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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

The OP continues his story about Charlie McCarthy. After another encounter with the doll, he decides to bury it in a place that no one would know about, and then he ends up moving with his family. Years pass and life is good, until Charlie finds a way back into his life.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

The OP recounts a time when they were young and had to sleep in their basement all alone for a while. Their dad got them a ventriloquist doll, which they at first loved, but later came to realize there was something dark and sinister about it. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“My niece drew a picture of a man in her room that she kept telling her parents about. He had two different colored eyes and one was gray. When asked why it was gray, she responded, ‘Because he can see the storm coming.’”Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

When OP’s brother was 5 years old, he would see this woman every night. He would also have these dreams where the same woman would be watching her son, and whenever she would turn her head for just one second, the son would run into the street and get hit by a car. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP met a girl named Kelly who was considered weird by everyone at their school. Whenever someone was mean to Kelly, Kelly would give them an evil look and terrible things would happen to them a short time later. OP ended up dating her and getting married, until things between them started going downhill and OP received the look himself.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP found himself separated from his friends as they were all snooping around a cemetery at night. At this point he felt a feeling of dread set in, and then noticed this shape crouched down in the darkness, which then stood up and towered over him and it definitely wasn’t human. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

One of our listeners and friend told a story about when he was younger and used to go to this old, seemingly abandoned property and explore it, discovering some strange and uneasy things about it. They later learned that it might be a bit more dangerous than they thought. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

An airline pilot tells about a time when he was ascending while flying, but as he and his co-pilots did so, all pressure systems inside the plane began to fail. There have been various instances where planes have lost all pressure inside the cabin and people have gotten injured and in some cases, everyone died.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Officials estimate he had been there for between three and five years based on the state of decay. The victim's body was found behind drywall and between two concrete pillars in the top tier of the auditorium in a cavity with only a 15-inch opening, according to the Oakland police department. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP had a difficult time making friends until she met two individuals, a guy and a girl, who were friendly to her. While hanging out with her two friends, a group of guys all dressed in black from their school came over, beating up OP’s guy friend. The next day, that same friend revealed to OP his “solution” to repay them for what those guys had done to him.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

There was a rumor in someone’s high school after a girl was found dead in a river that her boyfriend had killed her. The case was cold until 25 years later when that same guy ended up killing his best friend of many decades and a woman at a rest stop to steal her car, proving he was the killer of the first girl.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP matched with a guy on a dating app, but he kept blowing her off and showing little interest, so she finally decided to block him. He then began to reach out to her through other means and wouldn’t leave her alone until finally he apologized and said he really wanted to go out. After she had forgiven him and went out and met him, he kind of did the same thing as before, leaving her and putting forth no effort to communicate, but this time started showing up where he should not have and sending her messages/calling her from unknown sources. Had she been dating a psychopath?Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Bakedbrotato76 said that one time in the 70’s a film crew was filming an episode of the 6 Million Dollar Man and shooting at a fun house/amusement park. A stagehand was moving what he thought was a prop wax figure on a noose, only for one arm to fall off, revealing human flesh and bone.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

In 1985, a building in Philadelphia was bombed by police and city officials after a shootout with the occupants of the building. The building caught fire and burned down, killing 11 individuals, 5 of which were children after city officials instructed the firemen not to enter the building or engage in putting out the fire. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Nickldd92 said when he was 10 years old, he got up late one night to go get some water. His mom was also thirsty, so they both headed to the kitchen to get a drink when suddenly a car came flying into their driveway and a burly man dressed in black came walking very aggressively to their front door. At this moment, his mom quickly flipped on the light and he stopped, ran back to his car, and hauled his butt out of there.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

There was a kid that would keep his desk full of bark and sharpen them with his teeth, and then threaten to stab and scratch the other kids with these sharp objects. Another young man, 17 years old at the time, killed and buried his 7 year old neighbor.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Today we read of r/AskReddit where redditors are asked: People of Reddit that have honestly believed they have been abducted by aliens, what was your experience like? Someone tells their story of when they believe they were abducted as a kid in the 1970’s. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP got home and noticed their cellar door open, which they never leave open, and then they heard a disturbing cry coming from within. Police came and took this individual away and after investigating inside they found kitchen knives, an ax, iron chains, and a board. OP later learned that this individual ran away from an asylum. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

While OP and his brother were hanging out and playing video games one evening, one brother suddenly screamed and ran upstairs, saying there was a man in handcuffs outside their door with the creepiest smile on his face, who kept knocking to be let in, but things didn’t end there. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

The Bell Witch or Bell Witch Haunting is a legend from Southern United States folklore, centered on the 19th-century Bell family of northwest Robertson County, Tennessee. Farmer John Bell Sr. resided with his family along the Red River near the town of Adams. According to legend, from 1817 to 1821, his family and the local area came under attack by a mostly invisible entity that was able to speak, affect the environment, and shapeshift. Some accounts record the spirit also to have been clairvoyant and capable of crossing long distances with superhuman speed. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP found an old cell phone under the chair she was sitting on while riding the bus. She turned it on and it immediately started receiving messages, which didn’t make any sense as the phone should’ve been dead and had no reception. At this moment she realized that some of the messages weren’t just to some random person, but they were directed to her.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“If the refs blow a call, they give you a holding call later to make up for it. So if you know anything about football, if they make a bad call against your team, then they’ll call a holding, which is kind of an interesting call, against the other team to make up for it… most people are like, that rule is practically written in the NFL.”Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 enoughSubmit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Today we continue the story from our previous episode and we come upon a disturbing revelation about what’s been going on in OP’s home.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was climbing a tall tree at 11 years old when a branch broke and he fell 30+ feet, hitting his head and causing him to go blind. Years later, he established himself in life, buying a house and living alone. While home, he began noticing things seemed a little off about his surroundings, and things got even more weird after he dropped his phone and couldn’t find it anywhere on the floor. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Hollow Earth is a concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow, or contains a substantial interior space. Notably suggested by Edmond Halley in 1692 conjectured that the Earth might consist of a hollow shell about 800 Kilometers thick.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Aneurysms. The thought of dying unexpectedly at any moment without being able to say goodbye to my loved ones is terrifying. Being home alone and hearing something fall on the floor or being home alone and hearing anything that isn’t coming from you or your belongings. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Branson Perry, a 20 year old man from Skidmore Missouri, went missing on April 11th, 2001. While he and his friends were cleaning his father’s place, he went to return a pair of jumper cables to his father’s shed. This would be the last time anyone ever heard from or saw Branson ever again.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Dorothy was taking her coworker to the hospital, and then left to go somewhere real quick. After not coming back, everyone realized she disappeared. An unidentified man later called revealing he had killed her. They never found the man. We also tell a story of two individuals who were almost kidnapped.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

This poster worked in a care facility and took care of residents with dementia. They were trained to just play along when the residents hallucinated, but one day things took a different turn. The OP tells about when they saw one of the hallucinations themselves. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

This OP was hanging out with their brother late at night when it was time to go home. After leaving, their brother called to tell them about a creepy encounter he had just moments before with a tall, lanky figure who was snooping around in their shed.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

There’s a story that talks of an incident that happened a while back involving a janitor in a locker room. A girl finds herself alone in said locker room and hears something odd. Another person experiences strange noises outside their home and locks themself in the bathroom. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Joanie, a young girl, is exploring the woods when she comes across a small mouse. As she snaps photos of the mouse, she hears some noises and has an odd interaction with someone else in the woods. This is a fun story that switches from 3rd person to 1st in a unique way.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

Some friends are out walking on a hill when from out of nowhere they hear loud growling and heavy footsteps trailing right behind them. At first they thought it was a bear, but there aren’t many bears where they live. They set up a security camera to see what was following them, and what they saw terrifies them. 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

A girl and her boyfriend go to a restaurant late at night. Things are fine and normal at first, but then they start getting some really strange vibes from the people running the restaurant and they decide to hurry and leave. The next thing they know, they’re waking up on their bed with no memory of how they got there.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

OP is asked to house sit for a countryside home. Her and a friend go to watch the home and after going to bed, they hear a loud bang coming from the side of the house. The alarm goes off and tells them that the patio door is ajar, but no alert is sent out to the police. What they come to discover is quite unnerving. 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

Today we tell a true story about a family that was murdered in New Mexico back in 1990. The two men that committed this atrocity took some money, but didn’t seem to find what they were looking for and police were never able to find them. 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

While in college, a young woman experiences some strange things in her dorm. One night she hears glass shattering, only to find nothing broken when she tries to find what it was. She has many more encounters with this “entity” before finding out that the president of her college gives an annual lecture about the campus hauntings. 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

A redditor tells a story of when they moved into a new home at a young age. They were alone one night and saw something very disturbing. A demon teletubby. They still have nightmares about it a decade and a half later. 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

While their family was camping in Algonquin, Canada, this redditor was hiking with his family and dog. The dog came running full speed toward a ledge and tried to stop, but couldn’t in time before falling over the cliff. He landed on a very narrow ledge and there was no way to get him back up, when out of nowhere this climber with full climbing gear came, saved the dog, and vanished.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

OP became estranged after their son passed away at only 6 days old, but after some time, they decided to meet up again. While driving late at night, OP suddenly saw something that continues to disturb her to this day. 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

“We were about half a mile from the nearest campsite when we heard a soft whispering behind us. Obviously we hit the flashlights and spun around. Didn’t see anything, so we kept walking, and we hear it again. This time we stop and look around for a bit before we decide to head back to our campsite. Then we see what’s whispering. It’s a lady crawling on the ground, just whispering random words.” 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

Late on the afternoon of October 24, 1961, police went to a house in Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States, after a neighbor reported seeing blood leading from the house to the driveway. She had made the discovery after a young girl living in the house had returned from a playdate to find her mother, Joan Carolyn Risch absent. Several unconfirmed sightings of an apparently disoriented Risch walking on nearby roads later that day were reported.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

Today we continue the strange circumstances of David’s disappearance. He had traveled about 1600 miles away and was killed only 29 hours after he was thought to have been home watching the superbowl. He’ll always be remembered as a great man.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

39-year-old David Glen Lewis was an Amarillo attorney and former court-at-law judge. He was described as a kind, generous, deeply religious man involved in charity work. In January 1993, David went missing and at the same time another “John Doe” was found dead, who they were unable to identify until years later.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

Underwater caves. They’re beautiful to look at, but dangerous. Some divers get disoriented, can’t understand which way is up, and then drown after getting lost. They’re very deep, dark holes and you never know what you might find there.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

At the end of a day's work in 1974, workers for the Dao Ling Construction Company in Indianapolis left a 2 ½ ton steel wrecking ball hanging 200 feet above the ground. When they came back the next morning, the ball was gone.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

OP was heading to a net cafe to use a computer and had to take an elevator. On their way up, the elevator suddenly stopped on a floor before the cafe and OP saw what looked like a woman in a white gown. There were no lights on other than the light in the elevator and this woman slowly started coming toward OP. At this point, they tried pressing the close door button, but instead of the doors shutting, the elevator light flickered off, leaving them in complete darkness. 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

OP placed knives all over the place when she was high because she got paranoid pretty easily, but one day this proved to be somewhat useful when an unwelcome guest showed up and began advancing on her. 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

OP matched with a guy on a dating app, but he kept blowing her off and showing little interest, so she finally decided to block him. He then began to reach out to her through other means and wouldn’t leave her alone until finally he apologized and said he really wanted to go out. After she had forgiven him and went out and met him, he kind of did the same thing as before, leaving her and putting forth no effort to communicate, but this time started showing up where he should not have and sending her messages/calling her from unknown sources. Had she been dating a psychopath?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

While taking a nap one afternoon, OP suddenly felt their body wake up, only things didn’t at all seem normal when they came to. They saw something and someone they feel like they shouldn’t have, telling them to go to sleep. 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

There’s a legend in New Delhi where people there believe there is an evil robotic monkey that will come out sometimes and drive people mad. We talk about what the belief is and how it has caused some people to behave.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

The area around Manly Louisiana. Nothing is paved, country roads are gravel, wild dogs are roaming everywhere, and random houses are just abandoned in the woods. Locals from town won’t go to certain areas. Nothing matches the map and there is no cell service. The creepiest part is when a man told OP he had seen them at the lake and kept tabs on them all day long. 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

