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During a moment of personal turmoil, Rocky Villanueva gets an email from a long-time client. His client is in his final weeks of life, and i...

Jeff walks to the edge of Berlin and explains why the Here Be Monsters feed has been quiet for so long. On the way, Jeff talks about plans f...

n the midst of a stressful move, HBM producer Jeff Emtman finds comfort in the phasing techniques developed by minimalist composer, Steve Re...

Allen H Greenfield is a UFOlogist and occult researcher. He’s also a father of three. His first child, Alex was the subject of HBM155: Ghost...

Berlin’s Schwerbelastungskörper is a massive concrete structure that, today, is hidden in plain sight between a railroad and an apartment bu...

The Here Be Monsters Art Exchange is back! It’s a really simple and wonderful thing where you, gentle listener, can mail a piece of art to a...

Content Note: pervasive language, brief mentions of bigotry. Alex Greenfield says that there was no such thing as a normal day when he was a...

Sally Grainger was originally a chef, but in her 20’s, she was gifted a copy of an ancient Roman cookbook called Apicius . Apicius is a bit...

In 2012, a street preacher walking three small dogs tried to convince Jeff Emtman of his way of thinking about gender and the afterlife. In...

The composer Pauline Oliveros thought there was a difference between hearing and listening. She defined hearing as a passive act, something...

What do you want to happen to your body when you die? It’s a touchy topic where tradition, religion and death denial all come into play. But...

Season 10 of Here Be Monsters starts and host Jeff Emtman hallucinates his adolescence while working long hours. Scenes from middle school d...

Season 10 is nearly here! The season starts on March 9th and episodes will be released on a rolling basis until all ten shows are published....

I’ve decided to remove my work from Spotify. It’s not just their recent controversies around Joe Rogan, it’s a much bigger problem with the...

The origins of Julia Susara’s chronic fatigue are hard to pin down. She still doesn’t know exactly how it started but suspects that a deeply...

A short episode from the new show Neutrinowatch: A Daily Generative Podcast . Each episode of Neutrinowatch changes a lil’ bit every day. Th...

Episode 149 is an odd duck for sure. It changes every day due to some coding trickery that is happening behind the scenes. That episode is a...

As a teenager, HBM host Jeff Emtman fell asleep most nights listening to Coast To Coast AM , a long running talk show about the world’s weir...

With much of the world shut down over the last year, HBM host Jeff Emtman started wondering if there were smaller venues where the world sti...

A brief follow-up to last episode: you can now follow our AI-powered friend Theodora on Twitter! She tweets several times a day, giving bad...

How does a computer learn to speak with emotion and conviction? Language is hard to express as a set of firm rules. Every language rule seem...

Like so many others, Amanda Petrus got a bit lost after college. She had a chemistry degree and not a lot of direction. But she was able to...

HBM Host Jeff Emtman has always been afraid of losing his memories. Places he cares about keep getting torn down. In this episode, Jeff bike...

Animals sometimes make noises that would be impossible to place without context. In this episode: three types of animal vocalizations—descri...

1,420,405,751* hertz is a very important frequency. It’s the frequency that hydrogen radiates at , creating radio waves that can be detected...

When a group of broke college students start throwing lavish feasts, HBM host Jeff Emtman begins to wonder at the source of the food, initia...

Season 9 will be here soon! We’ll bring you ten new episodes about fear, beauty and the unknown. We’ll see the fight for survival and beauty...

For the last five years, Here Be Monsters has been a part of KCRW . And in those years, we’ve put out a 100+ episodes under KCRW’s imprint....

There used to be a neighborhood in Tulsa where Black people were wealthy. They owned businesses, built a giant church, a public library. Som...

Hedonism seems pretty appealing right now—seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. On HBM137: Superhappiness , the hedonist philosopher, David Pe...

There’s a large cave in the foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan. It looks out over green and yellow fields and a river far below. Starting in the 1...

David Pearce thinks it's possible to end suffering. He’s a philosopher* who studies “ hedonic zero ”, the state of being which is completely...

In 2012, Jacob Lemanski started writing his autobiography a few words at a time when he signed his name on the digital card readers at the g...

We live in a culture of “death denial”. That’s what Amanda Provenzano thinks. She sees it when medical professionals use euphemisms like ‘pa...

Searching for something to do during government-mandated social distancing, Here Be Monsters host Jeff Emtman recently digitized his cassett...

Bodies are odd. Anyone who can see their own nose will tell you the same. So will anyone whose diet changed their body odor. And so will any...

Natalia Montes was a teenager living in Florida when Travyon Martin was killed . She says his picture reminded her of her classmates, “It co...

Bethany Denton has a long history of carsickness. Ever since she was a little girl, long car rides made her nauseous and gave her stomachach...

Mother Pigeon says the wild animals of New York City are hungry. So she feeds them. Each morning, a flock of about 150 pigeons waits for her...

Lars Christian Kofoed Rømer claims his red hat is mere coincidence. He wears it because his mother-in-law knit it for him 15 years ago and h...

Colby Richardson ’s mom got leukemia when he was young. He has trouble remembering her. Soon after her death, Colby and his siblings wound u...

Most of us want to help. But it can be hard to know how to do it, and not all altruistic deeds are equal, and sometimes they can be harmful....

How familiar are you with the shape of the continents? What about the shape of the seafloor? If you’re unfamiliar with the contours of our p...

There’s a beautifully written speech that was never delivered. Written for President Richard Nixon by Bill Safire, the speech elegizes astro...

“Gene” says it started because he wanted to be a veterinarian. So he took a job as a research associate at a vivarium that studied cancer dr...

Some time in the 90’s, Kathy Emtman received a gift from her husband, Rick. It was a pair of bent metal rods, each shaped into long ‘L’. Not...

Mike Paros lives in two worlds. In one world, he’s an animal welfare specialist and mixed animal vet , meaning he works with both “companion...

Angels saved Here Be Monsters ’ host Jeff Emtman once. They picked him up and took care of him after a bad bike crash. It was just one of ma...

The Podcast about the Unknown

In the fall of 1989, in Vancouver, Washington, a short, 29 year-old man named Westley Allan Dodd raped and murdered three young boys. The bo...
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