At about noon on August 10, 1991, hotel staff at the Sheraton Hotel in Marnsburg, West Virginia,

discovered American freelance journalist Danny Castelaro, naked in the bathtub of room

517. His wrists had been slashed deeply. There were three or four wounds on his right wrist

and seven or eight on his left, blood was splattered on the bathroom wall and floor. The scene

was so gruesome that one of the housekeepers fainted when she saw it. The death was ruled

the suicide, but details begin to emerge that may have signaled foul play. Danny was

about to break a story about an international conspiracy he called the Octopus. This week

joined the theorists as they try to untangle the many arms of Danny Castelaro and the octopus

conspiracy.

Welcome to alien theorist theorizing case file 259. The octopus he murders. There you go.

The Danny Castelaro and the octopus syndicate. I don't know what we're going to call it. We didn't

Castelaro. Danny Castelaro and the tentacle murders and the tentacle murders. That's good. I

don't know. Anyways, I'm braiding. I'm so. And I'm surprised we're not redoing that.

You don't like the octopus? Yeah, I would've been just had to pick one and go. Oh, yeah. Well,

I like to I like to pick a couple, right? It gets those hashtags flowing. Danny Castelaro and the

octopus to push him out of the octopus party. Listen, I'm telling everybody for a long fucking time

now, octopuses are dangerous. Yeah, and this has been uncovered. This is a this is a this is a

cautionary tale. That's what it is. You don't want to uncover too much about the octopi. You

look too far into the tentacles. Yeah, perhaps you sleep or listen to drown. You can drown. Yeah,

in your own blood. In your own blood. This is of course murder month. It's probably going to be

like more murder three weeks. I think probably one more murder case. Well, we'll see. Wait,

it might go. Maybe you guys love moustaches for those for that one. Mine's filling in. I can't

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