Reddit Explains Conspiracy & the Unknown

The Freeway Phantom is a media epithet for an unidentified serial killer who was active in Washington DC from April 1971 through September 1972.
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“When he noticed some bones protruding from the ground, he pulled a femur from the soil, and when he compared it to his own, it was 7 inches longer. He then moved the rest of the bones and laid them out, estimating that it would have stood about 8 feet tall.”
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OP and their partner woke up to some strange footprints in their campsite and wondered where they came from. They later saw a man, old, scraggly, and in tattered clothes, standing in their camp next to their rifle they had sitting against the table.
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“Small serpents of red slithered across her face. She smelled like rotting leaves and blood. She smelled like death. She spoke to me in a very deep voice, like ‘I’ve smoked 3 packs a day for the last 40 years’ deep raspy voice, to GET. OUT.”
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“I started realizing he’s been outside in the morning at the time I leave for work daily. He will be outside within 15 minutes of me getting home, regardless of the time. The guy stays out until 4 AM some nights.“
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In this episode we close the story of OP’s not-so-imaginary friend, and then tell one more shorter listener story about some strange things they saw.
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“I stopped at Brandon’s door and put my ear to it. His babbling was low and it sounded like he was having a conversation with someone. I opened the door and a rush of air escaped the room, and sent cold static up my spine. It was the middle of winter and I knew the heat was turned up, like it was close to 80 degrees in the house (my mom wasn’t a fan of the cold) and my son was sitting in the middle of his floor, talking to his closet.”
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“A friend of mine is a mortician. Her scariest incident happened very early in her career. She was alone and had music going, and was walking past the drawers when one of the bodies kicked the door and popped the drawer open just a crack.”
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In 1893, the city Denver decided to create a new cemetery out of town and designated a man named E. P. McGovern to exhume the bodies and relocate them to the new site, but he had a pretty wacky idea on how to get the job done.
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OP went on a walk with their brother and grandma at night and came across a little playground where they stayed to rest. After sitting for a bit, they noticed a cowboy hat just on the other side of the playground, hiding behind the slide.
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