May 22, 2020

MonsterTalk Live

Subscribe to our YouTube channel and get notifications when we’re going live. We’d been wanting to get into video work for a while, but the pandemic (and Karen’s gentle nudging) has pushed us into making that a reality. You can find our show on Sunday nights at 9 pm ET on our channel:We’re not currently doing live streams, but new […]

Announcement 26 sec read
March 31, 2020

211 – Screaming Skulls

Download MP3 (Right-Click, Save As) Today Karen and Blake discuss “Screaming Skulls” – a surprisingly common yet particularly English kind of haunting. Karen has a new short story based on this legend. Multiple Examples: Bettiscombe manor, Bettiscome, Dorset Dickie – Tunstead Farm, Tunstead Milton, Derbyshire  Skull of St Ambrose Barlow – Wardley Hall, Manchester (1641) – Catholic relic  Skull of (Katherine) Anne Griffith – Burton Agnes Hall, Yorkshire (1620) “Owd […]

Regular Episode 1 min read
February 22, 2020

208 – Monsters in the Media

Download this episode (Right-click, Save As) We welcome Dr. James Mueller, associate dean of Journalism at the University of North Texas.   He’s the author of three books (with a fourth on the way) and they are:  Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn Tag Teaming the Press  Towel Snapping the Press. He’s also a […]

Uncategorized 49 sec read
January 22, 2020

#206 – Magic: Wicca and Witchcraft

Download Episode MP3 (Right-Click, Save As) We are joined by Rebecca Fox, who has been both a witch and a science & skepticism advocate, to discuss the history of modern witchcraft.  RIP Terry Jones (of Monty Python) who passed away on Tuesday, Jan 21, 2020. I prepared the intro Tuesday morning unaware he would be gone the same day. Discussed […]

Regular Episode 28 sec read
December 29, 2019

#205 – Burial Practice Makes Perfect

Download Episode (right-click, Save As) Tana’s Thesis: Paying Respects: Death, Commodity Culture, and the Middle Class in Victorian London. Death Photos of the Victorian Age – memento mori  The Catholic incorruptible saints British “natural death” burial laws Garden Cemeteries The Cremation Society (behind the 1902 UK Cremation Act) The Highgate Vampire case of the early 1970s Nicholas Cage’s pyramid tomb […]

Regular Episode 1 min read
December 19, 2019

204 – Joe vs the Sea Monsters

Download this episode. (Right-click, Save As) We’re joined by veteran monster investigator Joe Nickell (of CSI) to discuss three historic sea monster cases he thinks he’s solved. Classic monsters and science in this one. Case Files discussed in this episode:Gloucester Sea Serpent  Arkansas White River Monster  Kraken: Monster of the Deep  Also mentioned: Karen has some new short stories on […]

Regular Episode 17 sec read
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