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Episode 26 - B*tches in the Matrix: Part 3

• Alex & Megan

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What if reality isn’t as stable as it seems?

In this spine-tingling episode, we dive headfirst into the eerie phenomenon known as “glitches in the matrix”... those bizarre, unexplainable moments when the world feels like it briefly… breaks. From people witnessing time loops and disappearing objects to stories of strangers who seem to know too much, we explore the chilling accounts that make you question whether we’re all living inside something far stranger than we think.

Are these just tricks of the mind? Or are they cracks in the code of reality itself?

Turn off the lights, get comfortable, and prepare to second-guess everything... because once you start noticing the glitches… they might start noticing you too.

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SPEAKER_00

I'm Alex and I'm Megan. And we are two filthy whores.

SPEAKER_01

You're all beyond the veil now.

SPEAKER_00

Happy, happy hour. It's time. Oh, sorry. I didn't know what else to say about that. How's the baby doing? Oh, the baby's good.

SPEAKER_01

It's the size of a page.

SPEAKER_00

Uh what is that? What is that uh the heart of a peach? No. Was it peach tree? No. Oh, wait. What? From that episode a couple episodes ago. Oh, it was Peachwood Sword. Peach Wood Sword. Okay. I was like, I knew I knew Peach. All I could think of was Peach. Which made me think of the the Peach song Peaches from the Martin movie.

SPEAKER_01

Literally, yeah. I was singing that the other day because I technically like turned um the week for I think it was Wednesday instead of Friday. Because it was Friday, and then they were like, oh, you're measuring this. I think I'm still gonna probably just do Fridays because I think no matter what, whenever I go in for ultrasounds and stuff, they're gonna be like, You're measuring this, you're measuring that, but that doesn't negate how far along, like how many weeks pregnant I am. Like I know like you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00

That's how I did it too. I just based it off my own. Like they told me originally how far I was, and then I let it go with that. Yes, because the baby will adjust and grow different rates. You know, I mean it's not like a set rate. So like you just go off your conceivement date, is what I do. I did at least um yeah. I mean, I also had gestational diabetes, so Ben got big like quick. He wasn't playing in there, but anyway, um, yeah, babies grow, like they not all babies grow at the same exact rate, it's just an estimate. So like they're gonna constantly bump your due date around and shit.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and it is what it is, whatever. And I I heard that like first time pregnant women have like they can go really late sometimes, like two weeks late. So I'm just here, I'm just hanging on, but well, yeah, that's what I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_00

How's mama doing too? Sorry. I know, I know it's hard whenever once you get pregnant, it's like everyone is like baby, baby, baby. And I always try to make a point to double check on mom too.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah, I'm doing good, honestly. I mean, I don't know if I talked about it last week and um I don't I don't remember. It felt like kind of a blur, but Tyler and I were trying for about a year and a half to get pregnant before we did, so our journey is a little different, and we did go to a fertility clinic, but um, luckily it worked first try. So I do think I know what was causing me not to get pregnant, and I did have to stop taking that medication because I, you know, a baby was conceived through medicine, so I did have to stop taking that medication like two days ago, and then Megan also got me this bracelet on my birthday this year, and it was like just like a manifestation thing that she was doing, and it was like um a healthy pregnancy bracelet. And I woke up from a nap yesterday, and my mom actually made dinner for us, which was really kind. And I went to go grab like I she put like a pot, like she put like a pan upside down on top of a pot to keep it warm. So I went to go like lift that pan up. Bracelet probably got stuck under it or something, and I went to go flip it upwards, and the bracelet just fucking snapped, and all of these crystals went everywhere, and I was devastated. And I was like, Megan, is it a sign? Is it a sign that the baby's gonna die? She was like, No, you're fine, and you have a new bracelet coming Sunday.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, actually tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01

Thank you. It was so nice of you. I'm trying to look at it as if the bracelet served its purpose because now I'm in the second trimester and I'm trying to just like it, but it's definitely been weird.

SPEAKER_00

Um, I was I've always been told like if you lose a crystal or they break or anything like that, it's uh supposed to be a sign that it served its purpose. Um so that's what I read it as. Like you you, you know, are pregnant, you are healthy, everything's going great. Um, but I also knew that it was weighing on you heavy and the timing was rough. So I was like, we are getting another bracelet. So and that's so sweet of you.

SPEAKER_01

I was really freaking out because I like, well, I loved that bracelet anyway. I slept in it all the time. I wore that bracelet before I knew I was pregnant. Like I loved it so much. I got pregnant like right right there though. Um it's funny because I was looking at decorations for the gender reveal today and like those sheets or you know, canvases where it's like the old wives' tales about boy or girl, and it was like Chinese calendar, boy or girl. And I'm like, I don't know because I know when I ovulated because of the medication, and it was on my birthday. So if it was like, if you were 25 when you conceived, it's a girl. If you're 26 when you conceived, it's a boy, and I'm like, well, I don't know what it is. That's so I told Dylan. I told Dylan the other day.

SPEAKER_00

I was like, I'm so irritated because I can't even use that either, because it's like literally like right spot on because I don't know exactly what's going on. It's right there, you know.

SPEAKER_01

Yep, but no idea. It's so frustrating. I've I never thought that would happen to me because I always because I tested yours, I tested all of our sisters. Um, like I went back in family trees, I tested your mom, I tested like dad and his siblings like years ago, and I was like, oh my gosh, they're all correct. Obviously, it's only a 50-50 chance, but I really over I'm gonna know. I'm gonna know. Yeah, and then I and it it just it doesn't work out that way all the time. But oh my gosh, really quickly, um, did you see like the astronauts going to the moon? Yeah, we watched the launch like live. Oh my gosh, dude, I don't know why, but it makes me so fucking emotional.

SPEAKER_00

Oh my god, I got so emotional too. Like I was literally choking up on the countdown, like literally had tears. Like I was so emotional. I think it's because it's like historical. It's such a big, like we're living through a big part of like history, I guess, uh, right now. Like this is something that could be super cool. I mean, I it is super cool, but you know what I mean. It is really cool, yeah. Who knows? And also there was a possibility that could have gone wrong and something happened.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and they just don't come understanding. Yeah, it's crazy because could you imagine? Because there was there were I think four of them who went on this mission, the Artemis 2 mission. And I know that they probably all felt really honored and everything, but could you also imagine knowing full well that there's a chance that you don't make it back? Like the being in that situation and knowing that and like being in the rocket when it's about to take off and stuff, knowing that so many people are watching you in person and on you know live television. Like, I can't I can only imagine that's crazy, but I don't know, it's just nuts to me. And I I hope we spin aliens because I'm talking about space, but it's today's the day, this is the episode. It has to be, it has to be. It's fate, and we're gonna get fucking aliens today.

SPEAKER_00

So I well, I do want to apologize if you hear like everyone, it it's a nice day out, so and I live in uh in an area where it's there's a lot of older people around me. You know what they like to do on nice days? What? They like to cut the grass.

SPEAKER_01

So I knew it was coming. I as soon as I said what, I was like, is it grass?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I had all the windows, I had the air off like in my house, all the windows and doors open, like beautiful breeze coming through everywhere. And I was like, man, that it's gonna be so loud on the podcast, I have to shut everything. So I did, and I turned my AC on, like my central air up, like on and um flex on us with that central air.

SPEAKER_02

Oh yeah, central air.

SPEAKER_01

That's so funny. I don't turn my AC, I mean my central air. It's like the same thing. Sorry. It definitely is.

