Long before wilderness meant hiking trails and national parks, it meant the edge of the known world, a place where the rules of civilization stopped applying. This episode of the Myths & Monsters series traces that fear through the stories cultures told about the woods and the deep sea. The Greek myth of Actaeon, torn apart by his own hunting dogs after glimpsing Artemis bathing, sets the tone: the forest punishes trespassers. From there the film moves into Celtic tradition and the Otherworld, a parallel realm accessible through certain woods and hills, then out to sea for the Kraken, the sailors' explanation for ships that vanished without a trace. The Brothers Grimm forests, dark enough to swallow children and witches alike, close the survey, tying Germanic folklore back to the same instinct running through all these tales. Narration and historical commentary connect the folklore to real anxieties about the unmapped and the unfarmed, places where early societies had no control and no explanation.