This is an REI co-op studios production.

Welcome back to our Mini Monster series. We here at Camp Monsters know that mysterious

creatures are a year round interest. So we're making sure that you have a new monster in

your feed every month until our full season launches this September. And now we're very

excited to announce that Yeti, known for their ridiculously strong and durable coolers,

bottles, bags, chairs and other much needed outdoor gear, is this season's sponsor.

You'll be hearing more from them in our full length episodes later this year and we're

happy to have them join us around the Camp Monsters Campfire. Which in this case is

in the form of their super comfortable camp chairs, as well as a couple of tundra hard

coolers whose primary purpose is to keep our food and drinks ice cold. But it also double

as excellent fire side seats. If you're looking for gear that will last as long as your passion

for the outdoors, Yeti has you covered. To welcome Yeti to our Camp Fire, we naturally

asked if they'd heard of any monsters prowling around their hometown of Austin, Texas.

They told us this story of a close encounter with a creature you've probably heard rumors

about. A nocturnal monster known to pick off livestock at a very vampiric way. Do we

believe the story? Well, listen for yourself. Do you? Welcome to the Camp Monsters podcast.

Brian was a practical man from a long line of practical people. You have to be practical

to live alone on acreage out in the hot scrub land of central Texas. Just beyond the

furthest southwest outskirts of Austin. But it was land that Brian had known all his

life and it was peaceful most of the time. That is until something started to happen to

his goats. It was a strange thing. All of a sudden, one morning he came upon three of

them, goats. In a field not too far from his house, set down together in a little circle

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