Organized Jellyfish, Basement Dread & Deviled Eggs

Episode title: “Organized Jellyfish in Egg Haba”
Hosts: Amy Lotsberg & Megan Simmons
Original release: Feb 19, 2026

The Accidental Three-Fer: Mental-Health Hauntings

If you’ve been keeping score, Amy just completed an unintended trilogy of Dead Files recaps with a strong mental-health thread. First Am I Crazy?, then Satan’s Revenge, and now Betrayed—each one features psychiatric fallout or generational grief.

In Betrayed we meet a New Jersey family pummeled by insomnia, childhood illness and a basement suicide that still echoes.

Debates about ghostly dementia, toxic masculinity, and why being six-feet-tall doesn’t make you fearless.

Organized Jellyfish: Worst Phrase Ever?

Early in the recording Amy recaps Amy Allan’s walkthrough, dropping the line that broke Megan’s brain: “little jellyfish-like fragments on the ceiling… trying to organize themselves into a being.”

The hosts spend the rest of the episode shoe-horning jellyfish metaphors into every sidebar. By the end, “organized jellyfish” is TAC shorthand for anything unreasonably unsettling—like fax machines, or Steve pronouncing Egg Harbor as “Egg Haba.”

Basement Terror, Dad of the Year

The emotional core belongs to Fred, the six-foot-something father who admits the haunting terrifies him—because he can’t protect his kids. Megan calls him “MVP Dad,” noting that parental helplessness hits harder than any jump-scare.

Amy adds context from the transcript’s research segment: a teenage suicide in that very basement, a father’s psychosis, and a 19th-century German immigrant who may have cursed the land out of grief. Heavy stuff, but framed with empathy rather than voyeurism.

Can Ghosts Have Dementia?

Mid-show, the hosts tackle the episode’s most unexpected question: If an elderly spirit showed signs of confusion, could dementia persist after death?

Megan’s take: “That kind of sucks—imagine not even escaping it when you’re a ghost.”
Amy counters with nursing-home anecdotes of residents seeing deceased relatives before passing, blurring the line between neurological decline and paranormal visitation.

They don’t solve it (spoiler: nobody can), but listeners get a rare blend of empathy, skepticism and morbid curiosity—all core TAC flavors.

Sidebar Shenanigans

Because TAC cannot stay on a single rail, you also get:

• Deviled-Egg Doctrine — If you “don’t like eggs,” you’ll still eat five deviled eggs. This is non-negotiable.
• New Joisey Accent Fails — Megan’s heroic attempts to say “Joy-zee” leave Amy wheezing.
• Ring Shot™ Watch — The camera pans to wedding rings twice, satisfying long-time bingo-card players.
• Coat Cam — Megan admires Matt’s navy peacoat and Amy’s eggplant trench for a suspicious length of time.

Grab your deviled eggs, hit play, and find out if The Activity Continues…