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A fun show where 3 experts in absolutely nothing bat out of their league talking about unsolved events, true crime, and urban legends.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Prepared storytelling, source-checking, and lively interruptions turn arcade rumors and haunted-object stories into funny, questioning conversation.
Channel 3: After Dark turns strange claims into lively group conversation, pairing prepared storytelling with interruptions that test the story from every angle.
A haunted doll gets a receipt joke; your ghost-story appetite should leave room for detours.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Robert's legend gets a wobbly, playful treatment that keeps the eerie details in view.
Channel 3: After Dark finds its best footing when it stays with Robert, the haunted doll tied to a prominent Key West family, and leaves the origin story a little messy.
A cicada puzzle becomes forum checking, family banter, and a classroom memory.
Channel 3 opens in loose movie banter, then settles into a clear account of Cicada 3301. With Emily's mom in the studio, the conversation tracks the cicada image, the countdown, and the Outguess message that sent people back at 1700 UTC.
Cedar posts, coal mines, and a scrappy run through Texas business.
Channel 3: After Dark follows Johnson through cedar posts, coal mines, rail lines, and a town that changed its name along the way, turning business history into a noisy portrait of money, land, and local hustle.
A candy-store legend told through loose banter that keeps circling the dark details.
This episode leans into a loose, joking account of a local legend about a woman said to have killed her husband with poison candy, spent four years in an insane asylum in town, and later been linked to children disappearing in candy-related incidents.
Fast banter, strange pivots, real hangout energy.
Loose lists, sharp opinions, strange detours.
Creative conversations, mostly from the Glasgow theatre scene.
Pop-culture arguments with a loose grip.
Florida stories, movie tangents, and hundreds of episodes of drift.
Fast friendship, blunt stories, zero polish.
Polybius is presented as a supposedly 1981 arcade game that appeared in select Portland, Oregon arcades.
Bailey and Norm open on Robert, the haunted doll in the sailor suit.
It starts with movie talk and Emily's mom in the studio.
The panel opens by joking about whether the recording even started, oversharing personal details, and whether a microphone should stay in the room at all.
Okay, the show opens in motion.