The Subjective Truth

Jeremy Ellett

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A missing man, a haunted trail of evidence.

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The Subjective Truth follows an investigation into Buddha Kline’s disappearance that keeps slipping from missing-person case into uncanny folklore. UFOs, ghosts, haunted hotels, strange callers, and the Garys all crowd the edge of one unresolved question.

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About The Subjective Truth

The Subjective Truth is a paranormal docudrama built around the disappearance of Buddha Kline. Its central investigation begins with a treasure search in the Carson National Forest and widens into a tangle of strange testimony, local rumor, and private guilt. Graham Anderson becomes the figure holding the case together, though the show keeps questioning what that role costs. The mystery does not move in a straight line. It drifts through New Mexico, the Blue Mesa Hotel, recorded calls, field searches, suspicious vehicles, and stories about people who nearly vanished in ways that sound absurd until the details settle in. The show is comfortable with uncertainty. A caller can describe a Gary on a dark roadside, another can remember an impossible yellow geometric stone, and the narrative will treat both as evidence without pretending either one is simple. UFOs and ghosts are part of the texture, but so are notebooks, open-mic lobbies, cadaver dogs, hotel rooms, and awkward conversations over food. That ordinary specificity keeps the supernatural from floating away. The dread usually arrives through pressure, not shock. A room feels wrong. A car appears too often. A handwritten reply turns a tourist novelty into a warning. The tone is grave, but not humorless. Jokes break the tension, especially when the investigation brushes against bad performances, strange attractions, or the ridiculous rituals people build around fear. The sharper drama comes from accountability. The finale forces Graham to face the possibility that the search for Buddha has become a business, a performance, and a way to avoid harder truths. That accusation gives the show more bite than a puzzle-box mystery. It is not only asking what happened. It is asking who benefits from the asking. Listeners drawn to serialized audio fiction, paranormal lore, unreliable testimony, and moral unease will find a show that rewards close attention. The Subjective Truth treats belief as unstable ground, then keeps walking anyway.

Made for: Best for listeners who like serialized audio fiction with paranormal mystery, investigative structure, and slow-building dread. It fits fans of strange testimony, unreliable evidence, and stories where the search itself becomes morally complicated.

What sets it apart: The show separates itself from routine paranormal fiction by making the investigation’s ethics part of the mystery. Its haunted hotels, UFO threads, tipline stories, and local legends all feed back into the question of whether truth is being pursued or consumed.

In their own words

Last year Buddha Kline vanished from the Carson National Forest while searching for the Forrest Fenn Treasure. What starts as an investigation into a hikers disappearance, quickly transforms into an observation on the subjective nature of reality, branching out with elements of futurology, comedy, horror and high strangeness. Join our host Graham Anderson as she unearths all the answers to the question of... What happened to Buddha Kline? From alien abductions to haunted hotels to reincarnation robots, everyone has a theory. But no one knows the truth. The Subjective Truth is a paranormal docudrama. Created by Jeremy Ellett. A Good P...

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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

A paranormal serial that turns podcast investigation itself into evidence, misdirection, and a quietly corrosive source of doubt.

The Subjective Truth turns a search for Buddha Kline into a serialized mystery where every new account makes certainty harder to hold. Graham Anderson works through recorded tapes, interviews, disputed evidence, and her own encounters while UFO investigators, ghosts, and…

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A haunted notebook writes back just when your missing-person mystery starts behaving itself.

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  • a serialized mystery that keeps making its narrator look morally compromised
  • haunted-hotel unease sharing a room with sharp jokes and open-mic chaos
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Best episodes of The Subjective Truth

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Feed Drop: Fear DailyJan 13, 2026

A patient retro-horror pilot that turns everyday detail into a steady, unsettling pull.

Fear Daily opens like a pilot-sized doorway into a retro horror world, and it keeps tightening its grip as it goes. The writing stays close to ordinary detail before letting the strange in through witness testimony and weather, which gives the opening a steady, uneasy pull.

Introducing: Who the F**k Killed My SisterMar 7, 2025

A sharp, funny murder mystery that keeps the case moving and the danger close.

Who the Fuck Killed My Sister? opens with Quinn, an amateur detective and reluctant true crime celebrity, dragged back into her sister's unsolved murder when the first serious lead finally appears.

Introducing: Someone Just Like YouAug 29, 2024

A pilot that turns a quiet apartment into a slow, sour warning.

Someone Just Like You works best when it stays in the apartment and trusts the small details: the stained Rutgers sweater, the delivery bags, the faded welcome mat, and the strained politeness between Charlie Thresher and Greg Halbeck.

