Cryptids Are Scary

[@SpookiCooki]

Marks story about hearing Amy in a room she wasn't in is terrifying.

[@im-here]

That's the story that scared me most

[@donloder1]

that shit straight outta mandela catalonia!

[@ModernMedusa]

Same thing has happened to me, except my stepdad was screaming my name and pounding the door when he was actually 3 hours away in a semi truck 😬

[@im-here]

@@ModernMedusa horrific

[@Necrosis-00]

@@ModernMedusa never open the door that is not him.

[@spydorzYT]

Wow I can't believe Zombiemold passed away, drunk minecraft was one of my fav old series and had always had hoped it'd come back in someway, RIP Zombiemold

[@callmewolf3910]

What??? When? :( RIP Zombiemold.

[@ellielayned]

@@callmewolf3910 on Christmas :(

[@ghoultooth]

Man, I know. It really sucks.

[@miketrapper0464]

@@ellielayned that’s even more tragic Rest In Peace zombiemold

[@PrederNationteam74]

*Holy shit... I talked to him years ago*

[@robertusestuslaflask9040]

The Amy Mark heard in the bedroom was probably just the SCP version of Amy that Mark and Ethan built during unus annus. No biggie

[@harleycynofficial]

The Amy is my sleep paralysis demon. That voice!

[@launchinglachie4580]

I forgot about that!

[@conflictbrooks]

Interesting theory. However, SCP 11325 (Otherwise known as SCP Amy) has: A. Been shown to be incapable of replicated human speech B. Was presumably decommissioned/destroyed after the return of the real Amy For the voice Mark heard to have been SCP 11325, this implies that she's actually still alive, and, more disturbingly, she has learned to replicate the voice of the original Amy.

[@rsukut5866]

That was my first thought: "Aw, Mark, it was just SCP Amy!" 😂

[@LexitaMai]

@@conflictbrooks Unless she is actually so intelligent that she was only leading us to believe that she is incapable of replication of human speech... 👀

[@markoristo]

A genuinely scary episode of Distractible. I was listening to this while walking in the woods at night… it turned into a run.

[@madmaxz4921]

cant feel how uncomfortable that mustve felt

[@lapisdough1561]

Were you looking for anything specific in the woods? 😏 Bad Habits reference* in case that sounds weird haha

[@imthewitch8355]

@@lapisdough1561 😂I see...some old collection perhaps

[@snufkin2245]

Dude what the hell were you doing in the woods at night

[@enochdemille2396]

@@snufkin2245 a walk through the trees by moonlight can be quite nice if its a safe area

[@Karma_Sans]

Man sitting here at almost 3 am listening to their uneasy stories is actually filling me with dread and paranoia. I'm actually getting scared just by their stories

[@gustavofring4047]

whenever they release a scary podcast, i always save it for when i decide to lay down at night and listen to their tales with my airpods on at max volume. always try and get that max effect :)

[@Karma_Sans]

@@gustavofring4047 I fall asleep typically to horror stories from like Mr. Creeps or someone so nice to chill to

[@wyattharlow0921]

@@gustavofring4047 I always lose my AirPods if I fall asleep with them in sometimes I can’t find them for days

[@Karma_Sans]

@@wyattharlow0921 I just use overear headphones, or a speaker set

[@cpt.lyssajb]

put this one on trying to fall alseep, didnt pay attention to the name and ended up not being able to sleep or brave enough to even move for like, an hour. most scared I've been in ages.

[@emm-mercury]

My heart sunk so hard when y’all brought up Zombiemold; it’s been a month, but I had no idea until just now. Rest easy Zombie ♥️

[@theplague5803]

It was five months for me But it destroyed me

[@pr0ng3l48]

"They're old enough to be graduating now" Me who literally got my GED last week: "Fuck They're onto us."

[@ihavenonamestilldonthaveon8970]

Good job!

[@alisonanddanlindsey]

I'm literally graduating in 8 days 😂 Edit: so I graduated today, with honors 😃

[@MuntCuffin6399]

@@alisonanddanlindsey WOOOOOO YEAH BABY

[@memoryfound9208]

congrats on the graduation

[@kedrikkrim]

Gratz to all you. School is cool, stay in school and just say no

[@miraflameglade]

Mark: "There's not something on your ceiling looking at you...." Me: "Oh yeah for sure." *Looks up at creepy smily face I put there when I was like 6 because my family got me those stupid blo-pens *

[@TheVoidedRealm]

*looks up at the hole that looks like hair comings out but it actually where a celling fan goes* Oh yeah nothing scary here nothing trying to crawl out from that hole

[@Mystic-Midnight]

@@TheVoidedRealm My bathroom has wallpaper on it and it's getting pretty old and peely from like 10 years of steaming hot showers and my family has talked to the landlord about getting it replaced HOWEVER, in the wallpaper design I swear I see like a horrible unsightly face sometimes form every other time I go in there that's like right over my shoulder in the mirror. Like I will avoid looking at that spot when I poop or have to mess with my mirror because it doesn't make sense how it isn't consistently a facelike appearance

[@TheVoidedRealm]

@@Mystic-Midnight oh damn I had something like that in my old house but it was a really rough patch drywall fix, by the land lord from the top of the stairs looking at the landing it look like nothing, but from the kitchen to the stairs there's a face that comes out red even though it's a white wall, I never noticed because I'm normally looking down at my cats but they noticed it too, and they freak out and then I saw it toom

[@peepycowver]

​@@Mystic-Midnight because of the wall paper degrading in my bathroom for decades it looks like there's a small goat man standing next to the shower

[@themisfitowl2595]

@@Mystic-Midnight I don't know why, but reading that just gave me this uncanny urge to draw the image of someone peeking out from under that peeling wallpaper. It's weird where I get inspiration from...

