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Tea’s Weird Week: Bouncing Off the Wall
There was no Tea’s Weird Week column last week and it’s because I hit a wall and just could not write at all. Not in the least bit. It was the first time there was an unplanned skip in this weekly...
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Tea’s Weird Week: Mother God on Mountain Standard Time
I like to think I got my finger on the pulse of all things weird, but none of us are omnipresent weird, so I was boggled and amazed by the story of the Love Has Won cult, which I had not heard of. I...
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Tea’s Weird Week: Hold on to Your Buttocks, TWW Podcast Season 2 is About to...
There’s many things I like about the Tea’s Weird Week podcast, but one reason it is dear to me is that it’s been a part of my social time, a chance to talk to cool, interesting people, some I’ve known...
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Tea’s Weird Week: Hodag vs Snallygaster
It’s so thrilling to have the podcast back on the air for a “season 2.” We kicked things off this season with an epic showdown between two local legend contenders. As I say in the intro to this...
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My “Citizen Journalists” Article Won a Gold Milwaukee Press Club Excellence...
I’m honored to say I was announced this week as winner of a gold Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism Award in the “Best Short Hard News Feature” category. MPC is the oldest operating press...
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Tea’s Weird Week: The Marvelous Miss Fit
If you’re new to Tea’s Weird Week, well, hi, my name is Tea. I’ve written 5 published books to date. My first was titled Heroes in the Night: Inside the Real Life Superhero Movement. As the subtitle...
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Tea’s Weird Week: Lost in the Schroeder Books Vortex
How to describe Schroeder Used Books and Music? As one Yelp review started, how can I even begin? Another uses a word that succinctly sums up the store: overwhelming. Schroeder Books (often also...
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Tea’s Weird Week: The Conjuring: 1992 Sally Jessy Rafaël Edition
I see there’s a new Conjuring movie out, the latest addition to the “Conjuring-verse” starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as “demonologists” Ed and Lorraine Warren. Oh Hollywood, you old devil....
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Tea’s Weird Week: Nick Redfern’s New Book Explores Marilyn Monroe-UFO Connection
For this week’s Tea’s Weird Week podcast I was thrilled to be able to chat with Nick Redfern, one of the most prolific authors in the paranormal field. He’s written about almost every fortean and...
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Tea’s Weird Week: Fathers of Conspiracy
SPECIAL POST-FATHER’S DAY COLUMN LOOKS AT REX JONES, GARETH ICKE, and DONALD TRUMP JR. Ideas are passed down generation to generation and they’re aren’t always good ones. It was Father’s Day last...
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Tea’s Weird Week: Live from the Midwest Haunters Convention
Last weekend (June 26-27) the Tea’s Weird Week crew (Me, Andrew, and Heidi) tabled with the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference and American Ghost Walks at the Midwest Haunters Convention. I was glad to...
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Tea’s Weird Week: My Top 5 Strange Places
For the Tea’s Weird Week podcast this week, I met up with and interviewed Jenny Sanchez, a travel writer and creator of the Long Days Travel website. She’s been all over the world to check out cool...
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Tea’s Weird Week: Burn the Owl (Revisited)
Mid-July always reminds me of a certain mystery ritual involving a giant owl statue and the burning of a pesky entity named Dull Care. Every second weekend of July, the Bohemian Club kicks off their...
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Tea’s Weird Week: UFOs Over Long Lake
The Tea’s Weird Week podcast crew– myself, co-host Heidi, and sound engineer Andrew– took a short road trip to Dundee, Wisconsin to attend the 33rd annual “UFO Daze.” This is an extraterrestrial...
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Tea’s Weird Week: UFOs Over Long Lake, Part II
Last week, I shared pictures and a link to our Tea’s Weird Week podcast featuring interviews from UFO Daze at Benson’s Hide-A-Way in Dundee, WI. We got so much material we decided to split it into a...
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Tea’s Weird Week: Get in the (Talias)Van: New Book Tells Story of a “New Age...
Hello, another short column just to tell you about what’s going on in the latest Tea’s Weird Week podcast. When my book American Madness came out last year, one of the podcasts I appeared on was...
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Hi, did you hear me on Coast-to-Coast AM?
How awesome to be a guest tonight on Coast-to-Coast AM on Friday the 13th (at Midnight! CST) talking about my adventures delving into Real Life Superheroes, conspiracy, and paranormal investigation!...
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Tea’s Weird Week: Drunk in the Back of a Cab, Listening to Coast-to-Coast AM,...
This story was inspired by my appearance on Coast-to-Coast AM Friday night. I started writing this when it occurred in 2017, but I ditched the story…until now. At 2AM, I locked the door to the...
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Tea’s Weird Week: Tune Your Air Guitars and set them to “Autumn”
Hello, this week I’m just listing some stuff I got going on this autumn, which I think of as the months of September, October, and November, my favorite time of year. -Fall is, of course, a great time...
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Tea’s Weird Week: The Story of the Great Roswell Debate of 2016
Mark O’ Connell (left) and Donald R. Schmitt at the Roswell Debate, Milwaukee Paranormal Conference 2016. Photos by Wendy Schreier Photography. In 2015 I was really hyped about the release of my...
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