Mugshot Mysteries

Kathryn and Gabriel

Some stories are solved. Most aren’t.The interesting ones refuse to stay buried. Mugshot Mysteries is a deep-dive podcast hosted by Kathryn and Gabriel, exploring true crime, conspiracies, paranormal encounters, cults, historical disasters, government cover-ups, and the stories that keep people awake long after the episode ends. Every episode blends immersive storytelling, psychological analysis, dark humor, and the kind of rabbit holes that make you question whether history is telling the full truth. One week it’s serial killers. The next it’s MKUltra, haunted hospitals, vanished ships, UFO encounters, or deaths that still don’t make sense decades later. Kathryn brings the research. Gabriel brings the questions, the theories, and occasionally a comment so out of pocket it completely derails the conversation. Expect deep dives, unexpected tangents, and at least one moment where Kathryn has to stop and say, “Wow. Wow wow wow.” If it’s disturbing, unexplained, historically strange, or impossible to forget… it belongs in the lineup. New episodes every week.

  1. 2d ago

    Halloween: The True History of the Night the Dead Come Home

    Ireland, more than two thousand years ago, the last night of October. The harvest is in, the cattle are penned, and every hearth fire in the village has been deliberately put out. The only light for miles is a single bonfire on a distant hill. Inside a pitch-black house, a family eats in total silence, with one place set at the end of the table, a full plate, a cup, and an empty chair for whoever is coming. Before they sat down, they smeared ash on their faces and pulled animal skins over their heads, because the door between the living and the dead is open tonight, and not everything that comes through it will be your grandmother. Sometime after midnight, the empty chair scrapes back across the floor. And the rule, the only rule, is that you do not look up. For the last Monday of October, Mugshot Mysteries isn’t doing a case. Kathryn and Gabriel are doing the night itself: two thousand years of people putting out their lights and setting a plate for the dead, and what happened when that night crossed the ocean to America and we slowly forgot what any of it was for. We start with Stingy Jack, the drunk who conned the Devil twice and got himself locked out of both heaven and hell, doomed to wander the dark with a single coal inside a hollowed-out turnip, the original jack-o’-lantern, and the carved face you put in your window to tell him this house is already taken. We trace how the Great Famine carried that turnip to America, where it became a pumpkin, and how the scariest thing in the Irish countryside became the thing your kid paints a smiley face on. We follow the church’s thousand-year campaign to absorb the night, All Saints’ Day laid right on top of the old fire festival, “souling” and soul cakes, and the guising that became going door to door as the dead. And we tell the genuinely rowdy American chapter: the 1920s and ’30s, when Halloween was a night of real urban chaos, and how trick-or-treating was invented not as an ancient tradition but as a civic bribe to stop kids from sawing down telephone poles. Then the three dark American turns that shaped the holiday we have now. The 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast and the panic that, it turns out, the newspapers largely invented. The 1974 murder of eight-year-old Timothy O’Bryan by his own father, a church deacon who poisoned a Pixy Stix for the insurance money and tried to blame a stranger at a dark door, the case that taught a nation to check its candy, even though sociologist Joel Best has shown there was never a real “candy man” at all. And the 1980s Satanic Panic, the Geraldo special, the cancelled school parties, the police “occult crime” seminars, and the churches that figured out they could stop fighting Halloween and start running “Hell Houses” for a $300 kit. Through all of it runs the thread that ties this month together, from Lizzie Borden’s hatchet to a bowl of candy on a dark porch: every generation looks at the thing that scares it most and decides to dress up as it instead of running. We never stopped setting the offering at the door. We just stopped knowing why. Happy Halloween from Mugshot Mysteries. Check your candy, check the man holding the umbrella, and whatever you do, don’t look up. New episodes drop every Mugshot Monday. Search Mugshot Mysteries wherever you listen. For 12+ bonus episodes and the Original Case Files vault, join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries SOURCES: Standard histories of Samhain and the Celtic festival of the dead, including the bonfire tradition associated with Tlachtga (the Hill of Ward); Victor Turner’s The Ritual Process (1969) and the concept of liminality (building on Arnold van Gennep); folklore of Stingy Jack and the jack-o’-lantern, and the carved turnip lantern held in the National Museum of Ireland’s Country Life collection; the folklore of souling and soul cakes, and Shakespeare’s reference in The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Lisa Morton’s Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween (2012), the documented 1920s-30s Halloween vandalism, the first print appearance of “trick or treat” (Blackie, Alberta, 1927), and Anoka, Minnesota’s 1920 civic celebration; the documented history of the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast, including the Pooley and Socolow research (Slate, 2013) showing the “panic” was largely a newspaper creation and that no deaths were confirmed; the documented murder of Timothy O’Bryan and the 1974 case, trial, and 1984 execution of Ronald Clark O’Bryan, from Texas Department of Criminal Justice records and contemporaneous and retrospective reporting; Joel Best’s long-running research at the University of Delaware on Halloween “sadism,” finding no confirmed case of a stranger fatally poisoning a child’s candy; the 1988 NBC special Devil Worship: Exposing Satan’s Underground; Stanley Cohen’s Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1972); Kenneth Lanning’s 1992 FBI report finding no evidence of organized Satanic crime; and the documented history of Hell Houses and Scaremare, and the mirror-and-apple divination tradition referenced in Robert Burns’s Halloween (1785). Where elements are folklore or reconstruction rather than firm historical record, the episode presents them as such. DISCLAIMER: Content warning: This episode discusses the murder of a child, an execution, suicide and other difficult themes depicted in “Hell House” attractions, and historical panics around the occult. Please take care while listening. The Mugshot Mysteries podcast is independently produced and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any individual, church, broadcaster, publication, or organization referenced in this episode. This episode is a cultural and folkloric history of Halloween, drawn from historical scholarship, folklore, and public records. Much of the ancient material, including the details of Samhain rituals, the “dumb supper,” and the Stingy Jack legend, is folklore and later reconstruction rather than firmly documented ancient history, and the episode presents it in that spirit rather than as settled fact. The historical crimes and media events discussed, including the 1938 broadcast, the 1974 O’Bryan murder, and the 1980s Satanic Panic, are recounted from the established public record; Ronald Clark O’Bryan was convicted and executed, and the episode notes clearly that the broader fears about tampered Halloween candy are, per the research cited, largely unfounded. The episode does not endorse or assert the reality of any supernatural claim. The hosts’ commentary, including their views on institutions and on American culture, reflects their own opinions and interpretations. References to any person, living or deceased, are made in the context of public records and historical reporting and are not intended to defame or cause harm. Any third-party names and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners and are referenced under fair use for purposes of commentary, criticism, and reporting. Nothing in this episode constitutes professional advice. Send us your theories Support the show 🎧 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you never miss an episode. 🔐 Join the Mugshot Family on Patreon to unlock the Original Case Files vault. 12 members-only episodes for $5/month.  ⭐ Loved this one? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts — it's the fastest way to help us grow. 📸 Follow us on TikTok and Instagram for mugshots, mysteries, paranormal, conspiracies, and everything Gabriel said that didn't make the final cut. Stay curious. Stay suspicious.

