Just when you thought the internet had finally run out of cursed headlines, along comes a story that makes you wish you’d stayed offline for the day. Somewhere between true crime, science fiction, and a legal paperwork nightmare sits the mystery of Jeffrey Epstein’s missing frozen sperm. Yes, apparently there’s now a real-world search for something nobody asked to think about, nobody wanted to think about, and yet somehow has become a national conversation. Grab your coffee—and perhaps immediately lose your appetite—as we dive into one of the strangest developments to emerge from the Epstein files.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Biopreserved Sperm Is Missing