Monster Crush

Where do you plan to spend your afterlife? For some of the departed, they chose an eternity of entertainment in the theater! Join us as LD joins two of her loves: Scares and Stagecraft to discuss Theater Ghosts! These paranormal performers and spectral spectators are sure to send a shiver up your spine when all is dark except the ghostlight!

CW: Real world religions, Ancient religious beliefs, Death/Tragedy, Historical discrimination, and Tragedies related to fire

With all of the change that the new year brings it's sometimes nice to settle down with something familiar. And better the monster you know... or at least heard mentioned once on a previous episode. We return for second chances for one particular monster who didn't get the spotlight before. This episode is all about The Van Meter Visitor! So join us for the tale of a pterasaur with a laser-beam on its foreheard who terrorized a small Iowan town in the early 1900s!

Featuring: New Year resolutions (or not), second cryptid chances, following your heart, in a time before The Music Man, everyone in Iowa is locked and loaded, hunting monsters with all five senses, stinky cryptids deserve love too, aliens brought dinosaurs back, and pterodactyls with fricken laser beams attached to their heads

CW: Gun violence, mentions of voyeurism, mass panic/mob mentality

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.

An episode just in time for your holiday travels (but maybe skip the bridge part if you are driving over one), it's Mothman Part 2! So strap in and strap on for all you've ever wanted to know about everyone's favorite winged harbinger of doom!

Featuring: Here come the Men in Black, The Smiling Man, Mothman can smell your menstruation, bridge collapsing bummers, just all of the conspiracy theories, Mothman's Chicago rebranding, and everyone's new favorite cryptid: BIGHOOT

CW: Tragedy/death/disaster, mentions of suicide, mentions of blood, government manipulation/gaslighting, kidnapping, descriptions of humanoid uncanny valley

It's finally here! Episode 69 of Monster Crush (nice nice nice) and for this very special occasion we bring you everyone's favorite cryptid harbinger of doom, the one and only MOTHMAN. And just because we can't get enough of this red-eyed nightmare beast, this is only part ONE of a TWO PART SERIES!

Featuring: Mothman is a (tragic) Christmas story, cryptids who kill, touchable butts, West Virginia is for Monsters, Everyone's favorite cryptids, the inexplicable life of John Keel, "Fortean", and EVERYONE LOVES MOTHS

CW: Tragic death/disaster (3:55), Dog death (23:50, 28:00 - 29:00), Alleged harm to children (29:50)

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.

In honor of the important recent holiday, Black Friday (duh), we change things up a bit this week. Instead of monsters we discuss Cursed/Haunted Items! Would you purchase something knowing it's cursed? Many people have and in this episode we talk about three of the biggest cursed items out there.

Featuring: The "Mummy" that sank the Titanic, A New Game: Damn, That's Scary to Look At, Dybbuk Box scares, Take Jedi warnings seriously, Shakespeare's favorite orgy bed, and an ode to the beauty of Elizabeth Hurley

CW: discussions of curses, death, house fires/arson, misuse of bodily fluids, xenophobia, execution, and mentions of suicide at (15:45 and 18:00)

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.

Ready for a cryptid that LD described as "unsettling in a sexy way"? Who? Exactly. No, who? Yes, exactly. That joke only kind of works in text but what does work is the Owlman of Mawnan! Get ready for big wings and an even bigger heart and an EVEN BIGGER set of eyes that will leave you in fear!

Featuring: Batman: the cryptid of Gotham, Spooky News: Monster Mash Money and Goldie Hawn's close encounter, MORGAWR!, Cryptids & Conmen, Definitely Glowing Eyes, This is the same (cryptid) picture, and Lost Tapes

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key network. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.

Happy Halloween from all of us at Monster Crush! To celebrate this, the most monstrous time of the year, LD presents her first singletons! We get down and smutty with a group of singletons pulled straight from the mind of two-time Hugo award nominee, and writer of works such as Space Raptor Butt Invasion and Bisexual Mothman Mailman Makes A Special Delivery In Our Butts, Dr. Chuck Tingle! One thing is for sure in this episode, we are going to prove LOVE IS REAL!

Featuring: Nessie neck problems, Spooky News Update, the sexiest slasher villain, the worst kind of reverse medusa, and the true differences between Dinosaurs & Unicorns & Bigfoots & Living Objects

CW: This episode contains sensitive topics such as death, body horror, and sleep paralysis in addition to our usual discussions of sex and intimacy with potentially non-human partners.

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. Our theme music is by the handsome and partnered Nick Lambert (find him on Instagram @lambertropolis). All other sounds and music were provided through a license with Epidemic Sound.

Some bittersweet news for our humble show. Co-founder, co-host, and co-cryptowoologist Heaven-Leigh has had to step back from the show. She is safe and healthy but some recent life events (including good stuff like a promotion) have left her without the time she feels that Monster Crush deserves. We wish Heaven-Leigh the absolute best of luck and want you all to know that the second she has time to come back, there will always be a seat waiting for her. But the show must go on! At least Derek and Heaven-Leigh feel that it should.

So... Derek is joined this week by his new co-host. Someone you all already know from her recent guest-appearance on the show. Please welcome Jordan, AKA The Lady Dame (LD also works). LD brings her love of monsters and expertise in monster smooching to the table and is just the best for agreeing to join the show with little notice.

So in honor of LD's first show, and it being the Most Monstrous Time of the Year, we bring you the most well known vampire cryptid around... El Chupacabra! Get ready for a great time that also SUCKS in the best of ways.

Featuring: Leftovers with Step-Dad, Older than a Chupacabra(?), SPOOKY NEWS, Hop like a Tasmanian Tiger, Future Grunch, Types of Chupacabras, Top 5 Cryptids, Don’t believe everything you see in movies, and MANGE!

CW: This episode contains sensitive topics such as harm/death to animals and blood/loss of blood

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. Our theme music is by the handsome and taken Nick Lambert (find him on Instagram @lambertropolis). All other sounds and music were sourced through a license with Epidemic Sound.

It's PART 2 of A Cryptid By Any Other Name! The final addition to this mini series of oddly-named monsters gives us a practical bounty of creepy-creature-delights. Derek presents Heaven-Leigh with the folkloric Jimmy Squarefoot and eldritch being, The Nameless Thing of Berkeley Square. We also discover a rival to THE WORST CRYPTID NAME EVER, stand back **********, Mel's Hole has some competition for you.

Featuring: Nicknames in life, the secrets of Mel's Hole, justice for the sheep, JINGLE JINGLE JINGLE, haunted real estate, naming the nameless, famous octopuses, and Derek turns 34

CW: This episode contains sensitive topics such as murder, harm to domestic animals, brief references to cancer/tumors, domestic violence, violent death, drug references, and a 9/11 joke at the very end

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. Our theme music is by the handsome and partnered Nick Lambert (find him on Instagram @lambertropolis). All other third party sounds and music were provided through a license with Epidemic Sound.

Looking for love in all the wrong places? Not anymore! We're armed and here to annihilate!!! In aMonster Crush first, Derek chooses which to kill between two insect cryptids. Judgment free, but these guys are GROSS! Do we need both of them, really? I don't think so!

Warning: This episode contains sensitive topics such as genocide, brief mentions of needles, insects, blood, and spiders.

Featuring: Sweet Blood™️; Spooky News Update!; Sad Bug Poems; Bugs Ain' Got No Bones; A Mosquito With A Propensity for Violence; Experiments Gone Right!; Be a Caretaker

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. Our theme music is by the handsome and no-longer-on-the-market, Nick Lambert (find him on Instagram @lambertropolis). All other third party sounds and music were provided through a license with Epidemic Sound.