The Monstrefact: The Bog Octopus
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses tentacled lurkers in the bog from the worlds of gaming, fantasy literature and industrial music…
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dana Schwartz, host of Stealing Superman, a new I Heart original podcast about the most |
| 0:07.5 | unlikely art heist of all time. |
| 0:10.5 | It was Nick Cage's own personal, national treasure. |
| 0:14.8 | At a 1999 New Year's Eve party, someone snatched Cage's priceless comics. |
| 0:22.4 | But who? |
| 0:23.4 | Listen to Stealing Superman on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find |
| 0:29.0 | your favorite shows. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:37.8 | Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and this is The Monster Fact, a short-form series from Stuff |
| 0:43.8 | to Blow Your Mind, focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time. |
| 0:53.8 | If you listen to enough 90s industrial dance music, you'll come across an interesting track |
| 0:59.2 | by the German group by God 20, with vocals by Front 242's Jean-Luc Demire. |
| 1:06.7 | It's titled The Bog, and within this infectious swamp of synth and drum machine beats, the vocalist |
| 1:14.7 | narrates a tale of a hunter pursuing ducks at the edge of the fin. |
| 1:20.1 | Note, no presence of foul, the fin is a desert, set a man of poise with a drawing voice. |
| 1:26.9 | The grounds are alive and the wind has dropped, the fin is awakened and follows the steps. |
| 1:33.7 | Here we're told something is watching the hunter, and the final stretch of the song details |
| 1:39.1 | the tentacled horrors ravenous thoughts as it drags the man down into the bog. |
| 1:45.8 | The music video is also worth looking up. |
| 1:47.8 | There aren't really any tentacled monsters in it per se, but you do get to see two brain |
| 1:52.5 | guy looking men in robes, ringing bells, and sort of dancing about. |
| 1:57.8 | I've long wondered about this horror about it, though. |
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