100.9 The Mona Lisa Effect
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
Luke Kondor
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
100.9 The Mona Lisa Effect
Along a lonely backroad through the American backcountry sits a museum whose pieces exhibit a strange property known as the Mona Lisa Effect that wreaks havoc upon all those unfortunate to visit it.
Written by Nick Botic
Narrated and produced by James Barnett AKA Jimmy Horrors (https://www.JamesBarnettCreative.com)
With music by Myuu (https://www.thedarkpiano.com/)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
And sound effects provided by Freesound.org
The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)
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Nick Botic would like everyone to go and check out his novel on Amazon — Daughter’s Drawings.
James Barnett is the producer of the Night’s End podcast and After The Gloaming. Search for them wherever you get your podcasts. You can also catch other works of his at www.JamesBarnettCreative.com
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| 0:00.0 | These aren't the stories your mother told you. |
| 0:03.0 | No, these are the other stories. |
| 0:07.0 | Today's episode of The Other Stories is the Mona Lisa Effect, written by Nick Botak and |
| 0:24.2 | narrated and produced by James Barnett, aka Jimmy Horace. |
| 0:33.0 | On the side of a desolate road that traverses the equally desolate landscape of a region in the northern |
| 0:38.4 | United States sits a nondescript structure. Its appearance is that of a warehouse one might |
| 0:44.4 | spot amongst many similar buildings in the industrial district of any given city, grey brick |
| 0:49.9 | marred by age and the elements, windows along the top third of the sides and the bottom third |
| 0:54.9 | of the face, a flat roof. It is a place more often driven past than driven too, as no signs advertise |
| 1:01.8 | its existence, one of the innumerable, unremarkable edifices that adorn the sides of the winding |
| 1:07.5 | avenues that make up the country's vascular system. But for some, the |
| 1:12.7 | building's out-of-place visage beckons. And when the building casts out its coal, a driver might |
| 1:19.3 | feel compelled to veer off the road and onto the dirt path that leads up to the building's |
| 1:23.5 | front doors, which are perhaps the most distinct, if out of place, feature of the |
| 1:29.0 | structure's exterior. |
| 1:31.3 | The doors are made of ornate African blackwood with intricate designs hand carved into them, |
| 1:37.3 | spirals and cylindrical ravines both thin and wide, big and small. |
| 1:41.8 | The knobs are similarly ostentatious, constructed of polished silver that glints in the |
| 1:47.1 | country sunlight. As a guest enters the building, they aren't met with a stand at which they might |
| 1:53.1 | expect to purchase a ticket. Rather, there is no fee for admission. Though even if there were, |
| 1:59.5 | there'd be no employee to conduct the transaction. |
| 2:02.8 | This roadside museum is free and open to all travellers who find themselves coasting down |
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