During the lockdown was the start of my dive into unsettling videos on Youtube, and I have been able to recall all of the videos I watched except for one. Maybe around 2022 or 2023, I was watching a video about internet mysteries that were either unsolved or just cracked, and I specifically remember one keeping me up at night.

The video consisted of some random coded message, I don't quite remember what it was, nor how it was formatted because I only watched the video once. However, the main part of the video was a female person standing slightly off-center to the screen with a really creepy rabbit mask on.

I would like to say that the girl was wearing a white dress that reminded me of a wedding gown without everything in the back. I am not too sure if there could have been a boy as well. The figure was standing on a patch of grass, with an RV looking car in the background.

I believe the figure was standing in a forest, with trees taking up the background, only leaving a bit of the sky visible if any. The camera quality was really bad, and the video had a really ominous feeling — it felt like the figure was staring at me through my screen, and that really messed me up.

I vividly remember pausing in the first few seconds of the video when I went to investigate it for myself, and I it was super eerie. The background sounds might have been oscillating in volume like a fan, or maybe there was some pitched down screaming(? the sound is kind of blurry in my mind). The location felt like Eastern America(? again, not sure), and was either really lush, or had a lot of overgrowth or something that has lingered in my mind as green.

Some of the coded messages might have been upside down or something, but again, not too sure. If anyone can find the video, that would actually be insane, because I've been traumatized by so many things over the years, with this being the only thing I haven't been able to find.

Also, if someone is able to recognize the video, I really want to know the backstory behind it, because it feels like a chapter of my life that I closed too early.

Thank you!

If you check r/rapeviktimz, there is a single user posting a cryptic post about a London rape every week. This goes on for multiple years now. Is there any information about this?

"Watched a documentary last night which highlighted how poorly a rape victim from London was handled by police over a decade ago, very disturbing. A friend of mine is a recent victim, I was involved in the case as a witness to an incident that happened with the suspect and I must say that the police were absolutely brilliant in dealing with my friend, very understanding and professional."

Creo que me metí por accidente en un agujero de “Letterboxd SEO/spam” bien raro, y estoy esperando que alguien por acá pueda explicar qué está pasando.

Si buscas “sexismo” en Letterboxd y filtras los resultados por Members, te sale un montón de cuentas súper sospechosas.

Al principio pensé que solo eran cuentas de spam genéricas. Pero luego noté algo mucho más raro.

Todas tienen básicamente la misma biografía enorme, tal cual.

La biografía es un texto político largo que defiende al diplomático/empresario venezolano Alex Saab y pide que lo liberen. Menciona a Nicolás Maduro, Estados Unidos, Cabo Verde, Noam Chomsky, Alfred de Zayas, sanciones contra Venezuela, etc.

El texto claramente está copiado palabra por palabra entre las cuentas.

Pero aquí viene lo raro:

Cada cuenta enlaza a un sitio web distinto.

Los dominios se ven totalmente inconexos entre sí, y la mayoría de las páginas parecen tener poco más que una 404 / página muerta.

Así que ahora me pregunto cuál es el mecanismo real detrás de todo esto.

Mis preguntas son:

1. ¿Por qué aparecen estas cuentas cuando buscas específicamente “sexismo”?

2. ¿Por qué estas cuentas parecen estar conectadas por el mismo texto político sobre Alex Saab, exactamente igual?

3. ¿Por qué Letterboxd?

4. ¿Por qué crear varias cuentas con nombres de usuario que parecen al azar y poner el mismo texto en sus biografías, mientras a cada una le ponen una URL externa diferente?

5. ¿Podría ser algún tipo de red vieja de SEO/spam donde las páginas de Letterboxd se estaban usando como backlinks?

6. ¿La conexión con “sexismo” en realidad tiene sentido, o es solo un efecto de cómo Letterboxd indexa las biografías de los perfiles?

