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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Christmas Island, Part 1: Crabs Rule Everything Around Me

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Christmas Island, a place where it’s still only Christmas once a year… but where red crabs swarm across the land and enormous coconut crabs feast on carrion in the forests. So deck the halls with boughs of SCUTTLING HORROR as Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick celebrate the holiday season in style.

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1:35.0

It was the island of Christmas in all across the land.

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The red crabs were flowing across Roots Street in Sand, like a red tide of scuttling,

1:43.0

claw-snaping doom. They stream through my front door and into my rooms.

1:48.0

Meanwhile in the forests, the giants there crawled, coconut crabs, hulking monsters with claws.

1:55.0

They hunted for carrion, crab, bird and rat, and gobbled it up. Rancid, sinew and fat.

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