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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

What Is the Scariest/Creepiest Thing that Has Happened to You When You Were Home Alone?

One redditor tells about a time they were home alone and heard their front door knob rattling, when suddenly it opened and they could hear strangers walking through. Having just woken up, but not wanting to get robbed, OP decided their option was to attack, underwear and all, running through the hall and screaming gibberish at these intruders. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Go to greenchef.com/pop50 and use code pop50 to get 50% off plus free shipping. Our Instagram page: @reddit_...

Jul 07, 202310 min

What Is the Creepiest Most Blood Chilling Thing You or Someone You Know Have Ever Experienced? Part 2

A redditor was making the rounds in a metal storage area while working a security job in college during a rainstorm when suddenly they slipped on some mud and grass, finding themself dangling for dear life in a manhole over some old, vertically-pointed rebar. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Go to greenchef.com/pop50 and use code pop50 to get 50% off plus free shipping. Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

Jul 06, 202311 min

What Is the Creepiest Most Blood Chilling Thing You or Someone You Know Have Ever Experienced? Part 1

One Redditor’s parents were gone and they were excited to be home alone to do whatever they wanted. While downstairs watching TV/channel surfing, they noticed some movement outside in the bushes. Upon closer inspection, they noticed a man hiding, trying to get a good look of the inside of the house when their eyes met, and then he bolted. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Go to greenchef.com/pop50 and use code pop50 to get 50% off plus free shipping. Our Instagram page: @reddit_expla...

Jul 05, 20238 min

The Kidnapping of Rosie Tapia

A little girl went missing one night in 1995 while being babysat. Authorities went searching for the girl, but when they found her it was already too late. Some strange things happened with a man at the park leading up to her disappearance and DNA was found under her fingernails, but they never found the culprit. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Go to greenchef.com/pop50 and use code pop50 to get 50% off plus free shipping. Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

Jul 03, 20239 min

There's a Creeper in the Woods

A group of friends went into the woods one evening in search of a haunted place. While walking, they spotted a little cottage, but as they got closer they spotted something, or someone else. What happened next sent a wave of shivers down each of their spines. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Go to greenchef.com/pop50 and use code pop50 to get 50% off plus free shipping. Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

Jun 30, 20239 min

The Attic

OP and his friend were having a sleepover one night and were the only ones home. OP had to use the bathroom as he came back, he realized the attic was open, which had been closed moments before. His buddy experienced the same thing after going to the bathroom as well. Things got even more strange after they went to bed. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Go to greenchef.com/pop50 and use code pop50 to get 50% off plus free shipping. Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

Jun 29, 20237 min

Scary Sleepover Stories

A commenter tells about when they were at a sleepover and just felt really jumpy for some reason and didn’t know why, but finally while looking in the hallway they spotted something quite disturbing. Another commenter has a seemingly casual encounter with a ghost. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shipping Our Inst...

Jun 28, 20238 min

Doppelganger

OP recalls some experiences he had with an entity that was able to mimic other people. His girlfriend felt him cuddle up to her, but soon came to realize it was never him she was cuddling with. His dad is seen lying on the couch and won’t respond to his mom, but she calls him and he tells her he’s not home, but at work. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code...

Jun 26, 20237 min

The House that Freaked Out the Builders and Landscapers

While working on a house and property trying to restore things, the workers begin to experience some strange things at night. They hear noises and loud crashes, and then find their belongings have been moved, but the room in which they were was empty. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shipping Our Instagram page: @...

Jun 23, 20237 min

Clown at Midnight

A man wanted to throw a good birthday party for his son, so he hired a clown through a friend. The clown didn’t show up, causing a great disappointment among the son and other children at the party. They later went to bed before hearing a disturbing sound in the night. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shipping Our...

Jun 22, 20237 min

12 Words to Craft the Best Scary Story

Today we’re doing something a little different. We share 12 word sentences from Reddit that get your imagination going and may send shivers down your spine. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shipping Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

Jun 21, 20236 min

Seeing Yourself

Someone is about to cross the street when they hear their name called. So they stop and turn around to see who it was and see someone very familiar. When they turn around they witness two vehicles nearly collide right where they were about to walk, and if they had walked there, they may not have lived to see another day. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use cod...

Jun 20, 20238 min

I Died Last Night... But I’m Still Here

A man is helping his neighbor move a large armoire, when his neighbor loses grip on the way down some stairs and it comes crashing down on him, slamming him into the pavement. He wakes up the next morning completely fine and his wife tells him his neighbor needs help moving. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippi...

Jun 19, 20237 min

The White Witch

While living in Japan as a young kid, OP describes their time growing up in a small little neighborhood above a cemetery. After daring their friends to roam the cemetery at night, an older neighbor woman tells them why that wouldn’t be the best idea. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shipping Our Instagram page: @r...

