True stories, posted by the people who lived them — read word-for-word, exactly as they were written. This time the stories are darker: somebody could have died in every single one.A couple on a farm in Appalachia realize the stranger in line behind them is hunting them. A grandfather doesn't know he's dead. A friend who died in 2003 is alive again. A smiling man follows a stranger through the night. And at the Green Park Inn, the piano in the reception room plays itself at 3 AM.Stories in this episode:1. "My Husband and I Think We Dodged a Serial Killer" — u/WhoUsesLemonPepper (r/creepyencounters)2. "My Grandpa Didn't Know He Was Dead" — u/KaffeDreamer (r/Paranormal)3. "My Friend Died in 2003. Now He's Alive" — u/Driins (r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix)4. "The Smiling Man" — u/Blue_tidal (r/LetsNotMeet)5. "The 3 AM Piano" — u/babywitch828 (r/AskReddit)Reddit Stories is part of Shadow Archive. New episodes every Wednesday.

True stories, posted by the people who lived them — read word-for-word, exactly as they were written.A man dies helping his neighbor move furniture… then wakes up at his dining room table before it happened. A stranger drives a couple to the hospital and vanishes from their story. Ten minutes disappear inside a tunnel. And a coal miner comes home for one last hug.Stories in this episode:1. "I Died Last Night... But I'm Still Here" — u/liquidgold83 (r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix)2. "The Stranger Who Drove Them to the Hospital" — u/jen452 (r/AskReddit)3. "The Ten Minutes That Vanished" — u/trammeloratreasure (r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix)4. "The Coal Miner's Last Hug" — anonymous (r/AskReddit)Reddit Stories is part of Shadow Archive. New episodes every Wednesday.

The anchor case of our first episode, taken alone and at full length. Anneliese Michel (1952–1976), of Klingenberg am Main, Bavaria — one case, one girl, start to finish: who she was when she was healthy, what happened to her, and the recordings, played in the order the case made them.

Sixty-seven sessions. Forty-plus hours of tape. Her own words — including her complete handwritten crisis note of July 1st, 1975, read aloud in full for the first time — a priest's session protocols, her diary, and the photographs a courtroom would later have to look at. The evidence in this case survived. And the evidence is worse than the legend.

If the tapes had never been made — if all of this had survived only as a priest's diary, the way it does in 1949 — would you believe a word of it? And if your answer is no, then tell me: what exactly did the sound of her voice change?

Music: "Hollow Ground" by SHAWMAN

Five possession cases — and the evidence each one left behind.

Anneliese Michel: a courtroom in Germany listened to a girl's tapes. Ronald Hunkeler, the "Roland Doe" case: a priest's diary in St. Louis that waited thirty years to become the most famous horror story on Earth. The Ammons case: a caseworker in Indiana signed her name under a boy walking up a wall. David Glatzel and Arne Johnson: a family's tapes that slept in a Connecticut drawer for four decades. Michael Taylor: a private rite in England, and a list of three names — insanity, murder, and violence.

Only two of these five can actually be heard. Everything else is paper — a diary, a signed report, a list.

After everything you've heard — the tapes, the diary, the signed reports — which case do you believe actually happened the way they said it did… and which one keeps you up at night?

Music: CO.AG — Podcast Music