  2. Oct 19

    The Bell Witch: The Only American Death Ever Blamed on a Ghost

    Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries Tennessee, December 1820. On a log farmhouse by the Red River, a seventy-year-old farmer named John Bell doesn’t wake up. His son goes to the medicine cabinet and finds the usual bottle gone, and a strange dark vial in its place. From the ceiling, a voice, no body, no face, the voice the family had been living with for three years, brags that it gave “Old Jack a big dose last night.” They test the vial on the family cat. The cat is dead within minutes. John Bell dies the next morning, and the thing in the house spends his entire funeral singing a drinking song over the grave. He is remembered as one of the only people in American history whose death was formally blamed on a ghost. The spirit called itself Kate. The world calls it the Bell Witch. This week, still in October and fresh off a village of poisoners, Kathryn and Gabriel wanted a straight-up haunting, and this is the most famous one America has. Four years, one family, a disembodied voice that quoted Scripture and sang hymns and cursed like a sailor, a teenage girl it would not leave alone, and a house full of people too frightened to leave. The approach is the show’s usual one: tell what the people who were there said happened, and take them seriously, because they were dead serious. We set the world first, the Second Great Awakening and the camp-meeting fervor that made the supernatural utterly real to frontier Tennessee, and the uglier foundations of the Bell farm, built and worked by nine enslaved people whose side of this story the legend almost entirely erased. We make sure to tell Dean’s, the enslaved man who, walking a dark road to see his wife on another farm, reported being followed by a two-headed dog, and who may have encountered the thing more than anyone, yet gets a paragraph where the Bells got a book. We cover the business feud over the sale of an enslaved child that set the whole thing in motion, and how it landed the “witch” label on Kate Batts, an odd, outspoken neighbor who was never charged with anything and has worn the word for two centuries. Then the haunting itself, the creature in the cornfield, the knocking and gnawing and dragging chains, the covers pulled off beds, and the relentless torment of young Betsy Bell, slapped hard enough to leave a handprint with no one beside her. We follow the voice as it learns to speak, recites two sermons delivered miles apart at the same hour, knows things it shouldn’t, and fixates on the girl at the center of the house. And we bring in the frameworks that make this episode more than a campfire tale: the eerie parallel to the Enfield Poltergeist, William Roll’s “recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis” and the way poltergeist cases orbit a stressed adolescent (the idea behind Stephen King’s Carrie), Pierre Janet on dissociation, René Girard’s scapegoat mechanism, and the darker, unproven abuse theory that the spirit was a wounded girl’s pain given a voice. We weigh the Andrew Jackson legend (almost certainly embellished), the hoax theories pointing at the schoolteacher who later married Betsy, the problem that most of this comes from a book written seventy-three years later, and Bartlett’s memory science, which cuts both ways. And we land where this case always does, unsolved, with a quietly perfect modern coda: Bell and Batts descendants discovering, in the same church pew, that the other family is still around. This is the Bell Witch. New episodes drop every Mugshot Monday. Search Mugshot Mysteries wherever you listen. For 12+ bonus episodes and the Original Case Files vault, join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries SOURCES: M.V. Ingram’s An Authenticated History of the Bell Witch (1894), which incorporates Richard Williams Bell’s firsthand account Our Family Trouble (written 1846), as the primary and much-debated source for the haunting; genealogical records for the Bell family’s origins, the 1804 migration from Edgecombe County, North Carolina, and the nine enslaved people who made that journey (including Tar River Connections and Edgecombe County genealogical materials); the Tennessee State Library and Archives Bell Witch exhibit regarding Dean and the enslaved people on the farm; the World History Encyclopedia and historian Rick Gregory on the Andrew Jackson story and the historical record; the Baptist and Reflector’s reporting on the present-day Bell and Batts descendants; and standard histories of the Second Great Awakening, the Cane Ridge revival, and James McGready. The interpretive frameworks referenced are drawn from standard citations: William Roll’s work on recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis (Seaford, 1958); Nandor Fodor’s repressed-emotion theory of poltergeists (1930s-40s); Pierre Janet on dissociation (1889); René Girard’s scapegoat mechanism; Émile Durkheim on collective effervescence; Justin Barrett’s hyperactive agency detection; William James and the “white crow”; and Frederic Bartlett’s memory research (1932). Brent Monahan’s 1997 novel and the 2005 film An American Haunting are noted as the source of the abuse theory. Where accounts conflict or rest on a single late source, the episode says so. DISCLAIMER: Content warning: This episode discusses a death attributed to poisoning, the physical torment of a child, slavery and violence against enslaved people, and a theory involving the abuse of a minor. It also notes a historical marriage between a 32-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl. Please take care while listening. The Mugshot Mysteries podcast is independently produced and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any individual, family, publication, attraction, or production referenced in this episode. This episode recounts a historical case from the early nineteenth century; all those involved are long deceased, and the events are drawn from historical accounts, folklore, and later scholarship. The overwhelming majority of the surviving narrative comes from a single book published in 1894, decades after the events, which itself relies on a recollection written in 1846; as a result, much of this story is disputed, embellished, or unverifiable, and the episode distinguishes the firmer record from legend where it can, treating episodes such as the Andrew Jackson visit as probably apocryphal. This episode does not assert that ghosts, witches, or supernatural forces are real, nor that any real person, including the historical Kate Batts, was a witch or caused anyone harm; Kate Batts appears in the record as a neighbor who was scapegoated by a rumor. The psychological explanations offered, including dissociation, recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, and scapegoating, are presented as interpretive frameworks, not established findings about any individual. The theory that abuse occurred in the Bell household is explicitly an unproven speculation drawn from a work of fiction, with no documentary support, and is presented as such; nothing here asserts it as fact. Reports of present-day paranormal activity at the site are presented as lore, not established fact. The hosts’ commentary reflects their own opinions. References to any person are made in the context of public records and historical accounts and are not intended to defame or cause harm. Any third-party names and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners and are referenced under fair use for purposes of commentary, criticism, and reporting. Nothing in this episode constitutes professional advice. Send us your theories Support the show 🎧 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you never miss an episode. 🔐 Join the Mugshot Family on Patreon to unlock the Original Case Files vault. 12 members-only episodes for $5/month.  ⭐ Loved this one? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts — it's the fastest way to help us grow. 📸 Follow us on TikTok and Instagram for mugshots, mysteries, paranormal, conspiracies, and everything Gabriel said that didn't make the final cut. Stay curious. Stay suspicious.

