Have you ever played Hide & Seek? The game? Sarah and her boyfriend Jorge Torres decided to play one night. The best hiding spot they could find was inside a suitcase. Jorge crawled inside, and Sarah zipped it up. She waited a moment, then she watched as he pushed up against the suitcase trying to get out. He was struggling to get enough oxygen. He started begging her to let him out. She recorded his screams and laughed in his face. “This is what it feels like when you cheat on me” - she said. S...
Apr 16, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 252
He killed 3 people on Chinese New Year. He admitted to it, he turned himself in, and he said in court that he didn’t regret a single moment of it. He had waited 20 long years to finally do it and now he felt free. He confessed to a triple homicide so why was a whole country rooting for him? Because he had gotten revenge on his mom’s killers. He had waited 20 years to take what he felt was his—an eye for an eye. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com...
Apr 09, 2023•47 min•Ep. 251
17-year-old Janice was hiding under the bed. There were 3 masked men that had broken into the family home. They were going from room to room attacking anyone they stumbled across. Janice managed to slide under her bed, but she had no idea if they would find her - if she were next. She couldn’t make a single noise. She tried to text her family to send help. She posted on Facebook, hoping someone would read it and call the police. By the time her father came home - 2 of the 3 siblings were found d...
Apr 05, 2023•58 min•Ep. 250
Lee’s girlfriend had just moved in with him. It was perfect; Christmas of 2022 was just around the corner, and he was the perfect gift to her life. Lee, was attentive, caring, compassionate, and the perfect boyfriend. He even had 3 adorable cats that she grew attached to. While Lee was out running errands, she started unpacking, and realized she needed to feed one of those cats. She searched everywhere for the bag of cat food, nowhere in the kitchen or pantry. She found herself staring at the op...
Apr 02, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 249
Yeram’s wedding day was almost perfect. It was one of the happiest days of her life in a very long time. She spent the day grabbing fast food with her new husband, unpacking their newlywed house, and calling each other “wife” and “husband.” Later that night, on their wedding night, Lee Yeram would take her own life. Why? Why would she do this after one of the happiest moments of her life? Just 81 days prior, she was sexually assaulted by her Air Force senior sergeant. This case would become one ...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 248
Her only mistake was picking up the phone. That’s it. She didn’t know it was the bully’s boyfriend calling her. This “mistake” almost cost her her life. She was dragged into a karaoke bar - beaten to an inch of her life. Then later, dragged into an alleyway near an abandoned factory where she was beaten by 5 bullies. They assaulted her for hours until she was drenched in blood, and the whole thing was caught on CCTV. She barely made it out alive but her nightmare was just beginning. These photos...
Mar 26, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 247
If you go to South Korea, there are a lot of fortune tellers. They have cafes, automated fortune dispensers, and palm readings; they have everything you need to figure out what’s in store for you in the future. They have all the answers. When SJ sat down in front of his fortune teller, she smiled. His future was clear as day. So easy to read. She told him - “You, my dear, will become famous. You will make videos and be known by everyone.” What she didn’t tell him was that he would be known for b...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 246
Can you be at two places at once? Not in the metaverse, or in VR, but physically? Recently, a case has gone viral because it seemed a YouTuber was able to be at two very different places at the same time. December 18, 2022, Stephen was home live-streaming for his YouTube audience. His stream was titled “The Violent Night - Christmas Stream.” He was engaged in intense gameplay of Grand Theft Auto. But at the same time, it was alleged that he was somewhere else completely. Miles away. Allegedly wa...
Mar 19, 2023•58 min•Ep. 245
There is something special about late night with friends. The 4 women sat in the corner of the packed BBQ restaurant and placed their order. Their lives felt perfect. When one friend walked out to take a phone call she heard her friends laughing and joking around. When she came back all she heard were their screams. Her friends were being brutally beaten by 9 strange men for the pure fact that they refused to sleep with them. No bystander tried to help. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com...
Mar 12, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 244
Rotten Mango Visual: https://www.youtube.com/@rottenmangopod On October 30th, a man walked out of his tiny little shop in Itaewon. He placed a pink blanket in the grim alleyway. He got on his knees in front of a tray of food he had prepared. Police immediately swarmed him, demanding he leave right away. Nobody was supposed to be in the alley, not after what had happened there. The man yelled at the police - “don’t you dare touch the food. Don’t touch it. Please you have to let me do this. The ki...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 243
Rotten Mango Visual: https://www.youtube.com/@rottenmangopod The suburban house sat amongst the others that looked just like it. There was something different about this one. All the windows of the house were covered in dark cloth. Even the front door was covered by a giant black curtain. The neighbors wondered what secrets the new neighbors were hiding. Perhaps an illegal gambling ring? A brothel? The world was shocked to see two stainless steel pots being carried out from that house with human...
