Creepy Encounters
By Creepy Encounters
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Episodes: 111
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Short, first-person stories about the frightening things ordinary people run into — a neighbor, a stranger, a habit at home no one ever questioned. It's never a ghost.
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Episode 111: I spent every Friday of tenth grade in my homeroom teacher's detention and twenty years later another mom in the pickup line asked if I was one of the Friday kids
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Oct 25, 2026 |
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Episode 110: The best kid at hide and seek on my street won every single game for three summers and his sister told me where he was hiding at the Kroger deli counter
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Oct 24, 2026 |
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Episode 109: I kept getting return labels for things I never ordered and the nice lady on the phone said to just mail back anything that weighed about the same
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Oct 23, 2026 |
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Episode 108: A seasonal guy at my tax office refilled my stapler every Monday all winter and I barely ever said two words to him
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Oct 22, 2026 |
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Episode 107: My boss said I had the best eyes in the building for catching mistakes on expense sheets and the state unemployment office read me who made them
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Oct 21, 2026 |
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Episode 106: My neighbor put a trail camera on the birch between our yards for the deer and showed me every picture it took for four months
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Oct 20, 2026 |
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Episode 105: My roommate had a chore wheel on the fridge with my name already on it and the leasing office says there was never a second bedroom
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Oct 19, 2026 |
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Episode 104: My ex said I would let my mother's funeral lily die and it has not wilted once since he moved out
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Oct 18, 2026 |
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Episode 103: My husband kept the mileage log for my job for eight years and the girl in payroll says I never turned in a single mile
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Oct 17, 2026 |
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Episode 102: My grandmother made my tea from a separate pot on the highest shelf every summer and I have been making it for my son
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Oct 16, 2026 |
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Episode 101: My brother checked under my bed every night for nine years and I found out what he was doing under there when we took the bunk bed apart
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Oct 15, 2026 |
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Episode 100: My dad drove me to school a different way every morning for nine years and the whole town knew why except me
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Oct 14, 2026 |
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Episode 99: Somebody at our bus barn has been badging in at four in the morning for a year and every one of us thought somebody else had scheduled it
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Oct 13, 2026 |
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Episode 98: My sister has always described a kitchen with yellow tiles we never had and my parents told me to stop upsetting her for thirty years
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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Episode 97: The motel in the town where I was working washed and filled up my rental car every single night and I thought it was the nicest place I ever stayed
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Oct 11, 2026 |
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Episode 96: I shared a missing woman's flyer in our county Facebook group and the man whose number was on it came to my porch to thank me
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Oct 10, 2026 |
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Episode 95: The unit next to my storage unit had the same padlock on it for thirteen years and the manager only told me whose it was after it went to auction
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Oct 09, 2026 |
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Episode 94: My Airbnb host texted me from four states away to say I left the porch light on and I had never once touched the switch
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Oct 08, 2026 |
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Episode 93: A man waits outside my office every morning and leaves me a coffee on the railing and everyone at work thinks I am lucky
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Oct 07, 2026 |
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Episode 92: My landlord has called me by the last tenant's name for five years and I let him because I figured she had been there a long time
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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Episode 91: An airline agent rebooked me onto a different flight three times in a row and I wrote the company two paragraphs about how nice he was
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Oct 05, 2026 |
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Episode 90: My handwriting turned into my trainer's handwriting in about three months and everybody at the laundry thought it was cute including me
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Oct 04, 2026 |
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Episode 89: Our church has taken up a second collection for the Hollis family every month for fourteen years and I am the one who counts it
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Oct 03, 2026 |
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Episode 88: My old babysitter has my kids school pictures on her refrigerator and I am the one who has been mailing them to her
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Oct 02, 2026 |
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Episode 87: A guy I matched with knew which laundromat I use before our first date and I thought it meant he had read my profile really closely
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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Episode 86: The same six people have gotten off the train at my stop every night for nine years and not one of them lives in my town
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Sep 30, 2026 |
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Episode 85: My manager sent me to every meeting she did not feel like going to and I thought it meant I was her favorite
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Sep 29, 2026 |
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Episode 84: My grandmother's Christmas cards still come every December three years after her funeral and I am the only one in the family who still gets one
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Sep 28, 2026 |
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Episode 83: My piano teacher left me nine years of tapes in her will and my daughter was the one who noticed I never finish a song on any of them
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Sep 27, 2026 |
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Episode 82: My dad says we never had a station wagon but it is parked in the driveway behind me in every picture he ever took
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Sep 26, 2026 |
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Episode 81: A lady at my grandmother's nursing home said my name every Sunday and I kept visiting her for three years after my grandmother died
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Sep 25, 2026 |
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Episode 80: My roommate can say my mom's bedtime story word for word and I thought every kid in America went to the same book fair
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Sep 24, 2026 |
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Episode 79: I changed schools eight times growing up and my third grade best friend is in every one of my yearbooks
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Sep 23, 2026 |
