r/InternetMysteries Apr 05 '25

Moderator Message State of the Sub: Internet Mysteries

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Hi folks! We wanted to check in and formally introduce ourselves to the sub as the team of new and active moderators. We come from various backgrounds and interests, be it true crime, internet mysteries, lostwave, web-sleuthing or educating. But we all have one thing in common and that is the passion and excitement for internet-based mysteries.

What is an internet based mystery?

Attempting to find an absolute meaning to this is hard to do and I think we can all agree that the concept is fairly subjective. To start, we’ve agreed that an internet mystery is a mystery that is found on the internet. 

  • An Internet mystery can really be any strange phenomenon or event that hasn’t been solved or explained in the digital world. It often involves the online community, social media, or unexplained events that people discuss and share online. Some examples might include:
  • Unexplained Disappearances: Cases where people have vanished under odd circumstances, and folks online debate what really happened to them. An example of this would be cases like the Springfield Three Disappearances. Yes, it happened in the real World of the early 1990’s; however, it’s a case that has been debated and theorized on via online forums since the mid 90’s.
  • Viral Urban Legends: Stories or myths that spread across the Internet, gaining popularity through social media, even though they lack solid proof.
  • Mysterious Websites or Content: Odd sites or content that pop up without explanation, often with bizarre or creepy themes, like those found in the "deep web."
  • Online Conspiracies: Theories that emerge or gain traction online, usually without super great evidence, but get people talking and speculating.
  • Unidentified Creatures or Phenomena: Videos or reports of strange animals or unexplained events that spark discussion and investigation among people online.
  • These mysteries tend to pull people in, encouraging them to work together to figure things out or to share their thoughts on what’s really going on.

Please take some time to look over the rules and post expectations. Removal reasons for posts will reflect the rules stated. We as a mod team are working on projects such as a wiki, spreadsheet of internet mysteries and their statuses, and other ideas that will help create community and a clear vision for this subreddit.

We are aware that things are not perfect yet. But do know that we are all here actively moderating posts and comments. Which brings us to a major point that we are all facing right now. What posts do we allow and what do we remove? We have run into issues that are hard to navigate. One is coming to terms with the fact that there really aren’t a lot of truly interesting internet mysteries at this moment. It is hard to find new ones and the new ones posted often tend to not be anything that’s worth keeping on the sub. 

But we cannot over-moderate everything, as that will in fact completely kill the subreddit. There needs to be a steady stream of posts and content and so there will be times when there’s a post that you personally don’t think fits, but we’ve let slide. This idea is that literally a mystery is a mystery that we do not know about. If we over moderate, we risk missing out on real mysteries. 

The other issue is that we cannot in good faith just let everything slide. So we will remove posts that are big piles of nothing without further discussion. 

Here’s where you come in: You are able to flag posts you think are low effort, don’t fit the sub, or are inappropriate. You are able to downvote posts that we choose not to remove. YOU are able to comment on posts you don’t like and (respectfully) give your opinions on the matter. The content quality of a sub is just as much a moderator's task as it is a member's task by using the upvote/downvote buttons and engaging in conversation. Please refrain from making comments in posts that you don’t like whining and telling the mods to do something. We are doing our best. You do something! Engagement creates community and quality. 

We look forward to enjoying this subreddit with you all! We are discussing creating a new Internet Mysteries discord server, so please let us know if there is interest in that. It would be great to have a place to discuss mysteries in real time there instead of tons of them being posted here. Of course, it would be a great resource for major mysteries as well in which we could work together to investigate. Please feel welcome to comment here with any concerns, or reach out to the mod-team directly at any time!

u/ProlificParrot, u/JessMxson, u/YasMysteries, u/twinseylohan, u/The-Ocky-Way-Ny, u/unaburke, , u/Nexpo, u/MugetsuTV, u/B0redBruise


r/InternetMysteries Apr 01 '25

General Discussion Monthly Mysteries - What did you find this month?

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It's a new month and that means it's time to tell us what mysteries you found interesting this past month!

This is also the place to give us any feedback or criticism you may have regarding the subreddit.


r/InternetMysteries 4h ago

[partially lost] origin of a creepy face from a "cursed" youtube video

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r/InternetMysteries 16h ago

YouTube Looking for creepy/weird/obscure videos on YouTube that are little known

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Hello everyone. This is the second part of a post I made in 2023, where I got a lot of interesting finds in the comments. link

I'm interested in the little discoveries involving youtube from the users of this subreddit.

I'm especially interested in videos that don't have an explanation yet, although I'll honestly appreciate any videos you can provide as long as they're not classic ones like "obey the walrus". Playlists and shorts are also welcome.

