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🍿 S06E04 - Capturing Bigfoot Reaction 🫈
Last week Blake and Karen spoke with director Marq Evans before any of them had seen his film. Now they have. Karen Stollznow and paranormal investigator Matt Baxter join Blake to react to Capturing Bigfoot, the new documentary built around a reel of 16mm film that sat in a family safe for more than half a century, and the Patterson family story that turns out to be even bigger than the footage. The film arrived on Prime Video on October 20, 2026, and the Bigfoot world has not been quiet since.

The side-by-side stills circulating online are only a sliver of the story. The panel digs into the confessions, the money, the broken families, and the people who were there, then turns to the question every skeptic has been asking this week: if the most famous piece of Bigfoot evidence ever filmed folds, does anything actually change? Plus a horse turns out to be carrying a very strange coincidence.

🔗 Links and ReferencesCapturing Bigfoot - Prime Video 💵
Capturing Bigfoot - Official site
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Jeffrey Meldrum - Wikipedia
A Guide to Identifying Year of Manufacture for KODAK Motion Picture Films - Kodak (PDF)
Freeze brand - Wikipedia
Freeze Branding Cattle - Oklahoma State University Extension
Livestock branding - Wikipedia
"Eastman Kodak" - James Layton, from Physical Characteristics of Early Films as Aids to Identification (FIAF, 2020)
Four walling - Wikipedia
Pious fraud - Wikipedia
Cognitive dissonance - Wikipedia
Sunk cost - Wikipedia
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List of fallacies - Wikipedia
The five stages of grief - Wikipedia
The Fox sisters - Wikipedia
Marjoe Gortner - Wikipedia
The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting - Wikipedia
The Loch Ness Monster and the "Surgeon's Photograph" - Wikipedia
When Prophecy Fails - Wikipedia
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Blake and Karen interview Marq Evans, directory of the new documentary Capturing Bigfoot - a new film that hits streaming October 20th, 2026 and features stunning new evidence that the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film may depict a person in a suit!

This is the most exciting news to hit Bigfoot in a long while and we're excited to see the film ourselves.

Also - we say goodbye to frequent guest and real life friend, Dr. Brian Regal.

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Blake and Karen welcome historian Dr. Amy Laurel Fluker of Youngstown State University to discuss Haunted by Memory, an annotated anthology of ghost stories drawn from the newspapers, veterans' papers, and periodicals of the Civil War generation. The project began with her late mentor, Dr. John R. Neff, who stumbled onto his first Civil War ghost story while reading veterans' obituaries. When Neff died in 2020, his family asked Fluker to carry his work to the finish line.

These aren't the ghost lights and phantom hitchhikers of modern battlefield tours. They're stories that ran alongside battle reports and stock prices, told by the people who lived through the war. What did these ghosts want? Why did a Union veterans' newspaper print a tale of soldiers burying their enemy? And how did ghost lore become a weapon after the war ended?

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An interview with forensic anthropologist Evan Bird, creator of The Corpse Review.

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In this episode, Blake and Karen welcome Dr. Kristin LaFollette, Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, to discuss her new book, *Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade* (SUNY Press, 2026). The book illustrates how technical communication frequently dehumanizes the people represented by human remains, and offers guidance for adopting rehumanizing language to return dignity to these individuals. The conversation is not strictly paranormal, but overlaps meaningfully with MonsterTalk themes around science, storytelling, folklore, and how language shapes perception.

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