Episodes

  • S04E27 - Jewish Mysticism and Dybbuks with Peter Bebergal

    S04E27 - Jewish Mysticism and Dybbuks with Peter Bebergal
    Apr 7 2025
    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

    Grab all of Peter's Books at Amazon and support this show!

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    52 mins
  • S04E26 - A Natural History of Sea Serpents with Adrian Shine

    S04E26 - A Natural History of Sea Serpents with Adrian Shine
    Mar 31 2025
    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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    55 mins
  • S04E25 - Demon Sex in Medieval Times PT 2

    S04E25 - Demon Sex in Medieval Times PT 2
    Mar 24 2025
    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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    32 mins
  • S04E24 Demon Sex in Medieval Times

    S04E24 Demon Sex in Medieval Times
    Mar 16 2025
    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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    29 mins
  • S04E23 Remembering Joe Nickell

    S04E23 Remembering Joe Nickell
    Mar 10 2025
    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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    17 mins
  • S04E22 Women in the Paranormal

    S04E22 Women in the Paranormal
    Mar 3 2025
    We're joined by Allison Jornlin (paranormalwomen.com) to talk about the footprint of women in the field of parapsychology and paranormal investigation.

    We most recently talked with Allison during "the dark times" on our COVID-era MonsterTalk Live series.

    She also covered the Chicago Mothman flap with us back in 2018!


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    57 mins
  • S04E21 The Cave of the Winds

    S04E21 The Cave of the Winds
    Feb 24 2025
    Is the cave of the winds near Manitou Springs, CO HAUNTED!? Matt Baxter has investigated and he joins us to talk about what he found.

    Related Links:
    Spooky Science Sisters - Roanoke episode with Karen

    In Research Of… The Lost Colony - Blake & Jeb Card discuss the In Search Of… episode about Roanoke.

    Eclectic Shopping options in Manitou Springs

    The history of Manitou Springs

    The Cave of the Winds (Official Site)

    The Manitou (1978 film)

    Manitou - the spirit



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    48 mins
  • S04E20 - Understand Japan's Dan Da Dan [Explicit]

    S04E20 - Understand Japan's Dan Da Dan [Explicit]
    Feb 17 2025
    We're joined by Dr. Justin Mullis to get a better understanding of the incredibly lore-dense anime series Dan Da Dan.

    Justin's academia profile

    Legend of Momotaro

    Some links recommended by Justin:
    This is a really good video about the history of the Flatwoods Monster in Japanese video games. Highly recommended.

    This is the Religious Dispatches article about koro.

    Here's the Japan Today interview with the current editor of MU magazine.And here's the MU magazine article I mentioned about Turbo Granny (in Japanese).

    The book on Japanese mountain witches I mentioned.

    And here's an article by Japanese folklorist and manga translator Zack Davisson on Dandadan.

    Additional:
    Dan Da Dan (Netflix)

    Karen's book Missed Conceptions is mentioned in the episode - get it here.

    And her latest book too: Bitch: The Journey of a Word

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    53 mins