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The Lost Valley Podcast

The Lost Valley Podcast

By Cian

An Irish podcast about 'Lost Worlds' in lore and literature
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Return to the Lost World: Origins and Illustrations (with Dr Richard Fallon)

The Lost Valley PodcastApr 05, 2022

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The Lost White Tribe (with Michael Robinson)
Mar 27, 202455:23
Through the Crater's Rim by A. Hyatt Verrill
Mar 17, 202438:22
Frank Frazetta's Thun'da

Frank Frazetta's Thun'da

A lost world comic book from the 50s drawn by the great Frank Frazetta!

Mar 05, 202436:41
Lost Valley Podcast - Episode Zero

Lost Valley Podcast - Episode Zero

Cian explains changes coming, a new show, a slight change of theme, and some behind-the-scenes info!

Feb 23, 202427:31
The Limits of Flesh-And-Blood Cryptozoology (with Cameron McCormick
Feb 16, 202401:10:18
When The Stars Are Right: Lovecraft & Astronomy (with Dr Edward Guimont
Jan 19, 202401:14:51
Fragments of Gods: Pagan Survival Theory (with Dr Francis Young)
Oct 01, 202301:20:52
The Nearest Thing To A Prehistoric Animal: The Loch Ness Road Trip

The Nearest Thing To A Prehistoric Animal: The Loch Ness Road Trip

Hit the road with WAW on tour through the highlands of Scotland! We visit the home of Nessie, meet Felicity the Inverness Mystery Big Cat, hear what Lovecraft had to say about the monster of the Loch, go ghost-hunting at Glamis Castle, and have a close call with the Great Grey man of Ben McDhui in a most unexpected location!

Aug 25, 202346:53
Cryptofiction - Mystery Animals in Fiction (with Justin Mullis)

Cryptofiction - Mystery Animals in Fiction (with Justin Mullis)

From the gilllman of Robert W Chambers' 'The Harbour Master' to the monstrous apes and aquatic dinosaurs of 'King Kong,' fiction has informed the cryptozoologists who went out into the dark corners of the earth seeking 'real' mystery creatures. Justin Mullis returns to talk us through his article 'Cryptofiction.' Get ready for a monster-load of influential stories from writers both familiar and obscure. Talk includes:

-Famous cryptozoologists who were influenced by monster fiction

-The influence of ‘The Lost World’ (of course!)

-Victorians, dinosaurs and ‘real’ dragons

-Victorian stories of surviving dinosaurs and the origin of Mokele-Mbembe

-Arthur Conan Doyle’s non-‘Lost World’ cryptids

-The 1925 Lost World film, King Kong, and novelisations of Kong (with extra dinosaurs!) and connections to Atlantis

-‘The Monster of Partridge Creek’ a fictitious monster that turned up as a ‘true’ story

-Lord Dunsany, the ‘Club Story’ and cryptozoology

-Early fiction featuring Bigfoot-like creatures, including ‘The Cairn’ by HR Wakefield and ‘Rogues In The House’ by Robert E Howard

-Robert W Chambers and ‘In Search Of The Unknown’ - a template for cryptozoology from 1904?


References:


-Cryptofiction, Justin Mullis, 2019

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315184661-19/cryptofiction-science-fiction-rise-cryptozoology-justin-mullis


-Justin’s talk on Robert W Chambers for The Last Tuesday Society

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cryptozoological-fiction-of-robert-w-chambers-justin-mullis-tickets-635838198167


-Justin’s writing at Adventures In Poor Taste:

https://aiptcomics.com/author/justinmullis/


-Justin’s academia.edu with links to his writing

https://bgsu.academia.edu/JustinMullis/CurriculumVitae


-Wide Atlantic Weird: Fairy Euhemerism with Justin Mullis

https://player.fm/series/wide-atlantic-weird/for-fear-of-little-men-euhemerism-and-secret-fairy-peoples-with-justin-mullis


-Lake Monster Traditions, Michel Meurger, 1988

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lake-Monster-Traditions-Cross-cultural-Analysis/dp/1870021002


-Jacques Collin de Plancy, who wrote ‘Voyage To The Centre Of The Earth’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Collin_de_Plancy


Brontosaurus, A Faded Star Rises Again, Prehisoric Pulp

https://prehistoricpulp.com/2017/08/05/brontosaurus-a-faded-star-rises-again/


Dinomania, Ulrich Merkl

https://aiptcomics.com/2015/11/24/dinomania-the-lost-art-of-winsor-mccay-the-secret-origins-of-king-kong-and-the-urge-to-destroy-new-york-review/


-‘Creatures of Another Age’ edited by Richard Fallon (review by Justin Mullis in AIPT) which features ‘The Dragon of St Paul’s’ which prefigures the climax to The Lost World

https://aiptcomics.com/2022/06/30/creatures-of-another-age-dinosaurs-scifi/


Kong Unmade by John Lemay and others

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kong-Unmade-Films-Skull-Island/dp/179807799X


Kong: An Original Screenplay, Edgar Wallace

https://www.pspublishing.co.uk/kong-an-original-screenplay-hardcover-by-edgar-wallace-5969-p.asp


The Monster of Partridge Creek, Georges Dupoy, 1908.

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Partridge_Creek_Monster


‘In Search Of The Unknown,’ Robert W Chambers, 1904

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18668

Jul 28, 202301:49:11
The Cryptids of Nigel Kneale: The Abominable Snowman (1957) with Blake Smith & Dr Karen Stollznow
May 26, 202301:03:08
Take That, Bembridge Scholars: Orientalism, Pulp Cinema, and The Mummy (with Lauren the Gothic Bookworm)
Apr 24, 202301:07:22
The Mists Clear Away: Arthur Conan Doyle, Professor Challenger and The Land Of Mist (with Professor Christine Ferguson)

The Mists Clear Away: Arthur Conan Doyle, Professor Challenger and The Land Of Mist (with Professor Christine Ferguson)

Professor Christine Ferguson visits the cabin to discuss the later adventures of Professor Challenger! In 1925, Arthur Conan Doyle's serialisation of 'The Land Of Mist' began in the Strand magazine. This novel was the author's great attempt to make his decades-long interest in spiritualism palatable to the widest audience possible. Did he succeed? Did he portray the world of 1920s London accurately? And why did he choose Professor Challenger, the maverick of the scientific world, to play the stodgy establishment character? All this and more, in The Mists Clear Away!

Includes:

-All about the Edinburgh Edition of The Land Of Mist

-Arthur Conan Doyle’s own spiritualism

-Why did ACD turn to Professor Challenger for his great spiritualist novel?

-Spiritualism as a specifically feminine or masculine movement?

-Challenger as the Establishment, rather than the Maverick

-ACD’s use of real-life Belfast researcher William Jackson Crawford

-ACD’s actual apocalyptic spiritualist messages

-Lord John Roxton goes ghost-hunting! What was ACD’s inspiration for this episode?

Links:

Beyond Belief: Literature, Esotericism Studies, and the Challenges of Biographical Reading in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist. Professor Christine Ferguson, Brill, 2021.

https://brill.com/view/journals/arie/22/2/article-p205_2.xml

Dinosaurs, Disintegration Machines and Talking to the Dead: The Wild World of Professor Challenger. Dr Stephen Carver, Wordsworth Editions.

https://wordsworth-editions.com/professor-challenger/

The Lost Worlds of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger Series, Conor Reid, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2017.

Edinburgh University Press New Critical Editions

https://edinburgh-conan-doyle.org/

Mar 15, 202356:07
Hesketh Hesketh Pritchard Hunts the Mylodon (with Dr Edward Guimont)
Jan 20, 202301:07:44
For Fear Of Little Men: Euhemerism and Secret Fairy Peoples (with Justin Mullis)

For Fear Of Little Men: Euhemerism and Secret Fairy Peoples (with Justin Mullis)

What if 'fairies' are a memory of a squat race of mysterious pre-humans who lived in Europe before modern humans arrived?