Mar 05, 2023•59 min•Ep. 242
He stomped the snow off his boots; the ice storm had no mercy on this town. It was nearly 3:30 in the morning, and the officer had somewhere important to be. He knocked on the woman’s door and followed her down into her basement. She didn’t even seem to notice the chill in the air. It seemed like she was distracted. Like she had seen something far more scarier than a relentless winter storm. Tara explained she came down into the basement and saw her son like this. She glanced down, the officer s...
Mar 01, 2023•54 min•Ep. 241
RM VIDEO PODS HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XXanI2UPYY She sat there listening to the man sitting in front of her. She had trusted him before all of this - but now, he was blubbering about what happened. All 6 of the vacationers would find their way to her house to tell her what happened on their Mexico trip. All of them had their own version of events, but it wasn’t adding up. How come they all left for Mexico together as “friends,” but they left her daughter, Shanquella, in Mexico? Wh...
Feb 26, 2023•49 min•Ep. 240
The 20 year high school reunion was a big deal for these friends. They had all grown up, started their own families, but one thing has always united them. Their oath of silence. Their oath of protection. Everyone sat down at their seats but their smiles quickly faded once they saw the empty chair next to them. They were reminded again of their friend who was not with them. What happened? Had they died? Had they moved abroad? No. They were in jail - for murder. The friends covered for them for ov...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 239
The person looked like they hadn’t slept in days. They were clearly agitated and nervous. Pacing. They flagged down a detective and told them “The stuff in the mountains. It was me. The body parts you’re finding. Scattered around the mountains. I cut them up and threw them all over the place. I blacked out, and I don’t know what happened. I just threw them all over the mountains.” The detectives had no idea what they had just gotten themselves into. They were about to unearth some very dark secr...
Feb 19, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 238
It was a good day to look for a missing person. It sounds dark, but the conditions at sea were optimal for a search and rescue. But life is funny, it never works out the way you expect. They searched for days before they gave up. It’s like the man had vanished into thin air. For 6 years, his family mourned his disappearance. A husband, father, son, had been ripped from their lives. But the story wasn’t over. He would come back 6 years later. He would show up in a small town in summer clothes, in...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 237
They said she did it. They said they had all the evidence but the victim’s sisters weren’t so sure. Detective V picked up his phone at the sheriff’s department, there was a woman on the other line. She informed him that her sister had died mysteriously from ingesting a heavily regulated toxin and she was certain she knew who did it. It was her brother-in-law. She warned the detective - “And if he did it, you’re never going to catch him.” “Why is that?” “Because I believe him to be brilliant.” Fu...
Feb 12, 2023•2 hr 41 min•Ep. 236
Mary died 6 times that day. Each time, a loud siren would blare through the hospital alerting the doctors. Her family rallied around her, praying, and hoping for a speedy recovery. There was her husband - he would soon enter into a romantic relationship with Mary’s sister. Then there was her son - he had already admitted to sleeping with a minor, what other atrocities could he have committed? Then there was his ex-gf - the one that accused him of rape + assault. By the time Mary walked in throug...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 235
The heat was suffocating. She was stuck in her car with no AC in the middle of the Florida summer heat. That’s comparable to being slow-cooked in an oven. She wiped the sweat off her forehead and left a smear of dark pigment on her hand. She was sweating her disguise off. She had to look as natural as possible. Not suspicious. But how could she? She was doing blackface in her car, wearing a giant hoodie, shoes that were 5 sizes too big, and a gun resting on her passenger seat. Maybe she didn’t t...
Feb 01, 2023•2 hr 44 min•Ep. 234
There are experiences that only few will ever have the honor of feeling. Winning the World Cup, winning the presidency, maybe even winning an Oscar. It’s a feeling that feels unexplainable. The adrenaline, euphoria, joy, the release of tension when you realize you’re being rewarded for your work. The Miss USA pageant was one of those brain chemistry altering moments.The two women stood there, holding hands, waiting for the winner’s name to be called. The host announced the new Miss USA for 2022,...
