Welcome to What The Heck's Creature Feature! These episodes release on Saturdays and look at folklore and cryptids from around the world! The same academic style is applied to these episodes, but they look at history and eyewitness reports before describing the creature of the week! A lot of the time, theories are a bit more scarce than the main episodes, but the content is still just as interesting.

This week we're looking at Gef the Mongoose. Gef lived in a farmhouse on the Isle of Man. Way back in 1931, he began to terrorise, and eventually became friends with, the people who lived in the house. Eventually the press got wind of it, followed by spiritualists, and they all came to the house to meet a talking mongoose. Gef refused to talk to all of them. Where was Gef from? Who visited him? How did he cause a court case? Listen in to find out!

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References:-

Blakemore, Erin. “The Strange Story of Gef, the Isle of Man’s Talking Mongoose.” History, 19 Sept. 2023, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/gef-talking-mongoose-isle-of-man. 

Tucker, Steven. “The Bizarre, True Story of Gef the Talking Mongoose - Atlas Obscura.” Atlas Obscura, Atlas Obscura, 31 Aug. 2023, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gef-the-talking-mongoose-true-story-nandor-fodor.   

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