Summary: <p>It’s October! Let the spooky monster episodes begin! This week we’re starting off with a bang–or maybe a squoosh–with an episode about globsters. What are they? Why do they look like that? Do they smell?</p> <p>Yes, they smell. They smell so bad.</p> <p>Trunko, a globster found in South Africa:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-836" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Trunko-photo-300x242.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="242"></p> <p>A whale shark:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-834" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/whale-shark-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"></p> <p>The business end of a whale shark:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-835" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/whalesharkprojectmouth-ConvertImage_54_990x660-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"></p> <p>A globster found in Chile:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-838" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Chilean_Blob.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="180"></p> <p>A globster found in North Carolina after a hurricane:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-833" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/GLOBSTER-NC.jpg" alt="" width="267" height="200"></p> <p>A globster that still contains bones:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-840" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/seabird-globster-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"></p> <p>Not precisely a globster but I was only a few weeks late in my 2012 visit to Folly Beach to see this thing:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-839" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Folly_Beach_Monster-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"></p> <p><strong>Further reading:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Monsters-Cryptozoology-Reality-Behind-ebook/dp/B01B867JTO"><em>Hunting Monsters</em></a> by Darren Naish</p> <p><strong>Show transcript:</strong></p> <p>Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw.</p> <p>It’s October, and you know what that means! Monsters! …and have I got a creepy monster for you this week. Grab your Halloween candy and a flashlight while I tell you about something called a globster.</p> <p>If you live near the seashore, or really if you’ve spent any time at all on the beach, you’ll know that stuff washes ashore all the time. You know, normal stuff like jellyfish that can sting you even though they’re dead, pieces of debris that look an awful lot like they’re from shipwrecks, and the occasional solitary shoe with a skeleton foot inside. But sometimes things wash ashore that are definitely weird. Things like globsters.</p> <p>A globster is the t</p>
