Deceptive Reality

Ken, Debbie, and Nicola thought Meadow Cottage was just an old house that needed work. Then six-toed footprints appeared going up a freshly painted wall, objects started stacking themselves into impossible shapes, cold spots moved through rooms like something solid, and a BBC Micro computer began receiving strange files no one remembered creating. The messages claimed to come from a man named Lucas, living centuries earlier in the same place. But once Lucas began testing Ken just as much as Ken was testing him, the case shifted from a haunting to something stranger, a possible conversation across time, with another presence watching from the year 2109.

A funeral home. A silent 911 call. No break-in. No people. And yet the call is logged and responded to. This episode goes deep into the strange category of paranormal communication, where the signal becomes the doorway. Bert and Nick break down a creepy case in southern Colorado where a late-night abandoned 911 call leads police to a locked funeral home on cemetery property, with no sign anyone was inside. They explore how something could trigger a call without a physical source, and why certain places feel like they would be the perfect storm for this kind of phenomenon. From there, the conversation expands into other infamous phone call accounts. An answering machine message that appeared with no incoming call count. A voice recognized as a deceased family member. A call that shows up on the phone, but the phone company cant find any source for it. They talk about old landlines, older recording tech, radio frequencies, and why older devices sometimes feel more vulnerable to interference that cant be explained. The episode wraps with the usual chaos and collectibles, including a messy slime unboxing and a classic horror pull. Because nothing says haunted signals like smelling toxic slime at the end of the night.

Magic mushrooms, little people sightings, and a repeatable laser experiment that claims to show hidden code, this episode goes full high-strangeness. Bert and Nick kick off with a hilarious behind-the-scenes moment and then jump into a real-world oddity, Bert finds unreleased horror blind boxes at Target, tries to buy them, and the employee refuses because they are not even in the system yet. That one detail makes the mystery feel even weirder. From there, the conversation turns into the mushroom story that has been popping up everywhere. A specific mushroom is linked to reports where people claim they all see the same thing, tiny humanoid beings like gnomes, elves, or little people, going about their business like you are not even there. Then it gets even stranger with the DMT laser experiment claim, where multiple people reportedly see the same code in a laser beam. If thats repeatable, what does it mean for perception and reality? They close out with dimensional theory, storms and paranormal activity, and the usual chaos, including Stranger Things pulls and a Vecna repeat.

This episode goes from pop culture conspiracy to genuinely chilling real-world stories, and it all somehow ties back to the same question, where does consciousness go when time stops making sense? Bert and Nick start with Stranger Things and a fan conspiracy that refuses to die. The theory claims the finale was not the real finale, and that a secret episode could drop later. They break down the clues fans are pointing to, including repeating sevens, visual inconsistencies, hidden signs, and the idea that the characters may still be trapped in an illusion. Spoiler warning, if you have not watched it yet, skip ahead. Then the conversation turns into something much heavier, the mystery of anesthesia and why it wipes time completely. They discuss near-death experience cases where minutes feel like days, plus dream states where people feel like they lived years in a single night. Finally, Bert shares one of the most disturbing stories he has ever covered, the face peelers of Peru. A young girl reports being grabbed by armored figures on hovering boards, chemically restrained, and nearly cut with surgical precision before villagers intervene. The story is tied to decades of local reports and multiple cases that sound too consistent to ignore.