A mother leaves her two children, one in a carriage and one standing, for just a moment. When she returns, the two kids are gone. She eventually finds the carriage with one child in it, but the other is never to be found. We also talk about the Texarkana Moonlight Murders.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

We read multiple responses to this question, one of which says, “I had a coworker or employee in high school who went missing for 3 days. Turned out he went on a walk without telling anyone. A tree had fallen on him and was unable to free himself. He was dehydrated and shaken when they found him, but he recovered and came back to work a few days later.” 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

OP’s sister has gone outside with a knife to see who this stranger is lurking outside before quickly running inside and locking the door with a terrified look in her eye. 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

OP was walking her dogs with her foster sister at the park when a man passed them, said hello, and kept on walking. He then came back around and kept passing them, saying hello, and each time a bit closer than the last. They decided to leave as they didn’t feel very comfortable about this creep, but realized as they were driving home that someone was following them. 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

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: popmediaagency@gmail.com Go to greenchef.com/pop50 and use code pop50 to get 50% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Go to greenchef.com/pop50 and use code pop50 to get 50% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

While working on a mental health unit, OP and their colleagues were supposed to check up on the patients once an hour. They used flashlights to not wake the patients, but while one colleague was checking on patients, suddenly there was a loud scream. After arriving in the room, OP could see a female patient had jumped on their coworker when she had checked in the room and shined her light on the patient, who was waiting in the dark, ready to pounce. 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

While on a Civil War battlefield tour, OP and his wife were visiting Manassas when she suddenly got a terrible feeling about the place and told him she’d just wait in the car. After going through and touring the place himself, OP got a strange feeling that something or someone was after him. 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

OP led a normal, happy life until one day she thought she heard her husband walk in the front door, but when she went to check, it was a stranger. He just stood there staring at her and before she knew it, she found herself locked in her closet, waiting to die as this intruder did everything he could to break the door down and get to her.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

OP’s little 6 year old brother and 3 year old sister were playing an innocent game of hide-and-seek when they decided to run into the woods after being told the woods were off limits. They went so deep into the woods, getting lost, that their parents had to call the police and were just about to dispatch a search party when finally a nice lady brought them home after they came knocking on her door for help. Watch your children.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

“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 Go to greenchef.com/pop50 and use code pop50 to get 50% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

A man’s wife is hysterical after he and she hear this odd, uncanny sound coming from somewhere in the woods. It sounds like a monotone man making a meowing noise, except not human at the same time.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

An older man was out hiking alone on a well known trail one day when he disappeared. His wife called search and rescue, but what they found left them with more questions than answers. Up high in a tall tree was the older man’s cane, hanging on a branch, with no sign of him anywhere. 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

We read multiple search and rescue stories, including: While out picking berries, a young girl and her brother got separated from their parents. When the search and rescue were called, the little girl told them that her brother had been taken by the bear man, a tall man with lots of hair on his body and a strangely shaped face. 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

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_explains

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

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_explains

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

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

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

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

When the OP was young, they were in their house late at night and had to use the bathroom. After leaving the bathroom and turning off the light, the light turned back on as they walked away. What they heard and saw next scarred them for life. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

In this episode we tell one of our scariest stories we've found. OP tells about a time when she was home alone talking on the phone, and then dropped the phone. When she looked under the bed to grab it, what she saw may cause you to check under your own from here on out.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

A fire burned a home down in 1945, which belonged to a family of 2 parents and 10 children. 7 survived, but 5 of the children never turned up and they never were able to find their remains in the home. We discuss what may have happened.

A commenter dreams of a white van parked outside their home, which speeds away after looking at the van. They wake up and there’s a white van, which speeds away when they look outside. Another commenter sees his mom waving at him in his backyard, but realizes his mom is already inside his house. A group of friends feels like there is someone in their group that is missing, but no one can think of who.

In 1959, a group of hikers went on a mountain pass excursion in Russia. After camping through a bad Winter storm, they venture back out again only to be confronted by a terrifying, unseen phenomenon.

Known as the Giggling Granny, Nannie Doss was responsible for what authorities surmise were 12 deaths, all of whom were related to her in some way. We tell her story and how she went about doing something so horrible.

One redditor sees a dark figure coming down the hallway toward them one night, only to find out their mom has seen this “shadow man” various times before. Someone’s mom casually confirms that her kid saw some UFO’s.

One poster describes a very strange occurrence when playing with her family members in her bedroom. Another poster tells a story about a ghost ambulance which drops a very peculiar item. A Poster tells a story of strange tappings they hear coming from outside. What they discover is quite shocking.

A group of friends drive somewhere far late at night and come across a small town, in which they explore a little. They try to find the town later, but are unable, even after searching many more times and living nearby for 10 years. Another redditor tells about a creepy room in their clinic in which strange things happen.

OP was watching TV with their family when they heard a sudden knock on the door. Upon opening the door they found 3 young teens who said a few guys were following them and they needed to look like they knew someone. Something seemed off about the guys following them. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Lisanne’s camera was examined and it was discovered that on April 8th, a week after their hike, a hundred photos were taken somewhere in the Panama jungle between the hours of about 1 AM and 4 AM. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

9 years ago, multiple emergency calls were being attempted from two missing women’s phones within a Panamanian jungle. What happened to Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon? A freshened take on the case. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

On September 19th, 1994, 11 year old Thomas Billy Lee Tillery reportedly went to buy a gallon of milk at a nearby store. This began a tragic saga which is anything but resolved. His skull was discovered 3 months later, but it wasn’t identified as his until the year 2011. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP noticed a little girl running through a store and a man kept following right behind her. Something seemed off, so OP asked the little girl if she was lost, to which the girl replied yes. The man following her was some complete stranger. We read another story about a creepy cop whose intentions extended beyond anything good. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“The first time I saw him, I thought it was a customer trying to get my attention. He was a few feet away from me and I saw him from out of the corner of my eye waving at me. I turned to him and froze. He was an old man with frizzy white hair and black holes for eyes.” Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was in his apartment and suddenly heard the front door open and someone walk in. He found the guy standing in his hall, and then the guy said it was an accident and he was in the wrong place and meant to go to his neighbor’s house. The next day, OP chuckled and told the neighbor about the mishap, but the neighbor said they never had any such friend.. We also read a short story about Robert Downey Jr. accidentally crawling into the bed of a woman’s son. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP worked as a tour guide in a popular tourist town in Tennessee. They had EMF detectors and would go around an old graveyard with the detectors and let people spook themselves. While looking over a grave one evening, one of the tourists found that their detector kept losing power whenever it went near a certain gravestone… Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP got so drunk that their friends called them an uber. The driver picked them up, then offered a joint, saying it makes for a great sleep. Before OP could really reject the offer, the uber driver canceled the ride so they could smoke the joint, and he pulled over into a sketchy area with no one in sight. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP’s uncle and grandpa were up late and had an hour drive home. They were up late into the night in the middle of nowhere and the next morning showed up with no memory or explanation of what they had done. The uncle claimed he was abducted by aliens, but no one believed him. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

A Redditor’s grandfather admitted that his special meatball recipe was just store-bought meatballs. Another user’s grandmother had everything owl themed, but on her deathbed she admitted she never understood why so many people gave her so much owl stuff. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was driving for Google Street Maps and noticed through their mirror a teenage boy standing behind a sign. He seemed like he maybe needed help, so OP backed up to ask if he was OK, but when OP looked again, the boy had vanished. Then as OP drove away and came close to the main road, they saw the same looking kid. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Today we read a chilling story of a girl who ditched school to hang out with her friends only to find out the hangout wasn’t at all what they had planned. “I was watching the Jeffrey Epstein doc on Netflix last night and I’m spooked. Literally had a mini panic attack with all these memories floating in as I’m lying in bed, watching. A girl’s face flashes across the screen and I recognized one of his victims as one of my really good childhood friends.”Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

In 1886 a ship’s chronometer named Arnold was logged as having gone missing during a lost arctic expedition. A century later, the chronometer turned up during an auction having been turned into a clock, its name squashed flat and no signs of having spent time in the arctic. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“It took me a second for my brain to register what I was seeing, but there in the air just above the trees was this rod-like thing hovering in the air. Best I can describe it is it was the size of a bus or two, almost like a rod laying at a slant in the air.”Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Back in college, OP used to crash in their car while driving up the Oregon coast. When waking up one evening as the sun was going down, they looked to the side and barely caught a face ducking down in the rear passenger window. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

A little boy died in a lake near where OP lived. OP and a few friends got high, then started walking by the lake at night when they noticed a priest sitting on a bench that was built as a tribute to the fallen boy. Everything seemed normal until the priest suddenly disappeared. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP’s dad got in a terrible accident and a good samaritan came to help him. The man took their dad to the hospital where he got life saving care without which he would have died. They later went to thank the man, but when they talked to him, the man had no recollection of ever helping their father. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement (often described as a cult), founded in 1974 and led by Bonnie Nettles and Marshall Applewhite, known within the movement as Ti and Do, respectively. Ti and Do first met in 1972 and went on a journey of spiritual discovery, identifying themselves as the two witnesses of Revelation, attracting a following of several hundred people in the mid-1970s.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP decided to sell her hair on eBay and was contacted by a buyer who was very interested. The buyer said he was going to use the hair for a class demonstration on how wigs are made, but when she looked him up on social media, he wasn’t at all who he said he was. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

A redditor was talking to her boyfriend while in his bed when she looked up and noticed a dude looking through the window, with his face only an inch away from the screen. They later found a pot that the creep had used to get a better view of them. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

This is a story about this person called the Granby Girl who was a murder victim in Granby in 1978, but she has recently been identified as 28 year old Patricia Tucker of Boston. Her murder is under investigation. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

The bloop is the name of a mysterious sound detected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 1997 in the Pacific Ocean near South America. In 2012, scientists discovered that the sound emanated from an iceberg cracking and breaking away from an Antarctic glacier. For the 15 years that people didn’t know, the mysteries and conspiracies were all over the place. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP continues the story of her sociopath boyfriend and tells about the various red flags she should have paid more attention to early on, such as him being completely unsympathetic when her college friend shot himself in the head. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP met this guy on OK Cupid and they hit it off. He treated her better than any other guy she’s ever been with and always made her feel really cared for, until they decided to move in together. That’s when everything dramatically changed.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Today we continue talking about the story of Zhu Ling and get more into what happened and theories of how she may have been poisoned. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Zhu Ling is best known as the victim of an unsolved 1995 thallium poisoning case in Beijing, China. Her symptoms were posted to the Internet via a Usenet newsgroup by her friend from Peking University, Bei Zhicheng, and were subsequently proven to be caused by thallium poisoning. Her case was then reviewed by physicians in many different countries who examined her symptoms and made suggestions as to diagnoses and treatment. This effort was recognized as the first large-scale tele-medicine trial. Her life was ultimately saved, but she suffered serious neurological damage and permanent physical impairment.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP heard a strange whisper that just didn’t seem to go away while trying to sleep. She sat up to see if it was coming from her sleeping parents, but it wasn’t. Then her boyfriend called saying he had received two facetime calls from OP, but the only problem was that OP never actually called him. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP, their dog, and their friend find themselves driving down a dirt road when they come across a guy standing off the side of the road smiling. He seemed nice enough at first, but something about him just seemed off. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

On 6 October 1995, 15-year-old Nicole van den Hurk disappeared on her way to work in Eindhoven, in the Dutch province of North Brabant. On 22 November, her body was found in the woods between the towns of Mierlo and Lierop. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Jordyn Walker started getting a toothache and an unstoppable runny nose. For most parents and teenagers, such symptoms would seem like an inconvenience more than anything else, but for Walker and her family, it was cause for significant alarm because of a scary stint that happened in the hospital a year before that had begun in much the same way. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

An unsolved murder involving a goose without feet, a paranormal story of a boss coming to see his employee when he died to make sure he finished the job, and a paranormal account involving an imaginary friend. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

