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Karen and Matt check in from the UK! Karen is on tour promoting her new book Bitch: The Journey of a Word. (affiliate link)
Islands are engines of language diversity
Borley Rectory
Mentioned for future coverage (but touched on before):
The Black Monk of Pontefract
Episodes covering Enfield and Poltergeists
Boleskine House
Some Nessie & Scotland coverage
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A fascinating chat about Australian Magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen) with Dr. Grainne Cleary in which we talk about the role of stories in creating monsters, the role of citizen science, and lots of cool biology facts about these birds. Not everything about Magpies is black and white, it turns out.
Why do birds do that? (affiliate link)
Your Backyard Birds (booktopia - Australian bookshop)
And remember:
Why do Birds Sing? will be dropping into stores September 2nd, 2025!
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Blake recounts his recent visit to see Robert the Doll, and his findings after a deep dive into newspapers and other literature. Patrons get follow-up info from the girl who was the subject of the "true doll haunting" from episode #114!
Karen's latest book: Bitch: The Journey of a Word
Recent death "associated" with demonic doll Annabelle
Official website of the museum hosting Robert the Doll
Call for Papers: Of Gods and Monsters II (July 15, 2025 - November 1, 2025)
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Flashback to October 2016! Updated content on Robert coming soon.In this week’s episode of MonsterTalk, we talk about demonic or evil dolls, and look into the history of one of America’s most famous creepy playthings: Robert the Doll. Our interview is with Dr. Cori Convertito, Curator of the Key West Art and Historical Society, which oversees the Fort East Martello Museum, home of Robert the Doll.Robert the Doll links
Flashback to January 2018:
In this episode of MonsterTalk, we return to discussion of the Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis (UTH) and what seems to be its growing influence in paranormal circles. It’s been used to explain UFOs, mothman, bigfoot, fairies, dogman, ghosts and many other phenomena which defy scientific demonstrability. Now it crops up again in a new film event titled Alien Intrusion which turned out to be a stealth evangelical creationist film which suggests that aliens and UFOs are actually demonic. We are joined by MonsterTalk alum Joe Laycock, Natasha Mikles and Jeb Card to discuss the UTH and Jeb’s Paranormal Unified Field Theory (PUFT) as it relates to this film and the work of John Keel and others.
In Research Of…
MonsterTalk
Joe Laycock Natasha Mikles
Jeb Card
Music
Monstertalk Theme: Monster by Peach Stealing Monkeys
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We will be playing some episodes from our archives for a few weeks this Summer - let's kick it off with this classic from October 2013! THE WARREN OMISSION.WAS THE STORY OF The Conjuring the true story of how Ed and Lorraine Warren fought demonic forces in Rhode Island? In this special episode of MonsterTalk, we hear a different side to the story of America’s first family of ghost hunting. Features interviews with investigators Joe Nickell and Steven Novella.
Full Notes
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We're joined by Erik Davis to discuss his book High Weirdness - a history of psychedelics and counterculture as a triptych embodied with three prominent figures: Terrence McKenna, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Anton Wilson. From Blade Runner to the Illuminati to Magic Mushrooms these three laid down foundational blocks decades ago that underpin (or perhaps undermine?) our present.
Terrence McKenna
Philip K. Dick
Robert Anton Wilson
Pyrrho - ancient Greek skeptic
Our coverage of Operation Mindf*ck (part 1 and part 2)
Erik Davis links:
Burning Shore (Substack)
Techgnosis (huge web archive)
Techgnosis (Book - Affiliate Link)
High Weirdness (Affiliate Link) - the Audiobook read by the author is very good. -B.
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We’re joined by Matt Baxter to discuss what we thought was a horror film but turned out to be something quite different.Warning: This film and episode deal with suicide, murder, abortion, politics, religion, and pretty much most of the hot potato topics we generally try to eschew. Hopefully we do a decent job of discussing it.
Nefarious (streaming) – Affiliate Link
More on Blaze Media
Some reviews:
7th Day Adventist review
A Christian review with interesting comments
Reddit tackles Nefarious
Horror Obsessive – really didn’t care for the “bait & switch”
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