EPISODE 35: The Creepiest Craigslist & Facebook Marketplace Encounters

EPISODE 35: The Creepiest Craigslist & Facebook Marketplace Encounters

Late-night Marketplace scrolling was a mistake. This week on Ghost Stories & Gummies, I’m diving into some of the creepiest, weirdest, and most uncomfortable real encounters tied to Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. From terrifying meetups and bizarre sellers to “absolutely the fuck not” situations that sound like the beginning of a horror movie… So grab your gummies, lock your doors, and maybe stop responding to listings that say “pickup behind abandoned warehouse.” 🖤 Submit Your Stories to Dear Darkness Have a paranormal experience, glitch story, creepy encounter, stalker situation, mimic story, haunted object experience, or complete WTF moment? Send it to Dear Darkness: * Email ghoststoriesandgummies@gmail.com * DM me on Instagram/TikTok * or submit anonymously through the form in my bio/link hub Your story could be featured in a future episode. 🎧 Listen to Ghost Stories & Gummies Available on: * Spotify * Apple Podcasts * Amazon Music * Podbean

Episode 34: The Doomsday Cat Cult

This week on Ghost Stories and Gummies, we’re getting into one of the wildest cult stories I’ve covered yet: the so‑called Doomsday Cat Cult. We’ll talk about pastor Sheryl Ruthven, her cat rescue Eva’s Eden, and how, according to former members and reporting, a small Washington church turned into a high‑control doomsday group where cats were believed to be divine beings carrying 144,000 souls through the apocalypse.  From blood‑tinged rituals and “Divine Magdalene” claims to a cross‑country “Exodus,” family estrangements, and the Investigation Discovery episode that blew the story up, this one is part true crime, part “what the hell did I just hear.”  Content warning: cult dynamics, spiritual and psychological abuse, possible animal neglect, and mentions of violence https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverstory/apocalypse-meow-how-a-cult-that-believes-cats-are-divine-beings-ended-up-in-tennessee/article_78fc2367-5596-5a7a-ad8e-edae8c83a594.html [https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverstory/apocalypse-meow-how-a-cult-that-believes-cats-are-divine-beings-ended-up-in-tennessee/article_78fc2367-5596-5a7a-ad8e-edae8c83a594.html]    https://www.cultnews101.com/2016/09/apocalypse-meow-how-cult-that-believes.html [https://www.cultnews101.com/2016/09/apocalypse-meow-how-cult-that-believes.html]    https://www.realclearreligion.org/2016/09/09/apocalypse_meow_a_cat_cult_in_tennessee_273944.html [https://www.realclearreligion.org/2016/09/09/apocalypse_meow_a_cat_cult_in_tennessee_273944.html]    https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2016/9/8/why-bob-smietanas-apocalypse-meow-story-on-an-end-times-cat-cult-really-is-the-cats-meow [https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2016/9/8/why-bob-smietanas-apocalypse-meow-story-on-an-end-times-cat-cult-really-is-the-cats-meow]    https://catsofcapetown.com/2025/03/04/the-curious-case-of-the-doomsday-cat-cult-a-shocking-saga-of-family-faith-and-felines/ [https://catsofcapetown.com/2025/03/04/the-curious-case-of-the-doomsday-cat-cult-a-shocking-saga-of-family-faith-and-felines/]    https://whatcom-news.com/evas-eden-cat-rescue-makes-news-in-tennessee_50126/ [https://whatcom-news.com/evas-eden-cat-rescue-makes-news-in-tennessee_50126/]    https://www.facebook.com/IsThereACultInColumbiaTN/ [https://www.facebook.com/IsThereACultInColumbiaTN/]    https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/shows/who-sheryl-ruthven-do-details-the-curious-case-of-subject-explored [https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/shows/who-sheryl-ruthven-do-details-the-curious-case-of-subject-explored]

