MonsterTalk
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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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 458
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
Yokai Attack!
This week on MonsterTalk, we interview Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda, authors of Yokai Attack! The Japanese Monster Survival Guide, a book which details many folkloric monsters of Japan. From the slash-mo…
00:53:51 |
Wed 12 Sep 2012
The Blair Fish Project
For thousands of years, people who made their living by working the sea have reported creatures that appeared to be half-human and half-fish. Some of these stories are legends and fairy tales, but mo…
01:05:58 |
Wed 22 Aug 2012
Assault and Giant Battery
For decades, legends of a giant sexually-assaulting bat-creature have trickled out of Zanzibar. In this episode of MonsterTalk we interview Ben Radford about his investigation of the creature and the…
01:00:48 |
Wed 08 Aug 2012
Skeptics are Redoubtable
The hosts of MonsterTalk interview Sharon Hill, creator of the website Doubtful News. The discussion includes updates on the latest in monster news trends, as well as information about The Amaz!ng Me…
01:16:24 |
Wed 13 Jun 2012
Qu'est Que C'est?
Remorseless killers are the stuff of countless films. Sadly, the real world has even more of them. Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy, H. H. Holmes, John Wayne Gacy—these remorseless psychopaths filled grave…
00:51:20 |
Wed 02 May 2012
Onan the Jar Burying
In modern science the homunculus refers to various models of the human mind, but in medieval times it was something quite different. Join us for a fascinating interview with professor William R. Newm…
00:52:12 |
Wed 25 Apr 2012
ThylaCinema and Nocturnal Submissions
Join the hosts of MonsterTalk for an interview with Daniel Nettheim, director of a new film about a man hunting for thylacines. The Hunter stars Willem Dafoe as the eponymous character tasked with se…
00:26:20 |
Wed 04 Apr 2012
What the Bigfoot market will bear
In the forests of Pennsylvania, on a dark September night, a trail-cam took a series of controversial pictures. The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) still claims they show a juvenile Big…
00:54:52 |
Wed 28 Mar 2012
Hell Hath No Furry!
Episode 50 of MonsterTalk takes us to a small English village in the 1570s where a morning church service is interrupted by a horrific storm which heralds, perhaps, the appearance of Satan himself in…
01:18:37 |
Wed 07 Mar 2012
Internet Video Hoaxes: A Mammoth Undertaking
Did you see that popular Internet video that allegedly showed a mammoth crossing a river in Siberia? You probably figured it was a hoax—and we did too—but we decided to get to the bottom of the matte…
01:25:51 |
Wed 22 Feb 2012
Monsters in America (interview with Scott Poole)
This week on MonsterTalk, the hosts talk with the author of Monsters In America, Dr. Scott Poole. His book chronicles the history of monsters from colonial America to modern times—and tries to tackle…
01:11:54 |
Wed 08 Feb 2012
Something Wiccan This Way Comes
In this episode of MonsterTalk, two skeptics interview a witch about how to battle evil with magic. Emily Carlin is a magical instructor at The Grey School—an online magical university and the author…
01:05:31 |
Wed 18 Jan 2012
Squatching with The Krampus
By popular demand, we take a brief aside into fantasy to talk with one the more sinister figures associated with the Winter Holidays: The Krampus. Then we get a bit more serious as we welcome one of …
01:38:33 |
Wed 21 Dec 2011
Unbottling some Jinn
If you think Genies are funny like in Aladdin, or sexy like in I Dream of Jeannie get ready to have your assumptions challenged. In the Middle East, Jinn aren’t whimsical characters of fantasy. They …
01:07:34 |
Wed 07 Dec 2011
Paranormality: Psychic Dogs, Ghosts and Silly Voices-an Interview with Richard Wiseman
WHILE AT TAM9, the hosts of MonsterTalk sat down to talk with psychologist Richard Wiseman about his new book Paranormality: Why we see what isn’t there. It was supposed to be a chat about the parano…
00:42:43 |
Wed 09 Nov 2011
Crypt O' Zoology: Dinosaurs in Africa!
From The Lost World to Alley Oop to The Flintstones, the idea of dinosaurs and humans living together has captured the imagination of readers across the globe. But there are some who believe that thi…
00:54:30 |
Wed 26 Oct 2011
Bad Wolf
On November 8, 2005 Canadian geological engineering student Kenton Carnegie went for a walk. He told people that he’d be back by 5 pm. When he hadn’t returned by 7 pm, a search party went out and dis…
00:25:32 |
Wed 05 Oct 2011
The Big Bad Wolf
CHANCES ARE IF YOU LISTEN to MonsterTalk you probably like nature documentaries. No doubt you’ve seen stories about wolves and heard words to the effect that wolves are often maligned and that wolves…
01:10:27 |
Wed 21 Sep 2011
Dead Men Are a Ghoul's Best Friend
IN THIS EPISODE of MonsterTalk we discuss Ghouls and their real world counterpart: cannibals. The hosts are joined by Carole A. Travis-Henikoff, author of Dinner With A Cannibal: The Complete History…
00:55:02 |
Wed 07 Sep 2011
A Connecticut Haunting in a Keen Author's Court
The 2009 film The Haunting in Connecticut is purported to be based on true events. Similarly, there was the 2002 documentary A Haunting in Connecticut (which aired on The Discovery Channel and helped…
00:50:06 |
Wed 10 Aug 2011
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