This week Halli tells us all about bog bodies. Bogs provide a very unique environment that is incredibly good at preserving things, from butter, to well human bodies. Some of these mummies have been dated back 8000 years and others as recent as World War 2 tinyurl.com/HEXbogs

Catatumba means "House of Thunder" in the language of the Bari, the indigenous people of the area around Lake Maracaibo. A well deserved name for a place that receives 1.6 million lightning strikes a year tinyurl.com/HEXcatatumbo

Nathan tells us about a Canadian hero: Leo Major, known as the Rambo of Quebec, while Halli tells us about "anatomical venuses" incredibly detailed, accurate to life wax sculptures of women that could be disassembled to show the workings of human body tinyurl.com/HEXleo

This week we go back to Eden and look at some of the lasting impacts on the people that were involved and the land tinyurl.com/HEXeden2

In 2016 a UK show asked the question "What if we could start again?" and took 23 people and dropped them off in the wilderness of Scotland to see if they could survive and thrive for a year. The results were unexpected tinyurl.com/HEXeden

Whether you hate it or love it, swearing is a part of the human condition, but also turns out it has a much bigger impact than just being colorful language tinyurl.com/HEXswearing

We jump back into the story of Andy Blake, an abuser that uses fandom to find and trap victims. tinyurl.com/HEXAndy2

Before Icarus told his story of the FF7 House, there was Andy Blake and Bit of Earth, a Lord of the Rings fan forum. tinyurl.com/HEXAndy

This week is part two our episode on fandom where we talk about what it is, how it shaped us and its impact on culture tinyurl.com/HEXfandom2

This week we're going to talk about fandom, what is it, how it shaped us and its impact on culture tinyurl.com/HEXfandom

Once upon a time the greatest threat to a man's masculinity was if his woman rode a bicycle. So naturally, they had to make women feel bad about it. Let's talk about bicycle face tinyurl.com/HEXbicycle

It's easy to forget that the written language is still a relatively recent phenomenon in human history, we take for granted that everything in modern times is written down for good or for bad. But how did we get here? tinyurl.com/HEXwriting

Most history books will tell you that the Maori were the first inhabitants of New Zealand, first settling the islands between 1280-1350 CE, but Maori tradition tells of a different people nestled deep in New Zealand's foggy mountains: the Patupaiarehe tinyurl.com/HEXpatupaiar...

In 1947 at a care facility in Sweden, called Vipeholm, they undertook a horrific experiment, testing the effects of sugar consumption on tooth decay, and their subjects? The disabled, who neither consented or were aware such an experiment was done. tinyurl.com/HEXvipeholm

We celebrate another year around the sun for our dear podcast by reviewing this last year's topics and talking about any updates we have since found out tinyurl.com/HEX4years

300 million years ago life as we know it nearly ended in the frigid grasp of a seemingly unstoppable ice age, and trees may have be an the root of it tinyurl.com/HEXtrees

In 1764, the quiet countryside of Gévaudan, France, had become not so quiet. Something was killing people, but no one was quite sure what and still aren't to this day tinyurl.com/HEXgevauden

Part 2 of our grilling of Halli on what it takes to break into self-publishing. Halli explains the importance of editors, formatting, ISBNs, covers and so much more! tinyurl.com/HEXHalli2

In this two-part episode our hosts, Cayla, Nathan and Courtney get to grill Halli on what it takes to break into self-publishing. Halli explains the importance of editors, formatting, ISBNs, covers and so much more! tinyurl.com/HEXHalli

Princess Caraboo, or her real name Mary Baker, was a pretty average person, who lived an extraordinary life. If you can't find adventure, make your own tinyurl.com/HEXMaryBaker

Outside of Bristol on Apr 3 1817 a strange woman showed up. No one knew where she came from and stranger, no one could understand her. But In a little over a week everyone would know who she was: her name was Caraboo and she was a princess tinyurl.com/HEXcaraboo

"Eat shit". It's a phrase we've all heard, but have ever truly thought about it? Courtney tells us about coprophagy and Nathan talks a unique genre of music called Folk Metal tinyurl.com/HEXcrap

Trasmoz Spain, said to be the only village to be excommunicated by the Catholic Church in its entirety and with a pope approved curse tinyurl.com/HEXtrasmoz

This week Nathan tells us about the origins of Nashville Hot Chicken while Halli tells us about the binturong, a bizarre creature also known as a bear-cat tinyurl.com/HEXhotbintur...

This week we have a very special guest, Kate! A survivor of CMRI, the Congregation of Mary Immaculate queen, a high control Catholic group that has existed right under our noses for the last 50 years tinyurl.com/HEXKate

The yeongno is a character from Korean masked dances, a creature supposedly fallen from heaven that will only return once it has eaten 100 yangban, the noble elite of the Joseon era tinyurl.com/HEXyeongno

This week we dive back into Orcas and then take a look at the Korean monster, the yeongno, a creature supposedly fallen from heaven that will only return once it has eaten 100 yangban, the noble elite of the Joseon era tinyurl.com/HEXeattherich

People know a lot of things about cheetahs, they're really fast, they live in Africa, they're cool looking. What most people don't know is they are the most inbred creature on this planet tinyurl.com/HEXcheetah

This week Nathan is going to tell us about a weird time in American history between 1936 and 1941 where some thought the most American thing you could do was join a Nazi organization tinyurl.com/HEXbund

This week we get into part 2 of Halli's story on Jonathan Wild: Thief-Taker General, the first fence tinyurl.com/HEXwilde2

tinyurl.com/HEXwilde This week Halli tells us about Jonathan Wild: Thief-Taker General, the first fence. We go back to the early 1700s and explore the seedy underbelly of London and early organized crime.

tinyurl.com/HEXbite The BITE model is a system developed by Steven Hassan designed to identify when a group/organization is exhibiting dangerous cult-like behavior. We will go through the checklist and discuss which items the JWs practice and what makes them so dangerous

tinyurl.com/HEXnewhouse Courtney tells us about new house rituals; practices based in folklore, superstition or tradition designed to bring luck and prosperity or clear out bad energy in a new living space