[@deadlyagent9746]

The meme is called Mr. Incredible Becoming Uncanny if anyone was curious

[@F8edjackie]

Is a good meme

[@zupitercookie]

@@F8edjackie yes

[@realsandwichjones]

@@zupitercookie fr, I also like the Mr Incredible becoming uncanny with disturbing facts

[@zupitercookie]

@@realsandwichjones yes

[@realsandwichjones]

@GigglesDoesStuff Like what exactly?

[@LilHawg]

SCP is terrifying because everything is written as scientific findings instead of short stories. It's because if you just found one of those in a briefcase in an abandoned building you'd GTFO ASAP.

[@monkeydoespride]

You wouldn't remember it if it was one in a briefcase.

[@TheVoidedRealm]

*Me enjoying pink bon bon* Scp has pink bon bons Me no longer buys pink bon bons, you gotta be safe bros

[@cuchulainn7584]

its the unfeeling scientific coldness and possibility that it could be real and is hidden from us

[@ladysauce2508]

help i listened to an scp explained vid before i went to sleep once and i could not sleep until my family entered the room lol (we were on a holiday at my mom’s friend’s house so we had to share a room)

[@FormaCodex_5-7]

what about more instances of 999? cute little thing

[@PsychoticWolfie]

I was genuinely scared for a minute there until the PP monster and the dong wrangler. Thanks for bringing it back around guys, you're really masters of your craft

[@PsychoticWolfie]

Dangit there was another scary one after. You couldn't have ended on a non-scary story?? It's 3am when I'm watching this 💀

[@jasonfoster3111]

@@PsychoticWolfie Same here, and I've got school tomorrow!

[@theanathema3062]

Wait, zombie died. What the hell man, he was my second favorite part of drunk Minecraft. Damn, that suck. Sorry guys

[@dogalrorn]

May he walk in your light, Father.

[@theanathema3062]

@@dogalrorn son, is that you. My warp powers are on the fritz and I haven’t gotten this until now, but is it true you Rogal

[@dragonquill3182]

My goodness, I had no clue until just now! Rest well, Zombie.

[@colin8923]

I'm legitimately getting creeped out. These stories are so relateable and creepy. Edit: I literally cannot turn back to my work and have to look around my room. Mark's story about the creature in the archway actually made me feel fear like I haven't felt in a long time. My atmosphere is too similar and I felt like I was gonna vomit. More ready to run I guess.

[@Cs-cp6vo]

Considering how I have a similar compulsion to get out of bed, this story hit way too close to home

[@colin8923]

@@Cs-cp6vo exactly

[@rbizzle07]

Your profile is upside down and it scares me in the way that Mark's story scared you and I cannot explain it

[@enochdemille2396]

*sniff* shotgun

[@justaregulargamer423]

And I turned around

[@redbeardtheviking2221]

Worst audio hallucinations I've ever had was one in a low, menacing, rough voice say to me literally right next to my ear saying "name" ... "name, BREAK BONES" the second one was loud enough that I could feel as if the air was moving against my neck and ear, later in that week I was falling asleep and in the same voice I heard "you better not sleep in here tonight boy..." needless to say I didn't sleep that night.

[@Yukalitlee]

Well damn... That'd definitely keep me up too. I've had something like this happen too, though what I heard was different.

[@sarab3888]

The most recent sleep paralysis episode I had was the feeling of something trying to pull my under the mattress while multiple people chanting "we see you on the ship" over and over

[@monster_hunter4204]

@@sarab3888 maybe you were a cool pirate in your last life and the auditory sensations are from memories of times you were near death. That’d be cool.

[@cacnmheese90]

I used to have epilepsy, and I would get auditory hallucinations. The big problem with that (aside from the seizures lol) was that I was 6 when it started and the hallucinations were voices that always whispered the same things “turn around” and “look behind you”. I think I was haunted lol

[@vierzehn575]

i think that was a nice ghost! you know how people say "break a leg" to people before they do a performance, to say good luck? that's definitely what that means totally

[@BalladOfLooks]

I really, really hope that Wade has a raccoon living in his attic, and the shadow was just elongated from an angle.

[@omnibus3529]

It's the same raccoon he kidnapped. I'm pretty sure it's out for revenge

[@Voodoo-ku2vc]

No it's his dog in pieces shattered absorbing raw meat

[@NODnuke45]

Someone should tell Wade he needs to get a team of people together and turn his house inside out because there might actually be someone living in his crawlspace or in his walls or somewhere that isn't apparent at first glance, that shit actually happens.

