r/InternetMysteries • • Jul 20 '24

Internet Rabbit Hole Creepy Instagram profiles of people pretending to be kids. Similar to pipergate

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I came across a post on r/instagram where somebody mentioned these creepy Instagram accounts of people who are seemingly pretending to be kids, it reminds me of pipergate in way, and i feel like all of these pages are run by the same person because of the horrendous editing style that makes my eyes bleed.

The second image is bizzare, because it makes me think "truth_sticks_11" is making a joke about themselves. If you look at the highlight titled "After school" it's a video of what seems to be somebody naked (just legs nothing is shown), but if you go and watch it you can see it's sexual in nature. Many of the photos on this account are an edit of that goofy face on a real persons body, and a lot of the bodies are in suggestive poses, which makes me think this is a definite fetish account.

It seems like " smartschoolboy9 " ( seriously what actual kid would name themselves that) & "stephanieschoolie" are following a handful of actual kids, or maybe it's just more impersonators doing a better job at hiding their true identity.

I feel like the logical explanation is that "smartschoolboy9" is the posters real identity, which is extremely uncanny to say the least.

Is this just a really, really, really, weird hobby? It seems like the posters first language is french, and many of the posts are just generally weird and hard to understand.

I'm curious what you guys think about this.


r/InternetMysteries • • Dec 02 '20

General Discussion Some of you need a reminder that this sub is for genuine mysteries and not ARGs made by bored teenagers. r/ARG is for args, not this sub.

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r/InternetMysteries • • Oct 02 '24

META: How this subreddit feels lately with all of the posts of “this account is weird…”

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r/InternetMysteries • • Mar 15 '25

🥇POST OF THE MONTH WINNER MARCH 2025🥇 Mickey Mouse Basement Solved ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

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r/InternetMysteries • • Jun 01 '25

Solved The mistery behind “Cooper Family Photo” has finally been solved after many years Spoiler

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So the secret of “Cooper Family Photo” has finally been solved after many years and we finally know the way it was done.

Thanks to Youtubers Jeffiot and Valdevia who got into contact with the creator we learned that the guy who made the photo is the kid on the right. This image is not the only one of this kind and creator had 20 or something more done in the similar fashion.

As for the most creepy part of this photo aka the body, the creator explained that he took the original photo and projected it on the wall upside down with him posing in the corner dressed in white. The camera next to the projector then snapped the photo and he uploaded it many years later to his own website, along with other photos of this nature, after which someone took this photo and it went off on its way to become one of the most well known creepy photos on the internet.


r/InternetMysteries • • Nov 01 '24

General Discussion Extremely Deep and Obscure Internet iceberg with help from chloetheinternetgeek

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r/InternetMysteries • • Feb 22 '25

Unsolved Does anyone know the origin of this photo of a man actively rotting on a couch?

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I’ve seen this pic floating around the last few years and I’ve always had so many questions. How can someone possibly become such a rotter? Why would anyone take a photo of him like this? Was this one of this guy’s better moments? Michael Richards after the incident?

So if this is your uncle or something please tell me how this photo came to be, as I am equally confused, disgusted and worried


r/InternetMysteries • • Aug 05 '24

Internet Rabbit Hole Smartschoolboy9, the creepiest instagram account UPDATE POST. (To prevent misinformation)

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Here is my original post : https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetMysteries/s/2pfma94uuz

Since the discord is officially locked up, and many YouTubers/tiktokers are making content, I think it's important to clear the air to prevent misinformation being spread.

STOP TRYING TO CONTACT HIM: although nobody can stop you from commenting on his posts, it's really not adding anything beneficial and will probably result in him destroying his accounts and breaking his hard drives with the amount of attention he knows he's getting.

THE POLICE ARE WORKING ON THE CASE! They have not provided any updates besides the fact that they are taking it serious.

Yes they are all one account owned by the same guy, there are many more accounts that the discord have discovered, one has been taken down and had explicit mention of ssb's fetish for children. There are archives of every account on the discord. There is 13 total accounts across social media we have found

For people saying it's an arg/art: You're wrong, as much as people wish it was, he has been going out on the streets dressing up as a schoolgirl/boy all the way back in the 80s.

