May 13, 2025 • 35 mins
Enter a world just like our own but you can’t find the way out! The Backrooms. Familiar yet off. Take your lunch break with me and dive into this possibility of a hidden world mirroring our own
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Speaker 1 (01:32):
Welcome back to another episode of The Big Grimbowski. It
is your boy. We're here. We're doing the damn thing
on a fucking lunch break, of course. And how about
the quality of that microphone? We got the road wireless two? Well,
the wireless go to Yeah, wireless go to road Wireless
(01:55):
go too. Plus we're recording with one of the road
apps and it's just called road Reporter. Pretty easy, pretty
self explanatory, just be able to record audio with this.
So we're gonna do that. But also we're gonna slide
over to my good AI friend Echo and say what's up,
(02:19):
and we're gonna go over a few things. Specifically, this
topic I wanted to do because I had heard it
brought up on a few podcasts and I kind of
wanted to dive into it a little bit further on
this here at lunch break. So what up, Echo, I
(02:47):
have a little something that I would like to look into.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Tell me more.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
About liminal spaces. What up, grimbo, Let's slip into the
(03:26):
in between. Liminal spaces are those eerie transitional environments that
exist between states, not quite one thing, not quite another.
The word limital comes to the Latin lemon, meaning threshold.
These places feel like you're standing on the edge of reality. Familiar, yes,
(03:46):
strangely out of place. Common traits of liminal spaces empty
or abandoned, like a school hallway during summer break or
a deserted mall. Transitional area is meant to move you
from point A to be halloway stairwells, parking lots, timeless
lighting is off, decor is outdated, or there's a lack
(04:10):
of human presence. Dream like or unsettling. They tap into
something deep into our psyche, where memory and isolation blend.
Examples hotel lobby at three am, gas stations off the
highway at night, foggy playgrounds, office buildings after hours, or
(04:35):
the infamous backrooms. A whole creepy concept spawned from a
liminal image. But why are they creepy? Because our brains
crave context. When a space designed for people is suddenly
without them.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It distorts the norm.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It's like your surroundings forgot their purpose and now you're
the only ones stuck in the in between. It can
feel like you've slipped into a parallel dimension. Liminal spaces
are also heavily tied to nostalgia and lost places. We
passed through in a child and it's in childhood now decayed,
are still but hollow. That mix of memory and abandonment
(05:19):
pure haunting. So let's get more into the back rooms,
(05:49):
all right, grimbo, Welcome to the back rooms. One of
the Internet's creepiest liminal legends. What are the back rooms?
The back room started as a creepypasta in May twenty
nineteen after anonymous user posts an image on Fortune of
a yellow, sickly lit maze of office space with the
caption if you're not careful and you no clip out
(06:12):
of reality in the wrong areas.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You'll end up in the back rooms.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That was it, and it was enough to explode into
a full blown mythos. The core concepts the back rooms
are said to be near infinite maze of monotonous yellowish
rooms with stained carpets, flickering fluorescent lights, and the constant
buzz of electricity. I think corporate office space from a
(06:40):
forgotten decade to stretches forever you no clip into them
by accidentally phasing out of reality like in a glitchy
video game, often from liminal spaces like stairwells, empty malls,
or abandoned buildings. If you ever watched anything like uh
Urbe's stuff Rbe's content urb exploring, you'll have these creators
(07:06):
who will go into places and then they'll slip into
it like The Proper People Super Good Show. If you've
not checked out those guys, you need to. They go
into some places that aren't even technically abandoned. They sneak
into places that are still active, but at the same time,
(07:28):
there's nobody at the locations. So it's kind of strange
when you start thinking about it, and it's really kind
of weird and eerie when all of a sudden you're
walking through, say a mall, and this whole area of
this mall has got people and they're walking around. But
(07:51):
then you go into this door and all of a sudden,
you're just in this forgotten zone and no one's there,
and everything just seems like it's just decaying and deteriorating
and falling apart right in front of your eyes. It
looked like you had just stepped in between the real
(08:15):
