Monster Crush

Halloween is nearly here and we deserve to have some fun! So this week there are NO MONSTER SINGLETONS, instead we play some games to talk about a whole bunch of monsters! So strap in and strap on for Slash’er Pass (a Smash or Pass game with movie slashers) as well as Smooch, Mate, Slay (a monster take on FMK). Come play with us… forever and ever… and ever Featuring: Halloween costume memories, Sp...

The Halloween season is finally here (even though it lives in our hearts year round)! This is a special time of the year for Monster Crush so we wanted to recognize some monsters that truly embody the symbology of the season… Pumpkins! So carve out an hour for us as we learn to love the gourd and the bad about the Devouring Gourd, the Squasholiger, and Stingy Jack aka Jack o’ Lantern! Featuring: H...

This episode of Monster Crush comes from a very special livestreamed version of the podcast that we did on our parent network Sword & Key ! You can watch a recording of this stream on youtube.com/@swordandkey For this episode we bring you the epitome of a “weird little guy” with Gef the Talking Mongoose! A self-described “extra extra clever mongoose” and “freak”, the story of Gef is as complex...

It’s Shadow’s first episode as an official Monster Crush co-host/co-cryptowoologist! To ease her into things, we decided to bring a couple cryptids that might sound kinda familiar but are totally unique and weird in their own special ways. So strap on and strap in for the Octosquatch and the Sheepsquatch, two hairy fellas with a lotta love to give! Featuring: WELCOME Shadow, we present Shadow with...

We know you listeners are horny and hot to trot so we finally delivered on our promise to bring you two monsters to perfectly match that energy. Join us to explore the girthy mythology of the galloping Centaur and the labyrinthian Minotaur! But wait… if “taur” means bull why are they called centaurs? This and more secrets revealed in this episode! Featuring: our hot takes on the Wicker movie trail...

The Dog Days of Summer mark the hottest days of the year but we’re going to make things even HOTTER with the DOGMAN Days of Summer here on Monster Crush! This time we bring you two Great Lakes good boys with the prowling Minnesota Dogman and denim-wearing Defiance Dogman. Be proud of us because we didn’t mention that one Florence and the Machine song even once. Featuring: it’s HOT out which means...

Hold on to your butts because we have two monsters of prehistoric proportions for this episode! Dinosaur cryptids can be found in lots of places but these two tend to break the mold in more than a few ways. So listen as love finds a way with the Partridge Creek Monster of the great white north and the surprisingly chatty Atami Stegosaurus! Featuring: problematic youth organizations, shoutout to th...

Just because the country is burning down around us doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate some all-American monsters. And it doesn’t get more American than the lumberjack folkloric traditions of FEARSOME CRITTERS! So grab a hot dog and get ready to salute these weird monsters of American folklore - the telescopic sniper, the Tripodero, and the super-fast noose-bird, the Roperite! Featuring: Jennifer Till...

Happy Monster Daddy’s Day! While monster dads are far less common than monster moms but we were able to find two frightful flirting fathers all the same. Plus we have A LOT of Spooky News today! So strap in and strap on for the Caribbean nature spirit, Papa Bois, and the Father of All Turtles, the island-sized Zaratan! Featuring: LD is back, what dad archetype do you have, Book Review of Mothman i...

It’s part TWO of our cursed experience with co-host Shadow! Again, the curse was that one episode went too long and ended up as two episodes, so kind of a fun curse in the end. But this episode we finally get to the three cursed objects mentioned in our last episode! So strap in and strap on for these objects of your desire with the bloodthirsty cursed Muramasa Demon Swords, the ill-gotten curse o...

Monster Crush has been CURSED! But mostly the curse is that we played a game for too long, had too much fun, and had to turn one episode into two… So I think we’ll survive! What was planned to be an episode about cursed objects turned into a not-so-mini-game about Haunted Dolls on Ebay. Things did not go to plan when our Haunted Doll Watch turned into a Haunted Doll Botch. But with Shadow in the g...

We at Monster Crush have to apologize, we took a little break and were a little out of practice. So, while we wanted to celebrate Mothers’ Day and all the wonderful monster mommies out there, we weren’t paying attention to our spelling and… Well, we’re celebrating Mummy’s Day and all the monster mummies instead this year. So grab a protective spell and wrap both your date and your tool (even if it...

IN THE MARCH OF MADNESS 2026 CONTINUES! Sixteen entities from Lovecraftian Horror fight tooth and tentacle for your affections. Who will win the finals… and our hearts? For this episode we finish the GOO (Great Old Ones) Conference featuring: Shterot, Atlach-Nacha, Rhogog, Byatis, Hziulquoigmnzha, Chaugnar Faugn, Bugg-Shash, and Nyarlathotep. And as we finish the GOO Conference, we also finish our...

