The Lost Valley Podcast Cian

Return to Skull Island back in 1933 with Eddie Guimont to see whether there's more to the overlooked SON OF KONG than you've heard. Topics include:



-UPDATE ON PERCY FAWCETT’s LOST CITY!

-Occult beliefs in Bolsonaro’s government

-Was Kong intended to be sympathetic?

-The origins & making of Son of Kong

-The real-life colonial adventures of Kong’s creators

-The social and economic world of Kong’s 1933

-The trope of the ancient lost monument-builders

-The ethnicity of the Skull Islanders

-Willis O’Brien’s special effects

-Lovecraft and Mysterious Islands



Links:

Jason Colavito on Percy Fawcett

https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-plausible-explanation-for-the-lost-city-of-manuscript-512

Kong: The History Of A Movie Icon, Ray Morton, 2005

https://www.raymorton.com/books/king-kong-the-history-of-a-movie-icon-from-fay-wray-to-peter-jackson/

When The Stars Are Right, Edward Guimont and Horace A Smith

https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/nonfiction/when-the-stars-are-right-h.-p.-lovecraft-and-astronomy

From Crypto's to Kaiju, Justin Mullen (currently restricted access)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03080188241234141

Cian chats with Michael Robinson, author of The Lost White Tribe. Topics include:

-the story of Henry Morton Stanley and his 'white' Ruwenzori tribe, a story that was famous at the time but is almost never mentioned today even in biographies of Stanley

-the birth of adventure fiction, the obsession with plots about lost cities and lost races

-connections to the life and work of HR Haggard, his place as a founder of lost world literature, his fictional lost white tribes in King Solomons Mines and She

-Richard Ogelsby Marsh's white tribe in Panama

-Ernst Schafer and the 1938 Nazi Tibet expedition

LINKS:

The Lost White Tribe book

Time To Eat The Dogs podcast

Buy Me A Coffee

A lost race in Panama and some man-eating trees show up in this Amazing Stories tale from 1926, written by traveller and finder of Lost Worlds in fact and fiction, A. Hyatt Verrill!

Buy Me A Coffee

Read the story here

A lost world comic book from the 50s drawn by the great Frank Frazetta!

Cian explains changes coming, a new show, a slight change of theme, and some behind-the-scenes info!

Cameron McCormick returns to discuss cryptozoological bestiaries that stretch the boundaries of belief with huge numbers of undiscovered critters running around.

*NOTE: I made an error in referring to The Bigfoot Filmography. The book I actually had in mind was Cryptid Cinema by Stephen Bisette. I’m away from home for a few days but I’ll fix that when I’m back!



LINKS:

WoW on BuyMeACoffee:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic



Cameron on Mastadon:

https://mastodon.social/@LordGeekington@sauropods.win



Cameron’s blog:

https://thelordgeekington.wordpress.com/



Trey The Explainer: The Native Bigfoot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zJhJsdoTYQ



The Screaming Skulls by Elliot O’Donnell:

https://archive.org/stream/CreepyStories/OdonnellTheScreamingSkullsAndOtherGhosts_djvu.txt



‘True Giant’ source article, the Straits Times, 196:

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19610212-1.2.77



Commendable Commotion Podcast

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matthew-tannam-elgie



Blake Smith’s article on the Kentucky Goblins:

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/01/guns-and-goblins-what-really-happened-during-the-kentucky-alien-invasion/