Assault and Giant Battery

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2012

⏱️ 63 minutes

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For decades, legends of a giant sexually-assaulting bat-creature have trickled out of Zanzibar. In this episode of MonsterTalk we interview Ben Radford about his investigation of the creature and the role that the monster called Popabawa has played in culture and politics in the United States. READ episode notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.1	Seth and I are the host. Seth is a scientist. I am Molly and I'm a science journalist and we talk to people smarter than us and we have fun along the way.
0:56.0	The show is called Big Picture Science and as Seth said you can hear it wherever you get your
1:00.5	podcast. Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.
1:05.0	I'm Blake Smith and together with Ben Radford and Dr. Karen Stolsnow.
1:09.0	We examine monster legends and the facts behind them.
1:11.0	Today we're discussing a monster known as the Popobawa, a giant
1:15.9	bat-winged shape-changing magical creature that allegedly terrorizes the people of Zanzibar. The way the Popabawa attacks means that this
1:25.2	episode is going to be getting the explicit tag. So if you've got the kids huddle
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1:34.4	It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.
1:38.2	A giant hairy creature, Potape, Park Man.
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