The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise, slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon.

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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. Monster. Monster Talk. Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters. I'm Blake Smith.

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Okay, pop quiz. What do a prison on a rocky island? A roadside attraction crafted from giant rocks and a lonely cemetery high in the Rocky Mountains all have in common?

That's right. They're all featured in Karen Stolesnell's book, Haunting America. It's a rocking good book, perfect for a comfy rocking chair read on an autumn evening.

I think this might have been the first of Karen's book that I read, but up until now it has only been available on Kindle.

But just in time for Halloween, you can get it in paperback, and in this episode, Karen and her husband Matt will explain the strange journey of how this book was born and why it's taken until now to get a physical copy.

We've discussed some of the cases on previous episodes, but the book covers Coral Castle, the Limp Mansion, Waverly Hill Sanitarium, the Winchester Mystery House, and many more.

She covers the folklore and stories behind these sites and then goes a step further to ask,

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