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MonsterTalk

Let's Get This Off Our Chest

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

Natural Sciences, Society & Culture, Science

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

There are legends from around the world of a creature that comes to you at night and sits on your chest, sucking away your life force. The incubus, the succubus, the old hag — people really report these experiences, but how does science explain it? Dr. Brian Sharpless, co-author of the new book Sleep Paralysis: Historical, Psychological and Medical Perspectives, joins us to discuss the terrifying phenomenon. READ the episode notes

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

0:06.0

For most of us, lying down for sleep at the end of a long day

0:10.0

is something we look forward to.

0:13.0

Maybe we worry about the events of the day or have a little insomnia.

0:18.0

Maybe we snuggle with a loved one or read a bit before turning out the light.

0:23.0

But for some of us, the night is a realm of dread,

0:28.0

and sleep is but a portal to terror.

0:31.0

Because when some of us go to sleep, we awake to a terrible presence in the

0:36.6

room.

0:37.6

Perhaps we can't see it, but we know it's there.

0:41.8

We feel these things crawl crawl into our bed, and we're paralyzed and unable to

0:46.2

fight back as we feel something, climb on top of us and press us down into the bed.

0:53.2

It's reported around the world, across cultures, across time.

0:58.7

Maybe it's happened to you.

1:00.6

It's happened to me. But in this episode of Munster Talk, we'll be talking to someone who can tell us what's really going on.

1:08.0

And maybe, just maybe, the night can become a safe place again.

1:22.0

anything we've ever seen before. A giant hairy creature, Part 8, on that.

1:27.0

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

1:32.0

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness

1:34.4

monster. Yeah. Monster Talk.

1:59.8

On this episode of Monster Talk we welcome Dr. Brian Sharpless, co-author of an upcoming book on one of the most fascinating phenomena that I have experienced myself, sleep paralysis. The book is titled Sleep Paralysis, Historical, and Medical Perspectives. Dr. is a

2:15.0

title called,

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