Frauds, Hoaxes and Splendor in the Past

FromMonsterTalk

Start listening View podcast show

Frauds, Hoaxes and Splendor in the Past

FromMonsterTalk

ratings:

Length:

98 minutes

Released:

Sep 28, 2016

Format:

Podcast episode

Description

Ken Feder returns to talk about his new book Ancient America: Fifty Archaeological Sites to See for Yourself, which is available for pre-order now on Amazon. Discussion in this episode centers around the failings of science coverage in the media, the latest on the famous Piltdown Man hoax, and why everyone needs to visit historical archaeological sites when they can. Read the episode notes

Released:

Sep 28, 2016

Format:

Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

MonsterTalk: The Science Show About Monsters is a free audio podcast that critically examines the science behind cryptozoological (and legendary) creatures, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or werewolves.

Skip carousel

YEC and Beowulf: It's verse than you think: There are those who believe the Earth is only about 6000 years old. They believe that the evidence for this is all in the Bible, but as we’ve discussed on MonsterTalk before, they still seek confirmatory evidence from other works. So it was only... by MonsterTalk
45 min listen
Pterosaurs: Paleontologist Dr. David Martill joins us to talk about prehistoric flying reptiles and his visit to Papua New Guinea with the TV show MonsterQuest to search for the legendary Ropen, an animal which some say is a modern day surviving Pterosaur. Dr.... by MonsterTalk
54 min listen
Bigfoot DNA: Our panel (Ben Radford, Dr. Karen Stollznow and Blake Smith) interview Professor Todd Disotell, PhD. Todd has been a guest on multiple television shows to examine potential Bigfoot and Yeti DNA. We ask him about the science of DNA analysis, his... by MonsterTalk
75 min listen
Suitable for Framing: In this episode, the hosts of MonsterTalk talk with Greg Long, author of the 2004 book The Making of Bigfoot (which was reviewed at the time by Skeptic’s own Daniel Loxton). Long’s book is built from hours of interviews with surviving... by MonsterTalk
63 min listen
Anatomy of a Beast: In this week's MonsterTalk, we interview Michael McLeod, a writer, producer, and director who has created documentaries for PBS, the PBS series Frontline, the Discovery Channel, and other national venues. His book "Anatomy of a Beast" is an in-depth... by MonsterTalk
59 min listen
Monsters from the Lab: In this week’s episode, MonsterTalk looks once again at genetics and creatures created in the laboratory. Dr. Marcus C. Davis joins the hosts to discuss what constitutes a “monster.” In his work, Davis deals with paleontology, as... by MonsterTalk
75 min listen
The Plesiosaur Hypothesis: Is there a mysterious prehistoric "living fossil" lurking beneath the waters of Loch Ness? The idea that a colony of Plesiosaurs might have survived into modern times in the deep dark waters of Loch Ness has long captured the imagination of... by MonsterTalk
69 min listen
They Came From Outer Space!: Are creatures from other planets visiting the earth, trampling our crops to create cryptic messages, violating people in their sleep, and doing terrible things to our livestock? How plausible is it that we are being visited by intelligent beings from... by MonsterTalk
55 min listen
Darwin vs. the Wolfman: In this week's Halloween episode, MonsterTalk ventures into the realm of the werewolves -- and asks what Charles Darwin's Origin of Species implies for this fearsome monster's plausibility. Guest Dr. Brian Regal (Assistant Professor for the History of... by MonsterTalk
68 min listen
Fins & Fossil Footprints: Did a Japanese fishing vessel catch the body of a prehistoric aquatic dinosaur? In this week's MonsterTalk, we interview Glen Kuban to discuss the 1977 case of the Zuiyo-Maru, dinosaurs, paleontology, cryptozoology and why so many creationists want to... by MonsterTalk
60 min listen
Dragon*Con's Skeptrack 2010: THIS WEEK’S EPISODE was recorded before a live studio audience at Dragon*Con’s Skeptrack 2010 (in Atlanta, Georgia). MonsterTalk hosts Ben Radford and Blake Smith bravely faced the horror of live questions from listeners —... by MonsterTalk
64 min listen
I'm Gonna Get You, Goat Sucker!: The most famous of the Latin American cryptids is El Chupacabra, the goat sucker. This episode of MonsterTalk examines the lore behind this slinking, sinister, blood-sucking creature. Is it a real animal? A creation of secret scientific experiments?... by MonsterTalk
54 min listen
Ghost Bird: What happens when a creature thought to be extinct is spotted alive in the swamps of Arkansas? Can such a creature have survived? Can scientists verify the story? And when a town’s hopes and a school’s grant money are on the line, to what... by MonsterTalk
69 min listen
Bringing Light to a Moth: In this episode, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP) investigator Joe Nickell joins the MonsterTalk crew for a look into the West Virginian legend of Mothman — allegedly a human-sized creature with wings and glowing red eyes.... by MonsterTalk
