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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

Strange Happenings in the Mountains of Washington State

r/CreepyEncounters; Strange Happenings in the Mountains of Washington State OP heard a strange noise in the woods while they were with their dog and couldn’t tell what it was. When they finally realized what was there staring at them, their heart completely dropped. 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...

Aug 30, 202210 min

r/BackwoodsCreepy; My Experience in Pisgah National Forest

“I hear these footsteps that sound like two feet get closer and closer to the river from the opposite side of the bank and I’m watching very closely, and I couldn’t move. Whatever I saw was all gray and not a human, but tall, and it also appeared on two legs.” 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...

Aug 22, 20227 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; My Dog’s a Good Boy

Things were seemingly normal when OP was with her dogs at home until one of the dogs started randomly growling. More started to be revealed about what was going on, and then OP discovered some pretty disturbing information about what had been happening outside her home for the past few months. “After a couple more minutes, I heard something I hadn’t unexpected when I made one last desperate attempt to move Mowry from his spot. He growled, which wasn’t unusual because he growled plenty in his lif...

Aug 21, 202211 min

r/Paranormal; My College Ouija Board Experience

“The 3 of us original girls were playing the board and Bailey told us her back was hurting. She asked us to look and see if she had a really bad sunburn on her lower back. Strange, but that’s what she said it felt like. There were a ton of fresh scratches on her lower back.” 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...

Aug 20, 20228 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Another Garage Door Story | Walking at Night

“When I opened the door to the garage from the house, I nearly crapped my pants. The big garage door was open.” 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

Aug 19, 202210 min

r/TrueScaryStories; The Mystery Package Sender | Whose Foot Was That?

“Our co-workers had started to joke that we needed a bug detector to see if maybe our car or something was being bugged. Wow, we were totally floored when along came a bug detector as the next mystery package.” 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

Aug 18, 20229 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Always Shut Your Garage Door | To the Man by the Shed

“I called out for my dad, assuming he was home, and didn’t hear anything. I grabbed my phone, called my mom, and asked if Dad was home. She said he wasn’t and that he was still with them. My skin had immediately gone pale and I told her I heard someone open the door and that they had come 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_explains...

Aug 17, 202212 min

r/CreepyEncounters; I Met Someone Who Could Have Ended My Life without Knowing | Biology Tutor Stalker

A man approaches OP, and starts talking to her, but says some really creepy things that makes her very uncomfortable. She later learns some pretty terrifying stuff after she finds out who he is. 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

Aug 16, 20229 min

r/TrueScaryStories; If You See Someone Waving You Down on a Desolate Highway, Don’t Stop

“Suddenly the man leapt onto the road and arms waving frantically, I swerved into the left lane narrowly avoiding him. In my headlights I noticed he had the same wide-eyed look, his gaze locked onto mine.” 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

Aug 15, 202215 min

r/AskReddit; What’s the Scariest Thing that Science Has Proven Is Real?

Some tumors have teeth, hair, and even eyes. Brain-eating amoebas. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a sickness that causes personality changes, anxiety, depression, and memory loss, usually within a few months. Many people lapse into coma. 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...

Aug 14, 202214 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; I Was Stalked for a Month and Had No Clue

OP is a little physically disabled, carrying crutches and hearing aids. She decided to go to the store one day when a man approached her and began asking very weird questions that made her uncomfortable. She tried getting away from him, but he followed her into the store. 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...

Aug 13, 20228 min

r/CreepyEncounters; When a Gut Feeling Saves You from the Man Waiting for You in a Doorway

“After a couple minutes of crouching behind the car, staring at the house, I saw movement, and my heart stopped. The man came back down the path, out into the street, and was looking around, looking for me.” 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

Aug 12, 202212 min

r/AskReddit; What Conspiracy Theory Do You Believe Is 100% True?

Celebrities aren’t actually giving their kids absurd names, they’re just not publicizing their legal names. People who post on AskReddit are BuzzFeed writers looking for content. 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

Aug 11, 202215 min

r/BackwoodsCreepy; Creepy Encounter in the South Carolina Swamps | Followed in the Woods

“I saw what looked like a human silhouette move between the trees for a split second, but it was very off. Very skinny, pale, and taller than me at 6 ft. I noped out of there and ran the almost 2 miles back to my truck and didn’t slow down until I heard the wildlife 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...

Aug 10, 20229 min

r/Lets_Not_Meet; Visiting an Abandoned Cottage Next to Mine. Didn’t Go So Well.

