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The Backrooms | The Internet Post That Redefined Horror

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Red Web

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Looking at the origin and history of the Backrooms, one of the most captivating and creepy corners of the Internet, filled with liminal spaces and extensive lore.Support us directly: https://www.redwebpod.comHave you ever seen a photo of a deserted room and felt something was wrong about it? Well you wouldn’t be alone. In 2019, this very idea gave way to an Internet nightmare featuring an endless, looping maze of yellow wallpaper, moist carpet, and the deafening hum of fluorescent lights. It’s a world where one wrong step can cause you to "no-clip" out of the physical world and into a labyrinth featuring millions of square miles of empty rooms and endless hallways. Today, we’re investigating the internet phenomenon known as The Backrooms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Have you ever seen a photo of a deserted room and felt something was wrong about it?

0:06.0

Well, you wouldn't be alone. In 2019, this very idea gave way to an internet nightmare

0:12.0

featuring an endless looping maze of yellow wallpaper, moist carpet, and the deafening hum of fluorescent lights.

0:19.0

It's a world where one wrong step can cause you to no clip out of the physical world and

0:24.5

into a labyrinth featuring millions of square miles of empty rooms and endless hallways.

0:30.8

Today we're investigating the internet phenomenon known as the back rooms.

0:36.3

This is Red Web.

0:45.0

Welcome back, Task Force, to another episode of Red Web, the podcast, all about Unsolved

0:49.4

mysteries, true crime, and the unknown.

0:52.3

I'm your resident mystery enthusiast, Trevor Collins, and joining me, probably not hearing

0:56.3

this one for the very first time, Alfredo Diaz.

1:00.1

Oh, this is a big one.

1:03.2

Yes, sir.

1:04.2

I've only started knowing about the back rooms within the past couple of years, the

1:10.0

combination of this podcast, and we've talked about things and, you know,

1:15.9

CEPs, stuff like that.

1:17.4

So naturally talk about backrooms and everything.

1:19.6

And then also to pile on top of that, the games,

1:23.3

there were some backroom games that came out that were really popular and they keep

1:26.2

flushing those out.

1:27.1

And now we have a movie that's coming out as well. That looks to be pretty good. Yeah. That movie's actually coming out this Friday as of this episode coming out. It's like the perfect time to break down what the backrooms are because like we all from the internet, you know, you're right. We talk about internet mysteries, creepy pastas, we explore

1:45.0

spooky stories from the internet, all that sort of stuff. So yeah, it's a great time to break

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