  3. Oct 12

    The Angel Makers: The Village Where Women Poisoned Their Husbands

    Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries A whitewashed kitchen in rural Hungary, sometime in the 1920s. A woman boils strips of flypaper in a pot, skims the arsenic residue off the top, and bottles it. In the next room her husband coughs. Outside, the church bell rings and someone hangs laundry. In the tiny village of Nagyrév, about sixty miles from Budapest, this was a routine that lasted some twenty years, and the whole village, it seems, was in on it. When investigators finally started digging up the graves in 1929, they reportedly opened around fifty and found arsenic in forty-six. Husbands, mostly. Also fathers, in-laws, boyfriends, and some children. The newspapers called the women the Angel Makers, and the region the murder district. This week, for October, Mugshot Mysteries went looking for something spooky and found a story where the scariest part is how ordinary murder became. Kathryn and Gabriel go to Nagyrév, and what starts as a creepy-village tale turns into something closer to a seminar on how good, church-going people talk themselves into the unthinkable. The story begins in 1911 with a stranger: Zsuzsanna Fazekas, a midwife with solid references and a husband who had vanished, whom the village came to call Auntie Suzy. In a place with no doctor, the midwife was the entire medical system, the one who delivered the babies, set the bones, ended the pregnancies, and heard every secret too dangerous to tell a priest. Arrested something like ten times and acquitted every time, she taught the village a lesson it wouldn’t forget: nothing happens. We trace how World War I emptied the village of men and handed its women four years of running the farms themselves, how the men came home broken and traumatized to wives who had changed while the old rules hadn’t, and how, into that pressure, came a recipe: boil the flypaper, skim it, stir it into the soup. Arsenic that mimicked cholera, in a village with no one to test for it, even though the test had existed since 1836. And we build the real argument, because this is where the episode lives. Why did one dead husband become a cemetery? We walk it through the great social thinkers, Bandura’s moral disengagement (you don’t say poison, you say remedy), Durkheim’s anomie and Merton’s strain theory for a world whose rulebook had stopped matching reality, Milgram’s obedience experiments and the “agentic state,” the bystander effect at the village well, Vaughan’s normalization of deviance (every funeral that drew no police made the next one safer), and finally Arendt’s banality of evil, because the women of Nagyrév didn’t kill in a frenzy. They killed like it was a chore, then went to Mass. We cover the disputed death toll (forty-five to fifty confirmed, possibly well over a hundred and sixty, with regional estimates as high as three hundred), the anonymous letter that may have ended it, the graves that arsenic had kept eerily intact, Auntie Suzy’s death before she could be tried, and the Szolnok trials that followed. This is the Angel Makers of Nagyrév. New episodes drop every Mugshot Monday. Search Mugshot Mysteries wherever you listen. For 12+ bonus episodes and the Original Case Files vault, join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries SOURCES: Historical accounts of the Nagyrév/Tiszazug arsenic poisonings (roughly 1911-1929) and the Szolnok trials of 1929-1931, including Béla Bodó’s scholarly history of the case and Patti McCracken’s The Angel Makers; contemporaneous 1929 Hungarian newspaper coverage of the investigation, exhumations, arrests, and trials, and the statement attributed to government minister Kuno Klebelsberg; the 2004 BBC reporting from the village, including the interview with resident Mária Gunya; and the documented history of arsenic as a poison and the 1836 Marsh test. The social-science framework referenced throughout is drawn from standard citations in psychology and sociology: Albert Bandura on moral disengagement; Émile Durkheim’s Suicide (1897) and the concept of anomie; Robert Merton’s strain theory (1938); Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments (1961); Diane Vaughan’s normalization of deviance from her work on the Challenger disaster; John Darley and Bibb Latané on the bystander effect; Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963); and Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). Where historical accounts disagree, including on how the case was uncovered, when the poisonings began, and the total number of victims, the episode presents the range rather than a single figure. DISCLAIMER: Content warning: This episode discusses serial poisoning and murder, including the killing of elderly, disabled, and infant victims, as well as suicide and references to war trauma and domestic abuse. Please take care while listening. The Mugshot Mysteries podcast is independently produced and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any individual, publication, broadcaster, or institution referenced in this episode. This episode recounts a historical case from the early twentieth century; all those involved are long deceased, and the events described are drawn from historical scholarship, contemporaneous reporting, and later journalism. Because this case is nearly a century old and was heavily sensationalized in its own time, many specifics, including the number of victims, the identity of the first victim, the degree of any individual’s involvement, and exactly how the poisonings were discovered, are genuinely disputed among sources; the episode presents competing accounts rather than treating any single version as settled fact. Details attributed to particular books, newspapers, or interviews reflect those sources. The psychological and sociological theories discussed are presented as frameworks for understanding the events, not as established explanations of any specific person’s conduct, and the hosts’ commentary reflects their own opinions and interpretations. The references to historical figures such as Adolf Eichmann and to the Challenger disaster are offered as points of comparison drawn from the public record. Any third-party names and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners and are referenced under fair use for purposes of commentary, criticism, and reporting. Nothing in this episode constitutes professional advice. Send us your theories Support the show 🎧 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you never miss an episode. 🔐 Join the Mugshot Family on Patreon to unlock the Original Case Files vault. 12 members-only episodes for $5/month.  ⭐ Loved this one? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts — it's the fastest way to help us grow. 📸 Follow us on TikTok and Instagram for mugshots, mysteries, paranormal, conspiracies, and everything Gabriel said that didn't make the final cut. Stay curious. Stay suspicious.

