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.

There's in, no zing. monsters. Good time. Nothing. Nothing.

There.

There.

Mission.

The Thank you. I'm not you know Good evening and welcome to Hear There Be Monsters podcast.

I am your captain, Derek Hayes.

Welcome back to yet another installment.

I have quite a show for you this evening, so without further hesitation, let's get busy.

Sometimes something happens that's just so strange, so random that you just can't get it out of your head, even decades later.

I remember when I was young I had a calico cat named Brandy.

Brandy was an outside cat.

She roamed the yard and slept in a box that we made for her on the back porch.

One night, our dog, whom also lived outside, started barking furiously.

Within seconds, every neighbor dog in our valley chimed in.

This went on for several minutes before my dad finally went outside to investigate.

There, in the center of our driveway, lay my cat, Brandy, dead, with two puncture holes in her side.

It was unclear as to what killed her. She was not mangled or bloody. She simply had two puncture wounds in her side reminiscent of a vampire attack. To this day, we do not know what happened to her. But 30 some odd

years later, I still think about the events surrounding that night.

Our first call of the evening tells a similar story.

An unsolved animal death and the haunting memory had left behind.

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