Uncommon in the Commonwealth

In honor of St. Patrick's day, this week's episode explores the legend of the Leprechaun. There is more to this wonderful mythical creature than meets the eye.   Photography By Tom Kollmer The Leprechaun; Small in stature, large in renown. These mythical creatures are notorious around the world. With Saint Patrick’s day being celebrated this week, we figured we would immerse ourselves in a little Irish folklore and see what oddities we can discover . Is the leprechaun an actual cryptid , or just an interesting Irish myth? Join us on our quest to find out! We hope everyone is holding up well this week! The bars and pubs here in Kentucky were actually closed this week, so we hope you’ve had the chance to drink a few green beers at home, and just celebrate St. Patrick's day the best way you can! That brings us back to tonight’s topic, the mythical trickster , the leprechaun. The word Leprechaun is actually a term taken from old irish, luchorpan, which translat...

T here are things going on in this world that cannot be explained. Things that move in the night, through the cover of darkness, which can never be fully seen, or unseen. They move about as animal, or half animals, or humans, yet they are neither. They are masters of mimicry. They may call out to you with the voice of a loved one, yet you know it cannot be that loved one. This week we bring to you, the legend of the skinwalker.   We’re breaking some rules to bring you this episode. The rule according to the Navajo tribe is never to talk of the Skinwalkers...But, we’re willing to break the silence and if your listening well I guess you’re brave enough to hear it. A wise Navajo man once said, “You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” Are you pretending to be asleep? If you’ve never heard any stories of the Skinwalker, I’ll give you a little bit of spine tingling background about them. They are said to be dark witches who are no longer fully human, yet they s...

Are the events in our timeline super easy to predict? Or are the writers of the Simpsons telling us the future in an eerily accurate, yet hilarious, way? Is Matt Groening a time traveler or just genius cartoonist? Tune in as we tear apart this toonspiracy and seek answers to these bizarre questions. Thanks for tuning in to Uncommon in the Commonwealth. A Paranormal Podcast where we explore all things….uncommon.   What do beer, donuts, and a Nuclear Powerplant have in Common? They’re all things deeply loved by Homer J. Simpson? (I made that up by the way). So, by now I’m sure you’ve figured out we’ll be talking all about the long running hit show, the Simpsons, and the fact that people are talking about their many eerily accurate predictions. The Simpson’s has been on air and going strong since December 17, 1989. So in this weeks episode we’ll discuss some of the times the Simpson’s seemed to predict the future, and let you decide whether these are happy co...

Cry Baby Lane Every town has its urban legend s. Local folklore Stories that get passed down from generation to generation. It becomes a rite of passage or sorts for local until teens. We tell and retell the story until eventually…we can’t even remember its origin.   Listen along as we discuss CRY BABY LANE, a weird Urban Legend from my hometown. The legend tells of a women and her child who died on Hanly Lane. They say if you drive out there at night, you can hear the forlorn wail of the Mother, along with the disheartened cry of her ghostly child. We also an interview a gentleman who had a seriously FREAKY first hand experience on Cry Baby Lane. Is there any truth behind cry baby lane urban legend? To find out check out the latest episode of Uncommon in the Commonwealth on Castbox, Stitcher, and Spotify.

Welcome to Uncommon in the Commonwealth. Boy do we have an uncommon episode planned for you tonight!! On this day, March the third, in 1876, it rained meat over Olympia Springs, in Bath County Kentucky! And yes you heard that correctly. Chunks of mean rained from the sky, on what was reported as a normal sunny day. When I first started reading the articles I was horrified, but of course, super intrigued and had to know more. So, Here is the story of The Great Meat Rain of 1876… Allen Crouch, an average farmer, along with  his wife, were working in their field one sunny afternoon, when out of the clear blue sky (literally the sky was clear & blue) it began to rain meat, and I don’t mean little drizzles. They claimed some pieces were around the size of the palm of their hand, and ranged anywhere from slivers to several inch chunks to quite large hunks of meat. After this horrendous phenomenon occurred many people from town came to study the meat and collect samples, some ...

Good Evening and Welcome back to the final night of our Strange Kentucky Skies Mini Series, where we’ve been covering all kinds of interesting UFO and extraterrestrial topics. All things Alien…we tried to cover them. But the more we learned, the more we realized there is a vast amount of information available. IF we covered it all, each episode would have last about 10 hours, or more. But, we hope we can bring you some of the most interesting highlighted cases. And more than anything, we hope this will encourage you to do some research of your own, and stay curious, stay mindful, and of course…Stay Uncommon.  Right now the  History Chanel is featuring a Interactive Map of UFO Sightings Taken seriously by the US Government ( check it out ). Between 1947 and 1969, at the height of the ColdWar, more than 12,000 UFO sightings were reported to Project Blue Book. All in all, about 20 out of the 12,000 or more were taken seriously.  Maybe you’ve heard Project Blue Book....