AUTHOR, MUSICIAN, FILMMAKER, LONG-TIME RUE MORGUE COLUMNIST… you’d think cryptid connoisseur Lyle Blackburn would have been hosting a podcast long before now. His audience, he tells us, has been clamouring for one for years, but when you’re a multi-hyphenate creator of content, sometimes it’s hard to find the time. That time has finally arrived, however, with Blackburn’s Monstro Bizarro podcast: an aural tour of America’s cryptozoological backwaters and peculiar small-town histories.
“Obviously at this point in the game there are a lot of podcasts, and a lot in this genre,” he tells Rue Morgue. “Literally every name I came up with was already a podcast title, which is why I went back to the name of my Rue Morgue column. There was nothing else named that!”
The format, he says,…
