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
Bringing Light to a Moth
In this episode, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP) investigator Joe Nickell joins the MonsterTalk crew for a look into the West Virginian legend of Mothman — allegedly a human-sized c…
00:46:38 |
Wed 26 May 2010
Monsters from the Lab
In this week’s episode, MonsterTalk looks once again at genetics and creatures created in the laboratory. Dr. Marcus C. Davis joins the hosts to discuss what constitutes a “monster.” In his work, Dav…
01:11:49 |
Wed 05 May 2010
Historical Ghost Investigations Part II: Sinking the Watertown
This week, MonsterTalk continues its two-part discussion of historical ghost investigations. Blake Smith describes his investigation into a famous photo that allegedly shows two dead sailors floating…
00:59:35 |
Wed 21 Apr 2010
Historical Ghost Investigations Part I: Kimo / Therapy
Ghost investigations often feature in television shows and other media. Typically, these amount to people wandering around at night with EMF detectors, talking into the darkness and jumping at shadow…
01:00:16 |
Wed 07 Apr 2010
Ghost Bird
What happens when a creature thought to be extinct is spotted alive in the swamps of Arkansas? Can such a creature have survived? Can scientists verify the story? And when a town’s hopes and a school…
01:05:21 |
Wed 24 Mar 2010
Getting into the Spirit of Things
What does neuroscience have to say about the possibility of consciousness or mind existing outside the body — or continuing on after the body has died? This episode’s guest is neurologist Dr. Steven …
01:06:51 |
Wed 03 Mar 2010
Suitable for Framing
In this episode, the hosts of MonsterTalk talk with Greg Long, author of the 2004 book The Making of Bigfoot (which was reviewed at the time by Skeptic’s own Daniel Loxton). Long’s book is built from…
00:59:07 |
Wed 17 Feb 2010
Bigfoot: First Impressions
In the world of Bigfoot, good evidence is hard to come by. Anecdotes and blurry photos keep the documentaries coming, but most skeptics agree that a body or a living specimen are needed to confirm th…
01:19:22 |
Wed 03 Feb 2010
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum!
Giants appear in cultures around the world: Biblical tales of giants more than ten feet tall; Roman and Greek stories of titans and heroes; European stories of giants of mountain and hill. They all h…
01:13:28 |
Wed 13 Jan 2010
I'm Gonna Get You, Goat Sucker!
The most famous of the Latin American cryptids is El Chupacabra, the goat sucker. This episode of MonsterTalk examines the lore behind this slinking, sinister, blood-sucking creature. Is it a real an…
00:51:01 |
Wed 23 Dec 2009
They Came From Outer Space!
Are creatures from other planets visiting the earth, trampling our crops to create cryptic messages, violating people in their sleep, and doing terrible things to our livestock? How plausible is it t…
00:51:55 |
Wed 09 Dec 2009
Horrifying Hybrids
In this episode, MonsterTalk examines monsters that genetically blend humans with the other. Hosts Blake Smith, Ben Radford, and Dr. Karen Stollznow explore the plausibility of alien-human hybridizat…
01:05:33 |
Wed 18 Nov 2009
Darwin vs. the Wolfman
In this week's Halloween episode, MonsterTalk ventures into the realm of the werewolves -- and asks what Charles Darwin's Origin of Species implies for this fearsome monster's plausibility. Guest Dr.…
01:04:35 |
Wed 28 Oct 2009
Pterosaurs
Paleontologist Dr. David Martill joins us to talk about prehistoric flying reptiles and his visit to Papua New Guinea with the TV show MonsterQuest to search for the legendary Ropen, an animal which …
00:50:24 |
Tue 13 Oct 2009
The Plesiosaur Hypothesis
Is there a mysterious prehistoric "living fossil" lurking beneath the waters of Loch Ness? The idea that a colony of Plesiosaurs might have survived into modern times in the deep dark waters of Loch …
01:05:17 |
Mon 24 Aug 2009
Fins & Fossil Footprints
Did a Japanese fishing vessel catch the body of a prehistoric aquatic dinosaur? In this week's MonsterTalk, we interview Glen Kuban to discuss the 1977 case of the Zuiyo-Maru, dinosaurs, paleontology…
00:57:02 |
Sun 16 Aug 2009
Anatomy of a Beast
In this week's MonsterTalk, we interview Michael McLeod, a writer, producer, and director who has created documentaries for PBS, the PBS series Frontline, the Discovery Channel, and other national ve…
00:55:51 |
Tue 28 Jul 2009
Bigfoot DNA
Our panel (Ben Radford, Dr. Karen Stollznow and Blake Smith) interview Professor Todd Disotell, PhD. Todd has been a guest on multiple television shows to examine potential Bigfoot and Yeti DNA. We a…
01:11:10 |
Thu 02 Jul 2009
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