Funny, I often call Funster, "the beast," as well

Mrs. Martin agreed to be her husband’s levitating guinea pig. Mr. Martin yoked the unit to a pole in the garage so it would lift her without moving around, put a kind of brake at the top of the pole in case the engine was stronger than he thought, and strapped her in. She admits now that, deep down, she was not sure she would take off. At the same time, she was “very scared” of the device she calls “the beast.”