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Broadcasts, podcast seeds proof in the minds of.
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The people, picture the world ending on a Sunday morning.
Coffee kepts rattling on the counter, dogs going silent, a
mountain that everyone thought was permanent suddenly peeling open like
a tin can and firing ash into the sky. May eighteenth,
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nineteen eighty. Mount Saint Helens didn't just erupt, it roared.
The forest went flat, rivers ran gray, towns tasted pumis
on the back of of their tongue, and in that
chaos the Pacific Northwest grew a second story. The official
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one wore hard hats and high visibility vests. The other
one wore green berets and said very little. You've heard
the whispers I have to and rescue teams moving in
helicopters thundering through the ash, and then a convoy that
looked a little too elite for sandbags and first aid.
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The rumor says special forces showed up for something that
was not supposed to exist. Big men in quiet uniforms,
big stretchers with bigger shapes under tarps, and some of
those shapes were not human. Some of them were hurt,
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some were dead, and all of them vanished. Welcome to
broadcasting Seeds. I'm your host, Benettantan. Around here we go
hunting in the gray zone, where folklore meets policy, and
where a footprint in the mud can collide with a
national security classification, and where the truth tends to wear
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night vision. If the green berets were really there to
recover bodies that do not fit in the field guide,
we need to ask why. If this never happened, we
need to understand why so many people think that it did.
Either way, stories like this shape how we see our government,
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our wild places, and those old eyes in the tree
line that refuse to blink. Tonight, we're going to separate
cinders from signals. We will talk through the day the
Mountain lost its temper, dig into the testimony that just
won't die, and explore why a government might treat a
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forest legend like a classified asset. No fluff, no fear,
just facts, patterns, and the uncomfortable questions that follow you home.
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a review. This is how the show grows and how
these conversations stay alive. Ready to step into the ash
with me, Section one. The Day of the Mountain Blue,
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May eighteenth, nineteen eighty eight, thirty two am, the world
beneath Mount Saint Helens cracked open. What had been a
postcard perfect peak turned in into a weapon. In seconds,
The largest landside in recorded history ripped down its face,
trees snapping like matched sticks. Wildlife vanished, and fifty seven
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people loggers, campers, photographers had gone were gone in the blast.
The eruption was so powerful it flattened two hundred and
thirty square miles of forest. The landscaped look alien, as
if the planet had exhaled and decided not to take
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another breath. For weeks, helicopters crisscrossed the skies over gray wastelands.
The official mission was search and recovery, find the missing,
collect remains, and monitor the ash ploom that stretched across
the continent. I mean, I remember getting ash living in Illinois,
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so somewhere I have a vial of it. But either way,
locals noticed something strange. Uniforms that didn't match the typical
rescue crews, and, according to a handful of witnesses, men
and unmarked fatigues arrived at the restricted zone. They weren't talking.
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They weren't logging coordinates or taking samples. They were focused, quiet,
and heavily armed. The military's involvement wasn't unusual in a
natural disaster, but these weren't the usual soldiers. Words spread
that a detachment of Green Bereys was operating near Spirit Lake,
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far from the civilian teams. Pilots reported seeing night operations.
Locals spotted helicopters flying low over the valley at odd hours.
Some said they saw something being airlifted out, something wrapped
in tarps and the size of a small car. Now
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here's where the story splits into on paper. The green
Beerys weren't there. No record of their mission exists, no
public acknowledgment, no press statements. But that hasn't stopped the
stories from surfacing. Loggers and rescue workers from nearby towns
swore they heard chatter about non human casualties. One even
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claimed to have seen a massive ape like figure, burned
and barely moving, being loaded onto a stretcher by soldiers
who looked more nervous than heroic. Skeptics will tell you
it's just nonsense. In the chaos of disaster, people misremember
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In the haze of ash and trauma. Imagine filling the gaps.
But there's a pattern here once, one that keeps showing
up in our strangest military stories. When things don't fit
the narrative, they vanish behind the black curtain of classification.
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Maybe it's to protect the public, or maybe it's to
protect something far older. Because as the smoke cleared and
the cleanup ended, the Green Berets disappeared as quickly as
they arrived. No names, no units, just the faint smell
of jet fuel and a story that refuses to die.
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Section two, The silent recovery, eye witnesses and the missing bodies. Now,
if you talk to locals who were there, those who
still remember the taste of ash in their teeth and
the way the forest looked like a moonscape, you'll find
a few who will lean in close, lower their voices,
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and say, yeah, I saw something. One of them was
a helicopter pilot who flew supply runs into the restricted zone.
He swore he saw a group of soldiers moving with stretchers,
accompanied by men in what looked like biohazard suits. Another
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was a volunteer firefighter who remembered being waved off a
logging road by armed personnel. They told us to turn around.
He said it was unstable ground. But it wasn't. It
was quiet, too quiet. Then there were the rumors of
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the bodies, not human ones, huge charred shapes, humanoid covered
in dark hair, limbs, twisted hands too long. According to
one account, several of these creatures were found near Spirit Lake,
dead or dying from the blast. Some say the injured
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ones were sedated and airlift out under heavy guard. Others
claimed that they were burned beyond recognition, buried deep in
the pumpas under containment protocols. And that's the phrase that
keeps showing up. Containment protocols. Now that my sign like
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standard government jargon. But think about it, what are they
containing disease, radioactive material, or something the public wasn't ready
to handle. A former foreign service employee who never used
his name publicly claimed that one of the Green Beray
medics confided in him after a few drinks. The medic
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allegedly said the creatures weren't monsters. They were people, just
not our people, sentient, organized and living deep within the cascades,
long before we paved it with hiking trails and coffee shops.
That same witness said the government had known about them
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for decades, and Mount Saint Helens just exposed their world
in a way that couldn't be ignored. Of course, that
man later recanted, or maybe he was made to hard
to say when the pressure starts coming from up the chain.
