Rotten Mango

December 12th is the night that everyone has been waiting for.   The invitation is cryptic - it takes some guests weeks to figure out what it reads.   “Sdaeh tsilaer & sesserd gnol eit kcalb?”   The secret is this - you have to reflect it into the mirror to figure out what it says.   “Black tie, long dresses & surrealist heads.”   Welcome to the Rothschild's (one of the wealthiest and most powerful families) newest secret party. Everyone walks in donning a giant bejeweled mask of animals that you would normally hunt. Stags. Deer. Birds in cages.   The staff in the massive mansion are dressed as cats, perched on the stairs, meowing at the passing guests. There’s no way they’re not hunting people afterwards right?   That’s always been the conspiracy. Rich people hunting the poor for sport. But what if it is true? What if it happened in South Korea and became the inspiration of the Netflix show - Squid Game?

It’s the biggest church in South Korea but nobody knows it exists. The church itself can fit at least 4,000 church goers all at once. But that’s not the intriguing part of the church… they just do things differently.   There are a row of people standing in front of the pastor. They are asking him for forgiveness but they’re all wearing the same thing. A red sack with big ugly painted letters on there that read “I am a sinner who has gone against God’s word.”   Pastor Lim prays over them - one by one. Before he turns around and pulls out a set of red boxing gloves. He slowly, calmly puts them on and starts beating the people down. He doesn’t stop till the entire row of red sack wearing people are bloody on the floor.   Then he calmly fixes his clothes and heads back to the podium to continue preaching to the church goers.   This is not a cult story.   This is Brother’s Home. A government funded camp to cleanse the humans of South Korea ahead of the Olympics.   The true story behind the Squid Game show.

They’re all wearing the same blue tracksuit. Thousands of them standing out in the middle of the woods wearing the same thing. What is this place?   They’re out in the middle of the woods - in what appears to be a small secretive city? A military base? How did they get 60+ buildings out here in the middle of the forest?   And that giant wall… it’s 30 feet tall. Tall enough to keep people out. Or keep them in.    The guards are watching each of the track suit wearing people with precision. One wrong move and you get beat. That’s when they hear it…    The man starts running up onto the roof of one of the buildings - and there he goes. He flies off the top and lands in front of everyone. On his head.    Someone standing right there says - “honestly, I didn’t know the sound of someone’s head exploding could make such a loud splitting sound. I saw his skull explode open.”   A guard member walks out and sweeps up his brains and bones as if nothing happened. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? It kind of sounds like the plot of one of the most famous series on Netflix, Squid Game.   But it’s not.    This is the real life case of the Brother’s Home in South Korea.  The true story behind Squid Game.   Full source note: rottenmangopodcast.com

I received an email from the ex-wife of a serial killer. The subject reads: “ I was married to a serial killer for 7.5 years and I need help!!”   Her ex husband was sentenced to death for the murder of 3 women. When authorities searched his house they found a soundproof torture chamber. Whips, iron chains, and many many files. Video files of him torturing his victims - plucking out their nails one by one.    Now, his ex wife has come forward to ask for help. She was not only one of the first people he tried to kill but now her son (that she shares with him) has been taken. The serial killer’s mother has taken her son and now she’s on the hunt to get him back.      This is her GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-reunite-a-mother-with-her-son-after-35-year Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

Sang’s mom is haunted. Everyone has their own explanations for it but it’s that simple.  Every time she sets the dinner table - she stares at the empty seat. Sometimes smiling, sometimes pouting, but always as if someone is sitting there.  Sang would ask -  “Mom, is everything alright?” “Just make sure to save some of the meat for Niuniu - you know that’s her favorite.” Sang’s mom would motion at the empty chair and smile.  The haunting started when Niuniu, Sang’s little sister, went missing. Nobody knew what happened to her other than the fact that she received a creepy doll with moving eyes shortly before she went missing.  26 years later Niuniu would come back to tell everyone the truth. She was kidnapped, trafficked, and sold. After 26 years she was coming back to kill her trafficker. Get her revenge.      Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com