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Someone has attacked my family in my house.

Okay, so you need the police or an ambulance?

An ambulance please, yes Now, who is injured?

I think everyone.

Hello and welcome to Season 5, Episode 113 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.

The The World Monst laws are both. patreon.com slash sword and scale. We're traveling to the land of South Africa, a former British colony

whose laws are both strangely similar to the West, but also quite different in so many important

ways. A land of extremes, with both great wealth and extremely high violent crime rates.

49 people a day are murdered in this relatively small country

as a result of multiple factors,

including formalized robbery and rape gangs.

It's in this setting that a bizarre and horrible crime takes place.

And stay tuned at the end because we'd love to know what you think actually happened.

Thank you. Stay tuned at the end because we'd love to know what you think actually happened. There is nothing wrong.

There is nothing wrong with being scared of the dark.

In fact, it seems hardwired in our brains to be wary of what we cannot see,

of what is hiding just beyond our senses.

Its instinct, survival behavior.

As we lie in bed at night, many of us throw rationality out the window.

When we were kids, we imagined there were monsters lurking all around us,

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