And the Oh, Welcome to the Strange Matters Podcast where we discuss anything and everything that is bizarre, mysterious and unexplained.

I'm Eric with my fellow host, Sean, and Ethan.

In honor of the New Year's holiday, this show is going to be a little bit different on today's episode we have a fun episode we put together a tournament of 16 iconic monsters from the classics such as Frankenstein's monster to lesser known evils such as Pyramid Head from the silent hill franchise.

Eric and I will be making our case for each battle on who we think which monster will be victorious.

And Ethan here will be victorious.

And Ethan here will be the final judge who moves

one step closer to the championship.

That's right.

In our first fight of the night, we have the stealthy predator

facing off against the creature from the black lagoon.

Take it away, Eric.

All right, so the predator is a sci-fi monster seen in the popular predator series.

Predators are an extraterrestrial species characterized by their hunting of other dangerous

species for sport and honor. These victims oftentimes include humans. They are about seven and eight feet tall and weigh over 300 pounds.

Predators usually hunt alone and they also have this coat of honor which dictates

greater pride the more dangerous the foe. So some of their

powers, predators stalking, kill their prey using a combination of highly

advanced technology such as active camouflage and energy weapons, combined with traditional

ancient weapons such as wrist blades, spears, and nets. They're larger and much stronger

than humans and capable of many athletic feats.

So they're pros, strength, advanced technology and weapons,

and experience of hunting the galaxy's most dangerous game.

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