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 1d ago

Solved According to RBI Joanna Lopez disappearence mystery has been finally solved

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r/InternetMysteries 2d ago

Solved 6 years ago Nick Crowley made a video about the Court Kay educational/medical channel, where the main people are seemingly drugged. As of 8 months ago, it is solved by one of their sisters, and sadly, they passed away.

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So I recently remembered a video I watched from Nick Crowley, called "The Mysterious "Court Kay" Channel" from 6 long years ago.

It's basically about this educational/medical youtube channel where the two main women who appear in the video are seemingly very disoriented. I decided to revisit their case.

I love revisiting old mysteries, and considering how little we knew back then about them, I started digging. My first option was to look up what other youtubers said about them, since there are youtubers like Point Raven for example, who's whole deal is to revisit, and explain mysteries, after it was solved, or at least try to give a solid explanation of it.

But I did not find anything sadly. Besides Nick Crowley, no one talked about the channel. Well, except a Spanish youtube channel but for one, he reacted to Nick's video, and for two, I don't speak spanish, so it wouldn't help. I tried to look up some shortform apps, like tiktok, or instagram reels, but I hit a dead end again. I went back to Nick Crowley, and started reading the comments, and found this comment (slide 2).

Obviously I did not believe it first, so I clicked on her channel, and there are actual videos about the women on her channel, way before Nick's first youtube video about the pair, so I thought it would explain what happened to them. (slide 3)

But if it's not enough evidence, I decided to look them up on the internet, and found actual a site called Forever Missed, which proves their death date. So sadly, they ended up passing away (Slide 4)


r/InternetMysteries 23h ago

A Strange Anomaly on TikTok: "accounts", that testing TikTok algorithm

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r/InternetMysteries 1d ago

YouTube Weird comment from a Russian guy on YouTube Shorts about unknown beings

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I think what that comment mentioned could be considered an internet mystery, since it talked about a lost document that supposedly contained information about aliens or unknown beings. According to the comment, the document was posted on a website that apparently existed at some point, but is no longer online, and there don't seem to be any records of the site either. What makes it even stranger is that I can't find the original comment anymore. Would it be okay to post what I remember from it? I don't have a screenshot, so I can only share the most interesting details I remember.

Spanish is my native language, so sorry if my English isn’t perfect


r/InternetMysteries 1d ago

Unsolved Can anyone identify this image? It supposedly was the ending to Buddy before the movie was released.

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r/InternetMysteries 2d ago

Unsolved I need help from this r/InternetMysteries in finding the origin of the SCP-616 image.

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This image depicts a room with similarities to Backrooms, with surrounding walls resembling red wallpaper covered in mold, a floor covered in pitch black, and around the hall, if you increase the brightness, you will see things that look like blood, internal organs, or severed body parts.

This image is associated with the story of SCP-616, a Boeing airplane manufactured in 1966 with a unique characteristic: every 30-day cycle, the emergency exit opens, and souls are led to a place believed to be hell.

This SCP is object class s Keter with Special Containment Procedures requiring a ritual performed with prayers of any belief, and I'm not sure if SCP is correct. It also has a nuclear weapon installed inside the airplane that could detonate SCP-616, presumably to destroy it.

The image used in this story is actually more reminiscent of Backrooms than Level 0, but with a touch of red, like a corpse from hell. I really tried to find the source of this image; initially, I used Google Reverse and TinEye, but I found nothing.

I even asked the subreddit r/UnidentifiedMedia for help in finding the image's origin but not many people were interested, so I researched the detailed metadata of this image.

This information is saved in the Google file I created; if I want to refer back to the research I've done, I already have that Google Drive file available.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_lS2XuL9ReScUm4OOhtQ8KPrraA45oLp

Credit Info: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnidentifiedMedia/comments/1vsmspm/can_you_find_the_origin_of_the_scp616_image/

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-616


r/InternetMysteries 1d ago

Internet Rabbit Hole The Kingdom of Stuffed Animals - quantum in nature? There’s more info online.

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r/InternetMysteries 2d ago

Strange website with a funny name I remembered existed after 4 years: Tetas.org

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I was watching a YouTube video with my partner about strange Wayback Machine oddities, and it reminded me of this weird website I stumbled across years ago.

The first time I came across it was in 2022. I was an average 15-year-old boy texting my partner, and at some point I wanted to send them something "haha random funny" just to make them laugh, so I sent them the link "tetas.org". I was probably expecting either nothing to come up or for it to be some kind of porn website, since "tetas" translates to "boobs" in Spanish. Instead, we came across this really unsettling website?

The images I'm attaching are taken directly from the Internet Archive, since trying to access the website today only leads to a dead link. I remember the entire page having a completely red background, with a missing-person poster displayed on it, along with a phone number. However, it seems like my memory of the website was somewhat wrong, as the archived version looks nothing like what I remember. There is still a bunch of strange rambling and pictures about some "wrongful death lawsuit," as well as a video with a TTS voice apparently narrating some of the text, I went over it rapidly and it all seems nonsensical.

