105: Backrooms Horror

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 2019, a photo of a liminal office space spawned a whole genre of horror called The Backrooms. But what are they, and what entities lurk inside? And are they a real place where some people actually get trapped? Check out Kane Pixels on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kanepixels Check out the Backrooms Wiki: https://backrooms-wiki.wikidot.com/ Subscribe on Patreon for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society. Patrons have access to bonus content as well as other perks. And members of our High Council on Patreon have access to our after-show called Footnotes, where I share my case file with our producer, Matt. Apple subscriptions are now live! Get access to bonus episodes and more when you subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow on Tik Tok and Instagram for a daily dose of horror. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.3	Imagine yourself in a room. It looks like you're deep in an office building. No windows, no
1:07.9	light from the outside world. The walls have a light yellow tinge to them,
1:12.4	but it's hard to tell if that's the color of the wallpaper
1:16.0	or just from the high-powered fluorescent lights buzzing above you.
1:20.1	It looks like a place where once a dozen people sent faxes
1:24.5	and stapled papers together,
1:26.4	but today it's completely empty.
1:29.3	You walk through the space over the white berber carpet
1:32.3	into another identical room.
1:35.3	You want to get out of this place and see daylight again.
1:38.3	But the further you walk, the more identical rooms you see.
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