Episode 324: Utah Hiking Horror

If you ever find yourself deep along the hiking trails of Utah, or anywhere the land stretches wide enough to make you feel small: pay attention to the sky. Most days it’s empty, endless, harmless. But if you look up and see the clouds moving wrong… not drifting, not breaking, but circling, folding in on themselves like something alive… you need to leave.
Don’t stop to take a picture. Don’t try to make sense of it. And whatever you do, don’t stand there long enough to notice that the wind has gone quiet… or that the motion above you doesn’t match anything the sky should be capable of.
Turn around. Walk back the way you came. If the trail seems unfamiliar, don’t question it; just keep moving. Do not look up again. Some people say the longer you watch, the closer it gets. Others say it’s already close, and the clouds are just how it learns to see you. And when you make it back, if you make it back, do your best to forget what you saw. Because the ones who remember too clearly… tend to no