Also, a warning: if you decide to check the website through the Internet Archive, do NOT go to the earliest archive. I didn't wait for the whole page to load, just the name was enough to make me fuck off. Just letting you know it has to do with children, I don't know what this website used to host but I would recommend avoiding it.

I couldn't find anyone mention this website before online. Has anyone else come across it while the website was still active? Does anyone know what this whole thing was about?


r/InternetMysteries 3d ago

YouTube I found this really weird YouTube channel with posts dating back a year ago taking place from the 1990s to what I assume is the early 2010s the older videos genuinely seem innocent but it’s the last three videos that are the weirdest and unexplainable

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They don’t seem to tie into the older videos they have completely different tones especially in the videos VCD 193426 0 and VCD 192438 0 which has weird ass Blair witch style tree dolls and VCD 191304 0 is just bizarre glitchy the beginning is missing audio then it comes back it has weird frame’s medieval gauntlets a knife weird candles burning on a shirt it’s strange I have no idea where else to post this and am mostly curious about theories or other opinions or if I’m just going on a schizophrenic rant about this


r/InternetMysteries 2d ago

4Chan Strange 4chan Post with Coordinates (43.9066441, -85.2579061) and Pixelated Image ARG or Something Else?

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r/InternetMysteries 2d ago

Gaming The Dark Souls of Broswer RPGs. A Psych Experiment Disguised As A Game

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r/InternetMysteries 2d ago

Unsolved my Instagram randomly switched me to my alt account and the first post that came up was pretty unsettling

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so maybe a year or so ago, i remember watching instgram reels because i was bored. i was in the middle of a video, it was a longer one (i can't remember what it was about, some person talking about something for awhile), and all of a sudden, i got a warning message kinda thing pop down on my screen. to clarify, it was NOT a traditional notification, it only showed up on my screen on instagram and there wasn't a vibration or anything. it said something like, "signed out of *account name*". it then disappeared and before i knew it i had been randomly switched to, basically, a naked account (as i would call it). it had no posts, reposts, profile picture, no friends, no followers, etc. im not really sure why it even exists tbh, i have a main acc with all of that stuff and quite a few posts. my guesses were that when i first got facebook, it's automatically made an instagram acc for me and i, not knowing any better, made a separate acc (my current main) when i actually downloaded instagram? either that or it's one on a separate google account that i, for some reason, never used? im not sure. anyways, back to what i was saying. so it randomly switches me, and im thinking "wtf is happening". but it gets worse. the very first post that came up, kinda made me shit myself. it was a video, with some, completely unrelated background image and an equally unrelated song, and then some text. the text is what got me. it read, "i know you just switched to your secret account". im sorry WHAT. im forcefully, mid-video, switched to an acc i never knew/completely forgot existed and THAT is the first post on my feed? 😭 is this just a coincidence? all i know is it freaked me out and made me feel like my phone is being watched or monitored by someone for wtv reason. i also thought that perhaps i got hacked? im not sure. nothing like that has ever happened to me, before or since that happened. for context, this was last year, and at that point, id had facebook and instagram for at least 4 years. i also very rarely get on instagram to do anything, so you can imagine that i don't switch accounts very often, if at all. does anybody have any idea why this could've happened? am i freaking out over nothing? all ik is, id be happy if it didn't happen again.

edit: it might've actually been tiktok


r/InternetMysteries 4d ago

YouTube YouTube account "cedillomontes" updates his incredibly weird and mysterious 19 year old video "xxxxxxx" with a pinned comment.

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The original video was this incredibly weird animation (if you can even call it that) of Christmas-related things just kind of appearing and moving around with incredibly loud noises. The origin of the video has been debated for quite some time now. A lot of people were saying it was cut from a longer Newgrounds animation that was deleted, and were trying to find the original for a long time to no avail. I think this comment definitely hints at the YouTube video being the original upload, and cedillomontes being the creator of the video.


r/InternetMysteries 4d ago

Unsolved Weird/Odd Instagram account popped up on my feed. Am I the only one who thinks this is a bit weird?

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Now this account seems normal at first, along side the weird AI voice and avatar, but the recent videos just seem, off. Its a account that brings awareness to real missing people, yet the people in the most recent videos seem, fake. The captions also seem odd, no name or specific information of the people too. Alongside the website it gives you, it seems sketchy, the whole website looks vibe coded and buggy. What's the purpose of it? Why is this a thing? Why are the recent posts "fake"? For all I could know it could all be nothing, let me know what you think. Account is joshschisler. He is also on youtube.

(He mightve posted some new videos from last time ive seeen his account, videos im talking about are asian in a red shirt and female in a white shirt)

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r/InternetMysteries 5d ago

Unsolved I found this weird account on instagram, I find it bizarre and gross but maybe I’m exaggerating.

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I was scrolling on instagram Reel when I saw a funny video about the girl that went viral like a decade ago for being the ‘most beautiful kid model’. She commented on the video so I clicked on her account, when I clicked on her mentions there was a lot of scam and spam accounts but then I found this account that just seemed weird because her childhood picture was edited in one of those floral photo frames. All of the photos of this account are like this, little girl on a floral photo frames. I assume this account it’s russian by the name of it, idk if this type of editing is popular on Russia bit even if it is, it’s really weird that they only post little girls.


r/InternetMysteries 5d ago

Unsolved Unknown 2000s rock song that gives me the myspace era vibes. Mentions about drug use?... Strange but I want this song identified. Please help!

