Lipgloss & Lobotomies Podcast

What’s worse than checking into a hotel and finding the room a little… questionable? How about discovering there’s a body hidden inside the mattress? 😳🛏️ And if that doesn’t make your skin crawl, imagine waking up after a night out only to discover that someone may have stolen something a little more vital than your wallet. 🩺👀 This week, we’re diving into two infamous urban legends: The Body in...

💋🧠 Lipgloss & Lobotomies Two classic urban legends. Two stories guaranteed to make you check the locks twice. 👀🔒 This week, we’re getting into “The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs” 📞🏠 and “The Hitchhiker Who Never Made It Home” 🚗👻. One involves a babysitter, a mysterious caller, and a terrifying warning. The other follows a hitchhiker whose story takes a seriously eerie turn. Are these...

What if the year isn’t actually 2026?   This week on Lipgloss & Lobotomies, we’re diving into Heribert Illig’s Phantom Time Hypothesis—his claim that 297 years of history, from AD 614 to 911, were fabricated and never actually happened.   Then, we’re traveling to rural Nebraska and the infamous Seven Sisters Road, where legend says seven sisters met a horrifying fate among the hills—and some s...

🎀 Lipgloss & Lobotomies — Nathaniel Bar-Jonah What happens when the person hiding in plain sight looks completely ordinary? This week, we’re stepping into the disturbing story of Nathaniel Bar-Jonah—a convicted sex offender whose name became linked to one of Montana’s most unsettling criminal investigations. From a troubled history and disturbing behavior to allegations involving missing chil...

💄👻 Lipgloss & Lobotomies: The Chase Vault & Garnet Ghost Town What do a sealed vault in Barbados and an abandoned mining town in Montana have in common? Besides giving us major “absolutely not, I’m not going in there” energy… they’re both surrounded by mysteries that have refused to stay buried. 👀 First, we’re heading to Barbados to investigate the Chase Vault Mystery—the infamous tomb...

🖤 The Lobotomy Brief: Mechanicville Update In this edition of The Lobotomy Brief, we’re returning to the heartbreaking case that shook Mechanicville, New York. When we first covered the deaths of six members of one family, many questions remained unanswered. Now, investigators have confirmed that four of the deaths have been ruled homicides, while the deaths of the two adult women have been ruled...

 Lipgloss & Lobotomies — Episode Description What do hydraulic pressure and a suspected serial killer have in common? Probably absolutely nothing… except that we somehow managed to put them in the same episode. 😂🕷️🔪 First, we’re getting weirdly scientific and diving into the fascinating world of wolf spiders and hydraulics—how these eight-legged little nightmares use internal fluid pressure...

🦈✨ This week on Lipgloss & Lobotomies… Did you know sharks were swimming Earth’s oceans before trees existed? Or that some sharks are older than Saturn’s rings? We kick things off with a few mind-bending facts that will have you questioning just how ancient our planet really is. Then, we check into one of the Midwest’s most haunted destinations: Belvoir Winery & Inn. Once home to the his...

💄🧠 Lipgloss & Lobotomies Podcast Episode Description This week on Lipgloss & Lobotomies, we’re unraveling two chilling stories separated by more than a century—but forever connected by the search for the truth. First, we brave the frozen Arctic to explore Sir John Franklin’s infamous 1845 expedition aboard the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. What was meant to be a historic voyage through the...

🔎✨ Lipgloss & Lobotomies: Missing Scientists & The Legend of Old Man Stuckey Bridge 🌉🖤 What happens when a brilliant mind disappears without a trace? In this episode, we dive into the mysterious disappearance of a scientist whose vanishing left behind unanswered questions, strange theories, and a trail of speculation. Then we travel into the shadows of folklore with the chilling legend...

One phone call. Forty-seven minutes. Two chilling words… and then silence. This week on Lipgloss & Lobotomies, we’re diving into one of the most haunting missing person cases in modern history—the disappearance of 19-year-old Brandon Swanson. After his car slid into a ditch on a dark rural road in Minnesota, Brandon called his parents for help. As they searched for him, he stayed on the phone,...

What happens when two curious podcasters let a mysterious app decide where they should go? This week, Alyssa and I step into the strange world of Randonautica, chasing random coordinates and seeing if intention, coincidence, or something much stranger is waiting for us at the end of the journey. Did we find exactly what we were looking for… or did it find us? Then we’re heading deep into the woods...