SPEAKER_00

No, I just meant like it's not like a window unit because I don't I do have window unit in my upstairs, like in my bedroom, because the central, like Ben's bedroom, like see, I can't even flex on it because Ben's bedroom stays cool and warm perfectly throughout the year. My bedroom, for some reason, is freezing motherfucking cool in the winter and super motherfucking hot in the summer. So I have to have an AC like window unit in there in the summertime, or my house, like my bedroom is like suffocatingly hot.

SPEAKER_01

I don't think I knew that. But no, I think that honestly, you're allowed. Having central air is a flex, and I do not have central air.

SPEAKER_00

So well, I guess I guess our houses are both old because I was gonna say your house is old, but mine it is too. It is.

SPEAKER_01

Well, how when was yours built? 1931. Oh fuck. I think mine's around that. I don't know though. But yeah, I mean, I know that you also live in like an area where that was very common, so I do not.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, my house is like my area. I think my area probably gets hotter than your area, to be honest, but I don't know for sure. Yeah. But I'm probably you would think because of where you're at, it would be hotter there. But I'm pretty sure when I go to your house it's cooler than here.

SPEAKER_01

I think it is. I think it is. I remember like looking at the temperature difference, but yeah, I'm um yeah. Yeah, but if you hear I was about to say it's pregnancy brain.

SPEAKER_00

It's okay. It's it's forever. I'm sorry, but I mean you know, you know my brain. What is so well then again my touch. Sugar messes with my sugar. Like my or my sugar messes with my sugar. My sugar messes with my sugar. My touch is sugar, like my doctor likes to say. Um it messes with my my memory, which I didn't know was a thing until like this past year. So it honestly isn't necessarily just mom brain, it's probably like sugar brain too.

SPEAKER_01

So maybe you'll probably be good. I hope so because I did I tell you I forgot who Jamie Lee Curtis was the other day. No, how could you forget that devastating? I don't mind. I looked at her and I was like, I looked at her and I well, not in person, but I looked at a picture of her and I was like, what is your name? And I was like, who? How dare I? Like, this is the legend. I felt fucking ridiculous. I was pretty much.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, she's a babe in her age now, but Lord, when she was younger, holy shit. Lord have mercy.

SPEAKER_01

Lordy, Lord, step on my throat. Right. Just kill me. She's she's a smoke show, even now. But um, also, I really quickly wanted to say happy 420 to those who partake. Um, used to be us, could never be us again because we're losers, but happy for everybody else. Maybe I'll take a a little nibble of a call.

SPEAKER_00

Dabble. A little nibble. A little like a good word body. That's literally what I thought about. That's funny. But yeah, anyway, real quick with the the lawn. I don't know if I specifically said I'm sorry if the lawnmowers are heard. And also Mika is jumping and barking at the lawnmowers. So if you hear her barking, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01

She's very if if it's cute, I'm just gonna keep it.

SPEAKER_00

So okay. Oh, also I do want to shout out Dylan for this episode. Um, because I already told you, Alex, but uh he got me a bunch of Avatar themed wax from a company. Oh yes. And now um, like he got me a trilogy pack for Valentine's Day like a while ago, and then I love them so much he but I didn't want to like I wanted to get all of them, but I didn't want to spend the money on them. So then he recently surprised me by getting me the whole pack of them. I'm all stocked up on book sense, and hell yeah, like I'm super excited. So and besides that, the only other thing thank you. The only other thing I have going on is that I'm like crunch time planning Benji's Benji's party, his uh Benges Benji's birthday party. Benji's has his new name. Dude, that kid has so many nicknames, but yeah, I'm like crunch time trying to plan it right now. So and I'm really freaking hoping that it's nice out for it. I think it will be it usually. Yeah, every year it is. Last year it was like freaking a hundred degrees out. Sorry, I like had a little chokey burp thing.

SPEAKER_01

Sicko. Um, I wasn't there last year, unfortunately. It was my one year anniversary. I was so bummed, but I'm gonna be there this year and every other year. So it was just an off time because his birthday's May, um, but he had his pool party in June.

SPEAKER_00

So it was just like Yes, a weird one on a pool party, and I could not book it until June, and I felt terrible because it was the week of your anniversary, so it happens. But it was hot. It was the day of it was, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It's okay though. We still like we still had fun. Um we'll be like the Icelandic hot dog thing, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Well, anyway, your baby birthday parties are probably gonna be my wedding anniversaries based on the time frame. So I'm gonna have to juggle that like one year skip, one year go, like go back and forth and figure it out. Birthday parties. I want to go to all of them, so I have to I have to figure that out.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I honestly I don't know why. It's like I'm feeling like the baby's gonna be born on the 5th. I don't know why that's like maybe it's because yours is the 15th, and I'm just like correlating the five. I don't really know what's going on, but I know I'm having a Libra baby, and that's gonna be interesting, but I know I get along with Libras, so you know it is what it is. It's just pretty clear. Libras. Could you imagine having a Capricorn kid?

SPEAKER_02

Oh dude.

SPEAKER_01

I can't tell. Would you guys be besties or would you clash? I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know. I feel well, you got you and I got along at a very young age, too. But that's because like I don't have to have control over you, if that makes sense. Like a child you have to have control over, and they would be butting heads with me. So I there would probably be some clashing. Um, but I also like respect letting someone be their own person even as a child. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So I don't know how it would work out. Me either. But I think the only thing I'm worried about with like my Libra baby is them not being able to make a fucking decision. Oh, it's hard.

SPEAKER_00

Don't do this to me. Don't do this. I can't fucking decide anything. It's it's impossible.

SPEAKER_01

And I'm already relatively bad at it when it comes to like where do you want to eat? Because dude, don't ask me that. Like, we'll be sitting here for me to be like, oh no, you pick, oh no, you pick, oh no, you pick. I I can't do it. Um, so that kind of sucks. And dude, I almost slipped up like seven times about the gender of the baby. So um Oh, I'll switch it up. No no baby talking now. No, and then well, Megan yesterday was like, maybe you can come see me before your gender reveal. And I'm like, yeah. And then today I was like, no, I'm gonna slip up. But I do know. We'll see. You don't have to. Um I want to. I want to. I'm just like not gonna talk to you.

SPEAKER_00

It's just like because Ben Ben has a soccer game that day, so I was trying to talk her into coming in to see it. But uh, you can sit on the other side of the field. Just sit on the whole other fucking side of the field. I'll just wave to you with my phone finger that I have. Oh, dude, he's he's so fucking psyched about his new gear. Like, it was so cute. I mean, it was like$200 to replace the gear from last year, but um, I mean$200 isn't too too bad, but it's still like to just throw it out for like a kid who's gonna grow out of it and I'm gonna have to replace it next year. Yeah, it's hard. Like, I'm lucky if he's gonna even not grow out of it this year. Like, he's growing like freaking weed right now.

SPEAKER_01

So Especially, yeah. His hair too, man. I can't believe how like I swear I see a picture of him last week and then again today, and I'm like, your hair fucking grew like four inches.

SPEAKER_00

And he's refusing to cut it. He's just like completely refusing. And Dylan he wants to look like mystery from K-pop demon hunters, so oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I can see it heading there. I really can.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, but I mean it pretty much is. It's like already down his like past his nose.

SPEAKER_01

So yes, I know. It's funny. I'm like, damn, kid. Anyway, do you have anything else to add for yappy hour before we get into BIM?

