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Welcome back to Heart Sires Pounding.

I'm your host, Kayla Moore.

Today, I want to tell you all about the

Everclades, the magic, the mystery, and the darkness that lies deep within the 8,000 square

miles of marshland sitting at the southernmost tip of Florida. But before we dive into the

strangeness, just a couple of updates. As a reminder, we're reading Slufoot by Brom for this book club round.

We'll be meeting in mid-May over on Patreon so you can join us there, even at the free tier,

and grab yourself a copy if you want to join in. We also have a couple of fun bonus episodes

that you can listen to on Patreon and on Apple podcast subscriptions. March was Fayaye and Fairy lore, which was very fun to dive

into. And this month is going to be Deep Ocean Mysteries. So if you like this episode, you're

probably going to want to head over there and listen to more. Okay, that's all Jinks and I have for you

right now. So let's get into it. The Florida Everglades is a place unlike anywhere else on Earth.

It's a self-contained ecosystem consisting of nearly 8,000 square miles of marshland.

But it doesn't resemble Louisiana's canopy, haunted bayous.

It actually looks more like the African savannah, with wide skies and a carpet of grass, except that grass is

sawgrass, sharp enough to cut through human flesh upon the lightest touch. And what looks like

land beneath is, in fact, alligator-infested wetland filled with dark, murky water, and the

muck of a thousand years' worth of dead plants and ash settled at the

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