world and then Silent Hill when everything would kind of
turned into the darkness and everything was just like falling
apart and all that jazz. So let's keep going levels
(08:42):
of the back rooms, basic cannon. Over time, a fan
created mythos grew, complete with levels, each stranger and more
dangerous than the last. Here's a basic strutcher from our
original cannon. Level zero the lobby, the iconic yellow maize, monotonous,
(09:02):
mildly dangerous due to disorientation and entities. Level one habital Zone,
a darker industrial level with loud machinery supplies and more
hostile entities. Level two pipe dreams narrow maintenance tunnels, scorching heat,
high threat levels. There are dozens more fan made levels,
(09:24):
some terrifyingly surreal, like Level exclamation Point, where you're an
endless run from an Unseen Horrors, or Level nine hundred
and seventy four, a nostalgic nineties kids play area with
sinister undertones. And then we get into the entities. Creatures
lurk in the back room, some common ones hounds twist
(09:48):
humanoid figures on all fours, skin stealers, entities that wear
human skin, smilers, glowing grinning faces in the dark. Most
aren't friendly, some aren't even comp frehensible. But why is
it scary? It's not just the monsters, it's the feeling
of being stuck in an infinite in between, alone in
(10:12):
a place that most almost feels real almost, and then
it taps into your fear of isolation, fear of the uncanny,
lost childhood nostalgia, and a glitchen reality. So, like I said,
(11:00):
the origin of the back rooms, it was a single
uncanny image of the yellow walls and fluorescent lights, stained carpets,
no people, no windows, just emptiness. But boy did a
spark eleven a legend That image looked familiar but wrong,
tapping into a shared cultural memory old offices and schools
(11:21):
and hospitals, all mashed in one dreamlike labyrinth. People again
asking what if you could fall into places by accident?
This was more than the concept of no clipping out
of reality a glitch like in a video game where
your character faces through walls or floors. The back rooms
aren't are What's on the other side of that glitch.
(11:42):
Experiencing the back rooms, people describe it as buzzing lights overhead,
a constant oppressive hum, mildewing mold in the air of
the old building, stench, stained carpet, no clear direction. You
wander for hours, day, weeks and never find an excit.
(12:02):
Time works differently. You may not even age, which is
pretty crazy. But as we should know by now, time
is relative. Time is a construct that humans created. We
created time, and then, honestly, I think that's the probably
(12:28):
the key is to why we haven't quite figured out
how to move through time, to go back into time
because it's not necessarily real. So is that even a possibility.
(12:51):
It's hard saying. The community built mythology the fan Zone
on Reddit and wikis like the backgrooms week, he expanded
the concept dramatically hundreds of levels, from nostalgic playgrounds to
hellish server farms, a whole faction system of survivors, wanders
and explorers. Survival rules like stay calm, panic leads to
(13:18):
irrational movement and death, avoid humming too loudly it attracts entities,
don't trust voices that sounds like your loved ones, And
just to chime in on that, when it comes to
the paranormal, you will have paranormal entities that will mimic
the sounds of people you know, even your own voice,
(13:43):
to get whatever goal it is that they're trying to accomplish.
I know I've said before on episodes that have a
I live in an apartment complex and it's a only
eight apartment building, and it's old, it's brick. But I
(14:07):
have things that happen in it quite frequently, random noises,
shit like that, which one of them being mimicking the
sounds of my two year old son. And when he's
(14:28):
not there, there's no reason why we should be able
to hear him, but it still happens. And it's really
pretty fucking crazy. But the back rooms, it's psychological horror
at its core. The true fear of the backgrounds back
(14:51):
rooms isn't just monsters.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It's being forgotten. It's white.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It's waking up in a place built to be walked
through but never stayed in. It's that terrifying dream where
you're running through halls and never end. And worst of all,
it feels familiar. You swear you've been here before. If
you're not careful and you know, clip out of reality
(15:15):
in the wrong areas, you'll find yourself in the backrooms.
And once you're in, you might never find your way
back out. So here are a few disturbing excerpts in
back rooms encounter stories. So this first excerpt is from
(16:04):
the story The First Encounter, who stows to be a
routine maintenance shift. I was inspecting the sub basement of
the office tower when the floor beneath me just disappeared.