50 min listen
Cthulhu Rises: In this special literary edition, MonsterTalk ventures into a dark domain that can be confidently called fiction: the monstrous, genre-defining oeuvre of horror writer Howard Philips Lovecraft. Joined by noted Lovecraft scholar Robert M. Price and... by MonsterTalk
80 min listen
Historical Ghost Investigations Part II: Sinking the Watertown: This week, MonsterTalk continues its two-part discussion of historical ghost investigations. Blake Smith describes his investigation into a famous photo that allegedly shows two dead sailors floating off the side of a 1920’s oil tanker.... by MonsterTalk
63 min listen
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum!: Giants appear in cultures around the world: Biblical tales of giants more than ten feet tall; Roman and Greek stories of titans and heroes; European stories of giants of mountain and hill. They all have one thing in common: enormous monsters. On this... by MonsterTalk
77 min listen
Historical Ghost Investigations Part I: Kimo / Therapy: Ghost investigations often feature in television shows and other media. Typically, these amount to people wandering around at night with EMF detectors, talking into the darkness and jumping at shadows and noises. But how does one do a scientific... by MonsterTalk
64 min listen
Getting into the Spirit of Things: What does neuroscience have to say about the possibility of consciousness or mind existing outside the body — or continuing on after the body has died? This episode’s guest is neurologist Dr. Steven Novella (veteran of on-site ghost... by MonsterTalk
70 min listen
Bigfoot: First Impressions: In the world of Bigfoot, good evidence is hard to come by. Anecdotes and blurry photos keep the documentaries coming, but most skeptics agree that a body or a living specimen are needed to confirm the existence of a large North American mystery... by MonsterTalk
83 min listen
Just Scratching the Surface: MonsterTalk frequently explores tales of imaginary monsters — creatures of myth, fiction, and folklore. Today, the hosts consider a real creature, one that preys on humans and their closest animal companions. It is often invisible. It drinks... by MonsterTalk
76 min listen
Horrifying Hybrids: In this episode, MonsterTalk examines monsters that genetically blend humans with the other. Hosts Blake Smith, Ben Radford, and Dr. Karen Stollznow explore the plausibility of alien-human hybridizations, dig into the real science of genetics -- and... by MonsterTalk
69 min listen
Cryptozoology & Science, Part 2: This week, MonsterTalk continues its discussion of the intersection between science and cryptozoology. The hosts interview Dr. Donald Prothero and Daniel Loxton, who are working on a book that will give a deep overview of the field of cryptozoology... by MonsterTalk
36 min listen
Bad Wolf: On November 8, 2005 Canadian geological engineering student Kenton Carnegie went for a walk. He told people that he’d be back by 5 pm. When he hadn’t returned by 7 pm, a search party went out and discovered his remains in the woods. In... by MonsterTalk
29 min listen
On Monsters: This week on MonsterTalk, author Stephen Asma (Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College Chicago) speaks about his comprehensive book surveying Western monster-lore. Is humankind’s fascination with monsters broader than any single cause?... by MonsterTalk
58 min listen
The Columbus Poltergeist (featuring James Randi): In 1984, objects began to fly around the room in the presence of a Columbus Ohio teen named Tina Resch. The local paper claimed this was a poltergeist attack, and published photos to prove it. Tina’s story caught the attention of a young... by MonsterTalk
54 min listen
The Big Bad Wolf: CHANCES ARE IF YOU LISTEN to MonsterTalk you probably like nature documentaries. No doubt you’ve seen stories about wolves and heard words to the effect that wolves are often maligned and that wolves have an undeserved reputation for being... by MonsterTalk
74 min listen
Internet Video Hoaxes: A Mammoth Undertaking: Did you see that popular Internet video that allegedly showed a mammoth crossing a river in Siberia? You probably figured it was a hoax—and we did too—but we decided to get to the bottom of the matter. Join us as we discuss the methods and... by MonsterTalk
89 min listen
Is The Skookum Fair Dinkum?: In the year 2000 startling claims of a body cast of a Bigfoot emerged from the deep woods of Washington State. More than a decade later, MonsterTalk interviews Bigfoot researcher Daniel Perez about the facts behind this contentious artifact —... by MonsterTalk
66 min listen
Resurrecting the Extinct: Plenty of people have hypothesized about being able to bring back an extinct animal, but (so far as the MonsterTalk team knows) the only person who has successfully brought an extinct animal’s gene back to be able to express itself in a living... by MonsterTalk
48 min listen

More Episodes from MonsterTalk

Skip carousel

S03E34 British Lions and Tasmanian Tigers: May 2024 news roundup by MonsterTalk
37 min listen
S03E33 - Behind The Science of Monsters: The strange back story of how this book came to be published by Monster House. by MonsterTalk
36 min listen
S03E32 - Late Night with the Devil by MonsterTalk
48 min listen
S03E31 - The Myth of Disenchantment: with Jason A. Josephson-Storm by MonsterTalk
54 min listen
S03E30 - Bone Stacks of Mt. St. Helens: with archaeologist Andy White by MonsterTalk
41 min listen
S03E29 - Three Mini Mysteries by MonsterTalk
42 min listen
S03E28 - Legend Tripping: Devil's Tower: Karen and Matt report back on a field excursion. by MonsterTalk
34 min listen
S03E27 - BigFootage [Explicit]: Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot by MonsterTalk
36 min listen
S03E26 - The Science of Weird Sh*t [explicit]: The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure The Paranormal by MonsterTalk
48 min listen
S03E25 - The Black Monk of Pontefract by MonsterTalk
53 min listen
$S03E25 - The Black Monk of Pontefract$
S03E24 - Celebrity UFO Encounters by MonsterTalk
48 min listen
S03E23 - REVIEW: The Secret History of Bigfoot: by MonsterTalk
36 min listen
S03E22 - Are Our Phones Listening To Us? by MonsterTalk
47 min listen
S03E21 - Connecticut Cryptids: interview with author & illustrator Patrick Scalisi and Valerie Ruby-Omen by MonsterTalk
43 min listen
S03E20 - House of the Unholy (pt 2): Wrapping up our look at the facts and lore around Boleskine House, Scotland by MonsterTalk
38 min listen
S03E19 - House of the Unholy (pt 1): A look at the legends and facts of Boleskine House by MonsterTalk
45 min listen
S03E18 - The Goblins of Wikipedia: a wrap-up look at the remaining mysteries of the Kelly-Hopkinsville KY Goblins case by MonsterTalk
39 min listen
S03E17 - Maximum PG Effort: A look at the secret history of the PGF by MonsterTalk
37 min listen
S03E16 - The Toronto Tunnel Monster: with Jeff Dupuis by MonsterTalk
45 min listen
S03E15 - The Dall-E Lament: A discussion of "AI Generated" art and text with Miles Greb, artists, author and podcaster. by MonsterTalk
49 min listen
S03E14 - 2023 Weird in Review by MonsterTalk
43 min listen
S03E13 - A Ghost Story For Christmas: John Charrington's Wedding by MonsterTalk
23 min listen
S03E12 - Remembering IN SEARCH OF with Joe Nickell: with Dr. Joe Nickell by MonsterTalk
71 min listen
S03E11 - The Exorcist Effect part 2: with Joseph Laycock and Eric Harrelson by MonsterTalk
39 min listen
S03E10 - The Exorcist Effect part 1: part 1 by MonsterTalk
40 min listen
S03E09 - Cheesman Park: with Matt Baxter by MonsterTalk
49 min listen
S03E08 - Hunt the Wampus by MonsterTalk
44 min listen
S03E07 - Hogzilla part 2: with Dr. John J. Mayer by MonsterTalk
40 min listen
S03E06 - Hogzilla part 1: with Dr. John J. Mayer by MonsterTalk
38 min listen
S03E05 - The Imitation Gang: with Dr. Brian Sharpless by MonsterTalk
43 min listen

