Episodes

  • Flashback: Zombies, Cults & Demons

    Flashback: Zombies, Cults & Demons
    Jul 7 2025
    FLASHBACK to December 2013:
    A FAMILIAR VOICE returns to MonsterTalk as Dr. Karen Stollznow joins us to discuss her (then new) book, God Bless America.

    Items of Interest
    Haunting America on Amazon

    More information on the case of Anneliese Michel

    Wade Davis’s book on Haitian zombies — The Serpent and the Rainbow

    More reading on the Satanic Panic — In Pursuit of Satan: The Police and the Occult

    Music
    Monstertalk Theme: Monster by Peach Stealing Monkeys

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Flashback: Doctor Atlantis - with Ken Feder

    Flashback: Doctor Atlantis - with Ken Feder
    Jun 30 2025
    Flashback to May 2015:
    IS THERE A LOST CITY somewhere that formed the basis of the legend of Atlantis? Dr. Kenny Feder returns, not to praise Atlantis, but to bury it.

    Kenny Feder: Selected Works

    The Past in Perspective
    Frauds, Myths and Mysteries
    Linking to the Past

    Related Links
    Atlantis by Donovan
    Podcast — Archeology Fantasies
    In Search Of… Atlantis

    Music
    Monstertalk Theme: Monster by Peach Stealing Monkeys

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    57 mins
  • Flashback: The Warren Omission

    Flashback: The Warren Omission
    Jun 23 2025
    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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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • S04E37 High Weirdness with Erik Davis

    S04E37 High Weirdness with Erik Davis
    Jun 16 2025
    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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    48 mins
  • S04E36 – Nefarious Stealth Evangelicalism?

    S04E36 – Nefarious Stealth Evangelicalism?
    Jun 9 2025
    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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    50 mins
  • S04E35 - Dread Bothy and Beyond

    S04E35 - Dread Bothy and Beyond
    Jun 2 2025
    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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    46 mins
  • S04E34 - The Murder that Inspired Twin Peaks

    S04E34 - The Murder that Inspired Twin Peaks
    May 26 2025
    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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    53 mins
  • S04E33 - BigFootage: The Secret of Bigfoot pt 2

    S04E33 - BigFootage: The Secret of Bigfoot pt 2
    May 19 2025
    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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    1 hr and 4 mins