Here Be Monsters

Here Be Monsters

An immersive series of audio documentaries that focus on the forgotten corners of our minds. Beautiful sounds and stories that explore fear, curiosity and the unknown.

Episode topics include crow death rituals, flesh eating beetles, internet scammers, nudism, hitchhiking, faith healing, transgender childhood, fake Sasquatch sightings, Cthulhu, psychological warfare, and prayers to Satan.

20 episodes per year. Released every other Wednesday from September to June. Produced independently by Jeff Emtman and Bethany Denton.

However, moving forward, HBM will continue as an independent production, and no longer be distributed through the KCRW feed.

HBM Continues as an Independent Podcast

However, moving forward, HBM will continue as an independent production, and no longer be distributed through the KCRW feed.

Black Tulsans record a rap album in a house that once belonged to a famous Klansman.

HBM140: The New Black Wall Street

Black Tulsans record a rap album in a house that once belonged to a famous Klansman.

Is volunteering for pain an unnecessary cruelty? Or is it a fundamental part of being human?

HBM139: Acceptable Pains

Is volunteering for pain an unnecessary cruelty? Or is it a fundamental part of being human?

New research suggests that Neanderthals did many of the things once thought to be exclusively “human.”

HBM138: Did Neanderthals Bury their Dead?

New research suggests that Neanderthals did many of the things once thought to be exclusively “human.”

David Pearce wants to end all suffering.

HBM137: Superhappiness

David Pearce wants to end all suffering.

Jacob Lemanski tries to write an unreadable book.

HBM136: Jacob’s Lost Biography

Jacob Lemanski tries to write an unreadable book.

Amanda Provenzano says people are too afraid of death; that’s why she became a death doula.

HBM135: Dying Well

Amanda Provenzano says people are too afraid of death; that’s why she became a death doula.

A wonderful episode of a wonderful podcast: the CBC’s Love Me .  Subscribe on your favorite podcast app.

What Can You Hear? (Love Me)

A wonderful episode of a wonderful podcast: the CBC’s Love Me .  Subscribe on your favorite podcast app.

Jeff makes blackout poetry with cassette tapes.

HBM134: Questionable Hobbies of the Socially Isolated

Jeff makes blackout poetry with cassette tapes.

Is your body more of a machine, or a garden?

HBM133: Prey of Worms

Is your body more of a machine, or a garden?

If there’s a pill that makes people less racist, should cops be forced to take it?

HBM132: Moral Enhancement

If there’s a pill that makes people less racist, should cops be forced to take it?

The smell of gasoline imparts nausea and a heartfelt nostalgia on HBM producer Bethany Denton.

HBM131: A Cure for Carsickness

The smell of gasoline imparts nausea and a heartfelt nostalgia on HBM producer Bethany Denton.

New York City’s defender of maligned animals enacts “pigilante” justice while dressed as a nun.

HBM130: Mother Pigeon / Sister Marta

New York City’s defender of maligned animals enacts “pigilante” justice while dressed as a nun.

Legends of an underground people on a small Baltic island.

HBM129: The Underearthlings

Legends of an underground people on a small Baltic island.

A childhood loss leads Colby Richardson to meet a man who teaches him to see his dead mother’s aura.

HBM128: Seeing Auras

A childhood loss leads Colby Richardson to meet a man who teaches him to see his dead mother’s aura.

Would you trade a month of your life to give a decade to a stranger?  What if it were four strangers? Or thirty?

HBM127: QALYs

Would you trade a month of your life to give a decade to a stranger?  What if it were four strangers? Or thirty?

Most of the ocean floor has never been mapped in detail.  Some scientists are trying to change that, using sonar to see what satellites can’t.

HBM126: Sounding the Deep

Most of the ocean floor has never been mapped in detail.  Some scientists are trying to change that, using sonar to see what satellites can’t.

How to make the president say what he never said.

HBM125: Deepfaking Nixon

How to make the president say what he never said.

A cancer researcher grows tired of euthanizing monkeys.

HBM124: Banana Softies

A cancer researcher grows tired of euthanizing monkeys.

What moves the rods of a water dowser? Is it magic, science or imagination?

HBM123: Water Witches

What moves the rods of a water dowser? Is it magic, science or imagination?