Related podcast episodes

Skip carousel

Build Better Worlds: Anthropology for Game Design, Film and Writing: Have you wondered why fantasy stories mostly are just copies of Medieval Europe? Why pop culture has been so obsessed with zombies? Or why Black Panther and the Falcon and the Winter Soldier seemed to hit the right chord at the right time for American... by This Anthro Life
64 min listen
The Alien UFO Podcast Ep34 Martin Keller: This week I'm talking to Martin Keller about his book 'The Space Pen Club: Close Encounters of the 5th Kind -- UFO Disclosure, Consciousness & Other Mind Zoomers'. A truly landmark achievement in UFO literature, this multi-layered memoir of an... by Alien UFO Podcast
59 min listen
TRC #655: Is Nuclear Power Racist? Sexist? Ageist? + Lenses With Stuart Robbins: Adam ran into a recent article which posed questions about whether nuclear power presents issues of racism, sexism and ageism. He takes a deep dive and explores if and how this could be true. Next up, our favourite astronomer and 5th... by The Reality Check
29 min listen
Death of Edgar Allan Poe, Liberty Bell 7 and Dr. Linda Hazzard: Carefully preserved at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland is a lock of hair belonging to one of America's most celebrated authors - Edgar Allan Poe. What insight do these brown strands provide into his bizarre and tragic death? At the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas is a capsule that flew into space before sinking to the bottom of the ocean, almost taking an astronaut with it. How did it happen? The Harbor History Museum in Washington State possesses a medical book that played a central role in the deaths of dozens of ill people. Who wrote it? And what happened to the author's patients? by Mysteries at the Museum
43 min listen
The Frommer's Travel Show for Sunday, November 24th, Hour 1: Arthur & Pauline talk with Jason Cochran about his new book "Here Lies America: Buried Agendas & Family Secrets at the Tourist Sites Where Bad History Went Down". In the fourth segment, the Frommers welcomed Jackie Snow to talk about her New York Times p. by The Frommer's Travel Show
37 min listen
Black Orchid: The 5th Doctor story Black Orchid was the last of the true historicals, travels in time that feature no aliens or the like. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha delve into this story of the Edwardian era that features cricket, by Secrets of Doctor Who
61 min listen
The History of Shakespeare - In Shakespeare's Shadow by Play On Podcasts
58 min listen
040: Meddler by Philip K. Dick - At Least One Vintage Sci-Fi Short Story In Every Episode by The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories
35 min listen
020-Life Imitates Science Fiction: In 1944, U.S. military intelligence was alarmed to discover a remarkably detailed description of an atomic bomb in Astounding Science Fiction magazine. by Futility Closet
38 min listen
Desolation Tries to Colonize You: Jeff VanderMeer and Alison Sperling (CH) by New Books in Literary Studies
41 min listen
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire, Featuring Kurt Andersen: Has the great American experiment in liberty gone off the rails? Kurt Andersen’s latest book, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire, a 500 Year History, is a provocative chronicle of magical thinking and make-believe. It provides a new paradigm for understanding the post-factual present, where reality and illusion are dangerously blurred. by Aspen Ideas to Go
51 min listen
064: Piper in the Woods by Philip K. Dick - At Least One Vintage Sci-Fi Short Story In Every Episode by The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories
54 min listen
Ep. 42 - The Unexplained Mystery Of The Flatwoods Monster by CreepTime the Podcast
67 min listen
StarShipSofa No 437 Jeffrey Ford: Fact: Science News by J J Campanella Main Fiction: “Blood Drive” by Jeffrey Ford Originally published in After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels, Vanitas, T... by StarShipSofa
80 min listen
March 5, 2008 Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" LIVE on RBN: "Kooks and Spooks Codifying Normative Behaviour in Virtual Worlds - The New Make-Work Project for Jaded Security Staff" *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - March 5, 2008 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments) by Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.xml Format)
46 min listen
