Small Town Monsters

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2018

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

We met filmmaker Seth Breedlove at the Kent Stage for the 2018 Kent Paranormal Weekend symposium, where our first event was a screening of his film, The Mothman of Point Pleasant. Needless to say, we were very impressed by his documentary on the subject and then later by Seth himself. After a very pleasant chat in the lobby, we knew we had met a kindred spirit and had to get him on the show to discuss other works by his film production company, Small Town Monsters. Tonight we discuss Seth's oeuvre of well-researched, fascinating and enjoyable documentaries, covering such topics as the Minerva Monster, the Beast of Whitehall, the Boggy Creek Monster, Mothman of Point Pleasant, Invasion on Chestnut Ridge, the Flatwoods Monster, and his latest, The Bray Road Beast, as well as several upcoming projects. We'll find out what captivates him about each incident and the creatures at their centers, what it was like to actually explore these towns, and what he thinks might be happening with all this High Strangeness.

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0:00.0	Tonight's episode of Estonishing Legends is brought to you by Zip Recruiter,
0:03.1	the Great Courses Plus, Ero and our contributors at Patreon.
0:07.8	In 2015, documentarians Seth Breedlove took his lifelong love of filmmaking and embarked on an
0:14.9	experiment. He sent out to make a short YouTube video about a cryptid known as The Minerva Monster.
0:22.2	It turned out to be a rabbit hole that went far deeper than he had imagined, and before he knew it,
0:27.6	there were lines around the block at the premiere of the first real film made by his production
0:32.1	company, Small Town Monsters. That was over three years ago, and since then, Seth has written,
0:38.8	directed and produced, along with the support of his incredible team, seven films in total.
0:44.8	The Minerva Monster, Beast of Whitehall, Bucky Creek Monster, the Mothman of Point Pleasant,
0:51.4	Invasion on Chestnut Ridge, the Flatwood Monster, and most recently, the Bray Road Beast,
0:58.0	which includes collaboration with former Estonishing Legends guest,
1:01.5	prolific cryptid author Linda Godfrey. Tonight, we sit down with him and talk about the experience
1:08.1	of making these films. Why he did it, what he's learned, and where he will go from here.
1:21.1	Welcome back to Estonishing Legends. I'm Scott Philbrook, and this is Forest Burgess.
1:33.7	At that time, there was an adult crowd that took the whole satanic religion seriously.
1:38.8	Anything from teachers to possible law enforcement people being involved, people would show up
1:43.7	from around the world. John Frederickson, paraphrased from Seth Breedlove's new film, The Bray Road Beast,
1:50.5	join us tonight as we sit down with paranormal and cryptid documentary author Seth Breedlove.
2:01.1	And we're back. Yes, we are with a creepy show. Well, it's kind of creepy. It's a creepy interview.
2:06.5	But Seth, I'm not saying Seth is creepy. You're saying they're more creepy. I'm backtracking.
2:10.3	Anyway, no, you know what, back this year earlier, we went to the Kent Paranormal Weekend. We had
2:13.9	a blast. Thanks to those guys again. I do want to give them a shout out at the Kent stage there.
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