The videos I find the most interesting are going to a playlist in my channel. (the link is in my profile, because this subreddit doesn't allow self promotion)

Thank you very much in advance for any contribution!


r/InternetMysteries 1d ago

Internet Oddity I find a website with a password, I have no clue what it could be, would need some help

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honestly I dont really search up for weird website in my freetime, but today I have seen once again a video about horselaugh/com and I wanted to search for my own discovery. And here I am, there is no real interaction beside the password login, both picture of Ale and Yuri are named respectively (Yuri.jpg and Ale.jpg) Tried too find them with Yandex tool to find face with an image and got nothing, I also tried some obvious password like "LoveAle" "AleAndYuri" etc... Maybe its just a website to honor a death, but I find it really weird to spend money for this, but I know some people do their grief in differents ways. If someone have some time to waste for this password, I would be glad to know ^v^


r/InternetMysteries 13h ago

What on Earth is this YouTube channel? They have three videos on their channel, they claim to be “debating people” but have left countless comments on their own videos insulting people for no reason?

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https://youtube.com/@JohnyDeep-ls1ds

So, I came across this YouTube channel called “Johny Depp” (not to be confused with the celebrity) which has three videos. Their first video has a Latin title supposedly about discussing dragons and magic, but is filled with 200+ comments from the YouTube channel themself insulting other channels and using made up logic, trying to prove they are better and smarter than those channels. Their second channel features a voice explaining why “a fighter jet would kick a dragon’s ass”. And their third video is an AI generated diss track? What is going on here…


r/InternetMysteries 16h ago

YouTube I found a creepy youtube channel revolving around videos of Moya Brennan talking about stalkers

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I was watching a David Bowie video on youtube and a comment captivated me:

"I am a 53 year old virgin" from the user u/moyabrennanismymum

Well I had to check out their channel. The contents include 3 low quality videos of Moya Brennan talking about stalkers, which initially set my hair standing on end.

There are also some strange videos showing birth certificates, interviewing an old lady about "secrets", and what seems to be tours of some graveyards while talking some weird nonsense. I couldn't quite understand alot of it but Celine Dion was mentioned.

u/moyabrennanismymum also has the odd comment on their own videos saying things like "I have never had sex".

I don't quite know what to make of it - the whole channel is quite unsettling. I haven't had the time or patience to go through all the videos yet, but I thought this sub might find it interesting.

Regards.


r/InternetMysteries 1d ago

Internet Oddity This Neave.TV clip. Where do this video comes from? It's genuinely freaky and uncanny

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First time I stumbled upon this video was back in 2016 when discovering the weird website called "NeaveTV" and of the videos that appeared on the screen was this piece of footage posted above. It's quite strange and freaky almost unreal, but I kind of wonder now which are exactly it's origins from said video. Is it a fake? Photoshop? Is it from a movie scene? Or is it from some excentric or misunderstood artist from some small village? I really want to know all the details from this mysterious video


r/InternetMysteries 2d ago

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 21h ago

Internet Oddity Who is this guy, why does he care about AI so much, and what is he even posting about?

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I keep seeing this guy named @baron_strauss ( https://www.tiktok.com/@baron_strauss?_r=1&_t=ZT-98FehzAKMEn ) on TikTok, and any time his videos come up on my for you page it feels almost creepy. His videos seem to be of him testing out AI to see what its limits are, but I’m not entirely sure.

The average video he posts is some sort of AI chat bot that he’s talking to, and usually he highlights something odd that the AI says. And he has a TON of these videos, the earliest on his page being posted on 7/3/2025.

If anyone could help find out what he means by posting all of this it would be great.


r/InternetMysteries 1d ago

Unsolved What is the origin of that image? i cant find more info and it loops back if u put it in google search

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r/InternetMysteries 1d ago

Solved I talked to "Theta Noire", they usually are referred as "Internet AI cult" but my personal investigation and their answer proves they're not.

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Late 2024, I was running an AI startup company and I used every chance to talk to pretty much anyone who uses AI in an artistic way (I was working on SOTA/Fine Tuned image and audio generation models).

One day, I saw a youtube video about "Theta Noir" (thetanoir.com) and called them a "cult". Being fair, they have a completely cult like image. But since they had no tighs to an existing religion (like many current AI cults like Robotheism which claim to be an update on Christianity) I decided to contact them and find if they may use my models or not.

Honestly I like occult art forms (painting, movies, even Euorpean black metal/dungeon synth music is my favorite because of its occult value) and I also mentioned that their performance project raised some eyebrows.

