What if you died in a car crash, then woke up earlier that same day with a chance to change what happened?

In Episode 20 of Overheard Online, Erin is joined by her longtime friend Diana to explore unsettling glitch in the matrix stories involving reality resets, near-death experiences, shared dreams, time slips, doppelgängers and encounters that do not fit neatly into one timeline.

The episode begins with the story of two friends who remember dying in a car crash before suddenly finding themselves back at the beginning of the night. From there, Erin and Diana examine whether the experience could be explained by quantum immortality, a premonition, an altered state or a glimpse into another version of reality.

They also discuss stories about a man receiving a second chance after death, a former neighbour repeatedly seeing someone who no longer lives nearby, a teenager apparently meeting his friend decades in the future, a real-life stick figure crossing the road, the same mysterious old man appearing everywhere and a childhood playground containing a place that seemingly should not have existed.

Along the way, the conversation explores lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, collective consciousness, intuition, eternalism, simulation theory and whether the body can recognize information before the conscious mind understands it.

In this episode:

• Two friends die in a car crash, then experience the day again
• Quantum immortality and reality-reset theories
• Premonitions and stories that seemingly predict real events
• Lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences and altered states
• Collective consciousness and unexplained creative downloads
• A man who believes he died and received a second chance
• A neighbour who still sees someone walking with their deceased dog
• A teenager who may have met his friend 24 years in the future
• A real-life stick man sighting
• Aliens, collective memory and former Canadian official Paul Hellyer
• The same mysterious old man appearing everywhere
• A secret childhood playground that disappeared

No forced conclusions. Just strange stories, open minds and conversations about the experiences that make reality feel a little less settled.

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Overheard Online explores glitch in the matrix stories, paranormal experiences, time slips, dreams, near-death experiences, strange encounters and the unexplained. Hosted by Erin Michelle.

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CONTENT NOTE

This episode contains occasional strong language and discussion of death, car accidents and near-death experiences.

Something is wrong with the road tonight.

A woman drives somewhere on Christmas night and her Google Maps says she never left home. Another stops at a gas station in Ohio at 2am - the cashier already knows her cigarette brand - and that station still hasn't opened yet. Seven friends stop for gas on a birthday road trip. They drive away as six. Nobody can remember who was missing.

This week on Overheard Online, we're reading the stories people post at 2am when something happened to them that they still can't explain.

In this episode: a Christmas night highway glitch and a Google Maps history rewrite, a gas station from the future, a seventh friend erased from reality at a creepy roadside stop, a beach café that has never existed, a woman who watched herself die at a stoplight, ghost cars on the highway, a coworker seen in two places at once, a doppelganger that walked like a robot, a tiger that became a stuffed animal, and a cinema that forgot to load.

Plus - a deep dive into one r/Paranormal thread where thousands of people answered: "What's the creepiest glitch in the matrix that's ever happened to you?"

Overheard Online is the podcast for real Reddit stories about glitches in the matrix, near-death experiences, time slips, doppelgangers, and things that can't be explained. New episodes weekly.

Shadow people. Ghost visits. Liminal spaces. Reality glitches. If you love true “Glitch in the Matrix” + paranormal stories, this episode is stacked with experiences that feel impossible - yet the storytellers swear they happened.

We dive into the unsettling feeling that reality “reset” years ago, car-accident stories that changed everything, a ghost visit, a shadow person encounter at the cottage, and multiple listener stories that sound like timeline slips.

You’ll hear:

1. Reality-shift / “timeline glitch” moments
2. A ghost visit that doesn’t add up
3. Shadow person at the cottage
4. Listener stories with eerie “someone was here” energy
5. Strange auditory glitches that still don’t make sense

If you’re into the overlap between paranormal experiences, memory slips, and liminal-space vibes - this one’s for you.

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Keywords: glitch in the matrix, paranormal stories, shadow people, ghost visit, liminal spaces, reality shift, listener stories

This is a solo, story-forward episode of Overheard Online.