[@up-set1451]

@@NODnuke45 the drowned man 2: electric boogaloo

[@NODnuke45]

@@up-set1451 The drowned man 2, but it's an actual man squatting in Wade's house. lol

[@Maple_774]

2 things about this episode. 1.) I love that Mark's story of walking downstairs and seeing the figure in the kitchen arch got brought up, I remember years ago when Five Nights at Candy's 3 came out and he started telling these old nightmare stories. I highly recommend watching that series, I still come back to it sometimes just to hear the stories. 2.) All 3 things they talked about in the first half of the video, Bob hearing a woman's voice, Wade seeing something out of the corner of his eyes, and Mark hearing Amy in one area of the house when she's actually on the other side of the house are all things that genuinely freak me out. I can't even pick one that's worse than the other. The edit when Bob said "Hello? Are you there?", the imagery from Wade's story, imagining the tree lights flickering between different colors and then you see a shadow go passed the crack between the door and the wall, and I can't even imagine the fear of thinking you hear someone in one room and then you realize the voice isn't coming from said room, but the OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE, all of those actually scare me.

[@EndrVersace]

I was never of the "podcast listener" type of guy, but since I watch Markiplier often and him always bringing up his podcast, I gave it a try with this specific session and my god was it good. I've always been into creepy shit and hearing their stories literally gave me the chills (especially Markipliers story about there being "2 amys")

[@shikarifox4337]

Might have been SCP-11325

[@LordDuncanChannel]

I think Mark's scariest moment was during surviving the game when he exited the screen and the kidnapper was standing there, and Wade scariest moment was a Gmod map with JP and he turned around and Herobrine was standing there. Those are the two times they got to scared the most that I think.

[@harshmellow2006]

links?

[@QNCSFT]

What game was Mark playing?

[@theemeraldcavern2717]

@@QNCSFT The game was called “Welcome to the Game” it’s about the dark web

[@ShyDragoness]

I think Mark being hospitalised mightve been scarier

[@FoghornSanchez]

Mark cried during Dreadhalls VR, if I recall.

[@SquirrelGamez]

By drawing the thing he thought he say, Mark made it easier to see it for his brain. He literally gave it substance in his mind's eye.

[@boingo696]

The story that got me the most was young mark giving a creature form by compulsively drawing it. It immediately made me shiver, I could feel coldness run from the top of my neck to my foot, everything became darker, my body was frozen in place and I felt a pulsing feeling.

[@mwkcope]

As a big fan of Alan Wake... brought back memories.

[@colin8923]

I decided to give this podcast a try, and I have to say this was a great introduction. I wanted to start from a video that seemed appealing to me, so I picked this one because I had recently been looking at some of those creepy and mysterious topic videos on KZbin. This was very enjoyable and a great first impression, so now I'm gonna listen to all of them in order. Amazing content!

[@cainangoodwin5401]

The start of Mark,Bob and Wades slow decent into madness.

[@Clownbunnycosplay]

Isn’t that every podcast?

[@tylerb5764]

Wade saying that his wife’s scream is the scariest thing to him is so heartwarming to me❤

[@frogmanfromthesky2148]

I don’t know if I’ve ever done a spit take, but “Mom identifiers” absolutely got one out of me

[@PichuBro8]

I LOVE this video. I love talking about the weird uncomfortable horrors, little voices, Mark's entire experience with the shadow person, wade being watched by the thing in his attic, it slaps so hard. For anyone feeling that uncomfortable pulse of fear; The best way to combat Horror Movie Syndrome is to act like someone not in a horror movie. Talk to yourself, sing a copyrighted song, do something so stupidly silly whatever is stalking you will feel the mood is ruined. Can't do murder in a clown house, the mood's just not right.

[@NoiseDay]

Watching people play scary games honestly cured me of my paranoia. I used to be horribly scared of doing anything at night, especially looking out windows and in mirrors. Being able to experience dread and fear in a controlled environment, knowing these were stories made by people with the intention of inducing fear, and learning all the tropes, I no longer spiral when it gets dark out. Plus I stopped believing in the supernatural from watching Buzzfeed Unsolved. Now I genuinely believe there's nothing out there that I can't understand. I fall asleep a lot faster now.

[@kamryn110]

Respect for Zombiemold and his family🙏♥️ He really helped form the group of ppl we all watch. He built the community that I personally watch for the moments I’m really depressed. Thank you Zombie!

[@trustyoldiron5416]

Man, I can't believe Zombiemold has passed. That's so crazy to think about. I remember you guys messing with Latingoddess and Zombie on Vox Populi. Drunk Minecraft is a very fond memory in my childhood. Please... Rest In Peace Zombie.

[@spookycookies2349]

This by far is personally my favorite episode of the podcast

[@Masonia_]

Saaaame i love scary stuff

[@O.Reagano]

Over Bob's Fridge :0

[@ManaPsirando]

I remember reading Goosebumps and they had these choose your own adventure books where you go to the page of the choice you make. And in one book in this one scenario you can fall into an infinite loop between two pages where you feel or sense something behind you and you turn around, but nothing is there. So over and over again you know something is there but you look and never see it. The books didn't really scare me but that, that stuck out to me and would mess with my head a bit. Being alone in the house or alone in the shower (shower water makes it harder to hear, minor claustiphobia like feeling) fucked me up for a bit cause of that. I had to keep my back to walls so nothing would be there.

[@hdawgboo]

I like how when most people get scared they rather run and not look, like what if the basement monster just wants to give cupcakes;-;

[@NoiseDay]

Any creature with good intentions would not be in your house without permission. Though I do like trying to think of a monster lore where there are creatures who can only survive in the darkest shadows of your basement and they merely want to be left alone.

[@elusivegamergirl]

Hey, if I had a creature in my basement that survived in darkness and only maybe popped out to say hey and share food, or something, I'd be cool with that.

[@larajamila005]

@@NoiseDay well, Santa?

