Karen joins Blake to discuss the influential 2-part episodes 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.

This is part one of a two-part special edition.

The patron edition has extended footage and no modern commercials.

Extensive show notes available here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/128686370?forSale=true 

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Blake and Karen take a minute to catch their breath and talk about where things are in their lives and what's up next in MonsterTalk news.

Links:
Bitch: The Journey of a Word

Adhesive Capsulitis 

Idiopathic Illnesses

Mechanical Turk

Speaking Machine

Replica of Speaking Machine (YouTube)

Wolfgang von Kempelen

Deep Mind

Deep Blue

Marvin Minsky

John McCarthy

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This is part two of our two part look at Dragons and how these mythical beasts are being used to promote Creationism. Our guest is Dr. Philip Senter and he's the author of a new book about this topic.  We use the word bullsh!t a lot in this episode so I slapped an explicit tag on - but I don't think it's too explicit otherwise. 

Get Dr. Senter's book here: The Real Story of Dinosaurs and Dragons

News story about Mokele Mbembe being compromised by Creationists

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This is part one of our two part look at Dragons and how these mythical beasts are being used to promote Creationism. Our guest is Dr. Philip Senter and he's the author of a new book about this topic.

Get Dr. Senter's book here: The Real Story of Dinosaurs and Dragons

Read more about "The Dragon of Bologna"

Another Book about fake historical zoological specimens 

The National Center for Science Education has long been a source for how to take action to combat the injection of Creationist material into public education.

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Matt & Karen went out for a little getaway weekend to Victor, Colorado and ended up investigating the allegedly haunted Victor Hotel. Did Eddie die in the hotel elevator? Was Matt caught in embarrassing circumstances? Find out inside!




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https://www.monstertalk.org/s04e28-the-victor-hotel-ghost/

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We're excited to welcome back Peter Bebergal. This time we're talking about mysticism and dybbuks. Be sure and check out the links below including the upcoming talk Peter is giving April 14th for The Last Tuesday Society.

Peter on Jewish Boston podcast

All the Haunts Be Ours (affiliate link) 15-Disk Horror Collection

The Ibbur from Jewish mysticism

Peter will be talking monster culture for The Last Tuesday Society on April 14th at 3 pm ET - check it out

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We're delighted to get to talk with Adrian Shine, who has worked for decades to raise awareness about Loch Ness and investigated the legendary creature said to inhabit the dark waters of that deep Scottish lake.  He's written a new book about Sea Monsters and their connection to the Loch Ness Mystery which releases April 1st, 2025. 

A Natural History of Sea Monsters (affiliate link)

The Loch Ness Centre

In the intro you hear a clip of IN SEARCH OF from S01E20 - which features a young Adrian. Check out In Research Of's coverage with guest Daniel Loxton here.

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We're back with part 2 of our interview with Dr. Eleanor Janega to discuss Demons in Medieval Europe - and a lot of that has to do with sexy sex.  So… another EXPLICIT tag! 

Eleanor's Blog Going-Medieval

Eleanor's book The Once and Future Sex

The Apocalypse Tapestry of Angers (The Guardian)

The Apocalypse Tapestry (Wikipedia)

YouTube videos with Eleanor 

Monty Summers translation of the Malleus Maleficarum  (AMZ affiliate link)








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We're joined by the engaging historian Dr. Eleanor Janega to talk about how the people of Europe considered demonic sex during the medieval period of history. This episode is in two parts, and both are explicit. 

Presenter on the History Hit channel - https://www.historyhit.com/ 

Blog - https://going-medieval.com/ 

Medievalist, author, blogs about medieval history, pop culture, and swearing 

Author of: The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

Article: “On sex with demons” - https://going-medieval.com/2020/07/30/on-sex-with-demons/

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A brief remembrance of our friend, Joe Nickell. (December 1, 1944 – March 4, 2025)

Joe Nickell's extraordinary life came to an end on Tuesday, March 4th and we're posting this brief remembrance this week instead of our regular episode.

Check out Joe's many "personas."

The Science of Monsters: Tracking the Real-Life Creatures

Archive episodes with Joe

The sourtoe cocktail

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