Earth's Mantis Overlords | They've Been Here all Along (STRIPPED)
The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Why Files
4.8 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Fishing in the Miscanakanan River, Brian Richter stopped mid-cast. |
| 0:11.6 | Something was wrong. The birds stopped singing. Insects stopped buzzing. The forest was suddenly |
| 0:18.1 | quiet. Too quiet. |
| 0:24.6 | Then he felt it. Eyes on his back. |
| 0:25.6 | Someone or something was watching him. |
| 0:28.6 | Brian turned slowly. |
| 0:30.6 | At first he saw nothing. |
| 0:32.6 | Then movement caught his eye. |
| 0:34.6 | Between the trees stood something impossible. Seven feet tall, at least, long, |
| 0:40.1 | thin lens, a triangular head with large black eyes. Brian thought it looked like an insect, |
| 0:46.4 | but it would be the biggest insect he'd ever seen, and it was staring right at him. Brian froze. |
| 0:53.5 | Then something strange happened. He felt the creature in his mind, |
| 0:58.1 | reading his thoughts. Somehow he knew this creature was intelligent. Then the being became transparent |
| 1:04.7 | and faded away. It didn't move. It just vanished. The forest remained silent. |
| 1:11.9 | Brian quickly packed his gear. |
| 1:13.4 | It was time to go. |
| 1:14.8 | He couldn't see it, but he knew the creature was still there somewhere. |
| 1:19.1 | And there were more of them. |
| 1:20.9 | A lot more. |
| 1:21.5 | A lot more. |
| 1:37.3 | The The Miskonikon River begins at Lake Hopicon in northern New Jersey. It winds 45 miles through the Appalachian Mountains until it empties into the Delaware. |
| 1:42.3 | The river looks ordinary, but locals know better. |
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