Two listeners. Two encounters with something vast and ancient. One that couldn't see them, and one that wouldn't leave.

On a red-eye over the dark, Eshaan slips into the space between waking and sleep and the cabin vanishes. He's suspended in open black with something enormous moving slowly beneath him. It doesn't reach for him. It doesn't threaten him. It simply doesn't notice him, he's too small, too brief to register. And he realises he's been passing over it on every flight he's ever taken.

Then Luca comes home to a small, dense object on his kitchen counter that he never put there, warm from within, like a heartbeat without rhythm. He throws it away. Buries it. Posts it to a false address. Every morning it's back in the same spot. Until the night he stops fighting it, and something in his chest settles into place, and he understands it was always his.

Producer Dom unpacks the dark folklore: the Sumerian Abzu and the Hindu serpent on which all reality rests, the Aboriginal Dreaming that never ended, the Shinto objects bound to a person before birth, and the Andean huaca that always finds its keeper.

What happens when the thing you can't get rid of… was a part of you all along?

A Create Podcast

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