Leviathan and AI: The Monsters Inside Our Machines

Midnight Signals: History, Folklore and Unexplained Mysteries · Feb 9, 2026 · 26m · transcript

In Chile’s Atacama Desert, dunes of unsold clothing stretch across the sand, some still wearing price tags. This episode reads modern life through four old monsters. The Leviathan, the biblical beast of the deep, now drifts through undersea fiber-optic cables and windowless server farms, swallowing identities in data breaches and learning in black boxes that even their engineers cannot fully explain.

On land, the Wendigo of Algonquian legend becomes the global economy, a hunger that grows with every bite, from fast fashion to the early twentieth-century light bulb cartel that deliberately…