Bigfoot, ghosts in flannel and raccoon fighting.

One of the best podcasts I've listened to, Timothy Renner is one of the most entertaining and informal Podcasters out there. If you like paranormal or cryptids this is the podcast for you.

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Covers Everything From Bigfoot To Flannel Man and

Timothy Renner dos a remarkable job of finding historic tales, very old newspaper articles and info about Bigfoot and has penned several books about the subject in all it's weirdness.
From Fairies to Flannel Man , he and guests are well informed and venture afield in search of truth for themselves- and us!

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A Masterclass in Storytelling & Everything Strange

Listen to this Podcast!
You are surely & truly missing out on something amazing,
and truly unique & deeply layered in its depth, quality, substance, foundations and a mesmerizing tandem of two beautiful souls & spirits walking you through this strange and wonderfully terrifying world of infamous "Ethereal Other" ,


There is nothing else out there in podcast land available to you that will meet your query in a more wholly satisfying & beautiful way. Timothy is a quintessentially of unique importance to both history & lore, but he evokes & lives & breathes the world's within worlds & takes us beyond the gates of the unknown, on a journey & adventure, that has no boundaries or held back by agenda or bias. Tim & his wife are a National Treasure, and if anything simply what they have created and shared in this typically very placate & fragile landscape of "paranormal tribes" , is they have opened up a doorway in witch the accessibility is for anyone and everyone who simply holds interest and is at any kevel of engagement with "the Other" or the strange box of ethereal curiosities that is this existence and reality that this realm we all inhabit offers up in many a perplexing , fascinating and sometimes terrifying fashion.
and I love this about them and the fact that all the messy political business and "members only" type of attitude does not exist here, nor is it really tolerated , as it's honestly a totally fallacious way to pursue the unknown by trying to box something in that is unable to be contained, let alone explained

Listen to the Music!
I cannot tell you enough - go buy some albums , the music is entirely written, played, produced, engineered, etc. by Tim
and it is on a WHOLE OTHER LEVEL of talent & quality. It is some of my favorite music and if that isn't enough, the Art is top quality and totally hypnotic & emersive and I highly suggest looking at the available prints and book covers for his Books as well , as this is a one stop shop of the genius proportions , that needs to be celebrated & appreciated ! Just check it out.

& his many guests, co-hosts, co-authors and amazing Wife are plentiful to offer insights or expansion upon said topic(s) , tales, lore or first hand experiences; However, the real recipe for the greatest of midnight brew to be playing in the dark, are the absolutely amazing original, hand crafted songs, and artwork that accompanies everything that Tim completely uses in his arsenal to take everything to a entirely new tier level. from the foreboding, jarring & lovely haunting Folk- Horror/ Folk/ esq. Music, the unending amount of love that goes into this podcast is fully reflected by their continued efforts & ability to talk about the strange & terrifying, to the weird, haunting, thought provoking & even tragic tales and the unknown & mysterious links that exist between everything, somehow & someway. But the focus isn't telling you what to believe or forcing judgment or bias projection upon the audience, Tim tells what "it" like "it" is, or could be or simply the truth from his own set of discoveries and adventures, that has been a part of my podcast favorites for almost a decade now, having started listening to Tim on another Podcast you should also subscribe to, called : "Where Did the Road Go?"

There is no other podcast like "Strange Familiars" , and I highly recommend starting anywhere that you fancy bases upon the title that grabs your attention , and you will not be dissapointed. in fact, you might even be compelled to register & subscribe to access their members shows, or purchase one of Tim's incredible books or albums, maybe some swag & merch, but one thing is for sure, is that this show has been able to get me through some really terrible and difficult times where all I could do was listen to podcasts and totally left physcial non-functional & wholly limited, and the amount of shows on here will keep you busy & entertained, leaving you with theories and ideas, or stories and tales to mystify. The goosebumps and chills are many a flavored & styled , unique and organically home-grown high strangeness, cryptozoology, time slips, shadow beings, the shows very own "entity" /"tulpa"/"thought form" or at minimum "other" that is known as "Flannel Man", or his wife has many episodes where she has researched and looked into some of the oddities of society and persons in history that have left a mark of endearingly Strange or misunderstood tragedies of the outcasts of society that covers many unique subjects and characters.

my favorite shows however are usually the first hand accounts and recap and synopsis of Tim's own "Site7", and many a terrifying & unexplained events that have transpired over the years, or the guests who bravely come on to tell their tales of the weird & strange as well.

There is so much to love & enjoy here, and truly deserves so many subscriptions & fans fir all their hard , independent work that is far better and far more riveting & enjoyable than 90% of anything else that exists or is available in this oversaturated market and little known origins or truths in our world that holds empirical evidence and proof, first hand accounts, both anecdotal & physical, and aspects of the many a strange phenomenon that exists that is happening & is going on all around us, and yet we are either handcuffed by gatekeepers or given disinformation & fallacious arguments by "officials" and/or "professionals" & "experts" in a field that can have none of the above by any means. Tim isn't playing a game of as another disillusioned snake oil salesman, or forcing his thoughts or opinions upon anything but the self evident & experiential aspects of his own interactions and research and what that tells him, without the efo, the bias, the agenda or the desire to pick your pockets clean.

They tell it the way it should be told, with love, interest, inspiration, thrilling, chilling & even riveting ethereal aspects that exist all around us, that has been passed down in the lore and mythologies for centuries, and seems to be not only connected and woven together in fantastic ways, but is both malevolent and benevolent in nature, seemingly sharing a similar duality we are familiar with in our own life and reality, yet their are veils to lift to look passed our own and see what may have the ability to share space in both worlds,

"Be careful what you entertain in the darkness and the whispers you give ear to, for the other is strange, and although you swear it is grandma... the truth remains - it may only be the reflection that is familiar - and now you have to figure out what to do, because you have already given invitation for its presence, and where there was a barrier of protection that covers the thresholds of your space, the agreement for access, may be the last thing you ever regret, for it may be you it seeks to invade - and take over or transport far and away, so in the night's bitterly naive, first fully awake before you agree - and you may yet still live to tell the tale of the Familars so Strange."

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