John Harvey Coots

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309 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production · PROMO: Harvey in Hell E1 - "Starlight Pond" · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

Especially out here in the desert.

They taught us that this part of the country used to be an ocean.

Then it was a forest with massive redwoods and sequoias.

But then there were huge fires from lightning or volcanoes, and it all burned to the ground.

Now nothing much grows out here.

I'd been driving west about three hours in a bureau car I borrowed from the Salt Lake field office.

A new 1982 Caprice Classic, black.

It was late afternoon and the sun kept getting in my eyes.

Squinting wasn't helping at all.

I kept drifting up to the rearview mirror to avoid the brightness.

It was a long drive and I couldn't even listen to the radio.

When I tried to turn it on, I somehow pulled off the volume knob and couldn't get it back on.

Maybe there weren't any radio stations out here anyways.

This was the first time I'd been to the Utah desert.

The views of the mountains way off in the distance, no traffic, all the sand and shrubby low plants.

It felt like I was in some lonely daydream where my thoughts could roam free without anyone to interrupt them.

I didn't think anyone lived out here, and up until a few minutes ago, I hadn't seen much of anything.

Then I saw one, then another,

Every once in a while I'd see strange little shacks, some made of metal sheets with piles of tires on the roof, others just ramshackle wooden structures, ancient campers.

There was a door set in a large pile of dirt.

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