Episode 65: Human Cannibalism and the Scottish Legend of Sawney Bean

Let's Get Haunted

Comedy

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week is a weird one. What started out as Aly researching the Scottish legend of Sawney Bean turned into a deep fried dive on cannibalism throughout the world. In some cultures, cannibalism in war is normal. In others, it's seen as part of the funerary process or as a way to rid oneself of disease. In western culture, eating the placenta is considered normal though technically it is also cannibalism. The episode ends with the question that philosophers, anthropologists, and scientists alike have grappled with for centuries: is cannibalism immoral? Alternatively, are water kelpies sick as fuck?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Let's Get Haunted!
0:16.9	With your host, Matt Straun, and Ali.
0:22.5	Welcome back guys to episode 65, I think.
0:26.3	Yes, episode 65.
0:28.1	And let's just get right to it.
0:30.2	Are you guys voting for us in this award thing?
0:32.3	I feel so embarrassed because we've been tweeting so much about it.
0:36.2	And if we don't win, that's just like really embarrassing.
0:39.0	I mean, if we do win, because I was thinking like, I have pissed off all of my followers
0:47.2	that don't care about Let's Get Haunted.
0:49.4	You know, like they just don't care about this.
0:51.5	So I'm sure they've like unfollowed or muted because I've been like just non-stop
0:56.4	talking about the shit they don't care about.
0:58.8	So like, you guys, I literally have thrown away like probably 60% of my clout for this stupid
1:05.6	fucking whale award.
1:07.0	So Alyssa can have it and be happy about it.
1:11.7	I wish that I didn't notice when people unfollow us on Twitter, but I do.
1:17.1	And we have absolutely lost some followers from this.
1:21.0	But you know what, you guys, if we win this Waley House award,
1:26.7	we can take a picture with it.
1:29.0	We can put it on our resumes.
1:30.9	We can put it in our media kit.
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