Encore: Something Wicked

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

"Our landlord isn't letting me talk to you, but it's important we do." This text was written on one of several creepy post-it notes that mysteriously appeared in Redditor u/RBradbury1920's apartment. Who wrote them? Why? And how were they getting there? We get to the bottom of this famous Reddit mystery...

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0:00.0	Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	Happy New Year, trusty endless thread listeners.
0:13.0	Hope you've all done some nice wholesome celebrating and now you're moving from 2018 hangovers
0:19.0	to bright 2019 outlooks.
0:21.8	Emory and I are getting our 2019 ducks in a row.
0:24.5	So today we are going to share with you one of our favorite episodes from last year.
0:29.6	It's about one of the most famous Reddit mysteries of all time and it involves creepy
0:34.1	post-it notes and if you landlord and a random redditor who saved the day.
0:40.1	Take a listen.
0:41.1	We'll be back with you next week.
0:44.0	We are in our studio and we don't know who's calling who.
0:47.4	Okay, well, are we rolling?
0:50.5	Turns out Ken Roach is calling us.
0:52.6	Ken Roach is from Seattle, he's an engineer and Ken lives on a houseboat.
0:57.0	Or really, it's called a live aboard.
0:59.5	This is an important fact to know in our story today.
1:02.9	It is also the reason that Ken gets to tell stories about his life that are related to
1:06.9	the movie that haunts pretty much anyone who grew up near Seattle.
1:11.6	Sleepless in Seattle.
1:13.1	There was a Korean tourist guide that purported to show people coming from Korea where the
1:19.3	sleepiest in Seattle houseboat was, but they gave my address and stat.
1:24.1	So I horribly disappointed dozens of Korean tourists.
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