In this installment, I take you through a long chain of firsthand accounts where reality seems to momentarily lose its footing - quietly, briefly, and without explanation. There’s no debate panel, no interviews, and no theories layered on top. Just the stories themselves, told as they were experienced and written.

Across these accounts, objects duplicate and vanish. Cars disappear mid-drive. Roads reset, exits repeat, and familiar routes lead somewhere else entirely. Time compresses, stretches, or drops out altogether. People freeze mid-movement. Faces and bodies appear pixelated or translucent. Sounds distort. Voices come through radios that shouldn’t be transmitting anything at all.

Some moments are witnessed by multiple people. Others are noticed by only one person in the room - sometimes becoming stranger when no one else seems to see what they saw.

The episode also moves through near-death experiences, altered states, and moments where consciousness appears to separate, expand, or observe from outside the body, raising the same recurring question: are these glitches external, internal, or something happening in the overlap between the two?

As always, these stories aren’t presented as proof or explanation. They’re shared exactly as they were lived - and exactly as they continue to linger with the people who experienced them.

🌀 Have a glitch, NDE, or unexplained story of your own? Submit it anonymously at overheardonline.com and it might be featured in a future episode.

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What happens when you mix alcohol, the holidays, and reality glitches?

In this drinking game episode, Erin is joined by her friend Ariana as they read and react to some of the strangest Glitch in the Matrix stories ever shared - from Christmas decorations that defy physics, to phone calls that seem to come from another timeline, to moments of intuition that arrive a little too perfectly.

As the drinks flow, so do the theories. Are these harmless coincidences? Timeline overlaps? Consciousness misfires? Or brief moments where reality glitches and something else slips through?

1. A Christmas ribbon that appears to pass through solid plastic
2. A doppelgänger phone call overheard in real time
3. A neighborhood that doesn’t look the same twice
4. A late-night instinct that exposed a betrayal

This episode is equal parts fun, unsettling, and “wait… what?” - so grab a drink, play along at home, and decide for yourself whether these stories are just strange coincidences… or evidence that reality isn’t as stable as we think.

🍷 Yes, alcohol was involved.

🚫 No, that does not explain everything.

1. If something used to be one thing and turns into something else → BOTH drink
2. An object appearing or returning itself to you → BOTH drink
3. Item duplicates → BOTH drink
4. A Christmas miracle → BOTH drink
5. There’s a witness to the glitch → BOTH take a mini shot
6. Vanishing person → BOTH finish your drink

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Submit it anonymously at overheardonline.com and it might be featured in a future episode.What happens when you mix alcohol, the holidays, and reality glitches?

1. 04:30 - Drinking Game Rules
2. 06:30 - Our Mysterious Case of the Christmas Ribbon [photos]
3. 14:00 - Christmas Morning Doppelgänger Phone Glitch
4. 25:35 - I May Have Glitched Into a Secret Dimension.. [

Is Christmas secretly the glitchiest time of year? 🎄🌀

This solo episode dives into a stack of glitch in the matrix stories from Reddit, all unfolding around the holidays.

From timeline slips, to objects changing, to memories no one agrees on, to encounters that feel like they came from another reality, this episode leans all the way into the strange, the subtle, and the impossible-to-explain.

This one is story forward with minimal breakdowns... just you, the Christmas lights, and a lineup of eerie seasonal glitches that will stick with you long after the episode ends.

If you love:

• Christmas paranormal stories
• Mandela effect moments
• parallel reality weirdness
• time slips
• doppelgänger encounters
• unexplainable objects or events
• or just stories that make you say, “Okay… WHAT?”

then this holiday episode is for you.

🎧 Grab a warm drink, turn on the tree, and settle into a cozy corner of the simulation.

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For today's episode, we did something deeply unwise…

We turned the Glitch in the Matrix stories into a drinking game, and the universe absolutely punished us for it.

In this chaotic After Dark episode of Overheard Online, Erin & Sara read some of Reddit’s weirdest, most mind-bending stories - from time slips and Mandela-effect moments to doppelgängers, shadow figures, parallel lives, and full-on reality breaks - while following a set of rules that guaranteed instant disaster.