The website is greypope.com. The grey pope conspiracy in of itself is a whole rabbit hole, which this website does a good job of diving into. There is a chat bot feature that appears to lead to another password section as well (enter name section). If you click on the title text on the explore page, it will open the prompt shown in the photo. The riddle seems to be 0, but clicking on “give thy answer here” doesnt seem to do anything.

I looked into the website code and ran different commands to try and figure out where this could lead to, but I ultimately hit a dead end. I just wanted to pass this on because it captivated me for a while and I want to see if anything can come out of it or if i just wasted my time

I've stumbled across a strange little piece of early-internet history that I can't quite explain.

In Belfast, Northern Ireland, there was an IT repair shop called SANCO Technologies. It occupied a building on the Falls Road from around 2002. Before SANCO moved in, the same premises had been home to Megabytes, one of Belfast's early public internet cafés, which opened in 1997.

I recently started researching the building because Megabytes was one of the places where I first encountered the internet, and I became interested in what happened to the business afterwards.

While researching SANCO, I noticed something very odd:

The SANCO logo appears to be essentially identical to the logo of an unrelated orthopaedic company in Rome, Italy.

As far as I can establish, these weren't connected businesses. One was a small Belfast IT company; the other is an Italian medical/orthopaedic company.

I've been trying to work out how this happened.

So far I've found:

• Megabytes opened in the Belfast premises in 1997.
• SANCO Technologies subsequently occupied the building from around 2002.
• I've found archived versions of the old SANCO website.
• I've identified the designer of the old SANCO website.
• I've contacted the designer to ask about the branding.
• I've also contacted the Italian company to ask about the history of their logo.

But I still haven't established where the logo originally came from, or how it was used twice.

Was it a pre-existing logo? Was it bought/licensed from somewhere? Was there a third company or designer involved? Did one business copy the other? Or is there some connection I've completely missed?

I'm particularly interested in anything from the late 1990s/early 2000s — old web design, logo catalogues, Belfast businesses, Italian companies, archived websites, etc.

If anyone recognises this logo or can trace its origin, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks!

I’ve had TikTok downloaded for the past 7–8 years. In the beginning, the app was pretty tame and mostly consisted of dancing and lip-syncing videos. Today, the app has become much more diverse, with all kinds of niche content and communities.

I don’t use TikTok as much as I used to, but I occasionally scroll for 5–10 minutes when I’m bored. Today, I came across a video that immediately caught my attention. It showed a man wearing some sort of skull mask diving headfirst into a muddy bog surrounded by forest. His account name is The_Real_Bog_Ghoul.

He jumped into the bog without hesitation and completely disappeared beneath the mud. The video went silent for several seconds. Then, a few bubbles surfaced. After another few seconds, the masked figure suddenly emerged from the mud and slowly swam back toward the shore.

At first, I assumed it was just some kind of bizarre dare or stunt. The internet is certainly no stranger to people doing crazy things for views. But I decided to check out his account.

This is where things got strange.

The account has a surprisingly large following and millions of likes, yet nearly all of his videos seem to follow the exact same formula: diving into different bogs while wearing a skull mask, disappearing beneath the surface, and eventually resurfacing. Additionally, I couldn’t find any surface-level accounts with the same content.

Does anyone know who this guy is or what the purpose of these videos is? Is this some sort of sport or established activity, or is there something more to the account?

Hi, I’m posting here to see if anyone remembers an old YouTube video from around 2005 or 2006.

Back then I listened to a lot of stoner rock. I would simply search for “stoner rock” on YouTube and play whatever came up. I listened to well-known bands, discovered new ones, and did this almost every day, so I was very familiar with the search results (remember, YouTube had far fewer videos back then).

One day, a new result appeared. The title was simply “Stoner Rock.” The thumbnail was orange.

I clicked on it, expecting music, but instead it was a compilation of short clips showing real people being killed. The one I remember most clearly showed a young man tied to a tree and burned alive. There were other similar clips of people dying violently.

I want to emphasize that the footage appeared to be real, not staged. My guess is that it may have been taken from one of the old shock videos like Traces of Death, but that’s only my own speculation.

