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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/UnresolvedMysteries; Karlie Gusé

In 2018, 16-year-old Karlie Gusé attended a party. Karlie allegedly smoked weed, and suffered adverse effects the entire night. Scared, Karlie called her stepmother to pick her up from the party. Later, during the early hours of the morning, Karlie vanished from her home. She hasn’t been seen since. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs. Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

Jun 06, 202210 min

r/UnresolvedMysteries; Lenny Dirickson

In 1998, Lenny Dirickson was having breakfast with his son when an unidentified man inquired about a horse Lenny had for sale. Lenny left with the man, but failed to return home. It was later revealed that Lenny had never advertised he had a horse for sale, leading to many unanswered questions. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs. Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

Jun 05, 20228 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; Has Someone Been in My Home?

OP heard a noise at the back of her door that sounded like someone trying to get into her home. After investigating and finding no one, she and her boyfriend continued on with normal life, but things started happening that would suggest someone is unexplainably messing with and using her stuff. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs. Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

Jun 04, 202211 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; Don’t Drive Straight Home Part 2

OP’s sister has gone outside with a knife to see who this stranger is lurking outside before quickly running inside and locking the door with a terrified look in her eye. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs. Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Jun 03, 20226 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; Don’t Drive Straight Home

OP was walking her dogs with her foster sister at the park when a man passed them, said hello, and kept on walking. He then came back around and kept passing them, saying hello, and each time a bit closer than the last. They decided to leave as they didn’t feel very comfortable about this creep, but realized as they were driving home that someone was following them. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, an...

Jun 02, 202213 min

r/AskReddit; What Is the Scariest Encounter with a Person You’ve Ever Had?

“When I was 15 I was walking home from the bus stop about 5 blocks away from my house when an older man on a bike stopped me. He grabbed my arm and started going on about how he didn’t like me out and about and that if he sees me agan, he will kill me. He then kisses my hand and let it go. I ran to the closest house I knew and had someone drive me the rest of the way home.” Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, g...

Jun 01, 202210 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; I Escaped a Fake Deliverer

OP was about to head out of the building he lived in when he suddenly met a stranger. The stranger seemed nice at first, but then he said he needed to deliver something to an address/apartment number that didn’t exist. Things escalated from there. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs. Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

May 31, 20227 min

r/UnresolvedMysteries; “If something happens to us, we were murdered”: Who Killed Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner?

On August 18, 2021, the bodies of married couple Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner were found in Moab, Utah, United States. Both victims were killed by gunshot wounds, and had last been seen alive five days earlier. The case remains unsolved. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs. Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

May 30, 202214 min

r/TrueScaryStories; He Might Actually Be Angry | The Red Woman | The Knocks

OP struggles with sleep paralysis and often experiences the weird things that accompany it like hearing whispers or seeing a presence above them, but one night they noticed what looked like a humanoid in the center of their room. A tall, thin, red skinned lady, with pure malice in its eyes. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs. Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

May 29, 202210 min

r/AskReddit; Campers of reddit, What Is the Scariest, Creepiest, Most Disturbing Thing That Has Happened to You in the Woods?

“We were about half a mile from the nearest campsite when we heard a soft whispering behind us. Obviously we hit the flashlights and spun around. Didn’t see anything, so we kept walking, and we hear it again. This time we stop and look around for a bit before we decide to head back to our campsite. Then we see what’s whispering. It’s a lady crawling on the ground, just whispering random words.” Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a profess...

May 28, 202210 min

r/AskReddit; People of Reddit Who Work the Day Shift at a Non-Haunted Business, What’s Your Creepy Experience?

While walking past what looked like an empty house, u/duckyblinders saw a nail on the ground, so they threw it into the yard of this empty house. A man suddenly came outside and started yelling at them, which they thought was because of the nail, but they soon found out this man was a criminal hiding from the law, who almost took them as a hostage. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental hea...

May 27, 202216 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; The Window Creeper | Followed in the Woods

OP saw a man outside her window staring at her and was immediately freaked out. Her boyfriend made sure to reveal himself, which sent the man running. All was good after that, until OP found herself alone and noticed two holes cut in her screen for window access. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

May 26, 20228 min

r/BackwoodsCreepy; Growing Up in the Appalachian Mountains | The Smiling Man

OP was in the woods at night next to a fire with his friend, when a strong breeze came through the site. They suddenly heard footsteps in the darkness running back and forth, and then whatever it was that was watching them stopped. As he stared into the darkness, he knew he was looking right at whatever or whoever was lurking there. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs Our In...

May 25, 202212 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; The Laboratory in the Forest

OP and their friends came across a strange place in the woods that appeared to be some sort of laboratory, but what they found inside was even weirder. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

May 24, 20228 min

r/AskReddit; What’s the Creepiest Thing You’ve Heard at Night?

“Used to live on the ground floor. At 2 AM, some random crackhead knocked on my window and asked if I had 50 cents for a lighter. It should have been creepy, but I found the situation so absurd that I just laughed, gave him the fifty cents, and he was on his way. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

May 23, 20227 min

r/MecThology; The Bell Witch from American Urban Legends | A Fetch | The Ghost of Bellamy Bridge

The Bell Witch or Bell Witch Haunting is a legend from Southern United States folklore, centered on the 19th-century Bell family of northwest Robertson County, Tennessee. Farmer John Bell Sr. resided with his family along the Red River near the town of Adams. According to legend, from 1817 to 1821, his family and the local area came under attack by a mostly invisible entity that was able to speak, affect the environment, and shapeshift. Some accounts record the spirit also to have been clairvoya...

