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The Rootbound Ones

August 12, 2025 • Carman Carrion • Season 2 • Episode 41

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CONTENT WARNING:

This episode contains graphic descriptions of body horror and transformation, including detailed accounts of human mutation and physical metamorphosis. The story features disturbing imagery of mutilated animal carcasses, missing body parts, and creatures with inhuman anatomy.

Contains themes of psychological horror, family trauma, and loss of humanity. Includes depictions of violence, gore, and predatory behavior by transformed beings. The narrative explores concepts of infection, consumption of human victims, and cyclical mass disappearances.

Listener discretion is strongly advised. This content may be disturbing to those sensitive to transformation horror, graphic violence, or themes involving the loss of human identity.

Not suitable for younger audiences.

Broke and desperate after his startup fails, Ethan reluctantly inherits his late father's isolated Montana property—only to uncover a terrifying secret hidden beneath the wilderness. When he and local veterinarian Valerie discover a hollow oak tree connected to underground caves, they stumble upon an ancient cycle of horror that repeats every 27 years. As pale, eyeless creatures emerge from the depths to hunt, Ethan learns his father didn't die of natural causes—he was transformed into something inhuman.

Now infected by the same luminescent sap that changed his father, Ethan faces an impossible choice as his humanity slips away and an even greater evil stirs in the depths below. A chilling tale of body horror, family curses, and the hunger that never dies, "The Rootbound Ones" explores what happens when evolution takes a nightmarish turn.

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