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S2E45: Deadlines
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Episode Title: S2E44 ā Deadlines
Some apps track your steps. Others⦠track your soul.
In this disturbing episode of The Nightmare Trials Podcast, we meet Tyler, a man whose night takes a dark turn when his car breaks down on a lonely stretch of road. Searching for help, he discovers a phone lying in the dirt its screen cracked, its battery nearly drained, and only one app installed: Deadlines.
Curious, Tyler takes the phone home, assuming itās just another gimmick. But the app has other plans. Once opened, it drags him through three horrifying experiences visions drenched in gore, violence, and grotesque body horror that leave him questioning whatās real.
When itās all over, Tyler learns the most sinister rule of all: the phone must be passed on. To someone else. To anyone else.
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