Rotten Mango

Do you trust a random stranger to give you life-altering advice? A TikToker is standing on the sidewalk with a giant pasteboard - “ASK ME FOR FREE ADVICE.”  A middle aged man on a bike stops and asks “Do I go to Uzbekistan or stay here?” The whole exchange is bizarre. She asks him why would he move? He tells her for a woman. She asks him why doesn’t he just date an American woman? He tells her tha...

“I woke up alone in a hospital. There is nobody here. I can’t find a single person. Humanity is extinct. The date is February 2027.” That is from a viral TikToker, Javier, who claims he is from the future to warn us about humanity. But there’s no way he’s actually from the future, right? Meanwhile, in Miami - an IG model is telling the police - “the aliens are coming. They’re coming. They’re comin...

Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow award-winning podcast, is back. Unlike previous seasons, writer and host Jed Lipinski brings listeners new episodes every week with no end in sight. Each episode of Gone South Season 4 tells a different story about one of the South's most interesting crimes. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use o...

Someone is going to die at the luxury 5 star resort… it’s going to happen. It happened in Hawaii. The hotel manager was stabbed by a wealthy hotel guest.  Then in Italy. A wealthy woman was killed by her husband for her inheritance. And now - someone is going to die at the Four Season Resort in Thailand.  At least in the show White Lotus. Season 3 with Lisa from Blackpink will debut sometime in 20...

When you walk into an Abercrombie & Fitch store - just know, that they’re watching you. They know that most likely you will take a right upon entering. They know approximately how long you will stay in the store. What the scent and the music of the store does to impact your spending.  But most importantly - they know that you were lured in by the shirtless guys standing out in the front. Each empl...

It’s the middle of the day in South Korea. Koreans are at work, grabbing lunch, picking up their kids from school, minding their own business.  Amongst them is an American man named Ramsey- who clearly does not look like he’s up to any good.  He’s live-streaming on his phone while glancing from side to side.  When he feels the coast is clear he takes out his portable speaker… and starts playing… D...

It’s a pre-fixed menu - like one of those fancy Michelin star restaurants.  Breakfast is served at 6 with two slices of their in house special bread.  Lunch is their iconic “special k loaf.” A dense mixture of - bread and cereal.  Dinner is typically a thick, goopy, chicken gravy over rice.  If this isn’t your style they always have the a la carte menu where you can order - rib meals, jalapeño che...

In September 2024, Eminem released a new song - the lyrics read: “I’m like a R-A-P-E-R  Got so many SAs  Wait  He didn’t just spell the word rapper and leave out a P-Didhe? RIP, rest in peace Biggie and Pac  Both of y’all should be living  Cause he might put a hit on me like - Keefe D get em” Notorious BIG & Tupac were two of the most influential musicians in the world. They were both murdered wit...

A mysterious new book starts making its way to the top of the Best Sellers category on Amazon books. It just doesn’t make sense though. The book isn’t authored by a well known author… on top of that, it’s quite a pricey book.  59 pages.  $22. Reviewers say it’s riddled with typos and factual inaccuracies. Why is it suddenly on the best sellers list? The title is: “Kim’s Lost Words: A Journey For J...

Jonathan Oddi has a lot of conspiracies. He believes everything has been engineered with agendas to create the most chaos and confusion possible - that is the fall of humans.  That’s what he’s telling confused investigators in the interrogation room after firing shots inside of a hotel. He’s telling them he did this to wake up the American people from the illuminati. The officers ask him how he kn...

A woman named Ashley walks into the emergency room with strange injuries. Bruises all over her body. Scrape marks on knees and bite marks on her face.  The nurses don’t feel comfortable with her explanation of how she sustained such severe injuries. The only answer that makes sense to them… is abuse. Severe abuse. A beating.  They call the police to report it - and by the end of the night, the pat...

Ronan’s 6 year old daughter has finally come back home but something is not right. Ever since the little girl got home strange things have been happening…  A cockroach breaking through the window. The child suddenly growing double the teeth in her mouth. Somehow she’s able to shut doors that are on the other side of the room. She’s talking to people who aren’t there…  Ronan knows why. Her little d...

