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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/TrueScaryStories; The Man in Walmart | Someone Who Didn’t Know He Went Missing

While out running errands with his dad, OP was looking for deodorant at Walmart when he heard sobbing behind him. Upon investigation, he found a guy crying while holding a bloody blade in his hand and blood dripping all over the floor. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Dec 31, 202113 min

r/AskReddit; Drivers of Reddit, What Is a Scary, Weird, Inexplicable Thing You’ve Seen or Experienced While Driving at Night?

Someone was driving home late at night and noticed a truck behind her on the freeway. 50 miles later, the truck was still following her, until she got off in her hometown and the truck also got off. She noticed the truck kept following her until she hurried and pulled into a 24/7 Mcdonald’s and got in the car order line. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Dec 28, 202111 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Who Was Your Scariest Teacher in School and Why?

A girl had been burned from her knees up and had some significant scarring from the incident. The nun was beating her with a cane on her scars and her doctor, horrified, said the beatings had to stop to allow her to heal. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Dec 27, 202111 min

r/TrueScaryStories; My Scary Beach Story | Cursed Lucid Dreaming Experience | My Terrifying Childhood

OP was at the beach in North Carolina with their family and playing in the water when they suddenly felt something tug on their foot. This thing suddenly latched onto their ankle and yanked them under the water. They got about 15 feet out when their brother finally grabbed them, pulling them away from this unknown danger… Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Dec 25, 202110 min

r/UnresolvedMysteries; What Misconceptions or Red Herrings Have Made Some Mysteries Harder to Solve?

A young 18-year-old man said he saw two girls, the Lyon sisters, taken by an older man and pushed into an old brown car. It wasn’t until 40 years later those authorities figured out that the 18-year-old man was the real culprit after he was serving a long sentence in prison for child molestation. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Dec 24, 202111 min

r/Conspiracy; The Fluoride Conspiracy

Fluoride is put into our water and dentists say it’s a good thing that helps our teeth to be stronger, but according to this conspiracy theory, the history of forcing fluoride on humans through the fluoridation of drinking water is wrought with lies, greed, and deception. Scientific evidence shows that in areas where fluoride is put into the public drinking water, people have higher rates of cavities, cancer, osteoporosis, and other health problems. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com ...

Dec 23, 20219 min

r/AskReddit; What Is the Scariest or Creepiest Thing You Have Seen or Heard? Part 2

A girl commented about when she was working the night shift at work and heard a massive crash of one of the windows on the front of the building. Someone had thrown a sizable rock through the front. She hurried to her car and took off home, but realized she didn’t unlock her car when she got in. Things were definitely not right. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals....

Dec 18, 20218 min

r/AskReddit; What Is the Scariest or Creepiest Thing You Have Seen or Heard?

Someone was watching their niece late at night and decided to watch the new James Bond movie after putting the niece to bed. While watching the movie, suddenly the niece whispered into their ear, “You know James Bond murdered Jesus, right?” That was the last time they offered to babysit. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Dec 17, 20219 min

r/UnsolvedMysteries; The Max Headroom Incident

The Max Headroom signal hijacking occurred on the night of November 22, 1987, when the television broadcasts of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, United States, were hijacked in an act of broadcast piracy by a video of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume, accompanied by distorted audio and a corrugated metal panel swiveling in the background to mimic Max Headroom's geometric background effect. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16...

Dec 16, 202110 min

r/UnresolvedMysteries; What Are Some Crimes That Will Most Likely Never Get Solved, but Are 99% Sure Who Is Responsible?

We read multiple comments about different mysteries, including the Dupont de Ligonnès murders and disappearance which involved the murder of five members of the same family in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France, followed by the disappearance of the patriarch of the family, Xavier Pierre Marie Dupont de Ligonnès. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Dec 15, 202112 min

r/NoSleep; I’ve Been Blind for Nearly 30 Years Part 2

Today we continue the story from our previous episode, and we come upon a disturbing revelation about what’s been going on in OP’s home. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Dec 14, 20219 min

r/NoSleep; I’ve Been Blind for Nearly 30 Years

OP was climbing a tall tree at 11 years old when a branch broke and he fell 30+ feet, hitting his head and causing him to go blind. Years later, he established himself in life, buying a house and living alone. While home, he began noticing things seemed a little off about his surroundings, and things got even more weird after he dropped his phone and couldn’t find it anywhere on the floor. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 f...

Dec 11, 202110 min

r/AskReddit; The 4th Floor

OP was heading to a net cafe to use a computer and had to take an elevator. On their way up, the elevator suddenly stopped on a floor before the cafe and OP saw what looked like a woman in a white gown. There were no lights on other than the light in the elevator and this woman slowly started coming toward OP. At this point, they tried pressing the close door button, but instead of the doors shutting, the elevator light flickered off, leaving them in complete darkness. Submit your stories: popme...

Dec 10, 20217 min

r/NoSleep; I Found an Old Cell Phone on My Bus Ride Home. I Should Have Never Turned It On

OP found an old cell phone under the chair she was sitting on while riding the bus. She turned it on, and it immediately started receiving messages, which didn’t make any sense as the phone should’ve been dead and had no reception. At this moment she realized that some of the messages weren’t just to some random person, but they were directed to her. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals....