Justin Mullis brings a LOT to the cabin in this episode. We cover: the origins of euhemerism and 'explanations' for Norse gods. Bernard Heuvelmans and euhemerism, our first (but not last!) connection to cryptozoology. Early famous supporters of a mystery race include Sir Walter Scott! Euhemerism used to explain troll legends in Sweden. Disenchantment and the changing attitudes towards folklore in the 19th century. David MacRitchie and the idea of the mystery fairy race. Encounters with African pygmies giving confirmation to this idea later in the 19th century. Connections to fantastic Victorian literature. Our boy Sabine Baring-Gould claiming the fairy race still exists. H. G. Wells' use of the trope. Madison Grant and the Passing Of The Great Race. E. F. Benson and (my favourite) The Horror Horn. And finally a deep-dive into the use of this trope by the heavy-hitters Arthur Machen, Lovecraft and Robert E Howard. The Hobbit, Homo floresiensis, and more connections to modern cryptozoology. You won't want to miss this one!

LINKS & REFERENCES

-Justin Mullis on Academia, including Cryptofiction and other writings

-Kaiju Transmissions (Podcast)

-Arthur Machen: Critical Essays, Antonio Sanna

-Conan And The Little People, On An Underwood No 5, Bobby Derie

-Deep Cuts In A Lovecraftian Vein, Bobby Derie

-The Paranormal And Popular Culture, edited by Caterine & Morehead

-Strange and Secret Peoples, Carole Silver

-Goblinlike, Fantastic: Little People and Deep Time at the Fin de Siecle, Emily Fergus

-Pallinghurst Barrow, Grant Allen

-Fians, Fairies And Picts, David MacRitchie

Dec 02, 202201:49:36
Abduction Recall: A Visit To The Betty & Barney Hill Archives (with Dr Edward Guimont)

Abduction Recall: A Visit To The Betty & Barney Hill Archives (with Dr Edward Guimont)

The 1961 Hill abduction is usually considered the 'ground zero' of the entire 'genre' of UFO abductions. It's been pored over by UFO believers and skeptics for decades; been the stuff of TV movies and comic strips. In short, it's been done to death. So I didn't want to return to the subject without a fresh take or some new research. Dr Edward Guimont, having been hard at work at the Betty & Barney Hill archives at the University of New Hampshire, returns to the pod to furnish fascinating new details and connections that make this famous case exciting all over again. Amongst other things, we cover:

-Betty and Barney’s civil rights work

-Betty’s interactions with other famous UFO personalities

-Betty’s reactions to traumatising 80s abduction lore

-the possible influence of the Villas Boas encounter

-Betty’s paranormal family happenings & interest in psychic powers

-Parallells to ‘yellow panic’ tropes and Native kidnap stories

-Finding the original drawings associated with the encounter

-Lovecraft as a UFO debunker, reading Donald Kehoe science fiction, and phantom airships

-Betty’s interest in pseudoarchaeology

-Evolution, the Dinosauroid and the origins of the Greys


Links

Buy Me A Coffee

Contingent Magazine Article -Edward Guimont's 'From Outer Space'

Edward Guimont's Twitter

Twitter thread about the Hills

Strange Arrivals

David Halparin, Intimate Alien

Ancient Stone Relics in New England, David Goudsward

The Paleocast Podcast and the Dinosauroid

Our Strange Skies Podcast and Russian UFOs

Nov 11, 202201:17:08
The Automatic Writer: The Ghost Of 'Patience Worth' (with Lisa Grimm)
Oct 27, 202201:14:23
Haunted Generation: Lost Memories of the Uncanny 70s (with Bob Fischer)
Oct 08, 202201:02:52
Obsolete Spells: The Life and Work of Victor Neuburg (with Justin Hopper)
Aug 15, 202201:15:24
The Lower Quinton 'Witchcraft' Murder (with Dr Jeb Card)
Aug 06, 202201:41:20
Cryptid Chat (with Truth Is Scarier Than Fiction)
Jul 20, 202252:32
The Many Faces Of Fawcett 4: Never Say Fawcett Again

The Many Faces Of Fawcett 4: Never Say Fawcett Again

Could this be ... the Final Fantasy of Fawcett? In this last episode of Fawcettmania, Cian sits by a stream and flicks the pages of 'Brazil That Never Was' by A.J. Lees, as well as articles by arch Fawcett-dismisser John Hemming. In an episode as thrilling as a mid-Victorian face-off between rival explorers at a packed RGS debate, we conclude:

-confirmation (probably) of the date when Conan Doyle attended Colonel Percy's lecture!

