10 - Colin Dickey and the Obligatory Halloween Special AKA Why We Believe in Monsters

Send us a text It’s Halloween and in lieu of any trick and/or treating this plague year, I offer you a conversation with Colin Dickey, mystery-maestro and curator of the creepy. Colin is the author of Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (2016) and The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters and our Obsession with the Unexplained – books that plumb the depths of the human mind and our fixation on the creepy things at the margins of the known world. In this wide-ranging discussion, we touch upon the remnants of lost civilisations, cryptozoology and the link between wonder, fear and the conspiracy theory. I also offer my favourite (and fool proof) theory as to why all photos of Bigfoot are blurry. I hope you all have the best Halloween possible in current circumstances. It’s been great creating this podcast so far and, today, on a horror-fan’s favourite holiday, I hope you are all well and enjoyably scared.  Enjoy! Come talk books with us on Twitter @talkscaredpod or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com. Thanks to Terry Smith Audio for sound editing. Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices