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MonsterTalk

The Rise of Bat Boy

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2010

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the pantheon of American monsters, only one truly dominated the newspapers of the 1990s. Checkout lines everywhere were haunted by the bald-headed, wide-mawed visage of Bat Boy. What was Bat Boy, and where did he come from? The MonsterTalk team interviews cartoonist Tye Bourdony, a former employee of the Weekly World News. Bourdony shares his insights about Bat Boy and the rise and fall of the famous tabloid paper. READ full episode notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

0:05.0

This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max.

0:09.0

Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra oombs or building a playlist that will even get your nun up on the table

0:21.5

Or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max the new Samsung Galaxy Z-Flip 5 and Chromebook are better together.

0:38.0

Take hands-free selfies which automatically sync to your Chromebook, ready to edit,

0:42.0

and access recent chrom tabs across both

0:44.8

devices.

0:45.8

The new Galaxy Z Flip5 in Chromebook, better together.

0:49.6

Available on Sky Mobile.

0:51.4

Bluetooth and Internet connection required. You must be-to-net connection required.

0:53.0

You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook.

0:57.0

Have you ever wondered how those tabloid newspapers get their stories?

1:02.0

Today on Monster Talk, we'll go behind... those tabloid newspapers get their stories.

1:03.2

Today on Monster Talk, we'll go behind the scenes

1:05.9

with an insider to find out all about the Weekly World News

1:09.8

and its most iconic recurring character,

1:12.3

the Monster Child known as Bat Boy.

1:15.0

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

1:18.0

A giant hairy creature, Potape, Park Man.

1:24.0

In Lark Ness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the Highlands of Scotland.

1:29.0

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. Monster Talk.

1:55.8

Supermarket tabloids.

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