{"podcast":{"title":"AFTER DARK | True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories","slug":"after-dark-true-scary-paranormal-ghost-supernatural-mysterious-stories-7209219","podcast_index_feed_id":7209219,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/67a4a3c39c6f7f7f2876d90f","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/after-dark","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/67a4a3c39c6f7f7f2876d90f/1778179373911-7d0ed19f-b6ae-4033-9101-d2f6491763a8.jpeg","author":"Sarah Powell","episode_count":123,"summary":"The Whispering Woods: After Dark was formerly known as Obscurata . It is still the place for the darker stories. The unsolved cases, strange disappearances, true crime, occult history, paranormal reports and unexplained events that don’t quite fit anywhere else. Each episode looks at the stories that linger after the lights go out. Some are rooted in crime. Some in folklore. Some in witness accounts, old reports, rumours, fear and the things people have never been able to fully explain. Different name. Same dark corners. Brought to you by the creators of The Whispering Woods . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T22:20:31.752420+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/after-dark-true-scary-paranormal-ghost-supernatural-mysterious-stories-7209219"},"episode":{"title":"The 1988 Anomaly: Did Reality Shift? Strange Timeline Stories, Broken Time and Glitches in the Matrix","slug":"the-1988-anomaly-did-reality-shift-strange-timeline-stories-broken-time-and-glitches-in-the-matrix","published_at":"2026-07-11T23:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/after-dark-true-scary-paranormal-ghost-supernatural-mysterious-stories-7209219/the-1988-anomaly-did-reality-shift-strange-timeline-stories-broken-time-and-glitches-in-the-matrix","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/after-dark-true-scary-paranormal-ghost-supernatural-mysterious-stories-7209219","url":"https://bio.link/twwp","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/67a4a3c39c6f7f7f2876d90f/e/6a43c49b7da25d473863b5c9/media.mp3","summary":"A church in Texas where thousands looked into the sky in 1988. A theory that time moves towards rupture. A machine beneath Europe that became, for some, a symbol of a universe disturbed. And ordinary people, scattered across the internet, trying to explain why their lives feel as though they continued after something else ended. Perhaps nothing happened. Perhaps the feeling is memory, grief, fear, nostalgia, or the strange dislocation of living through years that change too quickly. But for those who believe they remember the other world, the question remains. If reality did shift, would we know? Or would we simply wake the next morning, make a cup of tea, answer our messages, go to work, and spend the rest of our lives wondering why home no longer feels like home? The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAGRAM Join us on TWITTER Join us on FACEBOOK Visit our WEBSITE Research: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWhyFiles/comments/1ie4jey/the_1988_anomoly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/comments/18lgtui/it_was_saturday_august_13_1988_and_ive_never_been/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/08/16/Pilgrims-say-they-saw-visions-of-Virgin-Mary/8186587707200/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-04-10-mn-1686-story.html https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider/ https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/first-beam-lhc-accelerating-science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/18cimeh/if_the_world_did_end_is_it_possible_that_it/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/jxfypw/everything_changed_in_20122015/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/exfkue/i_died_in_an_alternate_universe/ https:…","meta_description":"A church in Texas where thousands looked into the sky in 1988. A theory that time moves towards rupture. A machine beneath Europe that became, for some, a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1741,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/after-dark-true-scary-paranormal-ghost-supernatural-mysterious-stories-7209219/episodes/the-1988-anomaly-did-reality-shift-strange-timeline-stories-broken-time-and-glitches-in-the-matrix/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/after-dark-true-scary-paranormal-ghost-supernatural-mysterious-stories-7209219/the-1988-anomaly-did-reality-shift-strange-timeline-stories-broken-time-and-glitches-in-the-matrix.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}