‘’We’re Not Meant to Know’’ is a horror anthology podcast in the mold of Knifepoint Horror. The show uses a similarly minimalist presentation to tell stories about forbidden knowledge, hidden secrets, and buried memories.
We're Not Meant to Know contains examples of:
- Awful Truth: In “Shrine”, the narrator’s mother is revealed to have kidnapped multiple young women and kept them as her playthings in a hidden dungeon just under his brother’s room.
- Bring Me My Brown Pants: The protagonist of “Snake Oil” pisses himself when he and his family are mugged.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: The narrator of “Snake Oil” strongly suspects his daughter’s boyfriend of being some sort of creep, although he has difficulty pinning down exactly why. The more ingratiated her boyfriend becomes to the family, the more the father comes to dislike him.
- The protagonist’s parents in “For You” always had a strong distrust of his boyfriend Ethan, something they’d never showcased with his previous partners. He turns out to be a serial killer, and the hauntings the protagonist had experienced throughout the story had been his parents trying to warn him.
- Deal with the Devil: One took place in the backstory of “Recluse”. Years earlier, an aspiring musician sold his soul to be able to compose a song of staggering artistic genius, which the protagonist then stole.
- Menacing Mask: The titular character in “The Maw” wears a homemade white mask with a mouth that reaches chest-level.
- Nothing Is Scarier:
- “Owl”: What the strange woman is and what she wants is as much a mystery at the end of the story as it was at the beginning.
- “All Those Little Choices”: The episode ends with the interviewer, at this point pretty clearly something other than human, asking the documentarian if he wants to see something. The documentarian suddenly reacts in abject terror and the episode cuts off. What happens next is up to the viewer’s imagination.
- Photographic Memory: “Orb” is about a man who possesses this ability, remembering every moment of his life. He considers it a curse, as every negative experience in his life is as fresh in his memory as the day it happened. It also brings him to the attention of a mysterious government agency that seeks to exploit his ability.
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Reclusive Artist: The protagonist of “Addendum” is a renowned, retired musical artist living a life of seclusion when the story begins. He is back in the public eye by the end, albeit with his reputation in shambles. - Then Let Me Be Evil: At the end of “Ocean of Night”, the protagonist finds himself disillusioned after everyone he tries to communicate with to save him from his hellish existence believes him to be some sort of malevolent entity. Already an outcast in his old life, he chooses to embrace people’s fear of him.
- Villain Protagonist: The protagonist of “Invisible Banquet” is a fame-hungry aspiring writer willing to murder his peers to steal their ideas.