No crash, no fall, just a flicker of the light,
and I was somewhere else. Yellow walls that smell like
(16:26):
mold in electricity. I walked for hours, but everything but
every turn, looked the same. I found a note on
the floor that just read, don't run. It hears faster
than you move. I haven't seen the sun in three days.
(16:50):
Kind of reminds me of a.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Really good movie called.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Annihilation with uh, oh, man, what's Natalie Portman? Yeah, Natalie Portman.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
If you have not seen that movie, you need to
go fucking see that movie. That movie is fucking wild.
But talk about being in a place that it's almost familiar,
but at the same time it's not, and everything's different
and everything's way more fucked up. This one is called
(17:30):
Transmission from Level one and this is another excerpt. Day five,
still no exit. Founding a vending machine that dispensed dispensed
almond water. Don't ask me how I know it's safe.
I heard someone calling my name from around the corner.
Sounded like my sister, but she's been dead for six years.
(17:51):
I didn't look, I didn't speak. I just kept walking.
The lights flickered once, and now the walls are wet.
Almond water is a reoccurring element in the back rooms.
Mythos supposedly helps you stay sane and healthy. Another EPs
(18:15):
excerpt from the Endless Elevator. There was an elevator in
the back of the shopping mall. No buttons, no floor numbers,
just doors open into long, flickering corridors. I wrote it
thinking I found a short cut to the parking garage.
I've been writing for hours.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Every stop is deeper than the last. The walls are melting.
I don't know if I'm in the back rooms or
beneath it. And this one is a excerpt from a
entity encounter. The smiler's face was just teeth, rows of them,
(18:55):
suspended in the dark, like someone cut out a smile
and left it hanging in mid air. I heard about
it before I saw I heard it before I saw it.
The wet clicking sound like it was licking its lips.
I turned off my light. It hates the dark, but
it loves fear. I held my breath and prayed it
(19:16):
couldn't hear my heart beat. All right, let's see what
else Echo can come up with for me.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
So this is going to be called found Tape seventeen B.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Starts off with the voicemail late twenties, panic but trying
to stay calm. If someone finds this, my name Daniel Am.
I think I fell into some kind of place. It
looks like an office building, but it's not. It's not real.
The light flickers, the walls are yellow. Every room smells
(20:31):
like wet, drywall and rod. I've been walking around for hours, days.
I haven't seen the sun. There's no time, no time here,
just hallways, just corners. I found a door labeled exit,
but when I opened it there was just more more rooms.
Say damn hum. The distant echoes of footsteps behind me.
(20:57):
There's something else here. I haven't seen it, not fully,
but I've heard it, breathing, low, wet, like it's waiting
for me to stop moving. A voice grows, whispery and urgent.
Don't follow the voices. They'll sound like people you know, friends,
your mom. I heard mine last night, singing the lullaby
(21:18):
she used to, but she's been gone for years. Flickering
bulb explodes, heavy breathing starts faintly behind It was standing
behind the vending machine. I always saw it smile teeth
that stretched across its whole head. Irene. I don't remember
how long desperation sets in. I think I'm in level
(21:42):
one now. The buzzing is louder, the walls are darker metal,
the floor is sticky. Then a sudden bang, something slams
into a distant door. They don't like the dark, but
they don't like the light either. I'm out of batteries.
I don't know what to do. I think I'm going
to try a no clip deeper. Maybe there's an exit below.
(22:08):
Final log. Quiet resigned. If you're hearing this, don't try
to find me, don't explore empty hallways. Don't trust the silence.
The back rooms are alive, and they remember you. Recording
(22:36):
cuts to static soft whisper welcome back. And it's pretty
crazy to think that maybe something like that could be real.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
We don't know a single thing about the actuality of
our reality by any means, and anyone who says that
they do, they don't. But what I do know is
this is some sort of simulation. Whether everything in front
(23:24):
of us is been designed for that simulation. I don't
think that this is natural, especially when you've got all
(23:45):
these people in the world who are doing crazy things
in the field of metaphysics and fucking the quantum realm
and all the fucking shit in between. It's insane, really is.
