Content Warning: This episode includes detailed discussion of death, historical embalming practices, and historical cannibalism.
For Spooky Season 2025, the gang ventures deep into the topic of mummies, and how they relate to Western horror fiction, cultural anxieties, history, heritage, and dubious medical practices. In their travels through time, they encounter Chinchorro grief, Germanic mysteries, and Floridian brains. Sophia unwraps rare British foods. Cindy dispels curses. Harrison unloads his headcanon.
In this episode:
"Bubba Ho-Tep" (2002)
"Encino Man" (1992)
"The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro" (from The Collector)
"From the Dark" (2014)
"The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine" (From Smithsonian Magazine)
"Lot No. 249" by Arthur Conan Doyle
"Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones" by Georgiana Burne-Jones
"The Mummy" (Universal Pictures franchise)
"The Mummy's Foot" by Theophile Gautier
Natural History Museum of Utah
"Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo" by Mary Douglas
"7 Surprising Uses For Mummies" (from Britannica.com)
"To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum" by Edward Bleiberg
"Under Wraps" (1997)