Episode 10: Preservation Through Destruction (Season Finale)Apr 13, 2020

A roadside paranoia story that turns a license plate into a threat.

The episode follows a black Cadillac, license plate 8DX247, and a trail of ordinary sightings that starts to read like a case file that will not close.

Episode 8: The Blue Mesa HotelApr 12, 2020

A hotel check-in becomes a polite, uneasy slide into the supernatural.

Episode 8 drops Graham Anderson into the Blue Mesa Hotel, where the front desk has a joke ready for almost everything. The writer's room notebook is not just a prop; it helps the episode make small courtesies feel slightly off, and even the lightest check-in banter carries a…

Episode 7: We All Come BackJan 2, 2020

A grim paranormal docudrama that treats grief, identity, and the reboot debate with real seriousness.

The Subjective Truth stays close to Graham Anderson's uneasy casework, using the reboot idea to press on grief and identity. The W.T. Stead thread gives the episode a clean way in, and Steve Poland's skepticism, along with Stead's verified answers, gives the story a solid…

Episode 3: What Did You See?Nov 25, 2019

A ghost story that keeps testing legend against the tape.

The Subjective Truth folds a hide-behind legend, a half-heard tape, and the tension around Buddha and Amy into a grim little knot. It works because the serialized-fiction tone stays steady: the folklore feels rooted in logger chatter, yet the mystery is allowed room to breathe.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Season 2, Episode 1: I'll Call You Back

    Jun 9, 2026·8m
  2. 2

    Feed Drop: Fear Daily

    This feed drop episode of The Subjective Truth shares the pilot of Fear Daily, a retro horror fiction podcast set in the 1990s.

    Jan 13, 2026·25m·2 clips
  3. 3

    Our New Show: Christmas Diner

    Dec 11, 2025·24m
  4. 4

    Introducing: Who the F**k Killed My Sister

    Hidden gem

    Quinn gets a lead.

    Mar 7, 2025·32m·2 clips
  5. 5

    Introducing: Someone Just Like You

    Hidden gem

    Jeremy Ellett opens the pilot by setting Someone Just Like You up as a horror anthology rooted in modern-life dread.

    Aug 29, 2024·45m·2 clips
  6. 6

    Episode 10: Preservation Through Destruction (Season Finale)

    Hidden gem

    Graham starts with a joke that turns sour fast.

    Apr 13, 2020·55m·3 clips
  7. 7

    Episode 9: How Was Your Stay at the Blue Mesa Hotel?

    Apr 12, 2020·23m
  8. 8

    Episode 8: The Blue Mesa Hotel

    Episode 8 of The Subjective Truth follows narrator Graham Anderson's stay at the Blue Mesa Hotel in Taos, New Mexico, where she is investigating the disappearance of a hiker named Buddha Klein with the help of cadaver dog handler Daniel and his dogs Lucy and Mr.

    Apr 12, 2020·36m·3 clips
  9. 9

    Messages and Signs (Calls from the Tipline)

    Apr 2, 2020·19m
  10. 10

    My Pillbox Mattress Story (Calls from the Tipline)

    Jan 2, 2020·8m
  11. 11

    Episode 6: What Happened to Buddha Kline?

    Jan 2, 2020·19m
  12. 12

    Episode 5: Candles, Lies and Misinformation

    Jan 2, 2020·40m
  13. 13

    Blue Mesa Stories (Calls from the Tipline)

    Callers share disturbing encounters connected to the mysterious Blue Mesa Hotel and Gary's Big Game conspiracy.

    Jan 2, 2020·21m·2 clips
  14. 14

    Episode 7: We All Come Back

    In episode 7, Graham Anderson visits Beth, Buddha Klein's mother, and learns about two unexplained metal balls surgically removed from Buddha's shoulder after a childhood bike accident.

    Jan 2, 2020·36m·3 clips
  15. 15

    Episode 4: Back to Life

    Dec 31, 2019·40m
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    Episode 3: What Did You See?

    Episode 3 of The Subjective Truth follows Graham Anderson as he examines audio recordings from the night Buddhist treasure hunter Buddha Klein disappeared.

    Nov 25, 2019·36m·3 clips
  17. 17

    My Best Friend (Calls from the Tipline)

    Nov 25, 2019·13m
  18. 18

    Episode 2: Why Were You There?

    Oct 31, 2019·26m
  19. 19

    Episode 1: Armchair Treasure Hunter

    Oct 17, 2019·32m
  20. 20

    Introducing: The Subjective Truth

    Aug 18, 2019·1m