We're created some monsters -- or so they say. Just in time for Halloween, we’re going to decrypt the Satanic legend-making over American cryptids, with the help of Karen and Blake from the long-running skeptics' podcast, MonsterTalk.

 

SHOW LINKS

• MonsterTalk: website, Twitter, and Facebook
• The Conversation: The monster festival – a pilgrimage to small town America, Joe Laycock (2018)
• Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program, by James T Lacatski D.Eng., Colm A Kelleher Ph.D., George Knapp (2021)
• Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids, by Daniel Loxton (2012)
• Journal of Mormon History: A Mormon Bigfoot, Matthew Bowman (2007)
• Western Folklore: "New" Legends: Some Perspectives from Anthropology, Phillips Stevens Jr. (1990)
• Aztlan Magazine: Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore, William Nericcio (2012)
• What Happens Next: Contemporary Urban Legends & Popular Culture, by Gail de Vos (2012)
• Ten Disturbing Dogman Sightings of the American Midwest, Aaron Fox (2021)
• LA Times: At Remote Forest Lake Monstrous Legends Spawn, Jason Song (2001)
• Jersey Devil: The History of an American Cryptid, Carolyn Cox (2018)
• New York Times: Ministers Plan Their Own Encounters, Matt Richtell (1997)

 

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