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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 ...
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r/TrueScaryStories; Grandma on the Run | Never That Safe
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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 hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code R…
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S6E15 - 4 Scary Stories: The Abandoned House Down The Road
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The house I pass every day has always been peaceful... the owner of the house is always rocking on her chair waving over to me... but today, out of nowhere, there is an ad showing the house for sale and the house looks burned down and abandoned... but I literally just walked past that house... Story 1: "My husband died a month ago. How do I tell hi…
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r/TrueScaryStories; Apparition in My Friend’s Home | The Wendigo
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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 hellofresh.com/r…
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r/AskReddit; Women Who Gave the Creepy Guy a Chance, How Did It Go?
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“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 hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals. Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get a…
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r/AskReddit; What Conspiracy Theories Turned Out to Be True, but Most People Still Don’t Know about Them?
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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 …
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r/AskReddit; What Celebrity Conspiracy Theory Do You Absolutely, 100% Believe Is True
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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 hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals. Visit genomelink.i…
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r/TrueScaryStories; I Ran into a Cult in the Woods 1.5 Miles from My House | I Think I Watched Myself Walk Home
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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:…
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r/Lets_Not_Meet; I Escaped an Intruder by “Playing Along”
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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.…
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r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix; I Saw Myself across a Parking Lot…
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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 hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16…
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r/UnresolvedMysteries; The Curious Case of Mr. Gorgos | Hollywood Man Reincarnated | The Jetpack Guy Is Back
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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/reddit…
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r/ConspiracyTheories; Olive Garden Is Limiting Their Endless Soup | Marylin Monroe and the Kennedys
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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 me…
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r/TrueScaryStories; Dead Cafeteria Lady | The One Experience I Can’t Explain
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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.c…
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r/TrueScaryStories; The Face in the Window of My Mom’s Basement | My Mother’s Stalker
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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 hellofre…
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r/Lets_Not_Meet; Hotel Ukraine Horror Story
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OP went to hotel Ukraine and immediately started getting some strange vibes as she entered the elevator and a man began caressing her hair. She was more or less chased through the halls before she was able to quickly lock herself in her room and call security. But after interacting with hotel staff, things seemed off. Submit your stories: popmediaa…
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S6E14 - 2 Scary Stories: "Is This Your House?"
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Netflix is a fantastic place to watch your favorite shows and movies or discover something new. They are constantly updating their offerings, but one show may have crossed the line... enough to make the protagonist of this story turn their television off and look around their house to see if they are the new star of the show. Listen to this episode…
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r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix; The College Hook Up | My Husband’s Car Answered His Question
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A few years ago, this girl from college texted OP out of nowhere, telling him that she had gotten divorced and wanted to reconnect. After hooking up, she said it was just like and even better than when they hooked up in college, but OP has no recollection whatsoever of that interaction they had. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit h…
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r/AskReddit; Redditors Who Have Had Someone Living in Your Home without You Knowing, What’s Your Story?
