The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings
The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings

Lot 146 : Listen Closely // Sender {NULL}

September 11, 2026

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5 min read

In a workplace safety coordinator's office, a meeting invitation appeared with no sender listed. The subject line was a single skull emoji. When the recipient tried to decline it, the system returned an error: "Unable to send — sender null." Within hours, thousands of identical invitations flooded the inbox. The IT guy set up a filter to shunt them into a folder named after the office ghost, a running joke about a maintenance worker named Reggie who supposedly haunted the building. But the invitations kept coming, and they kept changing.

The Meeting That Could Not Be Declined

The story begins with a safety coordinator who had heard the usual night-shift ghost stories — disembodied voices, tools disappearing, loud clanging from empty rooms. The ghost was called Reggie, a joke because the real Reggie was still alive and famously lazy. But the narrator had never experienced anything supernatural until the day the notifications began.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (04:56) **Introduction: The Problem of Attention** - The host frames the episode around how we are constantly told where to direct our attention, and what happens when something desperately wants it.
  • 2 (06:43) **Lot 146, Part 1: "Cupcakes and Crime Scenes"** - The true crime podcast "Cupcakes and Crime Scenes" begins its episode on the unsolved murders of Dirk and Trudy Langmore.
  • 3 (08:15) **The Simulation Breach** - The true crime podcast is suddenly interrupted by a military officer's urgent message.
  • 4 (12:12) **The Simulation Fights Back** - The podcast hosts try to dismiss the interruption as a sound error, while the Colonel's voice intensifies the warnings.
  • 5 (14:27) **Extraction and Return to Normalcy** - The upload completes, and the listener is instructed to count down from ten to initiate the extraction sequence.
  • 6 (16:42) **Host Commentary on the First Lot** - The Antiquarium host reflects on the first story, noting the podcast's threatening approach to keeping its audience.
  • 7 (22:05) **Lot 146, Part 2: "Sender Null"** - The host introduces a broken ceramic mug inscribed "365 days accident free" and its accompanying account, "Sender Null."

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Show Notes

Lot 146 : Listen Closely // Sender {NULL}


 

Listen Closely

Consigned by Chris Hicks

Starring Romy Evans

Holly Seidcheck

Jarret Griffis

Chloe Mei-Lei Bundt


 

Sender {NULL}

Consigned by Chris Hicks

Starring Trevor Shand

Jeffrey Allen Sneed

Kirsty Campbell

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Theme music by The Newton Brothers


 

Produced by Kevin Seaman


 

Additional music by

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