The Red Ribbon Files

The team finds a strange oddity hidden among their normal heap of strange oddities: A patient file that appears to just be a Reddit story written by the patient before being admitted to the asylum. Stranger still: this patient appears to make everyone he interacts with him feel an unnatural rage, and there seems to be no escape.Why did the hospital keep this story on file? Is the guy telling the truth about his experiences? Is he still alive? Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)Depictions of domestic violence, as well as general themes of violence and mentions of suicidal ideation. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from Pixabay.com and CapcutMusic also from Pixabay.comBasement horror music / ambience by Adam Klint---Thank you for listening!

The team comes across and bizarre and haunting tale about a man who loses his family in a tragic accident, only to later be visited by an angel who makes him a tantalizing offer that is far too good to be true.Is this man just hallucinating? What should we make of the existence of an afterlife, given the details of this story? If this guy is dead, how did we get this information? Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)Themes of suicidal ideation and actions. Discussions of Child Death and general trauma Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCutMusic and additional soundwork from From Pixabay.com ---Thank you for listening!

A series of interviews have been uncovered that tell a haunting tale about a lost bride who mysteriously started walking around a small town in the midwest. After nearly a week of constant walking, refusing to stop, eat, or drink on her own, she collapsed and was presumed dead.What drove this woman to act this way? If she died, what is this information doing in the asylum? Who conducted these interviews so long after the fact? Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)General themes of self endangerment. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCutMusic for this episode is from Pixabay.com Wedding Song by The Fealdo ProjectArt of a Dead Woman by Shadows and Echoes---Thank you for listening!

A seemingly standard, if not extreme, case of a soldier's PTSD finds its way into the depths of the Red Ribbon Files, and the haunting story of trauma takes a darker turn when the memories become all too real. Does this mean that some Red Ribbon Files are "typical" mental health patients, or is there something more sinister behind Captain Crane's trauma? If it's all in the soldier's head, what was the attendant in the addendum talking about? Are the doctors of the Asylum really helping her, or is there something more going on? Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)Discussion and depictions of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, specifically regarding warfare and violence resulting in personal loss. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCut and Pixabay.comMusic from Pixabay.com ---Thank you for listening!

The journal entries of a mad scientist hidden among the notes of his patient file paint an earie and terrifying series of impossible experiments. These pages detail the creation of a computer made out of human remains, and claims that the horrible doctor not only got it to work, but became a part of it before being brought to the asylum.Could this scientific feat even be possible? How did this man's crimes go unnoticed for the duration of his experiment? Is there any way the Asylum could actually rehabilitate a person like this? Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)Extreme body horror and gore imagery. Vague descriptions of bodily mutilation and implied murder. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from Pixabay.comMusic from Pixabay.com: Scary Forest by SergeQuadrado---Thank you for listening!

During a night shift, Gwen and Sage theorize the meaning behind the Red Ribbon Files, diving into one particularly disturbing case involving a young serial killer in search of answers. Could Little Miss Philomena Clark still be a patient in the asylum? What other horrifying crimes haunt the pasts of other patients? Is there something connecting each Red Ribbon File?Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)Animal Abuse, Murder, Child Killer, Gore, and general Violent Ideation. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCutAll Music From Pixabay.com ---Thank you for listening!

A patient reveals a dark desire that developed after his friend's bike accident, giving the team another glimpse into the terrifying characters just beyond the walls of their research room.Is Derek still a patient in the asylum? Are there more patients as violent as him? Just what does leg taste like?Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)Violence, mutilation, and cannibalism. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Music from Pixabay:Cinematic Ambience Background Music by Iam_Sam---Thank you for listening!

A tale of a peaceful cottage is disturbed by the strange behavior of a hauntingly mysterious oak tree, and an ominous addendum is found paired with the file.What are we to make of this odd tale? Who is this "field agent"? Why is this file included amongst the other red-ribbons? Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)Themes of Inanimate objects coming to life and claustrophobia, with an overall dendrophobic subject matter. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCutMusic from Pixabay.com---Thank you for listening!