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A well-off couple had a shy, 16 year old teenage girl from down the street house sit while they were gone. They came home and found a 28 year old homeless man sleeping in their bed, wearing the husband’s clothes, and just living in their home. Turns out the house sitter had fallen in love with the guy and had him stay there with her while they were…
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r/TrueScaryStories; Avoiding Abduction | Snapchat Creep
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While 11 year old OP was playing with his 9 year old friend at Lake Ontario, they noticed a redneck man in a truck watching them. After he offered them cigarettes, he began to approach them, and before they knew it they were being chased by this man in his truck. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the c…
OP’s little toddler son was in the other room and suddenly started laughing. He was looking over her shoulder into the darkness, so she asked him what was so funny, to which he replied “The man” as he continued gazing over her shoulder. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free me…
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r/TrueScaryStories; Something’s Strange about My Boyfriend’s Dad | The Teacher
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OP was at her boyfriend’s house and noticed the shower was on and assumed it was him taking a shower. After a bit of weird happenings, she checked outside and realized her boyfriend never was home, and that these noises were coming from something or someone else. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the c…
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r/nonmurdermysteries; In 2004 the Entire Sri Lankan Handball Team Went Missing
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You’ve trained your entire life for this moment. You’ve sacrificed blood, sweat, and tears to become the best physical specimen and teammate that you can possibly be. You’ve earned your place to represent your country on an international level… Only to lose every single match and then disappear completely. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.…
Our listener tells a story about a time when they were living in their great grandma’s house after she passed away. They had various experiences of seeing a woman throughout the house at different ages, all of which seemed to be the same ghost. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16…
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Fan Story: My Sister Unintentionally Saved My Life
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OP’s sister kept having scary dreams and creepy feelings at night, which proved to be kind of a pain for their parents, until one night their mom went to check on the scared sister and noticed OP was completely blue and not breathing. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meal…
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r/UnsolvedMysteries; The Disappearance of Asha Degree
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Asha Degree went missing at the age of nine from Shelby, North Carolina. In the early morning hours of February 14, 2000, for reasons unknown, she packed her bookbag, left her family home north of the city and began walking along nearby North Carolina Highway 18 despite heavy rain and wind. Several passing motorists saw her; when one turned around …
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r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix; The Town That Shouldn’t Exist | I Died in a House Fire
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OP was in the car with their mom heading home from the museum on a route that was fairly familiar, but 20 minutes into the drive and they realized that neither of them knew where they were. They soon found themselves in a nice new suburban area, but there wasn’t a single soul in sight. It was completely abandoned. Submit your stories: popmediaagenc…
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Fan Story: The Man at the Pool | Robbery in a Rideshare
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OP found herself at a public pool with friends and some of their parents. While playing, a stranger came over and started playing with them. OP strangely felt very uncomfortable around this man, and had to leave her friends in order to get away from this weirdo. Suddenly, the stranger was standing over her and asked her why she had left. Submit you…
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r/CreepyEncounters; Pay Attention to the Hairs on the Back of Your Neck | I Think My Grandmother Made a Profit off Me as a Kid
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OP was approached by a man before walking into the mall who asked for some help starting his car. Thinking it would be quick, he obliged. The man then brought him to a car and said he needed to get in so they could drive to the broken down car. At this moment, OP got a really bad feeling about getting in this man’s car. Submit your stories: popmedi…
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r/TrueScaryStories; A Body in the Corn Fields
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There was a report of what looked like trash that had been dumped randomly in a field, but upon closer inspection, police found it to be a body that had been pretty badly mutilated. It was missing limbs, one of which looked like it had been ripped off, it was missing its head, and had all kinds of strange incisions and other damage. Submit your sto…
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r/Lets_Not_Meet; I Didn’t Realize Someone Was in My House | Open the Door, Please. Come Out
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OP had a rat problem in their house that she decided to take care of. When going to check on a rat that got caught in a trap one day, she noticed the door had been left open and she immediately accused her fiance, but after he denied ever leaving the door open, she realized maybe there was an intruder. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com …
In 1929, Arthur Upfield suggested a method of body disposal in his detective novel. However, the method was too clean for the plot to work. One man, John Rowles, tried it himself. He killed 3 people and was only caught after forgetting to complete one of Upfield’s steps. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 wi…
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S6E13 - 2 Scary Stories: The Monsters In My Town Do Not Flay or Maim
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Are there monsters in your town that go after people who do not follow the rules? Well in the first story of this episode, the rules appear to be important but are sometimes unknown, which is the real danger for the protagonist of this story who encounters a new monster in his town. Story 1: "There are monsters in my town that do not flay or maim" …
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r/TrueScaryStories; Never Babysitting Again | The Bellevue Haunting
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OP agreed to babysit for someone, who warned that there had been multiple attempted break-ins recently. They heard a noise at night, which they curiously investigated when they noticed a man in the dark, who lunged at them. They later learned about his sinister intentions. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 …
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r/AskReddit; What Is the Creepiest Historical Fact?
