True Internet Horrors: Chip-Chan, Local 58, and The Plague Doctor

About this episode

This episode explores three chilling internet horror stories involving a mysterious DVD, a woman livestreaming from her apartment, and a public access TV station broadcasting strange messages.

Gather round for three stories the internet found and couldn't put down. A DVD arrived in Sweden with no return address — on it, a figure in a plague doctor mask standing inside an abandoned psychiatric hospital where hundreds of people were executed. The audio carried photographs hidden in frequencies the human ear can't detect. In Seoul, a woman livestreamed herself 24 hours a day from a filth-filled apartment, claiming a corrupt police officer had implanted a chip in her ankle to control her sleep. Thousands watched. Nobody came. And somewhere in West Virginia, a public access TV station started broadcasting messages that didn't belong to it. The signal told you not to look at the moon. Then something reversed the signal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Topics covered

• internet horror stories
• urban legends
• psychological thriller
• live streaming
• public access TV
• mystery

Keywords

• internet horror
• plague doctor
• livestream
• public access TV
• urban legend
• mystery

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Chip-Chan, Local 58, The Plague Doctor

Places: Sweden, Seoul, West Virginia

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