Jun 16, 202310 min

The Flat Earth Conspiracy

In this episode, we talk about the flat earth conspiracy, which has gained quite a following in the last decade. They believe various things that most might find odd, such as Antarctica actually being a giant wall going all the way around the world, holding all the water in. We go into the conspiracy and describe what they believe. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 ...

Jun 15, 20238 min

My Mom Met a Black-Eyed Child

Black-eyed children are an American contemporary legend of paranormal creatures that resemble children between ages 6 and 16, with pale skin and black eyes, who are reportedly seen hitchhiking or panhandling, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes. We share a story of one person’s encounter with one. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code reddi...

Jun 14, 20236 min

What Is the Creepiest Historical Fact?

In WWI, there was a Hungarian man that said he was stocking up on oil and was sent off to war. The townspeople needed the oil and opened up the cans to find several dead women there. Apparently he also tried to suck their blood and he was never seen again. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shipping Our Instagram pa...

Jun 13, 202311 min

What Was the Most Disturbing Reddit Post You’ve Seen?

There was a Reddit post a while back asking about terrifying sounds. Someone mentioned that at their workplace they work with deadly chemicals. There was a specific alarm that meant there has been a massive chemical leak. If you can hear this, you don’t have time to make it to safety. Don’t bother running. Call your family and tell them you love them. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.c...

Jun 12, 202311 min

What Are Some Simple, Yet Incredibly Disturbing/Scary Facts?

There is a ⅓ chance that police will never identify your killer if you’re murdered in the US. There is a valid reason why looking at your reflection for too long or in low light makes you feel uncomfortable, which is caused by something called The Troxler Effect. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shipping Our Insta...

Jun 09, 202312 min

To Whomever Was In My Car with Me Last Night

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 Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shipping Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

Jun 08, 202314 min

Sometimes You Can't Call the Cops for Help

OP lived in an apartment with their mom and brother and things were good until the apartment management changed and the new manager did nothing to keep away the undesirable types. The police were a regular sight at this place, who were often showing up for drug busts, but always got there too late. After a while it became apparent there was someone working with the police and tipping the dealers off before they busted them. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for grea...

Jun 07, 202314 min

Scariest Thing Seen While Night Walking

One commenter once saw tiny hands reaching out of a sewer grate. It took them a minute before they realized it was a raccoon. A street performer saw a tarantula use a streetwalk as if it was a law abiding citizen. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shipping Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains...

Jun 06, 20237 min

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 Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shipping Our Instagra...

Jun 05, 20237 min

Kyle Tolley | Sasha G. Davis

In 2001 he disappeared from Lowman, Idaho, after a night of camping with his friends. Kyle had run from the campsite in the middle of the night, saying he was going to get some McDonald’s. He never returned and has never been heard from again. We also talk about a second case of a woman who disappeared in the Bronx in 2008. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use ...

Jun 02, 20238 min

I'm Someone's True Scary Story

OP was helping her friend move at night and they got in their cars to move a bunch of stuff from the old place to the new one. After getting on the freeway, OP began to take note that her friend, whom she was following, started down some odd streets and they went deeper through a neighborhood that didn’t look like anywhere near where they were supposed to be going. When they finally arrived, her friend got out of the car looking scared, except it wasn’t her friend. Submit your stories: popmediaa...

Jun 01, 20238 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.

May 31, 202313 min

r/InterestingAsF***; The Voynich Manuscript

We discuss a strange codex illustrated with many plants and written in a language that no one has been able to decipher. We discuss possible theories of what the manuscript is for and where it came from.

May 30, 20239 min

r/UnresolvedMysteries; Walter Collins

A young boy named Walter in the 1920’s went missing and no one could find him. One day a boy showed up to the mother of Walter and claimed he was the missing boy. She told authorities he was not her son and eventually the boy confessed he was not her son.

May 29, 20238 min

r/UFOs; My UFO Experience in Africa

A man sees a strange flying object while riding along with some locals in a vehicle. They all start flipping out after spotting the thing and the man just assumes it’s a drone. The local men think it’s a nuke, but the man thinks otherwise. Over time, they realize it’s something much more strange.

May 26, 20238 min

As a Kid, What Was the Creepiest Thing You Noticed About Another Kid’s Family?

Today we read comments from Redditors, including one person who went to work on a school project with another 15 year old kid, but when they got to his house, there was no furniture and everything was a mess. Turns out his mother moved to Korea 2 years before and sent him money remotely while he lived on his own. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/pop Go to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code reddit...

May 25, 202310 min
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