Lore 315: All Shook Up
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Lore 315: All Shook Up

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 202626 min

Folklore usually depends on the little things. The daily struggle to survive, the terror of a new location, or even violence and crime. But even when the events are bigger than we can imagine, folklore has a way of showing up. Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by GennaRose Nethercott, research by Cassandra de Alba, and music by Chad Lawson. ————————— BUY EXHUMED TODAY: aaronmahnke.com/exhumed ————————— Lore Resources: Get Ad-Free Lore: lorepodcast.com/support Episode Music: lorepodcast.com/music Episode Sources: lorepodcast.com/sources Official Lore Merchandise: lorepodcast.com/shop —...

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Then the water line receded as if the ocean itself were running from something.

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First, the ground began to tremble. Then the water line receded as if the ocean itself were running from something. And finally, a mountain appeared on the horizon. Except it wasn't a mountain at all.

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It was a wave. In the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami hit Indonesia, nearly a quarter of a million people died. It was a catastrophe on a level most of us can't even imagine, and hopefully never have to.

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Entire towns wiped off the map, whole families destroyed. And yet there was one island nearby with an almost impossibly low death toll. It's called Simulue, and out of its 80,000 residents, fewer than 10 people died. No, it wasn't because the tsunami didn't hit Simulue.

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