Welcome back to Shadow Chat Sessions, where the news is weird, the crimes are dumb, the universe is probably haunted, and John is fueled entirely by sarcasm and caffeine.

This episode delivers one of our wildest mixes yet:

• 🐙 A psychic octopus predicts the election and leaves oceanographers questioning their degrees.

• 🌐 The Dead Internet Theory crawls back from the digital grave.

• 🔮 The 2025 Dystopia Forecast — because apparently we needed more things to worry about.

• 🍲 A cook is arrested for stealing “secret recipes” from his own restaurant.

• 📞 An inmate pretends to be a judge and tries to call the jail to free his buddy.

• 🛁 A man breaks into a home, takes a drunken bath, and refuses to leave, boasting a blood alcohol level that could strip paint.

• ✨ Strange lights return over the Nevada desert (of course they do).

• 👣 Ghost Soldiers appear again on the Appalachian Trail.

• 🦍 Bigfoot DNA from Oregon heads for testing.

• 🪬 A Roman cursed tablet surfaces in Bath, England.

• 💥 Sky quakes shake the Eastern U.S. — but scientists are still shrugging.

Every story comes with full breakdowns, deep-dive details, and John’s signature sarcastic takes, including the now-iconic response to the bathtub bandit:

“Somewhere there’s a mugshot of this guy in a towel looking like a criminally hydrated Buddha.”

If you love bizarre headlines, haunted forests, glitch-in-the-matrix moments, and criminals who should honestly have to pass a sobriety test before attempting a crime — this episode is for you.

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