SPEAKER_00

Bim Bim Bim Bim three. Is this the third one, right? Yeah. Yeah. Bitches in the matrix three. Bim. Hope you guys are ready. Well, okay, not even guys. I hope you bitches are ready. Because this is bitches in the matrix, so we're all bitches.

SPEAKER_01

We're all bitches today. Every day. Me and Megan are bitches every day, but sorry, but the bitches.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, anyway. Close your eyes. Right now. The chair beneath you, the walls around you, the very air in your lungs, they aren't quite there. They are a shimmer of probability, a ghost of a chance, waiting for a witness. Oh, you're gonna love this one, Alex. I'm sorry. Fuck. Quantum physics tells us that atoms don't choose a place to be until someone looks at them. They're everywhere and nowhere at once, a chaotic dance of maybe until the moment of observation. I've heard of this. It's so fucking motherfucking creepy. It is so scary. But if the entire world is made of these shy, flickering particles, then what happens to the things behind your back? What becomes of the world when you fall asleep? And who is looking at us to keep us from vanishing back into the void?

SPEAKER_01

Ooh, I think my cats mostly.

SPEAKER_00

They say a watched pot never boils. It's a harmless old proverb about patience, but in the cold, silent world of the subatomic, it isn't a metaphor, it is a law. It's called the quantum Xeno effect. Scientists discover that if you measure an unstable atom often enough, if you simply look at it, it will never decay. It stays frozen in its initial state. You are essentially stopping time for that particle through the sheer force of your attention. Dude, sorry, I ate a piece of cheese before I got on here and like And now you're like indigested. Not even like I just feel like I can't breathe. Like I had like a simple small piece of cheese snack, and I'm like, you're like, yes, someone understands me. Yeah, it's so hard.

SPEAKER_02

I can't breathe ever pregnant.

SPEAKER_00

I have a cheese stick in my belly. That's all. That's funny. You're like, yes, that that was so cute. I was sitting there nodding. Yeah, I was like, I get it. I get it. You're like, I'm fucking no, out of breath. Think about the implications of that for a moment. If observation creates reality, then constant observation imprisons it. Imagine a man standing in a hallway. He's supposed to walk toward a door at the end. Did say toward toward? Toward. Toward. To ord. Jesus Christ. I hate this. Why did we do a podcast? I love it. But every time he takes a step, you flash light on him. You check his position. Because you check, the universe resets him to the spot where you found him. As long as you keep your eyes glued to him, he's a prisoner of your gaze. He can never reach a door, he is a statue. But let's take it a step further into the dark. If we all if we are all made out of atoms, and atoms can be frozen by gaze, then what's keeping us in place? We live in a world of constant surveillance. Traffic, cameras, satellites, your iPhone, yeah, Alex, this means you because I have a Samsung and it doesn't count. The billions of eyes of strangers and neighbors. We are the most observed generation in human history. Is that why the world feels so stagnant? Is that why it feels like we're repeating the same cycles, the same days, the same cultural ghost over and over again? Are we being xenoed by a collective digital gaze? You got this. Oh my god. I like cannot. I'm never eating a piece of cheese before a podcast again. It was like a little piece of cheddar cheese, like, oh my god. And it fucked you up. It really did. Like, I like cannot breathe. Okay, I'm sorry. It's okay. And here's the most terrifying thought of it all. Some theorists suggest that the universe itself only exists because of the grand observer. Something or someone whose gaze is so steady, so unwavering, that it keeps the stars from dissolving back into the void. But what happens if that observer blinks? What happens if for just a microsecond the universe left alone in the dark, unwatched, would we simply stop? Or would we finally be allowed to change into something else? Something we weren't meant to be. Hey, so I don't like that. Dude, this one, it gives me the fucking creeps. Like this, I mean, this is very like I don't know how to explain it. Like it is something that really fucks with me, I guess. I like it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's fucking spooky. I just looked at my microphone. It's still here. No.

SPEAKER_00

It wasn't when you weren't looking at listen, fuck cheese. I I know, like, I'm not looking at the cheese, it shouldn't be there, right? Yeah, why is it affecting you so much? Yeah, it's in it's dissolved, it's gone. No, I'm just kidding, it's not dissolved, but it's not, it turned into something else. Okay. Digested. The experiment that proved the quantum Xeno effect was conducted in 1990 by physicist Wayne Itano. It's itano or etano. It's I T A N O, and I could not find a good pronunciation for it, so I'm sorry. And his team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or N I S T. While the concept was a thought experiment for decades, this was the first time scientists actually froze an atom by watching it. The researchers used a group of about 5,000 beryllium ions, which are atoms with one electron removed, trapped into a magnetic field. What was their goal? Simply they wanted to trans transition the ions. Am I saying ion? It's ions, right? Yeah. Oh my god, why am I like literally like it's been a while since I've took like biology or no, this is yeah, any kind of any science that I've done? Sorry guys. Uh they want to transition the ions from state A, the ground state, to state B, an excited state, using an RF or radio frequency pulse. If left alone, it took exactly 256 milliseconds for the ions to shift completely from state A to state B. To measure the atoms, they used a short pulse of laser light. If an ion was in state A, it would absorb the laser light and glow fluorescent. If it moved to state B, it would remain dark. And here is the result. The team ran the experiment multiple times, increasing how often they checked the atoms during the 256 millisecond window. At zero check.

SPEAKER_01

When you say, I'm so sorry, I just am curious. When you say that they checked the atoms, how did they check it? Were they literally just looking at it? Like that's all they did.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, they would like not look at it and then they would look at it. So for zero checks where they didn't look at them until like that time frame is up, a hundred percent of the ions transitioned to state B.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00

So if they weren't looking, they would move. At four checks, only about 35% made it to state B. The rest were reset back to state A by the measurements. So they checked four times within that 256 millisecond window. And only 35% of them made it to state B. And so essentially, whenever they checked it, the other amount of them like would go back to state A. Yeah. Whoa. Sorry. Please take that out. Stop the fucking like revving up an engine shit.

SPEAKER_01

Um earlier our little sister was doing that, and I just made fun of her like crazy, like I did yesterday with you. She looked at me, she was like, shut up. It's the cheese. Okay. Dude, I literally am always doing that though.

SPEAKER_00

Like I'm always clearing my throat. Oh, me too. It's disgusting. Like I'm constantly doing it. It's probably just like, you know, uh you know the the older you get, the more allergic to life you are. Because we're just slowly dying. So much phlegm. I've just yeah, now I have such bad allergies that I'm just mucusy all the time. So excuse me. It's okay. Anyway, so at 64 checks, less than 1% of the ions transitioned. By checking the atoms every four milliseconds, the researchers effectively froze them in their starting position. Jesus Christ. In quantum mechanics, an atom doesn't just jump from A to B. It exists in a superposition, a mathematical blend of both until it is measured. Every time the NIST researchers hit the ions with that laser pulse, they force the blended state to collapse back into definite reality. Because they check so quickly, the atoms never had enough time to drift far away from state A, so it almost always collapsed back to the start. It's like trying to run a race, but every time you take a single inch long step, someone blows a whistle and sends you back to the starting line. Now, because I can, I grabbed a few stories online that we can either dissect or just be creeped out by. Here's a story called The Floating Bag. Fuck. The story goes, This is a fairly mild glitch compared to some of the stories here. And it happened a few years ago, but I was thinking about it recently and decided to post it. I was riding down the highway with my boyfriend, him driving, and me in the passenger seat. It was daytime and clear and sunny out. I was looking out the window just watching the scenery pass by. I happened to notice a plasti a black plastic shopping bag floating in the wind. I'm absolutely terrible at estimating distances and heights, but it was maybe the height of a five-story building. So I'm watching this bag float around the sky, and even though it's behaving exactly as one would expect a plastic bag floating in the wind to act, something about it gave me a weird feeling, so I kept watching it for a few moments. After a minute or so of watching it float around, right before my eyes, the bag suddenly transformed into a black bird and flew away. Oh it was one of the strangest things I've ever witnessed. It's like it was so far away. Oh, it's not like it was so far away that it was a blob and I mistook the shape or something. It was a very clearly and obviously a plastic bag until it was suddenly very clearly a bird. What makes it even stranger was that my reaction at the time was so nonchalant, I guess. I just kind of thought, huh, that was weird, and that was it. As if I hadn't just witnessed something that completely defied my understanding of reality. I've had a number of spooky things happen in my life, but this is one I can confidently categorically call a glitch in the matrix as opposed to some kind of paranormal weirdness.

