Every night for the past three years, Brittney Gaskin diligently turned the couches in her living room into beds for herself, her son and daughter, and her husband. She ran air purifiers almost constantly and regularly fogged her San Marcos, Texas, home with a solution of hypochlorous acid to sanitize the air. As much as possible, she kept her children outside, often jumping on the trampoline to help sweat out the toxins that to this day she believes have taken over their small bodies.
Since they moved into their home in 2022, the Gaskins’ lives revolved around one thing: the invisible mold spores floating through their home, and the various symptoms they attribute to it. Within one month of living in the new home, Gaskin claimed to be able to smell the mold. Her children, she says, see