Before the human race harnessed the power of fire, there was only darkness, an inky black foreboding abyss that concealed danger, mystery, and fear.

Into that darkness brave men would not venture, for as the map says, here, there be monsters. Good time, nothing.

There's it. The The Good evening and welcome to Hear There Be Monsters podcast. I'm your captain, Derek Hayes.

I'm anxious to get started this evening, but first, let's trudge through the formalities.

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Let's move on with tonight's show. Recently, I've been watching the Netflix series Stranger Things, and in doing so, it brought back all the nostalgia of growing up in the 1980s.

I still remember vividly perusing aisle after aisle of our local video store's horror section.

Hockey masks, knives for finger, blobs, critters, aliens, and bloody chainsaws fed my imagination and fueled my nightmares.

As children, we were always allowed to rent one scary film per visit,

so it didn't take long for my brothers and I to work our way through the entire library

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