  4. Oct 5

    Lindsay Clancy: Postpartum Psychosis, a Mistrial, and the Case That Divided Us

    Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries Please note: this episode discusses the deaths of three young children, suicide, and postpartum mental illness. If you are a new mom and you are not in a good place right now, it is okay to skip this one. Support resources are listed at the end of this description. In October 2022, a labor and delivery nurse in Duxbury, Massachusetts texted her mother: "I'm really sick. Something is wrong." Three months later, her three children were dead. This week, in a solo episode, Kathryn tells the story of Lindsay Clancy, and asks a hard, honest question about why so many women looked at this case and, unlike almost any other, did not see a monster. This is a difficult, personal episode, and Kathryn approaches it with that weight. She lays out what came out at trial, the parts that help Lindsay and the parts that don't, and she is careful throughout to separate what was proven, what is alleged, and what remains for a court to decide. Lindsay was charged with first-degree murder and pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, Massachusetts' version of the insanity defense, where the burden falls on the prosecution. In September 2026, after seven days of deliberation, the jury hung. Reporting indicated eleven jurors found her not criminally responsible; one did not. A mistrial was declared. We walk the documented record with care: the months in which, by trial testimony and her own later malpractice suit, Lindsay sought help again and again, a dozen medications, multiple emergency rooms, a day program, an inpatient stay, and psychiatrists who testified she never told them she intended to harm anyone. We cover the prosecution's timeline and its argument that she acted with planning and intent, and the defense's case that she was overmedicated and in postpartum psychosis. We lay out the dueling expert testimony fairly, including that not one doctor on either side called her mentally well, and that even a prosecution expert diagnosed bipolar disorder. And Kathryn draws on the psychology of why this case landed so differently from Casey Anthony's, defensive attribution, the just-world belief, and the cultural trap of "intensive mothering" that leaves only two boxes, perfect mother or monster, that so many women refused to accept here. We also hold space for what rallying behind Lindsay can erase: Cora, Dawson, and Callan, five, three, and eight months old, who lost the most. And we are unequivocal about Patrick Clancy, their father, who lost everything and who has publicly forgiven his wife: the court's record and cited GPS and surveillance evidence place him out of the house, and the online theories that have tried to implicate him are, in his own words, deeply harmful, and have no basis in the evidence. We cover them only to set them aside. Note: This episode reflects the case as of early October 2026. On October 1, 2026, the judge denied a defense motion for a required finding of not guilty; a double-jeopardy motion, a defense request regarding the holdout juror, and a prosecution gag-order request were pending for a November 2 hearing, and the district attorney had not announced whether he would seek a retrial. The case has likely developed since release; please consult current reporting for the latest. New episodes drop every Mugshot Monday. Search Mugshot Mysteries wherever you listen. For bonus episodes, join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries If you are pregnant or have had a baby in the past year and any of this sounds familiar, please reach out. The National Maternal Mental Health Hotline is free, confidential, and available 24/7 at 1-833-852-6262 (1-833-TLC-MAMA). Postpartum Support International's helpline is 1-800-944-4773. If you are thinking about hurting yourself, call or text 988. If you are afraid you might hurt someone else, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room. Stay curious. Stay suspicious. SOURCES: Proceedings and rulings in Commonwealth v. Lindsay Clancy in Plymouth Superior Court before Judge William Sullivan, including the trial testimony, the September 2026 mistrial after a hung jury, the September 29 hearing, and the judge's five-page October 1, 2026 written order denying the motion for a required finding of not guilty (which cited GPS data and surveillance footage placing Patrick Clancy outside the home); trial testimony from Patrick Clancy, treating clinicians, and forensic mental-health experts for both the prosecution and the defense; the civil malpractice lawsuits filed by Lindsay and Patrick Clancy, whose claims are allegations not proven in court; 2023 search-warrant materials; and reporting from the Associated Press, CBS Boston/CBS News, ABC News, NBC News/NBC Boston, CNN, Fox News, WBUR, WPRI, the Boston Globe, and 60 Minutes, among others. Social-science concepts referenced, Kelly Shaver's defensive attribution (1970), Sharon Hays's intensive mothering (1996), and Melvin Lerner's just-world hypothesis, are standard citations from the psychology and sociology literature. The Casey Anthony comparison draws on contemporaneous public reporting of that 2008-2011 case. DISCLAIMER: Content warning: This episode discusses the deaths of three young children, suicide and self-harm, and severe postpartum mental illness, in detail. This is heavy material. Please take care of yourself while listening, and skip this episode if you need to. Support resources are provided above and in the show notes. If you are in crisis, call or text 988; if someone is in immediate danger, call 911. The Mugshot Mysteries podcast is independently produced and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any individual, family, agency, hospital, or news organization referenced in this episode. This is an active, ongoing criminal matter, and this episode reflects the public record as of early October 2026; the situation continues to develop and details may have changed after release. Lindsay Clancy was charged and pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility; her first trial ended in a mistrial, she has not been convicted of these charges, and she is presumed not criminally responsible unless and until the Commonwealth proves otherwise in a court of law. Descriptions of the alleged events, the evidence, and the clinical history reflect trial testimony, court filings, public records, and reporting, not established fact or any conclusion of guilt on the part of the host. Claims drawn from the civil malpractice lawsuits are allegations that have not been proven. The expert opinions described are the opinions of the witnesses who gave them. Nothing in this episode is intended to suggest that any person other than the defendant was responsible for these deaths. Patrick Clancy is a grieving parent; the court record and cited evidence place him outside the home at the time of the killings, and online theories implicating him are without evidentiary basis and are addressed here only to reject them. The holdout juror is not named. The host's reflections on public reaction and on her own experience are personal commentary and are not clinical or legal conclusions about any individual. The children who died were real, and nothing in this episode is meant to diminish their loss or to sensationalize it. References to any person are made in the context of public records and reporting and are not intended to defame, harass, or prejudge any pending proceeding. Any third-party names and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners and are referenced under fair use for commentary, criticism, and reporting. Nothing in this episode constitutes medical, psychological, or legal advice. Send us your theories Support the show 🎧 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you never miss an episode. 🔐 Join the Mugshot Family on Patreon to unlock the Original Case Files vault. 12 members-only episodes for $5/month.  ⭐ Loved this one? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts — it's the fastest way to help us grow. 📸 Follow us on TikTok and Instagram for mugshots, mysteries, paranormal, conspiracies, and everything Gabriel said that didn't make the final cut. Stay curious. Stay suspicious.