Episode 33: Why Do Some Places Feel So Off… For No Reason

Some hauntings don’t react to you. They don’t acknowledge you, they don’t change, and they don’t seem aware that you’re even there. They just… keep happening. Same place. Same movement. Same sequence over and over again. In this episode, we’re breaking down the Stone Tape Theory the idea that environments themselves can somehow “record” emotional or traumatic events and replay them later as what people describe as residual hauntings. We get into where this theory comes from, why materials like quartz are always brought into the conversation, and the scientific reasons it doesn’t actually hold up. But even with that, people are still reporting the same kinds of experiences in the same types of places. So if it’s not a ghost… what are people actually experiencing? Because some places don’t feel neutral and that’s the part that sticks. Have you experienced something like this?  Send it in:  ghoststoriesandgummies@gmail.com

Episode 32 Dear Darkness Society: I Shouldn’t Have Gone Back on Reddit

We’re back with Dear Darkness Society Part 2. After going down a Reddit rabbit hole during Episode 30, I found way more stories than I was expecting… and there was no way I was leaving some of these out. So this episode is a continuation, more real experiences, more “that’s not right” moments, and more stories from people who were kind enough to share what they’ve gone through and let me bring it here. Some of these are unsettling. Some are just straight-up weird. And some will have you sitting there like… that's a no for me dawg. A huge thank you to everyone who shared their stories and trusted me with them, I really do appreciate it. If you’ve ever experienced something you can’t explain, something that didn’t sit right, or something you still think about… you’re not alone. The diary is always open. 🖤