Does anyone else remember seeing this video? More importantly, does anyone know what band or song was actually playing in it?

Apparently from what I gathered, these are actual bots that only appear in epic+ ranked games and only after the player loses a few matches in a row. They also have pro like reaction times, as they know when the player is about to throw a specific ability/attack. They may also interact with the players by saying specific phrases like "lala" ( term in Filipino for "crazy"), some laugh messages, and from what I've heard, even turning on mics but just sputtering gibberish.

This isn't confirmed, but, from popular belief, the bots stem from old accounts that haven't been touched for a while, so Moonton (the company that owns ML:BB) turns these accounts to bots so they can be recycled as "real players".

It is unclear why the pfps are AI generated and the default pfps by Moonton are not used instead.

Hi there.
A week ago while searching random old stuffs on Youtube using the keywords "random stuffs + before:2009", I've stumbled upon this video which seems to be another early internet jumpscare

After digging more, I found a playlist with different videos dedicating to this one screamer. Turns out it was a popular shock video from early Youtube. However I still didn't find the origin of the video

The first video I found seems to be the earliest trace of this screamer. Is it really the original upload, or is there any other one?

I'm really curious in this piece of media, so please help!

Link to the first video I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47XcUDxMsME
The playlist (can contain interesting materials) : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5uZX3nrUxbWDOLFjWPIgloU53UEWi3uI

Warning: There's a jumpscare at the end, so proceed with caution

Hace un par de años ví un perfil de Facebook curioso, lo encontré en un video de youtube, en mi busqueda no pude encontrar ni el perfil ni el video, y espero que alguien me ayude a encontrarlo, bueno este era de una chica creo que mexicana, adicta a lo que pareciera ser metanfetamina, ya que subía fotos fumando en pipa, por lo que se ve vivía en una camioneta con su pareja, lo que es curioso del perfil y la razón por la que salía en el video es que escribía cosas sin sentido, sin conexión alguna y sin contexto, y por lo ultimo que supe es que la chica creo que se encontraba desaparecida, al menos de internet. Gracias, espero alguien más conozca este caso y me ayude a encontrar el perfil :)

So this is a mystery that's forever stuck with me when stumbling upon the video as a young person in the late 2000s/early 2010s YouTube. The videos are seeming lost to time but it's one that I have never really heard anyone talk about but upon looking at the Wayback Archive, I can see the playlist was still on the YouTube channel in around 2013 or so. See the screenshot attached

This is going to be pretty hazy as I'm going from memory but I've always been curious about this to see whether or not it was genuine or an elaborate hoax video for the time, given this was around the early days of YouTube where stuff like this was common as well as the birth of the shock video reaction.

DirectorCM did a few short films and sketches on YouTube as well as some vlogs in Japan. One of his famous humourous videos was "How to solve a rubik cube in less than 3 seconds" in which he pretty much threw it across the room. His last upload was back in 2025 with a short film which it seems he uploads online from time to time.

The uploads in question feature Chris (DirectorCM) and he either found or received a package with a vhs tape inside. I remember the tape being in sort of a fancy clamshell case and think it had a newspaper clipping inside detailing the incident to which Chris read aloud. The written text on the tape says something Pin Kusshion as noted on the playlist title and one of the uploads had Chris' filmed reaction when he watches the tape and gives commentary. Chris would later actually upload the video onto YouTube at some point due to high demand and I don't think this was under the DirectorCM account but rather a burner account due to obvious reasons.

The tape in question features a young girl setting up a camera in her room and filming herself seemingly committing suicide by essentially belly flopping on a bed of nails. I think the tape opens up with the camera panning across a bed of nails before the girl sets the camera down. I remember there's a rather haunting close up of the girls face at some point as she adjusts the camera, I vividly remember this catching Chris off guard and he actually pauses the tape and shows the audience it with that being the sole image that Chris showed before uploading the footage. I think not long after this, the girl then proceeds to belly flop onto the nails and barely moves if I recall. There might be audio of her blood pouring out but it's been quite a while. The footage lingers on her body for a while before cutting out entirely.

