Encounters x348 - True Stories of Glitches in the Matrix | Haunted Appalachia, Cryptids & Time Slips
September 10, 2026
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5 min read“I eventually lost the ticket. I lost it in an international move a decade later. And even I probably wouldn’t believe this anymore if I hadn’t been with two other people who both remember it.”
That is the closing line of the first story in this episode of Two Girls One Ghost, and it captures the central tension of every account that follows. The episode collects reader-submitted encounters that fall under the umbrella of “glitches in the matrix”—moments where reality seems to stutter, skip, or swap channels. The throughline is not just strangeness, but the specific kind of strangeness that leaves physical evidence or multiple witnesses, making it impossible to dismiss as a dream or a trick of the mind. The hosts, Sabrina and Corinne, frame these as potential evidence of a simulation with bugs, parallel dimensions bleeding through, or interdimensional beings crossing paths with our own.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:22) **Introduction & Episode Setup** - The hosts, Kirin and Sabrina, welcome listeners and set up the episode as a long-awaited compilation of "glitch in the matrix" stories about time slips and interdimensional phenomena.
- 2 (02:39) **Story 1: The Vanishing National Trust Booth** - Listener Tim recounts a 1993 trip to the White Cliffs of Dover where a ticket booth and its attendant vanished immediately after he paid a parking fee.
- 3 (09:41) **Discussion: The Implications of a Tangible Glitch** - The hosts unpack the story's unsettling details, focusing on the physical evidence and the shared witness experience.
- 4 (11:57) **Story 2: The Appalachian Time Skip** - Listener Krista describes driving in Western Virginia when she suddenly teleports 30 minutes away with no time passing at all.
- 5 (15:01) **Story 3: The Interdimensional Wolf** - Listener Renee describes a family drive in rural Alabama where they encounter a giant black wolf that moves in slow motion for the front-seat passengers and super-speed for those in the back.
- 6 (24:05) **Story 4: The Wrong Reflection** - Listener Alexis tells of a late-night bathroom visit where the mirror reflects a different man in a different room, complete with 1950s pink tile and outdated fixtures.
- 7 (30:02) **Story 5: The Hovering Air Canada Plane** - Listener Dakota witnesses a low-flying Air Canada plane that hovers motionless over her rural Ontario home for several minutes before vanishing from the sky.
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Show Notes
This episode is a time loop…or maybe it’s just an annual topic. We’re once again diving into the weirdest corners of reality with glitches in the Matrix, time slips, inter-dimensional encounters, and a few experiences that make us question whether reality is as stable as we think it is.
Glitches include:
A trip to the White Cliffs of Dover takes an inter-dimensional turn when a National Trust ticket booth seemingly disappears, leaving behind only a mysterious parking ticket.
A routine drive through Appalachia suddenly transports a mother 30 minutes away with virtually no time passing.
A family encounters a gigantic black wolf-like creature that appears to affect time differently for people sitting in the front and back seats of the same car.
A late-night bathroom trip reveals a stranger standing in the mirror, along with an entirely different 1950s-style bathroom that vanishes just as quickly as it appeared.
A bonus cryptid tale explores Hungary’s mysterious Woodcutter, a towering, long-limbed creature with multiple independent sightings.
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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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