Two listeners. Two encounters with something that used the land itself as its surface.

Hester is on a Shropshire ridge she's known twenty years when the far hillside lights up with a vast geometric pattern too precise for any human hand. Then it rotates like a mechanism. Then it contracts around a single point on the opposite ridge: exactly where she's standing. She wasn't being watched. She'd become a variable in something already running.

Then Mateo feels heat through his boots on his land near Terlingua: narrow bands beneath the desert, running in straight lines. They glow amber and reconfigure, processing something. By morning the vegetation along them is dead. Five months on, it's still spreading. A metre a week, perfect right angles, heading northwest. His home is northwest.

Producer Dom unpacks the darker theories: Vallée's control system, terrain used as hardware, the Dogon patterns encoded into the earth at creation, and the fire meridians that propagate once they hit their threshold.

What happens when you're not the subject of the phenomenon… but an input it's still waiting on?

A Create Podcast

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