The Bones and Bobbins Podcast

The Bones and Bobbins Podcast

Haley Pierson-Cox and Natali Heuss

Episodes 75
Avg. Duration 1h 30m
Activity Dormant
Since May 2020
Latest Episode Aug 2025

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Hosting
feed.podbean.com

About This Podcast

In the Venn diagram of crafting, true crime, and morbid curiosity, you’ll find Bones & Bobbins digging through dusty old boxes in a curiosity shop parked right at the center.

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Recent Episodes

S6E1 1 - Hauntings, Locally Speaking

Aug 19, 2025 1h 15m

S06E01: Local Cults, Formidable Foreheads, and a Haunted Forrest Join Haley and Natali at their local haunts. Literally. We have utopian cults, 1920s dance parties, and the spirits they've left…

S5E4 4 - Praise Cheeses, We're Back!

Aug 18, 2025 1h 13m

Secret cheese caves and dairy divination? Oh, yes. We're getting really cheesy with this one!   Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/episodes/

S5E3 3 - Postage Play and Courting: Love Victorian Style

Mar 06, 2024 1h 48m

S05E03: The very Victorian art of dating and the hidden codes in Victorian love letters.   Sit down for a bit of old fashioned Victorian dating advice, flirting etiquette, and fan wielding tips, then…

S5E2 2 - The Bewitching and Beguiling Power of Love Spells

Feb 06, 2024 1h 43m

S05E02: A brief history of love spells and how they’re still being used today.   As long as there have been people, there have been love spells. They’re sometimes beautiful, frequently horny, and…

S5E1 1 - Putting the Cult in Cutlery

Jan 22, 2024 1h

S05E01: The Oneida Cult. Ever wonder if your silverware was once in a questionable cult? No? Just us?   The Oneida Cult had some truly ahead-of-its-time views on sex and sexuality. And, if their…

S4E8 8 - Where Did You Find That Key? Secret Drawers, Hidden Compartments, and Locked Cabinets

Oct 13, 2023 1h

S04E08: The secret drawers, hidden compartments, and locked cabinets nestled into pieces of antique furniture. Because, who doesn’t want an excuse to look for indoor treasures on a crisp, cloudy fall…

S4E7 7 - Wait. Where did YOU come from?

Jul 28, 2023 1h 42m

S04E07: American islands that never lost their British accents (from the 16 and 1700s) and the unnatural origins of the Transatlantic Accent.   Learn some new (old) phrases from Hoi Toiders, Outer…

S4E6 6 - Dreadnought, Sink Not

Jun 14, 2023 1h 9m

S04E06: The USS Recruit (1917), the dreadnought in Union Square, and the Unsinkable Molly Brown   Like real historical stories that are way, way better than their legendary counterparts? Join us on a…

S4E5 5 - Traysure!

May 15, 2023 1h 29m

S04E05: Metal detecting, geocaching, and digging up stuff in your own backyard!   It’s digging in the dirt and tromping through the woods season! Come along with us while Haley contemplates metal…

S4E4 4 - The Deadly Garden

Apr 13, 2023 1h 23m

S04E04: Poisonous Plants and Drury Lane Gardens.   Take a stroll around a garden so dangerous that just walking through it can cause you to faint, then scamper off to the world of London’s pocket…

S4E3 3 - Paws, Claws, and Caws: The Lore of Black Cats, Crows, and Ravens

Mar 18, 2023 1h 26m

S04E03: The lore of black cats, crows, and ravens.   Us, to literally every black cat or corvid we see: Who’re our good little witches’ familiars? Sweet baby omens of doom? The bestest spooky…

S4E2 2 - Beauty and the Bikes

Feb 12, 2023 1h 18m

S04E02: Beauty entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker and Boston bicycling trailblazer Kittie Knox.   Fan of a multi-step beauty routine? (Same.) So, as it happens, was Madam C. J.…

S4E1 1 - You Can Be the President, I’d Rather Be the Pope

Jan 19, 2023 2h 12m

S04E01: Weird pope facts and the bizarro world that is Vatican City/the Vatican/the Holy See.   First: If you’re unfamiliar with the Prince song “Pope,” we highly recommend going down that weird…

S3E17 17 - Indigenous Badassery

Dec 01, 2022 1h 10m

S03E17: It’s National Native American Heritage Month, so we’re talking about stone cold badass Madame Marie Dorion, and the many ways in which Native and Indigenous Americans have contributed to…

S3E16 16 - Feminism on Wheels

Oct 23, 2022 1h 42m

S03E16: Victorian dress reform, the Rational Dress Society, and the history of bicycles.   For Victorian women, bicycles usher in both a newfound freedom and a new wave in practical, flexible…

S3E15 15 - Waxing Dramatic

Oct 12, 2022 1h 44m

S03E15: Madame Tussaud and her famed museum of lifelike wax figures, and Grand Guignol, a pioneering theater at the forefront of shockingly realistic body horror.   Marie Tussaud’s exceptional talent…

S3E14 14 - There’s No Place Like Utopia

Sep 26, 2022 1h 47m

S03E14: Celebration, Florida and Arcosanti, Arizona: Two very different approaches to building a (mostly failed) utopia.   Learning how to almost successfully thrive in the desert, and why we…

S3E12 12 - Professionally Sneaking

Aug 27, 2022 1h 25m

S03E12: The spy gadgets of WWII and a married couple–Jonna and Antonio Mendez–who were very real masters of disguise.   Spy craft meets spy crafts with lipstick compasses, pencil daggers, and a truly…

S3E11 11 - Our Bodies, Our Clothes?

Aug 13, 2022 1h 54m

S03E11: The history of women in pants and boobs in fashion.   Ah, yes. The perennial drama of possessing cleavage and/or legs. Show notes:…

S3E10 10 - The Tower in the Woods: The Brattleboro Retreat Tower

Aug 01, 2022 15m

S03E10: The Brattleboro Retreat Tower, a Victorian structure tucked away amongst the trees and boulders on a hiking trail in Vermont.   Haley goes solo this week with a tour of one of her new…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does The Bones and Bobbins Podcast have?

The Bones and Bobbins Podcast has published 75 episodes since May 2020, covering topics in Crafts, History.

Is The Bones and Bobbins Podcast still active?

The Bones and Bobbins Podcast is currently dormant with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 1h 30m.

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