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Meghan Pavlovsky and Allison Varca

Out of the Average

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Meghan Pavlovsky and Allison Varca

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Out of the Average

Meghan Pavlovsky and Allison Varca

Out of the Average

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Do you have an experience with a Spirit Board/Ouija? While most have heard of a wild Ouija story from either a friend or seen it being used in horror movies - what some may not know that the Ouija has very unassuming origins. This week, Allison
Ahooooooooo Happy Halloween everybody! This week on O.O.T.A. Meg dives into the dark history behind European werewolf folklore. We uncover the heinously real criminal acts that were portrayed as supernatural atrocities committed by werewolves.
We are finally back after a longer than planned hiatus, friends, and just in time for spooky season! Meg and Allison catch up on some spooky travels and spooky events they went on separately during the podcast break and then chat about some "ou
We present to you our short and sweet Media Review Episode for July 2021! Note: We plan on taking a midsummer hiatus for the month of August. See you all in September.Recorded and Edited by Allison Varca and Meghan Pavlovsky. Music Credits to
This week's episode covers a unique and interesting creepy pasta that influenced the first season of a Syfy tv show! Allison takes a little bit of time today to talk about Candle Cove, a fictional forum discussing a “forgotten” children’s tv sh
This week Meg dives into the roots of the Spiritualism Movement in the United States- the Fox Sisters. We start by talking about the incident in 1848 New York which kicked off a career of celebrity mediumship for Maggie, Kate, and Leah Fox. Kee
This week's topic for the pod is not quite "out of the average" but definitely interesting all the same. Allison goes over basic game theory to introduce Meghan to three well-known and puzzling game theory dilemmas: The Prisoner's Dilemma, the
*Explicit Content Mentioned* You guys know the drill. The fourth Friday of the month is our media episode! Check time stamps below to see what we are chatting about. Happy listening! Time StampsMeg and Allison's Origin Story 3:11Movies:Mids
Happy summer y'all! The summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere is just a few days away from the release of this episode so we figured we'd go into a little bit of the history and practices of Midsummer! Stick around for the end of the episo
Twin Flames - do we all have one? Or more importantly - do we all need one? This is potentially a more polarizing topic for the podcast this time around but why not!? While we have our own thoughts and opinions on twin flames, we actually were
While there is definitely something so healing about being around huge bodies of water, under the depth, some lakes can hold some spooky secrets. This episode, we are chatting about two different lakes: Lake Lanier in North Georgia and Long Isl
Happy Fourth Friday of the Month! We have three items on the agenda for May 2021's media episode! Check out time stamps below to see what we are tackling. Happy listening!Recorded and Edited by Allison Varca and Meghan Pavlovksy. Music Credits
Have you ever heard of a tulpa before? Or perhaps have you made one? This week Meghan gives the lowdown on what exactly a tulpa is - a concept steeped in Tibetan Buddhist theology,  adapted by Theosophists in the early 20th century, and reshape
If you're a fan of any kind of spooky media, surely you've heard of a haunted doll before. This week Meg and Allison go into the true stories behind a few of the most well known possessed dolls that you may have seen. Check it out and let us kn
Could there possibly be in an invisible string connecting us to others - potentially in this case, the one we are destined to be with? This week, Allison introduces the concept as well as a few original myths of the "Red String of Fate," that o
Happy Fourth Friday of the Month! Check the time stamps below to see what media we consumed this month. Happy listening!Recorded and Edited by Allison Varca and Meghan Pavlovsky. Music credits to Michael Vontas.Time Stamps:Books: The Silent
Did you know that Long Island had its own local witch trial, one that took place almost 35 years before those in Salem? This week Meg tells Allison all about the witchcraft trial of Goody Garlick of East Hampton. Take a listen and let us know w
The second of two episodes released this week! Meghan and Allison discuss the concept of liminality for the first time on the pod. What do you immediately think of when you hear the word "liminality"? Is it more concrete or more supernatural to
Hey everybody! Here's a freshly recorded retake of an episode we tried to get out for you guys last week. This week, Meghan tells Allison and guest Melissa about a possible origin of April Fool's Day, centered around an ancient Roman festival f
It's the fourth Friday of the month so hello media episode!! You can check out what we talked about and when by checking out the time stamps below. Happy Friday and happy listening!Video Games:Paradise Killer 1:00T.V.:The Disastrous Life of
Did you know you could calculate the numbers of your birthday and name to uncover different parts of your path and personality? Piggybacking off of last week's episode about our main man, Pythagoras, we are diving into some Chaldean and Pythago
Throwback to mentioning Pythagoras in our episode "Cults, Crackers, and Cornflakes" - we are releasing a whole episode on (potentially?) our favorite "semi-divine" mathematician. There is a lot more mysticism and suspicion around Pythagoras tha
This week we have a short and (not so) sweet episode about a mysterious disappearance across the pond in the Outer Hebrides. Meg tells Allison about the story of three lighthouse keepers who vanished without a trace in 1900. Take a listen and l
Happy Fourth Friday of the Month (oops...we broke the rule last month!) - we present to you our Out of the Average Media episode of February.Below are timestamps so you can see what we are talking about and featuring in this episode! Apps:Ra
*Trigger Warning: Death and Grief, Sex.We love guest episodes! Jamie Schumann joins us this episode to chat about her work as a budding breathwork practitioner in her business, Inner Collective Garden. While on the pod, we talked about dreams
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