[@NelehLove9313]

I trust it even less now... 😑

[@Sodorboy98]

That is a possibility...

[@jackleonthegamer]

reminds me of this quote "stare into the darkness long enough and sometimes it will stare back... be glad that's all it wants to do."

[@howdypartner8326]

Their _''what the fuck...?''_ stories feel like IRL case of encountering Mandela Catalogue alternates. That's fucking scary... I doubt it was anything as extreme or scary as they thought, mostly just their minds playing tricks on them, probably, but it still scares the bajeesus out of me. I've had a few similar experiences, and most of the time I was either mentally dizzy or too tired to comprehend what the hell just happened (perhaps even hallucinating from exhaustion.) Still, creepy stories.

[@0_dearghealach_083]

nothing is worth the risk

[@hugomendoza5665]

The creepy, unexplainable thing that happens to me is that occasionally, usually while eating food, something will fall into my lap, like a drop of sauce or a noodle or something, a chunk of vegetable, and I'll 100% swear I see it fall before my eyes and 100% feel it land in my lap or my shirt, only to look down, feel around w my hands, and see that absolutely nothing happened.

[@ladysauce2508]

chill bro the monster just wants to eat. better let it do that or its gonna eat you next.

[@elizabethsmith7224]

I feel something like sitting on me sometimes when I'm in bed. I like to think it's my old cats coming back to visit me.

[@Ryan-tq7oi]

Well the simulation can't render everything man

[@Sodorboy98]

Glitch in the matrix.

[@lordtacocat3138]

At one point I literally couldn't watch this normally so I had to pull up the wholesome memes subreddit to counteract the *fear*

[@vrinnmetagen]

Feeling safe in wrapped in blankets is actually a sort of nostalgic thing it It brings back to mind the feeling that you felt when you were swaddled by your mom or dad kind of thing biologically it also brings comfort same with the fetal position because instinctually we as a creature feel safe when it becomes to like being in like the womb.

[@zoruatricksta0408]

That feeling that Mark talks about, I actually enjoy it, for some reason I can't help but grin widely when I feel that paranoid shiver down my spine. Also I don't enjoy fear, I have very distinct fears that I will not smile for for any reason. Just a few days ago I was walking back home and it was dark, and of course the street lamp on the corner didn't work, so as I passed it, I got that feeling that something was behind me, but I simply smiled and kept my pace.

[@mleslie4327]

Bob describing his auditory hallucinations are my favorite thing. Like, they ACTUALLY made my spine tingle. The other one with a woman saying "Well, that's not something you should be upset about" and this one, I have had almost the EXACT thing happen. Except I can't hear *precisely* what's being said, but I can *distinctly* hear a conversation that's happening in the next room, or like a radio had been left on and kind of muffled. But its not at all real and just my brain. RIP Zombie. Thank you for being part of bringing these three into our lives.

[@JJ-tc5tt]

Seriously, that becoming uncanny meme is horrifying sometimes.

[@realsandwichjones]

Fr though

[@miketrapper0464]

For sure

[@NoteBard]

Alternate title: Mark and Bob talk about the Backrooms without ever saying the word Backrooms

[@gustavofring4047]

they should make more scary podcasts. i like to sit in discord vcs with my friends at midnight talkin bout random shit and i gotta say when we discuss scary shit those are the times that are the most memorable (for obvious reasons)

[@knightmare397]

To comment on Mark’s shadowman story, from what i can remember it is said that some spiritual creatures can be given power over the physical world through drawings of them and even put people into a sort of trance to make them to draw it. So if indeed that thing was a real supernatural being, it most likely hypnotized Mark into drawing it to give it a physical form and then once it accomplished it’s goal it simply left Mark alone and left.

[@Missed_V]

this might be one of my favorite episodes! literally had chills run down my spine

[@hollowpistol2378]

I'm 30 years old and I've been watching you guys since I was 20. Crazy.

[@LemmyEdits]

It’s such a weird feeling! For me I was 12 and now I’m 21

[@PsychoticWolfie]

So the first time I listened to this podcast I couldn't relate to Bob's auditory hallucination story at all, or so I thought. But rewatching this again and I'm to that part now, and I'm remembering all the times I've been half-asleep and hear a family member call for me, come out of my room to see what they want, and it turns out that they never called for me. Guess I just don't register those as scary. But there have been one or two that kinda caught me off guard because they sounded so realistic and were what woke me up.

[@BlackViolet96]

As a kid, many creepy/borderline supernatural things happened either around me or to me. One of the weirdest things that happened that I _still_ cannot explain to this day is a night when EMS was called to my house. My great-grandfather had just had a minor heart attack (he lived) and needed to be transported to the hospital for obvious reasons. At the time, I shared a room with my little brother and we normally slept with the door shut (because I hated looking into the void that was the dark hallway at night). I wake up from the commotion of the ambulance lights and boots thudding down the hallway. No big deal, it wasn't my first time. But the weird part was my door was wide open and I hadn't heard it open. It made a loud popping noise because of the shoddy paint job sticking the door to the frame, so I _always_ heard it open, even from across the house. But I hadn't this time. And in the open doorway was just a _MASSIVE_ silhouette of a man in a ball cap. I mean, his head was kissing the top of the doorframe, okay, and his shoulders damn near blocked out the light coming from the hall. I remember being too scared to sit up or let him know that I was even awake, because I felt like he was facing me, staring right at me. I don't know how I knew that, but I was validated when _he waved at me_ . Then, he put a finger up to his mouth, took a step back, and gently shut my door. I told my mom the next morning and she's like "I don't remember seeing anyone that big come in and help. I don't remember opening your door either, it was shut the whole night." Thinking about it doesn't scare me, but man does it make me uneasy. And anyone I've told the story to cannot fathom why an EMT would open a door and step into my room without a word, and leave the same way. There's no telling how long he was even there before I woke up.

