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Unexplained Encounters

DON'T Drive Through the California Desert After Dark

Unexplained Encounters

Eeriecast Network

Nature, Science, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.74.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

A group of teenagers enjoying a not-so-legal driving excursion in the California desert encounters something that should not exist - And should NOT be so hungry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Big Tasty is back at McDonald's, but now it's a double.

0:05.0

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0:09.3

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0:15.0

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0:22.0

We like to believe we live in a world where everything is normal.

0:26.5

Horror movies are just movies, urban legends are just legends.

0:31.7

But there seems to be something underground in the wilds of California

0:35.7

that might have you rethinking the way you see the world

0:39.0

altogether. This story titled The Things in the Ground from a user by the name of Rividing 33

0:46.8

shows us that true horror is real and it's simply waiting deep under your feet waiting for the right moment i've been listening to

1:00.8

your podcast for a few years now i started during the lockdowns when i was working from home and needed

1:06.9

something to fill the quiet i burned through your whole back catalog in maybe three months,

1:12.6

then started over from the beginning. I'm not sure what that says about me, but I heard your

1:17.9

Alaskan tree god episode last week. Good stuff, by the way, and I haven't been able to stop thinking

1:23.6

about it. Not that I thought it was a lie or crazy, but the opposite. I believed every word

1:30.0

of it, and that's what's been keeping me up. You see, I saw something too, back in 2012 when I was

1:37.8

17. Me and four friends out in the desert in Southern California, we were doing things we

1:44.0

weren't supposed to be doing in things we weren't supposed to be

1:44.8

doing in places we weren't supposed to be. And something came up out of the ground and tried to

1:51.0

kill us. Now, whatever it was, it definitely wasn't like the Alaskan tree god thing, but it was

1:57.6

the same level of wrongness, that feeling of looking at something that should not exist.

2:04.0

So I figured maybe it was time to write this down, because who knows, maybe someone else will find

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