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Christmas Special # 5: The Open Window

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History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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For the Annual MonsterTalk Christmas Special, Blake Smith reads The Open Window by H. H. Munro (Saki). READ episode notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

0:05.0

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

0:11.0

A giant air creature, Part 8, one man.

0:17.0

In Larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

0:22.0

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness monster. Yeah. Monster Talk.

0:49.3

Greetings Munster Talk!

0:51.7

Yeti again, I failed to get all my plans executed for the year, but I thought

0:55.7

this year would be different and to make it so, I worked very diligently on a special bit of

1:01.1

short fiction to present this year for my Christmas

1:03.1

ghost story episode. I was pretty happy with it and despite the fact that I'll have to

1:07.4

write it again from scratch, I will endeavor to do so, but I lost the whole thing. I have no idea where it went I've looked on every computer.

1:16.9

But now it's actually Christmas Eve and I've somehow ruined my own plans for the episode,

1:21.2

and there's no way to get that story polished up in time

1:23.6

from scratch and record it so instead I'm going to read one of my very favorite ghost

1:28.0

stories but first one thing I'd like to mention before that is this, here in the United States around the holidays,

1:35.0

it's common for people to give gifts and spend time with the family,

1:38.0

but it's also a time of extreme pressure for people who may not have had such a good year.

1:43.8

If you're having a good year and you're feeling strong and healthy and at peace, please reach

1:49.2

out to your friends and family who may not be doing so well.

1:52.2

It's almost a certainty that you know

1:54.8

someone who you haven't stayed in touch with or who's fallen silent or who stopped

1:59.1

coming out to social events. Maybe their health isn't great. Maybe they're having a hard time making it. Maybe they're

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