  5. Sep 28

    Lizzie Borden: The Hatchet Murders Everyone Got Wrong

    Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries You know the rhyme. Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. Almost every word of it is wrong. It wasn't an axe, it was a hatchet. Not her mother, her stepmother. Not forty whacks, nineteen for Abby Borden and ten for Andrew. But the rhyme got one thing right, the name, and Fall River has been singing it for over a hundred and thirty years. On a sweltering August morning in 1892, two people were hacked to death inside a locked house on Second Street with two other people home. A church-going Sunday school teacher was tried for it, and acquitted by twelve men in about ninety minutes. No one else was ever arrested. Not then. Not ever. This week on Mugshot Mysteries, Kathryn and Gabriel go to Fall River, and argue that everything strange about this case started long before the murders, two doors down, decades earlier. We build the world first: the boomtown of "Spindle City," and Andrew Borden, a genuinely wealthy bank president so miserly he sold eggs from a basket and kept his family in a plumbing-free house on the flat, noisy part of town instead of the mansions on The Hill. We walk the sick architecture of the home itself, no upstairs hallways, rooms opening into rooms, bedroom doors barricaded on both sides, a family that ate in shifts to avoid each other, and the money tensions curdling under it: the property Andrew put in Abby's name, the two grown, unmarried daughters waiting on an inheritance a healthy stepmother stood in front of, and the 1891 daytime burglary of a locked house that Andrew quietly told police to drop, as if he suspected who did it. And we tell the detail that haunts the whole episode: two doors down at that same address, in 1848, a Borden relative drowned her three children in the cellar cistern and cut her own throat. Then the week itself. The whole household violently ill; Abby crossing the street to say she believed she'd been poisoned; a woman matching Lizzie's description trying to buy prussic acid, cyanide, at a local pharmacy the day before the killings, turned away for lack of a prescription. And August 4th, told carefully from the trial record: Abby killed first, upstairs, nineteen blows to a woman already down, an hour before Andrew came home to a nap and ten more blows on the sitting-room sofa. The vanished note no one ever wrote. The barn loft with undisturbed dust where Lizzie said she'd stood. The spotless dress. And the blue dress Lizzie was seen burning in the kitchen stove three days later, "old paint," she said. We lay out the trial that turned on gender: the suppressed inquest testimony and suppressed cyanide evidence, the defense attorney who had appointed one of the judges, and the closing that fit in a single line, "You must believe she is a fiend. Does she look it?" We make the case's most interesting argument, that Victorian America knew female killers well but only as quiet poisoners, so a jury looked at a hatchet and concluded no woman could have swung it, never considering that the poison had simply been tried first and failed. And we close on the aftermath: Maplecroft, the house on The Hill she bought and refused to leave for thirty-four years while the town threw eggs at it; the sister who moved out and never spoke to her again; and the bed-and-breakfast that same murder house has become, where guests pay to sleep beside where Abby died and report a figure in Victorian dress still making the bed, and children's voices no child in that house ever owned. This is Lizzie Borden. New episodes drop every Mugshot Monday. Search Mugshot Mysteries wherever you listen. For 12+ bonus episodes and the Original Case Files vault, join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries SOURCES: Contemporaneous coverage and the surviving court records of the 1892 murders of Andrew and Abby Borden and the 1893 New Bedford trial of Lizzie Borden, including the inquest testimony, the rulings excluding that testimony and the prussic-acid evidence from the jury, the trial witnesses (among them maid Bridget Sullivan, pharmacy clerk Eli Bence, and friend Alice Russell), and the June 20, 1893 acquittal; the documented biographical record of the Borden family, Andrew's wealth and frugality, the property disputes, and the 1891 household burglary; the historical record of the 1848 deaths at the neighboring Borden property; Lizzie Borden's later life at Maplecroft, the 1897 Tilden-Thurber matter, her estrangement from her sister Emma, and her 1927 death; and accounts of reported paranormal activity at the Lizzie Borden House (operating as a bed-and-breakfast museum since 1996) and at Maplecroft, drawn from guests, staff, and televised paranormal programs. Because this case has generated well over a century of folklore and dramatization, the episode distinguishes the documented trial record from the legend where the two diverge. DISCLAIMER: Content warning: This episode describes a graphic double murder, including detailed descriptions of the injuries, and discusses the historical deaths of children. Please take care while listening. The Mugshot Mysteries podcast is independently produced and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any individual, business, or production referenced in this episode, including the Lizzie Borden House or any television program named. This episode recounts a historical case from 1892-1893; all parties are long deceased. Lizzie Borden was tried for these murders and acquitted on all counts, and the case remains officially unsolved. Nothing in this episode is a legal assertion that Lizzie Borden, or any other specific person, committed these crimes; where the hosts discuss the evidence and offer their own interpretations and opinions about who was responsible, those are their views and their reading of a contested historical record, not statements of established fact, and a jury reached the opposite conclusion. Much of the popular Lizzie Borden story includes folklore, later dramatization, and disputed detail, and the episode aims to separate the documented record from legend where possible. Reports of paranormal activity at the properties are presented as the claims and experiences of guests, staff, and investigators, not as established fact, and listeners are left to draw their own conclusions. The victims of these crimes were real people, and they are discussed with respect for the fact that a real, brutal killing occurred. References to any person are made in the context of public records and historical reporting and are not intended to defame or cause harm. Any third-party names and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners and are referenced under fair use for purposes of commentary, criticism, and reporting. Send us your theories Support the show 🎧 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you never miss an episode. 🔐 Join the Mugshot Family on Patreon to unlock the Original Case Files vault. 12 members-only episodes for $5/month.  ⭐ Loved this one? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts — it's the fastest way to help us grow. 📸 Follow us on TikTok and Instagram for mugshots, mysteries, paranormal, conspiracies, and everything Gabriel said that didn't make the final cut. Stay curious. Stay suspicious.