May 22, 202210 min

r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix; It Wasn’t Her… | r/CreepyEncounters; 3 Men Came Looking for Me at My House Today

At 4:45 in the afternoon, OP’s aunt heard a knock at the door and was met with 3 caucasian young adult men, all dressed in black matching uniforms. They asked if OP was home, but didn’t give any details as to what they wanted, and then left immediately after OP’s aunt said OP wasn’t there. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

May 21, 20229 min

r/NFL; What Is an NFL Conspiracy That You 100% Believe in or Is Plausible?

“If the refs blow a call, they give you a holding call later to make up for it. So if you know anything about football, if they make a bad call against your team, then they’ll call a holding, which is kind of an interesting call, against the other team to make up for it… most people are like, that rule is practically written in the NFL.” Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs. ...

May 20, 202215 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Grandma on the Run | Never That Safe

While taking a shower one evening, OP’s grandmother was rinsing her hair when she suddenly heard a blood curdling scream, as if the victim were being tortured to death and just a few feet away from her. She immediately grabbed her towel and took off running. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

May 19, 202211 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Apparition in My Friend’s Home | The Wendigo

OP was watching a movie with some friends when they thought they saw something move on the side of their eye. It looked like an extremely tall man with extra long limbs, walking past the doorway in the dining room. OP later learned that they weren’t the only one to have seen this. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

May 18, 20229 min

r/AskReddit; Women Who Gave the Creepy Guy a Chance, How Did It Go?

“On our first date, he told me he loved me and that he would let me pick out the color of our house. The rest of the evening was super awkward and I never talked to him again.” Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

May 17, 20227 min

r/AskReddit; What Conspiracy Theories Turned Out to Be True, but Most People Still Don’t Know about Them?

Chernobyl wasn’t lost because of one mistake. Pre-crash checks revealed problems, but no one took them seriously. The reactor was built with a horrible design flaw, the state intentionally hid the existence of that flaw from everyone, including the engineers working on it, and the whole thing was triggered in part by something that was supposed to get done in one shift, but for various reasons was passed on to another that didn’t know what they were doing. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gma...

May 16, 202213 min

r/AskReddit; What Celebrity Conspiracy Theory Do You Absolutely, 100% Believe Is True

Former Disney stars do publicity stunts to purposefully sabotage their image and be released from Disney’s clutches/contractual obligations. These stars want to separate themselves from that image and be an adult. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

May 15, 202212 min

r/TrueScaryStories; I Ran into a Cult in the Woods 1.5 Miles from My House | I Think I Watched Myself Walk Home

OP was walking with their friends in the woods behind their house and they came across something odd. They found a site with some really strangely placed items and a well in the midst of everything, and then a 7 foot cross with rusty nails on the ends and charred spots that made it look as though somebody had been burned there. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs Our Instagr...

May 14, 20228 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; I Escaped an Intruder by “Playing Along”

OP was home doing some stuff on her floor when she noticed a man suddenly standing over her. She thought he was there for her roommate, so she told him where she was, and when she looked up, she noticed his pupils were completely dilated. The man said he wasn’t there for the roommate. He was there for her. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs Our Instagram page: @reddit_expla...

May 13, 20228 min

r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix; I Saw Myself across a Parking Lot…

OP took her son to swimming lessons whose parents dropped them off. A week later, she was at the unloading zone with her son when she noticed her parents’ car in front of her where she saw herself from the previous week, getting out of the car. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

May 12, 202210 min

r/UnresolvedMysteries; The Curious Case of Mr. Gorgos | Hollywood Man Reincarnated | The Jetpack Guy Is Back

In 1991 a man vanished after telling his family he was going on a business trip. In 2021 a car stops in front of this man's home and drops him off. He is wearing the same clothes, can't remember where he's been all these years & is looking like he was very well taken care of. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals. Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report. Our Instagram page: @re...

May 11, 202213 min

r/ConspiracyTheories; Olive Garden Is Limiting Their Endless Soup | Marylin Monroe and the Kennedys

Every time OP goes to get the unlimited soup option at Olive Garden, the bowl gets hotter and hotter until about the 4th bowl when it’s too hot to consume. This prevents people from over consuming the soup and Olive Garden losing money. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals. Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report. Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

May 10, 202213 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Dead Cafeteria Lady | The One Experience I Can’t Explain

OP was asked to go get some dresses from the stage for their choir class. As she was looking in the dark, a lady asked her what she needed, and then proceeded to help her. She said her name was Diane, but when OP went back to tell her teacher what happened, she learned that Diane had died 12 years before. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals. Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA repor...

May 09, 20228 min

r/TrueScaryStories; The Face in the Window of My Mom’s Basement | My Mother’s Stalker

OP’s mom was alone down in the basement one night and when she looked up, she noticed a very disturbing face staring at her through the window, which looked dead and had no body. It has disturbed her to this day. We also tell a disturbing stalker story that you’ll definitely want to hear. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals. Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report. Our Instagram ...

May 08, 202212 min
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