Poddities

Happy Friday, friends! There's only six days left until Halloween, making this our second to last spooky episode of the season! 

Join us today as we share one of our favorite hometown stories, the Fox Sisters, and delve into the Spiritualism Movement (this is where the oozing ectoplasm comes into play, you'll have to listen to find out more) and ends with a fraught friendship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini.

Join us for our sixth episode! This Friday's release we're talking about chocolate! Yum. Then chocolate as medicine, and some other weird medications through history. Did you know ketchup was originally a medicine? It's true! And we finish off with a bit of a rough topic, the Battle Creek Sanitarium. 

Please note, there is a trigger warning for this episode.

From 33:00 - 33:48, we quickly touch base on some difficult topics - sex, masturbation, and genital mutilation. As you can see, it doesn't last long but if these are topics you'd like to avoid, once you hit the 33:00 mark in the episode, hit the "skip forward" button a couple times.

We dig this week's episode. Join us as we talk about Leonardo Davinci, the body trade, and the famous case of Burke & Hare. 

Back in the day, other than a patient's symptoms, a doctor had no real way to determine if a presenting illness was caused by arsenic poisoning. Join us this week as we talk about one of the most well known arsenic poisoning cases, and then we're going to break down the rumors surrounding the Inheritor's Powder and wrap it up with a look at some weird and deadly fashion and cosmetic trends. 

This week on Poddities join us as we discuss the historical arsenic eaters, deadly wallpaper, and the death of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Welcome back! This week we're starting off with some historical facts about fantastic beasts. Listen in to see where where go next! 

Friday the 13th, superstitions and fairy rings! 

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