June 8, 2025

S04E36 – Nefarious Stealth Evangelicalism?

We’re joined by Matt Baxter to discuss what we thought was a horror film but turned out to be something quite different. Warning: This film and episode deal with suicide, murder, abortion, politics, religion, and pretty much most of the hot potato topics we generally try to eschew. Hopefully we do a decent job of discussing it. Nefarious (streaming) – […]

Regular Episode 24 sec read
June 1, 2025

S04E35 – Dread Bothy and Beyond

Matt Baxter returns to join Karen and Blake in a discussion of allegedly haunted “bothies” in the remote hiking regions of the UK. This episode contains some discussion of guns, suicide, and cannibalism. Matt Baxter, his dogs and cabin (discussed in the episode) Links to further reading/listening: What is a “bothy?” Mountain Bothy Association BBC’s Uncanny episodes we mention: Don’t […]

Regular Episode 19 sec read
May 25, 2025

S04E34 – The Murder that Inspired Twin Peaks

Jerry Drake returns to discuss his new book:Hazel was a Good Girl: The Murder that Inspired Twin Peaks Jerry has been with quite a few times to discuss Grimoires, Jack Parsons, The Hollow Earth, Internet Mysteries and Ghost Lights and we’re excited to see what he makes of this real life unsolved murder with ties to one of the most […]

Regular Episode 25 sec read
May 21, 2025

S04E33 – BigFootage: The Secret of Bigfoot pt 2

We’re back with part two of our 2-part coverage of the 1976 episode of The Six Million Dollar Man that introduced a generation of kids to Bigfoot, and the idea that the creature might be interconnected with space aliens living inside a California mountain. Related Links: The Bionic Book by Herbie Pilato (affiliate link) Operation Plowshare The Six Million Dollar […]

BigFootage 18 sec read
May 11, 2025

S04E32 – BigFootage: The Secret of Bigfoot pt 1

Karen joins Blake to discuss the influential 2-part episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man that introduced a generation of kids to Bigfoot, and the idea that the creature might be interconnected with space aliens living inside a California mountain. This is part one of a two-part special edition. The patron edition has extended footage and no modern commercials. Extended […]

BigFootage 17 sec read
May 4, 2025

S04E31 – Catching Up May 2025

Blake and Karen take a minute to catch their breath and talk about where things are in their lives and what’s up next in MonsterTalk news. Links: Bitch: The Journey of a Word Adhesive Capsulitis  Idiopathic Illnesses Mechanical Turk Speaking Machine Replica of Speaking Machine (YouTube) Wolfgang von Kempelen Deep Mind Deep Blue Marvin Minsky John McCarthy

Regular Episode 15 sec read
April 27, 2025

S04E30 – Dinos and Dragons – part 2

This is part two of our two part look at Dragons and how these mythical beasts are being used to promote Creationism. Our guest is Dr. Philip Senter and he’s the author of a new book about this topic.  We use the word bullsh!t a lot in this episode so I slapped an explicit tag on – but I don’t […]

Regular Episode 23 sec read
April 20, 2025

S04E29 – Dinos & Dragons – part 1

This is part one of our two part look at Dragons and how these mythical beasts are being used to promote Creationism. Our guest is Dr. Philip Senter and he’s the author of a new book about this topic. Get Dr. Senter’s book here: The Real Story of Dinosaurs and Dragons Read more about “The Dragon of Bologna” Book about […]

Regular Episode 24 sec read
April 6, 2025

S04E27 – Jewish Mysticism and Dybbuks with Peter Bebergal

We’re excited to welcome back Peter Bebergal. This time we’re talking about mysticism and dybbuks. Be sure and check out the links below including the upcoming talk Peter is giving April 14th for The Last Tuesday Society. Peter on Jewish Boston podcastAll the Haunts Be Ours (affiliate link) 15-Disk Horror CollectionThe Ibbur from Jewish mysticismPeter will be talking monster culture for […]

Regular Episode 22 sec read
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