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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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26 OTT 2026 · 🍿 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 new documentary built around a reel of 16mm film that sat in a family safe for more than half a century, and the Patterson family story that turns out to be even bigger than the footage. The film arrived on Prime Video on October 20, 2026, and the Bigfoot world has not been quiet since.
The side-by-side stills circulating online are only a sliver of the story. The panel digs into the confessions, the money, the broken families, and the people who were there, then turns to the question every skeptic has been asking this week: if the most famous piece of Bigfoot evidence ever filmed folds, does anything actually change? Plus a horse turns out to be carrying a very strange coincidence.
🔗 Links and Referenceshttps://link.amazon/B032OgANb 💵
https://capturingbigfoot.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capturing_Bigfoot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson%E2%80%93Gimlin_film
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Dahinden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Meldrum
https://www.kodak.com/content/pdfs/Identifying-Year-of-Manufacture-Motion-Picture-Films-datasheet.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze_brand
https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/freeze-branding-cattle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock_branding
https://www.academia.edu/44628548/Eastman_Kodak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_walling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pious_fraud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_sisters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjoe_Gortner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
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19 OTT 2026 · 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 is the most exciting news to hit Bigfoot in a long while and we're excited to see the film ourselves.
Also - we say goodbye to frequent guest and real life friend, Dr. Brian Regal.
https://www.monstertalk.org/s06e03-%f0%9f%8e%a5-capturing-bigfoot-%f0%9f%ab%88with-marq-evans/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support.
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12 OTT 2026 · 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 project began with her late mentor, Dr. John R. Neff, who stumbled onto his first Civil War ghost story while reading veterans' obituaries. When Neff died in 2020, his family asked Fluker to carry his work to the finish line.
These aren't the ghost lights and phantom hitchhikers of modern battlefield tours. They're stories that ran alongside battle reports and stock prices, told by the people who lived through the war. What did these ghosts want? Why did a Union veterans' newspaper print a tale of soldiers burying their enemy? And how did ghost lore become a weapon after the war ended?
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5 OTT 2026 · An interview with forensic anthropologist Evan Bird, creator of https://www.instagram.com/thecorpsereview/?hl=en.
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28 SET 2026 · 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 Human Remains Trade* (SUNY Press, 2026). The book illustrates how technical communication frequently dehumanizes the people represented by human remains, and offers guidance for adopting rehumanizing language to return dignity to these individuals. The conversation is not strictly paranormal, but overlaps meaningfully with MonsterTalk themes around science, storytelling, folklore, and how language shapes perception.
https://www.monstertalk.org/s05e50-%f0%9f%92%80-rehumanizing-people-of-the-past/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support.
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21 SET 2026 · 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 field. This week the question is where the field has gone since he arrived, and where it might be headed next.
Jones has watched cryptozoology move from obscure online forums to social media feeds, streaming documentaries, and a festival in seemingly every state. Along the way, the creatures themselves seem to be changing. The talk ranges from AI-generated monster images to the rise of Dogman, from a lawmaker's Bigfoot bounty to the ethics of chasing mysteries you may never catch.
👤 About Our GuestDaniel Alan Jones is an investigative reporter and researcher based in South Texas, and the founder of the Texas Cryptozoology Network, a networking hub for people interested in cryptids and their lore. He is the creator and host of The Vortex, a YouTube channel and website covering cryptids, UFOs, and unexplained phenomena. He first encountered cryptozoology through an online forum in 2006 and has been active in the field since 2010. His fieldwork has taken him from the Piney Woods of East Texas to Bluff Creek, Death Valley, and Point Pleasant, and he takes an ethnographic approach to the subject, treating the community of monster hunters as part of what deserves study. His favorite cryptid is a hometown one. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support.
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14 SET 2026 · 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 conversation. Blake met Jones at thehttps://www.txst.edu/philosophy/the-department/departmental-activities/symposia-lectures-and-conferences/of-gods-and-monsters-2026.html, where an after-dinner conversation outside a restaurant, joined partway through by Jeb Card, led to the interview you are about to hear.
Jones is part of the Texas Cryptozoology scene, hanging with (the late) Jim Marrs, Ken Gerhard, Nick Redfern, Craig Woolheater and Lyle Blackburn (among others). He approaches the subject ethnographically: the people who chase monsters interest him as much as the monsters do. This first half of our interview covers the Piney Woods and its tangle of local Bigfoot names, a salamander hunt in the PNW, a failed search for giants in Death Valley, pluys a night camped out in Mothman country. Part two takes up the state of the Cryptozoology today, which will be S05E49 dropping next week. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support.
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7 SET 2026 · 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.
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31 AGO 2026 · 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 around to skepticism the hard way - by actually investigating - and she now publishes the newsletter https://www.theghostgeek.com/. She first appeared on MonsterTalk back in https://www.monstertalk.org/037-hayley-stevens-lake-monster-mysteries/ to talk lake monsters. This time the subject is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluckley, a small, film-set-pretty village in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent that is considerably more famous for its dead than for its living.
Pluckley's ghost roster runs somewhere between a dozen and sixteen-plus, depending on who's counting and when - and the number has a habit of going up. There are two different White Ladies, a Red Lady, a highwayman, a phantom coach, and a stretch of woodland that screams. Where does a reputation like this actually come from, who benefits from it, and what happens to a place once the ghost tours arrive? Also - Blake goes looking for a famous piece of documentation that everybody cites and nobody seems to have seen.
https://www.monstertalk.org/s05e46-flashback-englands-most-haunted-village/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support.
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24 AGO 2026 · ⚠️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 an explanation for mysterious "real" animal sightings, as well as a source of folklore monsters of high improbability.
🚂 In This Episode
- Why circus trains wrecked so often
- The economic event that ended the era - and why regulation wasn't the answer
- An inversion of survivorship bias, and the data set nobody has built yet
- A 1917 newspaper story about lions in a butcher shop that is not what it appears to be
- The 1931 wire story about a colony of Bengal tigers in the mountains of Mexico
- How armadillos actually got to Florida
- Gypsy the elephant, Tifton to Valdosta, November 1902
- Wallace the Lion, the Exeter mail coach lioness, and Christian the Lion
- Why the Beast of Gévaudan may be the oldest "it escaped from a menagerie" case on record
- How Gévaudan subverts myths about the Enlightenment Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support.
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19 GEN 2026 · This is an experiment! I'm trying to see if I can post commercial free versions of the show exclusively for Supporters Club. Please bear with me as I give this a try.
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In this episode we talk with https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/staff-profiles/listing/profile/amv/ about her fascinating look at the history of ghost hunting and psychical research, from the late 19th century to today.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwatch (wikipedia) - https://www.patreon.com/posts/s03e35-104982677
https://www.spr.ac.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Haunted
http://www.harrypricewebsite.co.uk/Borley/PriceatBorley/HBR/hbr-contents.htm - the text of this critical book appears to be on the Harry Price website. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support.
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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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| Autore | Blake Smith |
| Organizzazione | Blake Smith |
| Categorie | Scienze , Scienze naturali , Cultura e società |
| Sito | www.spreaker.com |
| doctoratlantis@gmail.com |
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