The team uncovers the story of a serial killer killer. A man claims to have uncovered mysteries around an ancient cult in his hunt for revenge against someone who hurt his family. His findings are outlandish, and his purported theories even more so, but the rest his story is mostly corroborated by the other witnesses.Is the cult that Mr. Clubber describes real? How is Mrs. Harris Connected to it all? We know the killer is dead and Jim is in the Asylum, but what happened to Fran and The Baby?Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)Home Invasion, serial killers, ritualistic murder and general themes of violence. A detailed description of a self-defense stabbing occurs in this episode. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCut and Pixabay.comMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/benjamin-botkin/internal-investigationLicense code: 54RQ3SAB33HY2AVR---Thank you for listening!

Taking a break from running files to the main group and intermittently collecting moths, Arthur sits down in the sub-basement archive room and cracks open one of his most unnerving cases yet. Apparently, a man obsessed with fire to the point of self-immolation currently resides in the asylum and is hell-bent with rekindling the blaze that nearly killed him. Was the tragic accident reported on in the news really an accident? What would cause a person like Jackson Carnwell to want the things he does? Are the extreme safety measures the hospital is taking really necessary? Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)Themes of pyromania and some mention of self harm. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCutMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/kevin-macleod/tenebrous-brothers-carnival-act-oneLicense code: Z9PTARVEVTSDTNMZ ---Thank you for listening!

After weeks spent scouring the deepest depths of odd stories and unnerving realities, the team decides to get together in their filing room and celebrate the holidays with some readings of pieces they've written inspired by their time as a team. Just as with all group projects, SOME people didn't do the assignment, while others took things way more seriously and surprised the whole group. What strange experiences inspired Sage and Arthur's stories? Where did Eric get that ham? WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CHILIS?Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)Themes of child abduction and harm. General themes in line with Krampus legends and other haunted Christmas tales. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCut and Pixabay.comMusic from Pixabay and #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):Link to musicLicense code: ---Thank you for listening!

Concerns about the inhabitants and staff of the Asylum are mounting, and the team is set on trying to document as much as they can to figure out the mysteries they keep discovering. The one thing holding them back is locating their final companion, Sage; luckily she has already found her way to the filing room on her own, unluckily, the team finds yet another unnerving story of a terrifying patient being held in the building with them. Did this patient really commit these terrible crimes? What happened to doctor Sylver? and most importantly: are they still here? Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)Themes of stalking, phrogging, and murder. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCut and PixabayMusic from Pixabay.com:Dark Cinematic by TrnoX8Creepy Reality by amarantaMusic, Leonid TimachevModular Ambient 3 by Zen_Man---Thank you for listening!

This week, the group has stumbled upon a story describing a terrifying encounter with a strange being mascarading as the manager of a Chilis and are left wondering what to make of it. The witness of these events is not a patient at the asylum, and the doctor's addendum at the end seems to imply the asylum acknowledges this strange entity as real.What are our intrepid researches to make of this tale? Is "The Lingerer" real? What is the Reyes Protocol? Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)Discomforting descriptions of a person (uncanny valley), supernatural violence, and references to substance abuse. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCut and PixabayMusic from Pixabay.com---Thank you for listening!

The files continue to reveal horros beyond the team's imagination, but just how much are they willing to believe? The account of a young boy describing the monster that killed his sister shreds the fibers of reality, turning a tragic accident into a grotesque murder. But monsters like this aren't real... right? Was Ginny's death the result of negligence, or something much more sinister? what exact did Charlie see in those woods? Or was it all in his head? Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)Child death, suicide, unpleasant noises, and gun violence. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Royalty free sound effects from Pixabay.comRoyalty free music from Pixabay.com---Thank you for listening!

