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The Good evening and welcome to Monsters Among Us.

I'm your guide, Derek Hayes.

Good evening, folks, and welcome back to another terrifying installment.

I have quite the program slated for this evening.

So get comfortable.

Dem the lights and just in case.

Maybe lock the doors.

Because we begin this evening with a story straight out of Massachusetts.

Please join me in welcoming Mary to the program.

Hi, Derek. My name is Mary. I am from the suburbs of Boston, sort of an area called the South Shore. So basically, this is a story from 1994. I was 13 years old. This is kind of a

cute light story. If anyone needs a pallet cleanser from the dark and scary and spooky stuff.

This one is really more weird and interesting. So in 1994, I was 13, my parents, my father, my brother, my

had moved to a new subdivision of the same town that we lived in. There was a lot of new

construction, a lot of dirt, a lot of woods. We were one of the first houses in there. So basically,

you know, I was a little older than some of the

neighborhood kids, but I would still go out to play with them. I would babysit them, you know,

we would still go outside and do outdoorsy things sometimes. And one of the kids in the neighborhood,

I remember one day he brought to our house in a little cage. This little

creature he said he found in the woods. It was a yellow slug-like creature with a, I swear,

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