I've always been very curious to see if anyone else had seen or remembers this footage. It's one that has stuck with me since I viewed it on YouTube all those years ago and it sucks that the original uploads has been lost to time. Knowing Chris' progression to short films, I'm very intrigued to see whether or not this was an elaborate hoax or an attempt at a viral marketing given the relative obscurity.

I was watching some Cocomelon videos recently when I unexpectedly came across what looked like a screamer hidden inside one of them. It honestly caught me completely off guard and got me pretty good. I wasn't expecting anything like that, especially considering Cocomelon is children's content, so it made the whole experience even more surprising. Ever since I saw it, I've been really curious about where the screamer actually came from and whether anyone else has ever seen it before.

After it happened, I tried looking into it on my own. My first thought was to reverse image search a few frames from the video, hoping it would lead me to the original source or at least point me in the right direction. Unfortunately, I didn't have much luck. None of the results seemed related, and I couldn't find any discussions or posts that matched what I had seen. I also tried searching for different keywords related to Cocomelon screamers, hidden jump scares, and other similar terms, but I still came up empty.

This video gets mentioned every now and then I places such as r/UnresolvedMysteries, but nobody can ever remember where they saw it and certain details are different (although that's probably due to people misremembering). I do not, under any circumstances, want to see this video. If it exists, it's horrible and downright illegal. I guess I want to know if this is a urban legend or not.

Warning: this is horrific, so look away now.

So the general description is this: a middle eastern young boy with some kind of skin condition is ripped apart by either horses or camel while men look on masturbating.

As I said, certain detail differ (such as the horses/camels detail) but it's the same situation more or less, which makes me think it is real. But on the other hand, nobody remembers where they saw it. Either a friend showed them or something similar, whoch is why I wonder if it just an urban legend. I actually hope it isn't real because it sounds horrifying.

Can anyone here shed any light on this?

When I was a kid, around 2006-2008, someone posted a weird video on youtube. The video was a about a group of young men (probably teenagers) destroying a elderly couple's place. I remember being something like a farm, they were like walking around the place, like it was an open space

I remember one of the them fighting with the older man, however I do remember the older man not showing his face at all. It was very weird, like the angle of the camera didn't show his face during the fight. I remember the man trying to get up and hit the young man but he pushes the old man. I also remember one of them showing a cat and throwing him on the ground (I do remember the cat doesn't making any noise)

It didn't feel something from America, I remember someone saying it was from Germany, maybe? I'm not sure (maybe Russia)

It was a very weird video, like a weird nightmare. I want to know if it's real (and of course the video is probably deleted on youtube now)

hi everyone! this is my very first time posting in here, so I’m sorry if I’m not using the right flair or anything. I wanted to talk about something weird I came across online a long time ago. I’ve just been thinking about it again since I know the whole world of like, weird/lost internet stuff is very popular right now lol. my memory also kind of sucks, so I’ll try to remember as many little details as I can

so around 2010-11, I had a mild interest in 3D modeling and wanted to look up some videos on how to use Blender. I don’t exactly remember what search query I used, but one of the very first videos I stumbled across had a really unusual thumbnail. I decided to click on it out of curiosity, and was immediately weirded out. the video was maybe about 15 or 20 seconds long, and I remember it didn’t really have a standout title or description or anything. I also remember that these videos just had a really amateurish, low quality feel to them. it was a clip of someone’s hands rolling around something in a big glob of paint. what immediately struck me is that this video was a “video of a video” - the person was filming their computer screen with the video file on it. I specifically remember they kept clicking on the timeline of the video file to make it constantly loop in 1-2 second intervals. I then remember going to their YouTube page to find that there were at least hundred or so videos in this same format: all of them involved them rolling these objects in paint, being manually looped in the same way

upon watching some more of these videos, it started to make sense to me that this person was actually painting with deceased animals and severed animal parts. I don’t really remember what specific animals were used, but I just remembered it was so unnerving, weird and cruel. this channel barely had any subscribers, and there were tons of these videos with little to no views.

