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Endless Thread

We Want Plates!

Endless Thread

WBUR

Technology, Reddit

4.12.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A Redditor stumbles upon a huge pile of plates in the backwoods of Pennsylvania. Reddit sleuths across the globe try to figure out where the plates are located and how they got there. Endless Thread embarks on an epic journey to Pennsylvania to get to the bottom of this mystery, once and for all.

See the plates here: http://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2019/06/28/we-want-plates

Transcript

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0:00.0

Produced by the island at WBUR Boston.

0:11.0

Okay, so I'm walking past the gate. It was across the road to try and see what I can see of this.

0:27.0

Oh my God, that just scared the crap out of me. I came across a white tail deer that just ran, went tearing across the road and front of me.

0:39.0

I'm just trying to stay alert because it is a little creepy what's happening here.

0:46.0

So Ben has gone down the road past a metal gate. It's definitely clearly like a do not go back here.

1:01.0

And I'm just nervous about this whole thing.

1:09.0

Okay, so what's up ahead is it technically a trailer.

1:17.0

Like a trailer that someone would live in. It's just out in the middle of the woods here.

1:24.0

Which also makes me a bit nervous because someone's living here and I'm coming this way. That's super scary.

1:35.0

I thought he was just going to go down there, see what he could see, turn around.

1:47.0

It's weird, there's like a bunch of pathways. I'm carved into the woods here which is kind of bizarre.

1:54.0

Old tracks, old rats.

1:58.0

Okay, this is so creepy.

2:01.0

Six hundred feet, your destination will be on the right.

2:07.0

Ooh, this is a long way to go with that jussian amory.

2:10.0

We're trying to find Ben. He left the car and went to cross this fence to see if he could find the plates.

2:28.0

Oh, wow.

2:34.0

Your destination is so light.

2:41.0

Record scratch, freeze frame.

2:51.0

Yep, that's us. The endless thread team split up in the middle of the woods.

2:57.0

You're probably wondering how we ended up in this situation.

3:01.0

It all started some weeks back. When Amory and I were looking at a very strange post I had found on Reddit.

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