"don't go near the fog." | pacific northwest gothic playlist

timestamps wooo --- 0:00 - 4:42 | Lethal, Cloudeater 4:43 - 8:13 | WHERE ARE THEY NOW???, Emily Jeffri 8:17 - 12:40 | Rachael, She Wants Revenge 12:42 - 16:00 | Embrace, Pastel Ghost 16:04 - 18:00 | Отменяй - REDCHINAWAVE 18:14 - 22:20 | Hollow, Cloudeater 22:22 - 26:15 | Army of Me, Björk 26:16 - 30:25 | Empathy, Crystal Castles 30:27 - 34:36 | Oblivion, Grimes 34:39 - 40:43 | Two Headed Mother, Ethel Cain 40:48 - 44:57 | My Sister Says The Saddest Things, Grimes 45:00 - 48:05 | Transgender, Crystal Castles

I read that as "Don't go near the frog", and it made me think of scenarios where a frog wasn't actually a frog, it just temporarily looked like one to lure your ADHD ass closer

your regional gothic playlists have been greatly helping me with a horror book I'm writing. Thank you for the inspiration (:

I'm a PNW denizen, right up against the cascades on the west side of a popular mountain pass. I've seen some wild shit. I don't expect you to believe me, but it's been a long day, I'm 3 white russians deep and I feel like rambling so y'all are gonna get one of my stories. Got a few but this is a good fit for the music I think. Me and some buddies were up doing long range target shooting off an old logging road, used to be a thoroughfare but when the lumber dried up so did the stream of workers, leaving behind towns so small they eventually lost their zipcodes. We were maybe 10 miles up an old track we accessed a further 20 or so off an old highway, and it was getting dark. I've got a rifle with a night vision scope, so I was practicing using it, aligning the IR beam with the target, so on. Friend's taking his try at it, I'm looking through a spotting scope calling his shots when he freaks out. Says someone is in the field we're shooting at. Now, we were maybe 6, 700 yards away from this field doing long shots, so we might've missed somebody showing up. I scan the entire area with the monocular, nothing. I ask him where he saw them, he says he still has eyes on, gives me a precise point. By now everyone's stopped shooting, and my buddy on my rifle has the bolt back, and mag out, all weapons clear and safe. I check where he says he's seeing the hiker, I don't see anything. He swears up and down I'm just not looking right, and demands I go grab his spotting scope to check. It's a thermal, so I'll be able to see where he's looking, the IR emitter on the scope will paint the reticle position. I check, and sure enough, exactly the same place I was just 100% sure was clear. But now on thermal, there was a human shaped patch of extraordinarily low temperature. I call this out and a gal who was with us is concerned someone down there's suffering from hypothermia, but we tell her to hold, this is different. The entire body, which was invisible without some kind of IR system, night vision thermals etc, was a uniform temperature. My buddy on the rifle goes pale when I clarify this and says we gotta go, and I've known the man a decade or so, and he doesn't raise fuss without need, so I start packing everything up. We're packed and running down the mountain in about 5 minutes, spread out across 3 trucks with radios. I'm sat shotgun, my buddy who was on the rifle is driving, and a third friend was sat in the back with the ammo cans. He's fiddling with his binoculars trying to focus em. This friend is a bit more into exaggeration than the first one I mentioned, so take this with a grain of salt, but he says he saw footprints of dead, withered grass crossing the field. We tried to talk it out on the way down, call it a scratch or a blockage in the lense on the IR emitter, or maybe a weather phenomenon, but we haven't gone shooting there since. I don't run night vision either, I switched over to a full analogue traditional scope and never looked back. If you read all of this, let me know if you think I'm a lying old bastard, or if you've seen something similar. Rifle scope was an ATN Xsight 4k, dunno about the thermal spotting scope since it wasn't mine. Have a good day.

As a born and PNW cascadian I absolutely LOVE THIS, I wish there was more this is so good. I spend a large amount of time in the cascades and the Olympics and people don’t get how actually insane it is up here. Like ligit don’t go near the fog, don’t go off trail, don’t follow any weird thing you see, don’t look out at the flood fields unless it’s in broad daylight, and if a native tells you something HEED IT

As an Oregonian, THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU this is great, esp this time of year. 💚

Re-listening... again. Wondered "if I made a pov playlist what would I make," first thought was "It's the end of the world, and nobody came to spend it with you" my second thought was "maybe therapy is a good idea" lmao

i'm australian but the regional gothic playlists are HITTING (i live in the dreariest, coldest and raniest city in the country)

Yay! In Washington, been watching the fog literally all day, I was so excited to see you were doing one for us

This reminds me so much of that X file’s episode where the kids got kidnapped by aliens. In Portland, which I guess makes sense.

This is the best playlist ever. I get these moods sometimes where almost any music irritating and feels "unsafe", but I can't stay in silence or alone in those moments and I need music. With this playlist, I feel safe and not irritated. Feels like home. I'm grateful to have something like that. THANK YOU!!! <3

I LIVE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, I LOVE YOU FOR THIS 🙏🙏🙏

OH MY GOD CLOUDEATER??? NOBODY ELSE KNOWS THIS BAND UGHH you have my deepest respect my friend

I KEEP GETTING STUFF LIKE THIS AND ITS GETTING SPOOKIER

As someone from the PNW, you perfectly fit the vibe! This playlist is immaculate!

This not just gothic playlist I think, but cryptidcore too.

when Hollow played I was like YOOOOOOOO because there was a Warrior Cat PMV using that song I used to watch when I was younger >_< nostalgia

This playlist is perfect for driving down a highway with a view of water or dense dark looking trees

FUCK YESSS PACIFIC NORTHWEST SWEEP!! i love the vibe of these songs

Lethal by Cloudeater had my heart pounding 🖤 surreal and hit home super hard