Here's the strange part. Years later, Foyer requests about Green
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Beret operations at Mount Saint Helen's were denied, not no
records found, denied, the kind of denial you get when
something is still considered sensitive. If this was just a minor,
like a wild rumor about Bigfoot, why classify anything at all?
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And let's be honest. If the US government has a
long history of covering up an unidentified aircraft, experimental tech,
and biological research, it wouldn't be too much of a
stretch to imagine they might also lock down information about
unidentified primates, especially if those primates were intelligent, because imagine
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what that would do to society, to religion, to evolution,
to every idea we have about being the dominant species.
Maybe Mount Saint Helens didn't just bury trees and towns,
It buried the evidence of something we were never supposed
to see. Section three classified creatures. When folklore meet it's
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the national security state. Now let's take a step back
for a second. Why would the military care about a
giant ape in the woods. You'd think they'd laugh it
off like everyone else. But history tells us that when
something unexplained pops up on US soil, something that might
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alter the balance of power. I mean, even symbolically, it
gets a file, a task force, and a clearance level.
You and I will never see. Here's where it gets uncomfortable.
During the Cold War, the US and Soviet Union were
obsessed with biological anomaies. There were entire classified programs studying
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human endurance, extrasensory perception or ESP, and animal intelligence. Rumors
persist that both sides tried to engineer super soldiers by
blending human DNA with primates. I actually have another episode
for doing this. I'll do on this, but it wasn't
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with primates anyway. Does that sound insane though, sure, But
it's documented that in the nineteen twenties, Soviet scientist Ilya
Ivanov a ya mean these names, tried tried it. He
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wanted to create a hybrid army. Now imagine that mindset
transplanted into nineteen eighty America, a government still terrified of
what the other side might unleash, and who even knows
what was going on during World War Two with the
Germans just saying so, if an eruption uncovered heard something unknown,
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something big, strong and humanoid living in those deep valleys,
would it really be so far fetched for the military
to swoop in under a classified recovery order, maybe not
to study it, but to contain it. Because that's how
power works. When the unknown crosses into the material world,
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it stops being folklore and starts being a security risk,
at least at first. And Bigfoot, he's always lived in
that strange space between folklore and forbidden file. Indigenous tribes
in the Pacific Northwest has spoken of forest giants for
millennia and them to them, these weren't mythical monsters. They
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were an older people, a parallel tribe that withdrew when
humanity lost its harmony with the land. Then along comes
the modern age, with satellites, deforestation and Mount Saint Helens
blowing a hole through their front yard. Suddenly something ancient
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is exposed, something the government can't explain, frankly can't control,
and definitely doesn't want photographed. So maybe the green Berets
weren't there to kill monsters. Maybe they were there to
preserve an illusion that humanity is alone on this continent,
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that every corner of wilderness has been matted, tagged and
catalog Maybe they weren't burying evidence of Bigfoot. Maybe they
were bearing the proof that our mists still breathe. And
that's the seed buried in the story. The world still
holds mysteries too dangerous to acknowledge. Seemingly, whether those creatures
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existed or not almost doesn't even matter. The reaction tells
you everything. When faced with the unexplainable, the system's first
move is silence. So there we have it. So maybe
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the real story of Mount Saint Helens isn't just the
eruption or the lives lost, or even the theories about
what was recovered. It's about how quickly the truth can
vanish in the fog of authority. The Green Berets, the
black helicopters, the containment protocol, all of it speaks to
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one simple reality. When the government decides something belongs in
the dark, it freaking stays there. Whether those burned non
human bodies were real or not, the legend refuses to
die because it feels it feels true. We feel like
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there's more hidden behind those blast zones, those closed areas,
those military patches that don't exist on any roster. Maybe
that's because deep down we all know we've been trained
to believe the forest is empty when it just isn't.
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What I love about stories like this is isn't the
shock factor. It's what they reveal about us. Here we
go our hunger to believe that we haven't reached the
edge of the map, that we still live in the
world where mystery breethe just beyond the tree line, and
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that sometimes the men in uniforms aren't hunting monsters, they're
protecting secrets older than civilization itself. If this episode today
made you think a little differently about what's hiding in
the gray ash of history than my job's done. But
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That's how we keep this signal strong and make sure
these stories don't fade away like smoke on the mountain
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on Benettente. And this has been broadcasting seeds until next time.
Keep your eyes open, keep your mind sharp, and remember
sometimes the truth is buried, but it's never dead.
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As fell out, hold.
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On the world gone, stealing gray boot friends in silence.
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Cut a pathic can't explain.
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Hands and shadows circling low, staying fast, something breathing in
the tree.
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Line, something buried in that no voices on the comes tonight.
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Just store the no bady side as burning from.
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The smoke and true thing lefty and the footsteps and the.
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Ass where the wild walls crashed, carrying out on the
cove like cold thing can matter, foot sand the ass
in the past, they can have less Sally had so
strechous and secret space. The lit past.
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Faces under the top shell, not the ones.
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They trained to fight, shapes to big for any story
to reel, for any life.
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Men who swore they sigh still.
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A cup with the sound breathing, not qua human.
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There's a notchem closing down.
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There's surprise for the earth reveals.
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When the mountains and cracks. It's boards.
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They walked out with a bird and that still follows them.
Un footsteps in the ash where the mound ones crashed.
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Carried down and under cover like ghost. They chem mass hunts,
and the Ash and the Drivel family so fast becaus.
The Five Fami left the smolder about some shadow sways land.
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Here's the whisper in the tree line.
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Here the breathing and the smoke. Some things die without
a warning, some things rise and never go.
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They said, forget what you INDs. They said, forget every side.
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But the Ash remembers everything, even what