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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We Don’t Know What We Saw | Paranormal Encounter or Something Else?

OP AND THEIR FRIEND WERE DRIVING BACK FROM THE FAIR IN OCTOBER. THEY WERE ON A LONG, NARROW DIRT ROAD AND THEY SAW A CAR BLOCKING THE ROAD, WHEN SUDDENLY A MAN IN A DARK HOODIE CAME LUMBERING TOWARD THEM IN A CREEPY MANNER. OP QUICKLY REVERSED BACK OVER A HILL THEY CAME OVER, WHEN THEY DECIDED MAYBE THEY COULD JUST SPEED PAST AND SQUEEZE ON THE SIDE OF THE CAR. AFTER COMING BACK OVER THE HILL, JUST 15 SECONDS LATER, THERE WAS NO ONE THERE. THE HOODED FIGURE AND THE CAR HAD COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

8m
Dec 06, 2023
The Dancing Plague and Laughing Plague

THERE WAS AN INSTANCE OF MASS HYSTERIA IN HISTORY WHEN A GROUP OF 400 PEOPLE BEGAN TO DANCE AND COULDN’T STOP. THEY DANCED UNTIL PEOPLE STARTED DYING. ANOTHER INSTANCE OF HYSTERIA HAPPENED IN A TOWN, BUT THIS TIME IT WAS BECAUSE OF LAUGHTER. THEY LAUGHED FOR 16 DAYS STRAIGHT. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

9m
Dec 05, 2023
What’s Your True, Unexplained Story of Being in a Place that Shouldn’t Exist? Part 2

WHILE DRIVING THROUGH ILLINOIS TO GET TO CHICAGO, OP AND THEIR FRIENDS STOPPED AT A TACO BELL. THEY WENT INSIDE AND NOTICED THAT ALL THE PEOPLE AROUND THEM WERE HAVING CONVERSATIONS IN ENGLISH, BUT NONE OF THEM MADE ANY SENSE. THEY WERE JUST SAYING WORDS IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER AS IF THEY WERE MIMICKING HUMAN BEHAVIOR. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

7m
Dec 04, 2023
What’s Your True, Unexplained Story of Being in a Place that Shouldn’t Exist? Part 1

OP WAS OUT DRIVING IN AN UNPOPULATED AREA AND CAME ACROSS A TOWN. THEY WERE A BIT LOST, SO DECIDED TO GO FIND SOMEONE AND ASK FOR DIRECTIONS. THEY SEARCHED EVERYWHERE IN THE TOWN, BUT THERE WAS NOBODY TO BE FOUND UNTIL FINALLY THEY CROSSED PATHS WITH AN OLD MAN WHO DIRECTED THEM TO A LONELY ROAD WHERE THEY FOUND A WOMAN IN A ROAD CONSTRUCTION UNIFORM, EXCEPT THERE WAS NO CONSTRUCTION. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

11m
Dec 01, 2023
What Are Some Weird Real Life X-File Type Mysteries?

ONE REDDITOR COMMENTS ABOUT HALLUCINATIONS AT SEA AND HOW WHILE THEIR FATHER WAS OUT SAILING, HE SAW THE SEA COVERED WITH COFFINS. THEIR GRANDFATHER, WHILE ALSO SAILING, SAID HE WAS BEING FOLLOWED BY A SWARM OF CROWS AND A GROUP OF MOTORCYCLES. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

7m
Nov 30, 2023
My Taxi Driver May Be Stalking Me | Scary Pizza Delivery Story

OP WAS OUT GETTING DRINKS WITH HER FRIEND WHEN SHE DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO GO HOME. SO HER FRIEND CALLED HER A TAXI FROM A SERVICE SHE HAD NEVER USED AND A MAN CAME TO PICK HER UP. THIS MAN ASKED A LOT OF PERSONAL QUESTIONS, GOT HER INSTAGRAM AFTER PRESSURING HER FOR IT, AND THEN DROPPED HER OFF AT HER HOME. THIS IS WHEN HE KEPT REACHING OUT TO HER AND WOULDN’T LEAVE HER ALONE. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

8m
Nov 29, 2023
Did Anyone Have an Imaginary Friend as a Kid That Turned Out a Little Too Real? Or Turned Out to Be Not Friendly at All?

