August 9, 2026

🏚️ S05E43 – The Peabody-Whitehead Mansion

⚠️ Content Advisory⚠️ This 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 of its presentation directly. Please consider another episode if this topic would be traumatic for you. Blake and Karen are joined […]

Regular Episode 4 min read
August 2, 2026

☠️S05E42 – THE BLACK DEATH🐀

Blake and Karen are joined by Dr. Ben Dodds, author of Myths and Memories of the Black Death to discover more about a disease which forever changed world history when it swept across Europe in the 1300s. The conversation runs from the mechanics of the disease – what a bubo actually is, what finally kills you, and why the textbook […]

Regular Episode 46 min read
July 26, 2026

🛸 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 paperwork so nobody else has to, and he returns with a skeptic’s field report on what the government […]

Regular Episode 28 min read
July 19, 2026

🐂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 Lee Weiss on the cattle mutilation mystery. If you missed part one, wind your podcast player back an episode – this one picks up right where the […]

Regular Episode 28 min read
July 12, 2026

🐂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 mutilation files grew into a sweeping study of one of America’s strangest panics. Blake first met Lee at the Of Gods and Monsters […]

Regular Episode 28 min read
July 5, 2026

🦕 S05E38 – 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 York and Vermont, but about 7% of it lies in Quebec, and Joseph’s upcoming paper in the ethnology journal Rabaska […]

Regular Episode 32 min read
June 28, 2026

🪓 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 afterlife. Blake and Karen welcome Hallie, host of The Morbid Curiosity Podcast, to revisit one of the most notorious unsolved […]

Regular Episode 45 min read
June 21, 2026

S05E36 – The Chinnery Backseat Ghost

🚗 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 […]

Regular Episode 45 min read
June 14, 2026

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 what you think. The picture was taken by the Reverend Kenneth F. Lord inside the Church of Christ the Consoler, a Victorian Gothic Revival […]

Regular Episode 41 min read
June 7, 2026

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 flesh – but neither prepares you for how deep, how old, and how genuinely alive these creatures are. To […]

Regular Episode 42 min read