What's the furthest you've traveled down a rabbit hole on the internet?

One thing catches your eye and begs a question, which begs another and another until you're

looking something awful in the face.

Something that threatens to either have dire consequences or to be a hoax altogether.

How did we get so deep into the mouth of madness from the safety and comfort of our own keyboards?

Welcome to Strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.

I'm a writer and an actor who has made my feelings about Reddit very plain.

From the very little time I have spent there, I have determined it is the internet equivalent

of the back of a bar that smells like stale beer and old chicken wings, where white dudes

and baseball hats do fantasy football and talk about girls.

And if you happen to wander back there looking for the bathroom or whatever, they'll all

turn and look at you.

And you'll at once feel pity for them, fear for your own safety, and either relief at

knowing you don't date men or never have to date another man again, or deep disappointment

that this is probably the pool of eligible men in your neighborhood.

Anyway, if you ask Reddit and its users, not all white dudes, actually, known as Redditers,

cute, they'll tell you Reddit is the front page of the internet.

Sure.

The reason I'm talking about Reddit after two years of racking on it while also dipping

my toe into the many accounts of Strange Phenomenal left there is because today's episode takes

place almost entirely on Reddit.

A story that let a small group of web sleuths to conclude that what started on Reddit

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