S20 Ep110: Chasing North American Monsters w/Jason Offutt

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Darkness Radio Presents: Chasing North American Monsters with Professor/Paranormal Researcher/Author, Jason Offutt!

Here in North America, there be monsters! Jason Offutt takes you on a thrilling adventure across all twenty-three countries―as well as every state and territory of the US, Canada, and Mexico―to meet one or more monsters in each location. Featuring illustrations throughout his new book, "Chasing North American Monsters, A Guide To Over 250 Creatures From Greenland to Guatemala", this book travels to Alaska, the Caribbean, Greenland, and beyond.

• Find the horned boa known as Madre de Aguas in Cuba.

• Head to Honduras to spot el Comelenguas, the tongue-eating giant bird.

• Catch a glimpse of the Grafton Monster along West Virginia's roads.

• Escape from the Ikusik, the human-devouring corpse of Greenland.

• Track the Were-Jaguar (half-man, half-cat) across Tabasco, Mexico.

From Arizona's Lizard Man to Canada's Wendigo, this book opens your eyes to the monstrous wonders of North America. Are you up for the chase?

On Today's show, we break down some of Jason's favorite stories from the book. We ask him if one of the creatures in the book could truly be in Tim's yard! And, we dig deeper into why certain legends and lore exist in common in different areas across the world!

Get your copy of "Chasing North American Monsters" here: https://bit.ly/4n81Ehp

Find out more abut Jason here: https://www.jasonoffutt.com/

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The United States Welcome in to the best in paranormal podcasting. This is Darkness Radio. I'm your host, Tim Dennis. Great show today, folks. Really excited about today's show. We have an old friend with us, and we are going to talk monsters today.
0:40.9	As a matter of fact, I have the book right here.
0:43.0	It is called Chasing North American Monsters.
0:46.2	My guest today is Jason Offutt, a good friend of the show, who is back today with a great book.
0:52.0	And folks, this is, I'm going to call it a series now because obviously this is a
0:57.0	continuation from a book that he had done previously.
1:02.6	It's just a continuation, only it's better.
1:05.0	And I'm going to tell you how it's better here in just a moment.
1:07.7	Jason Offutt teaches journalism at Northwest Missouri State University.
1:11.3	He's the author of four previous books on paranormal topics included Haunted
1:15.5	Missouri and Paranormal Missouri.
1:17.8	In addition to several novels, he's been interviewed on Whitley Streber's Dreamland,
1:22.6	Destination America, Benal of America, of course this this program, Darkness Radio, by the way, thanks
1:28.7	for including that in the bio there, my friend, the paracast and other prominent paranormal
1:34.3	podcasts.
1:35.8	By the way, you can catch him at jasonoffitt.com.
1:38.4	We have a link in the description of this program as to where you can check out everything,
1:41.6	Jason Offutt.
1:43.0	And by the way, there's a very prominent person who writes the forwards of this book.
1:48.1	We'll talk about it in just a second.
1:50.2	This is a gorgeous book and a wonderful book at that Chasing North American Monsters.
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