A random couple approached OP and her friends to ask about how to pay for the skating rink. Given that the kiosk was so obviously in the open, this felt unnecessary and a bit off. The lady started complimenting them, and more and more the pair started to seem sus. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

While working in a home where a murder took place, OP and his coworkers started hearing and experiencing some strange things, like broken furniture, but upon investigation, they found nothing. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“I see something out of the corner of my eye that my brain instinctively told me to look at. I’m in full view of the window, lights still off, and I get closer to see a tall, dark, hooded figure standing just one yard away.”Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“We had to walk by this old building, so I don’t know why it gave me the willies walking by, but it felt like it had eyes on you.” OP made fun of their friend at first for being so frightened about the building, but what he told OP later shook them. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

When given a new sword, the Samurai would go and test it on random innocent victims to make sure it worked. A woman was found pushing her baby on a swing, who had been dead for 2 days from hypothermia and dehydration. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was doing construction on a house with his coworkers, and after leaving the attic, they heard some strange noises coming from up there. After they closed everything off, they went outside, but there seemed to still be someone in there. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP’s mom went to the appliance store and noticed a man in her peripheral vision following her close by. She at first thought it was another person in a hurry to get into the store, but as she went through the store, she noticed the man hanging around her nearby and whatever area of the store she went to, the man followed. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

This episode is about OP’s creepy uncle who used all kinds of weird technology to spy on anyone he could, including OP and OP’s family. \Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

One year after a woman went missing, her remains were found near an old dam. The police arrested and convicted a suspect, but even the victim’s family fought for his innocence. Decades later the police exhumed her grave for reinvestigation only to find her remains missing. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popGo to HelloFresh.com/redditexplains60 and use code redditexplains60 for 60% off plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP got off a train and a tall skinny man got off from the car behind her. She felt he was following her, so she hurried and started tying her shoe, but the man stopped and asked her “Are you smart?” OP wasn’t sure what his intentions were, so she just decided to play dumb. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

On August 6th, 1975, 17 year old Laurel Jean Mitchell vanished after leaving her job at the Cokesbury Inn, a small restaurant in North Webster, Indiana. The following morning, Mitchell’s body was discovered 15 miles away by a fisherman. On February 6th, 2023, an arrest was finally made in her case. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“On our way out of the park a very dirty man, probably in his 30s, came out of the woods and made it a point to stare at me with the most empty of expressions that I have ever seen. The man followed me with his eyes and head and continued to stare at me until I couldn’t see him anymore.”Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP got invited by a fellow co-ed at the university she attended to go to a bonfire in the wilderness. Things at the bonfire seemed normal at first, until things sort of changed and started to just seem off. There was no music playing, the conversation stopped between all the people there, and OP suddenly found herself alone and the guy she came with nowhere to be found. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP had an ornate mirror in her house, which for some reason she always thought the mirror just gave off weird vibes. She brought this up to her family and realized that every member of the family thought the exact same thing, but no one had ever made this known to one another. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

In February 2010, the McStay family, a family of 4, seemingly vanished from their home abruptly. The bodies of each family member were found 3 years later in shallow graves in the California desert. The culprit was arrested one year later. We talk about other solved mysteries such as The Bloop, The Windsor Hum, Polybius, Dan Rather, The case of Adrienne Shelly, and a pilot that went missing in 1944 only to be discovered over 50 years later. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

13-year-old Rachel Marie Mellon Skemp disappeared while staying home sick with her stepfather on January 31, 1996. She has never been found and authorities suspect foul play. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

We continue reading about these experiences this guy has had behind his home of some unknown entity existing behind his home that keeps interrupting the everyday life of his family. Animals seem to be scared of it, including his 3 dogs, and the hairs on the back of his head always stand up when he goes out there, but still no sight of what it is… Until now. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP went outside and the usual noisy sounds that the various critters make at night were nonexistent/silent. They noticed something moving in the woods and it was coming toward them, which they at first thought was a rabbit, until a rock the size of a cantaloupe came hurling out of the woods and landed in some shrubs next to them.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

100% believe Joe Jackson drugged Michael Jackson with puberty blockers to prolong his cancer. Also another full blown conspiracy about Michael Jackson which you’ll have to decide yourself if you believe. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

We tell 2 more stories about some really odd disappearance cases and the strangeness surrounding what happened to these individuals. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

When someone disappears mysteriously, those left behind are often shocked and confused. Particularly baffling are disappearances where it appears as though the missing person suddenly vanished while in the midst of their daily activities. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was staying with her brother during the pandemic when there was a knock at the door. The brother answered, talked to the stranger briefly, then got angry at OP for not telling him she had a boyfriend, and a really old one at that. But OP did not have a boyfriend and had no idea who he was talking to on the other side. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

A panhandler named Wendel followed OP through every city, convinced that they were dating. When OP went to stay with her brother, he came to “rescue” her.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Christopher Tompkins was working as part of a survey crew in a wooded area near the county line road off of Warm Springs Road in Harris County, Georgia on January 25, 2002. He was accompanied by 3 co-workers, all of whom were 50 feet apart. One of the co-workers looked away for a moment and by the time he glanced in that direction again, Tompkins had vanished. The disappearance of Juan Pedro Martinez Gomez. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was just chillin at home with their family when they suddenly heard a bang at the door. OP’s dad answered the door and it was their neighbor, who was screaming that they lived in his house and needed to give it back to him immediately. Confused, the father just slammed the door in the neighbor’s face, which only made him more angry. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Today we talk about Amber Hagerman, a girl that was killed 27 years ago on January 13, 1996 and whose killer was never caught. This is the story behind Amber Alerts. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Today we read a very real, very creepy story about a woman who was stalked and followed by 3 men while inside a Target. We hope you can listen to this story and learn from it, and make sure you’re safe out there.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“The dogs have finally calmed down and I’m still just trying to get some shut eye when I hear this second sound. It was the most unnatural sound that I have ever heard in my life. This one sounded like a mix of every horror monster all in one.”Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP drives through a location in East Texas and experiences something super strange. Afterward, the location is found nowhere on Google maps and there is no evidence that they even went where they went. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains65 and promo code redditexplains65 for 65% off plus free shipping.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP and her husband start experiencing some strange, paranormal things in their home. They learn that a couple that used to live there would get the cops called on them all the time in the past for domestic disturbances. The husband later took his own life. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains and promo code redditexplains for 21 free meals plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP and their friend were talking while driving in their car and out of nowhere they spun out and began to scream while the car behind them honked. They were headed right for a gully when suddenly they were back, driving straight on the road like normal again. Neither of them could explain what was going on. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains and promo code redditexplains for 21 free meals plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was starting to fall asleep when they heard a woman start to repeat the word “No” over and over again. The lady kept saying this word, louder and louder, until she was screaming it. Nobody really reacted or did anything, until OP’s brother jumped up and tried to help. That’s when they realized there was a struggle happening with a tall man on the plane, and things were much worse than they appeared. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains and promo code redditexplains for 21 free meals plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

2022 update on this case: Marilyn Bergeron told her friends and family that something bad had happened to her, but she refused to say what it was. When asked if she’d been assaulted or witnessed a crime, she said “No, something worse.” and then vanished. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains and promo code redditexplains for 21 free meals plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“I was collecting firewood in a big tangle of downed trees, brush, and bramble. I could faintly hear the falls off to my left when out of nowhere I hear the most unearthly scream or roar I’ve ever heard. It stopped me dead in my tracks, and I was frozen.”Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains and promo code redditexplains for 21 free meals plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

In May 2008, a 13 year old Aarushi Talwar was found murdered in her own bedroom in India. The police launched a manhunt for the prime suspect, a 45 year old Hemraj, a live-in domestic help employed by her family, and one day later, Hemraj’s partially decomposed body was found in the terrace of the same home. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains and promo code redditexplains for 21 free meals plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP’s cat was inside the house, but suddenly appeared outside while they were hanging out near the door. After going inside, OP’s cat was on the couch asleep, and there was no sign of her having been outside moments before. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains and promo code redditexplains for 21 free meals plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

In 1999, there was a horrendous shooting that happened at the Columbine High School in Colorado. 2 students that survived that initial shooting were murdered at a Subway shop and 22 years later this case still remains unsolved as to who actually did it. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains and promo code redditexplains for 21 free meals plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP heard some screaming mountain lions in the woods, which isn’t a good sign as this means that the mountain lions are mating, meaning there are multiple lions nearby. As OP is sitting in the forest, these noises get closer and closer, until he sees something he really wasn’t expecting at all. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popVisit hellofresh.com/redditexplains and promo code redditexplains for 21 free meals plus free shippingOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was hanging out with his girlfriend when they suddenly heard a woman screaming outside, only this didn’t sound like a scream you’d hear from someone in trouble or someone getting mugged. It carried a hopelessness in its tone and sounded like somebody screamed their soul out of their body and into the sky. This story may give you chills. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was riding along the highway with his friend and decided he wanted to pass another car that was driving slow. As he drove into the left lane, suddenly he saw another car right in front of them. He braced for impact, but the impact never came. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Suicide is not glamorous and is never over for those around you. If you need help, please get help, and don’t let your loved ones find you that way. It not only changes them, but the feeling inside the house. OP tells about a horrific, messy, and somewhat paranormal scene they came upon when on duty one day. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“It happened in Tokyo, in a subway station. I was standing with my father when I saw the demon, a monstrously tall and furry creature with leathery black wings and a snout like an anteater. I must have stared at him for 10 minutes before he finally spoke in a soft mutter that was clearly intended for his ears only.”Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

The remains of a Texas woman who vanished more than three years ago after calling 911 to say that she was being followed were found in a wooded area, the Panola County Sheriff's Office said. Lauren Thompson, a mother of three, went missing on Jan. 10, 2019. In July of 2022, skeletal remains were located.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was at the mall with her sister and while shopping, accidentally made eye contact with a random man in the store. She got a terrible feeling and felt that they should get out of there ASAP, but after continuing into the mall, she noticed the man was following their every move.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was working in a small, privately owned restaurant in a tiny historic town. This restaurant stood out to tourists and locals alike due to its multicultural food variety. The original owner passed away in the restaurant and strange paranormal things began to happen after a business woman from the city purchased the place.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

One commenter on this thread said his sister would often come home crying because of a mean guy at school, so his mom gave him permission to go beat the guy up. He gladly went and did exactly that. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

r/UnsolvedMysteries; Fort Worth Missing TrioIn 1974, these 3 Teens vanished after Christmas shopping in a mall. Shortly after, their families received a cryptic note and the girls have still never been found.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Mintmobile.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

The person that solved a world math problem for their homework without even realizing it. His name was George Dantzig and he came to class one day, and then copied the two statistical problems written down on the board. He missed the teacher’s discussion priorly about how they were unsolved and thought they were homework. He went home and solved the problem. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit Mint Mobile for great deals on mobile plans and devices: mintmobile.com/popOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Today we tell 5 different stories about indigenous women that were found killed, but the bodies were never identified. Indigenous women are 5 times more likely to be targeted by predators and we wanted to share these stories to help bring awareness to this issue.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

“Something caught my eye and I looked over at my car. 3 men were leaning against it. 2 on the passenger side, 1 against the driver door. They were all staring at me with their arms crossed.” 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

A former 2 time candidate for governor of the US state of Idaho has been convicted over 35 years later of the abduction and murder of Jonelle Matthews. Jonelle, age 12, vanished from her home in 1984 after singing at a Christmas recital. 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

“I started to walk slowly, allowing [our dog] to walk slowly to take in his surroundings when I hear a noise coming from behind me. I turn, startled to see a man walking. He notices me and slows his gate, looks around, back at me, and smiles eerily.” 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

20 year old OP got assigned the late shift for delivering pizza and met a man one night who told her she’s beautiful. The man kept ordering pizza late at night until one night he came to the door, wearing a nice suit. He grabbed her arm and told her to come inside to be shown how a real man will treat 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

6 years before her murder, a psychologist asked Shannon what she wanted on her tombstone if she were to die, and she replied that she wanted it blank because no one cared for her in life, so why would they care for her in death? Her body was discovered 6 years later. Who killed Shannon? 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

