Monster House Presents. Okay, James, we offer up a series of temptations, gradually increasing in terms of duration and intensity, degree of moral and equity.

Absence of baptism in this case allows us to begin work long before the age of reason.

At three, a dish of five, maybe a theft of a toy car can do a great deal.

Then we move on to bigger and better things.

At eight, Grandmother's gift of a Ouija board gave us immediate access to his decision-making, so we began steering them.

With Adam Alder, calling into question exactly who was doing the steering. Enough yes isn't few, enough knows, gives increasing rights

over the victims, physical and mental processes. Did that track, James? It seems random,

almost unfocused. Well, that's what we want you to think. We have a level of focus beyond your

comprehension.

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

A giant hairy creature, part ape, part mad.

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

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

The Lacknest Manster. Monster Talk.

Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.

I'm Blake Smith. And I'm Karen Stolznor. There's lots of

stuff going on here at Monster Talk Manor, and I'm working on some classic cryptic content, but we're

a little pressed for time this week. And Karen's husband Matt suggested that we check out a movie

he was getting a lot of algorithmic nudges on. And that turned out to be quite the ride. Spoilers, it was packaged as a

horror film, but it turned out to be more of a stealth evangelical project. It's a 2023 indie film

called Nefarious. And while I can't exactly recommend the film as horror, it certainly gave us

lots of stuff to talk about.

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