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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 Ness Monster. Monster Talk.

Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.

I'm Blake Smith.

And I'm Karen Stolznor.

Alice Vernon's book, Ghosted, came highly recommended to me

late last year through a strange, posthumous connection with Joe Nicol. That's to do with some private

matters, but because of the way the suggestion came to me, it felt a little bit like Joe himself

had a hand in it. I mean, he didn't, of course, but I think he would have enjoyed this book very much. I've read quite a lot about this subject, so sometimes I feel it. I mean, he didn't, of course, but I think he would have enjoyed this book very much.

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