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Episode 78: There is a man standing behind my uncle in my sister's wedding picture and I married him four years after it was taken
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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Episode 76: A retired electrician rewired my kitchen for free and handed me an invoice that said zero and I did not ask him why until last fall
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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Episode 77: My neighbor always tells me it was quiet while I was traveling and the city sent me fourteen fire reports that say otherwise
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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Episode 75: My dentist showed me the same two sets of x-rays every three months for fourteen years and the new office says my chart was closed in 2011
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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Episode 74: My sister texts me pictures of her Sunday table and I never counted the plates until her neighbor said something at the car wash
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Sep 18, 2026 |
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Episode 73: I called the county about the kids down the street and the whole road brought that family groceries every morning for a year and I took Thursdays
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Sep 17, 2026 |
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Episode 72: The same account has commented nice on every single thing I have posted for seven years and I thought it was a kid from my graduating class
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Sep 16, 2026 |
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Episode 71: My ex has paid my phone bill every month since I moved out and I only found out because I tried to add my son to the plan
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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Episode 70: My name is in a bed and breakfast guest book four times from Octobers I was never there
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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Episode 68: My landlord has painted my whole apartment every spring for nine years and I was the one who kept leaving town for it
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Sep 13, 2026 |
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Episode 69: A woman has told me I look well in three different grocery stores over nine years and I was always glad to see her
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Sep 13, 2026 |
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Episode 67: My pharmacist had my prescription ready on the counter for eleven years and I never once read the label until he retired
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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Episode 66: I filed a complaint about the way a manager spoke to a woman at my office and it took eleven years and one question from a temp for me to understand what I did
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Sep 11, 2026 |
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Episode 65: A driver locked the doors at every red light for two years and every single person I told said that was just good sense
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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Episode 64: The man who sold me my truck still texts every few months to ask where it is parked and I answered him for six years
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Sep 09, 2026 |
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Episode 63: A Christmas DNA kit gave me forty-one half-siblings and every single one of them still lives within forty minutes of my house
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Episode 62: There was a note taped inside my kitchen cabinet when I moved in and my landlord has taken it down twice and I finally looked under it
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Sep 07, 2026 |
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Episode 61: Our youth pastor decided who sat in the front row on Wednesday nights and twenty years later I have his seating chart in my car
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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Episode 60: I have paid my childhood babysitter sixty dollars a month since 2004 and she still lets herself into my parents house on Thursdays
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Sep 04, 2026 |
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Episode 59: A man I met on Bumble brought me lemon cake to a restaurant that does not serve dessert and I told that story for six years
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Sep 03, 2026 |
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Episode 58: I drove a train conductor home one night during the bus strike and eleven years later I found out what he has been doing for me every single morning
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Episode 57: I applied for a job across the street in 1994 and they never wrote back and I found out this spring that they did
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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Episode 56: My grandfather changed the lock on the hall closet four times and I never looked at it until he was dead
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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Episode 55: My fourth grade teacher has mailed me a graduation card every May for thirty years and I never once looked at where they were mailed from
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Aug 30, 2026 |
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Episode 54: My mother has been signing my name on cards to our whole family for eleven years and I found one she had not mailed yet
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Episode 53: An aide at my mother's memory care home signed the visitor log on nights nobody came and I did not look at that book until after my mother died
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Aug 28, 2026 |
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Episode 52: The three of us split the rent four ways for five years and I never once counted the bedrooms
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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Episode 51: My best friend kept my bike for thirty years and brought it back the week the man at the top of our street died
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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Episode 50: My husband made my coffee every single morning for two years because of my heart and I never once looked at which tin he was using
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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Episode 49: A roofer left his ladder against my house in March and it is still there in August and I finally climbed it myself
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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Episode 48: I had asthma for nine years and it went away the month we moved out of that apartment and I never once thought about why until this spring
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Aug 23, 2026 |
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Episode 47: My insurance card has had the wrong birthday on it since 2015 and I only found out why when I paid to get my own medical records
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Episode 46: My hometown paper printed my obituary by mistake in 1994 and I only found out this spring when I went looking for my grandmother's
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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Episode 45: Somebody has been answering questions on my sewing machine forum under my name and my picture for six years
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Episode 44: My ex husband has sent my mother flowers every Mother's Day since our divorce and I only found out because he mentioned the florist
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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Episode 42: The same man sat at my bus stop every morning for nine years and never once got on a bus and I finally saw what the newspaper in his lap was
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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Episode 43: The same night clerk was at my hotel's front desk all six nights of my stay and I was the only person who thought that was strange