A REDDITOR HAD TWO IMAGINARY FRIENDS. ONE WAS REALLY NICE AND THE OTHER WAS SUPER MEAN AND WOULD OFTEN TRASH THEIR ROOM. THE NICE FRIEND WOULD ALWAYS TELL THE MEAN ONE TO STOP. THE ODD THING ABOUT THIS IS THAT THIS REDDITOR WAS A VERY HONEST CHILD AND HAD SOME VERY DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF THESE IMAGINARY FRIENDS. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

11m
Nov 28, 2023
What Was Something That Happened to You as a Child That You Didn’t Realize Was Scary, Creepy, or Dangerous Until You Got Older?

WHEN ONE REDDITOR WAS 2 YEARS OLD, A CLOWN CAME TO HIS BIRTHDAY PARTY. HE PULLED OUT WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS A WATER GUN, BUT IT WAS A REAL GUN. HE PROCEEDED TO TAKE ALL THE MOM’S WATCHES AND PURSES, AND THEN LEFT. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

7m
Nov 27, 2023
What Is the Downright Scariest Thing that Has Ever Happened to You, Be It Paranormal or Otherwise?

GOLFMAN11 SAID THAT ONE TIME THEY WOKE UP AND THEIR EYES WERE SUPER DRY. THEY OPENED THEM, AND IT WAS PITCH BLACK. THEY COULDN’T SEE A THING, BUT THEY KNEW THERE WAS A LIGHT IN THE ROOM BECAUSE THEIR ALARM WENT OFF, SIGNIFYING THAT THE SUN WAS OUT. THEY RUBBED THEIR EYES AND CRIED UNTIL THEY WERE MOISTURIZED ENOUGH TO WHERE THEY COULD SEE AGAIN. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

10m
Nov 24, 2023
What Are Some Crimes That Will Most Likely Never Get Solved, but Are 99% Sure Who Is Responsible?

WE READ MULTIPLE COMMENTS ABOUT DIFFERENT MYSTERIES, INCLUDING THE DUPONT DE LIGONNÈS MURDERS AND DISAPPEARANCE WHICH INVOLVED THE MURDER OF FIVE MEMBERS OF THE SAME FAMILY IN NANTES, LOIRE-ATLANTIQUE, FRANCE, FOLLOWED BY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PATRIARCH OF THE FAMILY, XAVIER PIERRE MARIE DUPONT DE LIGONNÈS. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

12m
Nov 23, 2023
Cops and Other Law Enforcement People of Reddit, What Were Some Cases That Made You Think That Something Supernatural Was Going On?

WHILE OUT PATROLLING, A COP COMES ACROSS A WOMAN FROZEN IN THE STREET. AFTER TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT’S WRONG WITH HER, HE DECIDES TO TAKE HER TO THE HOSPITAL AND ON THE WAY SHE STARES AT THE SUN, DAMAGING HER EYES. HE DROPS HER OFF AT THE HOSPITAL AND CALLS THEM A WEEK LATER TO DISCOVER SHE’S STILL FROZEN. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

14m
Nov 22, 2023
What’s a Conspiracy Theory That You Heard That Kind of Made You Think Maybe They Were Right?

ONE THEORY SAYS THE PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK IS DENYING THE EXISTENCE OF EASTERN COUGARS SO THEY WON’T HAVE TO DELEGATE AND DESIGNATE A HUGE BUNCH OF LAND AS PROTECTED WILDLIFE HABITATS. ANOTHER THEORY SAYS NBA REFS ARE STILL RIGGING GAMES. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

13m
Nov 21, 2023
Coffee Shop Stalker

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 https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

9m
Nov 20, 2023
Birds Aren’t Real

ARE BIRDS ACTUALLY GOVERNMENT-ISSUED DRONES? CREATED BY A 20-YEAR-OLD COLLEGE STUDENT, THE BIRDS AREN’T REAL MOVEMENT HAS DRAWN INTRIGUE FROM ALL OVER THE INTERNET. THEY BELIEVE THAT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, THE GOVERNMENT HAS SLOWLY BEEN KILLING OFF EVERY SINGLE BIRD AND REPLACING THEM WITH SURVEILLANCE DRONES. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

6m
Nov 17, 2023
An Instant Manifestation

OP HAD AN AWESOME GLOW IN THE DARK SKELETON ONESIE THAT HER FRIEND WANTED TO BUY FOR HERSELF. AFTER LOOKING AROUND THE STORE AND ASKING THE EMPLOYEES, IT BECAME CLEAR THAT THERE WAS NO ONESIE IN HER SIZE THAT THEY’D BE ABLE TO USE, UNTIL THEY RETURNED A FEW MOMENTS LATER AND THE EXACT ONESIE SHE NEEDED WAS SUDDENLY THERE. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