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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 hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Re…
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r/Lets_Not_Meet; I Got Followed in the Woods Twice by the Same Guy
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OP was just going for a leisurely walk by herself in bad weather so that she could be alone when she noticed a man walking behind her. He kept trying to seem like he wasn’t following her, but he definitely was until she was finally able to get away. But that wasn’t the last time she was followed. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit …
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r/CreepyEncounters; Unstable Psychiatrist Loses His Crap After I Ghost Him | Almost Kidnapped/Murdered in My Neighborhood While Walking
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OP had a psychiatrist they were supposed to see once a month for 20 minutes, but eventually he had her coming in twice a week and their appointments would go over an hour each time. Eventually she had to just stop answering his calls and ignore him as things got more uncomfortable, which sent him into a rage. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gma…
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r/TrueScaryStories; My House Was Haunted | Road Trip Got Weird?
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OP could hear footsteps in their attic one night, and then suddenly there was a crash in their closet. After grabbing their parents and some investigation, they found a board game that had crashed on the floor and told OP that there was nothing to worry about. OP continues to hear the sound. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hello…
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r/AskReddit; People Who Have Had a Stalker, How Did You Realize You Were Being Stalked and What Ended Up Happening?
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OP worked at an adult school and one of the adult students kept taking pictures of her and bothering her, so she got him banned from that school and quit her job. 3 years later, a police officer showed up at her door and told her that a private investigator had been hired to track her by that same guy, who claimed to be her husband. Submit your sto…
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r/AskReddit; What Is Perfectly Legal, but Creepy?
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Paparazzi, who get paid to stalk people. Or also social media accounts whose sole purpose is to stalk people in public, bugging them until the person freaks out, which they post online to show their followers. It’s legal to check if a doorknob is locked as long as you don’t enter. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/r…
Shawn Patrick Betz, age 11, goes missing in 1988 before anyone outside of the family knew he was missing and an unknown elderly woman pretending to be his grandmother called to say he was gone for good. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals. Visit genomelink.io to submit…
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r/AskReddit; What Conspiracy Theory Do You Fully Believe Is True?
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The Netflix marketing team releases memes about shows to give off the appearance that everyone is watching said show. Since people fomo, they watch the shows to understand the memes until everyone actually does watch it. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals. Visit genom…
OP was a coffee shop worker and one day was approached by a guy that asked for her number. She said no, rejected him, and walked away. She thought everything was fine after that, but the guy just kept coming back and watching her. He even rattled the bathroom knob while she was in the bathroom. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit he…
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r/Paranormal; I Met My Son 10 Years Before He Was Born in a Dream | Husband and I Realize We’ve Seen It
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OP was feeling deeply suicidal in high school, but one night she had a vivid dream and saw a young man sitting on a bench who looked at her and said “Mom, you have to get yourself together because I’m coming soon!” Oddly he didn’t look like how she had imagined a son of hers would look, but years later she had a son and realized it was the same per…
There’s an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island. It is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous people in voluntary isolation who have defended, often by force, their protected isolation from the outside world. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit…
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Have you ever been invited out with your family only for you to reject them and stay home all alone... yeah... you know where this is going. The first story in this episode will make you think twice about being home all alone on a rainy night. The second story in this episode is a tricky one, just be ready for a nice twist towards the ending! And P…
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r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix; Did the World End in 2012?
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OP talks about how everyone thought for a time that the world would end in 2012, and then after the year passed, people began to theorize that it did end, but all the in-depth material that used to be available seems to have gone missing. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free …
A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a vessel with no living crew aboard. It may be a flying ship like the Flying Dutchman ship, or a physical derelict found adrift with its crew member missing or dead. We read about a few of these reported ships and the odd circumstances in which they were found. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail…