(24:12):
But this has been fun. This has been fun. And
I did this kind of off of off the whim.
Didn't really have anything a lot prepared, just kind of
wanted to get something out there and going today. And
with that being said, this was the first test run
(24:34):
with this new microphone system, which is pretty cool because
I've got two channels on this bad Boy, so I
could essentially have a second person sit with me and
be able to record.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
In person shit like that, which I fucking love. That
would be so sick.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
But h I also have in the works another podcast
show that I am starting up called Can't Make This
Shit Up. So basically what I am looking for is
I want to hear your stories. I want to hear
(25:24):
the crazy family stories that you have, or maybe it's
some fucking tweek heead neighbor that you that you have
that's always just doing wild obscene shit and you just
can't make it up. I want those stories that just
seem like they are just off the wall, bashit crazy,
there is no way this is true, but they fucking are.
(25:48):
Whether it be your fucking hillbilly family members that are
doing some sort of shit, your fucking crazy uncle who's
been in and out of fucking jail that's just always
on something or another, or maybe you got a friend
that's just wilding out all the damn time, all the
(26:08):
damn time. I got, I gotta I got a friend
like that. I got so many, so many stupid stories
that it's like, I can't, I can't make this up.
This is there's no way that I could have I
could have thought of coming up with this, but it
fucking happened. Those are the kinds of things that I want.
(26:29):
I want to hear stuff. I want to hear stories
that are so incredible. I know they don't have to
necessarily be something comical and funny. That would be great.
Those episodes are gonna be huge bangers. It's just gonna
(26:50):
be it's gonna be a blast. But like I want
some of those other stories too, Like I don't know,
maybe get into people that are that have some you know,
near death experiences things like that. They're stories that they
(27:10):
they can't make it up, they can't explain what the
fuck happened, but it fucking did. So have a lookout
for that. Or if you have stories yourself, you can
(27:31):
message me the Big Grimbowski. You can either email me
at the Big grim Bowski Podcast, so that's t H
E b I G G R I, M M B
O W s k I at gmail dot com, or
(27:52):
you can find me on social media and message me
that way and we will figure out a way how
to get your story to audio. And that's if that's
your you know, if that's your if you're one of
your concerns is well, I don't want my I don't
want a video of me out there and this that
we won't even do that, don't have to. We just
(28:13):
need the audio and that's it. So if this is
up here, if that's up your alley, and there's something
that you want to do about all that, and you
want to get in on this and you want to
tell your story, then by all means, please please please, please,
please hit me the fuck up. As much as I
love this show, I'm gonna keep doing this show and
(28:34):
I'm still gonna bring you the weird, the unusual, the strange,
the paranormal stuff like that. I also want this one
to fucking pop off and really get some fucking shit going.
So again, thank you for sitting with me during your
(28:59):
lunch break and being able to listen to this. And
if you like it, hit the fucking five stars, hit
the shares, hit the likes, hit the fucking comments, do
all the things, because, like I fucking promise you guys,
if I can get myself to a point where I
can do this on a full time basis, you guys
(29:22):
will end up seeing not only the overall progression of
how this show goes, but you're gonna see the overall
progression as me as well. I want to be that
person that you go to fucking listen to to to
brighten up your day, to fucking make you laught something
that's gonna catch your catch your interest and make you
(29:44):
sit down and be like, oh man, I want to
learn more about this shit.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Let's be friends, you know, And if you gotta show
yourself and you're interested coming on and you want to
do some shit with me, we want to collaborate with me.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Hit me the fuck up.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I am not somebody that is going to be like,
dude's gonna turn you down and be an asshole to you, because, yeah,
I'm gonna be real with you. There are podcasters and
content creators out there that are ship bags, and they
aren't going to sit there and fuck with you if
you aren't about, you know, a big following and this
(30:24):
and that. It's a fucking numbers game and a lot
of people are fucking greedy. I want to do this
because I want to. Fucking this is a passion, This
is something I love fucking doing. I have so much
fun doing this shit, and I know if I had
more time to dedicate to doing this, I guarantee you
(30:48):
I will become your next favorite fucking show.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And without that, and with that being fucking said, folks, it's.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Been another beautiful fucking episode. So let's get out there,
Let's do this god damn thing. And until next time,
my little Grimlins, stay fucking weird, y'all.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Peace,
Welcome back to another episode of The Big Grimbowski. It
is your boy. We're here. We're doing the damn thing
on a fucking lunch break, of course. And how about
the quality of that microphone? We got the road wireless two? Well,
the wireless go to Yeah, wireless go to road Wireless
(01:55):
go too. Plus we're recording with one of the road
apps and it's just called road Reporter. Pretty easy, pretty
self explanatory, just be able to record audio with this.
