Encounters x343 - Conspiracy Theories | Glitches, GATE & Government Secrets
August 6, 2026
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5 min read“You aren't meant to have this information. It will play out differently if you know.” That line, delivered inside a listener’s own head after a dream she was actively forgetting, is the kind of moment that makes the conspiracy-theory rabbit hole feel less like paranoia and more like a door someone forgot to lock. In this episode of Two Girls One Ghost, hosts Sabrina and Corinne turn their usual paranormal listener stories toward the realm of conspiracy—specifically, the government programs, alien encounters, and timeline glitches that blur the line between spooky and systematically hidden.
The GATE Program: Testing Ground for the Paranormal?
The episode opens with a detailed listener account from Layla in Alaska, who believes she may have been a subject of the GATE program—the “Gifted and Talented Education” program that, according to conspiracy researchers, was a front for psychological and parapsychological experimentation from the late 1970s into the early 2000s. Layla describes being pulled from class in elementary school alongside just a few other students, not for standard hearing and reflex checks, but for tests involving “weird frequencies” played through large headphones, advanced math problems far beyond her grade level, and open-ended questions designed to identify patterns. Crucially, these tests were administered by strangers—people she didn’t recognize in
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What you'll learn
- 1 Encounters x343 - Conspiracy Theories | Glitches, GATE & Government Secrets
- 2 (04:42) **Introducing the Conspiracy Theme** - The hosts frame today's episode around listener stories that connect to or back up major conspiracy theories like the Gateway Project, Philadelphia Experiment, and Men in Black
- 3 (06:12) **Listener Layla: GATE Experiments and Funky Dreams** - A woman from Alaska recounts her childhood involvement with the GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) program and the disturbing dreams that followed
- 4 (13:48) **Connecting GATE to the Gateway Program** - The hosts draw parallels between Layla's childhood testing and the documented Gateway Process experiments
- 5 (14:19) **Bonus: The Haunted Tattoo Shop Ghost** - Layla shares a lighter story about Crystal, an 80-year-old woman who started getting tattoos during her stage 4 cancer journey and now haunts the shop
- 6 (16:36) **Gateway Tapes Discussion: Real vs. Fake** - The hosts address a listener's fear about downloading malicious versions of the Gateway Tapes
- 7 (19:33) **Listener Dave: UFO Landing in the Backyard** - A man recounts a childhood experience from the 1970s where his family's front door kept blasting open, followed by a UFO sighting
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Show Notes
Grab your tin foil hats because this week's Encounters episode is all about conspiracy theories. From eerie GATE Program memories and alien encounters to timeline glitches and Men in Black sightings, these listener encounters will have you questioning reality. Whether it's a coincidence or a cover up, we'll let you decide.
Stories include:
A childhood gifted program raises unsettling questions after strange tests are followed by vivid dreams, eerie premonitions, and a terrifying shadow figure.
A family's quiet night is interrupted by mysterious crashes, strange shadows, UFO sightings, and unexplained burn marks left behind in the yard.
A driver wonders whether a near fatal moment on an icy road ended in a timeline jump instead of a crash, with uncanny similarities to another listener's experience.
A late night drive turns unsettling when several mysterious men in dark suits and top hats emerge from beneath a bridge before vanishing without a trace.
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New Episodes are released every Thursday and Sunday at 12am PST/3am EST (the witching hour, of course). Corinne and Sabrina hand select a couple of paranormal encounters from our inbox to read in each episode, from demons, to cryptids, to aliens, to creepy kids... the list goes on and on. If you have a story of your own that you'd like us to share on an upcoming episode, we invite you to email them to us!
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