What if your child brought something home from school… and it wasn’t a cold, wasn’t a detention slip… but a pocket-sized portal to the underworld? Bright colours. Catchy theme song. Creatures evolving before your very eyes. The playground is chanting. The Game Boy is glowing. The cards are being traded like contraband. What do you do? If you answered “check for pentagrams in the instruction manual”, then you might just be onto something...

Join Linz and Chris  as they travel back to 1999, when Pokémon ruled the schoolyard, and somewhere — somehow — certain very concerned adults decided Pikachu was in league with Beelzebub.

On Pokémon’s 30th anniversary today, we dig into the moral panic that accused adorable pocket monsters of corrupting children through evolution, occult symbolism, Japanese culture, and the unspeakable horror of trading cards.

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We're sorry Italy :)

It's a cold night in the 1970s. Nightwatchman, Pier Zanfetta, is doing his rounds when he runs into...well we're not quite sure!

Join Linz and Chris as they peak behind the pasta plates and uncover the mystery of the Zanfretta enounters! The most well-known UFO case in Italian History!

 #PierZanfretta #ZanfrettaUFOCase #AlienAbduction #UFOEncounter #ItalianUFOSightings #1980sUFO #CloseEncounter #ExtraterrestrialContact #HypnosisTestimony #UnexplainedPhenomena #UFOHistory #AlienEncounterItaly #UFOs #AlienSightings 

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Why do we dream? Don't ask us, we have no idea lol.

In this bonus episode, Linz and Michael 8 of Septembryo explore the mysterious world of dreams and answer the question on everyone's lips: Can REM sleep be a way to share secret images with others? 

Inspired by Dr. Montague Ullman’s pioneering dream experiments, they try out some dream experiments of their own.

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It's a Christmas tradition, welcome Septembryo to host the most derranged quiz of the year? Who will take the paper crown? Linz of Chris? Place your bets now! 

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What if you were from nowhere? You turn up at immigration and your passport isn't issued by any known country. You don't have an embassy or anyone who speaks your native tongue nearby. What do you do. If you answered "dematerialise" you win a washing machine.

Join Linz and Chris(!!) as they investigate this tall tale of a man from another place and question their own sanity in the process. 

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🎃 We asked for your creepiest encounters… and you delivered.
Tune in as we read your spine-tingling Halloween submissions — ghosts, aliens, and rogue wrestlers that go bump in the night! 👻

🕯️ Real paranormal stories, true listener encounters, and eerie tales you won’t forget! Join Linz and Chris around the campfire as we share listener submitted stories of the paranormal! 

#DystopianSimulationRadio #HalloweenPodcast #ParanormalStories #ListenerSubmitted #TrueGhostStories #CreepyEncounters #SupernaturalPodcast #HauntedTales #RealParanormal #GlitchInTheMatrix #TrueHorrorStories #ScaryPodcast #HalloweenSpecial #CreepyPodcast #GhostStoriesPodcast #SpookySeason

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Autun, France, Barthélemy de Chasseneuz takes the stand to defend his victims: A bunch of rats. Not like snitches, like actual rats lol. This may sound crazy, but it wasn't the only time animals were put on trial back in the old-timey days. 

Join Linz, and Aaron-The host of Generation Why, Framed and Marooned in this very interesting cross-over episode! 

While Chris is away- the rats will play!

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It's a stifling summer night. 

You're laying in bed with the curtains open, looking out the window, struggling to fall asleep, when you see someone, or something, off in the distance. 

Your heart begins to race as the unknown figure draws closer and closer, until finally, you hear a scratching at your window....the sound of something trying to get in.

Join Linz in this solo episode, as we kick off Halloween with a spooky English story! 

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Picture this: You're cruising in your UFO, and you think you've found a nice, rural, isolated spot to park up at so you can fix you and your Italian homies some pancakes....when an old man shakes his jugs at you. 

This is the story of Joe Simonton, a Wisconsin plumber and part time chicken farmer, who went from washing the dishes, to having a close encounter of the third kind in his own back yard. 

Join Linz and Chris as they crouch behind the trees and enjoy a spot of peeping Tom action in todays episode of Dystopian Simulation Radio. 

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