SPEAKER_01

I do wonder if maybe the reason why their reaction wasn't so over the top is because of how horrific that has to be to see, and how your brain probably is blocking out a whole bunch of emotions that are. Yeah, you would be kind of numb.

SPEAKER_00

Like whenever you go through like a trauma. Not not that this is necessarily like a trauma thing, but like whenever you're in trauma, like sometimes your reaction is nothing.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah, exactly. And I don't know, like I don't know what I would do if I saw a fucking plastic bag drifting through the wind, wanting to start again as a fucking bird, and then like I don't I don't like that.

SPEAKER_00

I would literally think of as crazy. Like I would be like, oh my god, like I like either I would be like, I glitched, like my brain glitched, or like I missed a part of time and my my brain's trying to cover it up by making it a bird. I don't know. I just I would be so freaked out that I would make so many excuses for it.

SPEAKER_01

I agree. It would not be a great time.

SPEAKER_00

I did look through the comments, and a lot of commenters suggested this was a prolonged observer effect. By staring too long at a low priority background object, the user forced the universe to resolve the object into something more real, the bird. Oh, I I do have another story. It's one where an object kept falling at the exact same time of night, every night, and they stated I just moved to a condo. It's large space that has been cozy these last three months. Except for one thing. Something always falls off my wall between 11 55 p.m. and 12 a.m. But there's a twist. Oh my fucking god. Which I'd call the glitch in the glitch. That will be towards the end. This would send me into psychosis. I would I'm fucking done. Okay. And guys and gals, I swear to you, this is a true story. Every single night between those times, something falls off my wall. Just a little lore. I work odd hours. When I get my me time, it's typically from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. I tuck the kids in, refill the dog's water bowl, kiss my wife goodnight, and finally get to read my read from my book collection, Fantasy Nerds Where You At. We're here. Make a podcast. You're sorry. Now this is where it get only gets slightly weird. My daughter has some special needs that we actually don't fully understand yet. She's seeing doctors about it. Uh bless her beautiful heart, but she needs a calendar. And it's her damn calendar. So she decides how to mount it. And she chose duct tape. I'm a proud dad. That's my son too. That's so cute. She mounts she mounts it a little low right by the door to the kitchen. Anyway, as you read as you Okay, hold on. Anyway, you know how read and read, like you don't know what it is until you're reading the sentence. I could not figure it out. Anyway, as you read the title, you can probably guess what I'm about to say. You'd be correct if your guess was that it falls off every night between 11 55 p.m. and 12 AM. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

New duct tape every time?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. That that's what my understanding is. Oh my god. And then he said could be a scientific explanation. The new strip of duct tape loses its its adhesive consistently throughout the day, then ti finally tears free. Logical. Um that's what so he's thinking like the duct tape is just like getting less sticky as the day goes on.

SPEAKER_01

I I personally don't think duct tape does that.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, as if it's like really humid, maybe, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

Moisture through the wall or something is like the only thing I can think about. But even then, duct tape is fucking duct tape. I wonder if well, he did say that his daughter has special needs that they can't quite understand yet, and that she's seeing doctors to also understand it. What if she was causing it to happen and she didn't know it yet? Like something kind of like Do you mean like in a parent?

SPEAKER_00

Like Okay, I was gonna say, like, do you mean like witchy or paranormal type deal?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, like what if she just has no idea? Yeah. Oh no, what if she like thinks about the calendar really hard and then it just falls? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's possible. The glitch could only happen. I feel like I hate that idea. No, no, no, no, no. I don't know. Jesus. My god. Okay, okay. Cheeses. Cheese. Yeah, cheese. Don't even talk about cheese right now. We don't like cheese. It's making me not be able to breathe. Sorry. Okay, okay, okay. Actually, I love cheese, but not right now. I'm very mad at the cheese. The glitch could only happen in a state of being unobserved. Once a conscious observer is present, the timeline collapsed into a state where the object remained firmly on the wall. How strange. Yeah. Um, so I honestly did not have like much takeaway for that. Like that that story is very I don't know. You know what I mean? Like, I just don't know what's happening there. Uh now something interesting that I was thinking was what if the universe has an energy saving mode? Like our phones have battery saving mode and like puts apps to sleep so we aren't currently using. Like the universe, I feel like she's a she. Me too. Will not fully form objects that we aren't looking at in a way to save energy.

SPEAKER_01

So that's why the atom kind of disappears until you look at it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know. I just I like that idea.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. I like it.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It's kind of like Bluetooth pairing.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, turn it off when you're not using it. I I couldn't find anything on this type of theory, but when it came to mind, I obviously felt like I figured out the entire universe. So lol. Of course. As you should. It was like one of those moments. Like whenever, you know, like whenever people are like super high or something, then they like think that they have everything figured out. Like if it's like one of those. I was like, yeah, this is it's power saving. You just solved it. You know why we're here now.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

We're gonna get to the reason why. I'm a fucking scientist, guys. I'm just saying. I think it might be with all your ions and atoms and stuff. Beryllium ions. No, beryllium, yeah, beryllium ions. Yeah. I had to like double check how to say that because and I knew the word. Like I was like, I remember this, but I can't, I couldn't like I was so afraid, I guess, like self-conscious that I was gonna mispronounce things. So I like looked up like the simplest things to make sure I didn't do it. And like then I'm just like, how do I say physicist?

SPEAKER_01

Like in my That's me with math. I'm like, what's four plus eight? Let me just make sure it's 13.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I can't do I'm just I use my calculator all the time. Like, literally, do you ever see those things on uh like social media and it's like I hope my husband doesn't look yes? My kids, it's like, oh, I don't care if he looks through my text messages, I don't want him to look at my calendar, or my not my calendar, my fucking calculator. Oh yes, that's so true because it literally happened very recently. I was like, I try to, I try to make sure I do because like Dylan is like very good with math and science and stuff. Yeah. And like I do not want him to judge me. I mean, he he's pretty accepting of me, like even my flaws. But I'm telling you, math is a huge flaw for me. Me too, though. One of my dreams actually used to be like be an astronaut, which is funny because we were talking about that in the beginning. Um, like, which is another reason I got a little emotional, because it's like something I like always dreamed of doing.

