Beyond The Veil Podcast | Episode 9: The Backrooms & Liminal Spaces

What if the most terrifying places in the world… are the most ordinary?In this episode of Beyond The Veil, Brett & Lee descend into one of the internet’s most disturbing modern urban legends: The Backrooms.Together, we explore the origins of the phenomenon, from its unsettling beginnings online to the millions of people now haunted by the idea of endless yellow corridors, flickering fluorescent lights and the terrifying possibility of becoming trapped somewhere outside reality itself.But this episode goes far deeper than internet horror.We investigate the psychological phenomenon of liminal spaces — those strange transitional places that feel familiar yet deeply unsettling — and examine why empty schools, abandoned shopping centres, silent office corridors and late-night hotel hallways evoke such profound fear and unease within us.Could these feelings simply be psychological responses to isolation, nostalgia and uncertainty?Or could liminal spaces explain why so many paranormal experiences occur in places that feel strangely “in-between”?From urban legends and internet folklore to real-world cases of disorientation, strange disappearances and unsettling experiences in seemingly ordinary places, this episode explores the blurred line between psychology, fear and the paranormal.Because perhaps the scariest part of The Backrooms isn’t the monsters people claim exist there…but the possibility that somewhere, hidden within the ordinary world around us… there are places we were never meant to find.