Vault: Bert wants to know about secret photos taken

Summary

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The Bert Show Vault: Bert Wants to Know About Secret Photos Taken

Release Date: July 7, 2026

Episode Overview

This episode delves into the unsettling urban legend about a person discovering secret photos of themselves sleeping, allegedly taken by an unknown intruder using their own camera. The Bert Show team analyzes the origins of this creepy story, shares variations they've heard, and invites listeners to weigh in with their own knowledge and experience, all while maintaining their fun, authentic, and conversational tone.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Urban Legend Introduction

• [01:30] The team introduces a chilling story circulating in Athens, GA, regarding a UGA student who, after staying on campus during spring break, finds photos of herself sleeping among otherwise mundane architectural photos on her camera.
  • Urban Legend Narrator: "So she's scrolling through and she's like, oh, this is on the first day I took this, this, this. Then she gets to a picture of herself sleeping, and there's three or four pictures of herself sleeping. ... Then there's a couple more pictures of her sleeping." (03:21–04:01)

Analyzing the Story

• [04:05] The hosts react to the fearful prospect and discuss the plausibility:
  • Urban Legend Host: "So somebody went into her room, took pictures of her while she was sleeping."
  • Urban Legend Narrator: "With her own camera back?"
• The team debates whether this is an actual occurrence or just another variation of an old urban legend.
  • Urban Legend Host: "This does have, like, urban legend written all over it." (04:22)
• [04:45] Panelists discuss whether one would wake up if a camera flash went off, revealing varying sleep habits among the cast.
  • Caller 2: "I can sleep through a train going through my living room."

Listener Call-Ins: Confirming Urban Legend Status

• [05:33] Ashley from Athens calls in to point out she’s heard the same tale but set on the Appalachian Trail:
  • Ashley: "That was the big scary story that everyone told them, that there was a girl who was hiking the Appalachian Trail. When she got home, for every night that she was on the trail by herself, there was pictures of herself sleeping." (05:38–06:04)
• The team notes the way these stories mutate over time and location, often adapting with new details (like the shift from film to digital cameras).
• A second caller, Josie, shares a version she heard at camp about a girl and her dog.

Deconstructing How Urban Legends Spread

• [06:34] Hosts discuss the pattern behind urban legends—how the details shift but the core scare remains, adapting to the era and localizing the horror:
  • Urban Legend Host: "This is how these urban legends build. ... you just put in your own nouns." (06:50–07:01)
  • Caller 2: "You change it up a little bit"
• The digital camera angle is identified as a modernizing twist, but some on the panel question its plausibility, given how often people review digital photos.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [03:21] Urban Legend Narrator:
  "Then she gets to a picture of herself sleeping, and there's three or four pictures of herself sleeping. Then the next day, there's a whole bunch more pictures of the campus. Then there's a couple more pictures of her sleeping."

• [04:22] Urban Legend Host:
  "This does have, like, urban legend written all over it."

• [04:45] Urban Legend Host & Caller 2:
  Host: "Cause I'm a really sensitive sleeper. I'd wake up as soon as the flash goes off, I'm up."
  Caller 2: "No, I wouldn't. I can sleep through a train going through my living room."

• [06:04] Ashley (Caller):
  "That was the big scary story that everyone told them, that there was a girl who was hiking the Appalachian trail. ... for every night that she was on the trail by herself, there was pictures of herself sleeping."

• [06:50] Urban Legend Host:
  "This is how these urban legends build. They start years ago and then one, you know, as they evolve over the years, you just put in your own nouns and right."

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Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Content | |---------------|----------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:30 | Urban legend is introduced: Athens, UGA student, spring break | | 03:21 | Discovery of photos of herself sleeping described in detail | | 04:05 | Hosts debate plausibility and urban legend vibes | | 04:45 | Team discusses if anyone would wake up (sleeping habits) | | 05:33 | Ashley calls with Appalachian Trail version | | 06:34 | Second caller Josie shares a camp version | | 06:50 | Hosts discuss urban legends' evolution and localization |

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Episode Tone & Style

• The conversation is light-hearted and conversational, with a mix of genuine curiosity and playful skepticism.
• Callers and hosts share personal anecdotes, opinions, and theories, blending scare-factor with humor and relatability.

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Conclusion

The episode offers a fun and slightly creepy exploration of a classic urban legend, ultimately revealing how such stories morph over time and play into universal fears of privacy invasion and the unknown. Both the cast and listeners agree that while it's a spine-tingling scenario, the tale is almost certainly an urban legend rather than a cautionary news story.