SPEAKER_01

It's a cool thing.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, but I am terrible at math, absolutely fucking awful at math. So I could never make it into NASA. And also I'm afraid of heights. But at some point, like if you're in space, like is heights like are heights a thing? Because it's like you're in a new situation, but like that's really high to me.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, I don't know. I guess so because gravity's still pulling the like pulling you this well. I mean, not when you're in space, but when you get closer to the earth's atmosphere, like when you get closer to Earth. Like, I saw this video, and it was like if you jump off like the international space um station, like the like you know, the the thing in space, you you might think that you're gonna parachute into earth, but actually you get stuck going like this around the earth's like loop. I'm like, ew, like that's horrific.

SPEAKER_00

That is terrifying, but also like I don't know, I might prefer that over like being on a parachute. I don't know. Like, I like I can't do skydiving. I literally will never be able to do it. It's something Ben wants to do. But I don't want to. No, I don't want to, but I'm even even if I wanted to, I couldn't do it. Like, that's I am absolutely petrified. Like, I mean, deep deep water, like if I can't see water, it scares the fuck out of me. Heights, like skydiving and shit, no, it's not those two things are not for me.

SPEAKER_01

I feel the same way with like spelunking. Like, I hate watching videos of people like cave diving and like going into tight spaces and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's scary.

SPEAKER_01

And I'm always like watching the videos, like those videos, and I'm like, I'm so glad that I have free will because I don't have to do that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you were talking about so scary. Doing uh what was it, scuba diving or something in in Iceland?

SPEAKER_01

Ew. Oh my god, yes. That's the only place I would do it though, because it's between two tectonic plates and it's not that deep, and there's no like fish there. Because a fucking sea creatures freak me out.

SPEAKER_00

Dude, I don't want to see that. Dylan Dylan got his nipple fucking bit by a fish one time. It was so funny. Oh wait, I remember this happening in a tube, and then he like he's like, ah, my nipple.

unknown

It was so funny.

SPEAKER_00

I have very high nipples. I gotta watch that movie again. It's so funny.

SPEAKER_01

It's such a good one. I it was uh this is 40 for anybody wondering. It's absolutely hilarious. It's a great movie.

SPEAKER_00

Oh my god, we cracked up so hard when we were young watching that. Uh so anyway, yeah, doing the research on this, I felt like I was in an episode of Doctor Who. So I don't know if if we have anybody who watches Doctor Who that's a listener, but um, it definitely gives that like I'm trying to think of the right word, that like spacey, like I don't know. Just different look at things, different look at things, I guess. I don't know. It like the the thought of all of this makes me think of like an a Doctor Who episode. So do you have any more takes on it? Or how does it make you feel? Creeped out, freaked out?

SPEAKER_01

Um, I was creeped out at first, but now I'm kind of like I don't like it still. Let me preface that. The power say that. I don't like it. Yes, like I I think that's okay, because as long as something's there when I fucking look at it, I'm fine. Like I don't want to be coming in here looking at my bookshelf and my bookshelf's not there and my books are floating.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, but you're sitting here looking at your screen and everything behind you. Like if I'm not like right now, I'm not looking at your camera, so like everything behind you doesn't exist, I guess.

SPEAKER_01

But I can see it in my camera. Oh, okay. So it does exist. Yeah, you're still okay.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, as long as you can see it, you're good.

SPEAKER_01

But if my eyes are closed right now and you're not looking. Yeah, every time you blink, it just disappears.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it just melts away. They move around, turn into something different. Turn in a winning lottery ticket, guys, or money. You know, do you ever see those things that are like uh oh, we're going on major tangents, I'm sorry. Uh those like reels or posts that are like my toxic trait is like that I'm gonna win the lottery even though I don't even play. That is me. That is a hundred percent me. Cause I'm like, this is gonna be it. And I'm like, I don't even like I don't fucking get I don't play. Like Dylan will get like tickets sometimes. Yeah, but I I don't like waste money on it for the most part. Every once in a while I'll grab something, but for the most part I don't. And um, it's just so funny to me because I'm like every time I do get one, I'm like, this is this is gonna be it. This is this is that's probably why I don't play. It's gonna happen probably. Because I know it'll just get out of hand.

SPEAKER_01

I love that. Yeah, it's uh it's a bad habit. Don't play the lottery.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's you gotta have a lot of self-control.

SPEAKER_01

Maybe once, you know, once in a while. Like I know for like Christmas gifts and stuff, one of the guys are completely out of ideas, like they usually are because they're men. Um, they'll get like a whole bunch of lottery tickets and like shove it in a fucking tube or something. I think it's a brilliant idea. It is a brilliant idea. Um, because nobody else is gonna go buy lottery tickets for themselves, you know what I mean? Like nobody in our family, you know, really does that.

SPEAKER_00

So I think it's cool.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god, yes. Yes. Just this last year. Uh just this last year, I think that same person, that that same brother-in-law, I'm pretty sure that he put it like in it he made he like shoved these lottery tickets into something and wrapped it as something else. I forget what it looked like, but it was it was funny.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, no, uh, Dylan did. He d Oh, was it him? Brother-in-law put it in like a box with other stuff. I don't think he wrapped it weirdly. I think it was just wrapped like in a box with other stuff in it. Dylan weird wrap. Yeah, Dylan made a penis with we we got like a candy cane, candy cane, um Yes, I remember. Those things that have like MMs and shit in them. Yeah. And we emptied it out, put lottery tickets in it, and then taped it up and wrapped it up like a penis. A dick.

SPEAKER_01

Tinus.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, anyway, anybody, anyway.

SPEAKER_01

We're all like almost 30, by the way.

SPEAKER_00

Like Yeah, but it's fun. You know, but but we we know how to have fun.

SPEAKER_01

It's okay.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and um very inappropriate. Sometimes inappropriate things can be funny in the right setting.

SPEAKER_01

I agree. I'm with the right people.

SPEAKER_00

And if the universe only renders what we look at, then the world is a smaller place than what we imagined. Right now the room behind your closed doors is just a cloud of probability. The street outside your window is a ghost. You are the anchor. Your gaze is the only thing keeping the void at bay. But remember, every time you blink, the system resets. Try not to miss anything, guys. Your turn, Alex.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I'm just gonna go around looking at everything, scanning everything before I go to bed.

SPEAKER_00

Literally me now. I'm just gonna walk around fucking fucking eyes. Oh my god, wait. What is that movie with the is it um the qu it's like the quiet movie where they can't talk, isn't it? That one they have their fucking eyes, like they're like ripping their eyes open. Is that the movie? Wait, I don't like it. Look at it, look at it, and they're like pulling the girl's eyes open to look. Is that that movie? Dude, maybe you can watch the movie you're talking about. It's horrific. It's terrifying. They're like, look at it, and like like pulling what's in the person's eyes. I don't remember. I can't remember. It's not the quiet place, it's something else, I think. No, it's definitely not it's like you're not you have to like close your eyes. Like, I don't know if it's aliens or something. I gotta I gotta look it up. I but let's just keep talking about aliens so that we can spin aliens. Aliens, aliens, alien aliens. Maybe if we just start saying aliens.

SPEAKER_01

Aliens. Aliens. Okay, so um I have like five stories here. I'm just gonna go ahead and read those because I was on a Reddit spree and that's what I chose to do with my time. So this first one is called I Saw a Cloud Turn Into a Plane, which I thought was really fucking interesting because of the bag and the bird story that you read.

SPEAKER_00

That is, I thought you were gonna read it, like read the same story at first.