“I heard significant footsteps coming from the back of the cottage. I thought it was my brother and I turned back, and I swear I saw a hand opening the basement door.” 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

Aug 09, 202211 min

r/BackwoodsCreepy; There’s Something Weird about the Woods behind My House

“I got set up for the night, stayed up reading comics, felt like an outdoorsman, and it had barely gotten dark when I began hearing loud, rhythmic crunching in the woods behind the backyard. Like something big was walking in circles around the undergrowth.” 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...

Aug 08, 202210 min

r/CreepyEncounters; Creature in the Woods | Sleep Paralysis Turned Real

“We heard a very loud, heavy footed animal running through the woods getting closer to the water. At first I thought it was a deer, as it was almost prancing, but as it got closer and louder, we both realized that it was in fact not a deer. It was a very large, jet black canine. 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...

Aug 07, 202210 min

The Jonestown Massacre

The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, a U.S.–based cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 909 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at ...

Aug 06, 202211 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Missing from the Cabin in the Woods

OP’s friend, Troy, got into an argument with another friend, Todd, after he had brought over a friend, Ace, for the evening to hang out. Todd didn’t like Ace and was furious that he was there, so they ended up leaving to go for a night swim and cool off. After more confrontation, Troy and his girlfriend took off again, but the next morning, they realized that Troy had never returned. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about...

Aug 05, 202210 min

r/UnsolvedMysteries; The Freeway Phantom

The Freeway Phantom is a media epithet for an unidentified serial killer who was active in Washington DC from April 1971 through September 1972. 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

Aug 04, 20229 min

r/ConspiracyTheories; Ancient Giants Buried in the Mounds Across North America

“When he noticed some bones protruding from the ground, he pulled a femur from the soil, and when he compared it to his own, it was 7 inches longer. He then moved the rest of the bones and laid them out, estimating that it would have stood about 8 feet tall.” 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...

Aug 03, 202211 min

r/CreepyEncounters; Let Me Tell You about the Button Man

OP and their partner woke up to some strange footprints in their campsite and wondered where they came from. They later saw a man, old, scraggly, and in tattered clothes, standing in their camp next to their rifle they had sitting against the table. 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...

Aug 02, 202212 min

Listener Story: New Orleans

“Small serpents of red slithered across her face. She smelled like rotting leaves and blood. She smelled like death. She spoke to me in a very deep voice, like ‘I’ve smoked 3 packs a day for the last 40 years’ deep raspy voice, to GET. 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...

Jul 26, 202211 min

r/CreepyEncounters; Is My Neighbor Stalking Me? | Sketchy Doordash Driver

“I started realizing he’s been outside in the morning at the time I leave for work daily. He will be outside within 15 minutes of me getting home, regardless of the time. The guy stays out until 4 AM some nights.“ 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 25, 20229 min

Listener Story: Not So Imaginary Friend Part 2 | Something Weird about Their House

In this episode we close the story of OP’s not-so-imaginary friend, and then tell one more shorter listener story about some strange things they saw. 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 24, 20228 min

Listener Story: Not So Imaginary Friend

“I stopped at Brandon’s door and put my ear to it. His babbling was low and it sounded like he was having a conversation with someone. I opened the door and a rush of air escaped the room, and sent cold static up my spine. It was the middle of winter and I knew the heat was turned up, like it was close to 80 degrees in the house (my mom wasn’t a fan of the cold) and my son was sitting in the middle of his floor, talking to his closet.” Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhe...

Jul 23, 202214 min

r/AskReddit; Scariest Things Morticians Experienced at Work

“A friend of mine is a mortician. Her scariest incident happened very early in her career. She was alone and had music going, and was walking past the drawers when one of the bodies kicked the door and popped the drawer open just a crack.” 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 22, 202212 min

Listener Stories: Disentombing and Relocating | The Haunting on Hawthorn Avenue

In 1893, the city Denver decided to create a new cemetery out of town and designated a man named E. P. McGovern to exhume the bodies and relocate them to the new site, but he had a pretty wacky idea on how to get the job done. 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 21, 202212 min

r/TrueScaryStories; Creepy Cowboy | I’ve Only Told This to My Closest Friend | The Owl

OP went on a walk with their brother and grandma at night and came across a little playground where they stayed to rest. After sitting for a bit, they noticed a cowboy hat just on the other side of the playground, hiding behind the slide. 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 20, 202213 min

The Murdaugh Murders

The unsolved killing of a mother and son, millions of dollars in stolen funds, fresh investigations into a fatal boat crash, and a housekeeper’s deadly fall. The mysteries swirling around a lawyer and his family in South Carolina have become only more tragic and perplexing, and with them have come several arrests, stunning twists, and intricate theories as many more parts of the case remain unsolved. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a p...

Jul 19, 202215 min
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