Hello, this is Dr Malcolm Ryder, parapsycologist. I'm currently not in the studio.

Please leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Hey, it's Mike from Kansas.

I called and left a message a few weeks ago about those leech things I found out on a night drive.

Thousands of leeches that swarm together and looked like a little girl.

Thanks for getting me in contact with that cryptosuologist from St. Louis.

Dr. Sonia Patel. She was cool at first

drove all the way out of my place to meet me

had me take her to the spot where I saw the girl

leeches thing. We found some dead leeches near the road. From what she saw, she said there could be multiple

broods of leeches, multiple groups of thousands of them, each taking a different form.

The Speculum Senguesegai, or Mira Leaches, she said, constantly seek new bodies,

new bodies to feed on, new bodies to mimic the appearance of.

Strangely, they don't simply replicate your exterior, like how you saw a little girl standing

in the road.

Each leech in their brood imprints your last memories and emotions before it devours you.

You believe it evolved this trait so it can seek out your relatives, friends, community, and then feed on them.

Dr. Patel's concern what's happening out here in Kansas could be serious.

I asked her what we should do.

She said she'd write a proposal for a research grant from the American

crypto zoological foundation and if she's lucky she'll get enough funding for

herself and some grad students to come out to Kansas in a year or two and eradicate

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