S20 Ep116: Beasts Beyond Belief: Sneaky Werewolves, Flying Cats, and Accidental Apes w/Michael D. Winkle
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
You've heard of the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot, of course, but what about interdimensional hamsters? Flying rabbits? The Brentford Griffin? The Choccolocco monster? Michael D. Winkle (author of The Eyrie: A Book of Gryphons) has published works on such topics as rare and ancient creatures that are known to science, including the amazing coelocanth fish that has been around for over 400 million years, and new sightings of saber-toothed cats, Colorado raptors, and ground sloths of immense size); animals of myth and folklore (the Mamlambo, the Texas Dragon, Watusimba, and the Orouborus); creatures with apparent connections to UFOs (werewolves, dogmen, and batsquatch); and creatures of a supernatural nature or exhibiting strange behaviors (ghost dogs, the football beast, rat kings). Join Winkle as he uncovers the strange, the bizarre, the paranormal, and the mythical worlds of creepy critters inhabiting the worlds of science, myth, and horror!
On Today's show, we sit down with Michael and talk about some of the strange and supernatural that you may have never heard of before... and, some stuff that may not be supernatural, but just plain STRANGE! You definitely don't want to miss this show!
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The United States Welcome in to the best in paranormal podcasting. |
| 0:31.8 | This is Darkness Radio. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:33.7 | Got a great show today, folks. |
| 0:35.9 | We're going to talk a little unusual off the beaten |
| 0:40.3 | path beasts today, beasts in monsters. We're going to talk beasts beyond belief. In fact, |
| 0:45.4 | that's the name of the book. Beast Beyond Belief, Werewolves, Flying Cats, and Accidental Apes. |
| 0:51.9 | It's an unusual name of the book. |
| 0:58.0 | The book is by Michael D. Winkle, who is our guest today. |
| 1:04.9 | And the, actually, is it sneaky werewolves flying cats and accidental apes? |
| 1:06.4 | Is that the name of the book there, Michael? |
| 1:13.5 | That was my suggestion for the whole title, but he said they might not understand that part. |
| 1:16.8 | I can explain what they mean, but... All right, well, we'll get into it because it's an interesting, not only an interesting book, |
| 1:21.0 | but there's some interesting off-the-beaten path, not necessarily cryptids that you may or may have heard of, may or may not have |
| 1:29.5 | heard of, that we'll talk about. We'll get into it with Michael. Michael is quite the interesting |
| 1:34.3 | person himself with, you have a lifelong love of works of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells. You've got a |
| 1:41.6 | love of pre-steampunk, this presteem-punk idea of 19th century adventure. |
| 1:47.6 | You went to high school in Bixby, Oklahoma. |
| 1:50.3 | You discovered sci-fi authors like H.P. Lovecraft, Andre Norton, PJ Farmer's, Paul Piro, |
| 1:56.7 | Metafiction, Marvel Comics, Astron, and true crime, and Charles Fort. |
| 2:01.5 | So that brings in the cryptozoology part of this, which we're studying today. |
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