[@JJScene]

I'd like to think it was just someone that was momentarily in your house, that's why your mom didn't see them, and they... idk. People will do the weirdest things.

[@nathaniel_marco]

Man, someone should definitely animate that dark figure story by Mark. That'd be creepy af.

[@agent_277]

I too am often afraid of things in the dark and I get paranoid pretty quickly. But I have a good advantage that helps me: My two cats. First of all, they are often up in the night so when I hear noises or see a shadow moving in the dark, it's pretty easy to blame it on the cats. And the second thing is, one of the cats always sleeps with me on my bed and she is always watchful. So when I hear or see something strange and my cat doesn't panic, I automatically am completely calm too.

[@giantpotatoes1682]

I was listening to this in the background and I literally stopped everything I was doing when I heard zombiemold had died. I had no idea I'm so sad!

[@justacuriousgoose]

The scariest thing that happened to me has gotta be the time where I was laying on my bed in complete darkness, and at around 2 in the morning I was chatting with my friends when I heard the most bloodcurdling screech, and it came from my *cupboard* . I immediately turned the flashlight in my phone and looked around and I *knew* it wasn't an auditory hallucination because my cat had also woken up and was staring at my cupboard.

[@randomdork7212]

I can’t believe Zombie passed, I wasn’t big on the Minecraft part of his plays but I loved when the four of them played prop hunt together wayyyyyyyy back. Zombie was the goat. We’re gonna miss you man 😞

[@grimsladeleviathan3958]

The worst combination is a very active imagination, and sensory hallucination. I have a very strong imagination, to the point where I can hallucinate touch. So if I imagined something touching my shoulder, I'd actually be able to feel something touch my shoulder. With a very wild imagination, I am a very paranoid man throughout most of my life because of this exact reason

[@leenybeeny7600]

Gosh I have a similar shadow person story. I had almost the same experience as Mark as kid. I was younger, probably somewhere around 7 or 8. It was somewhere between 4 and 6 p.m. (still very light out), and I was sitting on the ground next to my bed playing with toys. I looked up and on the opposite side of the bed i saw this like 6 to 7 foot hazy shadow person standing there. I felt this strike of terror and then I blinked. To my surprise I still saw it, but now it was a darker matter figure like how Mark described. Then, I just froze, stopped breathing or blinking, and starred at it, but felt completely calm/numb. I just sat there after and didn't want to leave my room because I'd have to walk over where it was. It was so weird because after I didn't feel scared necessarily, but I was confused and unsettled. I've never felt a feeling like it since then.

[@scottletourneau4571]

It’s weird how the Cryptids episode is more supernatural than the “Supernatural” episode.

[@Necrowolf81]

I think I got all 3 of you beat Mark. When I was younger I was sleeping on the floor in my mom's room. A sound woke me up and i turned over and there was this ... thing under the bed. It had dark orange fur and solid blue eyes. It grabbed my arm and tried to pull me under. For some reason it stopped and disappeared. To this day I will not sleep on the floor near a bed. I would have thought I was dreaming but I can still remember how it's grip felt and I read a story on a haunting forum where someone had the exact same experience and described the... thing the same way.

[@cacnmheese90]

Sleep paralysis, maybe?

[@anabellefrost7903]

Well... then I guess I shouldn't tell you how I used to move around a lot while sleeping when I was little, and many times I woke up halfway under the bed.😅😂 That is some very scary and specific sleep paralysis thing you just told. If I had such specific and scary dreams of things under my bed, I think I would have woken up panicking every day. Glad I usually had *different* absurd nightmares.🤣

[@husk9744]

What forum? I'm curious about a deeper description

[@lelouchvibritannia4028]

It was trying to pull you into the shadow dimension. 😨

[@Necrosis-00]

Thankfully the ghosts in my house dont do that mine seem friendly not too sure about the one in the corner but it seems fine and nothing is safe under my bed cause if something does come out I'll stab the shit outta them if they are a threat whilst speaking whatever language that comes to mind and not understanding a word

[@ladyluna3902]

One time I was half-asleep and heard someone snap their fingers three times. Just 'snap. snap. snap', loudly and deliberately. I sat bolt upright in my bed, and for a split-second in the darkness I saw the outline of a woman. I remember that it looked like she had her hair in victory rolls like they wore in the 40s. Whoever she was, she didn't want me to oversleep. It was around 6AM, and I needed to be at school in an hour and a half.

[@isaacshaw5105]

19:20. I have had the exact same experience as Wade. I know that feeling that someone else is living with in your own house and watching you, its unpleasant to say the least.

[@ASaltyGhost]

This is the first time I'm listening to the Distractible Podcast and i IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED BALDEMORT. What an iconic narrator!!

