Overheard Online

What if you died in a car crash, then woke up earlier that same day with a chance to change what happened?
In Episode 20 of Overheard Online, Erin is joined by her longtime friend Diana to explore unsettling glitch in the matrix stories involving reality resets, near-death experiences, shared dreams, time slips, doppelgängers and encounters that do not fit neatly into one timeline.
The episode begins with the story of two friends who remember dying in a car crash before suddenly finding themselves back at the beginning of the night. From there, Erin and Diana examine whether the experience could be explained by quantum immortality, a premonition, an altered state or a glimpse into another version of reality.
They also discuss stories about a man receiving a second chance after death, a former neighbour repeatedly seeing someone who no longer lives nearby, a teenager apparently meeting his friend decades in the future, a real-life stick figure crossing the road, the same mysterious old man appearing everywhere and a childhood playground containing a place that seemingly should not have existed.
Along the way, the conversation explores lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, collective consciousness, intuition, eternalism, simulation theory and whether the body can recognize information before the conscious mind understands it.
In this episode:
Two friends die in a car crash, then experience the day again
Quantum immortality and reality-reset theories
Premonitions and stories that seemingly predict real events
Lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences and altered states
Collective consciousness and unexplained creative downloads
A man who believes he died and received a second chance
A neighbour who still sees someone walking with their deceased dog
A teenager who may have met his friend 24 years in the future
A real-life stick man sighting
Aliens, collective memory and former Canadian official Paul Hellyer
The same mysterious old man appearing everywhere
A secret childhood playground that disappeared

No forced conclusions. Just strange stories, open minds and conversations about the experiences that make reality feel a little less settled.
ABOUT OVERHEARD ONLINE
Overheard Online explores glitch in the matrix stories, paranormal experiences, time slips, dreams, near-death experiences, strange encounters and the unexplained. Hosted by Erin Michelle.
CONNECT WITH OVERHEARD ONLINE
Website: https://www.overheardonline.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overheardonlinepodcast/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@overheardonlinepodcast
Have a strange or unexplained experience of your own? Submit your story through the Overheard Online website.
CONTENT NOTE
This episode contains occasional strong language and discussion of death, car accidents and near-death experiences.

Something is wrong with the road tonight.
A woman drives somewhere on Christmas night and her Google Maps says she never left home. Another stops at a gas station in Ohio at 2am - the cashier already knows her cigarette brand - and that station still hasn't opened yet. Seven friends stop for gas on a birthday road trip. They drive away as six. Nobody can remember who was missing.
This week on Overheard Online, we're reading the stories people post at 2am when something happened to them that they still can't explain.
In this episode: a Christmas night highway glitch and a Google Maps history rewrite, a gas station from the future, a seventh friend erased from reality at a creepy roadside stop, a beach café that has never existed, a woman who watched herself die at a stoplight, ghost cars on the highway, a coworker seen in two places at once, a doppelganger that walked like a robot, a tiger that became a stuffed animal, and a cinema that forgot to load.
Plus - a deep dive into one r/Paranormal thread where thousands of people answered: "What's the creepiest glitch in the matrix that's ever happened to you?"
Overheard Online is the podcast for real Reddit stories about glitches in the matrix, near-death experiences, time slips, doppelgangers, and things that can't be explained. New episodes weekly.

Shadow people. Ghost visits. Liminal spaces. Reality glitches. If you love true “Glitch in the Matrix” + paranormal stories, this episode is stacked with experiences that feel impossible - yet the storytellers swear they happened.
We dive into the unsettling feeling that reality “reset” years ago, car-accident stories that changed everything, a ghost visit, a shadow person encounter at the cottage, and multiple listener stories that sound like timeline slips.
You’ll hear:
Reality-shift / “timeline glitch” moments
A ghost visit that doesn’t add up
Shadow person at the cottage
Listener stories with eerie “someone was here” energy
Strange auditory glitches that still don’t make sense

If you’re into the overlap between paranormal experiences, memory slips, and liminal-space vibes - this one’s for you.
Submit a story: www.overheardonline.com
Follow Overheard Online:
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
YouTube (Full Video Podcast)
YouTube (Shorts/Reels Only)
Pocket Casts
Amazon Music
Instagram
TikTok

Keywords: glitch in the matrix, paranormal stories, shadow people, ghost visit, liminal spaces, reality shift, listener stories

This is a solo, story-forward episode of Overheard Online.
In this installment, I take you through a long chain of firsthand accounts where reality seems to momentarily lose its footing - quietly, briefly, and without explanation. There’s no debate panel, no interviews, and no theories layered on top. Just the stories themselves, told as they were experienced and written.
Across these accounts, objects duplicate and vanish. Cars disappear mid-drive. Roads reset, exits repeat, and familiar routes lead somewhere else entirely. Time compresses, stretches, or drops out altogether. People freeze mid-movement. Faces and bodies appear pixelated or translucent. Sounds distort. Voices come through radios that shouldn’t be transmitting anything at all.
Some moments are witnessed by multiple people. Others are noticed by only one person in the room - sometimes becoming stranger when no one else seems to see what they saw.
The episode also moves through near-death experiences, altered states, and moments where consciousness appears to separate, expand, or observe from outside the body, raising the same recurring question: are these glitches external, internal, or something happening in the overlap between the two?
As always, these stories aren’t presented as proof or explanation. They’re shared exactly as they were lived - and exactly as they continue to linger with the people who experienced them.
🌀 Have a glitch, NDE, or unexplained story of your own? Submit it anonymously at overheardonline.com and it might be featured in a future episode.
⬇️ Subscribe & follow:
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
YouTube (Full Video Podcast)
YouTube (Shorts/Reels Only)
Pocket Casts
Amazon Music
Instagram
TikTok

What happens when you mix alcohol, the holidays, and reality glitches?
In this drinking game episode, Erin is joined by her friend Ariana as they read and react to some of the strangest Glitch in the Matrix stories ever shared - from Christmas decorations that defy physics, to phone calls that seem to come from another timeline, to moments of intuition that arrive a little too perfectly.
As the drinks flow, so do the theories. Are these harmless coincidences? Timeline overlaps? Consciousness misfires? Or brief moments where reality glitches and something else slips through?
Featuring:
A Christmas ribbon that appears to pass through solid plastic
A doppelgänger phone call overheard in real time
A neighborhood that doesn’t look the same twice
A late-night instinct that exposed a betrayal

This episode is equal parts fun, unsettling, and “wait… what?” - so grab a drink, play along at home, and decide for yourself whether these stories are just strange coincidences… or evidence that reality isn’t as stable as we think.
🍷 Yes, alcohol was involved.
🚫 No, that does not explain everything.
🥂 OFFICIAL DRINKING GAME RULES
If something used to be one thing and turns into something else → BOTH drink
An object appearing or returning itself to you → BOTH drink
Item duplicates → BOTH drink
A Christmas miracle → BOTH drink
There’s a witness to the glitch → BOTH take a mini shot
Vanishing person → BOTH finish your drink

👁️‍🗨️ Have a glitch, NDE, or unexplained story of your own?
Submit it anonymously at overheardonline.com and it might be featured in a future episode.What happens when you mix alcohol, the holidays, and reality glitches?
⬇️ Subscribe & follow:
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
YouTube (Full Video Podcast)
YouTube (Shorts/Reels Only)
Pocket Casts
Amazon Music
Instagram
TikTok