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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; Man Stalking My Sister in the Woods | The Work Stalker

“As we made our way back, quickly and quietly, I felt the sense that I was being watched. We made it to our bikes, which were thankfully still there. I told my sister to pick up her bike, so we could walk through the rest of the trail without the noise of our bikes clicking. This way we could hear everything going on around us. Then I saw towards the entrance of the trail where it was much easier to see footprints that there was one set of large boot prints on top of my sister’s small footprints...

Jul 18, 202211 min

r/UnresolvedMysteries; Criminal Jogger Pushes Woman into a Bus | 14 Year Old Boy Found After 20 Years

It’s been 4 years and despite viral CCTV evidence, no one has found the Putney Bridge jogger who seemingly, randomly, and without provocation, pushed a woman into the path of a moving bus, and then calmly continued jogging. 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

Jul 16, 20227 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Truck Stop Horror Part 2

Today we continue our story from yesterday, starting with the lady at the scene of the crime, or what was left of her anyway.. 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

Jul 15, 20228 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Truck Stop Horror

“Have you ever gotten the heebie jeebies from someone’s voice? Like flat out scared to talk to someone, a voice that makes you think that the person on the other line is not there at all? That was this guy. Something about his voice just made my skin crawl and I had only ever heard his voice through the crackle of a CB radio.” 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...

Jul 14, 202213 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; Almost Kidnapped in Miami Because of Instagram | I Won’t Ever Volunteer in a Homeless Shelter Ever Again

An influencer was invited to a hotel in Miami, Florida and was told she could bring a friend. She was going to bring one of her female friends, but decided to take her guy friend instead just in case. Upon arrival, the men picking her up got super upset, asking why her female friend wasn’t there instead, which revealed that maybe their intentions weren’t what they originally thought. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about...

Jul 13, 20227 min

r/AskReddit; What Were the Conspiracy Theorists Right About?

Marilyn Monroe was being spied on by practically everyone. When another owner of her former residence decided to renovate, the number of wires and bugging equipment they found was astonishing. She was connected, and so a bunch of people were spying on 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_explains...

Jul 12, 202211 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; The Crocks and Socks Stalker

While OP was driving to work, she decided to grab a drink on the way. On her way back to her car, she noticed a man in her peripheral vision walking and matching her speed. He approached her and eventually told her “Give me your phone number so I don’t have to chase you around in my 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...

Jul 10, 20228 min

r/UnresolvedMysteries; The English Sweating Sickness that Ravished 15th Century British Society | Detached Feet

The English sweating disease caused five devastating epidemics between 1485 and 1551, England was hit hardest, but on one occasion also mainland Europe, with mortality rates between 30% and 50%. The Picardy sweat emerged about 150 years after the English sweat disappeared, in 1718, in France. 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...

Jul 09, 202211 min

r/Paranormal; Strangers in Woods Acting Strange

OP went hunting out on public land and came across some other people in the woods. He at first assumed they were just other hunters out there, but then they started moving very unnaturally. Their movements were jerky and it was almost as if they forgot their joints were able to bend. 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...

Jul 08, 20229 min

r/CreepyEncounters; The Man I Saw Through My Night Vision Scope

OP was looking through his scope at what he at first thought was a bear, but as he gazed he realized it was a man. This man wasn’t moving like a normal human does though, and then he arched his back as if to howl like a wolf would, but instead of a howl there came a compelling, female voice that said “Help! I’m lost!” 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: ...

Jul 07, 20229 min

r/Paranormal; What Happened to You That Initially You Thought Was Paranormal, but in the End It Wasn’t?

“Every now and then I would feel someone sitting on the corner of my bed in the middle of the night. Turns out it was just a spring from inside the mattress that would regularly get stuck and bounce back a few hours later.” 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

Jul 06, 20229 min

r/ConspiracyTheories; Serial Killers Are Not Who We’ve Been Led to Believe | Hollow Earth

Serial killers are not these lone wolves who have distanced themselves from society, but instead are CIA operatives that are highly trained killers who know how to get away with murder. 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

Jul 05, 202210 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; Close Call, Pervert in My House | The Cat Tries to Warn Us

OP home alone and heard someone coming up the stairs. Thinking it was her sister, she called out to see if it was her. When she kept getting no response, she went to check and was confronted by a wide-eyed man on her stairs, who had a crazy look on his face. 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...

Jul 04, 202210 min

r/AskReddit; Have You Ever Been Scared to the Core of Your Soul?

OP was home alone and needed to get something out of the back room, or a garage that was absorbed into the house. As they were searching for what they needed, they glanced up to see a large, bleached white figure standing outside the glass door, 6 feet tall with no head or expression, but there was hair draped down the front of its body. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs. ...

Jul 02, 202213 min

Why I Still Lock All the Windows in My House | A Very Strange Child

OP and her cousin, L, who were both about 13, were having a sleepover and decided to head to the corner store to stock up on snacks. They noticed a guy that looked to be in his mid 30s in the corner of the store just staring at L. After they left, they noticed the guy was following them. 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...

Jul 01, 20229 min

r/AskReddit; What Unexplainable or Scary Event Happened to You in Your Own Home?

