there. 

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Episode 19: This Ain't About Moonshine

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - April 29, 2021 17:21 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Join S.B. Pearce as she explores sensational stories of lightning strikes and fatalities in the Bluegrass State. From lightning portraits to livestock, lightning plays a frightening role in our every day lives. It's just weird how much it happens in Kentucky.

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Episode 18: Bear With Me

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - March 31, 2021 18:20 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Listen to the tale of a Lexington big shot turned cop turned major drug dealer and how he inadvertently killed an innocent bear. That bear is about to go down in Hollywood history to boot. 

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Episode 17: Buried With The Monkey

Strange Bluegrass - A Kentucky Podcast - March 16, 2021 21:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Hot topics are all abuzz in the Bluegrass state and have been since the 1920s. Join S.B. Pearce as she looks to Kentucky's connection to the anti-evolution sentiment in the U.S., a man that wished to be buried with his monkey, and Darwin Award winners. 

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