Smosh Pit's spooky Reddit reading starts with a Minion haunting
Shayne Topp, Angela and first-time guest Eli investigate unsettling whistles, suspicious household noises and the ethics of a fake haunting.
Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 801,673 views.
Spooky Scary Stories | Reading Reddit Stories
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- 0:00Shayne welcomes devil-costumed Angela and angel-costumed Eli for a Halloween edition of Reading Reddit Stories.
- 4:46A Reddit poster describes using a hidden Minion voice box to fake a haunting after a deposit dispute.
- 14:41The Whistler account introduces an unidentified figure and a sound that prompts competing explanations.
- 19:15The trio gathers around Shayne's tablet to examine footage from the whistling encounter.
- 53:46A purportedly haunted house turns the discussion toward what partners should disclose before buying a home.
A hidden Minion voice box is an unusual piece of ghost-hunting equipment. In Smosh Pit's Halloween edition of Reading Reddit Stories, it's the supposed ghost itself: a Reddit poster describes concealing one in an old apartment after a dispute over a deposit.
Shayne Topp reads while Angela, dressed as a devil, and first-time guest Eli, dressed as an angel, consider the collateral damage. The person hearing the mysterious noises wasn't the person responsible for the dispute. Angela's own contribution is less elaborate: automatic air fresheners at her mother's home have supplied perfectly convincing late-night scares.
"Spooky Scary Stories | Reading Reddit Stories" has drawn about 802,000 views since yesterday. The costumes extend to Shayne, whose Reddit-alien headband prompted several viewers to admit that they took a while to recognize his outfit.
The episode's more unsettling turn comes with "The Whistler," a Reddit account of encounters with an unidentified whistling figure. All three gather around Shayne's tablet to examine footage. Angela is less troubled by the sound than by the figure in a canoe, while the discussion works through distance, fireworks and the acoustics of water.
That last point has become a substantial conversation in the comments: viewers describe how clearly voices and whistles can carry across lakes. Others offer a defense of the canoeist, who might reasonably decline to answer someone shouting from shore.
The episode includes a paid Shopify advertisement. Later submissions concern strange objects appearing on a roof and a house purchase complicated by reports of ghosts. Shayne, meanwhile, has a simpler answer to unexplained household noises: living with cats gives you something to blame.
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