How a Forest Digests You

There is something lurking between the trunks. There is something hungry below the soil. Waiting for you.

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You can go missing in the forest.

It’s something that’s just kind of accepted: that forests are places where things become lost. There is a dark and tangled history that grows in the shadow of the woods: weaving through myth and legend — through stories we’ve told and warnings we’ve whispered into the night. The forest is the void of the unknown, a ravenous mouth that picks clean the bones of trespassers. Because the forest has a stomach.

And that stomach has never been full.

0:00 How a Forest Digests You
0:42 Over the Garden Wall
2:03 Cruel Digestion
3:01 Tolkien and Princess Mononoke
3:54 The Witches in the Woods
6:06 The Lost Wood(s)
8:24 Alan Wake II
9:26 Point of No Return
11:28 The Forest (Game)
13:12 Wolves Don't Live in the Woods
15:47 Endless Undying Trees
18:13 The Green Knight
19:58 Whispers of the Beast
22:02 Last Gasp of Green

Media Shown: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Over the Garden Wall, Alan Wake II, Alan Wake (Remastered), Bright Falls, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Subnautica, Limbo, The Green Knight, The Witch, Annihilation, The Revenge of Plant, The Fountain, Antichrist, The Blair Witch Project, Blair Witch (Remake), Blair Witch (Game), Princess Mononoke, Appalachia Unsolved, Bramble: Hall of the Mountain King, My Neighbor Totoro, Twin Peaks, Book of the Dead, Maleficent, Snow White and the Huntsman, Snow White, Jumanji, Journey to the Center of the Earth, King Kong, Kong: Skull Island, Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Sleeping Beauty, American Gods, Fantasia, Flowers and Trees, Babes in the Woods, The Wizard of Oz, Minecraft, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Sopranos, The Wolf House, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Forest, Sons of the Forest, Avatar, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Wars, Super Mario Odyssey, Horizon Zero Dawn, Silent Running

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♫ Music Used – Cave (The Forest), Main Theme (Sons of the Forest), Main Theme (Left 4 Dead), Burning Man (World of Goo), Promise (Silent Hill), The Timefall (Death Stranding), The Path to the Door (Dredge), Little Nightmares II Main Theme (Little Nightmares II), Die Toteninsel Emptiness (Signalis), Lost Woods (Tears of the Kingdom), Sevastopol Abandoned (Alien Isolation), The Sun Station (Outer Wilds), Alien Reveal (Alien Isolation), The Factory Gates (Amnesia), New Year’s Eve (Amnesia), Turned Around (Signalis), Promise (Okami), Ghostlight (Iron Lung), The New Century, The New Century (Amnesia), All Gone (The Last of Us), An End Once and For All (Mass Effect 3), The Choice (The Last of Us)

♫ Additional music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio:
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Sources:
“The Wild Places” by Robert Macfarlane
“Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer
“How long does it take for a body to decompose?” by David Volk https://www.livescience.com/how-long-...
“Exploring the underground connections between trees” by Oskar Franklin and Ansa Heyl
https://iiasa.ac.at/news/may-2023/exp...
“Giant Sequoia Slab” – Arizona State Museum Exhibit: https://ltrr.arizona.edu/giant_sequoi...
“Pando – (I Spread) – US Forest Service: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/fishla...