114. The Blue Whale

This week we're discussing the mystery surrounding an online challenge, and the so-called ‘Death Groups', where this challenge is alleged to have taken place. Our oddity is The Butt Sniffer.CONNECT WITH US:https://linktr.ee/mortalmusingspodcastBONUS CONTENT:https://www.patreon.com/MortalMusingsPodcastOFFICIAL MERCH:https://mortalmusingspodcast.com/SUPPORT THE PODCAST:https://buymeacoffee.com/mortalmusingshttps://www.paypal.me/mortalmusingspodcast10% OFF DEAD INSIDE DESIGNhttps://deadinsidedesign.com/?ref=MORTAL Sources: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/11/02/a-moscow-college-student-stabbed-his-health-instructor-to-death-and-then-killed-himself-with-a-buzzsaw https://meduza.io/feature/2016/05/17/pyat-glavnyh-voprosov-k-materialu-novoy-gazety-o-podrostkovyh-suitsidah https://allthatsinteresting.com/moscow-teen-murder-suicide https://saint-petersburg.ru/m/society/grachev/353694/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blue-whale-game-suicides-russia/ https://www.narcom.ru/publ/info/400 https://www.aljazeera.com/video/true-crime-reports/2025/3/23/blue-whale-suicides-true-crime-reports https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36379815 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-46505722 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Renata_Kambolina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_Challenge https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/man-dubbed-butt-sniffer-arrested-again-in-burbank/3768636/ https://people.com/butt-sniffing-bandit-arrested-again-less-than-one-month-after-prior-incident-11796537 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/california-butt-sniffer-arrests-b2813125.html