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Glitch In The Matrix Stories Ep. 123 | ATRD Podcast

June 23, 2026

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Glitch In The Matrix Stories Ep. 123 | ATRD Podcast

A bus driver's patience at a Houston intersection saved a passenger's life—because a month earlier, she had dreamed the exact scenario where an impatient driver pulled out and a speeding grey pickup with a racing stripe smashed into her seat, killing her on impact. When the real pickup ran the red light, the driver waited an extra few seconds, and she lived. That story opens this collection of listener-submitted glitch accounts, and it sets the tone for an episode full of precognitive dreams, vanishing objects, time loops, and encounters that seem to bend the rules of ordinary reality.

Precognitive Dreams and Warnings

Several stories in the episode center on dreams that later played out in waking life, often with life-altering stakes. The Houston bus commuter described dreaming she died when a pickup hit her seat—then watched the same truck blow through a red light while her driver waited. She now pays close attention to her "mundane" dreams, believing they function as warnings she can act on. A high school student dreamed of his girlfriend cheating with a specific man he had never seen; the next day, she confessed, and when he looked up the guy's name, it was the same face from the dream. Another listener dreamed a friend's girlfriend had died, and six months later she did. A woman dreamed a friend would end her own l

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (01:49) **Dream of the Grey Pickup Truck** - A Houston commuter recounts a precognitive dream about a grey pickup truck with a racing stripe that, in the dream, caused a fatal bus crash at the exact seat she was sitting in.
  • 2 (08:30) **The Doppelgänger Twins at the Amusement Park** - A woman is certain she saw her brother Ted and his daughter Lily at an amusement park, but her family insists Ted was working and Tom was there instead.
  • 3 (13:40) **The Sympathetic Pain of a Twin** - A high school senior hiking with his girlfriend on the Appalachian Trail recounts how she suddenly collapsed with a sharp pain in her right leg.
  • 4 (17:39) **The Case of the Vanishing Peppercorns** - A home cook finds her pepper grinder completely empty and clean, despite having been mostly full and never opened.
  • 5 (21:06) **The Man Who Teleported Across a Field** - A 33-year-old man on a walk in the woods sees a man with a dog a few meters ahead, looks down to avoid mud for two seconds, and when he looks up, the man and dog are 100 meters away on the opposite side of the field.
  • 6 (24:08) **The Disappearing Expensive Honey** - A roommate's $30 jar of honey vanishes from a high cabinet, followed by a $20 jar from a different cabinet, with no signs of animals or human tampering.
  • 7 (26:38) **The Instant Traffic Jam** - A mother and daughter in the Netherlands drive onto a completely empty highway, only to find themselves surrounded by cars in a split second.

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Show Notes

Welcome to the 123rd Glitch In The Matrix Stories Collection! Today we have 18 stories that will make you question reality itself, submitted and posted by everyday people. Today we have stories about disappearing objects, strange happenings, time skips and quantum immortality.


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I upload episodes every 3 days, so there are 2 days between new uploads. The podcast consists of new scary story collections, Glitch in the matrix collections, and also what I call the "Dark Dreams" collections (which are older stories, remastered and layered with rain sounds).


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Rhodes, Sayer, Erin Griffin, Courtney L, Gina, Scott, Vincent S, Odette, Kristita, PJ, Wendy, Valerie, Win s, agent_violet, Lapististic, SC, Bruce

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4 ➤ 16:53

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6 ➤ 23:17

7 ➤ 25:52

8 ➤ 28:06

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10 ➤ 36:04

11 ➤ 38:27

12 ➤ 43:05

13 ➤ 46:39

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15 ➤ 52:59

16 ➤ 57:02

17 ➤ 59:26

18 ➤ 1:02:17

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