OP had some large plush power ranger toys they liked to play with. As they were preparing to come down stairs with them, the red power ranger came to life and pushed them down the stairs. Their parents were pretty frightened after learning of this experience, so they left the apartment to find a new one, and they did not bring the power rangers with them. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other men...

Jun 30, 202210 min

r/shortscarystories; AITA for Leaving My Fiance 2 Weeks Before Our Wedding | How Did He Know?

OP met his fiance a few years ago on a dating website and they hit it off and fell in love. But every time he asked to go over to her apartment, she would give some excuse as to why he couldn’t, which seemed odd, but he overlooked it because he was in love. But he eventually couldn’t take it anymore and decided to follow her home one day, then break in once she left to see what was in there. What he found was shocking. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexpl...

Jun 29, 20229 min

r/BackwoodsCreepy; Experience in George Washington National Forest. Still Not Sure What Happened

OP was going camping with their partner and went to a campground that was supposed to be super busy, but when they got there, the place seemed almost deserted. They heard a sudden loud screeching sound and caught a glimpse of some large creature, before they both passed out. 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 28, 202212 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; To Whomever Was In My Car with Me Last Night | Stranger Danger | Followed Around Town

OP is living in their car right now and parked at a Walmart parking lot to sleep. He fell asleep pretty quickly, only to wake up a bit later and turn to face whoever it was that was now sitting in his car, looking directly at him. 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 23, 202213 min

r/shortscarystories; Meet My Family

OP is always happy and excited to meet new kids that are brought in from the nursery and really looks forward to when they get to be taken upstairs after they’ve been fattened up enough. 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 22, 20225 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; Beware of the Children of the Neighborhoods | A Summer Camp Gave Us Nightmares

OP heard pounds on the door, but wasn’t expecting anyone. They went to check, but no one was there, and so they thought maybe it was just some neighborhood kids. While later going to check out the pounding sound again, OP saw the silhouette of a man tapping on their window with a crowbar. 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 21, 20228 min

r/Horrorstories; Old Jack | They’re Here

OP came to their house to find everything wrecked and out of place, and their family was nowhere to be seen. They saw a long, skinny, white figure near the stairs and approached them snarling. At that moment, OP shot this thing right in the face and ran as far as they could. 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 20, 20226 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Finding a Closed Off Room in My Old House

OP moved into a new place with their family and things were normal, but they noticed there was a strange space in their house which seemed to just be an empty space. They went outside and noticed there was a window outside leading to this empty space. Things got a little weird once they found what was inside. 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_e...

Jun 17, 202210 min

r/TrueScaryStories; The Barber | I Was Followed

OP was out on a run and doing a work out in the evening when he noticed a man hanging out nearby who seemed to be lingering more than he should. OP left the area and the man began following him. 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 16, 20229 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; He Tried to Come In and Clean Our Apartments

While OP was home alone with their siblings, who were sleeping, a man knocked on the door trying to sell something. She got super weird vibes from the guy and said they weren’t interested, and then when she went to check on her siblings, she noticed the window was open and that someone had gone through their stuff while she was at the door. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health need...

Jun 15, 20229 min

r/BackwoodsCreepy; Lake House Weekend

OP was at a lake house with some friends and while they were getting lost in conversation, they got a weird feeling that encompassed them, like an unnerving physical experience that came from the woods behind them, followed by this loud chanting that abruptly came from the same direction. 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 11, 20227 min

r/BackwoodsCreepy; Terrifying Day in Oklahoma Woods | The Jamison Family

The Jamison family deaths occurred on or after October 8, 2009, when the Jamison family of Eufaula, Oklahoma, United States – Bobby Jamison, his wife Sherilynn and daughter Madyson – mysteriously disappeared. The family was reportedly considering the purchase of a forty-acre plot of land near Red Oak, about 30 miles from Eufaula, at the time that they vanished. Their suspected remains were found in November 2013 and positively identified by the Oklahoma medical examiner on July 3, 2014. No cause...

Jun 10, 202211 min

r/Horrorstories; Do Not Open | Hikers of Reddit, What’s the Most Messed Up Thing You’ve Seen?

While washing her dishes, OP picked up the phone and talked to her friend, who said he would come over for a bit. While showering, OP heard a loud knock on the door and called for them to come in, but no one opened the door. Peter called a moment later and told her not to open the door because he just saw a strange woman going up to her apartment and crawling up the walls on all fours. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional abo...

Jun 09, 202210 min

r/ParanormalEncounters; An Encounter with an Entity I Had When I Was 4 Years Old | Nearly Murdered by a Ghost

“I slept, but around 5 minutes later I wake up to a voice screaming my name really loudly, and I was also levitating and my head was slightly out of the window. I was tilted like someone was trying to dump me out the window. I fell from the levitation and hit the window sill.” 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 08, 20228 min

r/AskReddit; What’s the Scariest Encounter You Had with a Total Stranger?

A commenter said they were driving in South Africa and pulled over, when suddenly a stranger opened the passenger door and sat down. The OP started screaming at the top of their lungs, followed by equally terrified screams from this new passenger, who then jumped out of the car and fled. 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 07, 202214 min
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