Reddit Explains Conspiracy & the Unknown

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 Visit hellofres...

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: popmed...

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 Visit hellofresh.com/reddit16 with th...

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.com Visit hellofresh.com/r...

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 ro...

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 Visit 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, jus...

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 O...

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...

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