Marshal Iwaasa disappeared 3 years ago and his truck was found burnt up 700 miles away without him in it. The story just gets weirder and weirder. 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

OP was hiking with their partner when their partner slipped off a boulder and twisted his ankle pretty badly. There was another couple with them when suddenly, at the sound of his surprised scream, the couple suddenly took off running down the trail without any word or acknowledgement of what had happened. OP and their partner were left to themselves to hike the rest of the way 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

“I saw a young man probably in his early twenties that I didn’t recognize. I made eye contact with him, and then quickly scanned the rest of the yard for my brother. I didn’t see him anywhere. I was going to move away from the window, but the man’s eyes were glued on mine, and he started to walk toward my gaze.”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

Serial Murderer Robert William Pickton was picking off indigenous women from the crime ridden area of the city, downtown East side Vancouver, and having their remains disposed of at a pig farm in another suburb. 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

We’ve all had bad dates, right? This is the only date OPhad to date that rang every alarm bell and waved every red flag. Especially when her tried to get her to climb in the back of his 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

OP’s dad used to see a woman dressed in white, carrying a candelabra in his childhood house. As he grew up, he chalked it up as his childhood imagination. Years later, he overheard a woman describing a ghost she saw in her house that was exactly the same as the one he used to see. 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

American GI’s in the Vietnamese jungle told stories about a 6 foot tall humanoid primate that would stalk and attack them, then disappear into the night. Who or what were the rock apes of Vietnam? 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

A strange man approaches OP with his arms wide open, so OP tries to go around him, but the man won’t let up and seems to want a big hug. Some chasing and a little bit of what seems to be harassment ensues. 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

“The toy started purring, and moving its fake paws like it was kneading something. I froze, staring at the toy before dropping it in the trash bag, walking out of the room, and needing to get away.” 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

Meghan Marohn, 42, of New York, was reported missing by her family on March 29 — hours before her car was found abandoned and empty the same day at Longcope Park in Lee, Massachusetts, according to state police. The person found partial human remains the evening of Sept.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

An Iowa woman, Lucy Studey, claims that her late father, Donald Studey, was a serial killer who murdered about 5 or 6 women a year, which added up to be about 70 women overall, and she claims to know where the bodies are. Authorities are currently investigating the scene for evidence. 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

“She lay next to me as we tried to listen if there was a bear or something next to us. Then it happened in an instant. Something akin to an explosion hit the tent tremendously hard. I could compare it to say if a log or something were thrown like a battering ram against the side of the tent.”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

Ruth Marie Terry, also known as Lady of the Dunes, was a formerly unidentified decedent found on July 26, 1974, in the Race Point Dunes in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her body was exhumed in 1980, 2000, and 2013 in efforts to identify her killer. 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

One trucker was driving through the edge of some bush land in Australia when he stopped upon a dying kangaroo, so he stopped to put the beast out of its misery, but when he approached the kangaroo, he got a weird feeling like he was being watched. When he flashed his light around to check his surroundings, he noticed dozens of pairs of red eyes watching 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

“I’m crouched down, looking up at her, with the street lamp shining down on both of us. She slowly turns and looks down toward me without saying anything and I immediately see it. She doesn’t seem to have a 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

OP was driving down the road when suddenly their whole body just froze up, along with everything else such as the car, the music, and their surroundings. Then suddenly everything unfroze again and went back to normal. Then things just seemed to get weirder. 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

“We pulled over on the side of the highway so one of us could make a pit stop. As my friend was peeing, I saw a tall figure in the trees walking around. It started getting closer to my friend who was just off the highway in the bush. I rolled down the window and told my friend ‘There’s something in the trees coming at you! Get back to the car!’ My friend sees it and decides to whistle at it. Sure enough, the thing whistles back. It sounded like it was whistling and humming at the same time. My friend yelled in terror and ran back to the car. We were out of there fast down the highway.” 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

“As I’m looking around, he reaches under the couch for what I thought was a weed tray. He says ‘Hey, you ever seen one of these?’ And as I look at what’s in his hands it’s a pair of cuffs and he says ‘Try ‘em on’ and attacks 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

OP says that the Southern Pentecostal Baptist Snake Handlers is a cult that pretends it’s not a cult. Another one is the Herbalife Company that despite being accused of being a pyramid scheme, they continue to function similarly with members who become addicted to it and it acts very much like a cult. 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

“When I was 10 years old I had a very vivid dream. In my dream I woke up because the ground under me was shaking. I opened my eyes and realized I wasn’t in my bed whatsoever. I was in a moving vehicle and there was screaming, but it wasn’t coming from me. Confused, I looked around, but I couldn’t move my head. Something was around my neck. Suddenly an arm shot above me, a blue sleeve, a male voice asking me something I couldn’t understand. Then I heard it, ‘Can you hear me? What’s your name?’”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

“My mind starts to play tricks on me. I’m seeing shadows moving outside and inside the house. I’m also starting to hear someone talking, like whispers or something.” 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

OP heard a knock at the door that jolted them out of their trance like state. A somewhat raspy voice called out “Hello deary.” OP had an odd interaction with her, which quickly ended and the old lady left, but when they looked out to watch her walk away, she had seemingly vanished. 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

OP was driving late at night and came across some stranger that was standing out in the middle of the road. The stranger told them their car had broken down and they needed help. After OP told them they’d send help from town, the stranger suddenly changed their story and said they needed to be dropped off at a friend’s house. 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

A man found murdered in Utah in 1983 has been matched through dental records to missing Robert Peay, but since Robert was adopted, DNA could not be obtained to confirm the match. This week, investigators have found the names of his biological parents and are tracking them down for a sample.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

“They didn’t even have the chance to reply to me when from the fence I heard this massively loud thrash of the links and all I saw was a figure full on sprinting at 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

OP’s Walmart delivery guy dropped off some stuff, and then came back later randomly to see if she got everything. Her neighbors later reported that they saw him chilling outside her front door for an hour while she was gone visiting her boyfriend with her son. 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

OP woke up to an odd noise, like someone calling for help outside. They looked outside and saw what looked like a deer, just staring toward OP and their dogs. Later, this thing began to call the name of one of the dogs as it roamed around the house outside, scratching the walls. 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

“Jay is driving frantically away from the park. At this time, I had no idea where he was taking us. It was just quiet in the car as I had the phone held up to my ear. ‘Oh well, I guess I’ll just need to follow and find you at the Familymart that you’re going to stop at.’” 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

“Suddenly she asked what I was doing at a park so late in the evening. I almost began to answer when it dawned on me. I did not mention anything about where I was or what I was doing. I never told her that I was at a park.”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

So the diamond heist happened, some evidence was left in an old man’s garbage who called the police about it, the police found it, and now we tell you how they came to discover and apprehend these men who had performed this heist. 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

We just talked about how the team made a replica of the inside of this building that held all the diamonds and precious valuables, and now we talk about the night of the heist. 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

5 men broke through ten layers of high tech security to penetrate a subterranean vault and perform the biggest diamond heist in history. The operation was flawless and they escaped undetected and over encumbered with riches. Their identities were discovered after the contents of a garbage bag led police straight to their doors. 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

In 2003, Krzysztof told his wife's parents they wouldn't visit them for Easter, as they were going to visit friends in Germany. The family of five is never seen 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

OP and their friends were driving when one of them needed to go potty. So they decided to pull off on a dirt road where this friend could pee with more privacy, but after stopping, they soon found themselves surrounded by multiple figures enclosing on their 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

“I walked over to them and asked what was wrong, and their response was very unsettling to me. My one son told me that he heard their door creak open and there was a shadow of someone staring at him right outside of his room.”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

After OP left their classmate’s house, they came upon what looked like a scene of a car accident, but things seemed suspicious. Someone was slouched over in a truck like they had gone unconscious, so OP decided to just back away from the scene instead of trying to pass, and that’s when the person in the seat suddenly sat up.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

OP has a stalker that has been stalking her for 4 years. The stalker will randomly send her pictures of her walking into her apartment or other creepy things like that, so she decided to post about it on Reddit, and that’s when she received letters from him containing print-outs of her post and the questions on the Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything). Things Continued to escalate from there. 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

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 betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Addy’s friend was driving on the freeway and someone thought she cut them off, so they proceeded to follow her for 40 minutes. No matter what she did to try to evade this psycho, he followed her every move.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

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 Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“I had finally slipped into a deep sleep when I suddenly heard the door open. A man stood in the darkened doorway, the hall light behind him shining just enough to see his contoured face. ‘I didn’t mean to’ he sobbed. ‘You have to help me.’ Too confused and distorted to be scared, I sat up, rubbed my eyes, and reached for the lamp switch. But once the room was lit, I saw that the door was closed, then there was no man.”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

OP was hanging out with some friends at a field. It was getting late, so everyone decided it was time to leave, but there was a man standing next to the forest exit that OP needed to take home. 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

We did a previous episode on this subject in case you want to go back and listen. McKamey Manor is an American haunted house attraction in which survival horror-style events are enacted. McKamey Manor is considered a pioneer of "extreme" haunted attractions. It was founded in San Diego by Russ McKamey and originally located on his property. 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

A haunted attraction and participation event where you will live your own horror movie. Critics have argued that Mckamey Manor is not a haunted attraction, but a torture chamber. Founder Russ Mckamey denies these claims and maintains that the manor has an element of mystery. 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

“Once the sun was gone and all you could see was darkness, I was walking slowly through a field, and out of nowhere I had to this day the most gut wrenching, undeniable feeling that I was being watched.” 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

OP was just 12 years old and boy crazy, so when she met a stranger through a radio signal, she got super excited and wanted to meet him. Turns out the guy was 19 and not someone she should be interacting with..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

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 betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

At age 2, OP’s daughter one evening just turned to her and said “There’s a baby in your belly.” OP turned to her husband and asked if he told her, but he swore he didn’t. She then asked the daughter if it was a boy or girl and she said “It’s a boy, but I wanted a girl.” 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

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 betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP has often felt paranormal presences since they were about 8 or 9 years old. “I saw a female apparition standing maybe 2-3 meters away from my bed. I still remember the face of that woman and her clothes.”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

While OP was fishing at a lake, everything suddenly went quiet and a nasty smell arose, as if a dead carcass was nearby. He becomes aware that something is emerging from the forest behind him and at this moment is unable to move. 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

“You know that feeling you get when someone is staring at you? Yeah, I felt that coming from the porch. So I look over at the screen door and there’s a 3 and a half to 4 foot tall, all white with big black eyes, thing staring at 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

OP placed knives all over the place when she was high because she got paranoid pretty easily, but one day this proved to be somewhat useful when an unwelcome guest showed up and began advancing 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

OP noticed the sound of bushes rustling while in a garden at a factory where they worked. These rustling sounds were pretty constant, but there was no breeze. OP assumed it was the dog, until they noticed the dog was sleeping somewhere else. 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

OP had a new neighbor move in and decided to bring some gifts to him just to help him feel welcome, but apparently that was the wrong thing to do. We came home one night after midnight and found him waiting there, upset that we didn’t let him know where we were. Things only escalated from there. 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

“I heard a loud thud and all of a sudden it was as if a giant had swept across the entire dresser flinging everything on it across the room violently.”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

r/CreepyEncounters; Strange Happenings in the Mountains of Washington StateOP 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

“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

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 life. What was unusual was that he growled at ME. He had never done that before, not once.” 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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 those locations.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

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 stress, grief, and other mental health needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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 betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“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

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

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

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 professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“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 Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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

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

“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 Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 stress, grief, and other mental health needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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

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

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

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

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: @reddit_explains

“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

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

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

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.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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

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 mental health needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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

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

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

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

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

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_explains

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

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 needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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

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 of death was determined, and the circumstances surrounding their disappearance remain unknown. 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

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 about stress, grief, and other mental health needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“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

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

In 2018, 16-year-old Karlie Gusé attended a party. Karlie allegedly smoked weed, and suffered adverse effects the entire night. Scared, Karlie called her stepmother to pick her up from the party. Later, during the early hours of the morning, Karlie vanished from her home. She hasn’t been seen since. 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

