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KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS!

mike lucht

Greetings & Salutations! We're here to cover various interesting/infamous/inexplicable living enigmas & anomalies from across all of time, space, maybe even beyond, & from history BOTH ANCIENT & RECENT! Basically it's "BIOGRAPHY!" but focused solely on WEIRDOS! Listen then repeat what you hear to sound smart at parties! STOP being MYOPIC! START being ESOTERIC! (Mmm! Yum!) Stay tuned True Believers! NEW EPISODES POSTED UP ON HUMPDAYS! Clear The Hump w/us as we provide Weekly Bios on strange/insane/shameful/lost/forgotten Misfits of History! Comedy/Conspiracy/True Crime/High Strangeness! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mike-lucht/support

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Yesterday · 1 hr 34 min
WEIRD WW2-HITLER'S MISSING TESTICLE (& OTHER ENIGMAS! ft. "Mr. Nasty!")
SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOKS! Welcome to the Kooks, Cranks, and Iconoclasts 222nd Episode Extravaganza! WITH EXTRA VAGANZA! AAAAAANNNNNNND! A SPECIAL GUEST! It's my little brother, Matt a.k.a. Jonas a.k.a. "MR. NASTY!" And this episode is potentially the first...
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Tuesday · 1 hr 25 min
OCCULT TREASURE HUNTING - "FINDERS V. KEEPERS"
SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! WOOOO! This episode puts a nice little bow on top of the Occult History of Money episodes. It's all about old timey occult treasure hunting, the rituals, the spooky spirit guardians, the corpses of saints, and the...
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November 7 · 1 hr 13 min
THE OCCULT HISTORY OF MONEY Pt.2 - "THE MIDAS CURSE & HOMUNCULI RUN AMOK!"
SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! MY BRAIN IS OFFICIALLY DEEP... FEKKIN'...FRIED! This one's heavy on the history of gold, heavy on history in general! Then, at the end, we examine money as an egregore, goetic demon "dark loops", algorithmic occult economics, and...
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November 6 · 1 hr 11 min
THE OCCULT HISTORY OF MONEY Pt.1 - "HELL MONEY & GREED DRAGONS!"
SUP KOOOOOOOOKS! WOOOOOO! SO MUCH IN THIS ONE! JUST LISTEN, YOU'LL BE GLAD/WEIRDLY UNCOMFORTABLE YOU DID! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com. SOURCES:- Heiliges Geld ("Sacred Money")...
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November 4 · 57 min
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! - "TWISTED FIRESTARTERS!"
SUP KOOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode is all about dat FIRE! We take a look at arsonists and pyromaniacs, pyrokinesis, SHC, fiery humanoid entities and elementals, mysterious rains of fire from the sky, plus strange "suicide clusters" of self immolation!...
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November 3 · 1 hr 39 min
OCCULT CRIME ATLAS: INDIA
SUP KOOOOOOOOOOKS! This here's another installment in the semi-regular series called THE OCCULT CRIME ATLAS! This one takes us to India, where there's a lot of human sacrifice, like a LOT! Holy shit! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!:...
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November 2 · 1 hr 17 min
RITUAL MURDER & DEATH BY DIVINATION - "HAPPINESS IS SOME WARM GUTS"
SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This here's my "Halloween-ish" episode! It's all about the history of ritual murder! More specifically, it's about for the purposes of diving the future. But what if it's something so deeply ingrained in the human psyche, that...
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November 1 · 45 min
TREPANATION - "HEAD LIKES A HOLE!"
SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode is an exploration...of trepanation...and that's my declaration. IT'S A CELEBRATION! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license and copyright free from Pixaby.com.SOURCES: -...
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October 27 · 1 hr 15 min
SALVADOR FREIXEDO & "THE HUMAN FARM" - "E-I-E-I-OHHH GOD NOOOO!"
WASSSSAAAAAPPPPPI SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOKS! In this episode, I've had to reroute some programming but perhaps it's for the best, as for the upcoming Halloween season, we're covering the dark theories of one SALVADOR FREIXEDO! A former Jesuit priest...
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October 21 · 45 min
CRYPTID CATCHERS - "GOTTA CATCH'EM ALL!"
SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode is exactly what it says on the tin! Put it up in ya! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kookandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com.SOURCES:- Keel, John. Our Haunted Planet (1970)...
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October 21 · 1 hr 12 min
WEREWOLVES? DOGMAN? GODDAMN!
HEYYOOOOOOOO! What's up you beautiful KOOOOOOOOKS! This episode covers werewolf and dogman encounters! AND! It's also the episode where Mike either reveals his ignorance or makes some enemies he's too tired to deal with! Or neither! But either way,...
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October 20 · 1 hr 48 min
HUMAN SACRIFICE & ULTRA-TERRESTRIAL BLOODLUST! - "KOSMONOSFERATU!"
AHHHHHH FUCK! I DON'T EVEN WANNA DO THIS PART! SPACE VAMPIRES Y'ALL! I'M SO TIRED! I GOTTA GET BETTER! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.comSOURCES: Scott Corrales' "Alien Blood Lust-Are...
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October 12 · 1 hr 46 min
A BESTIARY OF ASTRAL PREDATORS! (PRESENTED IN SICKLY SURROUND SOUND!)
SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! HEYYYOOO! This episode is a look at the various beasties that one might encounter whilst amidst walkabout amongst the astral plane! Not only that, but it's also full of tons of handy dandy tips and tricks on how to...
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October 10 · 42 min
ROBERT "BOB" MONROE & THE GATEWAY PROCESS - "THE PROJECTIONIST!"
HEYYOOOOOOO! WASSUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOKS! This episode covers the life and work of good old "Bob" Monroe and his creation of "The Gateway Process" and "hemi-sync" technologies! This episode acts as the primer for what comes next, as we begin to dip...
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October 10 · 1 hr 1 min
JOE FISHER, HUNGRY GHOSTS, & THE DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS - "SPIRITED DECEPTIONS"
Wanna learn it? Listen up! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.comSOURCES:Fisher, Joe, The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts, Paraview Press, 2001.Eliade, Mircea, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques...
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October 7 · 1 hr 26 min
THE SCIENCE OF CHANNELING & WALK-INS - "CALL 1-666-COLLECT"
HEYYYOOOOOOOO! SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOKS! This is a continuation of our look into the spirit world, specifically the act (and "art"?) of spirit/alien/praetor-human intelligence/ultra-terrestrial CHANNELING! Just open up your psychospiritual bits and let...
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October 6 · 1 hr 39 min
THE SCIENCE OF SPIRIT POSSESSION - "DSM-666!"
SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOKS! This is exactly what it says on the tin! ALSO! This episode is the first in a spooky season long series examining THE SPIRIT WORLD! WOOOOO! Oh wait, no, I meant BOOOOOOOOOO! No, no, no, that's not quite right...
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October 1 · 49 min
GENIUS LOCI, SPIRITS OF PLACE, & CRYPTIDS - "THE HILLS HAVE EYES...& ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC!"
SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! Show respect and pay your dues when in the hood of the nature spirits and cryptids. It's not just a good idea...IT'S THE LAW! Or at least, maybe it should be. AGAIN...like back in "ye olden tymes...es". PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email...
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October 1 · 35 min
HIGH STRANGENESS HORRORS OF THE VIETNAM WAR - "THE BUSH, THE FRONT, THE SHIT, & THE NANG!"
SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOKS! Man, if you thought the regular, everyday, manmade horrors of the Vietnam war were bad enough, just check out some of the extra weird shit that allegedly went down out there during the conflict! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email...
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October 1 · 59 min
THE STRANGE CASE OF CLAUDETTE SOUCHON - "AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!"
SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This is a WEIRD'UN! There's very little info on it and it's highly obscure but what we do know is just out and out strange. What happened to Claudette Souchon in 1978, as she went out on a horsey ride amongst her property? Listen...
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