Episode 42: The Backrooms [ENCORE]

Unspookable

Nate DuFort

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Have you ever heard of The Backrooms? Maybe you've come across this strange never-ending series of liminal spaces on TikTok or on YouTube or maybe some games that you've played. The Backrooms are one of our most frequently requested topics and we were curious to explore why their flickering fluorescent lights, yellow walls, and endless mazes have captured your imaginations. That and more on this episode of Unspookable. Host: Elise Parisian Written by: Ellenor Riley-Condit Created, Produced, Edited by: Nate DuFort Music Direction and Composition: Jesse Case: https://www.jessecasemusic.com/ Logo by: Natalie Khuen Special thanks this week to: Blythe and Bella You can find Unspookable on Twitter and Instagram at: https://twitter.com/ImUnspookable https://www.instagram.com/unspookablepodcast This week's episode is brought to you by Shopify: Go to https://www.shopify.com/lifestyle to take your retail business to the next level today. Unspookable is a production of Soundsington Media committed to making quality programing for young audiences and the young at heart. To find out more go to http://www.soundsingtonmedia.com Advertise on Unspookable: [email protected]

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0:46.0	Step, step, step. Step.
0:47.0	Squish. Squish.
0:50.0	Buzz, flicker, blink.
0:54.2	You are walking in the corridor of an office building.
0:58.1	You can see low ceilings, fluorescent lights, and the most grating yellow wallpaper.
1:05.0	Somehow both too dull and too busy at the same time.
1:11.0	The carpet mashes beneath your sneakers, damp and mildewy. The hallway stretches before you,
1:19.2	shrinking to a point in the distance. It could end there or it could be endless. Step, step, step.
1:30.8	You pass through rooms and rooms of cubicles, every offshoot leading to another hallway,
1:38.1	leading to another room again and again.
1:42.4	Step, step, step. You are walking faster now. Minutes go by and then hours, or at least you think
1:50.8	it's been hours.
1:52.5	Your phone stopped working.
1:54.9	All of this looks the same.
1:57.5	But you have to be getting somewhere, right?
2:01.0	Your heart rate quickens as the thought occurs to you. What if this is all the same?
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