When we asked for listener feedback on the creepy things their kids have said or done, we didn’t imagine we’d get the strong response we did. And when we checked the internet, we didn’t know just how common this phenomenon is. This week, we’re talking about the age at which children seem to be able to see ghosts, communicate with the dead, invent people in the room, remember details from their past lives, and a whole lot more.

We’ll dive into lots of listener submitted voicemails and emails about their own experiences, along with stories from across the world wide web. Join us for your weekly dose of weird, this week on The What If? Podcast.

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In 1998, Brian Bethel put forth unto the internet a story of the utmost strange. A visit to his vehicle in a parking lot late one night that included strange, awkward children that possessed all black eyes, demanding entrance to his car. This set off an internet firestorm of stories from all over the world, regarding encounters of similar sorts. Pale children, visiting people, and demanding entrance to their homes and cars, creating an impending sense of fear or doom, and disturbing the victims.

Who are they? What are they? Are they real? Are they human alien hybrids? Are they a made up manifestation of Brian’s mind? Find out on our first week back in 2019, on this episode of The What If? Podcast.

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We travel deep into Siberia this week, for our final installment in our three-part series on isolation. Under religious persecution, from the Communist Party in Russia, the Lykov family, from a sect of what was called the Old Believers, decided to renounce traditional society. They fled threats of death and destruction, deep, deep into the remote Siberian wilderness – the taiga – where they lived as a family of six, unseen or interrupted by the outside world, for 42 years.

In 1978 they were discovered by geologists, prospecting the Siberian wilderness, and were told of all the things they’d missed since they’d been gone. The Lykov family later came to be known as “the hermits who missed World War II” having been so removed from the world, they had no idea it had happened. Not the space race. Not television. Nothing.

Hot Topics: Eating Your Shoes, P*ssed Off Pizza From Wisconsin, No Thanks, Forcibly Shaved, and a whole lot more.

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Happy Halloween, you beautiful weirdos! It’s a spooky night for spooky frights, so we’re diving deep into more topics of the season. And that means ghost, poltergeists, levitations, hauntings, and enough tricks and treats to take you right through pumpkin carving, and straight into mulled wine and candy giving (and/or eating).

This week, we’re talking UK ghost stores specifically, going to England to talk about the Roman ghost squads walking through walls in the York Treasurer’s house, and levitating children, volleyed Legos and marbles, and a bunch more. We promise, Ryan only takes on a British accent once, and it’s mostly kind of Australian. So don’t be too scared.

Hot Topics: The G****** Seasons, S*** Went Bad Real Quick, Is It Trash: Halloween Candy Edition, Spooked As Heck, The Enfield Poltergeist, Historically Accurate Ghosts, and a whole lot more.

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