Jan 23, 2026 · 1 hr 51 min · 17 segments
Note to listeners: The content of this story is particularly grim, and may be very disturbing to some. 'An Oral History of Hell,' a story written before this podcast began, is a bleak, brutish tale…
[gentle music] "Watch out for the wind streams," Smith had told me before we headed in.
And that was all it took to get me thinking again about killing myself.
Wind streams are very common here.
They sloop down between the rocks, invisible to the naked eye, looking like gasoline haze, making the objects beneath seem to shimmer.
A man bigger than I can be blown sideways by a strong one.
The surface of a wind stream feels almost warm to the touch, unlike anything else here.
We'd been in the far mountains for three days.
As expected, there was a large amount of bodies.
Mercy killings, suicides, people who had drowned themselves in the shallow streams, jumped off rocks to break their necks.
[gentle music] "Watch out for the wind streams," Smith had told me before we headed in.
And that was all it took to get me thinking again about killing myself.
Wind streams are very common here.
They sloop down between the rocks, invisible to the naked eye, looking like gasoline haze, making the objects beneath seem to shimmer.
A man bigger than I can be blown sideways by a strong one.
The surface of a wind stream feels almost warm to the touch, unlike anything else here.
We'd been in the far mountains for three days.
As expected, there was a large amount of bodies.
Mercy killings, suicides, people who had drowned themselves in the shallow streams, jumped off rocks to break their necks.
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