Episodes

  • 14: Curious Considerations Vol. II - One Year Anniversary! (Voting for Favorite Episode of 2025)

    14: Curious Considerations Vol. II - One Year Anniversary! (Voting for Favorite Episode of 2025)
    Feb 1 2026

    This month, hosts Taisha and Ivy (future Vampire Hunters) round up last year’s subjects and let the listeners vote on their favorites! Who do you think would win in a fight between Tollund Man and Piltdown Man? Could Nessi beat them all? Join us and find out! We also chat some more about reoccurring enemy of the podcast IMPOSTER SYNDROME and discuss degree-seeking in anthropology. It's a great time, we promise!

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    27 mins
  • 13: Ghosts!

    13: Ghosts!
    Dec 29 2025
    What is a ghost? How long have we believed in them? Have they changed over time? This month, host Ivy decides to wrap up 2025 with an episode on ghosts by sharing some history and notable examples through time.

    We owe a HUGE thank you to everyone who has tuned in this year, and we cannot wait to be back again in 2026 with more stories of odd anthropology!

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    Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay

    Suggested reading/videos:

    • Dr. Irving Finkel, “The First Ghosts”, Hodder, 2021
    • Dr. Justin Sledge, “The Evolution of Ghosts”, Esoterica (YouTube), 2025
    • JoAnn Scurlock, “Mortal and Immortal Souls, Ghosts and the (Restless) Dead in Ancient Mesopotamia”, Religion Compass, 2016
    • Project Gutenberg - Pliny the Younger Letters to Licinius Sura (LXXXIII)
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    40 mins
  • 12: Bipedalism and Sasquatch!

    12: Bipedalism and Sasquatch!
    Nov 12 2025
    This month, Taisha covers the basics of our bipedal (walking on two feet) evolution, using it to segway into the fascinating topic of SASQUATCH! Join us for casual conversations regarding our favorite Bigfoot theories, notable stories and encounters, and more on this illusive creature/spirit/alien... who knows!

    YouTube videos mentioned in this episode:

    Indigenous history and accounts - https://youtu.be/ApbXUAAeAWw?si=TilLw5aXXpt1l7zc

    Ape Canyon Attack - https://youtu.be/4tp0A2zg6fs?si=gtBzRA-33s7cVMF_

    Capturing Bigfoot with Nutella (Haunted Objects Pod) - https://youtu.be/js7kMSV0NuE?si=V3rXf8HdFV0ABnQ6

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    Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay
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    47 mins
  • 11: What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?

    11: What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
    Oct 6 2025
    IT'S THE BEST MONTH OF THE YEEEAAR! Let's celebrate with a subject most befitting: The Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Specifically, host Ivy talks about what events actually led to this deadly event. Was it all a land grab? Misogyny? Ergot poisoning? Let's find out!

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    Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay

    Resources used for this episode:

    Bolitho, Riley. The New England Puritans: History, Social Order, and Gender, Perspektywy Kultury, 2021;34(3):59-72

    Linder, Douglas O. The Witchcraft Trials in Salem: An Account, UMKC School of Law, famous-trials.com/salem/2078-sal-acct. Accessed 29 June 2025.

    Parker, Geoffrey. Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century, “The Little Ice Age”, 1st ed. 2013 Yale University Press

    Schiff, S. (2015) The Witches: Salem 1692, New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2015
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    47 mins
  • 10: Lilias Adie

    10: Lilias Adie
    Sep 2 2025
    Happy September! Or shall we say, “Cemtember”. This month, Taisha eases us further into spooky season with a story involving some of our favorite topics: Scotland, witches, archaeology, a grave, and a missing skull… Can we solve the mystery? Probably not. But Scotland, please hire us to at least give it a try!

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    Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay

    Resources used for this episode:

    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41928/41928-h/41928-h.htm
    https://fifecoastandcountrysidetrust.co.uk/witches-trail/
    https://www.differentia.co.uk/news/2020/10/2/fife-witches-trail
    https://engole.info/lilias-adie-witch/
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/wanted-missing-bones-scottish-witch-180973033/
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-41775398
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-29689688
    https://witches.hca.ed.ac.uk/faq/
    https://www.britannica.com/place/Fife-council-area-Scotland
    https://www.thenational.scot/news/17859215.bid-find-missing-bones-scottish-witch-feared-rise-dead/
    https://museumblog.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2020/09/15/witchcraft-and-mystery-or-the-object-that-never-was-in-our-collection/
    https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/A0457F3E3512CC1B3B342D118B9CE53E/S0009640700109655a.pdf/the-scottish-witchcraft-act.pdf
    Witches of Scotland Podcast – Episodes 21, 22, & 23
    Mill Dust and Dreaming Bread – Scott Richardson-Read
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    44 mins
  • 9: The Paris Catacombs Pt. 2 (The ghosts!)

    9: The Paris Catacombs Pt. 2 (The ghosts!)
    Aug 19 2025
    We are excited to announce our new collaboration with Bath & Body Works, featuring the highly anticipated Corpse Wax line! (Just kidding though, don't get mad Bath & Body Works!) Today, Ivy wraps up her two-part series on the Paris Catacombs with some of its most famous ghostly tales.

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    Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay

    Resources used for this episode:

    The Unexplained The Haunted Catacombs of France for Medium
    https://medium.com/@TheUnexplained/the-haunted-catacombs-of-france-2ca1c5228169

    Leyla Alyanak 9 Eminently Haunted Places in Paris for Off Beat France
    https://www.offbeatfrance.com/most-haunted-places-in-paris.html
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    29 mins
  • 8: The Paris Catacombs Pt. 1

    8: The Paris Catacombs Pt. 1
    Aug 1 2025
    The Paris Catacombs (well, its actually an "ossuary") is one of the most famous tourist attractions in France. Floor to ceiling human bones, along with the dark, cave-like nature of the catacombs, gives this location a somber, macabre, yet intriguing appeal. For this episode, co-host Ivy shares the history of its creation and dives into the issue of ethics often brought up when discussing human remains which have been used in such a manor. (How does this tie in with anthropology, you might ask? Um…old bones…yeah, we can justify its discussion here on Odd Anthro!)

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    Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay

    Resources used for this episode:

    Jessica Pearce Rotondi The Dark Origins of the Paris Catacombs (November 2023, updated May 2025) for HISTORY
    https://www.history.com/articles/paris-catacombs-origins

    Philibert Aspairt for Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philibert_Aspairt

    Les Catacombes de Paris - History
    https://www.catacombes.paris.fr/en/history
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    36 mins
  • 7: Homo Floresiensis

    7: Homo Floresiensis
    Jul 1 2025
    Also known as the "hobbits", this early human stood at around three feet tall and may be involved in local folklores...

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    Resources used for this episode:

    https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-floresiensis
    https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/homo-floresiensis-hobbit.html
    https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homo-floresiensis/
    https://aeon.co/ideas/investigating-homo-floresiensis-and-the-myth-of-the-ebu-gogo
    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/16/flores-hobbit-human-downs-syndrome-claim-homo-floresiensis
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    37 mins