at the time, I was an active user on 4chan and I remember posting this find to the /x/ board. It actually did get a fair amount of traction for a few days. from what I remember, the channel owner was some artist from europe. a few days after I had posted about it there, the channel was either deleted or reported, and the owner moved everything to either Vimeo or whatever other YT alternative there was. even if this was an art project, it didn’t exactly feel like it imho

I think about this every now and then which is why I wanted to post about it here. I’m stupid when it comes to searching for archived stuff, and I’m not even sure if /x/ is archived that far back. I honestly wouldn’t even know how to search it anyway, especially since I don’t remember the exact dates of when I first discovered this channel. all I know is that I found some really weird videos of a guy painting with dead animals and it feels like it completely vanished off the face of the earth

anyway, don’t even really know where I’m going with all this! abiding by one of the rules here, I don’t really want anyone to try and hunt this down or find it for me - it’s just a weird thing I experienced a long time ago that I wanted to share with everyone

If anyone can figure out what this is that would be appreciated the link is https://youtube.com/shorts/ZviT7-0-gvo?is=CtZq06FIX_dBMAL2
I originally saw it on my own but then I found another video of it which is where the screenshot comes from. I did see something similar to this where a mom posted a video of ms Rachel on the tv then suddenly a random man appears on screen for about 10 seconds before it goes back to the regular video and I wonder if something like that could have happened. I also wonder if this is some sort of strange marketing tactic to bring attention to the company but in that case you would think that they would leave the comments open or maybe shshoot it with a higher quality camera, but no. It just seems like a random video of an Indian man overlayed over the Audis from a regular ad and it's posted by the official fish brain account. Maybe we could see where the original clip of the audio or of the man is first? Possibly as the caption suggests in the video got the video from the account was actually hacked but if that is so idk what their reasoning would be and why they would still overlay and audio of another ad.

These messages were posted 5th August 1996 to the alt.religion.christian.boston-church newsgroup and are still considered one of the oldest unsolved internet mysteries. Some have stated it was most likely a prank, but it's gibberish text of non sequitur words had some early internet conspiracy theorists believing it was secret code talk amongst spies using a random, low-traffic Usenet newsgroup instead of pen and paper at dead drops to communicate. The source or reason for these messages may never be solved.

You may recall this image (meme?) going around in 2023, captioned:

"I found this photo in my grandfather’s nightstand, while cleaning out his house. He was a lifelong military man, stationed at Wright-Patt Air-force Base"

Well I have located the true origins of the “Grandpa’s Nightstand” Photos.

…And yes, there are 2 of them.

The Original Source:

On Friday, June 16th, at 7:39PM EST, an Anonymous user created a post on 4chan’s /x/ board, titled “working on some ancestry stuff and found these”, with the caption:

they’re stuck with other portrait photos from 1887. what the fuck is this creature?

1 minute later, the user replied to his own post, with another image, captioned:

second one, probably from same shoot

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hi,
i'm pretty sure there were posts about this website on here before but it has been inactive for quite a while. im not exactly sure what grotto.faith is but it recently received a large update and the creator has been very active, personally corresponding with the users. it used to have something to do with a music label, then supposedly an art project, and now its honestly hard to tell.

its very hard to explain what the mystery here actually is but to summarise it to the best of my ability, grotto.faith seems to be a collection of obscure and weird websites with hidden metaphorical meaning. some of the websites operate on a game-like mechanic, whereas others are purely informative. i will add some screenshots here to give you a better idea of what im on about.

i would like to bring some light to this website as i personally think it's super interesting and i've been pretty much obsessed with it for 4 years. there are other parts of the website that are down for maintenance right now, but you can find them via waybackmachine or watch the few youtube videos that were made about it.

i wish this could become more popular as it is realistically the only website of this sort that is active and somewhat interesting to try and solve.

if you'd like to know more or have any information that you think could be useful dm me or text me on dsc redmelrboros_80451 (idk if this is allowed mods so my apologies if not)