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Reddit Explains Conspiracy & the Unknown

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Do you ever wonder what lurks in the shadows of the world around you? Have you ever come across strange and unexplainable events that just seem too unnatural to be coincidental? In this podcast, Sam Wilder and Addy Love seek to unravel and expose some of the most unnerving stories experienced by the everyday Redditor - because the wildest things happen even to the most average of people.

Listen in every day as we cover topics that are sure to make you question the reality of the world around you. Join us as we explore conspiracy, controversy, and the unknown.
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Episodes

r/GlitchInTheMatrix; Elevators Freak Me Out

A young girl got separated from her family at a hotel. After about 5 minutes passed, they found her and everyone was flustered, saying she was gone for 45 minutes, but to her it was just 5. Even her hair was still wet from getting out of the pool.

Dec 08, 20209 min

r/UnresolvedMysteries; Who Killed Maria Marta?

A woman was discovered dead in her bathtub and no one knows who did it. After the autopsy, they found glue in her wounds and the husband went on trial various times, but in the end they still weren’t able to figure out who it was.

Dec 07, 20208 min

r/TrueScaryStories; The Shoes

A group of high school kids go on a little adventure and come across an old abandoned house. They start exploring a bit and they come across a room containing a large amount of old shoes all lined up against the wall. They realize that not all of them are old and they all have something in common. Every shoe is child sized.

Dec 04, 20207 min

r/TrueScaryStories; The Red Eyed Figure

The poster tells of many haunting experiences they had while growing up, including seeing a tall dark figure with red eyes in their room, and then coming home after school to have all their toys lined up in a strange fashion, almost waiting for them to get home. They wake up with needles stuck in their arm and their mother’s room is always freezing, even during the Summer.

Dec 03, 202013 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Never to Be Seen Again | Stonewall

A poster explains about when she was doing research on the Stonewall incident that happened in the 60’s and then heard a very disturbing voice next to her while she was trying to go to sleep in her room. Another poster tells of a time they went to Prague for a trip and a man disappeared while on a tour, never to be seen again.

Dec 02, 20206 min

r/AskReddit; Supernatural, Paranormal, or Unexplainable Stories

A commenter tells of a house they lived in that was on the pathway of the old underground railroad. One night they were awoken by a blood curdling scream, but there was no one there. Another commenter tells a story of a family member who didn’t obey some instructions, and then experienced some violent repercussions.

Dec 01, 20208 min

r/Stories; Laughter Therapy

We tell a story about a friend who experienced a session of something called laughter therapy. She was a missionary preaching to some people and a guy she taught invited her to a therapy session. Things got very strange when he wouldn’t take his eyes off her, and then turned off all the lights.

Nov 30, 20209 min

r/CreepyWikipedia; The Serial Killer Takahiro Shiraishi

In 2017 there was a man in Japan who put out an ad offering people a place to go if they wanted to commit suice and he was willing to help if needed. He was later reported to the police, who found multiple bodies in his apartment, all of whom were dismembered.

Nov 29, 20207 min

r/Paranormal; Got Lost in the Woods and Saw Something Unexplainable

The OP tells of when they were hiking through the woods and got into a disagreement about which direction to take home. After arguing for a moment, they decided to split up to see who was correct. The OP ended up going in a circle, meanwhile hearing footsteps behind them, and then they saw and heard something inexplicable in the sky.

Nov 28, 202010 min

r/BizarreTruth; Mike, the Headless Chicken

In 1945, a man named Lloyd Olsen tried to behead a chicken, but didn’t get a clean cut. The whole head came off, except for the brain stem, which remained intact. They learned it could be kept alive by feeding it food and water directly into its esophagus and it later became a national phenomenon.

Nov 27, 20208 min

r/CreepyWikipedia; Ted Williams

Professional baseball player, Ted Williams, died in 2002. His will said he was to be cremated, but his children insisted he wanted his body to be preserved in biostasis through cryogenics. Their proof? A signed napkin.

Nov 26, 202010 min

r/TheToynbeeTiles; Messages of Unknown Origin

My dad never told us until recently that the home we lived in growing up was haunted. We never realized how eerie the house felt until we were older and we found a birthday image from when we were little with a dark shadowy figure in it. Turns out the previous owner of the home died in the shower there.

Nov 25, 20207 min

r/TheToynbeeTiles; Messages of Unknown Origin

Messages of unknown origin are found embedded in asphalt of streets in about 2 dozen major cities in the United States and 4 South American cities. Since the 1980s, several hundred tiles have been discovered and are generally about the size of an American license plate. We discuss what the origins might be and opinions on them.

