8.12 EXP | Living Dinosaurs & a Vampire on the Great Lakes

A fifteen-foot lizard turns up in a Kentucky junkyard! Small, upright reptiles confound Four Corners country! And in Indiana, a town becomes so determined to catch a monstrous turtle that they drain the lake!

On this Expansion, we’re following the tracks of creatures that apparently evaded the extinction reaper! With accounts collected by John LeMay, we dig into the Milton Monster, Colorado’s “Prairie Devils,” Myrtle Snow’s strange encounters, and the horned thing said to haunt Nebraska’s Big Alkali Lake. We also hear from J.C. Johnson about the dino critters haunting the Four Corners country.

But we’ve saved room for a different sorta fanged snack! From Frederick Stonehouse’s Haunted Lakes II comes “I Alone”: a sailor’s chilling tale of a mysterious lady passenger, a crew falling mysteriously ill, and a doomed voyage across the Great Lakes!

Living dinosaurs, small-town monster hunts, and a vampire at sea. Let’s get Jurassic! 👊

⏰ Timestamps

00:00 | Welcome to the Expansion — Living Dinosaurs & a Vampire at Sea
03:23 | Are Dinosaurs Fake? Fossils, Creationism & Feathers
07:14 | Dinosaur Corrections — Birds, Alligators & the Family Tree
10:17 | John LeMay — Cowboys & Saurians in the Modern Era
11:49 | Haunted Junkyards & Thirteen Ghosts
12:48 | The Milton Monster — A Kentucky Junkyard Lizard
15:20 | The Cable Brothers’ Encounters | Story Read
17:51 | The Crosswicks Monster Connection
21:32 | Can Monitor Lizards Stand on Their Hind Legs?
22:44 | Colorado River Dinos — The Cortez Road Crossing
26:51 | Prairie Devils — Nick Sucik & the Mystery Photograph
34:36 | Myrtle Snow & the Moon Cow | Southwest River Dinos
37:18 | The Cortez “Baby Dinosaur” Skeletons
42:47 | Big Alkali Lake — Nebraska’s Horned Monster
43:38 | The Monster in the Moonlight | Newspaper Account
46:00 | “Great Active Horned Alligator” | 1923 Newspaper Account
50:19 | Horns, Waterways & Time-Slip Theories
54:35 | The Beast of Busco — Oscar the Titanic Turtle | Story Read
1:00:03 | The Father of All Turtles & Archelon
1:04:14 | The Hunt for Oscar | Original Newspaper Reports
1:09:57 | J.C. Johnson & Crypto Four Corners
1:13:05 | Mini T. Rexes & Fresh Dinosaur Tracks | Higherside Chats Clip
1:17:11 | From Living Dinosaurs to a Great Lakes Vampire
1:19:35 | Frederick Stonehouse & Haunted Lakes II
1:22:09 | I Alone, Part 1 — The Mysterious Passenger | Story Read
1:26:11 | I Alone, Part 2 — A Strange Sickness | Story Read
1:33:00 | I Alone, Part 3 — The Storm & the Vampire | Story Read
1:41:59 | The H.G. Stamback — Shipwreck History Behind the Tale
1:45:43 | North Manitou Island & the Manitou Connection
1:47:26 | Closing Thoughts & Thanks to the Expansion

Referenced Images:

Referenced Episodes:

• 7.12 EXP | Cowboys and Monsters
• 2.1 EXP | Mokele-mbembe
• 6.3 | Junkyard Demons, Faceless Entities, Phantom Polar Bears — SLS 25
• 8.6 EXP | Beyond the Backyard: Enfield Horror and Secrets of the Ohio River
• 2.22 | Sea Monster Attacks and Real Devils of the Deep

Referenced Clips / Media:

• JC Johnson | Skinwalkers, Crypids, & The Book Of Enoch — The Higherside Chats — Greg Carlwood interview archive.
• They Thought It Was A Sinking Ship But Then It Come Out Of The Water — Paranormal Junkie

Online Sources:

• John “JC” Johnson — Obituary, Karvonen Funeral & Cremation Service
• RIP JC Johnson — Tea Krulos
• Frederick Stonehouse — Official Biography
• H.G. Stamback (1857) — Shotline Diving
• Can anybody identify this old photo? — r/Cryptozoology
• No Evidence T. rex Hatchlings Had Feathers — Institute for Creation Research