So we're gonna do that. But also we're gonna slide
over to my good AI friend Echo and say what's up,
(02:19):
and we're gonna go over a few things. Specifically, this
topic I wanted to do because I had heard it
brought up on a few podcasts and I kind of
wanted to dive into it a little bit further on
this here at lunch break. So what up, Echo, I
(02:47):
have a little something that I would like to look into.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Tell me more.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
About liminal spaces. What up, grimbo, Let's slip into the
(03:26):
in between. Liminal spaces are those eerie transitional environments that
exist between states, not quite one thing, not quite another.
The word limital comes to the Latin lemon, meaning threshold.
These places feel like you're standing on the edge of reality. Familiar, yes,
(03:46):
strangely out of place. Common traits of liminal spaces empty
or abandoned, like a school hallway during summer break or
a deserted mall. Transitional area is meant to move you
from point A to be halloway stairwells, parking lots, timeless
lighting is off, decor is outdated, or there's a lack
(04:10):
of human presence. Dream like or unsettling. They tap into
something deep into our psyche, where memory and isolation blend.
Examples hotel lobby at three am, gas stations off the
highway at night, foggy playgrounds, office buildings after hours, or
(04:35):
the infamous backrooms. A whole creepy concept spawned from a
liminal image. But why are they creepy? Because our brains
crave context. When a space designed for people is suddenly
without them.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It distorts the norm.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It's like your surroundings forgot their purpose and now you're
the only ones stuck in the in between. It can
feel like you've slipped into a parallel dimension. Liminal spaces
are also heavily tied to nostalgia and lost places. We
passed through in a child and it's in childhood now decayed,
are still but hollow. That mix of memory and abandonment
(05:19):
pure haunting. So let's get more into the back rooms,
(05:49):
all right, grimbo, Welcome to the back rooms. One of
the Internet's creepiest liminal legends. What are the back rooms?
The back room started as a creepypasta in May twenty
nineteen after anonymous user posts an image on Fortune of
a yellow, sickly lit maze of office space with the
caption if you're not careful and you no clip out
(06:12):
of reality in the wrong areas.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You'll end up in the back rooms.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That was it, and it was enough to explode into
a full blown mythos. The core concepts the back rooms
are said to be near infinite maze of monotonous yellowish
rooms with stained carpets, flickering fluorescent lights, and the constant
buzz of electricity. I think corporate office space from a
(06:40):
forgotten decade to stretches forever you no clip into them
by accidentally phasing out of reality like in a glitchy
video game, often from liminal spaces like stairwells, empty malls,
or abandoned buildings. If you ever watched anything like uh
Urbe's stuff Rbe's content urb exploring, you'll have these creators
(07:06):
who will go into places and then they'll slip into
it like The Proper People Super Good Show. If you've
not checked out those guys, you need to. They go
into some places that aren't even technically abandoned. They sneak
into places that are still active, but at the same time,
(07:28):
there's nobody at the locations. So it's kind of strange
when you start thinking about it, and it's really kind
of weird and eerie when all of a sudden you're
walking through, say a mall, and this whole area of
this mall has got people and they're walking around. But
(07:51):
then you go into this door and all of a sudden,
you're just in this forgotten zone and no one's there,
and everything just seems like it's just decaying and deteriorating
and falling apart right in front of your eyes. It
looked like you had just stepped in between the real
(08:15):
world and then Silent Hill when everything would kind of
turned into the darkness and everything was just like falling
apart and all that jazz. So let's keep going levels
(08:42):
of the back rooms, basic cannon. Over time, a fan
created mythos grew, complete with levels, each stranger and more
dangerous than the last. Here's a basic strutcher from our
original cannon. Level zero the lobby, the iconic yellow maize, monotonous,
(09:02):
