This is an REI co-op studios production.

Camp Monsters is back.

Well, with a mini-monster episode anyway.

But before we jump into this little story about one of the few holiday themed monsters

out there, would like to give a quick thank you to our season 2 sponsor, Yeti.

And while one of Yeti's full-sized coolers would make an awkward stocking stuffer, remember

that Yeti also offers mugs, tumblers, bottle openers, a peril.

Check it all out at Yeti.com.

As you know, if you've been listening to Camp Monsters for a while, in our regular season

shows, we focus solely on creatures from the United States.

So in these mini-monster episodes that we do in between seasons, we'd like to go a bit

further afield and talk about some of the monsters that lurk in other countries.

This particular tale, just in time for the holidays, takes us overseas and back in time

as well.

To the year 1709, we've forgotten Valley high in the mountains of Corinthia and southern

Austria, on the night before Christmas, and a black, cold night it was.

A biting wind rushed down the narrow valley, knocking the snow from the dark pines and

making the moan and whisper.

There was a castle in that valley.

These ruins are still there today.

It was an old place, old already, even in those long ago days.

Battlements crumbling, chipped aeroslits squinting out at the cold and crowding forest that

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