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AAAAAAA
This is so cool! I love mainly GHEIST and SKIN THEIF! My dumb possession/doppelgänger concept loving brain worms are eating this up!!! Also only four stars bc these recent episodes have just felt….off imo. Like, I love this podcast, I draw fan art and everything, but it just feels like it’s missing something now :(
mutatedHELIX
Very descriptive
It is now one of my favorite podcast and the descriptions are amazing
GREEKING OUT 4EVER
Ruined it with ai
Decent show ruined with ai laziness
Younggunproducer
Funny
This is a great podcast and really matches with SCP and some like, communist ideology. Really good stuff!
Gray and Reed
Contrary beliefs
I actually think this is pretty good. It’s pretty good blend of SCP and communism and yeah, I would say I’d like to see more action from our runaway man.
The seeds of chaos
Wait
Are you leaking files from a foundation that has three letter abbreviations? Just declassify them bruh. i mean ours are just out there, and a google away. Why go all the way to Timbuktu?
05-[REDACTED]
My Favorite Podcast
Ever since I first started listening to this podcast I was hooked, every time a new episode comes out I make sure I am on time to listen, it’s quite the masterpiece you got going here, and I am fully invested. I love imagining what the monsters look like through the descriptions given. I also love how there is actually a story tying everything together. And how things are starting to get closer and closer to becoming out of anyone’s hands. Each episode has me on the edge of my seat and I even sometimes read the transcript to make sure I don’t miss anything. I truly love this Podcast, and I recommend it to friends a lot. I plan to keep on listening to this podcast and watch the story expand and watch the progress made to take down the bureau. Keep up the great work, and remember, this world is a strange one;)
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gdhjdbh
Best thing ever!!!
I didn’t know that my naturestempure does a guest appearance!!! My favorite voice actor and now favorite podcasts. (Im starting from the beginning)
Marxuz776
What happened
Reminds me of SCP.
If you are looking for something scary this is not it, just go listen to Mr.Nightmare instead his stories are real and so is the spook factor. Finally, what happens to the old voice actor now we just have a fake AI generated guy reading all the stories which are probably also AI generated
xX5had0wXx
Well done
Well done but too scary and graphic for me.
KarlisaJade
Ok what’s going on?
UPDATE: 1/6/25
Have to agree with the latest reviews, the stories are getting BORING! The guys just reading. What happened to the stories that had some meat to them, monsters, creepy story lines, not just some dull, boring stories that just RAMBLE ON AND ON BY A MONOTONE BORING VOICE ACTOR. Bring back the original stories with monsters and mayhem, and stop the old lady boring readings.
WTFH???? A 2 1/2 hr show and after 30 mins two cackling old hens come on flapping their gums about some stupid podcast show, what is that nonsense about
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(Walter55)
It used to be great…
I loved it so much but now you need either new voice actors or to stop using AI. It’s really ruining it.
Malhead411
AI — voices and storylines…
This podcast started off promising, but now it’s gotten too long in the teeth. I strongly suspect the majority of the voices are AI, or at the very least, so poorly directed it’s become indistinguishable. The storylines… I would not be surprised if they’re either completely AI generated, or AI majority written. They’re repetitive and boring, every entity or spacial anomaly and the redwood bureau itself is The Scariest Worst Most Horrible Terrible Bad Evilest Ever — this is basically every other sentence. It’s as if you’re feeding the AI each AI written episode, further homogenizing the content until it’s the same gruel.
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Veelikk
Could be better
Just kinda seems like the voice actors can’t do anything but read off a paper. It’s also pretty obvious when there’s a mistake made and they splice it out, making the next word of a sentence come off really weird. Not to mention that the beginning and end of every podcast, the narrator uses the same lingo saying things like “the most diabolical experiment”. Every experiment or event talked about is seemingly “the most” whatever. Also I know I’m not the writer here but maybe you guys can dial it back on the “it felt like someone was watching me”. It’s quite literally in every episode and it’s really played out. The stories are definitely interesting but at a point it’s basically the same set up and delivery everytime. There isn’t much room for mystery or anticipation.
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K-Bonk00
Good, but where did the monsters go?
Don’t get me wrong, you have a good podcast, but the last at least five episodes have been about anomalous locations or existential planes. Can you start making monsters again? I don’t mean everything has to be a horror monster, but I really loved some of the old episodes where there was one specific horrifying creature hunting things down. Without that, I’ve kind of begun skipping over episodes.
DrakaenValor
Reminds me of…
Reminds me of the SCP Foundation and the SCP Foundation Database show on this app
PositiveReviewGuy
Love it
I use to love this but since they changed the voice it’s annoying and sometimes hard to understand
Moiriss8
Love it but…
In the AWAKENING PROTOCOL episode, right at the end there is misinformation about what a bone saw can cut into. A bone saw does not rotate all the way around, only side to side (kind of like an electric toothbrush) and that causes the bone saw to only be able to cut through bone and other solid objects that are not easily moveable, like skin. In the end of the episode, there is the sound of flesh being torn apart/ cut by the bone saw that Alice had mentioned before the episode ended. Just wanted to point this out for future reference so there isn’t misinformation in the future.