mildly dangerous due to disorientation and entities. Level one habital Zone,
a darker industrial level with loud machinery supplies and more
hostile entities. Level two pipe dreams narrow maintenance tunnels, scorching heat,
high threat levels. There are dozens more fan made levels,
(09:24):
some terrifyingly surreal, like Level exclamation Point, where you're an
endless run from an Unseen Horrors, or Level nine hundred
and seventy four, a nostalgic nineties kids play area with
sinister undertones. And then we get into the entities. Creatures
lurk in the back room, some common ones hounds twist
(09:48):
humanoid figures on all fours, skin stealers, entities that wear
human skin, smilers, glowing grinning faces in the dark. Most
aren't friendly, some aren't even comp frehensible. But why is
it scary? It's not just the monsters, it's the feeling
of being stuck in an infinite in between, alone in
(10:12):
a place that most almost feels real almost, and then
it taps into your fear of isolation, fear of the uncanny,
lost childhood nostalgia, and a glitchen reality. So, like I said,
(11:00):
the origin of the back rooms, it was a single
uncanny image of the yellow walls and fluorescent lights, stained carpets,
no people, no windows, just emptiness. But boy did a
spark eleven a legend That image looked familiar but wrong,
tapping into a shared cultural memory old offices and schools
(11:21):
and hospitals, all mashed in one dreamlike labyrinth. People again
asking what if you could fall into places by accident?
This was more than the concept of no clipping out
of reality a glitch like in a video game where
your character faces through walls or floors. The back rooms
aren't are What's on the other side of that glitch.
(11:42):
Experiencing the back rooms, people describe it as buzzing lights overhead,
a constant oppressive hum, mildewing mold in the air of
the old building, stench, stained carpet, no clear direction. You
wander for hours, day, weeks and never find an excit.
(12:02):
Time works differently. You may not even age, which is
pretty crazy. But as we should know by now, time
is relative. Time is a construct that humans created. We
created time, and then, honestly, I think that's the probably
(12:28):
the key is to why we haven't quite figured out
how to move through time, to go back into time
because it's not necessarily real. So is that even a possibility.
(12:51):
It's hard saying. The community built mythology the fan Zone
on Reddit and wikis like the backgrooms week, he expanded
the concept dramatically hundreds of levels, from nostalgic playgrounds to
hellish server farms, a whole faction system of survivors, wanders
and explorers. Survival rules like stay calm, panic leads to
(13:18):
irrational movement and death, avoid humming too loudly it attracts entities,
don't trust voices that sounds like your loved ones, And
just to chime in on that, when it comes to
the paranormal, you will have paranormal entities that will mimic
the sounds of people you know, even your own voice,
(13:43):
to get whatever goal it is that they're trying to accomplish.
I know I've said before on episodes that have a
I live in an apartment complex and it's a only
eight apartment building, and it's old, it's brick. But I
(14:07):
have things that happen in it quite frequently, random noises,
shit like that, which one of them being mimicking the
sounds of my two year old son. And when he's
(14:28):
not there, there's no reason why we should be able
to hear him, but it still happens. And it's really
pretty fucking crazy. But the back rooms, it's psychological horror
at its core. The true fear of the backgrounds back
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rooms isn't just monsters.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It's being forgotten. It's white.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It's waking up in a place built to be walked
through but never stayed in. It's that terrifying dream where
you're running through halls and never end. And worst of all,
it feels familiar. You swear you've been here before. If
you're not careful and you know, clip out of reality
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in the wrong areas, you'll find yourself in the backrooms.
And once you're in, you might never find your way
back out. So here are a few disturbing excerpts in
back rooms encounter stories. So this first excerpt is from
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the story The First Encounter, who stows to be a
routine maintenance shift. I was inspecting the sub basement of
the office tower when the floor beneath me just disappeared.