[@jennyboda8421]

Ok but seriously. Has wade even checked his attic yet? 😧

[@johnathanstupar9617]

I remember when you guys still did Drunk Minecraft, I graduated in 18 and now I've been in the service for 4 years. It's been a pleasure watching you all grow

[@manavudgirkar3345]

Mark's story actually sent chills down my spine

[@dragongirla.d.m3160]

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who has seen shadow people

[@ConsciousBread]

Im listening to this episode at work. I work in a 100 year old 2 story old floss mill. I'm in a large room upstairs and to get to the stairs leading up to it you have to come round the back of the building. The door is just a black house door with a slip lock on the inside. I'm an insanely anxious person, I lock that door every morning when I come in. 25 minutes into this episode there was aggressive banging on the door, over and over again. After a couple of minutes it sounded like someone was shoving it from the outside. I locked the upstairs door and locked myself in the bathroom and called my dad while being on the verge of a panic attack. What was it? My landlord fixing the gate on the outside of the door 🤦🏻‍♀️ paranoia is a cruel thing.

[@monster_hunter4204]

Oh my god I would’ve entered fight or flight and probably tried to attack the guy! that situation would have scared me so bad💀

[@starwolf7178]

So, just a couple points, 1 I'm watching this alone at night and those sound effects they put in are pure evil, 2 I can imagine Bob being that old man in the horror movies, and 3 I love listening to you guys, thank you! RIP Zombie, we love you! Drunk Minecraft was one of my favorites and it always put a smile on my face. We'll never forget you!

[@moonlord86]

Markiplier should watch cryptTV’s “mimic” scared the shit outa me for the first time in a while and is almost exactly what mark experienced with Amy

[@marykavalesky1204]

I was looking for the mimic comment

[@moonlord86]

@@marykavalesky1204 heart literally skipped a beat for a second when I watched it first. Then I didn’t trust a voice I couldn’t see for 3 days lol.

[@Kalebfenoir]

I remember I was watching/listening to vids on my phone as I fell asleep. Had the phone on a pillow beside me so I didn't need to hold it. Ended up drifting off and falling asleep. Somewhere in my sleep, I ended up coming back up to the surface of consciousness, just almost-awake, but still sleeping, and heard someone, a woman, ask in a puzzled, but very quiet voice "...So... Who ARE you?" I went from comfortably asleep to INSTANTLY AWAKE with heart-jackhammering in my chest. I live alone. I have no roommates, and it was 4 AM. And I heard the voice from directly behind me, just behind my ear. After a long time of laying there frantically thinking 'someone broke into my place. Someone broke into my place.' I realized I hadn't heard anything else after that. So I opened my eyes and looked around. My phone had turned itself off because I hadn't touched it in a while. When I turned the screen on, there was a video, paused, on the screen. I don't know how, but the Play Next feature had kept clicking over into more and more random vids, and some spoken-word video, an ASMR had popped up. The voice I heard directly behind my ear was the voice of the person in the video. Thing is, I'd heard it from the WRONG side of the bed. Which..honestly isn't news. Sometimes when I'm waking up, I'll hear a sound on one side, and it'll be actually from the other, because my hearing miswires while waking. I've had my phone ringing to my right, and reached to my left cuz I swear I hear it on the left side instead. So what had happened, what had scared the bejeezus out of me, was that right before YT and my phone paused and turned off from lack of use, this one video had had a single line in it where a woman asks "...So... who ARE you?" in this quiet, puzzled voice. And my brain decided to take that as 'someone is in your place, someone is IN YOUR BED, WAKE UP.' and nearly gave me a goddamned heart attack. An ASMR vid... nearly gave me a heart attack. LOL.

[@asandflavoredpoptart9151]

Speaking of cryptids, there is a running joke among my friends that I am either a skin walker or a wendigo. For background, I live and grew up in the north, I love winter, and have been known to take long walks (1hr+) alone at night in the woods during blizzards. I’ve gotten creeped out before on my walks (one time my flashlight died on my way across a frozen lake) but that’s where the joke comes from. Also I have excellent night vision

[@realsandwichjones]

I joke about alternates all the time, but I don't think my friends quite understand what I'm talking about.

[@Necrowolf81]

I have pretty good NV too but that's probably because I have worked the graveyard shift for 21 years. However, during an ice storm once I was outside barefoot in shorts and a sleeveless shirt jumping on a trampoline.

[@Sodorboy98]

You would know if you were either one. I've been followed by a wendigo, it being a constant in my nightmares. Hate those things.

[@bombdotcom2168]

Every time I take melatonin I either start to hear things around the house, or I get sleep paralysis sometimes both. I remember one night when I was in bed after taking melatonin and trying to fall asleep, I heard a very clear whisper from my doorway "I'm here". I brushed it off as the tv in the living room since my room wasn't too far from it, I always slept with my door open and my parents were watching a movie. Later on in the early hours of the morning, I was having issues getting up because I had sleep paralysis as what usually happens when I take sleep medicine, and as I'm looking around my room, for a split second before my body caught up with the fact that I was awake, I saw something standing in my doorway. When I blinked again it disappeared. I would have just written it off as hallucinations caused by tiredness or the medicine, however the whole family can recount occurrences that took place in that house.

[@GabrielScythe]

God, never knew about Zom passing, I’m really sorry about that. I really hope you’re resting easy man.

[@jennifermichelle7682]

It's something else when your small child who's just started to talk tells you about "that person" and points to a corner in the room

[@beeperson4044]

Listening to Bob talking about auditory hallucination reminds me of a time when I walked into my bathroom looking for something. Sounded like a woman was whispering right behind me. She was whispering really fast, I couldn't make out what she was saying. But in a few moments she got louder and faster in my ears. I jumped and speed walked out of the bathroom. I always felt that something was there watching me in that area specifically.