Thx for reading this- Skye
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One_Lonely_Weeb
It used to be so much better
I used to be obsessed with this podcast, the stories were good and the creatures and stuff are really unique. I don’t mind that it’s just basically a different version of SCPs, it’s just a cool story. But I can’t deal with the voice anymore. The monotone sound of the voices 9/10 times is just too boring. It literally makes me feel like I’m going to fall asleep. The earlier episodes had good tone and personality to the voices but now it almost sounds like AI.
I also feel like some of the stories are almost repeated? It’s the same characters told over and over with slight changes. I’ll keep listening in hopes that it’ll change but idk the quality of the episodes has just definitely gone down!
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zzxx14
How the mighty fall
This podcast was my favorite thing to listen to, really. It has unique creatures and stories, not to mention the incredible voice actors and effects, but recently it has been getting less, cool. The concepts are cool, but the way they are being delivered recently sounds like AI and is getting less fun to listen to. They have zero emotion in their voice. If you're new I say go and listen to the old ones, then just stop. They changed after MORRTUS, so at AMBROSIOUS, just stop. The new ones have amazing concepts, but extremely poor delivery. Which is why I have stopped listening. Please fix your podcast.
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baddperson
Great!
I love this podcast! Too notch narration and storyline. I only wish there were more to listen to
Maveric2333
Speed ran the series in a day no regrets.
(The show was a 5 star):
I love the concept of the redwood bureau they’re similar to the SCP foundation but far less humane. The thing that really sells this podcast to me has got to be the delivery of the stories the build up is fantastic and the tension is palpable. I highly recommend giving this podcast to listen if you’re a fan of the SCP foundation or if you just a really like a good horror story.
Edit: I feel like I needed to change my review because initially the stories were being told by an incredible voice actor, who put a lot of emotion into the characters and stories, but it seems that recently they’ve been using lower and lower quality voice actors and it really takes away from the stories. I’ve found the ladder episodes to be rather boring with their deadpan delivery of the stories.
Edit #2 The show feels AI generated at this point.
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S13679:)
Bad writing
Okay so I used to enjoy this show, story lines are decent but the writing, god the writing. I think a high school dropout might do better than this and as a writer for another fiction podcast I feel that if anyone is going to criticize writing it might as well be me. Poor grammar and word choice along with all typical cheesy suspense. If you’re a avid writer and are reading the reviews do your self a favor and skip this show. I’m not one to leave a negative review but they have lost a listener over the quality of the writing.
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onefortheGloryofTheMoring
Keeps getting better
From listening from episode one all the way to the most recent one, its been great all around. some episodes are better than others depending on your preference, but you can get lost in & vision each episode definitely keeps you wanting more would highly recommend
randy_spaceman
Original episodes were better
The show was really great originally, but starting at Ambrosius the intro changed, and fro then on the experience just went downhill from there. I see they have made an effort to bring back the old , but the combination is even worse. Just go back to the old intro please. Otherwise, great podcast. Trickster kept me up at night.
krucker07/09/2013
Meh
Storylines are original, but has anyone realized that they are completely copying the SCP foundation
Billy bob james the 3rd
Awesome
This podcast is incredible with the way it describes the phenomenons and the redwood bureaus corrupted view of what’s right. Though I do have one problem which is one of the episodes disappeared for me that one being the episode about the dagger and I don’t know if it happened to anyone else or what but I can’t find it.
Firecol
Amazing
This is by far, the best podcast I have ever listen to. The way they added gore into and you didn’t even see it make imagine it yourself. The horror is absolutely insane, it is like listening to a well made horror movie instead of watching it. Love it
Chxhvuzdxydt CNN ibtfuh
Needs Improvement
I don’t think there’s a point to leaving a negative review if it doesn’t come with actionable critique, but if I’m going to rate this lowly I want to have an explanation. If you the creator read your reviews, my intention is not to be upsetting. None of what I’m saying is to insult you, just to offer suggestions at improvement
Put down the thesaurus. When you’re writing first person accounts, they need to sound the way real people speak. Nobody uses words like “palpitations” when describing their trauma
Vary your speaking tone. An acting tip I’ve heard is to double space your script and then write down how the character feels above each line. Right now, there’s no vocal variation, it’s all the same informative/scared. Slowly add tension to your voice, and the audience will feel it
Tone down background sound effects. Not every action needs a stock footage sound accompanying it. The random screams and scare chords feel like a good example of telling, instead of showing. Your audience shouldn’t need a scream to tell them that something you just said was scary, they should already be feeling it. Also, a lot of the background noise is a bit loud, consider reducing its volume
Show, don’t tell. There’s a lot of spelling things out, which doesn’t work in most writing but especially not in horror
Good horror is in the relatability. When you’re writing horror in the first person, make sure your protagonist has some aspect of themselves that ties them to the audience, some quality that’s more or less universal. Of the three episodes I’ve listened to (Hiders, Trickster, and Flesh Melding), all of them are from the POV of just some guy, with no real relatable traits, besides some stock tropes. It feels like a mannequin talking, and I’m not afraid of what happens to a mannequin
The horror in the three episodes I’ve listened to ultimately comes from a fear of pain. Each episode describes something unstoppable that wants to hurt people. And there’s so much more to horror outside of that. Monsters don’t need to be creepy gory things, or spindly slender men, or razor demons to be scary. Death by claw can sometimes be a blessing when survival means dealing with your trauma. Graphic descriptions only go so far, what’s really scary is writing that puts the listener in the character’s shoes, that makes them feel like they’re there, that this could happen to them, that they’ve experienced things like this before. Just some things to consider when writing, maybe these are concepts explored in any of the episodes from 3-59, but I don’t think I’ll be listening further.
