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

A giant hairy creature, part 8, part mad. In Larkness, a 24-mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

It's a creature known as the Loch N about monsters. I'm Blake Smith.

And I'm Karen Stolznor.

In 1954, the last of the great universal film monsters was born when a scaly

Gillman emerged from the swampy waters of the Black Lagoon to terrorize Julia Adams in 3-D.

Science couldn't explain it, but there it was, alive in the deep, deep waters of the Amazon,

a throwback to a creature that had existed

a hundred million years ago, immensely strong and destructive. A woman's beauty, the bait,

that brought it out of its lair. In 1955, two peculiar American water monsters appeared. In Evansville,

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