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Spooky Swamp 🎃

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A sentient swamp is here to chill you out with original nature videos and field recordings, or as the kids like to call it, "Swamp ASMR". The swamp's bluesky includes unfinished work, musings, experimentation, and photography. linktr.ee/SwampVids

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, it not great. It’s never been quite this dry.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 6h

Gosh this must have been years ago.

…May 6?! #swamps #forest #nature

A very lush, very green swampy swamp that looks like a rainforest. Skunk cabbage galore.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 7h

Oh ha. Figured this had to also be in there. The view next to that birch is the often photographed/filmed uprooted hemlock. So this too was taken exactly one year apart.

There's a vid for both but the recent one is sitting in the edit pile and doesn't have audio yet, so you'll need to wait. #swamp

Shot in 2024. An uprooted hemlock in a moist woodland swamp.

Shot in 2025. An uprooted hemlock in a...woodland...that looks like it's probably ready to burn down.

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 7h

A happy accident: These were shot exactly one year apart. #fungifriends #thenandnow #naturesky 🍄

Shot in 2024. A cluster of gilled mushrooms growing up the indentation of a coppiced yellow birch.

Shot in 2025. A cluster of the same gilled mushrooms growing up the indentation of a coppiced yellow birch.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for spreading awareness.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

On a beech tree ready to die. VERY strategic! #wasps #nests #naturesky #pollinators

An impressive bald-faced hornet's nest hangs off a twig of a beech tree dying od beech leaf disease.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

Love these hoarding clowns and their evil cackles.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

This is by far the most useful feature tiktok has ever come up with. 🪶 #grackles

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

Nailed it. #oldswampsontiktok #artisanalvideos

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

Is this the point of the new tiktok feature? #nature #plantsky

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

Please do not judge the swamp for its pathetic evaporated state not being swampy enough to qualify as a respectable swamp. It’s extremely rude and ableist.

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

The swamp is fall. #fallcolors #autumnleaves

A dried up swamp in a natural forest of trees changing color for the fall. A fresh leaf layer covers the forest floor. An uprooted tree lays across the swamp.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

Fall skunk cabbage! #swamps #fallcolor #naturesky

A cluster of skunk cabbage poke out of swamp muck surrounded by a layer of freshly fallen autumn leaves.

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

Some birds start off as demons and then eventually grow into bird. Chimney swifts are one. Yes, chimney swifts, who generally inhabit people's chimneys - people come home to hear this demonic screeching in their house having no idea what it is. macaulaylibrary.org/asset/527295 #spookyswamp 🪶

ML527295 - Chimney Swift - Macaulay Library

Macaulay Library ML527295; © Wil Hershberger; Frederick, Virginia, United States

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 2d

Common grackle presents a gorgeous profile
#birds 🌿

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 2d

Check this out! WATER! Or...possibly a mirage.

It's probably a mirage at this point.
#naturesky #drought #fakefall #nuthatch

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 2d

People look at that and think..."food". THAT? Sigh...

There's been a brown edition hanging around the swamp as of late.

Brown blobbies attached to a rotting log.

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 3d

These were all shot at Satan's Kingdom Wildlife Management Area. The address for GPS is 270 Vernon Rd, Northfield, MA. You need to be ok with unmarked trails.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 3d

11 minutes of the creek sounds at the beginning is available on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/swampvids/sa...

Don't know, does anyone want to jam to the satanic squirrel husking walnuts featured in the rest of the video...?

Satan's Creek

Just some Satanic creek. Extended from the beginning of the tiktok video on Satan's Kingdom: https://www.tiktok.com/@swampvids/video/7557251016991853879

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 3d

Annnnd it has SWAMPS! Yes, full of swamps! Hooray! Sanctuaries for witches and newts! And if you've been watching SwampVids, you must surely know by now that at the bottom of every swamp is a secret portal into the underworld.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 3d

It also has myxogastrid amoebas known as wolf's milk that start oozing a mysterious red liquid substance everywhere if you dare disturb it.

A log dotted with gelatinous pink globs called wolf's milk.

Close-up shot of one of the globs oozing blood.

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 3d

Why is Northfield so Satanic? If you look beyond the surface, the answers will be revealed. This place is completely overrun with parasitic plants.

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 3d

Spooky SwampVid! Welcome to Satan’s Kingdom! Located in Northfield, MA, Satan’s Kingdom is technically a village, not a kingdom (don’t tell Satan that though). #naturevideos #unusualplaces #asmr #swamps #halloween

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 4d

But the tree was not dead for its roots clung to life, and so the tree used its last bit of strength to drop a giant boulder over man, trapping him and his dark powers for good. 📖

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 4d

Swamp update: Completely dehydrated. #drought

A forest. There might be a small puddle on the left side somewhere. Maybe.