The V22 Podcast

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pBZwgBw9HI His lips were white and thin, his teeth crooked. His mouth twisted into a half-smile, like he was seconds from laughter. He was dragging a massive black Rottweiler. The dog resisted, back paws sliding across the floor. The camera didn’t pick up sound, but later, the two gals at reception told me what he said: “He’s actin’ possessed.” My Sp...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur1n5eZMJ2w I really cared for her, because like me, she clearly didn’t have the easiest of upbringings – as I noticed under her tattoos were a number of scars. A creepy little quirk she had was whenever we heard an unusual noise, she would rather casually say the same thing... ‘If you see something, no you didn’t. If you hear something, no you didn’t....

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4gH3KZbb1c On the right-hand side of the mouth of the river, there’s an old ruin of a castle – but past that leads to a cliff trail around the eastern coastline. I first started exploring this trail with my dog, Maisie, on a very windy, rainy day. We trekked down the cliff trail and onto the bedrocks by the sea, and making our way around the curve of ...

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w7oSRW4Hmk Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FNuYOKRAkw&t=1622s Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCMUEnERIJM&t=2s A low, choking sound came from his throat, and his eyes became vacant while he leaned back on the floor, before a low and long breath came from his lips. The skin slid off his body with a moist, slick sound and the meat res...

Original-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbEvL3h0MPA Check out my Chilling content! https://chillingapp.com/content/viidith22 I stepped up my research into the local legends around the park and disappearances that hadn’t gone on public record. Brick wall after brick wall hit me before I caught a break, someone had heard I was looking into what went on at the park and I received an email. The ...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AEQwptuRvk I don’t wish to discourage you by telling you these things. If I wanted to come online and inform you of what you already know, there are louder and more crowded echo chambers designed for such purposes. No, I bring good news. News that has changed my life, news that you have not yet known. For there is an intelligence in the machine, and t...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129v1o2Y4vU The sound that woke me reverberated again. I was close to it, and I could now sense that it possessed a hollow, machine-like timbre. Lacking any better ideas, I headed down towards it. The carpeted floor before me was damp. Some kind of puddle had formed on it and, while I couldn’t get a good look at it, the wet substance on it did not appe...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7liRkNeBY0 "That's the story I’m going to tell you all right, except this time I’m going to tell you the truth." He struck a match and took a few quick sucks on his pipe to get it going. The smoke billowed up in front of his face as he continued. "There were never any wolves in that cave; in fact I don't even think Timberwolves roam those forests. Bob...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hC1efItWbc I grabbed Winston by the collar and got an inch from his face. “Are other people out here? What is this place?” His eyes turned to the sky and a mischievous grin spread over his face. “Only the chosen are here. This is the place of my rebirth. My home.” My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank you to a...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoTjiweiD8o I moved in near the beginning of February last year. I won’t lie, the adjustment to everything at once hit me a lot harder than it should have. Overnight I had gone from working outside every day to being restricted to a wheelchair I had no intuition for using and being stuck inside all day long. My hard hat and boots were swapped for a wor...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL8FYd69UFk A delayed mirror image, lagging behind my movements as if it had forgotten what to do. I inhaled sharply, my stomach twisting. The rational part of my brain screamed. It was just your eyes playing tricks on you. A fatigue hallucination. But my reflection blinked—just a second too late. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMiCweJzrIM I still felt a little groggy, and with my tired mind, I rationalized that my grandma had been looking at it earlier and left it on the floor without me realizing it. That's the thing about the human mind. We will do anything to rationalize the unexplainable.. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank yo...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnY92E6VmhM Back in the early days of YouTube—before influencers were a thing and the algorithm hadn’t yet been weaponized against our attention spans—I ran a little channel dedicated to urban exploration. Nothing fancy. Just me, a flashlight, a shaky camcorder, and a questionable amount of courage. If it was abandoned and vaguely creepy, I was there. ...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Yvv949-2w I stood my mouth slightly open, unable to process any of this. I shook my head as if that would help. Eddie could be dead before the morning. We needed help for him soon. Without a working phone, our best bet was to get back to the SUV. I remembered the man we met on the trail and how he mentioned the ranger’s station. They should have a ra...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNMFjMcxCqs I still felt a little groggy, and with my tired mind, I rationalized that my grandma had been looking at it earlier and left it on the floor without me realizing it. That's the thing about the human mind. We will do anything to rationalize the unexplainable.. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank yo...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25BK_xd08g Tom Herriman didn’t know why he fell so deeply in love with the house on Chestnut Street, but love is a funny thing, isn’t it? Once Cupid’s arrow pierces your heart, ration, logic, and reason go right out the window. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank you to all my patreons and members for making...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25BK_xd08g Tom Herriman didn’t know why he fell so deeply in love with the house on Chestnut Street, but love is a funny thing, isn’t it? Once Cupid’s arrow pierces your heart, ration, logic, and reason go right out the window. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank you to all my patreons and members for making...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25BK_xd08g Tom Herriman didn’t know why he fell so deeply in love with the house on Chestnut Street, but love is a funny thing, isn’t it? Once Cupid’s arrow pierces your heart, ration, logic, and reason go right out the window. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank you to all my patreons and members for making...

