On this week's romp through the bizarre tangles of my mind I present the long awaited, much anticipated 2nd installment of the Monsters of the Midwest with Murphysboros, Illinois' own: Big Muddy Monster.

I talk to John Sellars, Executive Director Emeritus of the History Museum on the Square in Springfield, Missouri about the Great Cobra Scare of 1953.

I give you a new edition of Brillyant After Dark! Perhaps the most romantic one yet.

These curiosities and more await you.

She once roamed the Great Smoky Mountains between North Carolina and Tennessee with skin of stone, a long obsidian blade for a finger...and a taste for children's livers! By special request, I bring you the legend of Spear Finger!

Fog. It has a way of capturing our imagination. It is mysterious and romantic. It also has a history of being deadly. This week I look at the Donora Death Fog.

I'll look at a phone booth in the desolate Mojave Desert, and how it has been connecting strangers around the world.

I'll also examine a most curious haunting that will leave you scratching your head and possibly questioning the nature of reality as we know it.

Warning: It gets dark in here.

Did strange little me traverse the vast reaches of space to share their breakfast with a chicken farmer from Wisconsin? If Joe Simonton is to be believed, yes. Yes, they did.

This week on brillyantpodcast we look at the desert rampage of the murderous Red Ghost!

Also, we travel to Scottland to learn more about the bizarre the mysterious Loch Ness...Camel?

All this and more, stick around folks its going to get wild.

As always, it gets dark in here.

I have an amazing conversation with author Jason Offutt. Our discussion ranges from Shadow People, time traveler Mike 'Madman' Marcum, Skidmore, Missouri, and much more. It was a fascinating conversation, and you can check it out here on Brillyant.

In this episode I explore the evolution of funerals in America. A couple of listeners share their ghostly encounters and a new edition of Brillyant after dark. Warning it gets dark in here.

Hear the tragic story of Inez May Gibson. Does her spirit still inhabit the second floor room of the infamous Malvern?

When night falls,

Enter the woods at your peril,

For inside lurks something

Worse than the devil.

Avoid at all costs the gathering place,

Where at midnight, the Pig-Man

Roams on Cannock Chase.

_Rhyme passed down generation to generation by local school children.

For my first installment of Monsters of the Midwest I offer you the Show-Me states own pumpkin headed, dog munchin' cryptid, Momo- The Missouri Monster.

I explore the bizarre final hours of Thomas Meehan.

This and so much more await you.

Warning:It gets dark in here.