SPEAKER_01

No. It says, I know it sounds crazy, but I saw a cloud turn into a plane. And even weirder, it was a commercial passenger plane, like a commercial jet airliner, not some alien spaceship or experimental military aircraft, just a regular plane. It's so strange that I know it sounds like I'm hallucinating, lying, or it was some type of illusion, but I'll explain why those explanations are hard to believe. And as a stranger on the internet, I can't prove to you that I'm not lying, so that's up to you to decide. I only thought to post this to Reddit today to see if anyone else has experienced this or has any explanations. Here's the story. I, 24 male, was driving to work. It was around 6 30 a.m. and I was in bumper-to-bumper traffic, moving slow. I was looking at an unusually small cloud in the sky. Don't worry, I could see the car in front of me from my periphery. This cloud caught my attention because it was unusually small, but I didn't suspect it to be anything other than a cloud. I was staring at this cloud for about five to seven seconds, and then suddenly, quickly over the course of probably a quarter of a second, the cloud collapsed perfectly into its center, and at the exact moment that it collapsed into its center, a plane appeared from the exact center point and was flying normally. Nope. I stared at the plane for a while to see if it would transform again, but it just remained a plane until I couldn't see it anymore. The cloud was roughly as tall as it was wide, and it was translucent instead of fully opaque. The cloud was several times larger than the plane that appeared from its center after it collapsed. The cloud was stationary, but once the cloud collapsed, the plane that appeared from its center was flying normally. The plane appeared to be flying at the same altitude as any other commercial commercial passenger jet liner. Here's why I don't think it was a hallucination or an illusion. I have no history of hallucinations, I have no mental conditions that cause me to hallucinate, nor do any of my family members have any medical conditions that cause hallucinations. I had not taken any drugs or medications at that time. I have been an entirely sober person for years besides 50 milligrams of I don't actually know what this medication is. It's um Certraline daily S-E-R-T-R-A-L-I-N-E.

SPEAKER_00

So Surtraline's uh I think it's a it's either antidepressant or anti like it's anxiety or depression medicine.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. Okay, I'm glad I said it right. I wasn't super tired or drowsy, and I had already been awake for over an hour by the time I saw it happen, and I wasn't feeling stressed out that day. It was broad daylight, no fog, the sky was clear besides a few clouds, but this small cloud that turned into a plane was by itself and surrounded only by clear blue sky. Potential explanations that I don't believe. This cloud was roughly as tall as it was wide, so it wasn't a contrail. Like, is that like a chemtrail? This is in this took place in Australia, so I'm guessing the contrail is like a chemtrail. C O N trail.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I think so. I think it's probably the same thing. We're gonna go for it. Oh, by the way, that movie's called Bird Box. Sorry, it's called Bird Box. Have you seen it?

SPEAKER_01

My fucking with Sandra Bullock.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

That person's eyes. Yes, okay, I did. I can I literally like that went completely over my head. It was so it was like 2018, I think, when I watched it. Oh my god. Okay, sorry. I didn't know. It was a wild time. Yeah, go ahead. Back to Plane. I didn't notice any planes flying nearby when I saw this happen. I thought maybe the plane came from behind the cloud, but the cloud was so small that I likely would have seen the plane coming toward the cloud in the five to seven seconds before the cloud collapsed. But this still wouldn't explain why the cloud collapsed so quickly, perfectly and uniformly into its exact center. I thought maybe my eyes were unfocused at first without realizing, but if that were the case, then the plane would have looked more like two planes instead of a cloud. And also I would have realized afterwards that my eyes were unfocused. I thought maybe the plane sucked the cloud into its engines, but again, I likely would have seen the plane coming toward the cloud before the cloud collapsed, and even then a plane wouldn't suck a cloud into its engine so quickly imperfectly.

SPEAKER_00

Dude, look at your camera. Put your put look at your camera. I can't I was just gonna say stressing the fuck out because I can't see your mouth moving. Like, is it bothering your eyes? No. Okay. Like I just can't see your-fix it. Like you have no mouth. I just don't know how to fix it. I literally don't know what to do with it. Oh my god. I just can't. I'm I'm glad. Like I was like, I didn't want to interrupt you.

SPEAKER_01

I literally, okay, I can kind of sit like this. No, no, no. Yeah, I saw it.

SPEAKER_00

You do what you need to do. I'm I'll listen. I just am looking at your eyes, not your mouth, because I'm like, oh my god, like it's freaking me out. It was definitely freaky.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. I thought maybe it was light glaring off the side of the plane, which is really fucking funny because the light glaring off my face right now. But the cloud was several times larger in the sky than the plane, and the glare looks very different from a cloud. As soon as I saw this happen, I went to ChatGPT and used the voice mode so I could tell Chat GPT what I saw with my voice while driving. Not texting, but instead speaking. I did this partly because I was dumbfounded, but also because I wanted to record what I saw because I knew that if I didn't do so, then my future brain would have convinced me that it was a false memory and that I was making it up. Then about 20 minutes later, as I was sitting in the car park for my job, I texted my friend Chanel to tell her what I saw. And then later that day about at about 1 p.m. This isn't funny, but it's cute. They refer to their friend as my pal. I don't know why that made me giggle, but it says, and later that day at about 1 p.m., I texted my pal Madeline to tell her the story also. I can't include screenshots of the text or my chat GPT catalog, but if you want to read them, you can visit my profile and see the screenshots. I'm still open to the possibility that it was a hallucination, but there is no reason to believe that, besides that I saw a cloud turn into a plane. There is a military base in the area, and it's in the countryside, so I wonder if maybe it was some experimental military technology. Sounds bonkers, but then again, this whole thing is bonkers. Has anyone else seen this? Or does anyone have any ideas as to what happened?

SPEAKER_00

Mmm. Universe like glitch or military. That is definitely my my top ones. You okay? Blind. Look at it! Oh, your eyes open.

SPEAKER_01

I'm literally gonna be myself. I really thought it was just now. I was like, I put my face like where the sun is glaring on my mouth.

SPEAKER_00

Dude, you have like no mouth. It's so crazy. It looks like it. I've never seen a glare that bad. It's like it's like, oh, like you're uh that uh what the fuck's the the guy named Oddly or Fair Fairly Odd Parents? The Mashani T and me, that guy. Is it like the Crimson Chun guy? No, oh my god. Are you too young? Who is that? Wait, is the Crimson Fairly Odd Parents? Yeah.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

There's also young boo boo.

SPEAKER_00

Sorry guys, you just got the sister battler with us. I know. There's a guy who like brushes his teeth and has like super shiny, sparkly teeth. I can't remember his fucking name right now.

SPEAKER_01

Is he like a main character? I don't remember him.

SPEAKER_00

No, he's not a main character. Oh, maybe I just didn't watch that episode. But yeah, you don't know the like do you know the shiny teeth in me song? No. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_01

Dude, it looks like wearing like a doctor mask. You have to do one of those things.

SPEAKER_00

It's terrifying, honestly. Hold on, let me get a picture. I got it. Okay. Oh my god, I can't. That's wild.

SPEAKER_01

Literally, like It's so weird. You look like a horror movie. You guys are probably like, shut the fuck up. Yeah, they're like, it's like show us the video or it didn't happen. And we we could we get both that. Okay, just don't mind my lights falling in the back. And just just don't mind my room. Your room is pretty, shut up. Thanks. It's a mess though. Okay, the next story is called, which I honestly I don't have a theory to the last one, because it sounds like they were honestly of sound mind. Unless it's like what Megan was talking about with her quantum thing. Maybe. Okay, so the next story is called Missing Wrappers on Two Water Bottles. A couple weeks ago, my parents and grandmother came over to visit our son. We ordered some pizza for dinner and afterwards they were all in the living room playing with him. During dinner, we had put out some water bottles and cans of Coca-Cola. Everyone drank what they wanted and then left the remainder of their drinks in the kitchen. At one point I stepped for my water bottle and then set it down next to the microwave while I boxed up the pizza and put it in the fridge. I turned around and not 15 seconds later, and the water bottle next to the microwave was now missing its wrapper. Confused, I thought I must have placed my water bottle somewhere else in the kitchen. I looked around for like three minutes and couldn't. I'm sorry, I have the giggles.

