Episode 74 Sources: More Spooky Christmas!
Another Christmas episode!? What a merry surprise. Grab some nog and join us to hear about a few spooky Christmas traditions we weren’t able to get to in our 2022 episode. Happy Holidays, and we’ll see you in the New Year! Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and more. Want to listen without the ads? Check out […]
Episode 73 Sources: A Not-So-Pagan Christmas Story
A lot of you have probably come across social media posts and even news articles that the holiday we know as Christmas is just ripoff of Pagan mythology and traditions. Meagan is joined by Substitute Sister Tyson Kemp to discuss and debunk many of these claims. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and more. You can find […]
Episode 72: Halloween Listener Stories IV
Welcome to our fourth (!!!) volume of Halloween Listener Stories. Yes, we know it’s almost a month after Halloween, but it’s always Halloween in our hearts, right!? Listen to hear us try to debunk three creepy tales featuring a haunted (?) hotel room, mysterious nocturnal jewelry removals, and a phantom smell. Have your own story […]
Episode 71 Sources: Dead & Buried – The History of Burial Practices with Amy Manlapas
Let’s talk about death, baby! Burying and memorializing the dead is typically thought of as a distinctly human (or at least hominid) act. In this episode, Meagan is joined by Substitute Sister and history teacher, Amy Manlapas, to talk about what that has looked like for the last few hundred thousand years (we’ve been digging […]
Episode 70 Sources: Alchemy & the Birth of Modern Science Featuring Dr. Brian Regal
Meagan is joined by Substitute Sister and Professor for the History of Science at Kean University, Dr. Brian Regal, to talk about the O.G. spooky science – alchemy and its influences on science as we know it today. Although alchemists came to be associated with gold, mysticism, the Philosopher’s Stone, and in some cases, fakery, […]
Episode 69 Sources: Mothman – The Cozy Cryptid, Featuring Ellen Weatherford
Meagan is joined by Substitute Sister and host of the Just the Zoo of Us and Spellbound & Gagged podcasts, Ellen Weatherford, to discuss the man, the moth!?, the legend – Mothman! Join us to hear all about the history and science behind one of America’s coziest cryptids, and get our thoughts on important questions […]
Episode 68 Sources: Short Five
It is time for our fifth round of Short & Spooky stories, which, according to The Fast and the Furious franchise naming scheme, must be called Short Five. This also means that we are bringing you five spooky stories and each one has to have some aspect including or related to the number five. There’s […]
Episode 67 Sources: The Cult of Personalities
Struggling to figure out who you are in this world? Never fear – there’s a test for that! In fact, there’s A LOT of them. In this episode, we discuss the historical origins of personality tests, and discuss two popular ones available today – the MBTI and the Big Five – with a focus on […]
Episode 66 Sources: The End of the World
Several times throughout human history, people have experienced extreme events that made them believe their world might be coming to end. In this episode, we discuss two of these terrifying times, the Late Antique Little Ice Age that began around 536 CE, and the Dust Bowl that plagued American and Canadian prairies from 1930-1936. We […]
Episode 65 Sources: Deepwater Horizon (Feat. Beyond the Breakers)
In this episode, Paige and Meagan are joined by Tanner and Taylor of the Beyond the Breakers podcast to talk about one of the worst environmental disasters in history – the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Because what’s scarier than an enormous explosion on a deep-sea drilling platform and massive oil spill caused by the “gross […]