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MonsterTalk Airwave Media
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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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Remembering Ray Garton
Friend of the show Ray Garton, author of many horror books including In a Dark Place, passed away April 21, 2024 of lung cancer.
This show is largely a rebroadcast of episode #039 from 2011.
Ray was one of the first and most prominent people who worked with Ed and Lorraine Warren who then went on to call them out for their duplicity. He wouldn't be the only one either, as we covered in The Warren Omission a few years later.
Content Warning: Many of the alleged events that Ray wrote about for the Warrens involved sexual and physical trauma, and this episode needs the explicit tag due to discussion of that content.
Ray Garton's Amazon Author page (affiliate link)
Ray's Obituary
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Ghostwatch
We take a look at the 1992 BBC Halloween tv special, Ghostwatch.
Ghostwatch (streaming Affiliate Link)
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British Lions and Tasmanian Tigers
This week we take a look at some recent news stories that fall within our bailiwick. We've got big cats, big-not-really-cats, and some UFO data to discuss. (with Matt Baxter.)
Note - check out the articles for images of the "Thylacine", especially the Reddit thread and Galante's video.
Tasmanian Tiger:
Forrest Galante's YT Video
Coverage in Newsweek
Reddit readers have a go at the photos
Alien Big Cat in UK
BBC says DNA confirms big cat in UK
Local news coverage
2023 article with similar findings
UFO Hotspot Analysis
Axios story about the analysis
NUFORC's website
Data Analyst considers this data
Cool - NUFORC uses an old missile silo as HQ??
About NUFORC (Wiki)
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Behind The Science of Monsters
This week we're going to take a quick peek behind the curtains as to how THE SCIENCE OF MONSTERS 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 MonsterTalking.
The Science of Monsters - paperback & kindle
The many lives of Joe Nickell
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Late Night with the Devil
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 vs Randi incident
CSICOP
Randi vs James Hydrick
Randi vs Popov
Randi and Don Lane incident
Randi
Michelle Remembers
Anton LaVey
Jim Jones
Branch Davidians
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The Myth of Disenchantment
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. Adorno
Max Weber
The Golden Bough by James Frazer
Deadly Words by by Jeanne Favret-Saada
Our coverage of the homunculus - way back in episode 53!
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Customer Reviews
Monster talk
I love this podcast. Open minded well intentioned skeptics. Heavy on facts and great back and forth with the hosts. Informed guests I have learned fantastic facts and fun history. Many thanks are long overdue and well deserved- Dan B
Informative
Having a skeptical podcast on monsters, aliens, and cryptids is refreshing in the sea paranormal podcasts. A lot of other podcasts that discuss the paranormal have a bad habit at taking things at face value and not really dissect the case they’re presented with. MonsterTalk provides a healthy dose of science and fact checking that I don’t see enough of in paranormal podcasts. Of course, MonsterTalk’s true goal is science, not belief in the supernatural. But I always feel that science needs to come first. The world is a big place, and we still don’t know a whole lot about it. But it can interesting without the existence of monsters.
Yawn
One of the most relaxing shows to take a nap to.