Ultimately, the writing style feels a bit… desperate. A bit too much like a standup comic begging you to laugh. Trust in your writing, trust in your scenarios, and you won’t need to beg the audience to be scared along with you
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coyoteTale
Tacked on podcasts?
Why are there unrelated podcasts just pasted at the end of the one I’m listening to? Anyone else have this happen to them?
Allegedly_Ben
Chillingly Compelling
Excellent and immersive podcast
A heady blend of horror, scifi with overtones of the X Files and the Twilight Zone
by tor
I love this
I hope I love your whole weapon stuff. I love the stories behind it. This is cool
I ❤️ your work
Favorite Podcast
I wish more episodes came out .. I’ve listened to all of the twice already 😅
Joey_Sp
Excellent podcast
If you like SCP or the Magnus Archives you’ll love this podcast. The scariest episode to me so far was the one about the Hulk Funko pop being bigger than the rest of the avengers Funko pops 😥
But seriously, this is a great podcast. I’m guessing for a while, Tomar was the driving force behind the podcast and had his hand in a lot of the production and delivery of the podcast. As the podcast got more popular and progressed further into the story, it seems like more people are getting involved and it just isn’t quite as good anymore. If it was all Tomar all the time I would have given it 5 stars, but it just doesn’t have the same heart or quality now.
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Mistersherlockholmes
Love
I cannot get enough of this podcast.
Righteous999
Top 3 podcasts
If I could give this 10 stars I would. I’ll be honest I’m addicted to this podcast. I listen to every episode on the day and most of the time the hour it drops. I’ve got so many people listening to it at work. The only problem is I always want more episodes. Please keep the episodes coming and more frequently.
Avenged89
I love this podcast!
I love Redwood Bureau so much because it’s like a mix between The X-Files and Fringe, it’s amazing and thanks a lot to Darkness prevails for creating this!😁
Wep1985
Love This
I used to listen to true crime podcasts, however I had to stop because of the anxiety it caused me. I missed the dopamine rush that true crime had given me, and Redwood Bureau was a great substitute.
kaoer;jksgklffajhdfcjxioUH
LOVE THIS PODCAST
My new favorite !! I’ve binged the whole thing! Can’t wait for more
Edit 2023: still thoroughly enjoy this podcast!!
asianone13
Better
Scott foundation but it isn’t just a poor excuse to make overpowered characters
MrDerranged
Love the show
It’s like the scp foundation but more immersive and I love the variety of the phenomenon.
Keep up the good work I also recommend other ericast podcasts
dark radier
Good stuff
Ok
Steph7500
God speed brothers/sisters
You like Scott you will love this ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Sasquatch Chronicles god
Amazing
At first I thought it was an scp rip off but it’s TOTALLY different. The twists they have on this common horror trope(mostly seen in podcasts) makes it totally worth the watch. Just the sound design and acting makes you visualize it, making it even more scary. One of the best podcasts 10/10
hi and goodbye felcia
Good when more original ideas
I’ve listened to almost all episodes and really enjoyed it. I tend to like the paranormal incident or item investigation agency genre and this is good, Stagis, Rat KING, Godshed and Lazarus taxon being some of my favorite. A couple episodes like void song, hunger, pigpen and tunnel and others unfortunately mimic too much basic creepy pasta horror stuff and I think more unique ideas are this stories strength. I really like the fleshjacket vs myriad episode and would enjoy more one off events like that that break the standard formula. Also maybe some more episodes now about the bureau itself or agent framed around something would be good since the idea and trope structures are established
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Wardfx
Great
I found this podcast and binged it until I finished it 3 days later. Keep them coming please.
Frank529
It is ok
As I work overnight I try to find podcasts that will keep me entertained I never really cared about the violence towards humans or animals, but I feel that the episodes are starting to get less and less entertaining. I want to keep giving it a chance but as of recently all the episodes starting 2023 have been mediocre at best. I would recommend everything from 2022 and before especially the first episodes.
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Albi2118
This is good
I have been making my own stories on Reddit. The stories here are somewhat similar to mine. I have only seen this recently, so this is fascinating to see how people can have the same ideas that I have AND do it better. I only listened to one episode and I am making this claim. This is almost paranormal of how good this is.
Silver wolffe
Enjoying
Great stories
Ngf1984
Cat hate
What is this? Some kind of cat smear campaign ?!
JaneBerlinH