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. <br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support</a>.
MonsterTalk
Claim This Podcastby Blake Smith
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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. <br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support</a>.
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Recent Episodes
August 3, 2026
☠️S05E42 - THE BLACK DEATH🐀
Blake and Karen are joined by <a href="http://history.fsu.edu/person/ben-dodds#:~:text=Ben%20Dodds%20has%20worked%20on,in%20his%20on-going%20work." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Ben Dodds</a>, author of <a href="https://amzn.to/4yTfMkK" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Myths and Memories of the Black Death</a> to discover more about a disease which forever changed world history when it swept across Europe in the 1300s.<br /><br />The conversation runs from the mechanics of the disease - what a bubo actually is, what finally kills you, and why the textbook rats-and-fleas model spreads far too slowly to explain what medieval eyewitnesses described - to the harder question of how anyone in 2026 knows any of it. Along the way: the marmot hypothesis, the medieval physicians who were certain they had it figured out, the appalling 1348 pogroms whose victims were dug out of the ground in a Catalan town a short drive from where Dodds was sitting, why Monty Python understood the Middle Ages better than most historical novelists, and a closing answer about the aftermath that most listeners will not see coming. Blake's cold open, meanwhile, sets out to explain why we call it the Black Death at all - and reels in an unexpected monster.<br /><br />Extended show notes at MonsterTalk.org<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support</a>.<br /><br />Some product links may be affiliated with Amazon revenue sharing.
July 27, 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 handed over, and what it quietly left out.<br /><br />From a Nevada billionaire's decades-long influence campaign to a $22 million taxpayer-funded hunt for the strange at a remote Utah ranch, the trio traces how fringe belief got bootstrapped into official policy - and asks whether the whole disclosure spectacle is meant to illuminate anything at all, or just to bury the question under an avalanche of unanalyzed data. Along the way: anglerfish, ice cream cones, and an epistemological war we didn't even know we'd been drafted into.<br /><br />🎧 What's Inside🛸 What "PURSUE" actually stands for - and what the release did and didn't include<br />🏛️ AARO decoded: why "all-domain" is more than a rebrand<br />💰 The billionaire whose private money quietly seeded decades of official UFO research<br />👻 The "two agendas" baked into disclosure from the start (hint: it was never only about spacecraft)<br />🍦 A former government UAP chief's memorable verdict on the whole enterprise<br />🎣 The anglerfish test: what real extraordinary evidence actually looks like<br />⚔️ The "epistemological war" - and why skeptics feel like they brought a calculator to a shouting match<br />🪐 What some disclosure advocates are really hoping to find out there<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support</a>.<br /><br />Some product links may be affiliated with Amazon revenue sharing.
July 20, 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.<br /><br />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 panic peaked. At the center of part two is Emmy Award-winning reporter <a href="https://www.earthfiles.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Linda Moulton Howe</a>, whose 1980 documentary A Strange Harvest wrapped a decade of dead cows, black helicopters, and hypnotic regressions into a single package and delivered it to America.<br /><br />Lee walks through what happened next: the government's Rommel Report and its verdict of "Mother Nature," the tragic Bennewitz affair, cow parts arriving by mail in Alberta, a declassified CIA remote-viewing file, and how the whole phenomenon finally hardened into alien orthodoxy. It all ends with the big question - what's actually killing these animals?<br /><br /><a href="https://www.monstertalk.org/%F0%9F%90%82s05e40-cattle-mutilations-part-2%F0%9F%9B%B8/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Extended show notes at Monstertalk.org</a><br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support</a>.<br /><br />Some product links may be affiliated with Amazon revenue sharing.
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