SPEAKER_00

That's okay. I'm out completely out of pocket right now. Like I've been Me too. Yeah, it's okay. They know what they're here for. They like it.

SPEAKER_01

True. Yeah. Confused, I thought I must have placed my water bottle somewhere else in the kitchen. I looked around for like three minutes and couldn't think of where else I would have placed it. I then thought that maybe I imagined the whole thing and that perhaps it was sitting there like that the whole time. It then dawned on me that it must have been someone else's water and they may have removed the wrapper to identify it easily as their own. Not wanting to drink out of someone else's backwash, I went to the pantry and grabbed a new bottle of water. This time I set it next to the coffee pot while I did a little more light cleaning in the kitchen. Only minutes went by and I turned around. The water at the coffee pot was now missing its wrapper too.

SPEAKER_00

I would literally just be pissed. So I'd be so irritated. Who was in my house? Like who was fucking with me? Well me, it'd be Ben, then I'd be like, Ben, why'd you do this? I don't yelling like that, but But at that point I might.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know. Here was the really weird part. In that moment I started to feel lightheaded and like I might faint. Something felt super off to me and I had to go sit down. My parents asked if I was okay, and they said I looked pale. I tried to explain what just happened, that I drank from not one but two water bottles which suddenly had the wrappers vanish. Everyone insisted that they never touched mine or did anything similar to theirs. They then suggested I go look at all the waters and remain that remained in the pantry to see if perhaps others were missing their wrappers. They weren't. Every single bottle that remained had a wrapper. There wasn't a wrapper in the trash, and I still genuinely have no idea how this happened. And I'm just like, if I were like, I don't I don't know what I would do in this situation, because what if someone played a prank on her after the fact and like took all the wrappers off the water bottles in the pantry just to fuck with her? Like that would be so evil, but it that's where my brain goes.

SPEAKER_00

I'm like, someone would do this to me. I was gonna say that sounds like something that would happen to you to be honest.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, it would. So, um, yeah, I don't really know, but that's definitely a glitch, a glitch in the matrix. This one is called I think we experienced two glitches in one day, and it's my favorite. It's very interesting. To start this off, I want to say I've always considered myself what I call an open-minded skeptic. I'm totally 100% open to the idea that the paranormal exists and that there are things going on beyond our understanding. However, I also absolutely believe that most things have a logical earthly explanation. The reason I want to stress this is because I have been absolutely racking my brain for a rational way to explain all of this since it happened, and thus far I've come up with absolutely nothing. To set the scene, I'm self-employed as a photographer. The bulk of my income is from weddings, but I also do marketing slash publicity stuff for small businesses and events in my local area when it's not peak wedding season. Last weekend I had one such event. It was a little further afield than I typically go to be honest, but it was a really well-paying gig, and it was m and it was with a really cool events company who I have worked with a few times, so I took it. It was a bit bigger of a job, so I took my second shooter, I'll call her Angie, for ease of storytelling, along with me. It was early afternoon when we were driving to the event. This was in a very rural area in northern England, so lots of narrow, winding country roads. At one point, just after a notably sharp turn, we passed an area where there had clearly been a car accident sometime prior. There were no visible wrecked vehicles or anything, but there were bad skid marks on the road, a massive hole torn through the hedge, and then marks and dents in the field on the other side, where it looked like a car had rolled. It looked like somebody had lost control of their vehicle, gone through the hedge, and flipped the car in the field. The area was even taped off as an as if emergency services had attended the scene. We both commented on how scary it looked and how we hoped nobody had been hurt. Cut to the end of the event and it's evening time and fully dark. Angie insisted she would drive back as I had driven there. Shortly after setting off, it started absolutely pouring rain, like the makes driving on narrow, windy roads even scarier type of rain. I told Angie we could swap if she wanted, but she said she was fine. A few seconds later, she said she had a bad headache out of nowhere and felt sort of dizzy. I told her I really didn't mind swapping if she wanted to, but she insisted she was fine after pulling over for a moment. A little bit later, we reached that sharp turn by the crash site. As Angie makes a turn, she loses control of the car. We start to spin out towards the hedge and we both start yelling and freaking out and bracing for impact. Except, impact never happened. At the point we should have hit the hedge, we were suddenly a few miles back on the road, right where we were just before it had started raining. I was obviously mad confused. That's fucking weird. This one's crazy. I asked Angie what she thought had happened, and she was like, Oh thank god it happened for you too. I thought I was losing it. We sort of chalked it up to some weird coincidence. I don't know that word. I'm not gonna We chalked it up to some weird coincidence caused by a long day at work. However, the same string of events started playing out. It started pouring rain out of nowhere, and then Angie got a sudden intense headache. This time when I offered to swap, she accepted. When I took the sharp turn, the car didn't veer or spin at all. We were totally fine and made it home alive and in one piece. The craziest part though? When we passed the area where the crash site had been, it was just gone. Hedge fully intact, no police tape to be seen, no skin marks on the road, no sign of a rolled car in the field, absolutely no evidence that an accident had occurred at all. I genuinely have nothing to explain this away. Literally, it seems like the universe showed us the site of our own accident and then gave us a second chance to avoid it. I don't know enough about glitches in the matrix to know if there's a specific name for this type, but I wanted to share it with you guys who might know a little bit more about it or at least appreciate the story. And I definitely think that's what happened. I definitely think the universe was like, hey, let's uh switch spots. See what could have happened. That one was fucking crazy, and it's it was like my favorite. I had to include it like right in the middle. Second to last story, and this one I just think is fun. It's called the Water Shoe Incident, and it says, A few years ago I experienced something during a vacation that has always stayed with me. We were on holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes. One afternoon we went to the beach. The beaches there are mostly made of pebbles rather than sand, so I had brought a pair of brightly colored watershoes with me. They were flexible surf-style shoes with a fairly heavy rubber sole. My son and I walked into the sea together. There was quite a bit of wind that day, creating noticeable waves and a strong surge in the water. At one point I suddenly felt that one of my watershoes had slipped off my foot. A moment later I saw it floating at the surface. I managed to grab it and hand it to my son. He started playfully throwing it across the water, trying to make it slide over the surface like you would do when skipping a flat stone. But after one of those throws, the shoe disappeared between the waves. Because of the rough water it sank almost immediately. I searched around the spot where it went under, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Eventually I walked back out of the sea, slightly annoyed, with only one shoe left on my foot. Because the wind was blowing toward the shore and the waves were rolling in, the three of us walked along the water line for a while, hoping that the shoe might wash up somewhere along the beach. Unfortunately, we never found it. The next day we returned to the same beach. The water was s nope. The weather was sunny, but there was a lot of wind and wave activity. My partner decided to go swimming roughly around the same area where I had lost the shoe the day before. Meanwhile, my son and I went to a small Greek restaurant located a bit further back from the beach, but still parallel to that same stretch of the sea. We got a table on the first floor to an open balcony. From there we had a clear view of the beach and I could see my partner swimming in the distance. While waiting for our food, I occasionally looked out toward the water. At one particular moment, something happened that still feels very strange to me. About three meters behind my partner, I suddenly saw my lost watershoe shoot up out of the sea. It didn't just slowly float to the surface, it actually burst upward with force, rising roughly a meter above the water before falling back and starting to drift on the surface. I immediately stood up and started waving from the balcony to get my partner's attention. At first she didn't understand what I was trying to signal. After a few more gestures pointing toward the water behind her, she finally turned around. There it was. The shoe was floating there. She swam over to it, picked it up, and brought it back to the beach. What has always fascinated me about this moment is that despite the wind, the waves, and the constant movement of the sea, the shoe somehow stayed in roughly the same area for about 24 hours, and at the exact moment I happened to be looking toward the water, it suddenly shot up to the surface again. It was a small and simple event, but the timing and coincidence of it has always made it feel strangely remarkable. And I did read the comments on this one because I was like, what the fuck? Like how does that happen? And somebody said that the um the Nereids gave it back to them and uh they're like a Greek water nymphs. And uh they said, I know how that sounds to most most people, but I'm absolutely serious about this. The world the world in the ocean is a mysterious place. You should give thanks to them if you haven't already. I'm a believer in polytheism and have a love of Greek mythology. You were in a sacred place and encountered a nereid, or perhaps several. I'm a little envious actually. Edit to add, I think because your son was playing with the shoe, the nereids thought it looked like a fun toy, which is why they took it. Perhaps they played with it all night. It's really nice that they gave it back to you. You had such a special encounter with the ocean nymphs. And somebody commented on that and said, Some years ago my husband and I were vacationing in Maui and came across this really this really beautiful lava rock that washed up on the beach as we were waiting in the water. We picked it up and admired it and thanked it for letting us have the opportunity to see it before placing it back in the water. We stayed in the water for a few more minutes before going back to our towels and sunbathing. My husband had lost his sunglasses the day before, and as we were laying out our towels, he remarked how he wishes he had his sunglasses, and the next thing you know, with the next wave that rolled in came a pair of sunglasses. Aw, I love that. I know. I thought that one was really fun. I was like, I want to meet the Nereids, are you kidding? Like, that's so cool. But really crazy though. I mean, like, if you don't believe in that kind of stuff, I really don't know a logical explanation as to why you would lose your shoe in the like rough ocean 24 hours later when you happen to be looking at it, it pops back up out of the ocean in the same spot, like relatively same spot you were. That's weird.