A heartbreaking tragedy has shaken the community of Mechanicville, New York. In this special edition of The Lobotomy Brief, we’re covering the latest developments surrounding the deaths of six members of the same family. Authorities are investigating what they believe may have been a murder-suicide, though the investigation remains active and officials continue to await final forensic findings.  ...

This week on Lipgloss & Lobotomies, we’re diving into two chilling mysteries that blur the line between folklore, urban legend, and nightmare fuel. First, we travel behind the Iron Curtain to explore the eerie Soviet legend of Cosmo—a strange and unsettling tale whispered through generations, filled with mystery, fear, and unanswered questions. Was it simply a myth, a cautionary tale, or somet...

What if the feeling of déjà vu is more than a simple memory glitch? Could some people really sense events before they happen? In this episode of Lipgloss & Lobotomies, we’re heading to 1960s Britain to explore the fascinating work of psychiatrist John Barker. Intrigued by reports of déjà vu, premonitions, and uncanny predictions, Barker established the British Premonitions Bureau, a unique pro...

This week, we’re diving into one of the most puzzling missing person cases in modern true crime: the disappearance of Maura Murray. On a cold February night in 2004, Maura’s car was found crashed along a rural road in Haverhill. Witnesses reported seeing her near the scene, but by the time authorities arrived, she was gone. More than two decades later, the question remains: What happened to Maura...

This week on Lipgloss & Lobotomies, we’re diving headfirst into the deadly allure of sirens — the seductive creatures of mythology said to lure sailors to their doom with hypnotic songs and impossible beauty. From ancient legends to modern paranormal theories, we explore why the story of sirens still haunts us centuries later… and whether these creatures were ever really just myths. Then we st...

💄🖤 This week on Lipgloss & Lobotomies, we’re taking you behind the scenes of an unforgettable paranormal adventure at the infamous Pennhurst Asylum.   From wandering the dark halls of one of America’s most haunted locations to meeting some of the biggest names in the paranormal world, this episode is packed with chills, laughs, and memories we’ll never forget. We share what it was like meeti...

What happens when the government experiments with the human mind… and a real-life monster hides in plain sight? This week on Lipgloss & Lobotomies Podcast, we’re diving headfirst into some of the darkest conspiracy theories and declassified secrets in American history. From eerie CIA code transmissions and Cold War psychological warfare to Project Artichoke, the MKUltra program, and the terrif...

Two stories. One chilling thread of unfinished business. In this week’s episode of Lipgloss & Lobotomies, we dive into the haunting case of Elva Zona Heaster Shue—the only known case where a ghost’s testimony helped solve her own murder. What really happened the night Zona died… and did she truly return for justice? Then we step inside Maryland’s infamous Hell House—a former seminary turned pa...

Deep in the shadows of the Appalachian Mountains, stories linger that many refuse to acknowledge. Whispers of feral people—figures said to move silently through the woods, watching from just beyond the tree line. Then there are the Blue People of Kentucky, a real family whose skin carried a rare genetic condition, blurring the line between science and legend. And even older still, the mysterious M...

What if I told you… humans actually glow? ✨ Not metaphorically—your body emits a faint bioluminescent light invisible to the naked eye. Yeah… you’re basically a walking ghost light and don’t even know it. But while we’re glowing in the dark, history holds shadows far darker… This week, we travel to Malaga Island—a place where real lives were torn apart. Families labeled “unfit,” forced from their...

This week on Lipgloss & Lobotomies, we’re diving into two stories that blur the line between myth, mystery, and something far more sinister.   First, we head into the depths of the Grand Canyon, where a bizarre 1909 newspaper article claimed the discovery of an ancient underground cavern filled with Egyptian artifacts, hieroglyphics, and even mummies. Was this an archaeological cover-up tied t...

In this episode of Lipgloss & Lobotomies, we dive into two horrors—one microscopic, the other deeply human. First, we unravel the unsettling truth about microplastics… the invisible invaders hiding in our water, our food, even our bodies. From the depths of the ocean to human bloodstreams, these tiny fragments have infiltrated nearly every corner of life on Earth. What does that mean for our h...

At first glance, they look like nothing—just faint little red dots scattered across a black sky. But those tiny specks captured by powerful telescopes? They’re entire galaxies… burning billions of light-years away. Some are so distant, we’re not seeing them as they are—but as they once were. In a way, we’re staring at the ghosts of the universe… echoes of something that may no longer even exist. A...