Original- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25BK_xd08g Tom Herriman didn’t know why he fell so deeply in love with the house on Chestnut Street, but love is a funny thing, isn’t it? Once Cupid’s arrow pierces your heart, ration, logic, and reason go right out the window. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank you to all my patreons and members for making...

It started with a tip I was given by my publisher that there was a man in Arkansas that had recently been institutionalized with paranoid schizophrenia. He'd been found naked and carving crude symbols into his skin with a worn out kitchen knife behind a local grocery store. Police and doctors had sorted through his ramblings to find that he'd been a transient for the last 10 years and the week ...

The sessions helped somewhat. Evelina learned breathing exercises and ways to distract herself, strategies for keeping the worst of the panic at bay. But the core fear never went away. Every time the sky darkened, every time she felt the first drop of rain on her skin, that same overwhelming dread returned. It was as if the rain carried a promise with it—a threat only she could hear. No matter ...

I excitedly laced up my hiking boots, and left on my next trip up the mountain. I remember making it just past the out-jutted rock you could see from my backyard, when I must’ve blacked out. I woke up in a hospital that I didn’t recognize, surrounded by doctors I didn’t know and hooked up to equipment I’d never seen before. They explained to me that I’d collapsed on the hiking trail and had bee...

I swore I heard the beginning of a scream, one born out of sheer horror. But, it died before ever fully forming and the lights came back on, greeting me with emptiness. They were gone and I never saw them again. Sometimes in these dreams, the clouds parted and an anemic beam of moonlight cut a thin sliver of pale light through the horizon. Against it, thrice I saw a man suspended in mid-air. To...

“I could hear the crunch of my feet on the road, smashed the orange leaves as Fall had claimed the land. Birds let out their loud calls and I glanced over at them. Seeing one standing on a wooden fence, watching me and tilting it's head to one side in assumed curiosity at me. And... the birds stopped chirping. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank you ...

I turned to look and felt the room shift with me; the decor melting away and the roof of the house tearing off to leave us in a space of red and green mist. Floating in place. I could still feel the fabric of the leather chair sticking to my skin, threatening to rip the flesh if I so much as twitched too much. I knew my feet were on the floor, but the sensation akin to pins and needles gave a ...

How were there that many? I’ve only heard the stories of the other major cities, but seeing it was unreal. Thousands, maybe millions of them. Even as we get further away, I can still see them, the hordes. We’re hundreds of feet in the air, and the mass of bodies that stretches all the way back to the city looks like a river that has broken through its dam. Are they going to follow us? Are we ev...

“The point,” another man across the fire interjected, “is that we don’t even know if the ritual worked. We could be looking for someone who no longer even exists.” The first man stood up and rubbed his head. “You tell the High Priest that, and see what he says. I dunno about you all, but I’d rather keep looking.” The voices sounded vaguely familiar to him. Mason searched his memories, trying to...

The morning sun casts a pale light over the scene as I pull up, the flashing red and blue lights of the squad cars casting an eerie glow over the small, idyllic village of Saranac Lake. I’d spent the better part of my career as a detective for New York’s 5th Precinct, dealing with the grit and grime of the city. The days were long and nights were perilous, as I navigated through the underbelly ...

"Good," I say, adjusting our course slightly. “Launch them!” "Alright, we’re hot," Gonzo announces "First sonde away in five, four, three…" I hear the faint clunk as the drop chute deploys, sending the first probe tumbling into the eye of the storm. For a few moments, everything is routine. The sonde transmits data as it falls, its signal showing up on the screen next to me. The numbers tick up...

I had been assigned the foreman of the construction of the building that would replace it: a large warehouse and distribution center for a major retailer. I would frequently pay the site a visit as the walls were torn down and the roof was gutted, myself having gone to the mall several times in my youth whenever my family was passing through the area—so I knew its layout well. By the winter of ...

in that very moment...I decided that if the world I knew didn't care about my suffering, why should I continue to be a part of it? What good is building a new bridge if it just gets torn down all over again? ...Perhaps these strange entities have something better to offer... My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank you to all my patreons and members for m...

Move, he thought. You have to move. His body felt heavy and unresponsive, every nerve aflame. He tried to raise his left arm, but the movement sent a searing jolt through his chest, and he cried out. Each breath was a struggle. He couldn’t budge without agony flaring in his ribs. When he looked down, his gaze fixed on his torso, now twisted at an odd angle. Panic welled up as he saw the unnatu...

I opened my eyes, and she was gone. And I was back… there… Light bringing no warmth streamed in through the window, and I shivered, uselessly pulling the meager, moth-bitten sheets tighter to my body. A full month’s worth of frigid mornings had taught me to expect the chill air forcing its way through the cracks in the crumbling, plaster walls, which brought with it the scent of fresh snow. “An...

But what haunted me most were the patterns I couldn’t ignore. Again and again, his presence seemed tied to moments of darkness. It wasn’t just individuals he visited; it was communities, towns, entire civilizations. And one name kept surfacing, whispered like a curse across the centuries: Moloch. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank you to all my patre...