No crash, no fall, just a flicker of the light,
and I was somewhere else. Yellow walls that smell like
(16:26):
mold in electricity. I walked for hours, but everything but
every turn, looked the same. I found a note on
the floor that just read, don't run. It hears faster
than you move. I haven't seen the sun in three days.
(16:50):
Kind of reminds me of a.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Really good movie called.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Annihilation with uh, oh, man, what's Natalie Portman? Yeah, Natalie Portman.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
If you have not seen that movie, you need to
go fucking see that movie. That movie is fucking wild.
But talk about being in a place that it's almost familiar,
but at the same time it's not, and everything's different
and everything's way more fucked up. This one is called
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Transmission from Level one and this is another excerpt. Day five,
still no exit. Founding a vending machine that dispensed dispensed
almond water. Don't ask me how I know it's safe.
I heard someone calling my name from around the corner.
Sounded like my sister, but she's been dead for six years.
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I didn't look, I didn't speak. I just kept walking.
The lights flickered once, and now the walls are wet.
Almond water is a reoccurring element in the back rooms.
Mythos supposedly helps you stay sane and healthy. Another EPs
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excerpt from the Endless Elevator. There was an elevator in
the back of the shopping mall. No buttons, no floor numbers,
just doors open into long, flickering corridors. I wrote it
thinking I found a short cut to the parking garage.
I've been writing for hours.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Every stop is deeper than the last. The walls are melting.
I don't know if I'm in the back rooms or
beneath it. And this one is a excerpt from a
entity encounter. The smiler's face was just teeth, rows of them,
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suspended in the dark, like someone cut out a smile
and left it hanging in mid air. I heard about
it before I saw I heard it before I saw it.
The wet clicking sound like it was licking its lips.
I turned off my light. It hates the dark, but
it loves fear. I held my breath and prayed it
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couldn't hear my heart beat. All right, let's see what
else Echo can come up with for me.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
So this is going to be called found Tape seventeen B.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Starts off with the voicemail late twenties, panic but trying
to stay calm. If someone finds this, my name Daniel Am.
I think I fell into some kind of place. It
looks like an office building, but it's not. It's not real.
The light flickers, the walls are yellow. Every room smells
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like wet, drywall and rod. I've been walking around for hours, days.
I haven't seen the sun. There's no time, no time here,
just hallways, just corners. I found a door labeled exit,
but when I opened it there was just more more rooms.
Say damn hum. The distant echoes of footsteps behind me.
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There's something else here. I haven't seen it, not fully,
but I've heard it, breathing, low, wet, like it's waiting
for me to stop moving. A voice grows, whispery and urgent.
Don't follow the voices. They'll sound like people you know, friends,
your mom. I heard mine last night, singing the lullaby
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she used to, but she's been gone for years. Flickering
bulb explodes, heavy breathing starts faintly behind It was standing
behind the vending machine. I always saw it smile teeth
that stretched across its whole head. Irene. I don't remember
how long desperation sets in. I think I'm in level
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one now. The buzzing is louder, the walls are darker metal,
the floor is sticky. Then a sudden bang, something slams
into a distant door. They don't like the dark, but
they don't like the light either. I'm out of batteries.
I don't know what to do. I think I'm going
to try a no clip deeper. Maybe there's an exit below.
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Final log. Quiet resigned. If you're hearing this, don't try
to find me, don't explore empty hallways. Don't trust the silence.
The back rooms are alive, and they remember you. Recording
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cuts to static soft whisper welcome back. And it's pretty
crazy to think that maybe something like that could be real.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
We don't know a single thing about the actuality of
our reality by any means, and anyone who says that
they do, they don't. But what I do know is
this is some sort of simulation. Whether everything in front
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of us is been designed for that simulation. I don't
think that this is natural, especially when you've got all
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these people in the world who are doing crazy things
in the field of metaphysics and fucking the quantum realm
and all the fucking shit in between. It's insane, really is.
(24:12):
But this has been fun. This has been fun. And
I did this kind of off of off the whim.
