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This Paranormal Life

What are The Backrooms?

This Paranormal Life

This Paranormal Life

Improv, True Crime, Comedy

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate the release of A24’s new Backrooms movie, we wanted to release a new video supercut of our own Backroom’s episode #307, filled with everything you need to know about the lore of the creepypasta - from why it was created, to how you can end up there. Imagine being trapped inside of a strange space with yellow walls, damp carpet, and buzzing fluorescent lights - It looks like our world, but you can feel something's wrong - It’s an endless maze of liminal spaces, unsettling symbols and maybe worst of all… you’re not alone in there. Become a commune member to get access to bonus episodes: https://thisparanormallife.com Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our Secret Society Facebook Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Official TPL Merch!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Edited by Philip Shacklady Research by Amy Grisdale Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Imagine you're walking through everyday life, when all of a sudden you blink and you're inside of a room.

0:06.0

A simple room, with yellow walls, damp carpet, and buzzing fluorescent lights.

0:11.0

It looks like our world, but you can feel that something's wrong.

0:16.0

Beyond this room is another room. And another room.

0:19.0

It's an endless maze of liminal spaces, unsettling symbols, and maybe worst of all, you're

0:25.6

not alone in there.

0:27.6

This is the space known as the backrooms.

0:30.6

The backrooms began as a simple horror image posted on an internet forum discussing photos

0:36.6

of unsettling liminal spaces.

0:39.3

But over the years, it's captured the imagination of thousands.

0:43.3

Internet users have expanded on the lore of the back rooms, introducing the different levels,

0:48.3

the story behind its origin, and maybe most terrifying of all all the entities that inhabit the space.

0:56.0

One of those internet creators was named Kane Parsons, and on his YouTube channel, he did The Impossible.

1:02.0

He started making films inside the backrooms, the place that shouldn't really exist.

1:08.0

Now we have covered the backrooms on the podcast before on episode 307, but for those of you

1:14.1

who are going to see the new A24 movie this week, we wanted to release a super cut of that

1:19.6

episode filled with everything you need to know, from how it was created to why its existence

1:25.0

is so terrifying.

1:26.6

You might even find out how to survive the back rooms

1:29.3

if by chance you end up there yourself.

1:32.3

So enjoy!

1:34.3

If you're not careful and you no clip out of reality in the wrong areas,

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