Lucy Li is sitting in a small room with a blanket draping over her shoulders.  A man sits in front of her and asks about how her flight was. “It’s not the best flight experience, I’m not used to sitting in tight spaces… And I feel really bad for the officers that had to come and get me because they had to make stopovers…” She puts her hand to her heart, “Me and mom was really concerned about that....

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For the low price of $200k you can freeze yourself. Freeze yourself so that one day you can reach immortality. One day in the future, if someone can figure out how to make humans immortal - all they have to do is thaw you out.  It’s a luxury only the wealthy can afford.  In Taiwan, an 18 year old boy has been kept in the morgue freezer for over a year now.  But it’s not because he’s trying to reac...

There was this rumor going around in the K-Pop world in 2016 If you want your favorite artist to do well – you have to buy their albums from two specific retailers… One of those companies was called Synnara Records.  At their height, it is said they had a 30% share of the record market volume. They are one of the rare business success stories raking in millions of dollars.  Until you dig deeper. ...

There is an annual competition - where 10 groups come together to use NASA level technology to beat each other in a high speed race. Who can create the fastest car. Who can go the fastest and win.  The key component here is to stay alive because when you’re driving at 200mph. It’s not an easy feat.  That’s why the Formula 1 drivers get paid so much. F1 is ultimately a dangerous sport with car cras...

He doesn’t know it yet but his wife is about to divorce him. They have been married for the past 50 years and everyone that knows them - believes them to be the perfect couple.  How is he going to explain that it was all an accident? He didn’t mean to film up the girl’s skirts at the supermarket?  He tries to convince her it might be dementia. Perhaps his brain is finally giving out at his old age...

7-year-old Heaven was brought into the Budha House to be healed. The neighbors who brought her in tried to explain - she had been playing and hanging onto a bar when she fell and hit her head. She is now unconscious.  But the healers could just take one look at Heaven and know - the little girl is dead.  When Heaven’s mom finally sees Heaven’s little body - she finds something even more puzzling....

It’s said the parents of Nova (Northern Virginia) have their little groups that they stick to during school drop offs and pick ups. It’s an upscale neighborhood - with many residents working in government as politicians or even federal agents. It’s only a 30 minute drive to DC.  But there is one woman that most moms likely avoid at the school bus stop.  The new live in lover of the federal agent t...

South Korea is going through an erase all faces panic. Every single selfie is being wiped from the internet just in case. As a response - a male college student wrote on a forum -  “Put a finger down and ask yourself  Have I ever been asked out or confessed to? (Joke confessions do not count)  Do a lot of men try to talk to me even though I don’t talk to them first? Have I ever looked into the mir...

Grandma C knew that something wasn’t right about what she was looking at. Her daughter is standing there holding her 2-month-old baby. But everything is wrong.  Her daughter’s pants are soaked in urine.  The way she’s talking sounds like someone clamped her tongue, and two-month-old baby Mirabelle is not moving.  In fact, Mirabelle’s little face is bright angry red and her body seems stiff.  Grand...

There is a college student laying down on the hospital bed. She’s staring up at the ceiling in distress as someone records her silently from the corner of the room.  “I’m going to have such a long day tomorrow - I’m not going to answer anyone’s Snapchats!” The person recording does not respond.  “Well, you’re too quiet. I’m going to start singing since I hate the quiet.”  The girl gets up in the h...

Hospitals are no strangers to death. But something very odd was happening inside the walls of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College.  The medical students, junior doctors, professors were all running away from the classroom. Screaming.  Administrators rushed to call Dr. Di’s parents.  ‘She self exited.’ That is what her parents were told. Their precious daughter had taken her own life. Perhaps it was t...

The entire courtroom is quiet as each person walks up to the front and points. They point at this tiny miniature model of a movie theater sitting on the table.  The tiny blue miniature-model seats are positioned just like they were when it all happened.  3 years ago - the emergency exit door to Theater 9 would open. A man with bright orange hair wearing tactical gear would walk into the theater -...