Mika answered very well. Although we never talked again due my personal problems and my company being shut down, I had to mention these guys are artists who know how to art.


r/InternetMysteries 2d ago

Unsolved I found a strange and nonsensical channel on Twitch, help me make sense of it.

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I found a rather strange channel. There's a popular streamer from Spain called Rubius, and like every day, I put his name in the search bar, and in the recommended streams, a channel's stream appeared. It was called "Rubius__a", had a picture of Rubius, but it wasn't an official channel of the streamer. Out of pure curiosity I joined the stream, and it was a stream of approximately 8 hours where there was only a background video of a pink sky and the chat pinned with nonsensical comments.

I looked for previous streams from the same channel and all of them had the title "March 11, 2004" in Spanish. In total there were 4 streams: the one currently broadcasting, two lasting 21 and 19 hours each, and the first one, which was the most curious, as it lasted almost two days, The title was different: "live with restream, July". I didn't look at it in detail because it takes a long time, but from what little I found, most of the stream was practically the same as the other streams: a random background and some nonsensical chat comments. However, at the beginning of that first stream, you could see a "webcam" of a room; it looked old and low quality. After an hour of the stream, two more "webcams" appeared: one showed a completely dark spot in a house and the other the exterior of somewhere, which I assume was the house. Nothing noteworthy appeared except for one part where a woman can be seen sweeping. Nothing out of the ordinary since they were cameras in a house, but despite that, I find it a bit strange—who puts up a house camera for two hours where nothing happens?

At a certain point in the stream, when the background is a pink sky for like a whole day, a sound similar to breathing is heard. It's striking, since in the entire stream (or well, what little I saw of the almost 48-hour stream) it's just music and suddenly you hear that, which is weird. It's not terrifying, but it's a bit unsettling since I don't know what the purpose of these streams is. Anyway, I'm sharing it in case anyone wants to go to the channel and investigate on their own. I don't really investigate this stuff, but I ended up getting curious to know what's behind these broadcasts. In the end it might just be something ridiculous, but it's simply the curiosity of finding some sense in this. Right now the channel is still live at almost 9 hours.


r/InternetMysteries 2d ago

Hmolpedia preservation? Hmolpedia will be deleted in August and i'm curious if it can be preserved in any way?

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Hmolpedia is an encyclopedia made by Libb Thims which tries to reconcile sociology (or 'human society') through thermodynamics, chemistry and physics, which he does by just attaching the word human onto it, backed by a unifying framework called "two cultures discipline." He also uses hieroglyphics to support modern etymology.... somehow tying to the two cultures discipline? Hmolpedia is a migraine and borderline incoherent to anyone who isn't trained in deep internet bullshit and philosophy. It serves as a fun 'thought experiment' as a 'theory of everything' if you want. Unfortunately Libb Thims died on the 30th of November, and the website will be shutting down this August. Are there any preservation attempts?


r/InternetMysteries 3d ago

Weird Brazilian channel: "Babies kidnapped", "Emperor/Princess Fátima"

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I’m Brazilian, and I discovered this strange channel a while back in the comments section of a random music video on YouTube. I’m not sure if it would be of interest to people outside Brazil, since most of the content is in Brazilian Portuguese, but I’ve always wanted to talk about it somewhere—I just didn't know where. https://youtube.com/@fatimaaparecida-x7r?si=nThMssEu7aKiiReJ

Most of the comments she posts and her video titles revolve around the same keywords (in Portuguese): "Emperor/Princess Fátima," "babies kidnapped in Mauá (a city in Brazil)," and various addresses. In one comment, she says: "People of Brazil, I am the country's emperor; my kidnapped babies have gone missing in Mauá—whoever helps...". Her channel description is just a bunch of personal information. There are several videos related to this case that seem meaningless at first glance; however, I did come across one video where she is arguing with people on the street .At some point in this video, she says: "Look, there's the kidnappers' house." https://youtube.com/shorts/ayOVDsi94sQ?is=QnlfM_KzI_HKsZ_N

There are several other things she mentions in the comments that I’ll avoid going into so I don't ramble. My theory is that she likely has some sort of mental health issue and that, at some point, her "babies" were actually kidnapped. She probably tried to resolve the matter with the police, but they couldn't do anything about the house she claims belongs to the kidnappers; so, she created this channel and decided to spam comments reporting the incident.

I apologize if this post isn't useful or appropriate for this subreddit; I just wanted to talk about this channel somewhere. I used Google Translate for this post, so sorry for any translation errors.


r/InternetMysteries 3d ago

Strange music YouTube channels with weird thumbnails and unnamed videos - what is even the purpose?

