Hey, guess who started this episode?? Yep, it was Jess again! She takes us back to the 12th Century to meet an awesome woman who was a famous and recognized doctor of her time…and then was subsequently erased from history by male doctors and hi...

We're taking another break from the usual format of our show and answering a few questions that our lovely listeners submitted!Have a listen and get to know us a bit better!

Jess dives into the fascinating world of ZOMBIE ANTS!!! It’s actually just a really cool fungus…maybe not super cool for the ants that it prefers to infect and take control of… Ophiocordyceps unilateralis has very specific tastes and we probabl...

Things are back to normal and Jess starts off this episode with a Cryptid! (Hids was right, they must have ESP!)Jess tells us about a local to us cryptid: The Mogollon Monster! This is a variation of Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, but the Mogollon ...

In a rare turn of events, Hids kicks the episode off this week! They're sharing the possible urban legend of Black Eyed Kids! Are they just a viral story or are the reported encounters real? Are they aliens? (It's always aliens.) We take a look...

Jess kicks off this episode (again) with a fascinating discussion on the phenomena of sky trumpets! You'll have to decide if it's an actual audio phenomenon or just an internet hoax!Update: Hids might have heard a similar sound while in Tex...

This episode has a lot of synchronicities that surprised us both! Jess kicks it off with her discussion on Frank Lloyd Wright. We are both in love with his architectural style...but not so much with the man himself. While an obvious ge...

Jess and Hids both get on some FBI watchlist somewhere... Jess gives a rundown on the history of poison gardens, lists some plants to watch out for on your walks or in your own gardens, and finds an interesting person to cover in a future episo...

Turn off the lights, look in the mirror....chant 'Bloody Mary' three times....Jess dives into an urban legend: Blood Mary! Did you ever try this when you had a sleepover? Hids takes on the case of Dan 'D.B.' Cooper, the only uns...

Did you know that celery was once a prized table centerpiece and a symbol of just how wealthy and bougie you were? Did you also know there was (allegedly) a Venetian Mirror Mafia? Hids dives into things that were once only available to the incr...

This week, Jess talks to us about Floriography, or the language of flowers. Not the same language we talked about in last weeks episode with screaming daffodils though, this one is all about the meaning of flowers and how what flowers you send ...

We did something a little different with this episode and played a very ADHD version of 21 Questions with each other!We used a Teen Vogue list that you can find HERE, with ...

This week Hids gets to talk about an awesome woman from history! Kate Warne was the first female detective in the US and we seriously wish there was more information available about her! Jess talks to us about phobias and the diffe...

Y'all.... this one is hands down one of our favorites!Jess dives into a fantastic conspiracy theory that has Hids second guessing everything, and Hids talks about a cryptid that has very little information and may be a small conspiracy t...

Hids kicks off this episode with a dive into the alleged life and death of Joan Wytte from Bodmin, Cornwall, UK.Then Jess talks about logomisia, or word aversion. Heads up, if certain words make you cringe, you might struggle a bit with ...

Because life is crazy at the moment, we decided to postpone our next episode! We want to make sure we're giving you quality stuff that isn't haphazardly thrown together while we're both stressed about other things!BUT, we did want to sha...

#NotACryptid - We both learned new things this week as Jess takes us on a little trip to ancient China and the history of the Fu Dogs! We initially thought these were in the 'mythological beast' category but we found out they are really just li...

Jess discusses the stilt walking shepherds of France, and Hids discusses a bit of the history of slang!

Hids lost her voice! Sadly, we couldn't get a new episode out for you all this week, but we decided to release one of our Patreon-exclusive After Pie Sessions instead! (Head to Patreon for more ...

We didn't plan to have another Raven Riff so soon, but here we are! Travel time and some extra work hours pushed back our recording sessions and we had this one in our pocket ready to go.We really had fun watching this one. I...

In this week's episode, Jess takes us back to the mountains of Western North Carolina, a place that Hids knows and loves so well! We talk about the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights...are they spirits, aliens, mushrooms, or trains?

In this episode, Jess touches on the three different types of hair forensics, and Hids introduces us to our first cryptid, the Squonk!

Jess gets all the women! In this episode she talks about the Night Witches of World War 2, a group of Russian female pilots and mechanics that ran impossible missions against all odds.Hids shifts gears and talks about sports. Yeah, ...

Every so often, we're going to be dropping a movie 'review' of sorts instead of our typical podcast episode. This is where we riff on and discuss some wonderfully cheesy movie from the past, and then we'll give it a Raven Rating!

From the high seas to a cave somewhere in Greece, this episode dives into the myths and realities of the lives of pirates, and then we learn a little bit about math and the ancient philosopher/mathematician/musician/teacher etc., etc.: Pythagor...