Mysterious Library #52 Ancient Giants of North America: Your hosts Dr. Dean Bertram and Jason McLean return to the audio-visual wing of the Mysterious Library. This week they check out another giant documentary - ANCIENT GIANTS OF NORTH AMERICA - from J. Michael Long. Old newspapers claim that gigantic... by Untold Radio Network
73 min listen
Episode 44: Inter-dimensionality (Tales to Astonish #41) -- Mar 1963 by What If Marvel was Real?
20 min listen
2023.04 Allan Kozinn (pt.1): Part 1 of our discussion with Allan Kozinn, co-author (with Adrian Sinclair) of "The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1, 1969-1973". Some might describe this book as "Everything you wanted to know about Sir Macca, but was afraid to ask", but that would b... by When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles
63 min listen
044: Prison of a Billion Years by C. H. Thames - At Least One Vintage Sci-Fi Short Story In Every Episode by The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories
26 min listen
Episode 204 "12 Days of Terror" with Dr. Richard Fernicola: For tonight's late night conversation, we are going to take you back in time to July 1916. It was a time when World War I loomed over America, New York City was in the midst of a deadly polio epidemic, and the tri-state area sought relief at... by Necronomicast
73 min listen
Samuel R. Delany, Neveryon and Beyond (JP): A Discussion with Samuel R. Delany by New Books in Literary Studies
29 min listen
Santiago Flight 513-More Giant Ground Sloths-OTC#6: On this episode of Expanded Perspectives Off The Cuff, the guys start the show off talking about Cam's recent bow hunting adventures and the enormous wild hog he just shot with his Black Widow recurve. Then Kyle brings up the strange story of an... by Expanded Perspectives
67 min listen
The Flatwoods Monster by UFO? UAP? WTF? — a UFO podcast
36 min listen
#1456 Written in Your Heart: Jefferson answers listener questions about his classification systems, and Monticello's gardens and water supply. Jefferson offers advice to a young woman who is trying to be a "good student of liberty." He tells her that "liberty is written in your... by Listening to America
57 min listen
Franklin Gothic: The Invention of Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin did more in his first forty years than most people do in an entire lifetime. Had he not played a pivotal role in the creation of the United States of America, he still would have been considered an icon in the fields of publishing,... by The First: Stories of Inventions and their Consequences
35 min listen
What Are Conspiracy Theories? | Sam Kriss by What Is X?
88 min listen
Mysterious Library #5 Luis Elizondo Vs Ufology - New Information: Your hosts Dr. Dean Bertram and Jason McLean venture into the periodical section of the Mysterious Library to critique a recent opinion piece by Luis Elizondo: "WHY UFOLOGY MUST DIE" (which appeared in LiberationTimes.com). The well-known UFO insider... by Untold Radio Network
62 min listen
Keely's Motor, Reagan Limousine, Audubon's Mystery Bird: Inside a small museum of turn-of-the-century electrical oddities in West Palm Beach, Florida is a small shattered glass photographic negative. It's the only surviving evidence of a strange machine that harnessed an unknown power source to potentially replace steam and electricity. What's the real story behind this motor? Among the classic cars and historic automobiles at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan is a specially modified Lincoln Continental limousine. What role did this armored vehicle play in one of the most perilous moments in the life of a new president? The Ewell Sale Stewart Library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania contains one oversized book that catalogues every bird species in America in vivid, full-color detail. But the book, a masterpiece by a famous American artist, depicts some birds that do not exist. What is the explanation for these mystery birds? by Mysteries at the Museum
43 min listen
Episode 21 - FDR: American Badass! (2012): This week Cooper and Nolan are rolling out an example of what happens when shock comedy goes wrong with the ridiculous FDR: AMERICAN BADASS! If you're looking for an accurate, well-told recounting of the life and times of America's 32nd president, t... by Bad Movies & Beer
52 min listen
038: Monster by William Morrison - At Least One Vintage Sci-Fi Short Story In Every Episode by The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories
38 min listen

Discover this podcast and so much more

Frauds, Hoaxes and Splendor in the Past

Frauds, Hoaxes and Splendor in the Past

Description

Titles in the series (100)

More Episodes from MonsterTalk

Related podcast episodes