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
Ancient Alien Astronauts: Interview with Ken Feder
Did ancient humans gain their technological achievements through the assistance of creatures from other planets? This week on MonsterTalk, Dr. Feder, an archaeology professor who has taught a course …
01:20:55 |
Wed 27 Jul 2011
Hayley Stevens’ Lake Monster Mysteries
There are very few people who make their living hunting monsters. For most of us who investigate such mysteries, it is a labor of love. Today on MonsterTalk we get to talk with one of our listeners a…
00:39:18 |
Wed 06 Jul 2011
Searching For Sasquatch
Is cryptozoology science or pseudoscience? Do scientists ever really study cryptozoology, or merely ignore the field entirely? This week we dig into the history of Cryptozoology itself—focusing on th…
01:00:18 |
Wed 08 Jun 2011
The Zombie Autopsies
This week on MonsterTalk, we interview Harvard medical doctor Steven Schlozman, author of The Zombie Autopsies and get inside the walking dead to discuss a plausible mechanism for the zombie apocalyp…
00:51:02 |
Wed 11 May 2011
Tracking the Manbeasts
Renowned investigator Joe Nickell returns to MonsterTalk to discuss his latest book Tracking the Man-beasts: Sasquatch, Vampires, Zombies, and More—a survey of a human-like monsters that runs the gam…
00:51:49 |
Wed 20 Apr 2011
Resurrecting the Extinct
Plenty of people have hypothesized about being able to bring back an extinct animal, but (so far as the MonsterTalk team knows) the only person who has successfully brought an extinct animal’s gene b…
00:44:14 |
Wed 30 Mar 2011
Is The Skookum Fair Dinkum?
In the year 2000 startling claims of a body cast of a Bigfoot emerged from the deep woods of Washington State. More than a decade later, MonsterTalk interviews Bigfoot researcher Daniel Perez about t…
01:02:46 |
Wed 16 Mar 2011
Tracking the Chupacabra
This week MonsterTalk co-host Benjamin Radford becomes the interviewee! Radford discusses his newest book, Tracking the Chupacabra. The culmination of a five-year investigation, this book may provide…
00:41:11 |
Wed 02 Mar 2011
Unmasking the Ninja
This week the hosts of MonsterTalk take on the mysterious, mystical, legendary menace of the ninja! Should ninjas be considered monsters? They come out at night, have mysterious powers and use fear a…
00:51:29 |
Wed 26 Jan 2011
Ethnobiology - A Lizard's Tale
IN THIS EPISODE, the MonsterTalk crew interviews Dr. Tony Russell, a professor at the University of Calgary who studies evolutionary and functional morphology in geckos. Dr. Russell’s work includes e…
01:07:44 |
Wed 12 Jan 2011
A Bestiary of Creatures
Author Christopher Dell has collected an astonishing array of art from around the world depicting many obscure and mysterious creatures in his new book Monsters: A Bestiary of Devils, Demons, Vampire…
00:58:46 |
Wed 22 Dec 2010
The Iceman Goeth
Late in the 1960s, in the era which gave us the famous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film, fairgoers in Minnesota were confronted with a marvel: a hairy, primitive-looking humanoid frozen in a block of ic…
01:12:13 |
Wed 01 Dec 2010
On Monsters
This week on MonsterTalk, author Stephen Asma (Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College Chicago) speaks about his comprehensive book surveying Western monster-lore. Is humankind’s fascination with…
00:54:26 |
Wed 03 Nov 2010
The Rise of Bat Boy
In the pantheon of American monsters, only one truly dominated the newspapers of the 1990s. Checkout lines everywhere were haunted by the bald-headed, wide-mawed visage of Bat Boy. What was Bat Boy, …
00:59:09 |
Wed 20 Oct 2010
Dragon*Con's Skeptrack 2010
THIS WEEK’S EPISODE was recorded before a live studio audience at Dragon*Con’s Skeptrack 2010 (in Atlanta, Georgia). MonsterTalk hosts Ben Radford and Blake Smith bravely faced the horror of live que…
01:00:28 |
Wed 29 Sep 2010
Just Scratching the Surface
MonsterTalk frequently explores tales of imaginary monsters — creatures of myth, fiction, and folklore. Today, the hosts consider a real creature, one that preys on humans and their closest animal co…
01:12:28 |
Wed 15 Sep 2010
Cryptozoology & Science, Part 2
This week, MonsterTalk continues its discussion of the intersection between science and cryptozoology. The hosts interview Dr. Donald Prothero and Daniel Loxton, who are working on a book that will g…
00:32:53 |
Wed 01 Sep 2010
Cryptozoology & Science: Part 1
What is cryptozoology? Is it science? Is it folklore? Does it make predictions? In part 1 of a 2-part series, MonsterTalk examines cryptozoology as a field, including speculation on the cryptids most…
01:05:02 |
Wed 11 Aug 2010
The Columbus Poltergeist (featuring James Randi)
In 1984, objects began to fly around the room in the presence of a Columbus Ohio teen named Tina Resch. The local paper claimed this was a poltergeist attack, and published photos to prove it. Tina’s…
00:50:45 |
Wed 21 Jul 2010
Cthulhu Rises
In this special literary edition, MonsterTalk ventures into a dark domain that can be confidently called fiction: the monstrous, genre-defining oeuvre of horror writer Howard Philips Lovecraft. Joine…
01:16:32 |
Wed 16 Jun 2010
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