Mystery Skulls

Mystery Skulls
Mystery Skulls performs in Dallas
Background information
Origin	Dallas, Texas, United States
Genres	Electronica, indie pop, Minneapolis sound, electronic rock, soul
Years active	2011–present
Labels	Warner Bros. Records
Associated acts	The Secret Handshake
Website	Mystery Skulls on Tumblr, BandCamp page
Members	Luis Dubuc

Mystery Skulls is an American indie pop/electronica act that originated in Dallas, Texas but now operates out of Los Angeles, California.

The project was formed in 2011 by Luis Dubuc after his previous project, The Secret Handshake, was dissolved. Dubuc initially announced the project on August 8, 2011 via the Mystery Skulls official Tumblr account, where he posted a video of the song Amazing. He later followed this post with a five song EP on December 30, 2011. Since then, Mystery Skulls has performed in cities across the country, signed with Warner Bros. Records, and has collaborated with noteworthy artists such as Brandy Norwood and Nile Rodgers. Dubuc continues to perform shows across the country.

The Mystery Skulls have had three official music videos so far. "Ghost" which is a parody of The Exorcist; "Paralyzed" which is shown as a Japanese video game featuring mystic monks playing basketball at night; and finally "Magic" which is completely CGI animated and presents an alternate telling of how the galaxy came into existence. The only official video to have at least a million views on YouTube is "Paralyzed".

Several videos have been created for Mystery Skulls' songs by their fans. In 2012, the YouTube user Ben Mangum, under the name MysteryBen27, released his first animated music video featuring music by Mystery Skulls entitled "Turntable Turnabout" which featured the Ace Attorney characters Phoenix Wright, Miles Edgeworth, Godot, and the Judge dancing along to the song "Money". As of March 25, 2017, the video has 10.8 million views on YouTube and it has been said that Mystery Skulls loved the video so much, that they gave permission to Mangum to use their songs to make future music videos.

On October 26, 2014, Mangum and a group of friends called "the Ghost Crew" released an animated video for the song "Ghost", which featured original characters and a plot heavily modeled after the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Scooby-Doo. The video follows "Mystery Skulls", a group similar to Scooby-Doo's Mystery Inc., made up of members Vivi, Arthur, and their dog Mystery. The group find and explore a haunted mansion, but find themselves chased by a skeletal ghost; a flashback reveals that the ghost is Lewis, a former Mystery Skulls member killed by a possessed Arthur; now Lewis desires revenge and to reconnect with Vivi, whom he was in love with, but he is denied as the group escape the mansion, which fades away along with a heartbroken Lewis.