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 Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needs.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP heard a noise at the back of her door that sounded like someone trying to get into her home. After investigating and finding no one, she and her boyfriend continued on with normal life, but things started happening that would suggest someone is unexplainably messing with and using her stuff. 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

OP’s sister has gone outside with a knife to see who this stranger is lurking outside before quickly running inside and locking the door with a terrified look in her eye. 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

OP was walking her dogs with her foster sister at the park when a man passed them, said hello, and kept on walking. He then came back around and kept passing them, saying hello, and each time a bit closer than the last. They decided to leave as they didn’t feel very comfortable about this creep, but realized as they were driving home that someone 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

“When I was 15 I was walking home from the bus stop about 5 blocks away from my house when an older man on a bike stopped me. He grabbed my arm and started going on about how he didn’t like me out and about and that if he sees me agan, he will kill me. He then kisses my hand and let it go. I ran to the closest house I knew and had someone drive me the rest of the way home.” 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

OP was about to head out of the building he lived in when he suddenly met a stranger. The stranger seemed nice at first, but then he said he needed to deliver something to an address/apartment number that didn’t exist. Things escalated from there. 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

On August 18, 2021, the bodies of married couple Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner were found in Moab, Utah, United States. Both victims were killed by gunshot wounds, and had last been seen alive five days earlier. The case remains unsolved. 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

OP struggles with sleep paralysis and often experiences the weird things that accompany it like hearing whispers or seeing a presence above them, but one night they noticed what looked like a humanoid in the center of their room. A tall, thin, red skinned lady, with pure malice in its eyes. 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

“We were about half a mile from the nearest campsite when we heard a soft whispering behind us. Obviously we hit the flashlights and spun around. Didn’t see anything, so we kept walking, and we hear it again. This time we stop and look around for a bit before we decide to head back to our campsite. Then we see what’s whispering. It’s a lady crawling on the ground, just whispering random words.” 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

While walking past what looked like an empty house, u/duckyblinders saw a nail on the ground, so they threw it into the yard of this empty house. A man suddenly came outside and started yelling at them, which they thought was because of the nail, but they soon found out this man was a criminal hiding from the law, who almost took them as a hostage. 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

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 Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was in the woods at night next to a fire with his friend, when a strong breeze came through the site. They suddenly heard footsteps in the darkness running back and forth, and then whatever it was that was watching them stopped. As he stared into the darkness, he knew he was looking right at whatever or whoever was lurking there. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP and their friends came across a strange place in the woods that appeared to be some sort of laboratory, but what they found inside was even weirder. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“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 Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

The Bell Witch or Bell Witch Haunting is a legend from Southern United States folklore, centered on the 19th-century Bell family of northwest Robertson County, Tennessee. Farmer John Bell Sr. resided with his family along the Red River near the town of Adams. According to legend, from 1817 to 1821, his family and the local area came under attack by a mostly invisible entity that was able to speak, affect the environment, and shapeshift. Some accounts record the spirit also to have been clairvoyant and capable of crossing long distances with superhuman speed. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

At 4:45 in the afternoon, OP’s aunt heard a knock at the door and was met with 3 caucasian young adult men, all dressed in black matching uniforms. They asked if OP was home, but didn’t give any details as to what they wanted, and then left immediately after OP’s aunt said OP wasn’t there. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“If the refs blow a call, they give you a holding call later to make up for it. So if you know anything about football, if they make a bad call against your team, then they’ll call a holding, which is kind of an interesting call, against the other team to make up for it… most people are like, that rule is practically written in the NFL.” 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

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 betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

“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 betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 get done in one shift, but for various reasons was passed on to another that didn’t know what they were doing. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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.com Visit betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 betterhelp.com/redditexplains to talk to a professional about stress, grief, and other mental health needsOur Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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: 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 gone. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 at a point 1.3 miles (2.1 km) from her home and began to approach her, she left the roadside and ran into a wooded area. In the morning, her parents discovered her absence and no one has seen her since. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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: 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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: 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 person. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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 meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

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.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.Visit genomelink.io to submit your DNA results to get an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

A crazy brawl broke out while a man attacked an adolescent while wielding a knife, all while continuously saying he would kill him. The reason? Because the kid looked at him wrong. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

A man by the name of Andrew Finch was fatally shot after 2 people quarreled online. One of them threatened the other with sending a SWAT team to their house through a false report, to which the other replied with what he claimed was his own address, daring him to send the SWAT there. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP got home and noticed their cellar door open, which they never leave open, and then they heard a disturbing cry coming from within. Police came and took this individual away and after investigating inside they found kitchen knives, an ax, iron chains, and a board. OP later learned that this individual ran away from an asylum. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was waiting to take down an animal when he saw some bushes moving across a grassy field. Thinking it could possibly be his dad who had left a while earlier, he hesitated to fire, when suddenly a transparent white girl in a long flowing white dress came floating onto the field. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Officials estimate he had been there for between three and five years based on the state of decay. The victim's body was found behind drywall and between two concrete pillars in the top tier of the auditorium in a cavity with only a 15-inch opening, according to the Oakland police department. We also tell a story about some siblings that discovered their brother’s bones in his room while cleaning his room. He had gone missing 5 years prior. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Elizabeth Smart gained national attention at the age of 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell. Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, held Smart captive for nine months until she was rescued by police officers on a street in Sandy, Utah. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP and his friend heard a disturbing scream in the night while they were sitting around their camp fire. A man came into their camp and they thought it was the maniac they heard in the woods before he asked them if he could sit down at their fire, and then went on to tell them some disconcerting news. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

We read a couple of stories today about people who seemed to be able to tell the future or manifest stuff like certain meals or other random things. One person’s grandma was able to beat sickness and overcome cancer because of her own belief that she was fine. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was on vacation from school and watching her younger sister one evening when her sister came to her, wide eyed, and said someone was upstairs. After investigating, she came across a little old woman sitting in a rocking chair in her sister’s room. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Late on the afternoon of October 24, 1961, police went to a house in Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States, after a neighbor reported seeing blood leading from the house to the driveway. She had made the discovery after a young girl living in the house had returned from a playdate to find her mother, Joan Carolyn Risch absent. Several unconfirmed sightings of an apparently disoriented Risch walking on nearby roads later that day were reported. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP woke up to his girlfriend crying at the side of his bed and he asked her if everything was OK, but she didn’t give an answer. He then told her to come back to bed and she climbed back in bed where they cuddled each other to sleep. The next morning he couldn’t find his girlfriend anywhere and when he called her, she told him that he had dropped her off at her house at 10 PM the night before. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

One commenter’s cat died after being hit by a car. One night while lying in bed, they felt their cat kneading their leg, but when they looked down, there was nothing there. Another commenter had a friend in school, but no one remembers them and no records can be found of them ever having existed.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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP lived in a bigger home and had 2 living rooms. While staying home from school one day, they suddenly came across a man in their hallway before running to their room and seeking refuge from this stranger. Police came and they made a shocking discovery in their second living room. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos went missing in 2004 and 2003, respectively, under similar circumstances in Naples, Florida. Both men were last seen being arrested by Steve Calkins, then a deputy in the Collier County Sheriff's Department, for driving without a license. Calkins claims he changed his mind about both arrests and last saw the men after he dropped them at Circle K convenience stores. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

On November 2nd, 2021, OP was walking home from the store when this guy in a car began stalking her. She took off running and was able to get away at first, but then he circled the block, jumped out of his car, and began chasing her on foot. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was an American child beauty queen who was killed at the age of six in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. A long handwritten ransom note was found in the home and her father, John, found the girl's body in the basement of their house about seven hours after she had been reported missing, but the case remains unsolved to this day. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

While walking on the beach one day, OP noticed a girl walking swiftly toward them when their dog suddenly took off toward her and these 3 men behind her. The dog ran past the girl and barked ferociously at the 3 men before they turned around and took off in the opposite direction.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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

One commenter said while driving with their family in the PNW, they saw a man holding a long barrel rifle to a woman’s head, whose mother didn’t believe them. Another commenter saw a man sitting at a desk in the woods with a lantern, but he never looked up or acknowledged them as they passed by. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was in a scary snowmobile accident and now has memories that cannot be corroborated by anyone else they know, such as remembering Shaniah Twain having a song with a melody and lyrics that doesn’t seem to exist now, or having a completely different job and Covid never existing. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

A bus was cut off while driving on the freeway, which caused the driver to have to slam on the brakes, throwing multiple people forward. Everyone survived with some minor injuries, except for one pregnant woman who was standing in the back and was thrown half the length of the bus, causing her to die. But this wouldn’t be the last she was seen. 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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP was dropped off for a sleepover at their aunt’s house, who had a misscarriage a while back. Around 3 AM, they woke up to hear some girl talking upstairs, which they thought was their cousin, but soon realized the cousin was sleeping right next to them. Who was this stranger they heard?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 an advanced DNA report.Our Instagram page: @reddit_explains

OP is a truck driver and often meets up with another truck driver halfway to swap loads for logistic reasons. One night after arriving before the other driver, OP noticed this strange group of people, all wearing the same shirt, and slowly walking down the middle of the street.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 an advanced DNA report.

One of our listeners and friend told a story about when he was younger and used to go to this old, seemingly abandoned property and explore it, discovering some strange and uneasy things about it. They later learned that it might be a bit more dangerous than they thought. 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 an advanced DNA report.

One commenter said they felt like running at night because the light gets all pretty in the dark. After running for a bit, they stopped to adjust their shoes when they looked up and noticed a dark silhouette of someone running towards them at full speed. This stranger suddenly tripped and face planted hard on the ground, but then started crawling and heading in their direction 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 an advanced DNA report.

OP found himself separated from his friends as they were all snooping around a cemetery at night. At this point he felt a feeling of dread set in, and then noticed this shape crouched down in the darkness, which then stood up and towered over him and it definitely wasn’t human. 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 an advanced DNA report.

There was a woman that was in a relationship that was just showering her with gifts and stuff, bringing her to nice restaurants and was planning trips to different countries. She was accepting at first, but became skeptical as time went on. Turns out that it was a common sign of human trafficking and a commenter actually worked for an anti trafficking agency. They pointed out the similarities between her story and the common tactic to lure people in. 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 an advanced DNA report.

While OP and his brother were hanging out and playing video games one evening, one brother suddenly screamed and ran upstairs, saying there was a man in handcuffs outside their door with the creepiest smile on his face, who kept knocking to be let in, but things didn’t end there. 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 an advanced DNA report.

This guy was a 25 year old with a long term girlfriend and a young child when he mysteriously vanished from Madison, Indiana in the early morning hours of May 4, 2008. Daniel’s case is still unsolved and there is currently a $1000 dollar reward for anyone with information leading to the location of Daniel. 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 an advanced DNA report.

A bunch of siblings were often left home alone when their parents would go out for the evening. One night when the parents were gone and they were all hanging out, one of the sisters looked outside and suddenly screamed. They later learned that she had seen a man outside who looked like he was wielding a knife and the police had even found pry marks on their door. 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 an advanced DNA report.

A truck driver was driving at night and decided to take a quick break at a rest stop. After coming outside, there was a big pickup truck next to his truck and a man standing outside it, who asked if he was having any trouble with his vehicle malfunctioning. As he left and continued his journey, he noticed this driver following him. 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 an advanced DNA report.

Emily DeFries was convicted of murdering her fiances 22 month old daughter, Anna Bell. Emily, Anna Bell, and her other 8 year old stepdaughter were home alone, when Emily made a call to the police saying that she found Anna Bell lying at the bottom of the staircase. The child's cause of death was blunt force trauma to the skull. Many people aren't sure she was guilty of the crime, and Emily's defense attorney pointed to the 8 year old sister as the one responsible for the crime. 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 an advanced DNA report.