After Gwen's first experience with the files she is officially wary of working in the hospital, and employs her cousin's help to keep a better watch and keep themselves and the team safe. Unfortunately, more recording devices will do little to help keep them safe against videotapes at the subject of today's file. Were the tapes actually altered? Can anyone find evidence of this show ever having existed? Are those videotapes somewhere in the building? Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)General themes of violence and discomforting imagery. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCutMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/gerald-olivieri/firefliesLicense code: RFZRQFSF2QWDCKBPhttps://uppbeat.io/t/vocalista/broomstick-polkaLicense code: ZITF2ZTN3XZQ129FCar Starting/Ignition On and Off with Idle - Exhaust Mic by EvanBoyerman -- https://freesound.org/s/754779/ -- License: Attribution 4.0---Thank you for listening!

Eric's cousin Gwen has been working with the team on employee files and other tasks around the asylum while the guys worked on the patient files. After hearing about their odd findings, she's super interested to see these mysterious and frightening tales for herself. Is what she found what she expected? What can we trust about the asylum and what's going on here? Can we find more information about the wards and who is in them? Join us, as we do our best to uncover these secrets and more buried within The Red Ribbon Files.---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)This episode contains themes of self harm and descriptions of body mutilation. Listener discretion is advised.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCutMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/kevin-macleod/aftermathLicense code: DFTCYVLNQIPMSEBX---Thank you for listening!

Yet another mysterious case of not knowing what to trust. A man is injected with a mysterious fluid that seems to have the strangest effect on him, if what he is saying is true... It's verifiable that this man was attacked, but can we know for certain that the rest of this really happened to him? Maybe it's all in his head, but what if it's real?---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨Depiction of being attacked in public and some unsettling imagery.Descriptions of physical sensations.---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCutMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/brandon-hopkins/prophetLicense code: LNDGWRNITR4Z4R36

As our team continues to delve through the unruly files, we've stumbled across one that's made sure we keep that loose bulb hanging above the table well lit. Maybe the hallway light should be kept on too, just in case.What should we make of Bobby Dower's story? Is what he seeing real? More importantly: is he right about it being in the asylum with us?---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨Minor jump scares and some unsettling imagery. Descriptions of the uncanny valley and themes of home invasion. ---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCutMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/maciej-sadowski/dont-forget-to-feed-your-demonsLicense code: XTVSUGZWKPIYMARL

The Boys have learned that they have to burn the files marked with a Red Ribbon, and so have gotten a collection of CDs and are ready to get to work. The next file they find doesn't even have a patient's name associated with it. In fact, this file only seems to be the tale of a man's decent into madness as he begins obsessing over a Cafe that has a strange hold over him. What does it mean? And What can it tell us about why this story is marked with a red ribbon. ---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up.--✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨There are no serious trigger warning concerns for this episode. ---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCutMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/albert-behar/deep-unknownLicense code: UZPPRZ5ZQMOTOP4R

When a team of intern researchers are assigned to organize the patient files of a mysterious Asylum for The Mentally Ill, they find that they are well in over their heads upon the discovery of a batch of secret files with strange and frightening stories held within. The first three members of our team, Eric, Arthur, and Marcus, are sent into the records room in the basement of the asylum on their first day at the hospital. After a morning spent digging through standard medical records, they stumble across a story in one of the patient files about a woman whose dreams have pervaded her very reality, and it turns their perspective of their new job on it's head. Is it real? Is it a hoax? Do the patient numbers have any real meaning? And what in the world does the little Red Ribbon attached to the folder mean? Join us, as we do our best to uncover the secrets buried within The Red Ribbon Files. ---If you enjoy our content, please consider checking out our Patreon: Patreon.com/TheThreadsBetween for FREE, to see more of what we are cooking up. --✨TRIGGER WARNINGS✨(spoilers)This episode contains content regarding the implication of suicide by falling from a great height. There is no explicit imagery, and actual ideation is not discussed, however listener discretion is advised. ---🎶Audio Credits: 🎶Sound effects from CapCut Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/kevin-macleod/aftermathLicense code: LGDUMZHVRXYQPBEJ---Thank you for listening!