S20 Ep26: The King, the Sandman and taxidermied humans (Sn. 20 Ep. 26)
Monsters Among Us
Derek Hayes | Audioboom Studios
4.8 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Tonight's episode will give you the creeps... guaranteed. Keep it spooky and enjoy.
Season 20 Episode 26 of Monsters Among Us Podcast, true paranormal stories of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and more, told by the witnesses themselves.
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Is Anyone Left
Paradigm Shift
Forgotten Planet
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to be. |
| 0:03.0 | We're going to see. |
| 0:07.0 | We're going to be. |
| 0:09.0 | The United The |
| 0:23.6 | The Good evening and welcome to Monsters Among us. |
| 0:56.2 | I am your guide, Derek Hayes. |
| 1:01.1 | Hello gang. |
| 1:02.9 | Welcome back to another Erie episode. |
| 1:06.9 | We're happy to have you with us here this evening. |
| 1:09.7 | The rains have finally stopped here in SoCal. We're finally to have you with us here this evening. The rains have finally stopped here in Sokow. |
| 1:12.6 | We're finally drying out, one sunny day at a time. |
| 1:18.6 | And I hope it's a fine evening, wherever you are here this evening. |
| 1:23.6 | And I hope wherever you are, you're comfortable and in a position to be uninterrupted, |
| 1:31.1 | because I have a full slate of calls for you here tonight, all sorts of weird ones, |
| 1:38.1 | human taxidermy, guardian angels, and the king of rock and roll. But it's with a seance that we begin here this |
| 1:49.1 | evening. Please welcome Maddie out of the state of Texas. Hey there, this is Maddie from North Texas. |
| 2:01.6 | I was just listening to season 17, episode 16. |
| 2:06.5 | There was a woman talking about how her mother used to take her to seances, |
| 2:12.1 | and that totally just rang a bell in my head. |
| 2:15.4 | My grandmother, who unfortunately I can't ask for any more |
| 2:19.5 | specifics because she does have dementia with Louis body. But this is one of my favorite |
| 2:26.3 | stories that she used to tell me and she only really ever talked about it when my grandfather |
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