Spooktober: Topics to Startle and Love
One of the earliest known photos of the Paris Catacombs, photographed by Nadar in 1861
Lean in. Freak out. Fill your skull with spooky scientific facts that will chill you to the bone!
🦉 Strigiformology (OWLS) with Dr. R.J. Gutiérrez
🚣♀️ Haunted Hydrology (SPOOKY LAKES) with Geo Rutherford
🪳 Blattodeology (YES, COCKROACHES) with Dr. Dominic Evangelista
🥛 Bonus Episode: COCKROACH MILK with Dr. Joshua Benoit and Dr. Sinead English
🧿 Critical Ponerology (WHAT IS “EVIL”?) with Dr. Kenneth MacKendrick
☠️ Historical Toxicology (OLD TIMEY POISONS) with Deborah Blum
🌚 Serpopsychology (WHAT’S CREEPY?) with Dr. Frank McAndrew
🐍 Crotalology (RATTLESNAKES) with Dr. Emily Taylor
🕷️ Araneology (SPIDERS) with Dr. Marshal Hedin
🍬 Confectionology (CANDY) with Susan Benjamin
🧻 Momiology (MUMMIFICATION) with Dr. Kara Cooney & Dr. Salima Ikram
⛏️ Speleology (CAVES) with Dr. Gina Moseley
🤢 Disgustology (REPULSION TO GROSS STUFF) with Dr. Paul Rozin
😇 Quasithanatology (NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES) with Dr. Bruce Greyson
🧟 Neuroparasitology (NATURE ZOMBIES) with Matt Simon
👹 Teratology (MONSTERS) with W. Scott Poole
🍏 Pomology (APPLES) with Dr. Susan K. Brown
🧙 Witchology (WITCHES) with Fio Gede Parma
🧛 Vampirology (VAMPIRES) with Dr. Jeff Holdeman
🦴 Metropolitan Tombology (PARIS CATACOMBS) with Dr. Erin Marie Legacey
😱 Screamology (LOUD VOCALIZATIONS) with Dr. Harold Gouzoules
🪦 Taphology (GRAVESITES) with Robyn S. Lacy
🪩 Kinetic Salticidology (DANCING SPIDERS) with Sebastian Echeverri
🍁 Phenology (SEASONS) with Dr. Libby Ellwood
💀 Osteology (SKELETONS/BODY FARMS) with Dr. Danny Wescott
🎃 Cucurbitology (PUMPKINS) with Anne Copeland
🕸 Spidroinology (SPIDERWEBS) with Dr. Randy Lewis
👹 Demonology (EVIL SPIRITS) with Dr. Alyssa Beall
🦇 Chiropterology (FRIGGIN’ BATS) with Dr. Merlin Tuttle
⚰️ Thanatology (DEATH & DYING) with Cole Imperi
🦅 Corvid Thanatology (CROW FUNERALS) with Dr. Kaeli Swift
🪶 Condorology (CONDORS & VULTURES) with Dr. Jonathan C. Hall
🐛 Forest Entomology (CREEPY CRAWLIES) with Dr. Kristen Wickert
📚 Anthropodermic Biocodicology (HUMAN LEATHER BOOKS) with Megan Rosenbloom and Dr. Daniel Kirby