  6. Sep 21

    Hex Hollow: The 1928 Witch Murder of Nelson Rehmeyer

    Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries The last week of November, 1928. York County, Pennsylvania. In an isolated hollow that has carried one family's name for generations, a neighbor finds sixty-year-old potato farmer Nelson Rehmeyer dead on his kitchen floor, beaten, bound, and burned. Someone had poured lamp oil over him and set the house alight, expecting it to burn to the ground. It didn't. The fire scorched a hole through the floorboards, charred the body, and went out. The house refused to burn. And when word spread through the valley, some neighbors didn't call it luck. They said the house couldn't burn, because of what Nelson Rehmeyer was. The men who killed him weren't there to rob him. They walked away with less than three dollars. They came because they believed, completely, that he was a witch who had hexed them, and that killing him was the only cure. This week on Mugshot Mysteries, Kathryn and Gabriel go to Hex Hollow, and to understand the murder, they start not with the crime but with the magic. We trace the real folk tradition at the heart of it: Braucherei, or "powwowing," the Pennsylvania Dutch healing practice German immigrants carried to America in the 1700s, a devoutly Christian tradition of charms, Bible verses, and cures for fevers, burns, and sick livestock, practiced openly by ordinary neighbors. We cover its most famous text, John George Hohman's 1820 The Long Lost Friend, a remedy book still in print two centuries later, said to protect whoever carries it from fire, a promise that returns, darkly, at the end of this story. And we cover the tradition's shadow: if a healer can bless, someone can curse, and the "hex doctor" whose whole business depends on witches existing, because every diagnosis of a hex is also an accusation of a neighbor. Then the people. John Blymire, born into powwowing, a sickly man powwowed fifteen times before age ten, who spent roughly a decade convinced an unseen curse was draining his health and luck, drifting from hex doctor to hex doctor asking one question: who is doing this to me? The elderly woman across the river in Marietta, remembered in legend as "Nellie Noll" though the records suggest another name entirely, who finally gave him a face in a dollar bill: Nelson Rehmeyer, a man who had once powwowed to heal Blymire as a boy. And Rehmeyer himself, a big, quiet, separated-but-amicable farmer who healed on the side and became "the Witch of Rehmeyer's Hollow" only at the moment someone needed a witch. We walk the recruitment of two teenagers and a desperate, failing farm family, the prescribed cure (bury a lock of the witch's hair, or burn his copy of the book), the strange overnight visit where Rehmeyer fed his eventual killers dinner, and the night of November 27 itself, told carefully from the confessions and trial record, where a retrieval mission became a killing, and where Blymire claimed that the instant Rehmeyer died, his own curse lifted and he could finally sleep. Then the "witch trial" that made global headlines and the county's determined effort to keep witchcraft out of its own courtroom by calling a three-dollar killing a robbery. And finally the aftermath: the hollow renamed, the house that still stands with its burned floor under plexiglass and a clock stopped at 12:01, the reported hauntings, and the way the scandal drove an entire folk tradition underground. The episode's real chill isn't whether Rehmeyer was a witch. It's that a curse doesn't have to be real to work. It only needs one person who believes it is. This is Hex Hollow. New episodes drop every Mugshot Monday. Search Mugshot Mysteries wherever you listen. For 12+ bonus episodes and deep dives, join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries SOURCES: Contemporaneous coverage of the November 1928 murder of Nelson Rehmeyer and the 1929 York County trials of John Blymire, John Curry, and Wilbert Hess, including reporting in the York Dispatch and the national and international press; the court records, confessions, and verdicts from the trials (first-degree murder convictions and life sentences for Blymire and Curry, and a second-degree conviction for Hess); Arthur H. Lewis's 1969 book Hex, cited as the popular basis for most later retellings and noted for its novelized, dramatized scenes and dialogue rather than strict documentation; the scholarship of anthropologist David W. Kriebel on Braucherei/powwowing as a traditional Pennsylvania German healing practice; John George Hohman's The Long Lost Friend (Der lange verborgene Freund, 1820) and its folklore; and the 2015 documentary Hex Hollow: Witchcraft and Murder in Pennsylvania, made by a descendant of Nelson Rehmeyer, together with accounts from the family and from visitors to the still-standing farmhouse. Where the legend and the documented record diverge, including the disputed identity of the Marietta "hex doctor," the episode notes the difference. DISCLAIMER: Content warning: This episode describes a violent murder, including beating, strangulation, and burning, and discusses mental illness and the killing of an innocent man. Please take care while listening. The Mugshot Mysteries podcast is independently produced and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any individual, family, publication, or production referenced in this episode, including the makers of any documentary named or the descendants of anyone involved. Send us your theories Support the show 🎧 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you never miss an episode. 🔐 Join the Mugshot Family on Patreon to unlock the Original Case Files vault. 12 members-only episodes for $5/month.  ⭐ Loved this one? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts — it's the fastest way to help us grow. 📸 Follow us on TikTok and Instagram for mugshots, mysteries, paranormal, conspiracies, and everything Gabriel said that didn't make the final cut. Stay curious. Stay suspicious.

  7. Sep 7

    CERN: The God Machine, the Weasels & the Courtyard Ritual Pt. 2:

    Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries In 2008, six months before the Large Hadron Collider switched on, two men filed a federal lawsuit in Honolulu to stop it, arguing the machine might create a black hole and swallow the Earth. A year earlier, two credentialed theoretical physicists had published a real, peer-reviewed paper suggesting something even stranger: that the collider kept suffering bad luck because the future itself was reaching back to sabotage it. And in August 2016, a video filmed inside the lab at night appeared to show hooded figures staging a human sacrifice at the foot of a statue of a Hindu deity called the Destroyer. This is CERN, Part 2 of 2, the God Machine, and this time the accusations aren't about your memory. They're about everything else. Kathryn and Gabriel are upfront, again, that this is a romp: they tell you what's documented, what's claimed, and which claims Gabriel is leaning into "like a man leaning into a buffet." Part 1 was the Mandela Effect. Part 2 takes the largest machine ever built to court, and calls its first witness from the future. We walk the doomsday lawsuit filed by Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho against the U.S. Department of Energy, the NSF, Fermilab, and CERN, and its three ways the collider might end the world: a runaway microscopic black hole, "strangelets" that convert everything they touch, and magnetic monopoles. We give CERN's actual answer, cosmic rays far more energetic than anything the collider produces have been striking Earth for billions of years, and the Earth is still here, and we cover the memorable moment Wagner told The Daily Show the odds of the world ending were "50/50: either it happens or it doesn't." The suit was thrown out; the Ninth Circuit rejected the appeal; the planet remained a planet. Then Gabriel's favorite: the genuinely published work of physicists Holger Bech Nielsen and Masao Ninomiya, whose model proposed that the universe "disfavors" mass production of the Higgs boson so strongly that the future nudges the past to prevent it, an idea they said explained why an earlier American supercollider in Texas was killed by a 1993 budget vote. Nine days after startup, the collider suffered a catastrophic helium explosion that damaged dozens of magnets. Then, during a later cooldown, a bird reportedly dropped a piece of baguette onto an electrical substation. Then a weasel chewed through a transformer in 2016 and knocked the machine offline just as a tantalizing new-particle "bump" in the data was building, a bump that vanished by August. A second weasel died the same way months later; it is now stuffed and on display in a Rotterdam museum. Bad luck, or the future installing better weasels? The theory, the hosts note cheerfully, cannot lose, which makes it a horoscope. And we cover the "occult file": the 666-shaped logo, the Shiva Nataraja statue India gifted the lab in 2004, the town whose name conspiracy sites tie to a Roman "gateway to the underworld," a real 2015 art film shot inside the facility, the goat-headed Gotthard Tunnel opening ceremony, storm clouds called portals, and the 2016 courtyard "sacrifice" video, which CERN investigated and stated was a staged prank by visitors whose sense of humor went too far. The machine is dark until 2030. Four years with no beam, four years in which every theory here gets tested against a world that keeps being weird anyway. This concludes our two-part CERN series. New episodes drop every Mugshot Monday. Search Mugshot Mysteries wherever you listen. For bonus episodes and our full case vault, join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries SOURCES: Court records from Sancho v. U.S. Department of Energy et al. (2008), filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, including the September 2008 dismissal and the Ninth Circuit's 2010 rejection of the appeal; CERN's published Large Hadron Collider safety assessments addressing hypothetical black holes, strangelets, and magnetic monopoles, and the cosmic-ray argument; the 2008 European Court of Human Rights petition associated with Otto Rössler and its rejection; the peer-reviewed papers of Holger Bech Nielsen (Niels Bohr Institute) and Masao Ninomiya (Yukawa Institute) proposing "influence from the future," and the October 2009 New York Times coverage of the theory; documentation of the September 19, 2008 magnet quench and helium-release incident and the fourteen-month repair; reporting on the November 2009 electrical fault attributed to a bird and piece of bread, and the 2016 transformer failures involving martens/weasels, including the specimen held by the Natural History Museum Rotterdam and its director Kees Moeliker; the history of the cancelled U.S. Superconducting Super Collider (1993); the 2004 gift of the Shiva Nataraja statue by the government of India; the 2015 film "Symmetry" by Ruben van Leer, made with CERN's cooperation; the June 2016 Gotthard Base Tunnel opening ceremony; and the August 2016 filmed incident at the Shiva statue, together with CERN's official statement that the video depicted a staged scene by people on campus and its confirmation of an internal investigation. Parallel-universe, "backward causation," and occult interpretations are presented as internet theories, not established fact. DISCLAIMER: Content warning: This episode discusses end-of-the-world scenarios, occult and conspiracy theories, and a widely circulated video that appears to depict a violent ritual. It also describes the electrocution deaths of two animals. Please take care while listening. The Mugshot Mysteries podcast is independently produced and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any individual, institution, company, or agency referenced in this episode, including CERN, or any museum, filmmaker, court, or public figure named. This episode is presented for entertainment and deliberately, openly leans into internet conspiracy culture for comedic effect. The hosts' expressed "belief" in the doomsday, time-sabotage, and occult theories, including remarks suggesting the 2016 courtyard video showed a real killing or that CERN covered something up, is a running comedic bit and a piece of theater, not a factual assertion. To be clear about the documented record: the collider did not and cannot destroy the world; the "influence from the future" hypothesis is a fringe idea that the discovery of the Higgs boson did not bear out; and the 2016 video was investigated by CERN and identified as a staged scene by people with legitimate campus access, with no death, no victim, no missing person, and no criminal case. Nothing in this episode should be understood as a factual claim that CERN, its staff, or its visitors committed, staged, or concealed any real act of violence, or that any real person was harmed. The correlations drawn between the machine's schedule and world events are, by the hosts' own admission, an unfalsifiable pattern offered as a joke, not a causal claim. The scientific explanations described reflect CERN's public safety analysis and mainstream physics. References to real people, companies, and institutions are made in the context of public information and reporting and are not intended to defame, mislead, or cause harm. Any third-party names and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners and are referenced under fair use for purposes of commentary, criticism, and reporting. Send us your theories Support the show 🎧 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you never miss an episode. 🔐 Join the Mugshot Family on Patreon to unlock the Original Case Files vault. 12 members-only episodes for $5/month.  ⭐ Loved this one? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts — it's the fastest way to help us grow. 📸 Follow us on TikTok and Instagram for mugshots, mysteries, paranormal, conspiracies, and everything Gabriel said that didn't make the final cut. Stay curious. Stay suspicious.