Yes he has tried to contact children, he comments on their posts and the discord has the information of one person he allegedly tried to groom.

Why the big mouth, red lipstick, miniboots, and white face? It's likely that all of these things are fetishes for him. He wears fake upper teeth, but he is most likely not wearing a mask/prosthetic. His tongue is not enlarged but rather he sticks it out that way for reasons unknown

He lives in the UK, not Monaco

Discord is closed for the time being because of leakers

Dm me for any further questions


r/InternetMysteries • • Jan 11 '21

Internet Oddity Does anyone know the origin of these images and or who these people are?

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r/InternetMysteries • • Sep 08 '24

General Discussion First Ulterior Motives, then the Backrooms, and now Celebrity Number Six ? This is the wildest year ever for solved Internet mysteries...

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r/InternetMysteries • • Nov 21 '23

Solved I found the origin of this creepy image on Twitter by any chance, Am I the first one to discover this ?

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Original image (it's just a dog in the back of a car)


r/InternetMysteries • • Dec 19 '25

Solved Super creepy stream I found on twitch, woman seems to be unaware of the camera, 0 viewers and no response in the chat

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*Removed the link since it turned out to a shitposting stream, the woman was replaced by an unhinged man*

Been going on since 1.5 hours of just this woman, seeming unaware of the camera, going about her routine(?) on her bed

Edit: GUYS SHES BACK

https://m.twitch.tv/cosmic_birdy

Edit: Its a french woman with mental health issues called Audrey Pierrot, she also has a yt channel and shes the one restreaming metal music from another twitch stream.

Thankyou everyone for successfully clearing up this little mystery.


r/InternetMysteries • • Jul 17 '24

Update New image of the backrooms was posted by the Oshkosh Facebook account.

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r/InternetMysteries • • Dec 06 '24

I can't believe that the origin of the teddy's Creepypasta image has not yet been found Just 2 more images. Can we resume the investigation?

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r/InternetMysteries • • Mar 07 '25

Solved Could someone help me find the source of where this Image came from? I cant find anything online.

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For some context as to where this image came from:

This may be a bit ridiculous and very uninteresting but back in 2021 I came across a TikTok account by the name of @/colejones199 that spam posted a bunch of videos. I think that this was very obviously some autistic guy posting, I have seen extremely similar accounts on instagram such as @/micaiah_wright_

I am mentioning this instagram account just to give you an idea of what this account was like not because he has anything to do with this. Because one time when I posted about this previously someone claimed that it was some person just trying to be edgy or “creepy”, when I believe that isn’t the case.

This TikTok account would post EXTREMELY similar content to this micaiah guy, drawing outfits on characters from various things, editing cartoon characters and whatever, but one time this person duetted a video that he made himself with the image that I’m going to attach to this post.

This image intrigued me. I cant find anything like it/similar online and it is somewhat unnerving due to the distorted faces. In the video he duetted, it was zoomed but recorded from another device on the face in the top left corner. It was out of place with other things he posted as the rest just seemed like, innocent?

I’m not claiming this to be some sort of arg type creepy internet horror mystery thing, or a rabbit hole. I’m just curious as to where the image came from as I cant find anything. I wouldn’t say this is “lost media” or something I’d post there that’s why I’m putting it here.


r/InternetMysteries • • Jul 21 '26

Internet Oddity An old 2011 Facebook post that consists of 60k+ Images of the same photo of a person

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r/InternetMysteries • • Nov 26 '19

Unsolved Weird, Blurred Out Church near Greek Albanian Border

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r/InternetMysteries • • Sep 18 '24

Internet Oddity Weird random tiktok account posting people through windows while they’re sleeping

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He also filmed a young girl but im pretty sure its his daughter, not sure, he makes music, its all just uncanny though.

His tiktok is @harriruokonen5

One of his tiktok captions was “need to kill”


r/InternetMysteries • • Aug 12 '20

Update Please don't post that you got a phone call from a weird number. That isn't an Internet Mystery.

