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It's easy to dismiss monsters, especially from your well-lit office or while you're driving down the road in a busy city.

What if you're out in the woods in the dark of night, perhaps gathered with a friend or

two by a fire, or may be crouching by a tree listening to the

thousand throated voice of the forest. There are many people who don't just read about

monsters. They go out and look for them.

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

A giant hairy creature,

part ape, on that.

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 and I'm Karen Stolzno.

In this episode we'll be talking to a reporter who wanted to know more about Bigfoot in the

culture of people who hunt for these mystery animals. His name is Joe Jusandi and he's a reporter but he also went out

on the hunt as a Bigfoot hunter himself and has written a book about his experiences. The book is

called Monster Trek and this is

monster dog. Joe Jusondi is a professor of journalism at Eastern Illinois

University and he's worked as a journalist for more than 20

years. He has a focus on sports and he co-hosts a sports media podcast. We've invited Joe

on to Monster Talk to talk about his latest book which is an interesting departure from his sports journalism and this book is Monster Trek The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot.

So welcome to the show Joe.

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