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Matt Baxter returns to join Karen and Blake in a discussion of allegedly haunted “bothies” in the remote hiking regions of the UK. This episode contains some discussion of guns, suicide, and cannibalism.
Links to further reading/listening:
What is a “bothy?”
Mountain Bothy Association
BBC’s Uncanny episodes we mention:
Don’t Sleep in this House – December 2021
Return to Luibeilt Christmas Special 2024
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Jerry Drake returns to discuss his new book:
Hazel was a Good Girl: The Murder that Inspired Twin Peaks
Jerry has been with quite a few times to discuss Grimoires, Jack Parsons, The Hollow Earth, Internet Mysteries and Ghost Lights and we're excited to see what he makes of this real life unsolved murder with ties to one of the most influential shows to ever air on TV.
This episode does discuss murder, sexual assault, and other sensitive topics. It's not really explicit but it might not be suitable for children, hence the tag.
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We're back with part two of our 2-part coverage of the 1976 episode of The Six Million Dollar Man that introduced a generation of kids to Bigfoot, and the idea that the creature might be interconnected with space aliens living inside a California mountain.Related
Links:
The Bionic Book by Herbie Pilato (affiliate link)
Operation Plowshare
The Six Million Dollar Man series (DVD)
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Karen joins Blake to discuss the influential 2-part episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man that introduced a generation of kids to Bigfoot, and the idea that the creature might be interconnected with space aliens living inside a California mountain.
This is part one of a two-part special edition.
The patron edition has extended footage and no modern commercials.
Extensive show notes available here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/128686370?forSale=true
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Blake and Karen take a minute to catch their breath and talk about where things are in their lives and what's up next in MonsterTalk news.
Links:
Bitch: The Journey of a Word
Adhesive Capsulitis
Idiopathic Illnesses
Mechanical Turk
Speaking Machine
Replica of Speaking Machine (YouTube)
Wolfgang von Kempelen
Deep Mind
Deep Blue
Marvin Minsky
John McCarthy
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This is part two of our two part look at Dragons and how these mythical beasts are being used to promote Creationism. Our guest is Dr. Philip Senter and he's the author of a new book about this topic. We use the word bullsh!t a lot in this episode so I slapped an explicit tag on - but I don't think it's too explicit otherwise.
Get Dr. Senter's book here: The Real Story of Dinosaurs and Dragons
News story about Mokele Mbembe being compromised by Creationists
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This is part one of our two part look at Dragons and how these mythical beasts are being used to promote Creationism. Our guest is Dr. Philip Senter and he's the author of a new book about this topic.
Get Dr. Senter's book here: The Real Story of Dinosaurs and Dragons
Read more about "The Dragon of Bologna"
Another Book about fake historical zoological specimens
The National Center for Science Education has long been a source for how to take action to combat the injection of Creationist material into public education.
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Matt & Karen went out for a little getaway weekend to Victor, Colorado and ended up investigating the allegedly haunted Victor Hotel. Did Eddie die in the hotel elevator? Was Matt caught in embarrassing circumstances? Find out inside!
The show notes here won't show the images so you'll need to hop over to our episode webpage to see them.
https://www.monstertalk.org/s04e28-the-victor-hotel-ghost/
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We're excited to welcome back Peter Bebergal. This time we're talking about mysticism and dybbuks. Be sure and check out the links below including the upcoming talk Peter is giving April 14th for The Last Tuesday Society.
Peter on Jewish Boston podcast
All the Haunts Be Ours (affiliate link) 15-Disk Horror Collection
The Ibbur from Jewish mysticism
Peter will be talking monster culture for The Last Tuesday Society on April 14th at 3 pm ET - check it out
Grab all of Peter's Books at Amazon and support this show!
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We're delighted to get to talk with Adrian Shine, who has worked for decades to raise awareness about Loch Ness and investigated the legendary creature said to inhabit the dark waters of that deep Scottish lake. He's written a new book about Sea Monsters and their connection to the Loch Ness Mystery which releases April 1st, 2025.
A Natural History of Sea Monsters (affiliate link)
The Loch Ness Centre
In the intro you hear a clip of IN SEARCH OF from S01E20 - which features a young Adrian. Check out In Research Of's coverage with guest Daniel Loxton here.
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