Note: This episode deals with murder and goes into some detail, so we’re putting the “explicit tag” for the mature content, perhaps not suitable for all audiences. MonsterTalk steps outside its usual territory for a true-crime case with a paranormal afterlife. Blake and Karen welcome Hallie, host of The Morbid Curiosity Podcast, to revisit one of the most notorious unsolved […]
🚗 The Chinnery Backseat Ghost A skeptical look at one of the most famous ghost photographs ever taken – the 1959 “backseat ghost” snapped by Mrs. Mabel Chinnery in Ipswich, England. This episode is distilled from a recent MonsterTalk Live stream with Blake, Karen Stollznow, and special guest Matt Baxter, who brought fresh research (and one neat new idea) to […]
Blake, Karen and Matt discover that this famous ghost photo isn’t as old as they expected, and perhaps not as mysterious either. Do we get it right? Do you have a different explanation? Let us know what you think. The picture was taken by the Reverend Kenneth F. Lord inside the Church of Christ the Consoler, a Victorian Gothic Revival […]
Most Americans meet the Rakshasa in exactly two places: a 1974 episode of a beloved horror TV series and the pages of the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. Both versions give you a debonair, tiger-faced shape-changer with a taste for human flesh – but neither prepares you for how deep, how old, and how genuinely alive these creatures are. To […]