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Strange Familiars

Force the Hand of Chance: A How-To Guide to Psychogeography

Strange Familiars

SpectreVision Radio

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Alison and Timothy offer some ideas in seeing the enchantment around you. As we are all stuck in place, we talk about psychogeography, folklore, and finding the weirdness in your own neighborhood. If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliars If you would prefer a one-time payment to help us out, here is a PayPal.me link - you can change the number 25 in the URL to any amount: https://www.paypal.me/timothyrenner/25 Strange Familiars ‘Awoken Tree’ t-shirts are available in our Etsy shop (restocks of all sizes on the way): https://www.etsy.com/listing/739690857/strange-familiars-podcast-awoken-tree Check out the Strange Familiars ebay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/strangefamiliars Strange Familiars t-shirts and other designs are available here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/darkhollerarts Episode 157 notes and links: Randonatica: https://www.randonautica.com Graffiti we found after following the Randonautica app. ‘The Pope as Wild Man’ - image Alison randomly found on Instagram later the same day. “Void” graffiti.  Strange Familiars photo of the week #15: Don’t Look Behind You This photo can be purchased at our etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/777807092/dont-look-behind-you-eerie-photo-girl Timothy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Renner/e/B072X44SD5 Our Lost Grave etsy shop has art, books, patches, and more ... including original art done for Strange Familiars: https://www.etsy.com/shop/lostgrave Alison: https://www.etsy.com/shop/odpeacock Chad’s YouTube channel where you can see some videos of Pandemonium, the dynamite shack and more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNB7MSJ2F1SRBPcQsEFLnvg (make sure to subscribe to Chad’s channel, Ruck Rabbit Outdoors.) Contact us via email at: strangefamiliarspodcast@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/strangefamiliars Join the Strange Familiars Gathering group on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/strangefamiliars/ instagram: @strangefamiliars http://www.strangefamiliars.com Intro and background music by Stone Breath. You can find more at http://stonebreath.bandcamp.com The closing song is Kindred Moth by Moth Masque. It is available on the Moth Masque box set: https://handeye.bandcamp.com/album/moth-masque-box-set-h-e056 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/strange-familiars/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're going to be. They claim that dark eyes was just to be created a slightly different than what they are.

0:28.0

We talked and she came to her. Oh, Welcome to Strange Familiars. If you've seen something strange, something paranormal, a

0:58.6

scripted, a ghost, a UFO, if you have an experience with a paranormal, or if you know of a story you think we should cover, you can email us,

1:07.0

Strange Familiars Podcast at gmail.com.

1:11.0

So this is a very timely show. Did you have this in mind before you saw me playing with that

1:17.3

Randonaut app? Yeah, a bit because I just thought like what can I do that would feel more proactive than crying?

1:27.0

People I mean from the beginning of the podcast that kind of asked me how do you do this stuff

1:35.8

you know how do you find this stuff how do you find this weird stuff I think with most things

1:41.0

whether it be antiques or cryptids you just have to look.

1:45.2

Yeah, and then some of it is just digging. Some of it is just digging in and finding the

1:50.8

stories that already exist.

1:53.0

But some of it too is adding your own experiences

1:56.8

to the stories that are already there.

1:59.2

And it's kind of going to be kind of what this episode's about.

2:03.6

It's about.

2:05.0

I think it's a way to, when you can link the past

2:07.7

to the present, you can also see your way to the future.

2:10.9

Yeah. And you can see yourself as part of something. Yeah and these layers of history and to me feeling small has always been very comforting. Like to feel how small we are in the universe. I find that extremely

2:24.1

comforting. I know some people have just the opposite reaction that they feel like

2:28.0

you know they're lost in a sea of other humans and time in history and where would their voice be but to me it's

2:35.7

incredibly comforting to know that whatever miserable contribution I may or may not

2:40.5

make in the grand scheme of things. Not so important. But I'm going to try. Hey, that's all we can do. So this is about sort of finding the wonder and the weird where you are in place. We're all stuck at home.

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