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#376: Most “Mentally Insane” Family In America- Six Schizophrenic Brothers

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.825.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

7-year-old Mary Galvin has plans to kill her older brother. The way he roams around town with that empty gaze. The way their parents refuse to talk about his behavior. It was all going to end. Mary had her older brother, Donald Galvin, tied to a tree as she gathers sticks to pile at his feet. He is a witch about to be burnt at the stake. Donald is more than happy to play along. In the end, Mary backs out of her plan to kill him—she didn’t bring matches along and by the time she realizes what she’s really doing—she’s sprinting away like it never happened. Donald is fine either way. If she had gone through with it he would’ve happily died right then and there because to him, Mary is more than just his little sister. She is the Virgin Mary. The Mother of Christ himself—and it makes sense—because they’re not even real siblings. Donald had been switched at birth and his real mother is actually an octopus. This is the story of the ‘most mentally disturbed family in America’ (according to one psychiatrist). 12 full blood siblings living in one house. 6 out of the 12 siblings would be diagnosed with schizophrenia. This is the case of the Galvin family. Donate To The Galvin Family Trust: https://galvinfamilytrust.org/ Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ramble.

0:02.0

Badibing, badibou.

0:03.0

Seven-year-old Lindsay had plans to kill her older brother.

0:06.0

I mean, she doesn't even hate him.

0:08.0

If anything, she hates that he's so kind to her.

0:11.0

She hates that she's so embarrassed by him. The way that he

0:14.8

roams around town with this glazed empty look in his eyes and the way that

0:19.3

everybody in town knows that something is wrong with him but nobody wants to talk about it not even

0:24.6

her parents I mean of course she hates it she's seven she's embarrassed and yet he's so

0:30.2

nice and it's just the whole thing is unbearable the way that he treats her like

0:34.6

she's this sacred being and none of it matters anymore because the two of them

0:39.2

Lindsay and her older brother Donald are walking up the hill and that is where Donald is going to

0:45.9

die today.

0:46.9

He'll say yes to whatever Lindsay says so it's very easy to convince him to come on this little

0:52.1

adventure with her.

0:53.0

Let's go build a swing on that tree branch up at the top of the hill,

0:57.0

but we have to bring some rope.

0:58.0

Donald grabs the rope and starts walking up behind her.

1:02.0

When they get to the top of the hill,

1:04.0

Lindsay looks around.

1:05.0

She can almost smell the crisp pine trees

1:08.0

there in Colorado,

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