Hey listeners, quick note before we get started.

The episode you're about to hear was actually slated to run as part of our regular spring season

before so much happened in this country.

Anyway, we'd already decided to hold the episode until we got some answers to the central mystery

in the story, which we did this week. So here it is. From NPR, this is Invisibilia, I'm Hanarosen,

and I'm Melissa Spiegel, and Hanarosen, you have a story. I do. So last summer, I found out about

this guy named Matthew Earl, who lives outside London, and he was going through something creepy,

like super creepy, like black mirror creepy. Okay. So he's a guy who works at home.

Like I used to work at home. He has his favorite chair. He just finished dropping off his kids at school.

First things first, have a cup of tea, because the school run can be a little bit stressful sometimes

if they're non-stop talking. Matthew's like reading the financial markets because that's his job.

And then he gets a message from a guy he's working on a project with who tells Matthew to check out

this document people are tweeting about. And Matthew clicks on the link, and he sees this nine

page document full of information about himself. I read it, and just thought, oh, God, this is

what will people think, basically. All right, so Elise, I printed out the document, the exact one

that he was looking at. I want you to look at the picture in the middle and describe it.

Okay. It's a photo of a dude. He looks like he just opened his door and is in the middle of

some kind of conversation with whoever it is who is standing there. Yeah, so he's just like

talking to a guy at the door, right? Okay, that's him. Someone has literally taken a photo of me opening

my front door. The thing is, he has no idea who took this picture. He doesn't have any memory.

This was not a selfie, it's not like this friend came to the door and snapped a shot of him.

Someone has come to the door. I don't recall who, but at that point that I've opened the front door,

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