S05E10_Monstertalk
MonsterTalk
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Later, Karen reviews a pre-publication copy of the upcoming book How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession by Caitlin Blackwell Baines. Does the book provide a blueprint for creating ghosts, or is it a cultural tour of famous haunts? Karen breaks down the architectural history, the folklore, and where the book lands on the spectrum of skepticism.
Key Topics
• Shout-outs for the Cryptid and Godzilla Advent calendars.
• Slenderman Segment:
• Recap of the 2014 Waukesha stabbing (MonsterTalk Ep #86).
• Morgan Geyser’s conditional release and subsequent escape attempt.
• A critical look at the prison industrial complex, mental health care in the US, and the current moral panic surrounding transgender individuals in media coverage.
• Book Review Segment: How to Build a Haunted House (Coming April 2026).
• A review of the book for the Society for Psychical Research (SPR).
• Analysis of the Myrtles Plantation, Borley Rectory, and the Winchester Mystery House.
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| 0:58.0 | It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before. It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before. |
| 1:04.0 | A giant hairy creature, part 8, part mad. In Larkness, a 24-mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland. |
| 1:09.0 | It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. Monster Talk. |
| 1:36.3 | Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters. I'm Blake Smith. |
| 1:41.2 | And I'm Karen Stolznor. |
| 1:43.0 | Hey there, Monster Talkers. This week, Karen and I are going to |
| 1:45.6 | discuss a couple of topics. I'm covering the latest news around Morgan Geyser, the young woman who we |
| 1:50.7 | discussed back in 2014 when she was involved with an attempted murder conducted in the name of the |
| 1:56.0 | fictional internet entity, Slender Man. That episode was very informative and an important episode of our show, |
| 2:03.2 | so I'll put a link to it in the show notes if you'd like to go back and catch it. I believe in |
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