-tangents about John Hanning Speke and a descendent at a London punk gig

-Fawcett writes for Occult Review and uses his Ouija board in the trenches of WW1

-John Hemming says Fawcett discovered nothing; Brian Fawcett says Jack Fawcett is a waster who 'reads Fu Manchu novels!'

-Fawcett describing a real tribe as Bigfoot-like savages is pretty horrific

-Cork mystic Geraldine Cummins makes an unlikely return to the show

-Fawcett is (maybe) seduced by a fairy woman in Carrigaline; Brian is (definitely) seduced by a fairy woman and sees miniature UFOs

Links:

Buy Me A Coffee, you swine!

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic

Brazil That Never Was, A.J. Lees, 2020.

https://www.nottinghilleditions.com/product/brazil-that-never-was/

Lost City Of Fantasy, John Hemming, The Spectator, 2017

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lost-city-of-fantasy

Mutant Museum reading 'The Monster Of Partridge Creek!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWI3yYe7s6s

Dr Edward Guimont visits the Betty & Barney Hill Collection

https://twitter.com/edward_guimont/status/1544711639999676418

Jul 15, 202201:09:37
The Many Faces of Fawcett 3: Veil Of The Primeval

The Many Faces of Fawcett 3: Veil Of The Primeval

So there's a lot of Lost World in our Fawcett this episode, but it's not my fault that the two won't stay a Stegosaurus length apart! In this episode, our boy Percy gets down on the British Empire following the First World War, is quite polite about a certain odious British biologist, hints at sightings of living dinosaurs yet again, and lays out his alternative history of South America before going missing for good. It's good for what ails ya.


Buy Me A Coffee!

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic

-The nature references at the beginning will be quite dated by the time you hear this. A lot of this was recorded back in early summer.

SOURCES:

-Exploration Fawcett, Percy Fawcett, 1953

-Goblinlike, Fantastic: Little People And Deep Time at the Fin de Siecle, Emily Fergus, 2019

https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40443/1/Emily%20Fergus%20MPhil%202019.pdf

-Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes, Andrew Lycett, 2007

-The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle, edited with Introduction and Notes by Ian Duncan, 1998

-The Lost White Tribe, Michael Robinson, 2016

-Danny Vendramini’s 'Them + Us’ Neanderthal page

https://themandus.org

Jun 22, 202201:02:40
H. R. Haggard and Egypt (with Lauren the Gothic Bookworm)

H. R. Haggard and Egypt (with Lauren the Gothic Bookworm)

Lauren returns to the cabin to discuss all things H.R. Haggard, especially his deep obsession with ancient Egypt.

We cover:

-Haggard in 'Who's Who in Egyptology'

-his own visits to Egypt

-his writing of 'Cleopatra'

-his mania for collecting Egyptian rings

-his dislike for modern, changing Egypt

-his friendship with Howard Carter

-his attempts to exonerate Western archaeologists

@gothicbookworm

(Instagram & Twitter) 

@mummymaniamondays

@mummymaniafacts

(Twitter)  http://Theanatomyshelf.substack.com (read & subscribe for free!)  

