The V22 Podcast

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbEvL3h0MPA Check out my Chilling content! https://chillingapp.com/content/viidith22   I stepped up my research into the local legends around the park and disappearances that hadn’t gone on public record. Brick wall after brick wall hit me before I caught a break, someone had heard I was looking into what went on at the park and I received an email. The em...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AEQwptuRvk I don’t wish to discourage you by telling you these things. If I wanted to come online and inform you of what you already know, there are louder and more crowded echo chambers designed for such purposes. No, I bring good news. News that has changed my life, news that you have not yet known. For there is an intelligence in the machine, and there...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129v1o2Y4vU   The sound that woke me reverberated again. I was close to it, and I could now sense that it possessed a hollow, machine-like timbre. Lacking any better ideas, I headed down towards it. The carpeted floor before me was damp. Some kind of puddle had formed on it and, while I couldn’t get a good look at it, the wet substance on it did not appear...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7liRkNeBY0   "That's the story I’m going to tell you all right, except this time I’m going to tell you the truth." He struck a match and took a few quick sucks on his pipe to get it going. The smoke billowed up in front of his face as he continued. "There were never any wolves in that cave; in fact I don't even think Timberwolves roam those forests. Bobby...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hC1efItWbc I grabbed Winston by the collar and got an inch from his face. “Are other people out here? What is this place?” His eyes turned to the sky and a mischievous grin spread over his face. “Only the chosen are here. This is the place of my rebirth. My home.” My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p   A HUGE thank you to all m...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoTjiweiD8o I moved in near the beginning of February last year. I won’t lie, the adjustment to everything at once hit me a lot harder than it should have. Overnight I had gone from working outside every day to being restricted to a wheelchair I had no intuition for using and being stuck inside all day long. My hard hat and boots were swapped for a work la...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL8FYd69UFk A delayed mirror image, lagging behind my movements as if it had forgotten what to do. I inhaled sharply, my stomach twisting. The rational part of my brain screamed. It was just your eyes playing tricks on you. A fatigue hallucination. But my reflection blinked—just a second too late. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00a...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMiCweJzrIM I still felt a little groggy, and with my tired mind, I rationalized that my grandma had been looking at it earlier and left it on the floor without me realizing it. That's the thing about the human mind. We will do anything to rationalize the unexplainable.. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p   A HUGE thank you to...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnY92E6VmhM Back in the early days of YouTube—before influencers were a thing and the algorithm hadn’t yet been weaponized against our attention spans—I ran a little channel dedicated to urban exploration. Nothing fancy. Just me, a flashlight, a shaky camcorder, and a questionable amount of courage. If it was abandoned and vaguely creepy, I was there. Forg...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Yvv949-2w I stood my mouth slightly open, unable to process any of this. I shook my head as if that would help. Eddie could be dead before the morning. We needed help for him soon. Without a working phone, our best bet was to get back to the SUV. I remembered the man we met on the trail and how he mentioned the ranger’s station. They should have a radio...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNMFjMcxCqs I still felt a little groggy, and with my tired mind, I rationalized that my grandma had been looking at it earlier and left it on the floor without me realizing it. That's the thing about the human mind. We will do anything to rationalize the unexplainable.. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p   A HUGE thank you to...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25BK_xd08g Tom Herriman didn’t know why he fell so deeply in love with the house on Chestnut Street, but love is a funny thing, isn’t it? Once Cupid’s arrow pierces your heart, ration, logic, and reason go right out the window. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p   A HUGE thank you to all my patreons and members for making thi...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25BK_xd08g Tom Herriman didn’t know why he fell so deeply in love with the house on Chestnut Street, but love is a funny thing, isn’t it? Once Cupid’s arrow pierces your heart, ration, logic, and reason go right out the window. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p   A HUGE thank you to all my patreons and members for making thi...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25BK_xd08g Tom Herriman didn’t know why he fell so deeply in love with the house on Chestnut Street, but love is a funny thing, isn’t it? Once Cupid’s arrow pierces your heart, ration, logic, and reason go right out the window. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p   A HUGE thank you to all my patreons and members for making thi...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25BK_xd08g Tom Herriman didn’t know why he fell so deeply in love with the house on Chestnut Street, but love is a funny thing, isn’t it? Once Cupid’s arrow pierces your heart, ration, logic, and reason go right out the window. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p   A HUGE thank you to all my patreons and members for making thi...

It started with a tip I was given by my publisher that there was a man in Arkansas that had recently been institutionalized with paranoid schizophrenia. He'd been found naked and carving crude symbols into his skin with a worn out kitchen knife behind a local grocery store. Police and doctors had sorted through his ramblings to find that he'd been a transient for the last 10 years and the week pri...

The sessions helped somewhat. Evelina learned breathing exercises and ways to distract herself, strategies for keeping the worst of the panic at bay. But the core fear never went away. Every time the sky darkened, every time she felt the first drop of rain on her skin, that same overwhelming dread returned. It was as if the rain carried a promise with it—a threat only she could hear. No matter how...

I excitedly laced up my hiking boots, and left on my next trip up the mountain. I remember making it just past the out-jutted rock you could see from my backyard, when I must’ve blacked out. I woke up in a hospital that I didn’t recognize, surrounded by doctors I didn’t know and hooked up to equipment I’d never seen before. They explained to me that I’d collapsed on the hiking trail and had been f...

I swore I heard the beginning of a scream, one born out of sheer horror. But, it died before ever fully forming and the lights came back on, greeting me with emptiness. They were gone and I never saw them again. Sometimes in these dreams, the clouds parted and an anemic beam of moonlight cut a thin sliver of pale light through the horizon. Against it, thrice I saw a man suspended in mid-air. Too d...

“I could hear the crunch of my feet on the road, smashed the orange leaves as Fall had claimed the land. Birds let out their loud calls and I glanced over at them. Seeing one standing on a wooden fence, watching me and tilting it's head to one side in assumed curiosity at me. And... the birds stopped chirping. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p   A HUGE thank you to a...

I turned to look and felt the room shift with me; the decor melting away and the roof of the house tearing off to leave us in a space of red and green mist. Floating in place. I could still feel the fabric of the leather chair sticking to my skin, threatening to rip the flesh if  I so much as twitched too much. I knew my feet were on the floor, but the sensation akin to pins and needles gave a sen...

How were there that many? I’ve only heard the stories of the other major cities, but seeing it was unreal. Thousands, maybe millions of them. Even as we get further away, I can still see them, the hordes. We’re hundreds of feet in the air, and the mass of bodies that stretches all the way back to the city looks like a river that has broken through its dam. Are they going to follow us? Are we even...

“The point,” another man across the fire interjected, “is that we don’t even know if the ritual worked. We could be looking for someone who no longer even exists.” The first man stood up and rubbed his head. “You tell the High Priest that, and see what he says. I dunno about you all, but I’d rather keep looking.” The voices sounded vaguely familiar to him. Mason searched his memories, trying to co...

The morning sun casts a pale light over the scene as I pull up, the flashing red and blue lights of the squad cars casting an eerie glow over the small, idyllic village of Saranac Lake. I’d spent the better part of my career as a detective for New York’s 5th Precinct, dealing with the grit and grime of the city. The days were long and nights were perilous, as I navigated through the underbelly of...

"Good," I say, adjusting our course slightly. “Launch them!” "Alright, we’re hot," Gonzo announces "First sonde away in five, four, three…" I hear the faint clunk as the drop chute deploys, sending the first probe tumbling into the eye of the storm. For a few moments, everything is routine. The sonde transmits data as it falls, its signal showing up on the screen next to me. The numbers tick up—pr...