Christmas Eve, 1945: a family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia goes up in flames, and five Sodder children are declared dead before the ash is even cold. But there are no bones in the ruins, the power line and trucks look sabotaged, a prank call and a thump on the roof don’t fit the official story, and a bulldozer wipes out the crime scene two days later. For decades their parents chase diner sightings, strange witnesses, and a cryptic photo of a grown man who might be their missing son, while a billboard on Route 19 screams the question no one in power wants answered: what really happened?

What do CIA honey traps in the 1950s and a Christmas Eve Grindr murder in rural Michigan have in common? Weaponized intimacy. In this episode, we dive into Operation Midnight Climax, the government’s LSD-soaked brothel experiment, then follow the trail to the killing of Kevin Bacon, a young hairstylist who walked into a farmhouse on Christmas Eve and never came home. From psyops to dating apps, we’re pulling apart how trust gets twisted into a tool… and how a basement can feel more terrifying than any black site.

Jack Frost is supposed to be the playful face of winter: a cartoon on cereal boxes, a harmless line in a Christmas song. In this episode, Phreak peels that mascot skin off and digs into the older, uglier version: an amoral frost spirit that doesn’t roar or chase, just quietly rewrites the temperature around you until your body gives up.From Slavic and Nordic legends to a modern Alaskan homestead where ice formed inside warm rooms and a child saw “the man in the white suit” inviting him to the window, this case file explores Jack Frost as an elemental predator that paints on your glass, whispers in storms, and only needs one mistake from you to finish the job.