Submissions: theanatomyshelf@gmail.com  

My H Rider Haggard favourites: She (1887) Cleopatra (1889) Smith and the Pharaohs (1912-13 serially)

Visualhaggard.org all of Haggard’s illustrations

Books: 

The Cloak that I Left by Lilias Haggard, (Hodder & Stoughton: London, 1951)   

The Mummy’s Curse by Roger Luckhurst (Oxford University Press 2012)   

The Mummy’s Curse by Jasmine Day (Routledge, 2006)   

The Days of my Life by H Rider Haggard (written 1910-12, published posthumously in 1926 in 2 volumes)   

You can read all of Haggard’s works for free on Project Gutenberg

Jun 09, 202201:18:22
The Many Faces of Fawcett 2: Not Your Father's Fawcett
May 24, 202201:12:52
The Fictional Life Of Hulk Hogan Part 3 (with Dr Dónal Gill)

The Fictional Life Of Hulk Hogan Part 3 (with Dr Dónal Gill)

In which we're asked to audition for Metallica, endorse the George Foreman grill, and wrestle over 365 days in a year. We also cover:

-Hogan's years at WCW

-the infamous Monday Night Wars between WWF and WCW

-the meta writing of Vince Russo

-Hogan's comeback match against the Rock


Buy Me A Coffee, Brother!

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic

Part 1

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/wide-atlantic-weird-777986/episodes/fake-news-the-fictional-life-o-70226830

Part 2

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/wide-atlantic-weird-777986/episodes/the-fictional-life-of-hulk-hog-83212152


May 04, 202201:35:05
Beliefs In The Early Medieval Period (with Dr Eoghan Ahern)
Apr 24, 202201:26:53
Return to the Lost World: Origins and Illustrations (with Dr Richard Fallon)

Return to the Lost World: Origins and Illustrations (with Dr Richard Fallon)

Arthur Conan Doyle and Professor Challenger make a welcome return to the show, as we turn once again to the worlds of Edwardian fantastic Imperial fiction, and the history of still-living dinosaurs in literature. Dr Richard Fallon joins us to talk all things LOST WORLD, in particular the vision Conan Doyle had for a subtle, restrained presentation of the tale via the illustrations of his brother-in-law PATRICK LEWIS FORBES, versus the more familiar, bombastic, monster-filled illustrations of HARRY ROWNTREE. Will the great writer get his way? Topics include:

-dueling visions of The Lost World through its illustrations!

-dinosaurs in lost race/world stories versus in Swiftian satire

-Conan Doyle's own supposed 'cryptid' sighting

-Professor Challenger as a representation of Conan Doyle's ideas about science

-the faked 'imposter' photos taken for the Lost World

LINKS

Buy Me A Coffee! It keeps me awake while hunting dinosaurs

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic

Creatures Of Another Age, Richard Fallon

https://www.valancourtbooks.com/creatures-of-another-age.html

Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World: Illustrating the Romance of Science, Richard Fallon (includes some of Forbes' illustrations)

https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/publications/arthur-conan-doyles-the-lost-world-illustrating-the-romance-of-sc

Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature, Richard Fallon

https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/publications/reimagining-dinosaurs-in-late-victorian-and-edwardian-literature-

Call for Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Special Issue

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/interdisciplinary-science-reviews-palaeoscience/?utm_source=TFO&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JPG15743

Gallery of Lost World illustrations, including Harry Rountree's set

https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Lost_World

Apr 05, 202259:03
Flying Saucer Cinema: Day The Earth Stood Still vs Thing From Another World (with Dr Edward Guimont)
Mar 26, 202201:34:07
The Many Faces of Fawcett: Lost City Of Z
Mar 20, 202201:26:19
Megalodon and Other Prehistoric Cryptids (with Tyler Greenfield)
Nov 05, 202101:08:02
The Man Who Studied Ghouls: TC Lethbridge and Weird Archaeology (with Lisa Grimm)
Oct 25, 202101:00:29
Paranormal, People, & Politics with the Workers Cauldron

Paranormal, People, & Politics with the Workers Cauldron

Cian is joined at the cabin by David & Mercedas from the Worker’s Cauldron to talk about a variety of paranormal topics and their cultural/political influences. Subjects include:

