October 4, 2026

S06E01 💀Taphonomy and All That Rot🧛

An interview with forensic anthropologist Evan Bird, creator of The Corpse Review. The episode’s central thesis is that many of history’s most vivid monster panics, from Balkan vampire hysteria to modern cryptid sightings like the Montauk Monster and globsters, are rooted in ordinary but misunderstood biological processes that occur after death. Guest Evan Bird, a forensic anthropologist and board-certified medicolegal […]

Regular Episode 42 min read
September 27, 2026

S05E50 💀 REHUMANIZING PEOPLE OF THE PAST

S05E50 💀 REHUMANIZING PEOPLE OF THE PAST Blake and Karen welcome Dr. Kristin LaFollette, Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana and a poet, to discuss her new book Rehumanizing People of the Past. Her subject is the language we use for the dead, and how words like “specimen,” “artifact,” and “store” can quietly turn a person […]

Regular Episode 36 min read
September 6, 2026

S05E47 MT Legend Tripping: Paranormal England

Karen and Matt are back from their trip to the UK and they share stories and photos from their whirlwind visit to a variety of (allegedly) haunted places. Blake makes jokes… and wishes he could go himself. Trip photos available at our Patreon site. 🗺️ The Itinerary 🎧 Also In This Episode Why one UFO gets reported in Britain for […]

Regular Episode 47 min read
August 30, 2026

S05E46 FLASHBACK: England’s Most Haunted Village

👻 S05E46 – England’s Most Haunted Village (Flashback) Blake brings us a flashback to 2017, when he and Karen sat down withThe Spooktator‘s Hayley Stevens to talk about the (allegedly) most haunted village in England. Hayley is a British paranormal researcher who started out a believer and came around to skepticism the hard way – by actually investigating – and […]

Regular Episode 58 min read
August 23, 2026

S05E45 – Circus Train Wrecks 🎪🚂

⚠️Content Warning: This episode contains sustained discussion of animal injury and death, including the killing of working animals, animals shot after escaping, and graphic period newspaper accounts. ⚠️ Blake and Karen discuss Circus Train Wrecks as an explanation for mysterious “real” animal sightings, as well as a source of folklore monsters of high improbability. 🚂 In This Episode 📊 The […]

Regular Episode 44 min read
August 9, 2026

🏚️ S05E43 – The Peabody-Whitehead Mansion

⚠️ Content Advisory⚠️ This episode includes an extended discussion of a televised paranormal investigation in which a crew treated an alleged spirit-box recording about a sexual assault as cause for celebration. The hosts address the claim and the ethics of its presentation directly. Please consider another episode if this topic would be traumatic for you. Blake and Karen are joined […]

Regular Episode 4 min read
August 2, 2026

☠️S05E42 – THE BLACK DEATH🐀

Blake and Karen are joined by Dr. Ben Dodds, author of Myths and Memories of the Black Death to discover more about a disease which forever changed world history when it swept across Europe in the 1300s. The conversation runs from the mechanics of the disease – what a bubo actually is, what finally kills you, and why the textbook […]

Regular Episode 46 min read