[@Kit.Katalina]

I was around maybe 8-9 years old when I started watching Mark play drunk mine craft, and yes indeed I graduate in less then 20 days:) mark, wade, and Bob were a big part of my childhood and I still watch their videos and now listen to their podcast together 😊

[@harukawamaki4269]

I'm listening to this before bed and I can say I'm not gonna be able to sleep thinking about Mark's shadow story.

[@Kiterpuss]

I will never tire of hearing about Amy gifting Mark simp material for Lady D. She's truly one of us and it's amazing

[@Coffee-vc3uy]

I'm here from the stream Mark did. I can't believe he got us.

[@NovaTheSilly1]

me too

[@gustavofring4047]

got us good i gotta say ;)

[@lionalofthedalelands184]

The entire sense of fear you’re describing is called speculative horror. Its horror where the less descriptive it is, the more terrifying it becomes.

[@atch300]

Mark’s closing story made me a tear fall from my eye.

[@matthewherndon6488]

Legit just got into the r/distressingmemes sub because I watched Mark’s equally fascinating and unnerving video on Analogue Horror. It’s odd how there seem to be distinct types of horror: I can watch Mark’s FNAF videos or other games involving jump scares, and as long as he’s the one playing the game, it’s fine. I absolutely adore SCP and everything related to it. I’ll eat that shit up. But the “Mr. Incredible Becoming Uncanny” meme, as I’ve since discovered it’s called-I just can’t. I found that one meme that Mark brought up in this episode and I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE. Thanks so much for that, Mark.

[@marcojames1916]

Also, hearing them talk about their creepy experiences remind me if my own. Legit chills.

[@ayumuchorizo4486]

Something similar to what Mark experienced happened to me as well, I thought my mother was calling me since I heard her so clearly so I automatically answered back like "Yes?" - then I forgot my parents were supposed to be out that evening. The shivers and cold sweat were REAL. I darted out of the house to stay at our neighbor's for a while. It was spoopy.

[@josephglick1134]

I've got a story for you. I just got out of the military and was staying at my parents for a bit and one night I woke to the feeling of someone watching me and saw something glowing white in the shape of a head in my doorway and when I looked at it, it pulled away and I thought that must have been my father but I could hear him storing down the hall, but again didn't register. The following night I was woken again by the same feeling and I looked at my door and it was pushed farther open and this thing was standing in the doorway. It was extremely pale about 6'-6'2 (based on the height of the doorframe) and had bandages wrapped around his torso. My cat, who loves to sleep on my bed, was very tense so I knew he saw this thing as well which made all the hair stand up on the back of my neck with out any idea what this thing was. I kept my eyes locked on it as I slid my left arm over to turn my lamp on which once I did this thing disappeared and for damn near 2 weeks later I did not sleep without a lamp on. Also a side not my parents house was located down the road from a cemetery.

[@wick3d_1s_ajv65]

When mark drew the outline of what he saw,he gave it a body to come over to real life.

[@xcatney]

As someone that lives in Central Florida... I've actually never heard of that Oveido cryptid (pronounced OH-VEE-DOH I believe) I know where Oveido is and it's a short drive there... Maybe it's time to go cryptid hunting lol

[@Laff700]

Eh, why bother. Your average Floridian is probably more bizarre and dangerous than said cryptid would be even if it's real.

[@kristina3869]

I live in Oviedo and I've never heard of it lol. And yes it's pronounced oh-vee-doh.

[@Gwydion86]

Also I'm pretty sure its not Spanish but Seminole, which was the local Native American tribe. Lots of places around Central FL have names from the Seminole language

[@kristina3869]

@@Gwydion86 It is Spanish. There is an Oviedo in Spain and they pronounce it ovee-eh-doh (like these guys pronounce it) but here we just say ovee-doh.

[@taylordiamond]

Thanks Mark. Now I'm a member of a group that posts nothing but things that make me uneasy. I love it.

[@alyssakitten6006]

I shit you not, the first 25 minutes had me absolutely paranoid because I'm listening to this at 5 in the morning, in bed and alone XwX I can't wait for my husband to come home lol.

[@thegryphonborn2432]

Was listening to this while playing a game at 5:00 AM and my god, some of those stories were absolutely bone-chilling to hear in my sleep deprived state

[@francisharkins]

Wonderfully spoopy podcast. Also love how everything with KZbin right now is hating on them for removing the dislike counter but no body addressing the massive surge in bots or the fact they removed being abled to see when the adds are located in the video your watching.

[@jadebrooks5843]

Its so awful to hear that Zombiemold passed away. He honestly was the true genius of drunk minecraft and was super amazing. He will really be missed. And now I will rewatch the drunk minecraft series in memory of Zombiemold this time around

[@thecaremel4821]

This episode got me so unsettled. I usually marathon these episodes at night, and I expected this episode to be another lighthearted crack up because of the small talk at the start (so fucking hilarious btw). Ended up almost scaring myself to death at 3am.

[@CRSM99]

Dude, I'm halfway through right now and its almost midnight 😫

[@realsandwichjones]

I actively try to scare myself, one of these days I probably might just get no sleep at all.

