HeyJaredThe Strange and Unusual Podcast
The unknown. It lies at the root of all fear, and has inspired legends, superstition, folklore, customs, hysteria, and even murder throughout history.
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The Cannibal In The Apothecary: 300 Years of Corpse Medicine (opens the original)
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For 300 years, Europeans ate human beings as medicine, with mummy powder, skull, the fat of the executed, and bought it over the counter from licensed apothecaries. During those same centuries, they were building an empire on the argument that the people they conquered were savages, because savages eat other people
10 Things in the Pacific Northwest Woods That Shouldn’t Be There (opens the original)
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This summer's woods tradition continues, in this episode we're heading into the Pacific Northwest. You'll learn about a mountain that grew a monster after it erupted, a lake that gave up its dead, a giant with a basket on her back, and the same rule they have three thousand miles away in Appalachia: if the woods call your name, don’t answer.
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