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Odd Anthropology
By Ivy Boyd and Taisha KosterHistory
Odd Anthropology episodes
- 16: Orkney - Skara Brae (And Buddo!)
This month, Taisha takes us back to our dream home of Scotland and one of its most in-tact Neolithic settlements. Get ready for some fun archaeological discussions, meet our new bestie Buddo, and enjoy it all with a dash of whimsy and some extra bloopers inserted at the end of the episode.
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Email: [email protected]Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay
38 min - 15: The Curse of King Tut's Tomb!
Welcome back friends! This month, let's take a closer look at the origins of the alleged curse behind the opening of the tomb of King Tutankhamun...
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Email: [email protected]Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay
Resources used for this episode:
Owen Jarus, "King Tutankhamun: Life, death and mummy of ancient Egypt's boy pharaoh", Live Science, 2024
Wikipedia Pages (Listen, SOMETIMES they are useful!)
- George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
- Tomb of Tutankhamun
Curse of the pharaohs36 min - 14: Curious Considerations Vol. II - One Year Anniversary! (Voting for Favorite Episode of 2025)
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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Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay
27 min - 13: Ghosts!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!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oddanthropology/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oddanthropologySubstack: https://oddanthropology.substack.comEmail: [email protected]Music by Joel Fazhari from PixabaySuggested 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)
40 min - 12: Bipedalism and Sasquatch!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 Pixabay48 min - 11: What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?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, 201548 min - 10: Lilias AdieHappy 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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Email: [email protected]
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-Read44 min - 9: The Paris Catacombs Pt. 2 (The ghosts!)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.html30 min - 8: The Paris Catacombs Pt. 1The 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/history36 min - 7: Homo FloresiensisAlso known as the "hobbits", this early human stood at around three feet tall and may be involved in local folklores...
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Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay
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-floresiensis38 min
About Odd Anthropology
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Taisha Koster (BA in anthropology) and Ivy Boyd (anthropology student) bring you fascinating stories of the stranger side of humanity. New episode every month.