In 1930s Cleveland, bodies started turning up in Kingsbury Run. No heads. No hands. No names. The Cleveland Torso Murders weren’t just violent, they were methodical, designed to erase people the city barely saw in the first place. Tonight’s Phreak File digs into what’s known, what’s documented, and why the most terrifying part of this case isn’t the butcher. It’s how easy it was to make victims disappear twice.

Cotard’s Syndrome is the nightmare delusion where someone becomes convinced they’re already dead, missing organs, or fading out of reality while still walking around like everything’s fine. Then we pivot to the modern problem: AI convenience training people to outsource intuition and critical thinking until “the screen said so” starts replacing judgment. Clinical, eerie, and uncomfortably familiar.

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Deep in the Amazon, there are places the map doesn’t explain and trails that feel like they’re being watched. In this episode of Cryptid Captures, Phreak opens the file on the Mapinguari, a shaggy, foul-stinking forest legend whispered about like a warning instead of a bedtime story. From accounts of crushing footsteps and rotten-metal air to the unnerving idea of a “guardian” that shows up when humans take too much, we dig into what makes the Mapinguari feel real: not proof, but pattern. Because in a rainforest big enough to swallow towns, the scariest part isn’t that something could be out there.

It’s that the jungle might already know you’re there.