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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
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
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
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 gener
S06E01 💀Taphonomy and All That Rot🧛
An interview with forensic anthropologist Evan Bird, creator of The Corpse Review (https://www.instagram.com/thecorpsereview/?hl=en). Extended show notes at Monstertalk.org (https://www.monstertalk.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=3106) Become a
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,
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 int
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
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. Link to trip photos and Extended
S05E46 FLASHBACK: England's Most Haunted Village
Blake brings us a flashback to 2017, when he and Karen sat down withThe Spooktator (https://spooktator.co.uk/)'s Hayley Stevens to talk about the (allegedly) most haunted village in England. Hayley is a British paranormal researcher who sta
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 W
🐺 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, Darwin and the Monsters: The Long History of Cryptozoology (https:/
🏚️ 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
☠️S05E42 - THE BLACK DEATH🐀
Blake and Karen are joined by Dr. Ben Dodds (http://history.fsu.edu/person/ben-dodds#:~:text=Ben%20Dodds%20has%20worked%20on,in%20his%20on-going%20work.), author of Myths and Memories of the Black Death (https://amzn.to/4yTfMkK) to discover
🛸 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 readin
🐂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
🐂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 cattl
🦕 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
🪓 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 p
S05E36 - 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 Stollz
S05E35 The Newby Church Specter
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 in the comments. 👻 The Spectre of Newby C
S05E34 - Rakshasas
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
S05E33 - The Devil Went Down to Devon
On the morning of February 9, 1855, residents across south Devon, England, discovered strange hoof-shaped tracks in the snow. The prints - about 4 inches long, 3 inches wide, and spaced roughly 8 inches apart in single file - appeared to ha
S05E32 - Monsters of the Deep with Dr. Darren Naish
Darren joins Blake and Karen to discuss his new article in Geology Today, which grew out of his work on the Monsters of the Deep museum exhibition. That exhibition originally opened at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall in 2
S05E31 - From Loup Garou to Rougarou (pt 2) with Louisiana Dread's Kyle Crosby
This is part two of our conversation with Kyle Crosby, creator and host of Louisiana Dread (https://www.louisianadread.com). In Part 1, we covered the history of the Acadians and how they carried the loup-garou (https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
S05E30 - From Loup Garou to Rougarou with Louisiana Dread's Kyle Crosby
This is part one of a two-part conversation. Blake and Karen are joined by Kyle Crosby, filmmaker, historian, and founder of Louisiana Dread (https://www.louisianadread.com), a multimedia project dedicated to documenting the dark history, f
S05E29 - Science of the Supernatural with Melissa Maffeo
Neuroscientist Dr. Melissa Maffeo joins Blake and Karen to discuss her new book Science of the Supernatural: Critical Thinking for the Mind and Brain (https://amzn.to/4urBM3t) (Cambridge University Press, 2026). Melissa is an associate teac
FLASHBACK BONUS: S01E069 The Key to the Legend of the Map Monsters
To announce (and celebrate) the Spanish language release of Chet Van Duzer's beautiful and informative book on map monsters, I'm re-releasing episode S01E69! Grab your copy in Spanish here: SPANISH LANGUAGE : (https://editorial.urosario.edu
S05E28 The Cottingley Fairies
Blake and Karen are joined by Matt Baxter to discuss the strange case of the Cottingley Fairies. https://www.monstertalk.org/?p=2706 Hosts: Karen Stollznow, Blake Smith Guest: Matt Baxter In this episode, the MonsterTalk crew tackles one of
S05E27 - Monsters: Myths, Legends, and Real Encounters with Richard Estep
🎙️ Blake and Karen welcome back author and paranormal investigator Richard Estep to discuss his new book from Visible Ink Press, Monsters: Myths, Legends, and Real Encounters (https://amzn.to/4csd7Eo). Richard is a paramedic, clinical educ