Briefly, her eyes took on a look of acknowledgement, and I waited, hopeful. Only to have it snatched away. "I will take her to those born of the land. You will never see her again. Both your punishment and your reward...." She growled at me, ignoring my sob and knowing it was a dangerous bargain. One hand tilted the babe's head upward, exposing the soft and ever so tender flesh. My Spotify: ...

We rode in his rickety pickup truck in the dead of night in complete silence until he broke it. "I was bad, MaryBaby," he said. "What?" "As a kid, I wasn't right," he said. My father randomly twitched. Like someone overdosing on drugs if you've seen that. He flew out of his lane. I grabbed the handle for stability. The oncoming semi approached and honked at us. I braced for impact. He whipped t...

Lately I have been revisiting an old playground horror story that’s been passing around the area where I grew up. Back then the older children would tell me and my friends that there was a god living in the forest. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank you to all my patreons and members for making this video possible! ➤Original Story Written by K. Nor...

“Take a seat,” he said, in what sounded to the still trembling Simon to be an English accent.   “B-but…he'll see me…You need to hide me! Please!” the terrified man begged, as approached the bar.   “Nah. He won't,” the bartender said with a wink, and a click of the tongue, “trust me.”   The slender man, in the dark gray, pin-striped vest, and white shirt, with the sleeves rolled up to his elb...

Liam’s mouth stretched into a terrifying grin. Instead of responding, he pulled something from his pocket, and I felt Rowan stiffen. Playtime was over, and now we were playing like our criminal parents. An unwelcome shiver skittered down my spine. I saw the flash of silver, and then the curve of the blade. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank you to al...

"You never had a choice." The voice answered me, and I saw the gaping maw come forth from the void. From beauty comes death and destruction, and I watched with the gateway opening the planet I had called home be devoured inside, a shaking of birth and renewal. The screams of a billion life forces in my ears turned to ash. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUG...

“Does it work?” I asked, my voice filled with skepticism. I didn’t want to come off as too desperate, but I was. The man grinned, revealing a set of yellowed, uneven teeth. “It works,” he said with an air of certainty that felt unsettling. “Better than you think. Just set it up in your field. It’ll do the rest.” My gut twisted with unease and despite the creeping dread, I handed over the little...

“Did you hear about the sighting up near Alpena?” he asks, laying out his maps on the table. “Yeah, you mentioned it,” I reply, trying to muster some enthusiasm. “Do you really think there’s something to it?” Dad’s eyes meet mine, and for a moment, I see a flicker of doubt. But it’s quickly replaced by grim determination. “I have to believe it, Ryan. It’s the only thing that makes sense.” My S...

Just checking in with you guys to see if this is normal. Best to ask the experts. It hasn’t happened a lot, but occasionally I pick up a signal where it’s just… well, dead. As in, there’s nothing. No static, no tone shifts. Just silence. It’s eerie as hell. I looked it up, and generally, ‘dead air’ refers to the silence between broadcasts. What I don’t like is that this silence seems to pop up ...

I notice that she looks just the slightest bit nervous as she watches me.  I have to hide a smile.  She mentioned to me a few weeks ago that she believes in ghosts, and the story I just told her seems to have had an effect on her. I wasn’t lying when I told her it is a true story, or at least a story that I’ve been told is true.  Anyone who grew up in the general area of Arcadian Heights heard ...

I'm 24 years old, and I’m a victim of brainwashing. It's weird. With the cocktail of medication I take every day, I feel numb. But then I stare down at my wrists and see where I've carved into my own flesh with my nails and smashed my mirror. I've clawed at my door, and there are marks on the wall where I've smashed my head into the tiles. I don't feel it or remember it. But I do see the clums...

Instead I heard the loud thud of something massive hitting the ground. I opened my eyes when I heard the blood curdling scream of my father to see an ungodly sight. There, standing impossibly in front of me, was an enormous spider, with legs as thick as telephone poles and mandibles as long as my arm. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank you to all my ...

It wasn't until he was content enough to make his way back to the exit, as he glanced back at the man at the rear of the shop, that he stopped in his tracks once more. As the sophisticated looking man pulled open the doors to a simple, wooden cabinet, Ethan saw something which immediately captured his attention. One more precious trinket that opened the floodgates to memories of days gone by. ...

The stars twinkling above us. The perfect sky. “Harry.” My voice sounded wrong, like the words on my lips weren't mine. He didn't look at me. “Yeah?” “How many times have we had this conversation?” My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank you to all my patreons and members for making this video possible! ➤Original Story Written By: Trash_Tia- https:/...

Forget what you know about science. Forget what you know about religion. Forget whatever it is that you know of. Because what is true is far more incredible and menacingly disturbing than what we could possibly fathom. My Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wXzsnnDVBpe3i00aL253p A HUGE thank you to all my patreons and members for making this video possible! ➤Original Story Written By: J...

The worst thing I could do was start freaking out. I just had to keep pushing. And then I felt it—a gust of wind, warm and unexpected, brushing against my face. My first thought was that it must be an air current, but then I realized it wasn't wind at all. It was breathing. Slow, deliberate, and impossibly close. My blood ran cold as the realization hit me: someone was there with me, right in f...