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BACK OUR PATREON! https://bit.ly/deepcutspatreon CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://bit.ly/mysterytreehouse -- Who is R.L. Stine? He’s the author of the immensely popular Goosebumps and Fear Street book series, who at the height of his success entered into a lengthy legal battle with Scholastic. But we’ll also dive into the man truly responsible for the success of Goosebumps, a guy you’ve...

BACK OUR PATREON! https://bit.ly/deepcutspatreon CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://bit.ly/mysterytreehouse -- What is JenniCam? The brainchild of Jennifer Ringley, JenniCam was the first “lifecast” on the internet where everything about Jennifer’s life was streamed 24/7, so curious onlookers could see her do everything, from eating to going to the bathroom to having sex. -- Written by Mik...

Note: Sorry for the radio silence! Long story short, the latest MacBook Pro seems to have some kind of line-wide defect. When I first bought it last year, the screen died a day later. And I got another one, and it worked fine for like a year and then about three weeks ago the screen died again. I took it to the Apple Store for a repair, they fixed it, I got it...and the screen died again. And so I...

BACK OUR PATREON! https://bit.ly/deepcutspatreon CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://bit.ly/mysterytreehouse -- What were the Kentucky Cave Wars? It was a fierce business rivalry in the early 1900s between competing cave owners around Mammoth Cave in south-central Kentucky. It involved sabotage, dueling false advertising and smear campaigns, and other cartoonish hijinks that resulted in a n...

BACK OUR PATREON! https://bit.ly/deepcutspatreon CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://bit.ly/mysterytreehouse -- Who is Roy Jay? He was a British-Norwegian comedian who performed stand-up from the 1970s until his death in 2007. However, something strange happened in April 2025. The internet became convinced Roy Jay was an AI-generated demon who was inserting himself into our memories as part...

BACK OUR PATREON! https://bit.ly/deepcutspatreon CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://bit.ly/mysterytreehouse -- What is the Satanic Panic? It was a moral panic predominantly occurring in North America throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. The general public lost their shit over the belief that Satan worshippers, from school teachers to politicians, were members of a cult that would abduct,...

BACK OUR PATREON! https://bit.ly/deepcutspatreon CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://bit.ly/mysterytreehouse -- Who is Ray Buckey? He was a preschool teacher, but in the height of the 1980s Satanic Panic, he as well as other teachers at his school, underwent years of trials for sexually abusing children, becoming the longest and most expensive criminal case in United States history. And it...

BACK OUR PATREON! https://bit.ly/deepcutspatreon CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://bit.ly/mysterytreehouse -- Who is Vince Offer? If you watched any television in the late 2000s, you undoubtedly saw Vince hock a product called ShamWow, a super absorbent towel. His abrasive, enthusiastic personality made him an instant icon, but frequent lawsuits, a scandal with a sex worker, and an anti-w...

BACK OUR PATREON! https://bit.ly/deepcutspatreon CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://bit.ly/mysterytreehouse -- Yasuke: The Black Man Who Escaped Slavery and Became the First Non-Japanese Samurai -- Written by Adam Smith -- Join our Discord server! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts...

BACK OUR PATREON! https://bit.ly/deepcutspatreon CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://bit.ly/mysterytreehouse -- What is Slab City? It’s an off-the-grid unincorporated community in the California Sonoran Desert, taking its name from concrete slabs left behind by the Marine Corps and upon which the city was built. With about 150 year-round residents, Slab City is often touted as the last lawl...

BACK OUR PATREON! https://bit.ly/deepcutspatreon CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://bit.ly/mysterytreehouse -- Between 1942 and 1977, Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning not once. Not twice. But seven times. Seven separate incidents, each documented. Each time, he survived.  This is not a metaphor. This isn’t a folk tale. This is a real guy who lived through something so absurdly implausi...

BACK OUR PATREON! https://bit.ly/deepcutspatreon CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://bit.ly/mysterytreehouse -- This is the true story of a woman who lured a series of vulnerable young people—most of them queer or trans—into her home with promises of friendship, acceptance, and a place to stay. But once inside, they weren’t allowed to just be themselves. They had to become characters from F...

