This month, we’ve got a double-themed episode for you--we’ll start off with some news that’s thought provoking and positive (because we all need some positivity), and then we’re hopping on the train to Spooktober Town with some downright haunting stories. 

This month's stories:

"Whose Land Do You Live On?" Reminds Americans Colonization Happened in Their Backyards (Scientific American) 

Amber mentions the story Posting Your Hike on Instagram? Now You Can Tag Your Location’s Indigenous Name from Yes! Magazine

This Philadelphia museum hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees as tour guides for its Middle East gallery (PRI)

How a tribe in Karnataka fought and won a legal battle to stay in a tiger reserve (Scroll.in)

'Not everything was looted': British Museum to fight critics (The Guardian)

Learn more about-- and book tickets for!-- Uncomfortable Art Tours at The Exhibitionist

Millennial Aboriginal Australians Have Developed Their Own Language (Atlas Obscura)

Dermestid roundup:

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Identification of dermestid beetle modification on Neolithic Maltese human bone: Implications for funerary practices at the Xemxija tombs (Journal of Archaeological Science)

Chomp chomp chomp - https://twitter.com/jess_e_thompson/status/1046813046381957120

Secret identity of 150-year-old body found in NYC revealed (New York Post)

Are Humans Nutritious? Cannibalism Study Wins Ig Nobel Prize (Newsweek)

3,500-Year-Old Hand is Europe’s Earliest Metal Body Part (National Geographic)

Mummified Human Corpse Filled with Bees, Wasps and a Squirrel Discovered Hanging from Tree (Newsweek)

3,500-year-old pumpkin spice? Archaeologists find earliest use of nutmeg as a food (UW News)

‘Child VAMPIRE' burial ground discovered on archaeological dig in Italy (Express UK)

Murdered man's body found after tree 'unusual for the area' grew from seed in his stomach (Mirror UK)

The anthropology of heavy metal – meet the academic challenging the metalhead stereotype with actual hard research (NME)

Researchers Discover Neanderthal Child Was Devoured by a Giant Bird (Time)