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MonsterTalk

Blake Smith

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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  • S6 · E6
    Monday · 46 min

    S06E06 🐈‍⬛Evil Cats and Revelatory Revenants👻

    Blake and Karen welcome back historian Dr. Joseph Gagné, a specialist in New France who teaches the colony's history at Université Laval, for a seasonal visit to the winter of 1704. That year, a French and allied Indigenous raiding party fell on the...

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  • S6 · E5
    November 2 · 1 hr

    S06E05🎃 Live 2026 Halloween Show

    Blake, Karen, and paranormal investigator Matt Baxter gather on Halloween eve for MonsterTalk's annual live show. The agenda: micro-horror, meaningful coincidences, a stranger who would not stop calling, and the most convincing ghost video on the...

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  • S6 · E4
    October 26 · 1 hr 8 min

    S06E04 🍿Capturing Bigfoot Reaction 🫈

    🍿 S06E04 - Capturing Bigfoot Reaction 🫈 Last week Blake and Karen spoke with director Marq Evans before any of them had seen his film. Now they have. Karen Stollznow and paranormal investigator Matt Baxter join Blake to react to Capturing Bigfoot, the...

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  • S6 · E3
    October 19 · 47 min

    S06E03 🎥 Capturing Bigfoot 🫈with Marq Evans

    Blake and Karen interview Marq Evans, directory of the new documentary Capturing Bigfoot - a new film that hits streaming October 20th, 2026 and features stunning new evidence that the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film may depict a person in a suit! This...

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  • S6 · E2
    October 12 · 52 min

    S06E02 👻 Haunted by Memory: Ghost Stories of the American Civil War

    Blake and Karen welcome historian Dr. Amy Laurel Fluker of Youngstown State University to discuss Haunted by Memory, an annotated anthology of ghost stories drawn from the newspapers, veterans' papers, and periodicals of the Civil War generation. The...

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  • S6 · E1
    October 5 · 1 hr 1 min

    S06E01 💀Taphonomy and All That Rot🧛

    An interview with forensic anthropologist Evan Bird, creator of https://www.instagram.com/thecorpsereview/?hl=en. https://www.monstertalk.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=3106

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  • S5 · E50
    September 28 · 47 min

    S05E50 💀 REHUMANIZING PEOPLE OF THE PAST

    In this episode, Blake and Karen welcome Dr. Kristin LaFollette, Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, to discuss her new book, *Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the...

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  • S5 · E49
    September 21 · 38 min

    S05E49 - 🌀 Cryptozoology Today with Daniel Alan Jones

    Blake and Karen welcome back Daniel Alan Jones, investigative reporter, founder of the Texas Cryptozoology Network, and creator and host of The Vortex, for the second half of their conversation. Last week covered how Jones found his way into the...

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  • S5 · E48
    September 14 · 27 min

    S05E48 🌀Traditional Cryptozoology with Daniel Alan Jones

    Into the Field: A Conversation with Daniel Alan Jones, Part 1 Blake and Karen welcome Daniel Alan Jones, an investigative reporter, founder of the Texas Cryptozoology Network, and the creator and host of The Vortex, for the first half of a two-part...

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  • S5 · E47
    September 7 · 54 min

    S05E47 MT Legend Tripping: Paranormal England

    Karen and Matt are back from their trip to the UK and they share stories and photos from their whirlwind visit to a variety of (allegedly) haunted places. Blake makes jokes... and wishes he could go himself. https://patreon.com/monstertalk

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  • S5 · E46
    August 31 · 1 hr 16 min

    S05E46 FLASHBACK: England's Most Haunted Village

    Blake brings us a flashback to 2017, when he and Karen sat down withhttps://spooktator.co.uk/'s Hayley Stevens to talk about the (allegedly) most haunted village in England. Hayley is a British paranormal researcher who started out a believer and came...

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  • S5 · E45
    August 24 · 53 min

    S05E45 - Circus Train Wrecks 🎪🚂

    ⚠️Content Warning: This episode contains sustained discussion of animal injury and death, including the killing of working animals, animals shot after escaping, and graphic period newspaper accounts.⚠️ Blake and Karen discuss Circus Train Wrecks as...

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  • August 17 · 42 min

    🐺 S05E44 - Darwin and the Monsters (with Dr. Brian Regal)

    Blake welcomes back Dr. Brian Regal - historian of science, technology, and medicine, and now Professor Emeritus at Kean University - to talk about his final academic book, https://amzn.to/3S8cnhI. Regal has been a MonsterTalk guest since the show was...

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  • S5 · E43
    August 10 · 1 hr

    🏚️ S05E43 - The Peabody-Whitehead Mansion

    ⚠️ Content AdvisoryThis episode includes an extended discussion of a televised paranormal investigation in which a crew treated an alleged spirit-box recording about a sexual assault as cause for celebration. The hosts address the claim and the ethics...

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  • S5 · E42
    August 3 · 54 min

    ☠️S05E42 - THE BLACK DEATH🐀

    Blake and Karen are joined by http://history.fsu.edu/person/ben-dodds#:~:text=Ben%20Dodds%20has%20worked%20on,in%20his%20on-going%20work., author of https://amzn.to/4yTfMkK to discover more about a disease which forever changed world history when it...

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  • S5 · E41
    July 27 · 39 min

    🛸 S05E41 - Government Disclosure

    Blake and Karen welcome back paranormal investigator Matthew Baxter to sift through the latest government UAP release - the so-called PURSUE document dump - and work out what, if anything, is actually in it. Baxter took on the job of reading the...

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  • S5 · E37
    July 20 · 37 min

    🐂S05E40 - Cattle Mutilations: Part 2🛸

    ⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains frank discussion of animal death, carcass predation, and graphic descriptions of animal mutilation. Listener discretion is advised. Blake and Karen continue their conversation with religious studies scholar...

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  • S5 · E39
    July 13 · 39 min

    🐂S05E39 - Cattle Mutilations: Part 1🛸

    ⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of animal injuries and death. Both parts carry an explicit tag.⚠️ Blake and Karen welcome Lee Weiss, a religious studies scholar whose deep dive into the FBI's declassified cattle...

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  • S5 · E38
    July 6 · 45 min

    🦕 S05E38 - Champ Across the Border

    Champ Across the Border: Blake and Karen welcome back historian Dr. Joseph Gagné, a specialist in New France and the French colonial period of North America, to talk about Champ - the famous monster of Lake Champlain. Most of the lake sits between New...

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  • S5 · E37
    June 29 · 1 hr 5 min

    🪓 S05E37 - The Lizzie Borden Murders

    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...

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