The Man Who Studied Ghouls: TC Lethbridge and Weird Archaeology (with Lisa Grimm) by Wide Atlantic Weird

Ancient chalk figures, Arctic exploration, pendulums, and emotions 'recorded' onto the landscape: TC Lethbridge dabbled in them all, and remains an important figure in mid-20th century alternative thinking. Lisa from the Beer Ladies Podcast joins us at the cabin to talk about Lethbridge. We cover: -Lethbridge’s early archaeological career -Lethbridge as an institution figure vs an outsider -The imperial era of archaeology and exploration -The Mildenhall Treasure -‘Lost white race’ theories -The disputed Cambridge chalk figures -Lethbridge’s pendulum ideas -early takes on the ‘Stone Tape’ theory -Colin Wilson promoting TC Lethbridge -A ‘ghoul’ as a physical area of negative energy Some links: Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic T.C. Lethbridge: The Man Who Saw The Future, Terry Welbourn, 2011 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21082097-t-c-lethbridge Lisa on Twitter https://twitter.com/lisagrimm Beer Ladies Podcast https://twitter.com/beerladiespod Picture from Iron Man Records https://www.flickr.com/photos/ironmanrecords/49818188947

Behind the Bookshelves

(Haunted) Beer History: The Rise & Fall of the Lemp Dynasty

Today's beer history installment is something of a micro-level view of my previous column on German-American brewers—but this one has a Halloween twist. The story of the rise and fall of the Lemps, once one of America's most powerful brewing families, reads like something out of gothic fiction; and, as would be entirely appropriate for that genre, some say that they've never left.