Monster Talk
MonsterTalk is the science show about monsters—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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Tracking the Manbeasts
Renowned investigator Joe Nickell returns to MonsterTalk to discuss his ...
Renowned investigator Joe Nickell returns to MonsterTalk to discuss his latest book Tracking the Man-beasts: Sasquatch, Vampires, Zombies, and More—a survey of a human-like monsters that runs the gamut from Almas to Zombie. The book covers...
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Resurrecting the Extinct
Plenty of people have hypothesized about being able to bring ...
Plenty of people have hypothesized about being able to bring back an extinct animal, but (so far as the MonsterTalk team knows) the only person who has successfully brought an extinct animal’s gene back to be able to express itself in a living...
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Is The Skookum Fair Dinkum?
In the year 2000 startling claims of a body cast ...
In the year 2000 startling claims of a body cast of a Bigfoot emerged from the deep woods of Washington State. More than a decade later, MonsterTalk interviews Bigfoot researcher Daniel Perez about the facts behind this contentious artifact —...
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Tracking the Chupacabra
This week MonsterTalk co-host Benjamin Radford becomes the interviewee! Radford ...
This week MonsterTalk co-host Benjamin Radford becomes the interviewee! Radford discusses his newest book, Tracking the Chupacabra. The culmination of a five-year investigation, this book may provide an actual solution to these mysterious humanoid...
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Tracking the Chupacabra (exclusive preview)
Exclusive for MonsterTalk listeners, an audio preview from Ben Radford’s ...
Exclusive for MonsterTalk listeners, an audio preview from Ben Radford’s latest book Tracking the Chupacabra. This 32 minute selection contains material from the opening of this new book, which provides the solution to the mysterious...
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Unmasking the Ninja
This week the hosts of MonsterTalk take on the mysterious, ...
This week the hosts of MonsterTalk take on the mysterious, mystical, legendary menace of the ninja! Should ninjas be considered monsters? They come out at night, have mysterious powers and use fear and lethality to wreak havoc. But to be sure, we Ask...
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Ethnobiology - A Lizard's Tale
IN THIS EPISODE, the MonsterTalk crew interviews Dr. Tony Russell, ...
IN THIS EPISODE, the MonsterTalk crew interviews Dr. Tony Russell, a professor at the University of Calgary who studies evolutionary and functional morphology in geckos. Dr. Russell’s work includes ethnobiology — the utilization of...
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A Bestiary of Creatures
Author Christopher Dell has collected an astonishing array of art ...
Author Christopher Dell has collected an astonishing array of art from around the world depicting many obscure and mysterious creatures in his new book Monsters: A Bestiary of Devils, Demons, Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Magical...
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The Iceman Goeth
Late in the 1960s, in the era which gave us ...
Late in the 1960s, in the era which gave us the famous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film, fairgoers in Minnesota were confronted with a marvel: a hairy, primitive-looking humanoid frozen in a block of ice. Was it an anthropological relic? Was it a...
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On Monsters
This week on MonsterTalk, author Stephen Asma (Professor of Philosophy ...
This week on MonsterTalk, author Stephen Asma (Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College Chicago) speaks about his comprehensive book surveying Western monster-lore. Is humankind’s fascination with monsters broader than any single cause?...
