When the Woods and the Bedroom Both Feel Unsafe

In this special episode of Two Girls One Ghost, host Sabrina is joined by Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore — the duo behind the true crime podcast Clues — to read and react to some of the internet's most unsettling Reddit stories. The conversation moves through three distinct but related territories: the ancient, unknowable energy of the Appalachian wilderness; the mundane but terrifying reality of predatory human behavior; and the uniquely violating horror of having your most private space invaded by someone you thought you could trust.

The Ancient Energy of Appalachia

The first story, posted by a user named "Fireball in my ass," describes a terrifying encounter in the Appalachian Mountains. The poster, a lifelong resident, took his golden retriever Ozzy outside around 11 PM and immediately noticed something was wrong. The dog — who "literally never growls" — was making a "bone chilling" sound, his hair standing straight up "like a feral animal." When the poster closed his workshop door, "all hell broke loose in the woods" — it sounded like "fifty full grown men had broken out into a full sprint, tearing through the woods." Trees shook, branches fell, and then the mumbling started: a sound like a full gymnasium of people murmuring, almost forming words. The poster and his dog sprinted back inside, and all night he heard