  8. Aug 31

    The Mandela Effect: Did CERN Change Your Memories? Pt. 1

    Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries June 2026. One hundred meters beneath the border between Switzerland and France, two beams of protons that have circled a 27-kilometer ring for eighteen years are steered out and dumped into a block of graphite one final time. The Large Hadron Collider, the largest machine humanity has ever built, is powering down for four years of upgrades. Its public status page, after nearly two decades of beam reports, displays a single word: "Goodbye." Within seventy-two hours, the posts begin. Time feels slower. Dreams are suddenly vivid. And across millions of posts, a conviction takes hold: with the machine off, reality itself is quietly snapping back into place. This is CERN, Part 1 of 2, and tonight, Mugshot Mysteries is going weird. Fair warning from Kathryn and Gabriel up top: there's no murder tonight, nobody dies, and sometimes your soul just needs that. What there is instead is the largest machine ever built, the internet's absolute keyboard-hammering conviction that it broke reality, and one host who has fully, joyfully bought in while the other plays the world's most reluctant skeptic. The show usually walks a careful line between what's documented and what's claimed. Tonight, everything is on the table. Part 1 belongs to the Mandela Effect. We start in a Dragon Con hospitality suite in 2009, where paranormal researcher Fiona Broome mentions Nelson Mandela's death in prison in the 1980s, an event that never happened, and discovers a roomful of strangers who remember it exactly as vividly as she does. From there we build the theory the internet assembled brick by brick: CERN's history from its 1954 founding and its accidental invention of the World Wide Web, through the 2008 startup of the collider, to the July 4, 2012 announcement of the Higgs boson, the so-called "God Particle." Because weeks after that announcement, a blog post noticed a children's book series had apparently always been the Berenstain Bears, not Berenstein, and the internet went looking for something with enough cosmic horsepower to shift a whole population's memory one letter to the left. It found a machine under Switzerland that recreates the Big Bang forty million times a second. Then the tour every listener will lose at least once: the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia that the company swears never existed, "Luke, I am your father" (a line never actually spoken), Smokey Bear versus Smokey the Bear, Ed McMahon and the sweepstakes check he never delivered, the monocle the Monopoly man never wore, and the beloved genie movie "Shazaam" starring Sinbad, a film that does not exist and that thousands of people can describe scene by scene. We give the documented record and the shared memory for each, and we give memory science its due: recollection is reconstruction, rebuilt and re-corrupted every time you recall it, and false memories have been implanted in labs for decades. The internet has reviewed that explanation and given it two stars, not because it's wrong, but because it's boring and doesn't explain the feeling. We close on the six weeks since the "Goodbye," the snap-back posts, the Risky Business sunglasses that may or may not have always been there, and a teaser for Part 2, which trades memory for matter: a real federal lawsuit filed to stop the collider from ending the world, physicists who published papers suggesting the machine was being sabotaged from its own future, and the night in 2016 when hooded figures staged what looked like a human sacrifice in the courtyard, which the lab called a prank taken too far. This is Part 1 of our two-part CERN series. New episodes drop every Mugshot Monday. Search Mugshot Mysteries wherever you listen. For bonus episodes and our full case vault, join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries SOURCES: Public information from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, on the history of the laboratory, the Large Hadron Collider, and the scheduled Long Shutdown periods; the September 2008 first-beam circulation and the July 4, 2012 announcement, by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson, predicted by Peter Higgs and others in 1964; CERN's development of the World Wide Web, originating in Tim Berners-Lee's 1989 proposal and the first website in 1991; CERN's public statements regarding the "Mandela Effect," confirming that the collider has no mechanism for altering memory or history; Fiona Broome's own account of coining the term "Mandela Effect" around 2009-2010; the documented biography of Nelson Mandela, including his 1990 release, 1994 election, and 2013 death; statements from Fruit of the Loom, Publishers Clearing House, the USDA Forest Service (regarding Smokey Bear), and the comedian Sinbad addressing the respective memory phenomena; the widely reported 2016 filmed incident at CERN's Shiva statue and the lab's statement that it was a staged prank by personnel; and general psychological research on memory reconstruction, confabulation, and experimentally implanted false memories. The parallel-universe and "timeline shift" explanations discussed are internet theories presented as such, not scientific findings. DISCLAIMER: The Mugshot Mysteries podcast is independently produced and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any individual, institution, company, or agency referenced in this episode, including CERN, or any brand or public figure named. This episode is presented for entertainment, and it deliberately and openly leans into internet conspiracy culture for fun. The hosts' enthusiastic "belief" in the theory that the Large Hadron Collider altered reality, shifted timelines, or edited anyone's memory is a bit, a piece of playful theater, not a factual claim, and nothing in this episode should be understood as asserting that CERN or its collider has changed history, memory, or the fabric of reality. There is no scientific evidence for such a mechanism, and CERN has stated plainly that none exists. The "Mandela Effect" is real in the sense that large numbers of people genuinely share specific false memories; the well-supported explanation for it is the reconstructive nature of human memory, not parallel universes. Where the episode recounts brand logos, movie quotes, mascots, and other disputed details, the documented record is the accurate one, and the shared "memories" described are the phenomenon under discussion, not corrections to that record. The correlations drawn between the collider's operating schedule and world events are presented, by the hosts' own admission, as an unfalsifiable pattern offered in jest rather than as any causal claim. References to real people, living or deceased, and to real companies and institutions are made in the context of public information and are not intended to defame or mislead. Any third-party names and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners and are referenced under fair use for purposes of commentary, criticism, and reporting. Send us your theories Support the show 🎧 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you never miss an episode. 🔐 Join the Mugshot Family on Patreon to unlock the Original Case Files vault. 12 members-only episodes for $5/month.  ⭐ Loved this one? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts — it's the fastest way to help us grow. 📸 Follow us on TikTok and Instagram for mugshots, mysteries, paranormal, conspiracies, and everything Gabriel said that didn't make the final cut. Stay curious. Stay suspicious.

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Some stories are solved. Most aren’t.The interesting ones refuse to stay buried. Mugshot Mysteries is a deep-dive podcast hosted by Kathryn and Gabriel, exploring true crime, conspiracies, paranormal encounters, cults, historical disasters, government cover-ups, and the stories that keep people awake long after the episode ends. Every episode blends immersive storytelling, psychological analysis, dark humor, and the kind of rabbit holes that make you question whether history is telling the full truth. One week it’s serial killers. The next it’s MKUltra, haunted hospitals, vanished ships, UFO encounters, or deaths that still don’t make sense decades later. Kathryn brings the research. Gabriel brings the questions, the theories, and occasionally a comment so out of pocket it completely derails the conversation. Expect deep dives, unexpected tangents, and at least one moment where Kathryn has to stop and say, “Wow. Wow wow wow.” If it’s disturbing, unexplained, historically strange, or impossible to forget… it belongs in the lineup. New episodes every week.

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