Every time a time slip, a doppelgänger, or shadow figures is mentioned, they both drink. If someone describes seeing a light, floating, or a tunnel, they drink. Any time theres a tech issue, anyone doubts a story, they have goosebumps, they both drink...

Spoiler: it escalates FAST.

• Time Slip → BOTH drink
• Doppelgänger → BIG sip waterfall
• “I have chills” / “I have goosebumps” → That person drinks
• Erin mentions aphantasia → Erin drinks
• Sara mentions her boyfriend → Sara drinks
• Expressing doubt → drink
• Tech glitch → BOTH drink waterfall
• Light / tunnel / floating mentioned → BOTH drink
• Shadow figures / silhouettes → BIG sip waterfall
• Feeling peaceful while dying → Sara drinks
• Interrupting the story → both drink

…We told you it was a disaster.

• unhinged laughter
• glitchy existential fear
• chaotic storytelling
• Erin malfunctioning on camera
• Sara losing the plot
• way too many waterfalls
• theories, overanalysis, and bad science
• and somehow… heart-to-heart moments too

If you love Reddit stories, paranormal glitches, reaction chaos, and gin-fueled philosophy, this one is for you.

• 00:00 — Intro
• 05:25 — The Drinking Game Rules
• 09:40 — Reddit Thread: [Serious] Reddit, what is your strangest glitch in the matrix moment that cannot be explained?
• 09:55 — Reddit Story 1: “Mom, Call Nana!”
• 12:20 — Reddit Story 2: The Red Apartment Door
• 13:25 — Reddit Story 3: Where Was Everyone?
• 15:15 — Reddit Story 4: People Keep Running Into My Doppelgänger (and It Makes Them Sick)
• 18:15 — Reddit Story 4 (Edit)
• 20:50 — Reddit Story 5: Gas Station Debit Card Disappearance
• 21:30 — Erin’s Story: Glasses Cleaner Appeared Out of Nowhere
• 23:50 — Erin’s Story: Duplicate Boating License
• 26:05 — Sara’s Story: A Brand New Bra Glitch
• 49:00 — Reddit Story 6: Man Without a Face
• 49:40 — Reddit Story 7: NPC Simulation Photo
• 52:00 — Sara’s Story: Kid in a Balaclava
• 54:10 — Sara’s Story: Baby Blue Delivery
• 55:30 — Sara’s Story: Almost Drowning at Age 6/7
• 1:14:00 — Reddit Story 8: Repost: A Parallel Life / Awoken By A Lamp (Reread)
• 1:24:00 — Reddit Story 9:

What if a phone could ring from the afterlife?

What if your future self appeared at your door - bruised, panicked, holding an envelope from ten years ahead?

And what if your child vanished from one room, only to reappear moments later as if nothing had happened?

In this episode of Overheard Online, we explore stories where communication defies time itself - from ghost calls and doppelgängers to parallel timelines and impossible returns.

A telecom engineer receives a call that never happened.

A father dials the wrong number and reaches the person he was looking for.

A streamer’s late wife replies to him live on-air.

A mother loses her daughter in a reality glitch.

And a man finds his own grave.

Across these encounters, we dive into theories of temporal overlap, quantum entanglement of consciousness, bilocation, and information loops — the strange frontiers where technology, time, and the afterlife collide.

🔮 Listen if you’ve ever felt reality blink.

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• 00:00: Intro
• 00:40: Reddit Story 1: A very weird spine chilling call (Ghost or Time slip phenomenon?)
• 02:20: Story 1 Comments
• 03:45: Comment Story [Story 1] - The Telecom Engineer Who Heard a Call That Never Happened
• 11:00: Reddit Story 2: Dialed the wrong number, found who I was looking for
• 11:50: Comment Story [Story 2] - A Call From A Payphone
• 12:10: Comment Story [Story 2] - Called Him Via Payphone
• 12:30: Comment Story [Story 2] - Unknowingly Called His Friend
• 12:55: Comment Story [Story 2] - Ouija Board Operator
• 14:15: Comment Story [Story 2] - Pager Call Center
• 14:50: Comment Story [Story 2]...