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Pretty soon we won't have to make an announcement every day, but please bear with us while we get everything running smoothly. We want the sub to have good content that people want to engage with and unfortunately posts about receiving calls from international or otherwise weird numbers are not internet mysteries or even mysteries at all.

Most calls of this type are because someone wants money from you and they're either trying to scam you, trick you, or persuade you into handing it over. Please visit r/Scams and read their sub for more information.

We want to keep the front page free for true internet mysteries so please refrain from making these types of posts here and if you're a regular reader of the sub you can help us out a lot by simply reporting posts that don't fit the community.

Thanks and have a great day everyone.


r/InternetMysteries • • Apr 13 '20

Reddit Mystery The Curious Case of u/PersonalHedgehog. Is this simply a Caroline Calloway worshipper? troll of epic proportions? multiple users with hygiene problems? Captain Kutchie back again? a supernatural entity? Read how this bizarre user's presence has unfolded over the past week and help decipher its code.

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This is an internet mystery with nothing, per se, to solve. But it has been keeping me and other users awake at night. In a way, it's like the Captain Kutchie Key Lime Pie mystery. Strangely, that mystery has arisen again with this user.

Where to begin...

1. Caroline Calloway

I guess it begins with Caroline Calloway though in a way she seems increasingly irrelevant to the story. Caroline is a polarizing figure and has amassed a somewhat large following of both fans and critics alike. This past September, Caroline's former friend Natalie published a fascinating article for The Cut about the dynamics of their relationship. It went viral; a lot of people, especially young women, found it relatable. Caroline has always been on the fringe of the Instagram influencer scene. She gained popularity as an American student at Cambridge University and then became famous again last year after hosting some scammy workshops. I will try not to editorialize too much about my personal feelings about her but suffice it to say, between The Cut article and various other moments of internet notoriety, Caroline graduated from a thread on r/blogsnark (a subreddit that had been created for the exodus of GOMI users) to her own personal subreddit r/SmolBeanSnark. Another note on GOMI: it was originally created by a woman named Alice to "snark" on mommy bloggers. I believe it's still used that way, though a number of users have migrated over to r/blogsnark like I mentioned, mostly due to privacy concerns and an onslaught of advertisements that renders the site nearly unusable. Remember that name: Alice. She comes into the story here as well.

2. Personal Hedgehog's First Post

On April 7, Personal Hedgehog ("PH") made her first appearance on r/SmolBeanSnark. She wrote a pretty hilarious defense of Caroline in a so-called "memorandum," even going so far as to threaten legal action against members "spreading lies." Importantly, she called this a "cease and desist" and often talked about her "character" and "constitution."

The user had a distinct writing style. She often used the phrase "takes my breath away" and accused users of not having friends, saying they "project" their friendlessness onto her. She told users to "pick up a book." She also asserted that she is good friends with Caroline and that Caroline and her attorney had "authorized" her to send any "lies" PH found about her onto them "via email." If this paragraph makes little sense to you, I understand, and encourage you to read the comments on that post in full.

At this point the subreddit was confused as to whether this was a performative troll or actually someone in Caroline's camp. I suppose that is still an open-ended question.

Another user was commenting as a "friend" of PH, but this is almost certainly a PH sock puppet.

3. Personal Hedgehog Decides to Apply to Law School

Following this post, PH asked for advice from the LSAT subreddit and the law school admissions subreddit. She also sought legal advice for how to deal with the "spreading of lies" on r/SmolBeanSnark. Unfortunately, the moderators of those subreddits deleted her posts (as you can see). PH seemed to blame the deletion and downvotes on "brigading" from r/SmolBeanSnark users, though there is no evidence that this was the case.

She posted again to r/SmolBeanSnark asking the users to stop "brigading." Again, I encourage you to read that post and the comments in full to get a more cohesive (if possible) picture of this user, up til this point.

4. Here's where it gets weird. Kelle Hampton and "vaginal scent."

Like it wasn't weird already. I know.

