Premium Episode 185: Glitch In The Matrix (Tales From Reddit)

most of these are just moments of coincidence and confusion that then crystallize in the mind as magic, but the person with the cat story is just a horrible liar and an even shittier writer

Jamie

Human memory is very fickle, and our ability to see patterns is also very good, I think most stories in that subreddit can be explained by that. One time my friend texted me to come check out some creepy thing they had seen in a window on our walk earlier that day. When we got to the window it definitely looked like there was a human torso hanging from the ceiling, but once we stared at it long enough it was just a large stuffed monkey toy hanging from the light. I also remember my dad telling me how when he was in the army during a night shift, he could swear he saw a soldier digging a hole in the darkness. After he closed his eyes and looked somewhere else for a minute, he saw it was just branches and leaves moving in the wind. That story instilled in me how our eyes can play really believable tricks on us!

Mira Moisio

I'm calling for a ban on the words "it also could be". Especially for Jake

Brad Plumb

"That's not my neighbor" is just "Across the street" (favorite episode) from The Magnus Archives.

London dates pls! Your dollars buy more now.

Cara

Julian cackling at his own jokes is inspiring

Matt Rämen

This was such a fun episode! More of these please 😊

Good episode

Jake been watching some Keji Lopez-Alt cooking videos?

Mike H

I do that exact thing while washing between my toes with soap in shower, I just think "most households deaths are bathroom slip & falls", and I bought a handle with suction cups to grab onto in case I fall.

Jason

So excited to see you live in Toronto, got my ticket ages ago! I will try to be the dirtbag you're expecting.

KM Brown

Regarding the kid who reacted to person’s thought: they might have had made a sniffing move with their nose, grimaced and started to look around. The kid was just thinking of the same, thus was already primed to the idea of a fire, and was unusally perceptive, therefore noticing the change in person’s behavior.

Robert Wilson