Shift Hunters! They're big nasty things. Like dogs... only way, way bigger. And they're ugly. Like... they've been dead for a year ugly. The cultists like to use them for hunting. [Yup. Just telling a little girl, his not daughter, about awful monsters. Good times.]

As for experiments... well, they vary. Like our last experiment made me five years younger than I am now. Other times they might make people fall in love... or hate each other. Or turn into something weird... like a melon.