With how short our podcast exclusive Christmas Special was, we thought it would be neat to look at some scary stories revolving around New Years Eve, to give the Strange Wilderness Podcast one last hurrah before going into 2022. After scouring the internet for exactly 17 minutes, 43 seconds, we found a few stories posted to Reddit that I thought fit the theme perfectly. Here is one of those stories. On New Years Eve in 2011, a group of friends experienced a bizarre series of events, involving texts from an unknown individual who seemed to know a little too much about their night to be considered coincidence. This is the story of The Phantom Texter.

Original Story: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1i0wzd/new_years_eve_2011_my_eerie_start_to_2012/