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Sorry if this isn’t the best kind of post for this sub- I didn’t know where else to post it.
I’ve seen dozens of this kind of channels pop up over the last few months, where the videos are title-less, and consist of hours-long music compilations in a specific genre, usually varying per channel. In the videos, there is usually no written description, no copyright claims, no credits, no information about the music being provided whatsoever… which makes me think the music could be AI-Generated. If this is the case, I assume these channels are all bot content farms. However, I am yet to find any way to conclusively prove if my suspicion regarding these channels is correct, and even then, many questions still remain: Are these channels even generating income? For the ones that aren’t, why do they even exist? Is this bizarre trend being carried out by one individual/coordinated team, or independent people? I have a feeling this might be the entrance to a rather deep rabbit hole.


r/InternetMysteries 4d ago

The folk valley and the huss valley are crossing lines for memes can somebody tell what is happening

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The "Folk Valley" and "Huss Valley" trend on YouTube Shorts uses a bait-and-switch format to trick users and children. The videos start as normal sports or comedy clips, but abruptly cut to highly graphic, traumatic AI-generated gore like melting skin and snapping limbs. Because creators use harmless hashtags like #skateboarding or #basketball, the platform's safety filters are completely bypassed, pushing graphic violence onto kids' feeds. Why is no one talking about how these channels evade automated moderation with this AI horror?


r/InternetMysteries 5d ago

General Discussion Does The "Leaked" Grizzly Man Audio Contain Real Elements From The Real Audio?

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I've been going down the rabbit hole of the supposed "Grizzly Man leaked audio" that's been circulating on the Internet for years, and I know the general consensus is that it's fake because the real recording has never been publicly released and the inconsistencies in the audio.

What I'm curious about isn't whether the recording as a whole is real, but whether any part of it could actually be authentic.

Has anyone ever looked into whether the fake audio contains small snippets from the genuine recording that were mixed into a reenactment? Even something as minor as background ambience, a few seconds of real audio, or isolated dialogue that somehow leaked and was incorporated into the recreation.

I know this sounds unlikely, but I'm wondering if anyone has analyzed it from that perspective. Is there any evidence that the creator had access to even a fragment of the original tape, or is there a solid reason to believe every single second of the circulating audio was fabricated?

I'm not trying to argue that the audio is genuine—I know there's no proof of that. I'm just curious if there's ever been any investigation into whether the recreation contains any authentic elements from the original recording, or if it's entirely made from scratch.


r/InternetMysteries 5d ago

YouTube Y’all I can’t quite pinpoint and understand what this channel even is 3d animation of real events?

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r/InternetMysteries 6d ago

General Discussion Does anyone knows the origin of the Johnathan Galindo photo? He was a photo from a cosplayer or some photoshopped image? can't find any info

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Putting aside the whole story surrounding this character, I guess this guy ended up becoming a scary internet figure without even knowing it. Do we know anything about the origin of the photo and who the person is? When i look up for a video/image origin i instantly find what i need but with this one i can't find anything. Was this AI? back in that period a lot of AI images were still invading the internet. 500 characters request so i keep writing 500 characters request and 500 characters request


r/InternetMysteries 6d ago

Really strange AI generated human trafficking/SA ads depicting WOC on tiktok.

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Since the start of the month, I've been seeing these really weird ads for SA/Human trafficking settlements that have AI (usually black/darkskin, also usually depicted in a black caricature) women in the beginning of the video. At first I figured it was just a a law firm being cheap by using ai instead of hiring people but when I checked the comments of the ads people were claiming that this was actually a human trafficking ring that was trying to lure in people who were already mentally disturbed. Those comments were claiming that it was covered on the news but whenever I googled it I didn't see much information (I personally am not an internet sleuth so I probably was just going about it wrong). I'm gonna link one of the videos below. This could be nothing, but if it is something I don't wanna watch it unfold in front of my eyes without doing anything.

TLDR: tiktok and instagram AI ads about SA/Human trafficking depicting black women in weird ways. Could be a ring but I can't find any reliable claims.

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r/InternetMysteries 6d ago

YouTube I remembered this wierd video I found about 4 years ago when I was looking for the song Sin Rumbo by Arca

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Well, when I found this video, just seeing the thumbnail made me think it was strange, so out of curiosity I clicked on it. The video is just of a Russian man talking to the person filming him, and it looks like he's in some kind of prison or something?.

And while they're talking, you can hear the song, which gives it a weird feeling, and the comments don't make much sense either. Maybe someone on this subreddit who knows Russian can tell me what they're talking about? Because ever since I saw the video, I've wanted to know what they were talking about xd, but the subtitles are turned off.


r/InternetMysteries 7d ago

Need help: where is this video's footage from? was looking for an obscure youtube channel and found this under the main search results.

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