BACK OUR PATREON! https://bit.ly/deepcutspatreon CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://bit.ly/mysterytreehouse -- What is the CIA vampire hoax? It was a 1950s military operation in which the CIA fought back against Filipino insurgents via psychological warfare by making them think that local vampires, known as the “Aswang,” were ready to kill them all, one by one. -- Written by Mike Bedard --...

BACK OUR PATREON! https://bit.ly/deepcutspatreon CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://bit.ly/mysterytreehouse -- Who are the Carpet People? They’re two separate guys - Kevin Carpet and Georgio the Human Carpet - who have nothing to do with one another, yet they each inexplicably wrap themselves up in carpet to lie down in New York nightclubs, hoping that people will step on them. -- Written...

So, who are the people of Kalachi, Kazakhstan, and why did an entire town just decide to nap for days on end? Well, they didn’t exactly “decide” – but, in a phenomenon that still has people confounded years later, hundreds of villagers in Kalachi started randomly falling asleep for days. And by that, we don’t mean they got extra comfy on the couch; we’re talking multi-day comas. This town fell int...

Who is William Banks? He’s a New York-based artist and comedian who specializes in avant garde performance art This includes forming his own cult, going to jail, breaking out of jail, committing a crypto scam, and donating all the profits from said scam to Palestinian charities. Cults, weird comedy, and financial scams? William Banks might just be the very embodiment of the internet. -- Written by...

What is the sex raft experiment? In the extremely insane pantheon of insane 1970s science experiments, right next to dolphin handjobs and psychic spoon-bending, there lies one forgotten maritime debacle more Love Island than thesis. It was called the "Acali Experiment," but history remembers it by a better name: The Sex Raft. -- Written by Adam Smith -- Join our Discord server! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

What happens when a teenager turns small-time theft into a nationwide manhunt? In this episode, we dive into the wild story of Colton Harris-Moore — better known as  The Barefoot Bandit.  From stolen planes to high-speed boat chases, Colton’s two-year crime spree captured headlines around the world and turned him into an unlikely folk hero. -- Written by Adam Smith -- Join our Discord server! ⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Vincent “The Chin” Gigante was a crime boss infamous for two pretty stellar feats. One: sounding like a Dick Tracy villain. And two: feigning mental illness in order avoid prosecution for a lifetime of crime. Most surprisingly, he almost pulled it off. -- Written by Adam Smith -- Join our Discord server! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Today we unravel one of the most infamous scandals in music history – the story of Milli Vanilli, the duo that rose to global stardom only to become the ultimate cautionary tale of pop culture. This is the tale of manufactured fame, kayfabe, and a lie that grew too big to sustain. -- Written by Adam Smith -- Join our Discord server! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/deepcutsdis...

Who is Gareb Shamus? He’s the founder of Wizard Magazine, an influential resource of comic book news in the ‘90s that contributed to the comic speculation market and subsequent crash of that era. And while he helped push the medium of entertainment news forward initially, more recently, you can find him hocking … NFTs? -- Written by Mike Bedard -- Join our Discord server! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

What is Roar? It’s a 1981 movie starring Noel Marshall, Tippi Hedren, and Melanie Griffith about a family that gets attacked by dozens of big cats. However, the movie itself isn’t all that interesting compared to the story behind it because throughout production, as many as 70 people were injured from those cats, making it one of the most dangerous film productions in history. -- Written by Mike B...

The Dolphin House, the story of a flooded home, a scientist’s dream, and a dolphin named Peter who showed us all how important connection and *contact* can really be. -- Written by Adam Smith -- Join our Discord server! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts and other merch! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Who is J. Fred Muggs? He was the chimp co-host of The Today Show who helped save the show from an early cancellation, much to the dismay of his co-host, who went to ridiculous lengths to get Muggs kicked off the show, including putting drugs in his drinks. -- Written by Mike Bedard -- Join our Discord server! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

While Howard Stern is now a reputable figure of pop culture, it’s easy to forget how truly shocking his ascent was. And in the case of his fame making feud, how dark it really was. -- Written by Adam Smith Edited by Lewis Poggie -- Join our Discord server! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/deepcutsdiscord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -- Pick up some Deep Cuts T-Shirts...