Nov 24, 20207 min

r/TrueScaryStories; You May See Them Too

This poster worked in a care facility and took care of residents with dementia. They were trained to just play along when the residents hallucinated, but one day things took a different turn. The OP tells about when they saw one of the hallucinations themselves.

Nov 23, 20208 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Unwanted Visitor in the Middle of Nowhere

This OP was hanging out with their brother late at night when it was time to go home. After leaving, their brother called to tell them about a creepy encounter he had just moments before with a tall, lanky figure who was snooping around in their shed.

Nov 22, 20209 min

r/UnresolvedMysteries; Have You Ever Met a Killer?

During a five day river canoe trip in Venezuela, someone and their six friends discovered something sinister about their two guides. They weren’t just there to show them the rainforest. The seven friends had nothing else to do but figure a way out.

Nov 20, 202012 min

r/UnsolvedMysteries; What Unresolved Disappearance Creeps You Out the Most?

Branson Perry, a 20 year old man from Skidmore Missouri, went missing on April 11th, 2001. While he and his friends were cleaning his father’s place, he went to return a pair of jumper cables to his father’s shed. This would be the last time anyone ever heard from or saw Branson ever again.

Nov 19, 202012 min

r/UFOs; Mojave Desert Encounter with the Noiseless Shadow

Two pilots were flying over the Mojave Desert when they encountered a noiseless flying object, and there was no disturbance or turbulence. They felt something was next to the aircraft, so they took two photos, one containing an image of the strange object.

Nov 18, 20206 min

r/GhostsAndUnexplainedStories; Hauntings in a dorm room

While in college, a young woman experiences some strange things in her dorm. One night she hears glass shattering, only to find nothing broken when she tries to find what it was. She has many more encounters with this “entity” before finding out that the president of her college gives an annual lecture about the campus hauntings.

Nov 17, 202010 min

r/Conspiracy; Missing Flight 370

There was a plane that went missing in 2014 and it never turned up again. Strangely, the plot of the TV show, Lost, which show came out years before the incident, has MANY similarities with this flight. We discuss ideas and the conspiracy theory behind this.

Nov 16, 202013 min

r/AskReddit; Cryptid/Ghost/Unexplainable Stories

A redditor tells a story of when they moved into a new home at a young age. They were alone one night and saw something very disturbing. A demon teletubby. They still have nightmares about it a decade and a half later.

Nov 15, 20208 min

Halloween 1955: The Baby Carriage

A mother leaves her two children, one in a carriage and one standing, for just a moment. When she returns, the two kids are gone. She eventually finds the carriage with one child in it, but the other is never to be found. We also talk about the Texarkana Moonlight Murders.

Nov 14, 202010 min

r/UnsolvedMysteries; Disappearance of Dorothy Jane Scott

Dorothy was taking her coworker to the hospital, and then left to go somewhere real quick. After not coming back, everyone realized she disappeared. An unidentified man later called revealing he had killed her. They never found the man. We also tell a story of two individuals who were almost kidnapped.

Nov 13, 20207 min

The Monkey Man of New Delhi

There’s a legend in New Delhi where people there believe there is an evil robotic monkey that will come out sometimes and drive people mad. We talk about what the belief is and how it has caused some people to behave.

Nov 12, 20207 min

r/UnexplainableEvents; The Toxic Lady

A woman named Gloria Ramirez was rushed to the hospital in 1994. Doctors found that she had cervical cancer, but a lot of other symptoms that had nothing to do with the cancer. Some of the staff began to faint as they worked on her and eventually they discovered her body was covered in a substance called DMSO.

Nov 11, 202012 min

r/CreepyWikipedia; Baba Anujka

Baba Anujka poisoned at least 50 people and possibly as many as 150 in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was apprehended in 1928 at age 90 and sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1929 as an accomplice in two murders.

Nov 10, 202010 min

r/TodayILearned; The Dancing Plague and Laughing Plague

There was an instance of mass hysteria in history when a group of 400 people began to dance and couldn’t stop. They danced until people started dying. Another instance of hysteria happened in a town, but this time it was because of laughter. They laughed for 16 days straight.

Nov 09, 202010 min

r/UnsolvedMysteries; Missing Person

This young man left a note to his parents that he was going somewhere. He says some strange things like he might get lost and be unable to come back, but no details about where he’s going. After disappearing, they found the vehicle, but were never able to find him.

Nov 08, 20207 min

r/SpookyStories; Creep in New York

A young girl and her family were traveling through New York City. As they went on the subway, a creepy man with a terrible glare in his eyes eyed her and her sister. They along with their family switched trains and did what they could to avoid him, but he just kept following them.

Nov 07, 20209 min
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