MonsterTalk
Presented by SKEPTIC magazine, MonsterTalk is a free audio podcast that critically examines the science behind cryptozoological (and legendary) creatures, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or werewolves.
- Website
- http://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/monstertalk/
- Description
- Presented by SKEPTIC magazine, MonsterTalk is a free audio podcast that critically examines the science behind cryptozoological (and legendary) creatures, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or werewolves.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-05-13 11:49
- last episode published
- 2024-05-13 04:00
- publication frequency
- 13.81 days
- Contributors
- Blake Smith, and Dr. Karen Stollznow
- Author
- Blake Smith
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 394
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-05-13 | This week we're going to take a quick peek behind the curtains as to how THE SCIENCE OF MONSTERSÂ came to be published by MonsterHouse, and what you can find inside. Sales of the book directly help the show, and all of that is explained during our Monst... |
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| 2024-05-06 | Blake and Karen are joined by Matt Baxter to discuss the new horror film Late Night with the Devil (AMZ affiliate link), a fictional work that draws very heavily from "real" paranormal history to anchor its verisimilitude. Trailer for LNwtD Don Lane v... |
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| 2024-04-29 | In this episode we talk with professor Jason Josephson-Storm about the concept of Disenchantment, why it's an important and influential concept, and why it is also a pervasive myth. The Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Ador... |
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| 2024-04-22 | Is Bigfoot making peculiar stacks of bones in the forests of Mt. St. Helens? Archaeologist Andy White joins us to discuss the hypothesis that was the topic of a research paper by a Bigfoot proponent Mitchell Townsend. Andy's website (and response to To... |
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| 2024-04-15 | Karen and Blake discuss three little mysteries they've run across while doing research that didn't quite warrant an individual episode, and which might benefit from some crowd-sourcing. Examples of "Bigfoot Tree Forts" Colorado Site discussing Tik-Tok ... |
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| 2024-04-08 | Matt and Karen report back from their trip to Devil's Tower, Wyoming. reuters debunk traced to Facebook Satirical Post Watch CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND via Amazon affiliate link Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices |
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| 2024-04-01 | [This episode contains some adult language.] This is the story of the search for Bigfoot as conducted by the NORTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER. (Which sounds a lot like the real Bigfoot research group North American Wildlife Research Team that fa... |
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| 2024-03-25 | We're excited to have Professor Chris French back to introduce his brand new book, The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure The Paranormal (Affiliate Link). Links: Wilson & Barber and the "fantasy prone personality" Richard Wiseman appear... |
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| 2024-03-18 | We catch up with Richard Estep and Bil Bungay, co-authors of The Black Monk of Pontefract: The World's Most Violent and Relentless Poltergeist to talk about the history and strange happenings alleged to take place in the village of Pontefract in Yorksh... |
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| 2024-03-11 | This week Blake, Karen and Matt Baxter discuss celebrity UFO encounters. Why are they so popular? Why do we care? Some examples: John Lennon Olivia Newton John Elvis Russell Crowe Mick Jagger David Bowie Kesha Demi Lovato Jimmy Carter (see The UFO Mo... |
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