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* MenInBlack: Featured in an episode, with video evidence. Brent, [[AgentScully the resident skeptic at the time]], was not impressed.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Discussed in the episode about the murder of Ken Rex [=McElroy=]. After literal decades of terrorizing his small town, and always wriggling his way out of legal punishment, someone finally said, "To hell with legal punishment" and just [[AssholeVictim shot the bastard]]. To make it even better, out of sixty witnesses, ''no one ratted them out''.

* CollectiveDeathGlare: {{Discussed|Trope}} in "The Strange Killing of Ken Rex [=McElroy=]." [=McElroy=] was shot and killed in front of several witnesses, none of whom ratted the killer out, because [=McElroy=] was truly HatedByAll for terrorizing the community. When [=McElroy=] was shot, [[LaserGuidedKarma he was left to bleed out and die]], and no one called the cops until ''after'' he was dead. When discussing the case, Ryan and Shane wonder what it was like in the immediate moments following the shooting, and speculate that someone would've offered to call for help... only to be met with everyone else glaring at them until they got the message.

** The Sinister Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Ryan accuses Shane of making up the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518 Dancing Plague of 1518]] when he uses it to defend the mass hysteria theory in the "Bizarre Toxic Death of Gloria Ramirez" episode. It then became a RunningGag on the show.

* AssholeVictim: The Ken Rex [=McElroy=] case has Ryan and Shane be glad for once that a victim's killer got away, with said killer helped by over ''sixty people'', no less, as [=McElroy=] was an absolutely monstrous excuse for a human being and had been getting away with his depraved crimes for decades.

** The Odd Vanishing of Amelia Earhart

** The Grisly Murders of Jack the Ripper

** The Creepy Real-Life "Men in Black"

** The Murders that Haunt the Lizzie Borden House

** The Mysterious Disappearance of the Roanoke Colony

* ExactWords: During the post show, Shane frequently insists he'll progress [[ItMakesSenseInContext his ongoing tale of hot dogs jousting on crabs]] but instead flashes back to the lives of the hot dog couple. He finally insists on the post show of the Poison Pill Murders episode that there will be some crab action. [[spoiler: It's the backstory of the crabs that the hot dogs are jousting on.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: In the first-season demon special, Ryan says he'll stay in the infested house until 5, then gives up at 3. Shane needles him about it, casually saying he doesn't have the guts to fulfill his promise. [[SlowMotion The video then slows]] and pulls out the dramatic music, intercutting Ryan's conflicted face and Father Thomas saying "do not be afraid". The speed returns to normal as his expression grows resolved, and he says.....{{Anticlimax "Yeah, you're right. Let's get out of here."}}

* BaitAndSwitch: In the first-season demon special, Ryan says he'll stay in the infested house until 5, then gives up at 3. Shane needles him about it, casually saying he doesn't have the guts to fulfill his promise. [[SlowMotion The video then slows]] and pulls out the dramatic music, intercutting Ryan's conflicted face and Father Thomas saying "do not be afraid". The speed returns to normal as his expression grows resolved, and he says.....[[Anticlimax "Yeah, you're right. Let's get out of here."]]

* BaitAndSwitch: In the first-season demon special, Ryan says he'll stay in the infested house until 5, then gives up at 3. Shane needles him about it, casually saying he doesn't have the guts to fulfill his promise. [[SlowMotion The video then slows]] and pulls out the dramatic music, intercutting Ryan's conflicted face and Father Thomas saying "do not be afraid". The speed returns to normal as his expression grows resolved, and he says....."Yeah, you're right. Let's get out of here."

* {{Anticlimax}}: All the goddamn time, usually lampshaded and PlayedForLaughs. Most notably in the first-season demon special, when Ryan says he'll stay in the infested house until 5, then gives up at 3. Shane needles him about it, casually saying he doesn't have the guts to fulfill his promise. [[SlowMotion The video then slows]] and pulls out the dramatic music, intercutting Ryan's conflicted face and Father Thomas saying "do not be afraid". The speed returns to normal as his expression grows resolved, and he says....."Yeah, you're right. Let's get out of here."

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Ryan accuses Shane of making up the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518 Dancing Plague of 1518]] when he uses it to defend the mass hysteria theory in the "Bizarre Toxic Death of Gloria Ramirez" episode.

** C.C. Tinsley, the detective hired by the Sodder family to find their missing children, and then went missing himself. Both Ryan and Shane agree that, that is the perfect name for a private investigator.
** They both agree that D.B. Cooper, which was the result of a printing press error, and not the original name of the unknown criminal printed on the airplane ticket, is a much cooler name than Dan Cooper.

Also check out WebVideo/RuiningHistory, another show on Buzzfeed that features Shane and Ryan. As of 2020, Ryan and Shane have both left Buzzfeed to found their own company, ''[[Website/{{Watcher}} Watcher Entertainment]]'', alongside fellow Buzzfeed alumni, Stephen Lim. On June 7, 2021, Ryan [[https://twitter.com/ryansbergara/status/1401951282739351554 announced]] that the upcoming 8th season of True Crime would be the final one, along with a 7th and final season of Supernatural set to premiere on October 15, 2021. The final episode aired on November 19 2021 and was followed up by a behind the scenes documentary ''Buzzfeed Unsolved: The Making of the Final Investigation''. A SpiritualSuccessor series, once again starring Ryan and Shane, called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcBYV26XcaA Ghost Files]]'' is currently in production on the Watcher Youtube channel scheduled to premier on September 23, 2022.

Also check out WebVideo/RuiningHistory, another show on Buzzfeed that features Shane and Ryan. As of 2020, Ryan and Shane have both left Buzzfeed to found their own company, ''[[Website/{{Watcher}} Watcher Entertainment]]'', alongside fellow Buzzfeed alumni, Stephen Lim. On June 7th, 2021, Ryan [[https://twitter.com/ryansbergara/status/1401951282739351554 announced]] that the upcoming 8th season of True Crime would be the final one, along with a 7th and final season of Supernatural set to premiere on October 15, 2021. The final episode aired on November 19 2021 and was followed up by a behind the scenes documentary ''Buzzfeed Unsolved: The Making of the Final Investigation''. A SpiritualSuccessor series, once again starring Ryan and Shane, called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcBYV26XcaA Ghost Files]]'' is currently in production on the Watcher Youtube channel with a 2022 airdate planned.