-evolution of Wicca

-social context and the paranormal

-alien abduction in the 90s

-creating episodes

-David’s trip to Bluff Creek

-colonial literature’s influence on Forteana

-Demonic possession and economic anxieties

-Ghost-hunting groups

-The Ballinspittle Moving Statues

-70s Haunted House Stories

-Vampire as political satire

-Phantom helicopters

-Influence of the X-Files

Worker’s Cauldron Podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-workers-cauldron/id1527590843

Books & Articles Mentioned:

Our Most Troubling Madness, Tanya Luhrmann

Drawing Down The Moon, Margaret Adler

Triumph Of The Moon, Ronald Hutton

They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves, Brigette Brown

Communion, Whitley Strieber

UFO Abduction Reports: The Supernatural Kidnap Narrative Returns in technological Guise, Thomas E Bullard

Explorers Of The Nile, Tim Jeal

The Great Orm Of Loch Ness, Ted Holiday

Hunting Dinosaurs In Central Africa, Edward Guimont

The Water Horses of Loch Ness, Roland Watson

Hostage To The Devil, Malachi Martin

Monsters Of The Market, David McNally

Oct 13, 202101:22:20
Ley Lines and Spooky Geology (with Sharon Hill)
Sep 25, 202101:05:52
Tales From The Hollow Earth (with Dr Edward Guimont)

Tales From The Hollow Earth (with Dr Edward Guimont)

Aug 28, 202101:09:46
Bigfoot At The Movies: Man Or Beast
Aug 15, 202157:52
Oceans Of Time: Thoughts On Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) with Victoria Pearson
Aug 07, 202101:17:60
Some Thoughts On Mystery Big Cats

Some Thoughts On Mystery Big Cats

Recorded at the tail (aha!) end of an uncharacteristic Irish heatwave, and following a spot of solo camping that accidentally strayed into mystery big cat territory, Cian marshalls some thoughts on the subject of ABCs or Alien Big Cats. With some detail on the Exmoor Beast and the Surrey Puma, as well as thoughts on whether this is a flesh-and-blood happening, or something more mystical.

Jul 24, 202153:20
Lost Souls and Lost Cities: Stories of Polar Terror (with Leanne from Strange Ways)
Jul 17, 202101:18:38
Mummy Lore In Myth And Fiction (with Lauren the Gothic Bookworm)
Jul 10, 202101:30:47
Man Of The Year Million: The Ideas and Futurism of HG Wells (with Dr Dónal Gill)
Jul 03, 202101:27:33
Bonus Episode: Jurassic Park Trespasser
Jun 26, 202136:52
Heuvelmania: Bernard's Sea Serpent Classification System (with Cameron McCormick)

Heuvelmania: Bernard's Sea Serpent Classification System (with Cameron McCormick)

Cameron McCormick, writer on marine monster mysteries and sea serpent superfan, drops into the cabin to talk about the work and influence of Bernard Heuvelmans, remembered as the 'father of cryptozoology.' Heuvelmans was important as an early figure in the codification of cryptozoology, but many of his ideas were to remain unique to him in the decades that followed. Despite his respected status as a pioneer, not many who followed built upon the specific zoological ideas he came up with to explain monster sightings. In this episode we focus particularly on Heuvelmans' classification system for sea serpent sightings. He believed there were (approx) nine different categories of unknown enormous underwater animals.

NOTES

Buy me a coffee, ya landlubber

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic

Cameron's Blog

https://thelordgeekington.wordpress.com/

Cameron's Tumblr

https://biologicalmarginalia.tumblr.com/

Cameron with Sharon Hill and Tyler Greenfield talk about the International Society of Cryptozoology, recommended!

Eddie's new podcast The Impossible Archive, recommended!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-impossible-archive/id1571034015?i=1000524899589

Plastic Plesiosaur podcast episode

https://plasticplesiosaurpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1751781/8671862-meet-your-maker-interview-with-monsterquest-creator-doug-hajicek

Brazil That Never Was

https://www.nottinghilleditions.com/product/brazil-that-never-was/#:~:text=Brazil%20That%20Never%20Was,-As%20a%20boy&text=The%20book%20told%20the%20true,the%20Amazon%2C%20and%20never%20returned.

