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MonsterTalk

Blake Smith

MonsterTalk: The Science Show About Monsters is a free audio podcast that critically examines the science behind cryptozoological (and legendary) creatures, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or werewolves. 

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  • S5 · E49
    Yesterday · 38 min

    S05E49 - 🌀 Cryptozoology Today with Daniel Alan Jones

    Blake and Karen welcome back Daniel Alan Jones, investigative reporter, founder of the Texas Cryptozoology Network, and creator and host of The Vortex, for the second half of their conversation. Last week covered how Jones found his way into the...

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  • S5 · E48
    September 14 · 27 min

    S05E48 🌀Traditional Cryptozoology with Daniel Alan Jones

    Into the Field: A Conversation with Daniel Alan Jones, Part 1 Blake and Karen welcome Daniel Alan Jones, an investigative reporter, founder of the Texas Cryptozoology Network, and the creator and host of The Vortex, for the first half of a two-part...

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  • S5 · E47
    September 7 · 54 min

    S05E47 MT Legend Tripping: Paranormal England

    Karen and Matt are back from their trip to the UK and they share stories and photos from their whirlwind visit to a variety of (allegedly) haunted places. Blake makes jokes... and wishes he could go himself. https://patreon.com/monstertalk

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  • S5 · E46
    August 31 · 1 hr 16 min

    S05E46 FLASHBACK: England's Most Haunted Village

    Blake brings us a flashback to 2017, when he and Karen sat down withhttps://spooktator.co.uk/'s Hayley Stevens to talk about the (allegedly) most haunted village in England. Hayley is a British paranormal researcher who started out a believer and came...

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  • S5 · E45
    August 24 · 53 min

    S05E45 - Circus Train Wrecks 🎪🚂

    ⚠️Content Warning: This episode contains sustained discussion of animal injury and death, including the killing of working animals, animals shot after escaping, and graphic period newspaper accounts.⚠️ Blake and Karen discuss Circus Train Wrecks as...

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  • August 17 · 42 min

    🐺 S05E44 - Darwin and the Monsters (with Dr. Brian Regal)

    Blake welcomes back Dr. Brian Regal - historian of science, technology, and medicine, and now Professor Emeritus at Kean University - to talk about his final academic book, https://amzn.to/3S8cnhI. Regal has been a MonsterTalk guest since the show was...

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  • S5 · E43
    August 10 · 1 hr

    🏚️ S05E43 - The Peabody-Whitehead Mansion

    ⚠️ Content AdvisoryThis episode includes an extended discussion of a televised paranormal investigation in which a crew treated an alleged spirit-box recording about a sexual assault as cause for celebration. The hosts address the claim and the ethics...

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  • S5 · E42
    August 3 · 54 min

    ☠️S05E42 - THE BLACK DEATH🐀

    Blake and Karen are joined by http://history.fsu.edu/person/ben-dodds#:~:text=Ben%20Dodds%20has%20worked%20on,in%20his%20on-going%20work., author of https://amzn.to/4yTfMkK to discover more about a disease which forever changed world history when it...

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  • S5 · E41
    July 27 · 39 min

    🛸 S05E41 - Government Disclosure

    Blake and Karen welcome back paranormal investigator Matthew Baxter to sift through the latest government UAP release - the so-called PURSUE document dump - and work out what, if anything, is actually in it. Baxter took on the job of reading the...

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  • S5 · E37
    July 20 · 37 min

    🐂S05E40 - Cattle Mutilations: Part 2🛸

    ⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains frank discussion of animal death, carcass predation, and graphic descriptions of animal mutilation. Listener discretion is advised. Blake and Karen continue their conversation with religious studies scholar...

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  • S5 · E39
    July 13 · 39 min

    🐂S05E39 - Cattle Mutilations: Part 1🛸

    ⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of animal injuries and death. Both parts carry an explicit tag.⚠️ Blake and Karen welcome Lee Weiss, a religious studies scholar whose deep dive into the FBI's declassified cattle...

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  • S5 · E38
    July 6 · 45 min

    🦕 S05E38 - Champ Across the Border

    Champ Across the Border: Blake and Karen welcome back historian Dr. Joseph Gagné, a specialist in New France and the French colonial period of North America, to talk about Champ - the famous monster of Lake Champlain. Most of the lake sits between New...

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  • S5 · E37
    June 29 · 1 hr 5 min

    🪓 S05E37 - The Lizzie Borden Murders

    Note: This episode deals with murder and goes into some detail, so we're putting the "explicit tag" for the mature content, perhaps not suitable for all audiences. MonsterTalk steps outside its usual territory for a true-crime case with a paranormal...

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  • S5 · E36
    June 22 · 58 min

    S05E36 - The Chinnery Backseat Ghost

    A skeptical look at one of the most famous ghost photographs ever taken - the 1959 "backseat ghost" snapped by Mrs. Mabel Chinnery in Ipswich, England. This episode is distilled from a recent MonsterTalk Live stream with Blake, Karen Stollznow, and...

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  • S5 · E35
    June 15 · 58 min

    S05E35 The Newby Church Specter

    Blake, Karen and Matt discover that this famous ghost photo isn't as old as they expected, and perhaps not as mysterious either. Do we get it right? Do you have a different explanation? Let us know in the comments. 👻 The Spectre of Newby ChurchIn one...

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  • S5 · E34
    June 8 · 53 min

    S05E34 - Rakshasas

    Most Americans meet the Rakshasa in exactly two places: a 1974 episode of a beloved horror TV series and the pages of the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. Both versions give you a debonair, tiger-faced shape-changer with a taste for human flesh...

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  • S5 · E33
    June 1 · 1 hr 8 min

    S05E33 - The Devil Went Down to Devon

    On the morning of February 9, 1855, residents across south Devon, England, discovered strange hoof-shaped tracks in the snow. The prints - about 4 inches long, 3 inches wide, and spaced roughly 8 inches apart in single file - appeared to have been...

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  • S5 · E32
    May 25 · 52 min

    S05E32 - Monsters of the Deep with Dr. Darren Naish

    Darren joins Blake and Karen to discuss his new article in Geology Today, which grew out of his work on the Monsters of the Deep museum exhibition. That exhibition originally opened at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall in 2020,...

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  • S5 · E30
    May 11 · 38 min

    S05E30 - From Loup Garou to Rougarou with Louisiana Dread's Kyle Crosby

    This is part one of a two-part conversation. Blake and Karen are joined by Kyle Crosby, filmmaker, historian, and founder of https://www.louisianadread.com, a multimedia project dedicated to documenting the dark history, folklore, and culture of the...

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