Reddit Explains Conspiracy & the Unknown
Do you ever wonder what lurks in the shadows of the world around you? Have you ever come across strange and unexplainable events that just seem too unnatural to be coincidental? In this podcast, Sam Wilder and Addy Love seek to unravel and expose some of the most unnerving stories experienced by the everyday Redditor - because the wildest things happen even to the most average of people. Listen in every day as we cover topics that are sure to make you question the reality of the world around you. Join us as we explore conspiracy, controversy, and the unknown.
Episodes
May 7, 2024 • 12 mins
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.
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May 6, 2024 • 12 mins
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.
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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…
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May 4, 2024 • 8 mins
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?
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May 3, 2024 • 8 mins
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 othe...
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May 2, 2024 • 8 mins
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.
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May 1, 2024 • 10 mins
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.
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April 30, 2024 • 8 mins
The "Boy in the Box" is the name given to an unidentified murder victim, a 4-to 6-year-old boy, whose 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."
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April 29, 2024 • 9 mins
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.
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April 28, 2024 • 8 mins
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.
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April 27, 2024 • 9 mins
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.
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April 26, 2024 • 6 mins
While 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.
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April 25, 2024 • 8 mins
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 h...
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April 24, 2024 • 8 mins
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.
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April 23, 2024 • 11 mins
A family kept receiving gifts from some unknown person. They have police wait at night to see who it is, but eventually give up because they could never find them. The strangest gift they received? A sled with an image painted on, foreshadowing their lives after the mother passed away from cancer.
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December 6, 2023 • 8 mins
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 on...
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December 5, 2023 • 9 mins
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.
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December 4, 2023 • 7 mins
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.
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December 1, 2023 • 11 mins
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.
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November 30, 2023 • 7 mins
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.
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