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Guide to the Unknown

GTTU 91: Dear David

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 91 of Guide to the Unknown: We’re diving into viral horror stories from the internet! 1:15 - First up, Will shares a brief breakdown of I’m Sorry, Jon…Garfield meets HP Lovecraft? What the hell? Why is this awesome? 9:16 - Then Kristen absolutely destroys the long, odd, complicated history of Dear David. Back in 2017, Adam Ellis documented a haunting he experienced. His followers tried to help him figure out what was happening. Krissy and Willy watched from afar, fascinated. Check out the Bustle article Kristen references! 52:10 - WHOA! When something startling and unexplainable happens, we worry that we might have provoked David in this podcast…Shareable clip HERE! Come back next week for more. In the meantime read up on @Gr3gory88 SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Find links to every podcast app/twitter account, and every episode at TalkBomb.com/GTTUPod And consider helping us fund the show on Patreon!

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to Guide to the Unknown. I'm Kristen. I'm William. And this week I'm

0:10.7

going to tell you guys about the viral internet sensation,

0:14.8

dear David, is a ghost story that was told over Twitter

0:19.0

over the course of months and it rules.

0:21.9

Yeah, we're digging into some of the sort of viral horror phenomenon that's happened on social

0:27.2

media over the last few years.

0:28.7

It's basically a new kind of storytelling that couldn't really exist before now.

0:32.1

People tweeting, you know, hey, I'm having this experience. telling that couldn't really exist before now.

0:32.6

People tweeting, you know, hey, I'm having this experience, people are able to tweet back

0:36.9

at the person creating the story, and sort of together they build out where it goes from there.

0:41.8

Yeah, dig into it and find clues, like the people who are creating the story bury clues

0:46.5

knowing that people on Twitter are probably going to find them.

0:49.4

It's so sweet.

0:51.1

It's super fun. It doesn't always hold up under scrutiny. No, but what you know what always does exactly. Yeah that's my thing and part of the fun of this is of the ability to lose yourself get invested be a participant in the story have fun with it

1:06.1

but before we dig into dear David I want to talk about another sort of a viral odd

1:11.3

phenomenon happening online right now I don't know if you've seen any of this.

1:15.6

There is an explosion in popularity around turning Garfield No,

1:24.0

into an Eldrich horror monster.

1:27.0

No, I haven't seen this.

1:29.0

You haven't seen it?

1:30.0

Oh my God, all right.

1:31.0

Put simply, if you went to Reddit and you looked up, I'm sorry, John,

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