Jan 29, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 233
The University of Santa Barbara was a picturesque college town. Most days were filled with sun, surfs, and the smell of tanning lotions. But even the sunny town had sinister residents. Elliot sat in his math class as he wrote about the girl he had a crush on. It destroyed him to find out through social media that his crush, Brittany, already had a boyfriend. Elliot started fantasizing about kidnapping the couple and stripping Brittany’s boyfriend of all his skin. He wanted to deflesh him while f...
Jan 25, 2023•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 232
Police had kept a tight lid on this ongoing case of the four University of Idaho students that were murdered in the middle of the night. But now bits and pieces of information have come to light. And while we have more answers, we have more questions now. Is it true that he visited the victims at the restaurant where they worked? Did he follow and message them on Instagram? Was he an incel that felt injustice in his life for being rejected by women? Did he have a rare condition, called Visual Sn...
Jan 22, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 231
There’s never a great time to find out that your husband has nudes of other women on his phone. But this was probably the worst time. There were 30 of Sabrina’s closest friends gathered in her home when she found out about the pictures. The two men stood in front of her asking if she had any knowledge of her husband having an affair. Sabrina said it didn’t make any sense. There’s no way he would cheat on her. They were in love. It wasn’t a good week for Sabrina. First, she found out her husband ...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 230
When someone goes missing without a trace, it’s enough to make the hair on our arms stand up. One second they are here; the next second, they are gone. When 26 kids vanish into thin air on their school bus… the whole nation loses their minds. Chaos. Parents calling authorities. People running up and down the streets calling the kids names. FBI booked out every single room in every hotel in the town. And finally, a lead. The mayor’s wife received an anonymous phone call. “The children will be fou...
Jan 15, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 229
The 3 men sat in front of the priestess. She was their spiritual godmother. The one that was to help them stay protected in life. She peered into a crystal bowl filled with water. Her wrinkled face changing rapidly, her eyes darting about, it was as if she was watching a silent movie in the bowl. She told them that bad bad things were happening around them. She saw a spirit. She looked up and indicated the spirit was behind them. The men jerked their heads and saw nothing. “She’s there. The woma...
Jan 11, 2023•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 228
The couple were in bed. The same one that they had slept in every single night for the past few years. Only, nothing about the day was normal. Jackie was inconsolable. She was sobbing, shaking, not understanding what was going on. Her husband, Tom, tried to comfort her. He told her everything was going to be alright. He was going to be with her. He tried to lean over and grab her hand so he could lovingly stroke it, giving her more reassurance. Only, nothing was going to be okay. They were tied ...
Jan 08, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 227
It was her favorite outfit. A red Michael Jordan jersey, black shorts, and sneakers. She was hesitant about wearing it because, well, the color red meant something in the area, but her mom encouraged her to wear what she wanted. Besides, all she was doing was quietly waiting for the bus to take her back home to Grandma’s. As she stood there waiting, in red, a car drove past. For a brief second, the guys laid eyes on her. A girl wearing red. She was the one. That split second would lead to the ho...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 226
This is the ongoing case of the Idaho Murders. There were 6 roommates living in an off campus house when in the middle of the night, someone had entered the home, and left after taking 4 lives. Since this is an ongoing case, there have been many speculations online of who it could have been. People were pointing fingers at just about anyone. But breaking news - a suspect has been taken into custody. Which only brings us to ask more questions - what connection did the suspect have to the victims?...
Jan 01, 2023•38 min•Ep. 225
Diana’s note in her diary read - “I am sitting here at my desk today in October, longing for someone to hug me, and encourage me to keep strong and hold my head high.” “My husband is planning an ‘accident’ in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry.” Diana predicted that her husband wanted her dead in a car accident so he could marry the true love of his life. She worried for her life. She felt someone was watching her, listening in on h...
Dec 28, 2022•2 hr 39 min•Ep. 224
His two sons were out playing in the back while he supervised through the kitchen window. The boys were 13 and 12. What should have been a heartwarming moment, watching his two sons play and get along, was instead filled with anxiety. His friend asked, “what’s wrong?” “I don’t trust Derek.” His friend was confused. He peered at the window to see the boys playing on the swing set. “I don’t trust him. I’ve read the diaries. I’ve seen the pictures. Look at them. Look at them, they look like they’re...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 223