Michael Iver Peterson was convicted of murdering his 2nd wife who was found dead at the bottom of a large staircase with severe injuries, including a fractured neck and 7 lacerations to the top and back of her head. But there is a somewhat convincing theory that she was attacked by an owl, which leads us to the definition of what an owl theory is. 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 an advanced DNA report

If you think about it, we humans are constantly finding ways to get mad at one another and dispute to the point where nations are often fighting and there’s always a war going on somewhere. Could this be the reason aliens haven’t revealed themselves to us yet? 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 an advanced DNA report

OP used to sneak out and go see a boy when she was 15 years old. One evening, a man in a truck approached her, got out, and told her “I’m sorry for whatever happens to you. It’s not your fault.” This sent crazy red flags through her head, so she took off running as this man got back in his car and began to follow her. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

When OP’s brother was 5 years old, he would see this woman every night. He would also have these dreams where the same woman would be watching her son, and whenever she would turn her head for just one second, the son would run into the street and get hit by a car. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP moved to a new neighborhood and noticed the neighborhood kids having a mud fight next door. He told them to stop as some mud was getting on his house and his dad would be mad. The next day he came home to people upset and a bunch of cops outside the house next door who later came to him for questioning about the boy’s death. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

While getting a ride through Rideshare, OP’s driver made some light conversation, asking how their day went when OP joked about how they didn’t even remember. Then the driver suddenly said something that made their blood run cold, “What if I just kidnapped you?” Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Ivan Robert Marko Milat was an Australian serial killer who was convicted of the backpacker murders in 1996. Milat, commonly known as the Backpacker Murderer, assaulted, imprisoned, robbed and murdered two men and five women in New South Wales between 1989 and 1993. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

There are Mattress Firms everywhere and often they have stores clumped together, which doesn’t make very much sense given that people don’t go off and buy a mattress that often. It all just seems a little too fishy. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP decided to take a shortcut home one night when she came upon a street and noticed a whole gang of men walking towards her car and blocking the way forward. She found herself trapped when they started making cat calls at her and definitely didn’t have good intentions as they approached her car. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

After relocating their living situation, OP was driving on their way to work when they came across a strange little town that was seemingly surrounded by water on all sides. It was a confusing place that was hard to navigate, which caused them to be late to work, but when OP finally got there 2 hours later and tried explaining everything to their boss, they couldn’t find any sign of the place ever existing. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

u/daver2442 said he was with his family chilling by their campfire in the woods at night and you couldn’t really see anything except for right around where the fire was. They were having a good time until they noticed a set of eyes staring at them from the darkness. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP led a normal, happy life until one day she thought she heard her husband walk in the front door, but when she went to check, it was a stranger. He just stood there staring at her and before she knew it, she found herself locked in her closet, waiting to die as this intruder did everything he could to break the door down and get to her. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

We read a comment about someone who went camping at Yosemite with 7 friends and while they were sleeping, they all suddenly awoke to one friend frantically trying to open the tent door, who then poked his head out and said someone was in their camp. Then he lay back down and went back to sleep. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

At random times while growing up, OP would receive strange phone calls from an unknown man, telling her he was watching. She brushed it off as a mean prank until one day years later she received the call again, but this time it was accompanied by some visitors. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Today we read more olympic conspiracies about the Chinese government and how it controls the weather with chemtrails, the miracle on ice being fixed, Phelps lost but still got gold, the 1972 basketball scandal, and the 1936 Munich olympics. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

We read multiple olympic conspiracy cases that have happened over the decades, including a woman who did so well in her events that they did an investigation into whether she was actually a woman, and another case of an olympic pool that was claimed to be aiding some swimmers with a current. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP went out on the town with their cousin. While chilling in a bar, OP’s ex boyfriend’s father approached her and wanted to talk. He and her went outside to smoke, but then after a bit she felt uncomfortable and went back inside. The man approached her again and insisted they go outside, suddenly grabbing her arm to pull her when her friend intervened and told him to get away, which he did. Months later, they learned some horrifying news about this man. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

The disappearance of Brandon Swanson. Shortly after midnight on May 14, 2008, Brandon Swanson of Marshall, Minnesota, United States, drove his car into a ditch on his way home from celebrating the end of the spring semester with fellow students from Minnesota West Community and Technical College's Canby campus. He called his parents and remained on the line for 47 minutes until he suddenly cursed and went silent. He has never been seen or heard from since. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

There was a rumor in someone’s high school after a girl was found dead in a river that her boyfriend had killed her. The case was cold until 25 years later when that same guy ended up killing his best friend of many decades and a woman at a rest stop to steal her car, proving he was the killer of the first girl. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

One of our fans sent us a story about her weird neighbor who would at times stare at her through the window. One day this neighbor suddenly just walked into their apartment and asked OP’s brother if OP was home. Lucky for her, she wasn’t. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Today we have two themes. First we talk about the theory that California may fall into the ocean one day, and then we go into a scary story about someone who saw a strange figure outside their window in a dream, but later things started happening while they were awake. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

An airline pilot tells about a time when he was ascending while flying, but as he and his co-pilots did so, all pressure systems inside the plane began to fail. There have been various instances where planes have lost all pressure inside the cabin and people have gotten injured and in some cases, everyone died. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP’s great grandma told them of a story in the 1800’s when she saw who she thought was a man in the woods that took a little boy from their camp, but upon closer inspection, she realized it wasn’t any normal man at all, but a creature called a haint. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Bakedbrotato76 said that one time in the 70’s a film crew was filming an episode of the 6 Million Dollar Man and shooting at a fun house/amusement park. A stagehand was moving what he thought was a prop wax figure on a noose, only for one arm to fall off, revealing human flesh and bone. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP was out walking and minding their own business when they felt like someone was watching them. Upon looking up in the sky, they noticed this orange orb floating there. At first they tried to just brush it off as a plane, until it suddenly started moving like no known aircraft is capable of moving on this planet. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP and her boyfriend live on a plot of land and while out walking her dogs, OP noticed a little camp that had been set up on the property. Later on during the night, a masked individual came to the house and started trying to break in while OP had no one to protect her but her dogs. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Someone comments about a time when they were young and sleeping in between their parents. They suddenly woke up at about 4 am and noticed a strange figure standing and looking out the window. It turned around to look at this individual, but definitely wasn’t human. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

While working in beach security, OP had a strange visitor come to the beach house door. The man had odd colored hair and asked to use the bathroom, but OP had a bad feeling about letting him in and said no. This guy left, but it wouldn’t be his last time coming around. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

A Reddit user said he used to check the obituary often and one day he saw a friend of his on there. He just assumed his parents knew about it, so he didn’t mention it to him. A week later his mom told him that the friend had died, and he told her he already knew because he saw the obituary a few days before, but then she stated the friend had died last night in his sleep. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Today we read a story about a haunted forest attraction that went from just a fun source of entertainment, to a full on hub for felons. As the owners of this attraction got more and more invested, its sinister nature began to extend beyond its bounds. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP likes to scuba dive and went to an instructor to refresh their old reflexes. While enjoying himself, OP noticed that the other student he was with was signalling him that he was out of air and needed more, but things weren’t quite what they seemed. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

When OP was about 10 years old, they woke up in the night to their sister crying. Annoyed, they looked up to see their cousin soothing her with an uneasy look on their face as they looked at another spot in the room. When OP looked over, they saw a tall figure with no face, hunched over their brothers, who were asleep. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP lived on a historic piece of land in Texas, but had various different experiences that left them and their family a bit spooked, including a possible cult that often came on their land and practiced witchcraft and other satanic rituals. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist, murderer, and trigamist, the subject of more than 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Nickldd92 said when he was 10 years old, he got up late one night to go get some water. His mom was also thirsty, so they both headed to the kitchen to get a drink when suddenly a car came flying into their driveway and a burly man dressed in black came walking very aggressively to their front door. At this moment, his mom quickly flipped on the light and he stopped, ran back to his car, and hauled his butt out of there. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

When OP was between 8 and 10 years old, they woke up around 3 or 4 AM and noticed what looked like their mother standing in the hallway staring through the crack of the door at OP, except she had no mouth or nose. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

While playing Runescape one day, a Redditor came across another player and began chatting. The other player started getting creepy in the chat, and then said, “Wanna see me open your CD drive?” He thought the player was bluffing, so he said for him to go ahead. At that moment, the CD drive opened by itself. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP and every family member opened their boxes and things became quite disturbing, revealing a dark secret that OP never knew until now. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

“It’s not blood that binds us, but tradition. Customs that we live by that we cherish and pass on to our children when they grow old enough. Tradition is everything to this family and as you are part of it, you have no choice but to live by our rules.” OP was told this same thing on the car ride to each family function they ever had. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Underwater caves. They’re beautiful to look at, but dangerous. Some divers get disoriented, can’t understand which way is up, and then drown after getting lost. They’re very deep, dark holes and you never know what you might find there. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

While home alone, 12 year old Sarah heard a sudden banging on her door. A man stated he had a pizza delivery for her, but she didn’t ever order any pizza. She thought she could just stay silent and pretend no one was home, until she looked down at the keyhole in the door and saw his eye staring at her. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

u/reptarisreal999 said when she went to meet a friend outside her elementary school when she was 13. While waiting, a man pulled up next to her and asked for directions to a main street, but then he began to flirt with her and wouldn’t leave her alone until finally a lady came walking up with her dog, and the man fled the scene. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP plays hide and seek with her 4 year old son and will often help him out while she’s hiding by saying “Yoohoo!” and poking her feet out when he’s close to finding her. While playing one day, she suddenly heard another “yoohoo!” coming from upstairs, luring her son toward whatever was lurking there. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

u/adilmmn said they were in a hospital and there was a man there with either psychosis, dementia, or something, and he would walk up and down the hallway all day talking to someone not there about the most random things. One day this man stopped in adilmmn’s doorway and asked, “Are you scared? You should be.” and then he walked away. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Today’s episode is a little more lighthearted: The Jewish secret space laser. The US representative Marjory Taylor Green claimed the California wildfires were caused by a space laser run by the very rich Rothschild family. Another one: “A college geology professor told us that America tried to assassinate Castro by inventing a hand lotion that would only kill black people. A white agent would put the lotion on his hands and try to shake Castro’s hand.” Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

When OP was young, her and her friend were waiting for their parents at school when a man came to the front gate, whom they recognized as another girl’s dad. He asked them where his daughter had gone, but then proceeded to offer them a ride home. OP refused, but her friend accepted. OP never saw her friend again and what happened to her might disturb you. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP and his friends went to an abandoned mental asylum and started out by checking the basement. Things smelled like crap down there, and then suddenly OP’s friend said they needed to leave immediately. A while later, he revealed why he said they needed to leave right away, and it left chills down everyone’s spines. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP knocked on their grandparents’ bedroom door and heard a reply, but after waiting for a bit, no one would answer. Their cousin came out and told OP that their grandparents had left a long time ago and there should be no one in that room. This wasn’t the only odd occurrence like this either. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

“This happened to my mom in the early 70s. My mom was dead asleep in the middle of the night, but something jarred her awake. In the darkness of her bedroom, she could see a strange man opposite of her bed, staring at her.” Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

The Basano Vase is a silver vase made in the 15th century, which was given to a bride on the eve of her wedding. However she didn't make it to the altar as she was murdered that night with the vase in her hands. It went on to curse the life of anyone who obtained it. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP works at a well known auto parts shop and got a call from one of the regular customers. The customer told him he had two missed calls from their auto shop, but upon investigation, OP gathered that no one had actually called him. 5 minutes later, the customer’s parts arrived. OP decided to call him, but accidentally hung up on the first call, so he redialed and called him again. The customer never got back to them. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP heard the door open and her dogs ran over, exclaiming their excited yips as she could hear them greeting her husband and he greeting them back in return. When she got up to greet him, there was no one there. She looked all around along with her dogs, but they couldn’t find him anywhere. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Someone heard footsteps downstairs in their apartment, but knew there weren’t supposed to be any. They asked someone to come over and listen to see if they were crazy, but finally they decided to call the landlord and the police. Apparently someone had broken the windows downstairs and was walking around downstairs with a knife. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP’s wife saw a strange man walk past a window and hid with her little brother as the man tried different doors and windows to see if they were locked until her neighbor yelled and scared him off. A couple years later on Halloween night, she got a strange sense that someone was watching her from her steps, which she shrugged off until she noticed her dogs looking at those stairs while cowering. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Robert William Fisher is an American fugitive wanted for allegedly killing his family and blowing up the house in which they lived in Scottsdale, Arizona, on April 10, 2001. Fisher served in the United States Navy and later worked as a firefighter and in the medical field and has been on the FBI’s most wanted list since June 2002. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Kyler21, a touring musician, said his car broke down in some random place in Mississippi. His friend received an airdrop request and as they were getting into their car to leave, he opened the airdrop. There were 7 pictures of dead bodies, and the last two pictures they received were of them repairing the car in the parking lot. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP was bored and decided to get on Omegle one evening. Her friends got on and played a prank on her, telling her all these details that made her think this stranger was outside watching her home as she could hear strange noises coming from her porch. Upon investigation, she discovered something much more disturbing. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP’s partner just got laid off from his job, so he decided to just chill out and play a video game while OP hung out in her room. Suddenly a man walked in the door mentioning that he had dropped a package at the door, but no one answered, so he walked in to see if anyone was home. After screaming at him and telling him to get out, police said they drove past a guy in a car that matched his car’s description, and he quickly covered his face as they did so. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