IN THE MARCH OF MADNESS IS BACK! It’s our third year playing this bracket-style game of love. Sixteen entities from Lovecraftian Horror fight tooth and tentacle for your affections. Who will win the finals… and our hearts? This week we take on the BOG (Beings and Outer Gods) Conference featuring: Blackness from the Stars, Shabbith-Ka, Mother of Pus, Lu-Kthu, Daoloth, Kthanid, Fthaggua, and Mh’Ithr...

Happy Valentines Day… or close enough to it. For us at Monster Crush, it’s always the perfect day to celebrate love in all of its weirdly beautiful forms. But, for this amorous time of year we bring you two monsters you can really give you heart to, because that’s what they eat! Prepare yourself for two chimeric monsters with a taste for cardiac cuisine with the predatory Peryton and Ammit, the De...

We hope you didn’t fill up on Demon Princes last time because for this episode we give you another heaping helping. Join us as we round out the last FIVE Demon Princes of Dungeons & Dragons’ Forgotten Realms with the hedonistic Graz’zt, slimy Juiblex, deceptive Fraz-Urb'luu, insufferable Kostchtchie, and alluring Malcanthet! Strap on, strap in, and get ready for another plunge into the Aby...

For all the hype that Stranger Things has given to D&D, people now know what a Demogorgon is… or do they? For this date we get even Strangerer with some of the OG D&D Things, namely D&D Demon Princes so we can tell you what the Demogorgon really is! And this is only part 1! So get ready to plunge into the Abyss with the nightmarish Demogorgon, rotting Orcus, bestial Baphomet, feral Yee...

For the New Year we look back on singletons we met once but never really got a chance at love. So for this date we pull the Pascagoula Elephantmen out of the stables for a little space seduction and alien abduction. Strap in and strap on because these ETs are out of this world. Featuring: we have rhythm (sort of) - New Years Resolutions - “Sliterature” - hot takes on orc romance novels - Spooky Ne...

Happy Holidays from all of us at Monster Crush! To celebrate this festive season we return to the Yule traditions of ol for a couple monsters that are naughty, nice, and everything in between. So jingle your bells and wrap your present for the Mari Lwyd and Grýla the Christmas Witch. Plus a few bonus monsters including The Yule Cat! Featuring: who would Zooey Deschanel play in The Lion King? - you...

For this holiday episode we have only one question for you… Naughty or Nice? Honestly, with monsters it really doesn’t matter which you pick because even the nice ones have a dark side. So wrap your present and stuff your stocking for the naughty Kallikantzaros and the nice Nisse! Featuring: Did we do a Krampus episode? Yes, yes we did - it’s really dark in the PNW - when you can’t count to three...

For many Americans Thanksgiving is a holiday focused on the iconic main dish, the turkey. But what about the country of Türkiye? Apparently it’s chock full of monsters we can smooch! So for this holiday, we gobble down on two Turkish monsters with the iconic Lake Van Monster and the nightmarish Al Basty. Pass the gravy because this episode is going to get saucy! Featuring: an ode to the noble turk...

That’s a lot of ones all in one episode number… So let’s do three cryptids that were only seen once! These monsters were seen for a good time but not for a long time and only for one time. So enjoy The 50-Foot Congo Snake, The Bathysphaera intacta (or Giant Dragonfish), and The Giant Shrimp in the Laundry Room (aka Shrimpy). It’s BIG SNAKE, BIG FISH, BIG SHRIMP… Plus a bonus cryptid! Featuring: sm...

WE’RE BACK! Just in time for halloween we return to our teratophilic ways to explore romance with one of the most iconic monsters - FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER!!! So get ready for jokes to leave you in stitches, love that strikes like lightning, and a monster ready for LONG-TERM commitments because… IT’S ALIVE!!! Featuring: Our podcast relationship Unicorn (Shadow), Halloween traditions & memories,...

In honor of the recent holiday, Hobbit Day, we’re talking Tolkien! Derek is joined once again by special guest Shadow (@shadowsilvia on socials) to delve too greedily and too deep into some Middle Earth monsters! So prepare to make an unexpected party with Smaug the Dragon, The Watcher in the Water, and Durin’s Bane the Balrog! Additional side note: Monster Crush will be skipping a week on our rel...

Monster Crush is back after our Summer Break with all new chills and thrills. For this episode, Derek is joined by special guest Shadow (@shadowsilvia on socials) to discuss the noble Unicorn! And these horny horses have a wild history hiding behind all those sparkles and rainbows. Author Chris Lavers is quoted as saying “The history of the unicorn myth is so tangled that to try and unravel it is...