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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and this is The Monster Fact, a short form series from Stuff to Blow Your

Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas and monsters in time.

Imagine yourself out on the road, so frustratingly close to the walls of the city you've been

traveling to and yet night is falling. The mist is rolling in and then up ahead you see several

figures in the gloom. Fellow travelers, a patrol of guards from the city.

You entertain the possibility that they are bandits and then they do something quite unnatural.

They hop, like a creature whose legs are bound or stiff with rigamortis or perhaps even

forgetful of proper bipedal locomotion and forced to lunge itself forward through physical space

like a great writhing worm. The creatures hop and hop again, ever closer to you and as they get

closer you see that they are undead horrors dressed in robes from the Qing Dynasty. Decayed corpses

burning with unnatural life. As they hop, they reach out towards you with elongated fingernails.

They gasp with bloody feng-tooth jaws and if they catch you they will drain every last ounce of

precious Qi from your body. In some ways relatable to western concepts of the zombie and the

vampire, this is the Jiangxi. And while Chinese mythology and folklore is filled with various

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