The "3 Body Problem" was going to be Jeff Bezoz’s billion-dollar investment. The plan? Invest $1B into a new sci-fi series and watch the subscriptions to Amazon Prime Video flow in.

All they have to do is buy the English adaptation rights off from the Chinese gaming giant – Yoozoo Gaming. They own the film and TV rights to the “3 Body Problem Universe.”

The deal was close to being done – till CEO Lin Qi of Yoozoo walks into a conference room in LA. Dressed like a gangster. Puts his feet up on the table and suggests a co-production. He blew up the deal that Amazon had been working on for 8 months.

Amazon was upset but as they were walking out of the meeting room… they noticed something. Nobody around CEO Lin looked happy either.

They wouldn’t be surprised when they heard the news 2 years later. The billionaire CEO Lin was murdered by someone inside his company.

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There’s a boring red brick building in the middle of Yale University’s campus. If you walk past it you might think it’s an administrative office. It looks - boring. 

But if you look closely - there are 75 CCTV cameras pointed directly at the building. Covering every square inch of the exterior. Why would they need so much security for a university building?

It is the Animal Research Laboratory. It houses over 4000 research mice and has tens of millions of dollars of research experiments being conducted inside the brick walls. 

It is one of the most secure buildings on campus. 

Till a brilliant Yale graduate student disappears inside. 

She walks in. 

Never walks out. 

She is nowhere to be found in the building - or at least that’s what the authorities initially thought. 

But have they checked the walls?

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He once controlled the entire economy of the country—to put it simply. The man in the restaurant security footage is an ex minister of Kazakstan, the third most powerful person in the entire country. 

His name is Kuandyk Bishimbaev and his wife, Sultanat Nukenova, were supposed to be on a dinner date; instead the security cameras capture something else.

Around 7 in the morning, the ex minister grabs his wife by a fistful of her hair and throws her onto the ground in the hallway.

Her jacket naturally flips open – and she’s naked, barely covered on the cold dirty floor of the restaurant. He’s standing over his wife’s limp body on the ground. The ex minister lifts his right leg up and starts kicking his wife as hard as he can. He’s holding onto a table to maintain his own balance. 

That’s how much force is being used.

Then he drags her by the hair into a bathroom – where there are no CCTV cameras. Any footage of her after that has been erased.

But the ex-minister is seen many times after on the security footage. Spending time with other women – a lunch date with an influencer, texting an alleged sex worker, all while his wife lay dying in the VIP booth of the restaurant. 

His excuse for why he couldn’t call for help or get his wife's battered body out of the restaurant? Well—because— Vladimir Putin is coming. 

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That was it. He was going to kill her. 

Sato, a bachelor, a young man who still lived with his mother terrorized her within the walls of her own home.

Sure, she could still go out, enjoy her life, but Sato had control over the household in a way that made her feel suffocated. 

Trapped. 

Sato’s mother called the police on him the first time she felt that her life was truly in danger. She was sure he would kill her. 

At least that was the version she told the police. But when they came to her house and found a kidnapped girl in her son, Sato’s bedroom—

They discovered the girl had been missing for nearly a decade. 

She was nine years old when she had disappeared. 

Still, the mother kept to her story. That she too, was held emotionally captive and it seems the police believed her. 

But the girl, now a young woman, remembers things a little bit differently

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He melted onto the street. 

He was 6 years old when he was walking down the street in South Korea. Someone walks up to him and pours sulfuric acid down his throat and all over his face. His clothes were burnt black. The floor had bits of melted flesh. 

Third degree burns over most of his body - the boy had a 5% chance of survival. 

He was rushed to the hospital where he told the officers that the man - “Mr. Kim” who owned the fried chicken shop was running up behind him with the bag of acid. He was the one that did it! 

“Nonsense, acid is liquid. You can’t put it in a plastic bag - it will burn through the plastic.”

That was the police’s response. Had they investigated properly - they would have realized… the fried chicken shop owner was indeed, a little strange. 

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A family TikToker that posts wholesome videos with his 8 kids goes viral in China. HIs account starts blowing up with followers and a journalist decides it’s an easy story. Wholesome Tiktoker, wholesome interview, an easy article. 

But when he gets to the man’s house - he notices something very odd. A woman. 

Hidden inside his shed. 

Chained. 

He quickly records the woman before the TikToker notices. He exposes the wholesome TikToker but the question on everyone’s mind remains - who is the chained woman???

Netizens start digging but as they’re getting close - the video of the chained woman is wiped from the internet. Like she never existed. 

How do they save her now? 