Dec 09, 202112 min

r/NoSleep; The Weird Kid at School Earned Her Reputation

OP met a girl named Kelly who was considered weird by everyone at their school. Whenever someone was mean to Kelly, Kelly would give them an evil look and terrible things would happen to them a short time later. OP ended up dating her and getting married, until things between them started going downhill and OP received the look himself. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals....

Dec 08, 202110 min

r/UnsolvedMysteries; What Are Your True Scary Stories? Whether They Involve Ghosts, Or Just Scary People…

A girl tells a story about a time she was staying in a hostel and was invited to go sail on a boat with a crew. She went and noticed two other girls, who didn’t really speak and whenever she tried to talk to them, the sailors would jump in and say the girls didn’t like talking much. These men got more and more sketchy, leading her to believe they were human traffickers. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals....

Dec 07, 202111 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Did Anyone Have an Imaginary Friend as a Kid That Turned Out a Little Too Real? Or Turned Out to Be Not Friendly at All?

A redditor had two imaginary friends. One was really nice, and the other was super mean and would often trash their room. The nice friend would always tell the mean one to stop. The odd thing about this is that this redditor was a very honest child and had some very detailed descriptions of these imaginary friends. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Dec 06, 202112 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Stormy Night | The Poke

OP went to stay in a famous abandoned castle a couple hours away from their house. This place was known for being an inspiration for many writers and poets, but many of them wrote about horrible experiences they had while they were there during a storm. OP tells of when they had their own incident while staying there one evening. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals....

Dec 05, 202110 min

r/UnresolvedMysteries; 18 Year Old Joshua Maddux, Missing Since 2008, Is Found Dead in a Chimney in 2015

On May 8, 2008, Joshua “Josh” Maddux, 18, left his house to take a walk. He was a nature lover, so this was nothing unusual. He was never seen alive again. Seven years later, in August 2015, less than a mile away from Josh’s home, property developer Chuck Murphy was demolishing an old wood cabin to make way for 32 new family homes. The cabin hadn’t been used in years and the inside was damp and rotten. Work to demolish the chimney inside the cabin started and to the surprise of the demolition te...

Dec 04, 202110 min

r/AskReddit; What Is the Downright Scariest Thing that Has Ever Happened to You, Be It Paranormal or Otherwise?

Golfman11 said that one time they woke up and their eyes were super dry. They opened them, and it was pitch black. They couldn’t see a thing, but they knew there was a light in the room because their alarm went off, signifying that the sun was out. They rubbed their eyes and cried until they were moisturized enough to where they could see again. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Dec 02, 202110 min

r/NoSleep; My Bunk Buddy

When OP was very young, they started experiencing visits from a strange animal-human entity with hooves and thick hair, and who would whisper unsettling things to them such as “Let me in. I am friend.” as they lay in their bed. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Dec 01, 20218 min

r/AskReddit; What Are Some of the Creepiest Wikipedia Pages You Know Of?

The Goiania Incident. Essentially some very poor people got a hold of some highly radioactive material and didn’t know what it was. Some people thought it was a magical dust. They touched it and played with it, and things didn’t end well. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Nov 30, 202111 min

r/ParanormalEncounters; We Don’t Know What We Saw

OP and their friend were driving back from the fair in October. They were on a long, narrow dirt road and they saw a car blocking the road, when suddenly a man in a dark hoodie came lumbering toward them in a creepy manner. OP quickly reversed back over a hill they came over, when they decided maybe they could just speed past and squeeze on the side of the car. After coming back over the hill, just 15 seconds later, there was no one there. The hooded figure and the car had completely disappeared...

Nov 29, 20219 min

r/ParanormalEncounters; Ghost Helps Out on the Farm

OP grew up on a farm in an old house that was built in the 1800’s. One day in the early afternoon, the animals had somehow opened the gate and escaped the pasture. Before leaving their room, OP looked out the window again and saw an old man herding the animals back into the pasture and closing the gate. When he was done, he turned, looked at the window, smiled, and then left, never to be seen by OP again. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Nov 27, 202111 min

r/AskReddit; What’s Your True, Unexplained Story of Being in a Place that Shouldn’t Exist?

OP was out driving in an unpopulated area and came across a town. They were a bit lost, so decided to go find someone and ask for directions. They searched everywhere in the town, but there was nobody to be found until finally they crossed paths with an old man who directed them to a lonely road where they found a woman in a road construction uniform, except there was no construction. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Nov 26, 202112 min

r/UnsolvedMysteries; The Boy in the Box

The "Boy in the Box" is the name given to an unidentified murder victim, a 4-to 6-year-old boy, who's naked, battered body was found in a bassinet box in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 25, 1957. He is also commonly called "America's Unknown Child." Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Nov 25, 20219 min

r/AskReddit; What Is the Scariest Conspiracy Theory If True?

Planet X is real, orbits like a comet, and so enters the solar system at infrequent intervals and is home to intelligent life that has affected past human civilizations. The AskReddit questions about conspiracy theories are periodically posted by the government to measure how close the general public is to uncovering the truth. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Nov 24, 20219 min
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