During the COVID 19 pandemic, Melissa found and relayed stories of inspiring animals intersecting in the daily lives of humans in hilarious and heartbreaking ways. The BewilderBeasts Podcast ran for 100 episodes, plus over 30 bonus episodes, over a four year period.
The stories of these incredible animals live on at BewilderBeastsPod.com, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Where to start?
Episode 97: Shockoe – Some dogs work to close decades-old cold cases. Others are tasked with finding long-lost burial grounds, shining a light on North America’s racist foundations while uncovering truths that some institutions will fight stay buried.
Episode 74: Dartmoor – A matriarch looking for enough room for the entire family to call home buys a dilapidated zoo in England. It took four days before the jaguar escaped. Then the wolves. Then the lynx. Welcome to Dartmoor.
Episode 68: Who Watches the Watchmen? – When violent militarized police attacked school children protesting for the right to education in Chile, homeless street dogs stood in the way. This story focuses on two of the hundreds of Chilean protesting dogs: the infamous Negro Matapacos, whose likeness pops up wherever police brutality intersect with injustice to kids around the world, and El Vaquita, the dog who needed humans to fake a protest to trick him into seeing a veterinarian.
Ep 27: Living His Best Afterlife – A bear in the deep woods of the deep south found, and ate, 76 pounds of cocaine. The bear died, but what happens in the decades after to this bear is unbelievable.
And so much more!
If you want a podcast that will make you laugh and think deeply about history, science, current events and more with a focus on all things fuzzy, then BewilderBeasts might be for you and your family.
Melissa McCue-McGrath 