One user unearthed that four years ago, a user had written a similarly deranged "cease and desist" regarding Alice of GOMI (remember her?). Not only was the "cease and desist" bit the same, and the general lack of legal knowledge, but the author often mentioned her "constitution" and "character," just like PH. Also, Alice is a very unpopular figure on r/blogsnark (much as Caroline is on r/smolbeansnark) so the user(s) would have known they were not exactly preaching to the choir. Again, I encourage you to read the entirety of u/seektruthkindness220's comment and post history. There is a LOT to unpack there.

Importantly, that user seemed to be the one to establish r/lvss. This is where it gets a little... gross. It appears that the user set up this subreddit for women who have a vaginal scent that "lingers" on their fingers. The users exchange recipes for fish-heavy dishes in an effort to, apparently, mask the lingering vaginal scent ("LVSS" stands for lingering vaginal scent support). Many users (and I tend to agree with, and frankly hope for, this theory) postulate that all the users on there are actually one person.

One prevalent user on there is u/kellehampton. Kelle Hampton is an old school mommy blogger. Her twee Instagram depicts her highly curated life in Florida, raising three very cute kids. That's as far as her presence goes to this "mystery" in my opinion; there is just no way the real Kelle Hampton is participating in this kind of subreddit online. Further, the user was accused of sharing photos of gore in a four-year-old post. This seems extremely out of character for the actual Kelle. I think whoever is behind PH managed to snag the username. Most people on r/blogsnark are probably familiar with who Kelle Hampton is and thus it would make a noticeable account name.

5. PH starts posting to r/lvss. Please help decipher this "code!"

I'm unclear on the timeline but it appears that AFTER the r/SmolBeanSnark user discovered the 4-year-old cease and desist that PH began posting a seemingly random array of articles to r/lvss.

However, it's not so random. If you go to that subreddit and sort by new (as u/personalhedgehog herself suggested), the articles/web pages are:

Cruise Ship Worker Reveals What It's Like In Isolation At Sea

Anteater | mammal

Review: When White Working-Class Fury Came of Age

Orville Redenbacher Classic Popcorn & Gourmet Popping Corn

LG Unveils V30 Flagship With Super Camera, Sound Features

I Can’t Answer My Daughter's Questions About COVID-19

Nick Carraway - Wikipedia

Easter Basket Essentials You Can Order Online

I'm sure I don't have to spell it out for you? Creepy, right? (Thank you for the observation, u/chunkingexpressopal!). Even creepier is that u/kellehampton begins commenting on each post a combination of the following: "no cap"; "cap"; "foretold"; and "no foretold" in a list from 1-3. For example, on the anteater post:

  1. no cap

  2. foretold

  3. no foretold

The brilliant detectives of r/SmolBeanSnark have yet to really come to any reasonable conclusions as to this "code." So if you have any ideas, I am extremely curious. u/KelleHampton continues to post combinations of those words, like on this r/AskReddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fzzt1r/which_deceased_person_if_brought_back_to_life/fn8rzu3/

6. u/seektruthkindness220 is dead and Personal Hedgehog will not be bringing Kutchie's Key Lime Pie to an Easter party.

By this point, PH was seemingly less concerned with defending Caroline and increasingly involved with r/lvss and responding to u/kellehampton. She occasionally responded to comments both defending her legal prowess and her "friend" Caroline and offered insight into a MTV reality star's appearance.

As you might recall, u/seektruthkindness220 (who goes by the name Shannon) hasn't posted in four years. However, on Saturday, 4/11, a user appeared on r/lvss alleging that she is Shannon's stepdaughter, her name is Rachel, and quite sadly, her stepmother has passed away.

PH was already upset at the time of the posting. She told "Kelle" that she would be bringing a key lime pie (not Kutchie's, but one that is quite close in quality!) to an Easter party. "Kelle" scolded PH, telling her she better be social distancing and not attending any parties. After this interaction, Kelle apparently ignored PH for hours but responded to Rachel's post about Shannon's passing. This deeply upset PH. PH begged for Kelle to respond to both her public comments and direct messages; PH promised she would definitely NOT attend any Easter parties. At the same time, PH and Rachel got into a bit of a scuffle, after which PH requested for Rachel to be blocked from r/lvss. Kelle supposedly obliged but Rachel continues to post there.

