WEIRD is an older, stranger word than most realize. It derives from the ancient root WERT, “to twist or to wind.” When we ask, “How did you wind up here?” or when we say, “I lost my keys, but then they turned up,” we get a hint of what WEIRD used to mean.
Originally WEIRD meant something like FATE.
WEIRD was “that which comes…” Whatever arrives unbidden, carrying some kind of IMPORT or MEANING, as if somehow sent, directed, dispatched from somewhere beyond is… WEIRD.
The Heights of Weird is a new investigative podcast about the things that turn up, the scary things you wind up finding—or that find you—when you pick up on a pattern and pay too much attention…
Spanning 10 years of research and three books, award-winning writer Barret Baumgart unearths the impossible in this paradigm breaking search for truth in the polluted backyard of Los Angeles and the badlands of the Mojave Desert.
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“Truth is stranger than fiction; but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn’t.” —Mark Twain
