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A giant hairy creature, Part 8, Part Man. In Larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

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

Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.

I'm Blake Smith. Today we're going to continue our

series on Magic because I want to talk about some famous people within that area of study,

but I feel like there's too much legend and lore surrounding some of these figures

that doesn't give them

their proper historical context. So in this episode we're going to begin a

conversation with Religious Studies expert John Crow about Theosophy, but we'll be

touching on spiritualism, Masonic

rights, and many other topics. Our goal here is to get to the life of Alistair Crowley,

but before we can do that I think we need to understand the world he grew up in.

Also just a quick note I believe

his name is pronounced Crowley as Robert Anton Wilson constantly reminds me it's

supposed to rhyme with Holy but I at some points during the interview I do say Crowley my apologies

But I can't get that Ozzy Osbourne song out of my head anyway a bit of quick sad monster news.

We want to note the passing of Dr. John Bindernagle,

a biologist who spent many years researching Bigfoot stories.

I had the chance to exchange a few emails with him him and he was always very polite and friendly

and while I never met him in person I certainly had come to know him by way of his many documentary

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