Cryptids

Episode 82: Sewer Cryptids Part 2 - A Load of Tosh

Matt, Katie and EJ continue their investigation into the legends of Sewer Cryptids. During the mid-19th century, journalist Henry Mayhew chronicled the lives, work, and philosophies of London's lower class. He became particularly fascinated with the toshers, men who crept through the sewers looking for lost valuables. Their experiences, toiling away in the dingy tunnels, gave rise to fantastic tales. According to the toshers, a race of feral hogs roamed the underground, viscously attacking anyone they found. Even more unbelievable was the story of the Queen Rat, who could curse or bless a tosher, depending on her mood. Collectively, these legends paint a tapestry of folklore born from the darkness of an underworld just beneath London's feet. 
 
slayingmonsterspodcast.com
Become a supporter: 
supporters.slayingmonsterspodcast.com
Slaying Monsters merch: 
slayingmonsterspodcast-shop.fourthwall.com

Episode 81: Sewer Cryptids Part 1 - The Big Stink

Beneath the streets of all major cities lie a mirror world of darkness. A sprawling network of interconnected tunnels and passageways, where all manner of monsters could lurk. As long as we’ve had sewers, we’ve had stories of the things that lived down there, in the dark, waiting for you to step just a little too far from the comfort of your home. 
 
According to legends, our sewers are home for fearsome creatures, living amongst the filth and preying on interlopers. Vicious, wild hogs attacked anyone who ventured underground. Gigantic rats traveled in packs of hundreds, lead by a shapeshifting queen. Stampedes of cattle thundered below the streets, while blind alligators cruised the stinking waters hunting for prey. The stories of sewer cryptids serve as a rich foundation from which to explore human engineering, and the role that myths and legends play when technology and progress bumps up against the untamed world.
 
slayingmonsterspodcast.com
Become a supporter: 
supporters.slayingmonsterspodcast.com
Slaying Monsters merch: 
slayingmonsterspodcast-shop.fourthwall.com
 

Episode 80: The Yeti Hand Heist Part 4 - Mr. Smith Goes to Nepal

Matt, Katie and EJ conclude the saga of the Yeti hand heist. With Tom Slick’s plan in motion, Peter Byrne returns to Nepal and smuggles out a thumb and finger from the Pangboche Hand. To ally suspicion, the fragments are passed to Hollywood legend James Stewart and his wife Gloria. Using Stewart’s celebrity to bypass scrutiny, the fingers are hidden in Gloria’s lingerie bag and quietly flown to London. Once safely delivered, the fragments are passed to William Osman Hill and examined by leading scientists. Their results, and the fate of the Yeti hand, will become one of the controversial subjects in cryptozoology today. 
 
Decades later, the mystery quietly continues, when the stolen Yeti fingers are rediscovered in a museum collection. In a symbolic act of restitution, a replica hand is returned to Pangboche Monastery in 2011, restoring what was lost—even if the truth is still to be revealed. 
 
slayingmonsterspodcast.com
supporters.slayingmonsterspodcast.com
 
 

Episode 79: The Yeti Hand Heist Part 3 - You Think We Need One More?

Matt, Katie and EJ continue their investigation of the Yeti Hand Heist - the most hair-raising crime in cryptozoological history. Cryptid enthusiast and oil baron Tom Slick joins forces with Yeti hunter Peter Byrne, and together they embark on their on expedition, fraught with dangerous terrain, restrictive government regulations, and the constant fear that any collected evidence would be confiscated or disappear. But despite their best efforts, the creature remains elusive. That is, until Byrne gains access to a mummified Yeti hand kept at the Pangboche Monastery in the Himalayan foothills. Forbidden from removing it for study and burned by past evidence losses, Slick and his collaborators hatch a daring plan, setting the stage for one of the most audacious schemes in cryptozoological history.
 
slayingmonsterspodcast.com
Become a supporter: 
supporters.slayingmonsterspodcast.com
Slaying Monsters merch: 
slayingmonsterspodcast-shop.fourthwall.com

Episode 78: The Yeti Hand Heist Part 2 - Attempts at Journalism

Matt, Katie and EJ continue their investigation of the Yeti Hand Heist - the daring theft of a mummified yeti hand from a Tibetan monastery. Oil baron Tom Slick Jr. falls in love with cryptozoology and dreams of discovering an unknown species. Meanwhile, The Daily Mail conducts a yeti hunt in the Himalayas. They uncover preserved relics of the monster, or so they think. There's only one way to find out for sure and only one man with the power and influence to bring them to light. 
 
slayingmonsterspodcast.com
Become a supporter: 
supporters.slayingmonsterspodcast.com
Slaying Monsters merch: 
https://slayingmonsterspodcast-shop.fourthwall.com/?
 

Episode 77: The Yeti Hand Heist Part 1 - The Agreeable Snowman

In the late 1950s, a wild theft took place in Nepal. Funded by a Texas oil baron, a cryptozoologist snuck into a Tibetan monastery and stole the finger of a mummified yeti hand. Using an elaborate network of connections, the finger found its way from cryptozoologists to actors to scientists, before finally landing in the lap of the Zoological Society of London, where it was lost for decades.
 
Although the authenticity of the hand and finger are debatable, the story of the daring theft, and the colorful characters that concocted this scheme, are some of the most fascinating in the history of cryptozoology. It’s a tale of swashbucklers, scandal, and maybe the greatest evidence of the abominable snowman.
 
slayingmonsterspodcast.com
supporters.slayingmonsterspodcast.com