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EPISODE · Feb 16, 2026 · 1H 10M

Ep. 6 — The Tale of the Super Specs: Who Gets Believed & the Cost of Seeing First

from Are You Afraid… After the Campfire · host Graveyard Mike

This week, Graveyard Mike peers through The Tale of the Super Specs — a story about ritual magic, overlapping dimensions, and the danger of seeing something before everyone else does.We break down the episode’s pop-culture DNA — visibility horror, cosmic rule enforcement, object persistence — then step into the social patterns hiding in plain sight: jokes as deflection, fear reclassified as drama, and the way credibility shifts when panic isn’t convenient.Because sometimes the monster isn’t in the shadows.Sometimes it’s the delay.And once the window closes… it doesn’t always open back up.

This week, Graveyard Mike peers through The Tale of the Super Specs — a story about ritual magic, overlapping dimensions, and the danger of seeing something before everyone else does.We break down the episode’s pop-culture DNA — visibility horror, cosmic rule enforcement, object persistence — then step into the social patterns hiding in plain sight: jokes as deflection, fear reclassified as drama, and the way credibility shifts when panic isn’t convenient.Because sometimes the monster isn’t in the shadows.Sometimes it’s the delay.And once the window closes… it doesn’t always open back up.

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This week, Graveyard Mike peers through The Tale of the Super Specs — a story about ritual magic, overlapping dimensions, and the danger of seeing something before everyone else does.We break down the episode’s pop-culture DNA — visibility horror,...

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