While out running errands with his dad, OP was looking for deodorant at Walmart when he heard sobbing behind him. Upon investigation, he found a guy crying while holding a bloody blade in his hand and blood dripping all over the floor. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Someone was driving home late at night and noticed a truck behind her on the freeway. 50 miles later, the truck was still following her, until she got off in her hometown and the truck also got off. She noticed the truck kept following her until she hurried and pulled into a 24/7 Mcdonald’s and got in the car order line. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

A girl had been burned from her knees up and had some significant scarring from the incident. The nun was beating her with a cane on her scars and her doctor, horrified, said the beatings had to stop to allow her to heal. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

“My niece drew a picture of a man in her room that she kept telling her parents about. He had two different colored eyes and one was gray. When asked why it was gray, she responded, ‘Because he can see the storm coming.’” Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP was at the beach in North Carolina with their family and playing in the water when they suddenly felt something tug on their foot. This thing suddenly latched onto their ankle and yanked them under the water. They got about 15 feet out when their brother finally grabbed them, pulling them away from this unknown danger… Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

A young 18-year-old man said he saw two girls, the Lyon sisters, taken by an older man and pushed into an old brown car. It wasn’t until 40 years later those authorities figured out that the 18-year-old man was the real culprit after he was serving a long sentence in prison for child molestation. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Fluoride is put into our water and dentists say it’s a good thing that helps our teeth to be stronger, but according to this conspiracy theory, the history of forcing fluoride on humans through the fluoridation of drinking water is wrought with lies, greed, and deception. Scientific evidence shows that in areas where fluoride is put into the public drinking water, people have higher rates of cavities, cancer, osteoporosis, and other health problems. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

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.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

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.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

The Max Headroom signal hijacking occurred on the night of November 22, 1987, when the television broadcasts of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, United States, were hijacked in an act of broadcast piracy by a video of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume, accompanied by distorted audio and a corrugated metal panel swiveling in the background to mimic Max Headroom's geometric background effect. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

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.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

Today we continue the story from our previous episode, and we come upon a disturbing revelation about what’s been going on in OP’s home. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP was climbing a tall tree at 11 years old when a branch broke and he fell 30+ feet, hitting his head and causing him to go blind. Years later, he established himself in life, buying a house and living alone. While home, he began noticing things seemed a little off about his surroundings, and things got even more weird after he dropped his phone and couldn’t find it anywhere on the floor. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP was heading to a net cafe to use a computer and had to take an elevator. On their way up, the elevator suddenly stopped on a floor before the cafe and OP saw what looked like a woman in a white gown. There were no lights on other than the light in the elevator and this woman slowly started coming toward OP. At this point, they tried pressing the close door button, but instead of the doors shutting, the elevator light flickered off, leaving them in complete darkness. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP found an old cell phone under the chair she was sitting on while riding the bus. She turned it on, and it immediately started receiving messages, which didn’t make any sense as the phone should’ve been dead and had no reception. At this moment she realized that some of the messages weren’t just to some random person, but they were directed to her. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP met a girl named Kelly who was considered weird by everyone at their school. Whenever someone was mean to Kelly, Kelly would give them an evil look and terrible things would happen to them a short time later. OP ended up dating her and getting married, until things between them started going downhill and OP received the look himself. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

A girl tells a story about a time she was staying in a hostel and was invited to go sail on a boat with a crew. She went and noticed two other girls, who didn’t really speak and whenever she tried to talk to them, the sailors would jump in and say the girls didn’t like talking much. These men got more and more sketchy, leading her to believe they were human traffickers. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

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.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

OP went to stay in a famous abandoned castle a couple hours away from their house. This place was known for being an inspiration for many writers and poets, but many of them wrote about horrible experiences they had while they were there during a storm. OP tells of when they had their own incident while staying there one evening. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

On May 8, 2008, Joshua “Josh” Maddux, 18, left his house to take a walk. He was a nature lover, so this was nothing unusual. He was never seen alive again. Seven years later, in August 2015, less than a mile away from Josh’s home, property developer Chuck Murphy was demolishing an old wood cabin to make way for 32 new family homes. The cabin hadn’t been used in years and the inside was damp and rotten. Work to demolish the chimney inside the cabin started and to the surprise of the demolition team, crammed inside the brickwork was a mummified body, which later was confirmed as Joshua. His body was naked apart from a thin shirt and his clothes were neatly stacked inside the cabin. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

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.comVisit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with the code Reddit16 for 16 free meals.

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

When OP was very young, they started experiencing visits from a strange animal-human entity with hooves and thick hair, and who would whisper unsettling things to them such as “Let me in. I am friend.” as they lay in their bed. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

The Goiania Incident. Essentially some very poor people got a hold of some highly radioactive material and didn’t know what it was. Some people thought it was a magical dust. They touched it and played with it, and things didn’t end well. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

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

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.

OP grew up on a farm in an old house that was built in the 1800’s. One day in the early afternoon, the animals had somehow opened the gate and escaped the pasture. Before leaving their room, OP looked out the window again and saw an old man herding the animals back into the pasture and closing the gate. When he was done, he turned, looked at the window, smiled, and then left, never to be seen by OP again. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

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

The "Boy in the Box" is the name given to an unidentified murder victim, a 4-to 6-year-old boy, who's naked, battered body was found in a bassinet box in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 25, 1957. He is also commonly called "America's Unknown Child." Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Planet X is real, orbits like a comet, and so enters the solar system at infrequent intervals and is home to intelligent life that has affected past human civilizations. The AskReddit questions about conspiracy theories are periodically posted by the government to measure how close the general public is to uncovering the truth. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP was alone on a cold Winter night when she heard someone running toward her, and then was attacked. A man grabbed her, demanded the contents of her purse, and then told her to remove her clothes. She decided to fight back instead of submit and was barely able to fight him off. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

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

On September 11, 1982 the body of Ivan Egas was found inside a lion's cage from a local zoo in Quito in the early hours of the morning. An autopsy revealed signs of foul play, however 40 years later his murder is still unsolved. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

One Reddit user’s mom saw an elderly woman walking up her neighbor’s stairs while she was smoking outside. Their mom tried to ask if she was all right, but all she could get out was a “hello,” and then the woman just… disappeared. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

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

The Boggart, a mischievous little spirit hailing from Scottish origins lives in the house and does both good and bad things for the residents of the house. My dad has been losing things for as long as I can remember and apparently it happened even when he was a little kid. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. from their ninth studio album, Monster (1994). The song's title refers to an incident in New York City in 1986, when two then-unknown assailants attacked journalist Dan Rather, while repeating "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

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

OP woke up and went to the gas station but noticed no one was wearing a mask. They then went to work where everyone was expected to wear a mask for Covid, but no one had one on and when OP Googled Covid-19, there were no results for it. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

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

On the evening of November 18, 1987, police went to the mobile home of Russell Keith Dardeen, 29, and his family outside Ina, Illinois, United States, after he had failed to show up for work that day. There they found the bodies of his wife and son, both brutally beaten. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

The Tamám Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead in 1948 on the Somerton Park beach, just south of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

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

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

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

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

The Hands Resist Him is a painting that was created by artist Bill Stoneham in 1972. It depicts a young boy and a female doll standing in front of a glass paneled door, against which many hands are pressed. According to Stoneham, the boy is based on a photograph of himself at age five. Many who have looked upon this painting have experienced the paranormal after doing so. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP heard someone humming during a ballgame, but no one around them was humming. They realized the hum was coming from a ditch, but when she went to investigate, there was nothing. After asking her friend, she confirmed that she had also heard the hum, so they ran away, but this wasn’t the only time OP heard a strange noise. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP went on a couple’s retreat with his wife to an old hotel. Things started off great as him and his wife relaxed, but when it came time to sleep, he saw something at the foot of his bed that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

While their family was camping in Algonquin, Canada, this redditor was hiking with his family and dog. The dog came running full speed toward a ledge and tried to stop, but couldn’t in time before falling over the cliff. He landed on a very narrow ledge and there was no way to get him back up, when out of nowhere this climber with full climbing gear came, saved the dog, and vanished. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

r/TrueScaryStories; College Creep | True Bike Riding StoryWhile on her college campus, OP noticed a man following her. She saw a button to alert campus police, but had a feeling it would be better not to let the stranger know she noticed him. So instead, she burst into a full on sprint toward one of the buildings. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

At 5 years old, OP was in his room playing when his imaginary friend, Spiderific, appeared to play with him. As they played, Spiderific told him to retrieve his father’s barbecue lighter and start lighting things on fire. So OP did what Spiderific suggested, until at one point he was told to light his closet on fire, which almost resulted in his brother’s death. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP and their friend were playing with a ball in the backyard with the friend’s dog. They threw the ball, which landed in a river nearby and floated away down stream. An hour later, they headed inside for lunch and the same ball was sitting in the middle of the floor. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP suddenly awoke at 3 in the morning and felt this unsettling feeling of fear when suddenly, upon looking across the room, they noticed a dark figure standing in the corner, only the darkness of the figure seemed to be darker than the darkness of the room. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

In 1928, under the malicious advice of a local woman named Nellie Noll, John Blymire believed that he had been cursed by Nelson Rehmeyer. Blymire and his accomplices broke into Rehmeyer's home to find his copy of the braucherei 'spell book' known as the Long Lost Friend. Blymire and his fellow conspirators, John Curry and Wilbert Hess, were unable to find the book, but did find Rehmeyer himself, whom they killed and mutilated in hopes that this would lift the curse. The three men charged with the crime also set fire to the house, hoping to remove remnants of the curse, as well as to destroy evidence of their murder. However, the house did not burn down as they had hoped. This led to many people further believing that Rehmeyer was a witch and that his power prevented the destruction of the house. The resulting trial drew substantial media attention. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP awoke one morning with a weird pain on his arm and saw 3 scratches on his arm. After falling back asleep, he saw a scary ghost which he tried to avoid, but this time when he woke up, there were 3 scars on his arm, which weren’t there before. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

If you get bitten by a human, you absolutely have to go to the hospital right away because the amount of deadly bacteria in any given person’s mouth can actually kill you if it enters your bloodstream. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Richard Cowden, his wife Belinda June Cowden, and their children, David James Phillips and Melissa Dawn Cowden, disappeared from their campground in the Siskiyou Mountains near Copper, Oregon, United States, on September 1, 1974. Seven months later, in April 1975, their bodies were discovered approximately 7 miles (11 km) from their campsite. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Theodore Edward Coneys, also known by the nickname "Denver Spiderman", was an American drifter who committed a murder in 1941 and subsequently occupied the attic of the victim's home for nine months. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

There was a kid that would keep his desk full of bark and sharpen them with his teeth, and then threaten to stab and scratch the other kids with these sharp objects. Another young man, 17 years old at the time, killed and buried his 7 year old neighbor. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of St. Clement's. You owe me five farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin's. When will you pay me? Say the bells at Old Bailey. When I grow rich, Say the bells at Shoreditch. When will that be? Say the bells of Stepney. I do not know, Says the great bell at Bow.Here comes a candle to light you to bed, And here comes a chopper to chop off your head! Chip chop chip chop the last man is dead. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP was doing her laundry one day when a creepy dude came to the door of the laundry room, asking to be let in. He told her he had left his keys on top of one of the driers. She asked if it was on the first drier, which was running and he said yes. The only problem was, none of the other driers had been in use that day. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP’s little 6 year old brother and 3 year old sister were playing an innocent game of hide-and-seek when they decided to run into the woods after being told the woods were off limits. They went so deep into the woods, getting lost, that their parents had to call the police and were just about to dispatch a search party when finally a nice lady brought them home after they came knocking on her door for help. Watch your children. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP and her sister loved playing pranks on their mom. One night, while taking a bath, OP heard her mother’s car coming up the driveway, and then she could hear her sister dart through the house, turning off all the lights and hiding in the closet, ready to pounce. As the door opened, they heard footsteps, only this time the footsteps were heavy and clunky, which could only mean one thing: they didn’t belong to their mom. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

While taking a nap one day, OP noticed a man, wearing a white shirt, slippers, and cargo shorts, entering his home while he lay on his bed. The man approached him and began asking about the apartment, all while OP just lay there, unable to move. Finally, this man left and OP woke up in a sweat. He later went to a gathering his landlady was having and he saw the man in his nightmare in the big picture frame on her wall, who died a month before he moved in. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

After a night of fun Halloween activities, a group of friends were chilling in their apartment afterward talking and laughing together when a random stranger entered their apartment, and then began taking a shower. They realized he had forced his way in, so they all locked themselves in the room at the end of the hall. The man soon came out of the bathroom and began banging on the door demanding that they let him in, and then it all stopped. Then the scratching started.