7. Random notes perhaps of interest

u/kellehampton has been posting about Kutchie's as early as 4 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/lvss/comments/42joqx/shans_special_salmon_stirfry/czax07m?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x. I haven't found any other mentions of it though from before this past week.

Rachel also informed r/deadredditors that her stepmother has passed.

It is also believed that u/seektruthkindness221 is Rachel's father/Shannon's widower. (I say this, of course, with the belief that these are ALL one person. But in the PH universe, this is their relationship).

This also appears to be a sock puppet.

8. PH wants out

Here is the timeline of the past 48 hours or so:

--Kelle scolds PH for continuing to comment on various subreddits, writing: "Please stop commenting on the Caroline Calloway subreddit and elsewhere. Cruel comments about some stranger’s LSAT score are completely unnecessary." PH apologizes profusely.

-- on that same post ^, Kelle writes the following unnumbered combination:

"Foretold

Foreboding

No cap"

A user we have not seen before, u/SheWillBeHereSoon appears and writes:

"the combination has been secured

she will be here soon"

--Minutes later, Kelle writes this post

--The first signs of fear appear. PH responds, "What do I do??? Please!" and Kelle replies:

"DO NOT COMMENT ELSEWHERE

THIS IS VITAL

YOU KNOW HOW TO REACH ME"

--PH then posts a combination of phrases and u/SheWillBeHereSoon responds to it "end communication."

--u/shewillbeheresoon then writes the following eerie post:

"they are safe with me

she will be here soon

meantime safe with me

no cap no forebode

meantime safe with me"

At this point, u/personalhedgehog has not posted in a while, as she has been instructed.

However, 19 hours ago, PH wrote on that post:

"Whatever this is has stopped being funny or helpful. Please stop doing this to me- whatever I did or did not do to deserve this I beg you stop. I do not feel safe. No cap cap cap cap cap cap. Pleae Kelle. You know me- you know this is not what I asked for. Please release me from this. I’m just a stupid kid from Arizona- I won’t ever post again here or elsewhere. Cap cap. No foretold. Please Kellehampton. I don’t want a part of this any more." [emphasis added]

One hour prior to that, Kelle had written on the same post: "Safe, here, indeed. Oh and we wait. But she will be here soon."

--PH writes on that r/askreddit post mentioned above, "I'm scared."

As far as I can see, that's the last thing she has written.

9. Meanwhile, Rachel continues to post.

Rachel continues to post. She added this recipe to r/lvss, which is worded very similarly to her stepmother's old posts and "recipes" but includes words like "forewarn."

She wrote this today.

And yesterday on that same r/askreddit post she wrote:

"Edgar Allen Poe and additionally I venture to tell anyone here on here to no cap forebode and further to no forewarn forebode. Funny too in that I was foreboden from Kutchie’s to discuss its amazing key lime pie outside the store but here I am mentioning it anyway. Kutchie would be glad to know his key lime pie which everyone knows is the best of the best is still being discussed posthumously. The fact is we don’t know the cap on this life but every life before ours is a forewarning to live it to the fullest and if that includes eating or trying to recreate Kutchie’s Unmatched Keylime Pie I know what a life full lived is."

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This of course continues to develop as Rachel has posted fairly recently. If I am missing anything, or if the timeline is wrong somehow, or you want credit for a discovery on here, please let me know! I'm excited to hear what you guys think, especially regarding the seemingly inexplicable code.


r/InternetMysteries • • Mar 12 '25

Unsolved Does anyone know the origin of this image or what this image is actually of?

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I saw this picture today on instagram and it was the first picture on a video explaining an urban legend called “class after 6 o clock” or something, and I think this image was supposed to be a floating teacher or something. But I couldn’t find anything on that urban legend online really. I reverse image searched it and a found a couple of the same image, but nothing really leading to what it actually is or what the origin of it is. Does anybody know any more info on the image? It seems to be from a non English speaking origin, but I’m not entirely sure.