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Transcript

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[Urban Legend Host]

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[Urban Legend Narrator]

The only well I then disprove it. That's all I'm saying. Because it's local Snopes, right? Because spring break college spring break for UGA was a week or two ago and this story happened over spring break, supposedly. Now maybe it was spring break a couple years ago. Maybe it's a plot of a movie. That's what we're asking for. Debunk or prove this story. But a girl is at spring break. She obviously lives on campus at uga and spring break, there's distinct groups of spring breakers. There's the partiers, the people who go and tear it up down in Panama City or Mexico. Then there's the people who go home and reunite with all their friends back at home. There's the service group, and then they go build houses wherever. And then there's the stragglers who don't leave campus. They're hanging out on campus, and they're just doing their own thing. This girl, this UGA student, is a straggler. She stays on campus and she says she's gonna do a few things while she's gonna catch up on work, you know, clean her apartment. She's gonna start taking pictures because she wants to be an artist. So she's gonna take. Use. Take advantage of the empty campus to take pictures of UGA architecture and grounds and stuff like that. She's got big plans. So spring break comes and goes. She's there by herself because all of her other friends went and built houses or partied it up or went home. So she enjoyed the solitude. Her friends come back from spring break and they're all gathered around and they pull the memory card out of their cameras and they're going through the pictures of Cancun and all this stuff and everybody sharing pictures. And this girl thinks it's funny. Would be funny to say, well, do you guys want to see what I did? Because she took pictures as well. But her pictures were like, of the hedges at the stadium, the library doors, the architecture on the corner of one of the old UGA buildings. So she thinks that's going to be funny. So she puts her card in and she starts scrolling through these comparatively boring pictures of Athens, a deserted Athens. So she's scrolling through and she's like, oh, this is on the first day I took this, this, this. Then she gets to a picture of herself sleeping, and there's three or four pictures of herself sleeping. Then the next day, there's a whole bunch more pictures of the campus. Then there's a couple more pictures of her sleeping.

[Urban Legend Host]

So somebody went into her room, took pictures of her while she was sleeping.

[Urban Legend Narrator]

With her own camera back?

[Caller 1]

Yeah.

[Urban Legend Narrator]

So she's in an apartment on a college campus, all alone, alone. Her roommates have all left. And while she was asleep, someone took pictures of her with her own camera.

[Urban Legend Host]

This does have, like, urban legend written all over it.

[Urban Legend Narrator]

We talked about it earlier, and nobody. I was convinced people are going to call up and go, oh, that's a. You know, that's a plot line from saw2 or something like that.

[Urban Legend Host]

Someone's going to call up and say it was a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend. 404-741-Q100.

[Caller 2]

Isn't that so freaky, though, to think about if it was true, actually happened to you.

[Urban Legend Host]

But I mean, wouldn't you, like, maybe. Cause I'm a really sensitive sleeper. I'd wake up as soon as the flash goes off, I'm up.

[Caller 2]

No, I wouldn't.

[Urban Legend Host]

You wouldn't? No.

[Caller 2]

I can sleep through a train going through my living room.

[Urban Legend Narrator]

Yeah, it's freaky.

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[Urban Legend Narrator]

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[Caller 2]

So freaky. And the only calls we got earlier this morning when Jeff talked about it early, is that people thought she took the pictures of herself, like with a timer and was trying to freak out her friends.

[Urban Legend Host]

Could be. Or if we get like a bunch of calls from people saying that happened at their school 10 years ago also, then to me that that means it's urban legend.

[Caller 2]

But it wouldn't have been 10 years ago because digital cameras. Yeah, yeah.

[Urban Legend Narrator]

It has to have happened over the

[Urban Legend Host]

last couple of years or what have

[Urban Legend Narrator]

you since that technology.

[Urban Legend Host]

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[Urban Legend Host]

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[Caller 1]

Hey.

[Urban Legend Narrator]

Oops.

[Ashley]

Hello?

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[Urban Legend Narrator]

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Hi, this is Ashley. I'm calling from Athens.

[Urban Legend Narrator]

Oh, hey, Ashley. How are you?

[Ashley]

Good.

[Urban Legend Narrator]

What's going on?

[Ashley]

I feel 99.9% sure that that's an urban legend because I heard the same story years ago about the Appalachian Trail. What'd you hear that like, so some friends of mine were going to hike the Appalachian Trail, and that was the big scary story that everyone told them, that there was a girl who was hiking the Appalachian Trail. When she got home, for every night that she was on the trail by herself, there was pictures of herself sleeping.

[Urban Legend Host]

Okay. All right.

[Urban Legend Narrator]

So it is an urban legend.

[Urban Legend Host]

The parts are always there, but, you know, the specifics are always different. Okay, thank you.

[Urban Legend Narrator]

That's a common story that we're getting. Hey, Josie.

[Caller 1]

Hey, good morning.

[Urban Legend Narrator]

What's going on?

[Caller 1]

I actually heard this story when I was at camp in high school, but it was with a hiker and her dog, and she was up there taking pictures and everything. And I don't know if she was on spring break or what, but she was by herself. And when she got the pictures developed, it was of her sleeping and her dog.

[Urban Legend Host]

Okay.

[Urban Legend Narrator]

It makes more sense to be an older story because the digital camera, my thing, when I first heard it, was who doesn't scroll back and look at the pictures. You know, who doesn't scroll back and like. And she would stumble across it while she was during the week.

[Urban Legend Host]

Right. You know, and this is how these urban legends build. They start years ago and then one, you know, as they evolve over the years, you just put in your own nouns and right.

[Caller 2]

You change it up a little bit

[Urban Legend Host]

to be more modern and it becomes local. Right.

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