10m
Nov 16, 2023
Perfectly Legal but Creepy

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 https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

8m
Nov 15, 2023
Unstable Psychiatrist Loses His Crap After I Ghost Him | Almost Kidnapped/Murdered in My Neighborhood While Walking

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@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

8m
Nov 14, 2023
Missing Person

THIS YOUNG MAN LEFT A NOTE TO HIS PARENTS THAT HE WAS GOING SOMEWHERE. HE SAYS SOME STRANGE THINGS LIKE HE MIGHT GET LOST AND BE UNABLE TO COME BACK, BUT NO DETAILS ABOUT WHERE HE’S GOING. AFTER DISAPPEARING, THEY FOUND THE VEHICLE, BUT WERE NEVER ABLE TO FIND HIM. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

7m
Nov 13, 2023
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 https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

7m
Nov 10, 2023
The Man on My Patio

WHILE OP WAS PLAYING PLAYSTATION, THEY HEARD A NOISE COMING FROM THEIR PATIO OUTSIDE THE WINDOW. THEY THOUGHT IT WAS THEIR CAT THAT WENT MISSING, BUT WHEN THEY WENT TO CHECK, THEY INSTEAD SAW A TALL GUY WITH BLACK HAIR STANDING ON THE PATIO, MAKING THOSE WEIRD NOISES. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

9m
Nov 09, 2023
What Is the Scariest or Creepiest Thing You Have Seen or Heard? Part 2

A GIRL COMMENTED ABOUT WHEN SHE WAS WORKING THE NIGHT SHIFT AT WORK AND HEARD A MASSIVE CRASH OF ONE OF THE WINDOWS ON THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING. SOMEONE HAD THROWN A SIZABLE ROCK THROUGH THE FRONT. SHE HURRIED TO HER CAR AND TOOK OFF HOME, BUT REALIZED SHE DIDN’T UNLOCK HER CAR WHEN SHE GOT IN. THINGS WERE DEFINITELY NOT RIGHT. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

7m
Nov 08, 2023
What Is the Scariest or Creepiest Thing You Have Seen or Heard?

SOMEONE WAS WATCHING THEIR NIECE LATE AT NIGHT AND DECIDED TO WATCH THE NEW JAMES BOND MOVIE AFTER PUTTING THE NIECE TO BED. WHILE WATCHING THE MOVIE, SUDDENLY THE NIECE WHISPERED INTO THEIR EAR, “YOU KNOW JAMES BOND MURDERED JESUS, RIGHT?” THAT WAS THE LAST TIME THEY OFFERED TO BABYSIT. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

9m
Nov 07, 2023
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.” Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

11m
Nov 06, 2023
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 https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

8m
Nov 03, 2023
What’s a Horrifying/Creepy Experience You’ve Lived Through? Part 2

WHEN VERY YOUNG, ONE REDDITOR WAS TAKING SWIMMING LESSONS AND THE INSTRUCTOR DECIDED IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO THROW THEM INTO THE DEEP END OF THE POOL TO ACCELERATE THEIR LEARNING. AFTER THEIR GRANDPA HEARD ABOUT IT, HE SENT SOME OF HIS OLD ARMY VETERAN FRIENDS TO TEACH THE INSTRUCTOR A LESSON OF THEIR OWN. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

13m
Nov 02, 2023
What’s a Horrifying/Creepy Experience You’ve Lived Through?

ONE REDDITOR NEARLY GOT RUN OFF THE ROAD WHILE ON THE WAY HOME FROM WORK ONE NIGHT. A MAN PULLED UP IN A WINDOWLESS VAN BEHIND HER AND ASKED IF SHE WAS OK. HE OFFERED FOR HER TO WAIT IN HIS VAN WITH HIS WIFE AND KIDS, EXCEPT THAT WHEN LOOKING IN HER REARVIEW MIRROR, SHE COULD CLEARLY SEE THERE WAS NO ONE IN THERE. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

10m
Nov 02, 2023
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 https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

7m
Oct 31, 2023
The Bumpy Man

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 https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

8m
Oct 30, 2023
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 https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

11m
Oct 27, 2023
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 https://gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/pop http://babbel.com/pop Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

9m
Oct 26, 2023