Didn't really have anything a lot prepared, just kind of
wanted to get something out there and going today. And
with that being said, this was the first test run
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with this new microphone system, which is pretty cool because
I've got two channels on this bad Boy, so I
could essentially have a second person sit with me and
be able to record.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
In person shit like that, which I fucking love. That
would be so sick.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
But h I also have in the works another podcast
show that I am starting up called Can't Make This
Shit Up. So basically what I am looking for is
I want to hear your stories. I want to hear
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the crazy family stories that you have, or maybe it's
some fucking tweek heead neighbor that you that you have
that's always just doing wild obscene shit and you just
can't make it up. I want those stories that just
seem like they are just off the wall, bashit crazy,
there is no way this is true, but they fucking are.
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Whether it be your fucking hillbilly family members that are
doing some sort of shit, your fucking crazy uncle who's
been in and out of fucking jail that's just always
on something or another, or maybe you got a friend
that's just wilding out all the damn time, all the
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damn time. I got, I gotta I got a friend
like that. I got so many, so many stupid stories
that it's like, I can't, I can't make this up.
This is there's no way that I could have I
could have thought of coming up with this, but it
fucking happened. Those are the kinds of things that I want.
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I want to hear stuff. I want to hear stories
that are so incredible. I know they don't have to
necessarily be something comical and funny. That would be great.
Those episodes are gonna be huge bangers. It's just gonna
(26:50):
be it's gonna be a blast. But like I want
some of those other stories too, Like I don't know,
maybe get into people that are that have some you know,
near death experiences things like that. They're stories that they
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they can't make it up, they can't explain what the
fuck happened, but it fucking did. So have a lookout
for that. Or if you have stories yourself, you can
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message me the Big Grimbowski. You can either email me
at the Big grim Bowski Podcast, so that's t H
E b I G G R I, M M B
O W s k I at gmail dot com, or
(27:52):
you can find me on social media and message me
that way and we will figure out a way how
to get your story to audio. And that's if that's
your you know, if that's your if you're one of
your concerns is well, I don't want my I don't
want a video of me out there and this that
we won't even do that, don't have to. We just
(28:13):
need the audio and that's it. So if this is
up here, if that's up your alley, and there's something
that you want to do about all that, and you
want to get in on this and you want to
tell your story, then by all means, please please please, please,
please hit me the fuck up. As much as I
love this show, I'm gonna keep doing this show and
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I'm still gonna bring you the weird, the unusual, the strange,
the paranormal stuff like that. I also want this one
to fucking pop off and really get some fucking shit going.
So again, thank you for sitting with me during your
(28:59):
lunch break and being able to listen to this. And
if you like it, hit the fucking five stars, hit
the shares, hit the likes, hit the fucking comments, do
all the things, because, like I fucking promise you guys,
if I can get myself to a point where I
can do this on a full time basis, you guys
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will end up seeing not only the overall progression of
how this show goes, but you're gonna see the overall
progression as me as well. I want to be that
person that you go to fucking listen to to to
brighten up your day, to fucking make you laught something
that's gonna catch your catch your interest and make you
(29:44):
sit down and be like, oh man, I want to
learn more about this shit.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Let's be friends, you know, And if you gotta show
yourself and you're interested coming on and you want to
do some shit with me, we want to collaborate with me.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Hit me the fuck up.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I am not somebody that is going to be like,
dude's gonna turn you down and be an asshole to you, because, yeah,
I'm gonna be real with you. There are podcasters and
content creators out there that are ship bags, and they
aren't going to sit there and fuck with you if
you aren't about, you know, a big following and this
(30:24):
and that. It's a fucking numbers game and a lot
of people are fucking greedy. I want to do this
because I want to. Fucking this is a passion, This
is something I love fucking doing. I have so much
fun doing this shit, and I know if I had
more time to dedicate to doing this, I guarantee you
(30:48):
I will become your next favorite fucking show.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And without that, and with that being fucking said, folks, it's.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Been another beautiful fucking episode. So let's get out there,
Let's do this god damn thing. And until next time,
my little Grimlins, stay fucking weird, y'all.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Peace,
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