HBM009: Captain Staudinger Flees Myanmar

Photo by Jeff Emtman

Please note: This is a very early episode of Here Be Monsters that aired in 2012. This episode no longer appears on the official HBM feed. However, you can still download it here.

Captain Chris Staudinger is an experienced world traveler...now. But back in 2006, he visited Myanmar (Burma), during a time of political unrest, militarization and a general mistrust of anyone American. He looked like a spy.

On this episode, Chris tells his story of escaping the country after he and his friends saw something that they should not have seen.

Photos from Chris' Myanmar trip.

Chris now runs a travel blog with his girlfriend Tawny Clark. They travel the world on next to no money and teach others how to do the same.

HBM007: Placentophagy

Photo by Jeff Emtman.

Please note: This is a very early episode of Here Be Monsters that aired in 2012. This episode no longer appears on the official HBM feed. However, you can still download it here.

Humans are one of just four land-dwelling mammals who don't regularly eat their placentas after childbirth. But that's changing as, each year, more and more mothers are electing to save their placenta to eat.

Stepha Lawson is a doula working in Bellingham, Washington. She called me up one day when she had a fresh placenta, ready to be turned into pills for the mother.

Pictures of the placenta she cooked.

HBM006: Clever Hans

Please note: This is a very early episode of Here Be Monsters that aired in 2012. This episode no longer appears on the official HBM feed. However, you can still download it here.

On this episode, Kathy Johnson of the Medicine Horse Project explains the nature of equine intelligence in regards to Clever Hans, the a famous German horse who could count, spell, and answer questions. Pictures right here.

HBM003: John Dips Below

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Please note: This is a very early episode of Here Be Monsters that aired in 2012. This episode no longer appears on the official HBM feed. However, you can still download it here.

John as someone who's lived more lives in forty five years than most of us can expect to live in eighty. He used to sell pizza dough for a living. And he used to be in the army, where he got a huge discount on scuba gear. This episode takes place on a night when John goes down to visit a friend, under a dock.

John as someone who's lived more lives in forty five years than most of us can expect to live in eighty. He used to sell pizza dough for a living. And he used to be in the army, where he got a huge discount on scuba gear. This episode takes place on a night when John goes down to visit a friend, under a dock.

HBM002: Of Maps and Monsters

Please note: This is a very early episode of Here Be Monsters that aired in 2012. This episode no longer appears on the official HBM feed. However, you can still download it here.

A discussion of historical reactions to the unknown--from the monsters living in margins of the Nuremberg Chronicle to the a apocryphal predictions of a "future" map of the world.

HBM001: Prisoner's Cinema

Photo by Jeff Emtman

Please note: This is a very early episode of Here Be Monsters that aired in 2012. This episode no longer appears on the official HBM feed. However, you can still download it here.

Prisoner's Cinema is a phenomena experienced by those who spend prolonged amounts of time in the dark.  The "Cinema" refers to the series of images that the mind creates, often emotionally intense or terrifying.  Prisoner's Cinema is the most extreme form of a symptom that I regularly experience called Entoptic (inside the eye) Phenomena.