Montreal Bloomsday Video Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iel_Ypqk1qI

Searching For Sasquatch by Brian Regal

https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/rhi/book-reviews/Eggheads-and-Crackpots.pdf

The ISC Journals

http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Cryptozoology%20(ISC)/









Jun 15, 202101:30:02
Neanderthals And Northmen: Eaters Of The Dead (with Dr Edward Guimont)
May 29, 202101:18:01
From The Vaults: The Reincarnation of Bridey Murphy

From The Vaults: The Reincarnation of Bridey Murphy

A classic episode about the fascination 1950s America had with a woman who relived a past life as a 19th century woman from Cork! Hypnotism, regression, and a time in podcasting history ...

May 15, 202101:10:26
Red Sky At Night: Lost Cosmonauts (with Dr Tom Ellis)

Red Sky At Night: Lost Cosmonauts (with Dr Tom Ellis)

Dr Tom Ellis talks about the myth of the Lost Cosmonauts, why this symbol has had such staying power, and what it tells us about Western perceptions about the Soviet Union and its space programme. Topics include:

-American reactions to Yuri Gagarin’s flight

-The secrecy of the Soviet space programme breeding rumours and myths

-The idea of the ‘communist mind’ and communism as a ‘secular religion’

-Robert Heinlein and the Lost Cosmonauts

-‘Yurimania’ and promoting Yuri Gagarin as a sex symbol

-The Italian Battista brothers’ claims of recording lost cosmonauts

-The Lost Cosmonaut image in film and art as a representation of memories of the Soviet state

-Vladimir Komarov, the ‘real’ lost cosmonaut

-Lost cosmonauts as a political idea vs a cultural idea

LINKS

Buy Me A Coffee

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic

Tom Ellis on Twitter

https://twitter.com/Tomsomol

Tom Ellis’s Blog

https://redskyatdawn.wordpress.com/

Gagarin And The Lost Moon

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v24g

Tsar-Bomb album

https://heimatderkatastrophe.bandcamp.com/album/hdk-68-bajkonur

Imogen Knox’ article on Haxan

https://terribleimaginations.wordpress.com/2021/04/24/haxan-rationalism-and-retrospective-diagnosis/

Bobcat Goldthwait’s American Bigfoot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTY8xinMrSI

Conspiracy Culture, Peter Knight, 2000

https://www.routledge.com/Conspiracy-Culture-From-Kennedy-to-The-X-Files/Knight-Knight/p/book/9780415189781

Hermann Oberth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oberth

Roadside Picnics Article by darmon Richter: Chernobyl and the Falcon Lake UFO Incident

https://www.exutopia.com/chernobyl-ufos-falcon-lake/

The Space Suit Film, Gary Westfahl, 2012

https://books.google.ie/books/about/The_Spacesuit_Film.html?id=kej2ygAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

Supposed Lost Cosmonaut Recordings

http://web.archive.org/web/20180309024747/http://www.lostcosmonauts.net/man.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20180309024745/http://www.lostcosmonauts.net/wom.htm

Sven Grahn’s Article about Torre Bert

http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/Torre/TorreB.html

Into The Silent Sea: Short Lost Cosmonaut Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2rmTVKU37Y

The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling, Andrew L. Jenks, 2012

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13226355-the-cosmonaut-who-couldn-t-stop-smiling


May 01, 202101:20:37
Early Modern Witchcraft Belief (with Imogen Knox)
Apr 24, 202101:00:42
BONUS EPISODE: The Origins Of Kong
Apr 17, 202148:34
Irish Burial Customs and 'Teig O'Kane and the Corpse' (with Dr Aoife Bhreatnach)
Apr 10, 202101:02:19
Creatures Out Of Time: Those Who Hunt The Skunk Ape

Creatures Out Of Time: Those Who Hunt The Skunk Ape

From what might become a semi-regular miniseries focusing on the monster-hunters of cryptozoology, this episode is about a man who had a sighting of the Florida 'skunk ape,' a regional type of Bigfoot, and it changed his life. Obsessed with the creature, he spent every day for six months sitting in his stand in the swamp until he captured photographs - and eventually footage - of the creature. What kind of man does it take to hunt the skunk ape? We find out. A portrait of the renegade, outsider, throwback woodsman type monster obsessive. Episode includes:

-discussion about the various regional types of Bigfoot

-disagreement among cryptozoologists about how many species there might be

-Discovery Florida's video of a visit to the Skunk Ape headquarters

-Physical description of the skunk ape

-Upcoming film on the skunk ape, shot on location!

-Smithsonian article all about the Skunk Ape Headquarters

-Some reports from the 70s

-The 'outsider' traits of the cryptozoologist

-How a feud with the parks system became an origin story for the monster hunter ...

-Conspiracies in Bigfoot world ...

-Primate Products: are actual monkeys the answer?

-The amazing Myakka Ape photo

LINKS:

Buy Me A Coffee! Thanks :)

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic

Hunting Monsters by Darren Naish

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Hunting-Monsters-Audiobook/B074HDT4W3

Discovery Canada Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoQ0r2ligPg&t=138s

The Skunk Ape Research Headquarters

https://www.skunkape.info/

Skeptical Equirer, Skunk Ape, Joe Nickell, 2014

https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/tracking-floridas-skunk-ape/

Smithsonian Article, Joseph Stromberg, 2014

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/trail-floridas-bigfoot-skunk-ape-180949981/

TheCryptozoologist.Webs Skunk Apes, 2011

https://thecryptozoologist.webs.com/apps/blog/show/7607338-skunk-apes-hairy-humanoids-of-north-america-s-southern-swamps-and-elsewhere-part-4

Darren Naish On The Myakka Ape

https://twitter.com/tetzoo/status/1302341705891446786?lang=en

Mar 27, 202141:57
The Digital Campfire: Looking Back At Creepypasta (with Chris Joyce)

The Digital Campfire: Looking Back At Creepypasta (with Chris Joyce)

Cian and Chris host a campfire chat to remember the heyday of creepypasta: bad grammar, juvenile topics - and yet occasionally incredibly effective bite-size (ok, sometimes epic) slices of crowd-sourced digital horror. Creepypasta ruled the roost in the early days of Web 2.0, back when folks wondered whether Ted really was a caver, whether N64 cartridges really could be haunted, and why you should stay away from cabins in the woods (present company excluded, of course). Conversation includes:

-personal memories of creepypasta

-origins of the name

-some famous Cpastas: Jeff the Killer, Ben Drowned, Slenderman, etc

-Candle Cove and short Cpastas vs epic, expanded ones

-our personal fave Cpastas

-NoSleep and the 'rules' for online creepy fiction

-the 2014 Slenderman attack and moral panics

-nostalgia and the obsession with old video games and pre-digital tech

-the legacy of Cpasta? Indie horror gaming & social media ghost stories

LINKS:

Buy me a coffee! A haunted coffee.

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic

Vox Possible's Bandcamp Page

https://voxpossible.bandcamp.com/

Finger Post Blog

https://finger-post.blog/

Creepypasta, Candle Cove, And The Digital Gothic, Jessica Balanzategui

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1470412919841018?journalCode=vcua

Slender Man Is Coming, Blank & McNeill

https://books.google.ie/books/about/Slender_Man_Is_Coming.html?id=J6NtDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y

Haunted PS1 Indie Game Horror

https://hauntedps1.itch.io/demodisc2020

The Ghost In My Machine Blog

https://theghostinmymachine.com/

Dear David in the Irish Times

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/dear-david-is-the-bone-chilling-online-horror-true-or-fake-1.3331231

The Russian Sleep Experiment

https://www.creepypasta.com/the-russian-sleep-experiment/

Sonic.exe

https://www.creepypasta.com/sonic-exe/

It Had My Mother's Voice

https://www.creepypasta.com/it-had-my-mothers-voice/

Tales From A Retired Cryptozoologist

https://www.creepypasta.com/tales-from-a-retired-cryptozoologist/


Mar 14, 202101:15:59