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5 min readGlitch In The Matrix Stories Ep. 125 | ATRD Podcast
The host of As The Raven Dreams Podcast opens this episode with a quiet confession: he's not sure what to make of the stories he reads, only that they keep coming. What follows is a collection of listener-submitted accounts of reality behaving strangely—dreams that reveal hidden family tragedies, cars that speak through static, crows that freeze midair, and memories that contradict documented history. The throughline is not a single theory but a shared bewilderment: something is off about the world, and these stories are the evidence.
The Dream That Knew Too Much
One listener describes a vivid dream in which she met her stepdad's aunt Susie and her five children—including a cousin named Beth and her three kids. The problem: Aunt Susie only had four children, and there was no Beth. When she told her stepdad about the dream, he grew quiet. He then revealed that Aunt Susie had once had a fifth child named Beth, who was kidnapped at age two by a woman with a cloth over her face. Beth was returned months later, desperately ill with scarlet fever, and died three days afterward. The family never speaks of her. The listener had no prior knowledge of this story. "So did I glitch into a timeline where Beth had lived?" she asks. "Or did I get a glimpse of what could have been?"
The Concert That Never Happened
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:50) **Host Intro & Housekeeping** - Raven welcomes listeners, outlines the glitch episode format, and encourages ratings and comments.
- 2 (01:37) **Story 1: The Dream of Aunt Susie's Secret Child** - A listener dreams of a cousin who doesn't exist, only to learn a tragic family secret.
- 3 (06:50) **Story 2: The Static Voice and the Impossible Arrival** - A car's audio system glitches with a disembodied voice, then the car arrives two minutes early despite a major delay.
- 4 (09:51) **Story 3: The Bungee-Cord Universe Jump at a Concert** - A woman experiences rapid, involuntary shifts between a Sammy Hagar concert and a house party.
- 5 (12:11) **Story 4: The Frozen Crow in Midair** - A crow stops moving entirely in midair for over two minutes, baffling two witnesses.
- 6 (14:28) **Story 5: The Donut Order That Changed Families** - A door-to-door saleswoman takes an order, but returns to find a completely different family living in the same apartment.
- 7 (17:50) **Story 6: The House the Narrator Knew Before Birth** - A demo worker has overwhelming déjà vu and can predict the exact interior of a house he's never visited.
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Show Notes
Welcome to the 125th Glitch In The Matrix Stories Collection! Today we have 14 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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Heather, Angel, Yvette, CriticalKnick, Kirstin Anderson, Jane Freeman, Jessamy, Chestnut, Naomi, Horror_obsessed_88
As Well As Any Author That Has Requested Anonymity.
TimeStamps…
Ad breaks after Story 1 & Story 7
1 ➤ 00:47
2 ➤ 08:12
3 ➤ 10:30
4 ➤ 12:49
5 ➤ 16:11
6 ➤ 24:11
7 ➤ 29:22
8 ➤ 32:59
9 ➤ 36:24
10 ➤ 38:57
11 ➤ 42:53
12 ➤ 46:09
13 ➤ 47:41
14 ➤ 50:22
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