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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Episode 41: My landlord took three hundred dollars off the rent so I would never use the second bedroom and it took a burst pipe for me to find out why
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Aug 16, 2026 |
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Episode 40: There has been a note on my cable account since 2007 and nobody would tell me what it said until a kid on the overnight shift read it to me
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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Episode 39: My office has celebrated my birthday on the wrong day for eleven years and I only found out what that day is when we took the calendar down
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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Episode 38: The same air freshener has been hanging in four different cars in three different cities and my receipts say they were four different men
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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Episode 37: The woman who sold us our piano has come to every one of my daughter's recitals for four years and I was the one who kept inviting her
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Episode 36: A man I matched with on Ancestry sends me a birthday card every year using a nickname nobody in my family has said out loud since 1994
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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Episode 30: My boss said my college roommate's name at a work dinner and I had never once told him I had a roommate
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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Episode 31: A man has played my mother's favorite song on my subway platform for fifteen years and I have never learned his name
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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Episode 32: I save the receipt from every first date and my card company sent me a list that says I have been on the same one four times
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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Episode 33: My babysitter taught me a bedtime prayer nobody in my family had ever heard and I said it every night for forty years
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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Episode 34: The church that fed us for two years stopped speaking to us the week my dad died and I still have one of their dishes
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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Episode 35: My apartment was listed for rent six times in the year and a half before I signed and I never thought to look until this June
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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Episode 29: My grandmother fed me dinner at four o'clock every single afternoon for a year and I was forty seven before I understood what that meant
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Episode 28: A counselor kept me out of every advanced class in high school and nobody at the school can find a single piece of paperwork for it
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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Episode 27: My dad taught me to swim by rowing out past the buoys and waiting on the other side and I told that story for thirty five years like it was a good one
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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Episode 26: My dad's afternoon caregiver recorded his stories for two years and I was the one who told her which questions to ask
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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Episode 25: My roommate left a sticky note on the coffee maker every morning apologizing for the night before and I slept through all of it
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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Episode 24: My best friend from high school told everyone back home that I died and I found out in a hardware store fifteen years later
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Episode 23: My wife can give my eulogy from memory and she brought it up at a dinner party in front of our friends
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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Episode 22: My neighbor's dog barked at my front door between two and three every night for four years and I spent all of it being angry at a dog
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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Episode 21: The same plumber has been out to my house eleven times for a leak nobody else can find and I kept every invoice
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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Episode 20: My physical therapist had my whole injury history filled out before I ever walked in the door
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Jul 26, 2026 |
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Episode 19: My older brother returned every present I ever gave him the same week and he never spent a dollar of the credit
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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Episode 18: Every store in my town closes from one to three on Thursday and I hung the sign for fifteen years without ever asking why
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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Episode 17: Somebody has been posting pictures of the house I grew up in to our hometown Facebook group every Sunday and I finally found out where the pictures came from
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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Episode 16: My ex girlfriend has been at my church every Sunday for four years and I just found out what the hymnal in her pew says
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Episode 15: For eleven years the same hotel has given me the same suite and now a night clerk says there was never a reservation
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Episode 14: A stranger returned my lost wallet with sixty extra dollars in it and I spent fifteen years telling it as the kindest thing that ever happened to me
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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Episode 13: I told my landlord about a broken step and instead of fixing it he wanted to know which neighbor put me up to it
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Jul 19, 2026 |
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Episode 12: My bank calls me every month about a charge I never made and they have never once taken it off
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Episode 1: My half-sister brought a shoebox of school photos of me to our first lunch
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Episode 2: A woman sold me a dresser on Marketplace and she will not stop asking how it is working out
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Episode 3: I kept forwarding a stranger's mail for two years and the post office says he never lived in my apartment
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Episode 4: My neighbor has mowed my lawn every Tuesday for nine years and has never once said a word to me
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Episode 5: My husband has been answering my work emails for a year and I did not notice
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Episode 6: My boss has come to every funeral in my family and I never asked how he knew about them
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Episode 7: The same driver keeps taking me home at night even though I never once put in my address
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Episode 8: A nurse calls me every year on the anniversary of a surgery I am pretty sure I never had
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Episode 9: I started writing the date on the milk because my roommate never once ate and everyone said I was the strange one
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Episode 10: My mother wrote down everything I ate in high school and she still knows the numbers by heart at Thanksgiving
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Episode 11: A coworker who quit still shows up to our Monday meetings and I was apparently the last person in the office to realize she does not work here
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Jul 17, 2026 |