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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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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.

Matt Baxter, his dogs and cabin (discussed in the episode)

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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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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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)

Don’t forget to listen to Part 1!

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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.

Extended show notes available on our Patreon Feed.

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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”

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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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 podcastAll the Haunts Be Ours (affiliate link) 15-Disk Horror CollectionThe Ibbur from Jewish mysticismPeter will be talking monster culture for The Last Tuesday Society on April 14th at 3 pm ET – check it outGrab all of Peter’s Books at Amazon and support this show!

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