In 6th grade, OP called her mom to let her know her dad was about to head her way to drop her little sister and her off. Her mom on the other end of the line sounded frantic and surprised that she was talking to her over the phone. OP wasn’t sure what the fuss was about, but after hanging up she later learned that she had accidentally dialed the wrong number of a woman whose daughter of the same name had gone missing. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP had a difficult time making friends until she met two individuals, a guy and a girl, who were friendly to her. While hanging out with her two friends, a group of guys all dressed in black from their school came over, beating up OP’s guy friend. The next day, that same friend revealed to OP his “solution” to repay them for what those guys had done to him. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

A man’s wife is hysterical after he and she hear this odd, uncanny sound coming from somewhere in the woods. It sounds like a monotone man making a meowing noise, except not human at the same time. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

An older man was out hiking alone on a well known trail one day when he disappeared. His wife called search and rescue, but what they found left them with more questions than answers. Up high in a tall tree was the older man’s cane, hanging on a branch, with no sign of him anywhere. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP became estranged after their son passed away at only 6 days old, but after some time, they decided to meet up again. While driving late at night, OP suddenly saw something that continues to disturb her to this day. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

We read multiple search and rescue stories, including: While out picking berries, a young girl and her brother got separated from their parents. When the search and rescue were called, the little girl told them that her brother had been taken by the bear man, a tall man with lots of hair on his body and a strangely shaped face. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

In the first story, OP heard a noise coming from their hallway and assumed it was their mother walking around. They kept hearing the noise, but when they checked to see, there was no one there and the motion sensor didn’t turn the light on. In the second story, a girl in high school was waiting for her boyfriend when she felt a sudden chill come down her spine. She decided to look down the hall when she spotted something disturbing. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

A redditor was making the rounds in a metal storage area while working a security job in college during a rainstorm when suddenly he slipped on some mud and grass, finding himself dangling for dear life in a manhole over some old, vertically-pointed rebar. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

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

OP lives with his uncle in a secluded place and at age 11 was out just wandering around one day when he realized that he was lost. Suddenly a strange man appeared and told him he needed to get home and to “follow the ribbons.” He left his ball, but when he got home, his ball was there waiting for him in his room. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Growing up, OP would see a little boy in the corner of his parents’ bedroom when looking in a mirror down below. He later chalked it up to his wild imagination as he got older until one day his mom asked him about it and mentioned she would see the boy too from time to time. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Passing an old intersection, OP came across an old school campus. As they approached, a loud dusty old sedan came cruising through at a high speed and gunshots were heard. After looking up the intersection later, OP realized the high school they saw hadn’t been seen or heard of in over 40 years. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

While OP was home alone reading Tweets on Twitter, they heard a tapping on their window. They shrugged it off just being the wind, but suddenly heard what sounded like their mother’s voice asking to be let in because it was cold outside. The only problem was, their mother was gone. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP had a customer who “knew” their entire family had been replaced by actors. They had gone through extensive training to mimic their body language, way of speaking, and such while all memories of the relatives they had replaced had been transferred to them with a chip in the arm. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP has an older model of an asthma puffer and took it with her on a taxi. They took a sharp turn and everything fell out of her purse. After arriving at their destination, the Uber driver yelled out that she had forgotten her puffer in his car. She took it, but realized she had already gathered up her puffer, which had the exact same serial and batch number as her own. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP and their friends wanted to go get high after playing at a trampoline park. They all gathered around in an unfrequented location, but noticed someone watching them, so they decided to taunt him. The dark figure wouldn’t respond, but just watched. They looked at his hand and noticed he had a knife, and that’s when they ran for it. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

The Salang Tunnel fire occurred on 3 November 1982 in Afghanistan's Salang Tunnel during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Details are uncertain and officially the number of casualties was recorded as between 168–176 Soviet and Afghan soldiers and civilians. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Aneurysms. The thought of dying unexpectedly at any moment without being able to say goodbye to my loved ones is terrifying. Being home alone and hearing something fall on the floor or being home alone and hearing anything that isn’t coming from you or your belongings. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

At 8 years old, OP was home alone while staying home sick from school and as he was making a sandwich in the kitchen, he suddenly noticed a figure outside wearing all black. The figure was standing still, then suddenly moved toward the back gate where OP’s and the stranger’s eyes met.Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP’s wife came around a corner while driving at night when she noticed what she thought was a deer at first, but quickly realized it was something else entirely. It was taller than her car, but standing on all fours. It was kind of naked, with blotchy fur, extremely muscular, almost like a bodybuilder, but the face was the most disturbing part. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Today we continue the strange circumstances of David’s disappearance. He had traveled about 1600 miles away and was killed only 29 hours after he was thought to have been home watching the super bowl. He’ll always be remembered as a great man. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

39-year-old David Glen Lewis was an Amarillo attorney and former court-at-law judge. He was described as a kind, generous, deeply religious man involved in charity work. In January 1993, David went missing and at the same time another “John Doe” was found dead, who they were unable to identify until years later. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

At the end of a day's work in 1974, workers for the Dao Ling Construction Company in Indianapolis left a 2 ½ ton steel wrecking ball hanging 200 feet above the ground. When they came back the next morning, the ball was gone. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Why is it that all the evil spirit stuff happens with ghosts who died in the 18th or 19th century? With all the crazy stuff that has gone on throughout the world, why not have hauntings from people in the medieval, or even ancient Rome times? Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP stays in a nice Airbnb with a bunch of friends for a party. She realizes she needs to pee pretty badly, so she goes looking for another bathroom, but can’t seem to find one. Instead she comes across a plethora of questionable items. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

One Redditor tells of a spooky cement tunnel they found that seems to lead underground out in the middle of a field. After only going about 20 feet in, they started seeing bare human footprints on the ground leading inside deeper into the dark, none leaving. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

While walking home one night on a path OP was pretty familiar with, he decided to take a shortcut through a wooded area. As he headed through, his cell phone, the only source of light he had, completely died. Walking through these woods, OP realized he wasn’t alone. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Rogue planets. Planets that do not follow any given orbit. They may have been in orbit at one time, but now they no longer “play by the rules.” They were most likely knocked out of orbit by another planetary body and are now headed to do the same. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

The area around Manly Louisiana. Nothing is paved, country roads are gravel, wild dogs are roaming everywhere, and random houses are just abandoned in the woods. Locals from town won’t go to certain areas. Nothing matches the map and there is no cell service. The creepiest part is when a man told OP he had seen them at the lake and kept tabs on them all day long. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

We read multiple responses to this question, one of which says, “I had a coworker or employee in high school who went missing for 3 days. Turned out he went on a walk without telling anyone. A tree had fallen on him and was unable to free himself. He was dehydrated and shaken when they found him, but he recovered and came back to work a few days later.” Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Hollow Earth is a concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow, or contains a substantial interior space. Notably suggested by Edmond Halley in 1692 conjectured that the Earth might consist of a hollow shell about 800 Kilometers thick. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

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: popmediaagency@gmail.com

While on a Civil War battlefield tour, OP and his wife were visiting Manassas when she suddenly got a terrible feeling about the place and told him she’d just wait in the car. After going through and touring the place himself, OP got a strange feeling that something or someone was after him.

While working on a mental health unit, OP and their colleagues were supposed to check up on the patients once an hour. They used flashlights to not wake the patients, but while one colleague was checking on patients, suddenly there was a loud scream. After arriving in the room, OP could see a female patient had jumped on their coworker when she had checked in the room and shined her light on the patient, who was waiting in the dark, ready to pounce. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

The body of an unidentified female was found in a parking lot of the 1800 block of Kettering Street of Irvine California. She had only been dead 24 hours and two brothers admitted to her murder, but 12 years later and the body still has yet to be identified. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

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

Some friends are out walking on a hill when from out of nowhere they hear loud growling and heavy footsteps trailing right behind them. At first they thought it was a bear, but there aren’t many bears where they live. They set up a security camera to see what was following them, and what they saw terrifies them. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Tammy Zywicki was heading to Grinnell College on Aug. 23, 1992, after dropping her brother, Daren, off at Northwestern University. Friends and family started to worry when Zywicki didn’t arrive at Grinnell when she said she would. 8 days later, her body was discovered wrapped in a blanket 500 miles away. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Multiple members of OP’s family claim they’ve seen family members around Grandma’s house at different times, but after consulting with the family members themselves, it is confirmed that that wasn’t actually them. Then OP experiences something very odd with their grandma herself. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP struggled with insomnia, so they would stay up late watching videos on their phone. One evening, they began to hear a strange clicking noise coming from underneath their bed, and then it turned to heavy breathing, like what you’d hear from a large man, which then grew more rapid, like a panting dog. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

OP was camping in Montana near Yellowstone Park in a small campground next to just a few other campers. One couple nearby had a nice dog that OP pet while passing one day, and then continued on walking. Later that evening, she felt the cold touch of a nose under her arm and began scratching its head, but what OP didn’t realize was that it wasn’t the dog. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

While living in LA, OP was in her home when a man suddenly appeared at her door. He reached down and opened it, walking in. She asked him what he was doing there, but he said nothing and instead pulled out a box cutter. Before she knew it, he had the knife up to her throat, looking for the quickest way to tie her up. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Today we read a few comments answering the titled question. One user explains that a good reason for why we haven’t been visited by aliens yet is because of how slow signals travel through space, which is one of the efforts man has made to communicate with any potential alien life out there. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

Things were normal while OP and their friends played with a little furby until one of them accidentally dropped it. From that point forward, the thing started acting very odd, saying things they had never heard before and even responding to some of what they would say in a very creepy manner. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

One commenter tells of a time they were moving furniture and their crazy neighbor who lived below started threatening them. They decided to go on a camping trip to avoid the crazy neighbor, but in the process everyone thinks they’ve gone missing and that the neighbor is to blame. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

One commenter says Jennifer Fairgate, who was found in a room of the Oslo Plaza Hotel with a bullet wound to the head, but what initially appeared to be suicide soon turned into something more sinister. Another redditor comments on the Dyatlov Pass Incident, which we talked about in our episode on October 21, 2020 if you want to know more.

While out camping with a friend at Kings Canyon, they come across a very fearless buck with which they have a pretty intense standoff. Shortly afterward, they witness something very hard to explain in the sky nearby. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

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

After moving to South Devon England, OP went to go to a cool castle on their birthday with some friends when they noticed one friend was no longer with them. What they thought was his silhouette turns out to be some mysterious stranger after he turns out to be somewhere else. Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com

While doing her business in the girl’s bathroom upstairs, OP hears a strange voice whispering the word “respicite.” After talking to one of her very religious teachers, the teacher tells her, while going pale, that the word is Latin for “Look up.” Submit your stories: popmediaagency@gmail.com