[@thecaremel4821]

@@realsandwichjones that’s such a mood tho, as you should. do you listen to story podcasts too? The Edge Of Sleep made sure i got no sleep for days

[@realsandwichjones]

@@thecaremel4821 I listened to one episode of The Edge of Sleep, I guess I'll start looking for scary story podcasts to see what happens.

[@Broomer52]

My mom has had documented history with Ghosts and it’s confirmed by so much of my family that I wonder if I’ll eventually see her like she sees passed family. My grandpa told about a moment with her at night when she was still sleeping in a crib. Mom had an older brother that tragically lost his life when riding a bike up hill against the sunset, his name was Skip. He had a baby monitor attached to her room and he heard a lot of noise and laughter. He went to check on her and there she was on the floor of a dark bedroom, crib pulled down, absolutely no way she got down on her own. Grandpa a bit freaked out asked her what she was doing and she answered completely innocently “I’m playing with Skippy” his heart sank and he was afraid to get near her so he just said “Ok, go to bed when your done” then later on in life when my Grandpa died to fungus in his lung that no one caught my mom was having a hard time with it. I got approached by my mom at one point, she was shocked and weirded out but not exactly scared. She said that when she was grieving in her room she saw her dad (my grandpa) silently walk across the hallway passing her room.

[@championofthedarksoul4200]

If you hear strangers in your house there is a perfectly rational but possibly even scarier explanation hallucinations from carbon monoxide poisoning.

[@CyanPHD]

I totally have that feeling where memes that are suppose to be funny like creep me out sometimes without any reason

[@indigopines]

Okay their stories are fantastic but props to the sound editor for this one tbh

[@littlewifethatcould]

“I had a leg out from under the blanket… I put my leg under the blanket and pulled the blanket up over my shoulders.” Relatable, even at over the age of 30 in a house full of weapons. 😂 I leave one of my feet out every night to keep my body temperature regulated. But you bet your butt, if I get an uneasy/paranoid feeling, my foot is going right back under them covers. I’ll risk sweating if it means the Boogeyman can’t grab my foot.

[@lelouchvibritannia4028]

I wrap myself up like a burrito using my blanket and hide my entire body, including my eyes, except my nose so I can breathe. Pitch black is better than mostly darkness because if there's even a little light, I'm afraid that my mind will make things up and see things.

[@Sodorboy98]

Forget about what might be under your bed. Worry about what's hanging from the ceiling.

[@thereggie3634]

Rest in piece Zombiemold. You'll always be in our hearts and memories.

[@porcelaindoll468]

My eyes started watering when Mark was telling the Amy/bedroom story. Now I have to listen to another episode to counter the terror 😂 Sooo uncomfy.

[@caosisaac]

Listening to this while working my post in an asylum for the criminally insane. Another nice and relaxing discussion with nothing that would keep me on edge at all.

[@UhrwerkKlockwerx]

I want to hear more of Mark Bob and Wade's scary encounters ngl

[@Fluttershys_bong]

One of my most terrifying experiences-and to set the scene, I have had many encounters that are “paranormal”? But this one takes the cake. This is exactly like Mark’s story with the luring into the room. I got COVID during first semester of my school year, and was making work up the night before I went back after a surprise attack telling me I did in fact have to do every single bit of work while out. It was around 1AM, and I’ve always heard noises in my attic. For clarification, my room is in the very top floor of my house, and there is one door in my room that just straight up leads to the attic so it’s normal that I hear noises. It’s worth noting that I also hid food in the attic so my siblings wouldn’t eat it. My stepdad had suspicions of a mouse in the attic after hearing a couple of times that I had heard stuff in the attic and so he sets a trap. I got really sad over it because a mouse was going to die and I’d have to hear them and be unable to help because my parents were already mad about me drawing it in. My attic has a stairwell built into it that leads to the outside downstairs, but it was never finished so there’s not much there. Which is why I got food up so easily. Anyways, the actual story now. I’m mid work and pretty energized guzzling down coffee, when I hear a snap. Like, clear as day kind of snap of a mouse trap. I get sad and I go to my girlfriend at the time over text and tell her abt it while I am hearing it hiss and whine and whatever the fuck else those noises were. Thinking about it then, I now realize that the noises were slightly off, and didn’t make sense, but in my moment of care for an animal, I tell my girlfriend I’m going to go help it even if I get in trouble and go get toilet paper. The hissing noises and squealing lasted for 10 minutes. And this trap was meant to kill instantly, alongside having a glue trap on it to trap them if they try to run when it snaps. I go to the attic door, and swing it open to look for the mouse trap. It is dead quiet. I remember thinking the mouse might be dead, but began to search for the mousetrap in question. I find it. And I will never have the amount of horror I had when the realization came over me a bit later. The trap was completely empty. Not even set off. No fur or blood or even the cheese gone. No mouse. I think to myself that maybe there’s multiple traps and I look around for just a second before the realization finally hit me that it wasn’t a fucking mouse. I don’t get scared easily and while it’s fun to believe in the paranormal I haven’t for some time but when that silence hit me, my entire body got ice cold and all adrenaline pumped through me. I booked it out of the attic and closed the door. I slept in the bathroom with the door locked. I don’t really think people care how it ends so I’ll leave you at that unless anybody wants to hear it lol.

[@alexia3552]

19:46 I would legitimately jump up, flick on the light, grab something, bust open the door and start yelling. I don't play that.

[@illibrium4590]

Bob: Ovi-ay-do People from Oviedo: O-vee-do Chickens from Oviedo: Oh, stfu! Drive around!