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The first thing they feel is how stiff the table is underneath them… it feels so cold. Then, they open their eyes, and see a masked man staring straight at them holding a scalpel. 

The first instinct is to scream. To run. 

But that would be silly. They paid thousands of dollars for this surgery. 

Suddenly, their eyes start feeling heavy again. The room looks blurry and they start to feel like something heavy is sitting on their chest. 

The only comfort is knowing that they booked the best plastic surgeon in all of South Korea. It was a little strange that they had an opening for a surgery the same week… because wouldn’t his schedule be fully booked? If he’s that popular?

And they could have sworn that he had 5 other surgeries scheduled for this very time slot… how could the doctor be in 5 operating rooms at once?

But that’s why they’re called “ghost doctors.” You book a surgery with a top doctor, pay top dollar, only to have him walk out the room the second you are sedated. Then a strange man will come in and perform surgery. 

The man that worked the front desk? The medical salesman? The custodian? 

They can all be your doctor if they put on a white coat. 

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 The summer sleep away camp for youths is held on the Island of UTOYA every single summer. About 500 teenagers will gather on the wooded island.

They sleep in tents, have bonfires, and tell creepy stories while roasting marshmallows.

But when the kids start playing games - that’s usually when the fun starts. Card games, tag, hide and seek -

A group of 11 teenagers were lying down in the grass right off the “Lover’s Path.”

“Here lay down right here and don’t move. Shhhh. Act like you’re dead.”

If a single one of them sneezes, coughs, or so much as moves - their covers are blown. They hear the footsteps getting nearer on the path… closer…

One of the 11 looks up.

There is a young guy, blonde hair, striking blue eyes - just standing over them.

She makes eye contact with him… he lifts his hand up and a black rifle appears.

He opens fire.

Out of the 11. 10 will die. 1 will survive.

Another 59 on the island will be killed within the hour. There is a mad gunman on the loose on an island full of teenagers.

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There was an emergency at Terri’s daycare. This had never happened before. Ever. 

She picked up the phone - 

“Hi, uh - there’s been a family emergency. Please come pick your children up right away. Please hurry.”

The parents rush to pick up their children and they let out a sigh of relief when they see all the toddlers are in one piece. But something is wrong with Terri. She’s rushing them into their car seats and you can just tell her mind is elsewhere. 

Once all the children are gone - Terri rushes to her phone and dials 911 - 

“Hi, it’s an emergency. I found something in my son’s closet wrapped in a plastic bag. He has a shotgun in his room… he just pulled up. Can you please just come?”

Terri kept an eye on her son that just arrived at home. 

Any louder, and Brian might hear her. 

Any louder and he might realize that his mother Terri knew what he did. 

Any louder and he might investigate and find what’s in the kitchen sink. Underneath a blue towel - lay a decapitated head and pair of hacked off hands. 

Any louder and the Cohee family would have to ask their 19 year old son - where is there rest of the body?? 

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Ruth just wanted to tell her boyfriend the truth. It’s not like their relationship sucked - he was just fine? He was kind of smart? But he lacked ambition. He was just a taxi driver… and… well she did have another big secret she was hiding from him. It was finally time to come clean.

Bryan wasn’t expecting it to hurt this much. It was bad enough to hear the love of his life had betrayed him… but to have it happen so publicly?

Bryan looks up and sees rows and rows of people staring at him. He could feel their pity radiating in the air.

He glances around - the cameras are all trained on him. Recording his every move and every facial expression.

Soon, millions of people will see the most embarrassing moment of Bryan’s life. Bryan, along with Ruth’s parents, found themselves on the reality TV show “Moment of Truth” set. They were sitting there listening to their beloved Ruth share all her deepest, darkest, secrets. The ones she had been hiding from them.

And one of them would get her killed.

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In the seat facing away from the camera, all they could see was the student’s back and her arms digging through whatever was in her lap. For several minutes, she stayed like this. Then she got up. Turned around. And looked straight into the lens of the CCTV camera in the corner. 

She locked eyes and stayed like that. They felt a chill as they watched the footage. An icy stare. Frozen in place. Then she lifted up her hands and held a body up to the camera. A cat--a campus stray, lovingly named Princess by the other University students. She grabbed the back of the kitten’s neck. Then, with her other hand, wrapped her grip firmly around the kitten’s throat and squeezed. 

Shanghai Tech’s very own serial cat killer. This is the case dubbed the ‘animal Nth rooms,’ about the world-wide cat (crush, torture, and kill) gang that was responsible for the viral video—the cat blender.

Who is behind it all? And why?

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