SPEAKER_00

It was obviously a wave. Just kidding. Just kidding.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah. Of course, of course. Okay, the last story is called How Did We Die? So this happened about a year ago, and I still think about it all the time. I don't really know how to explain it without sounding crazy, but it's the experience that sent me down the whole quantum immortality rabbit hole. About a week before the main event, my friend Morgan and I were driving and a car cut in front of us and kicked up a rock. It hit my windshield literally right in front of my face. For a split second, it felt like the rock almost went through the glass and into my face, even though it didn't. I turned on the windshield wipers thinking maybe it was dust, but there was a chip with a tiny crack coming off of it. We both saw it, talked about how annoying it was, and I didn't worry too much because where I live, windshields get replaced for free all the time. That chip stayed there all week, directly in my line of sight. Fast forward to about a week later, I was supposed to meet Morgan for a night out, but I got out of work late and by the time I got there she was already a little drunk. I decided it was better to just drive her home first so I could relax and enjoy the rest of my night without worrying about her. It was raining pretty hard, I was on the highway doing the speed limit, there were about five lanes, and I was in the middle lane with a bunch of cars behind me, and I hydroplaned. I drive a sports car and I have experience controlling it. I drift corners sometimes so I know how it responds, but this was different. I started fishtailing across the highway within inches of the median multiple times, like back and forth across all the lines. We ended up doing a full 180 and we were facing the wrong direction in traffic, headlights coming straight towards us. As soon as the car stopped spinning, I booked a U-turn and floored it so we wouldn't get hit. Now this is the part that really messes with me. Morgan is someone who knocks on instantly when she sleeps. She's incredibly hard to wake up. Like you could be mid-conversation and she's gone. She wakes up in that moment with a gasp and says, We got into a nine-car pileup. I just stared at her because that absolutely would have happened if we'd hit the highway maybe ten seconds later. After that evening, after that everything fell off. While I'm driving, I realized the chip in my windshield is gone. Completely gone. That chip that had been right in front of my face for a full week, no crack, nothing. I have a dash cam, so I pulled over later and checked the footage. My dash cam records in two to three minute loops. The entire loop of the hydroplaning, the spinning, her waking up and saying that is just missing. Not corrupted, not half there, just gone. Like it never happened.

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Bro.

SPEAKER_00

Lord Sorry, I actually muted. Um that's that is crazy sauce. I don't I don't know. That was weird.

SPEAKER_01

I definitely think they died and jumped into a different timeline.

SPEAKER_00

Like, yeah, that would make sense to me.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my gosh, that one was nuts, and I was I don't I don't like it. I don't I'm always like, I don't know what I would do in that situation. But like I'm so serious. Like I don't like I don't want to know what I would do.

SPEAKER_00

And also, I was just gonna say, when you do jump into another timeline, like what happens to the you that was in that timeline? Do you just merge into one person?

SPEAKER_01

I think I I would imagine so. I would like to do that.

SPEAKER_00

I guess nobody actually truly knows, but I'm curious.

SPEAKER_01

Because like I don't I yeah, like I don't like what do you do? Like, how does that I would imagine you just have to merge because it's already existing and then not it's weird. You kill them.

SPEAKER_00

Sorry, I'm being very ridiculous today. I apologize.

SPEAKER_01

Don't don't apologize. This is Bim. Alright, we fuck around here. I think the next time we do Bitches in the Matrix, I'm gonna go for themed stories though. I honestly was just scrolling and reading through, and these were the ones that stuck out to me. But I think if I stick to like a clear theme that could be really interesting, like alien glitches or like fucking plain or things disappearing, I think that that could be really fun.

SPEAKER_00

So yeah, that was my plan. That's what I was gonna do this episode. But then I remembered I really wanted to go over the observer effect thing. It was just something that it's not enough for like a solo episode, and something I really wanted to touch on because I think it's so interesting.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah, I'm gonna touch a base on it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I'll touch a base. Time to spin a wheel, it's gonna be aliens.

SPEAKER_01

I'm doing it, I'm doing it, I'm doing it. Aliens. We're spinning. I'm so nervous. We got asylum slash sanatorium. We'll probably see. I think we'll do asylum this time because we did sanatorium. Least team. Okay, sounds good. Yay! Make sure to tune in next week. If you're enjoying the podcast, make sure to give us a five-star rating on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

SPEAKER_00

And follow us on Facebook at TwoFilthy Horrors Podcasts and Instagram at TwoFilthy Horrors.

SPEAKER_01

If you have any glitches you want to share with us, send them to two filthy horrorspodcasts at gmail.com. Don't forget the podcast.

SPEAKER_00

And I know you guys do, because I have people who are like, I want to tell you my story. Well, send it an email. I mean, I wanna hear it. I really want to hear it. But if you send it an email, we can tell everybody. And we have also if you send it an email that gives us what is what am I doing for? Yeah, for thank you. Oh Lord. You're welcome. And we do have a few of them. It's just not like enough. We don't have enough yet to do an actual like full story or full episode. So we want more.

SPEAKER_01

We want more. Give us it. If you got it. Haunt it. Get it.