‘Monster Madness’: A sixth grader sent us this delightful podcast about Bigfoot

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A still image from the famous 1967 film by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin, said to be of Bigfoot. (Roger Patterson & Robert Gimlin)Here they are: The best student podcasts in America For the 2025 NPR Student Podcast Challenge, we’ve listened to nearly 2,000 entries from around the U.S., and narrowed them down to 11 middle school and 10 high school finalists. Every year, when NPR opens up our Student Podcast Challenge, thousands of young people send us their stories. Like this one:“Monster Madness, it’s the podcast that we need,” 11-year-old Ryan Betts-Ng sings cheerfully in his entry this year, Monster Madness . Take a listen to Monster Madness by Ryan and Dylan Betts-Ng, middle school finalists in the 2025 NPR Student Podcast Challenge.