Nathan Radke

And it's not clear that Leviathan is ever meant to represent an actual literal creature.

And I feel like we can do books like the Bible a disservice when we try to force myth and metaphor to become flesh and blood.

Well, I mean, that's exactly what's going on.

So as far as I can tell, it started off on a mysterious place called Facebook.

Oh, wow.

Which apparently still exists.

So an image starts circulating on Facebook during the storm, and it appeared in the image to show a Google Earth map of the northeastern coast of the United States.

And off the coast, under the water, was what looked like an enormous serpent's head.

And accompanying the image was text that read, have y'all seen the Leviathan is waking up.

They're saying this is the reason there is a snowstorm, saying the weather is being manipulated to freeze this creature in its tracks.

Off the coast of Virginia, people saying, y'all, all right, I'm already in.

Yeah, it sounds legit.

I mean, it was kind of nice to see weather manipulation being put to a productive use for a change.

Because the argument is that the American government, having detected this,

like hopelessly large monster off the coast.

And if you go by the picture, like its head is the size of like Rhode Island.

Yeah.

It's, this is a large monster.

This is a large monster.

And so the idea is that the reason that storm actually happened is because the government needing to fight this giant monster created the storm as a way to freeze the monster out and prevent it from attacking mainland United States.