Episode 31: Creepy Broadcasts Interruptions

There’s a specific kind of unsettling that happens when your TV does something it’s not supposed to do. Not buffering. Not lagging. Just… wrong. In this episode, I'm getting into real cases where broadcasts were interrupted, hijacked, or taken over sometimes for seconds, sometimes longer and left people genuinely confused about what they were seeing. From the 1987 Max Headroom incident, to the Southern Television interruption in the UK, to real emergency alert hacks that exposed how vulnerable these systems actually are… this one gets weird fast. We’re talking: * how broadcast signal intrusions actually happen * why these systems aren’t as untouchable as we think * real cases that were never fully explained * and why your brain reacts so quickly when something feels “off” Some of these are strange. Some are unsettling. Some are just… no. I don’t like that. Because it’s not just what people saw it’s the fact that something was able to interrupt a system that’s supposed to be controlled… and no one could stop it.   https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting [https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/patternicity-finding-meaningful-patterns/ [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/patternicity-finding-meaningful-patterns/] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_signal_intrusion [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_signal_intrusion] https://rewindtv.com/2021/11/22/wgn-max-headroom-signal-intrusion/ [https://rewindtv.com/2021/11/22/wgn-max-headroom-signal-intrusion/]  https://www.pbs.org/video/max-headroom-attack-yffnrt/ [https://www.pbs.org/video/max-headroom-attack-yffnrt/]  https://www.pbs.org/video/30-years-later-max-headroom-incident-remains-mystery-ugz9gm/ [https://www.pbs.org/video/30-years-later-max-headroom-incident-remains-mystery-ugz9gm/]  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIop2MsmMTQ&t=7s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIop2MsmMTQ&t=7s]  https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/vrillon-the-broadcast-that-hijacked-britains-imagination/ [https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/vrillon-the-broadcast-that-hijacked-britains-imagination/]  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmXsvyOpPJk [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmXsvyOpPJk]  https://transdiffusion.org/2023/08/21/southern-interference/ [https://transdiffusion.org/2023/08/21/southern-interference/] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Television_broadcast_interruption [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Television_broadcast_interruption]  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/vrillon-hacking-alien-voice-seventies-extra-terrestrial-hoax-unexplained-mysteries-a8069926.html [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/vrillon-hacking-alien-voice-seventies-extra-terrestrial-hoax-unexplained-mysteries-a8069926.html]  https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/katv-broadcast-interruption-of-1959 [https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/katv-broadcast-interruption-of-1959]  https://www.tarrdaniel.com/documents/Ufology/intergalactic_message.html [https://www.tarrdaniel.com/documents/Ufology/intergalactic_message.html]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_broadcast_signal_intrusion [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_broadcast_signal_intrusion]  https://www.mentalfloss.com/entertainment/tv/when-captain-midnight-hacked-hbo [https://www.mentalfloss.com/entertainment/tv/when-captain-midnight-hacked-hbo]  https://freakylogo.fandom.com/wiki/HBO_Captain_Midnight [https://freakylogo.fandom.com/wiki/HBO_Captain_Midnight]  https://ultimateclassicrock.com/captain-midnight-hbo/ [https://ultimateclassicrock.com/captain-midnight-hbo/]  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtdwD0qqApQ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtdwD0qqApQ]  https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/29/arts/hbo-piracy-incident-stuns-other-satellite-users.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/29/arts/hbo-piracy-incident-stuns-other-satellite-users.html]  https://www.networkworld.com/article/950900/man-who-hijacked-hbo-s-satellite-signal-30-years-ago-would-face-far-different-fate-today.html [https://www.networkworld.com/article/950900/man-who-hijacked-hbo-s-satellite-signal-30-years-ago-would-face-far-different-fate-today.html]  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEkWNCK6Hu4 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEkWNCK6Hu4]  https://www.keranews.org/2013-02-12/zombie-alert-also-aired-in-michigan-hacking-traced-to-overseas-source [https://www.keranews.org/2013-02-12/zombie-alert-also-aired-in-michigan-hacking-traced-to-overseas-source]  https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/feb/12/zombie-apocalypse-newsflash-tv-video [https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/feb/12/zombie-apocalypse-newsflash-tv-video]  https://www.govtech.com/security/hackers-broadcast-zombie-emergency-alert-on-tv.html [https://www.govtech.com/security/hackers-broadcast-zombie-emergency-alert-on-tv.html]  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-15/zombie-apocalypse-hoax-exposes-flaws-in-system/4520554 [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-15/zombie-apocalypse-hoax-exposes-flaws-in-system/4520554]  https://current.org/2013/02/zombie-emergency-broadcast-hoax-on-pubtv-station-blamed-on-overseas-hacker [https://current.org/2013/02/zombie-emergency-broadcast-hoax-on-pubtv-station-blamed-on-overseas-hacker]  https://www.ksl.com/article/24061333/hackers-send-zombie-emergency-alert-through-ksl-station-others [https://www.ksl.com/article/24061333/hackers-send-zombie-emergency-alert-through-ksl-station-others]  https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-ghostwatch-behind-the-curtains-2012-online [https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-ghostwatch-behind-the-curtains-2012-online]  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41740176 [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41740176] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/26/how-we-made-bbc-mockumentary-ghostwatch [https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/26/how-we-made-bbc-mockumentary-ghostwatch]  https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/why-i-love-ghostwatch [https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/why-i-love-ghostwatch]  https://www.curiousarchive.com/ghostwatch-bbc-controversial-broadcast/ [https://www.curiousarchive.com/ghostwatch-bbc-controversial-broadcast/]  https://bfidatadigipres.github.io/in%20dreams%20are%20monsters/2022/10/28/ghostwatch/ [https://bfidatadigipres.github.io/in%20dreams%20are%20monsters/2022/10/28/ghostwatch/] https://npg.si.edu/blog/orson-welles-and-70th-anniversary-war-worlds [https://npg.si.edu/blog/orson-welles-and-70th-anniversary-war-worlds]  https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/welles-broadcasts-war-worlds [https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/welles-broadcasts-war-worlds]  https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2016/10/lcm-page-from-the-past-war-of-the-worlds/ [https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2016/10/lcm-page-from-the-past-war-of-the-worlds/]  https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-30/welles-scares-nation [https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-30/welles-scares-nation]  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/ [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/]  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/misguided/202506/why-people-believe-conspiracy-theories [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/misguided/202506/why-people-believe-conspiracy-theories]  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-savvy-psychologist/202007/why-we-believe-in-conspiracy-theories [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-savvy-psychologist/202007/why-we-believe-in-conspiracy-theories]  https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/how-to-apply [https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/how-to-apply]  https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF13130 [https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF13130]  https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachand ments/DA-99-1099A2.pdf [https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-99-1099A2.pdf]  https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/public_and_broadcasting_0.pdf [https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/public_and_broadcasting_0.pdf]