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Unexplained Encounters

574 | It Wakes Up Every 17 Years (DON'T GO NEAR THE TREELINE)

Unexplained Encounters

Eeriecast Network

Nature, Society & Culture, True Crime, Science

4.75.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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When Brood IV of the cicadas awoke in Missouri in the summer of 1998, something awoke with them. And it changed the lives of 5 friends forever. Listen to me on night watchers to get to know me: https://www.youtube.com/@nightwatcherspodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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A new species of insect is discovered every 90 minutes. Did you know that? The insect kingdom

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dwarves our own.

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It's impossible to know what might lie underneath one rock, or hide within a hollowed-out log, let alone what might awaken only once every several years.

1:22.2

I received this creepy and very emotional story from someone named Locus Locale, which he has titled, It Woke Up.

1:32.0

In this story, we learned that in Missouri during the summer of 1998, allegedly some very bizarre

1:38.8

killings occurred, which aligned perfectly with the awakening of cicadas. But it was not these insects who were behind it.

1:47.8

Whatever it was, it wakes up every 17 years.

1:53.1

If you're in Missouri in 2032, all I can say is you have been warned.

2:06.6

Thank you. as you have been warned. Sucadas don't come out every year. They sleep underground for over a decade, then emerge all at once in what scientists call

2:13.6

broods.

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