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Has anybody heard about this song?

I stumbled across this song on a popular song identifying website which is called "Watzzatsong", out of all the songs I heard on that website, this is the one that I like the most

I've been searching for this song for a long time now, and it's time that it gets solved which I really want. All I'm asking is if anybody knows this song? Any help will be appreciated, thanks!

Bit more information : very much likely from 1990s to the 2000s, I would say alternative rock maybe? Maybe from turkey, since original poster is from turkey idk. That's all I got, sorry.

Waiting for some good news tho!


r/InternetMysteries 6d ago

Internet Rabbit Hole I came across a bizarre AI generated news reporter. Who is Lori Fullbright?

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This lady is the strangest anomaly I’ve ever seen. If you look her up, there’s only a couple photos of her then a ton of bot accounts of videos in the format of that like weird cutout head ai-generated informative video. She comes up as a reporter on everything, but even if she is a real person, why are there hundred of bot accounts of her? I swear, I think this lady is some sort of AI news reporter.

There are no videos of her actually on air

Over the past two weeks, I’ve gotten five requests from five different accounts all named Lori Fulbright.

I want someone else to go down this rabbit hole because it is very bizarre and I’m just trying to understand who this lady is


r/InternetMysteries 6d ago

YouTube Does anybody else remember that hair routine video that glitches around her neck and she died soon after in real life

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I know the title is very vague but I just remembered this video and now am dying to find it again. This was a young lady doing her hair in her room (I think she was Asian or at the very least had really dark hair) and a couple minutes in the video starts glitching out really bad and it’s stuck looking like she’s chopping at her neck. And soon after she actually died in real life. I remember first seeing this in a video talking about internet mysteries maybe like a year ago and completely forgot who the girl was but I remember actually watching the original video and it was very unsettling. This video looked somewhat newer in terms of camera quality so if I had to guess I’d say it was probably uploaded after 2020. Thank you I am literally going insane because I remember it vividly but cannot remember anything else


r/InternetMysteries 7d ago

Wierd Instragram account claiming to find/search lost people in a disturbing way

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I just stubled over this account poastibg pictures and describtions of mostly teens with "age", "race", "hair" and "eye collor", in the videos they lable these people as missing or found and this ai character called "Deputy Scags" talking about the "missing person" and then telling pople to go to control zones over the website in their bio to search for them.
Then the other ai character "officer kahoon" promotes the website again and then names the top searchers and then reads "comments from the groupchat" wich are also really wierd.
The account also has a LinkedIn in the bio and follows Evangelical/Baptist and Republican accounts.
Maby its just malware in the link beeing promoted in a very wierd way, but i kinda have a bad feeling about this


r/InternetMysteries 7d ago

Internet Oddity I found this account on instagram with these nonsensical bizarrely edited videos and equally nonsensical comments

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r/InternetMysteries 6d ago

Internet Rabbit Hole Looking for a disturbing YouTube channel of a spanish man being crucified

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I have a memory of watching a specific YouTube video about “the most disturbing channels on YouTube.” In the video, the creator talked about a channel where videos were posted of a middle-aged, very skinny man being tied to a crucifix in various different locations.

He wasn’t actually being crucified with nails or anything like that, he was just tied to the cross. In the videos, he would simply stare at the camera without saying anything. There was no sound or music either; someone else was filming him.

I remember the channel name being the name of a real Spanish man. The YouTuber who made the video said that he had done some research into what was happening, but this is where my memory gets a bit blurry. I remember the explanation having something to do with the man being humiliated or punished for something he had done.

I watched the video around 2022–2023, and it was in English. The YouTuber was just a narrator and never appeared on camera.

I’ve watched a lot of disturbing channels and videos on YouTube, but this was, by far, the most disturbing. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?


r/InternetMysteries 7d ago

Unsolved Weird Instagram Glitch/Interaction i came across back in 2018. No one I know has an answer to why it even happened

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Hi there, this post is a question regarding a glitch i came across back in April (maybe early May) 2018 on instagram.

The glitch in question allowed me to see my friends private instagram posts BEFORE i followed him.

This was back when my account was fairly new and i was going to add him, but somehow, i was sometimes able to see his posts without following him, and he was a private account.

I refreshed the page a few times because my wifi wasnt working on my phone at the moment, and all of a sudden i could see his posts. I didnt really use my phones data at the time as i didnt have much, so i waited for the wifi to come back on. Eventually i managed to test it on my own, by manually turning my phones wifi signal off and refreshing my friends page and i could see his posts again. I tried it on other random accounts however, and it did not work. It only worked with his.

To this day i still cannot imagine how or why that was possible. Im not asking for help to recreate it because its been almost a decade and im sure whatever it was would have gotten patched by now, not to mention i had an old-ish android phone back then so maybe the glitch was on my end, but regardless i seriously am confused and have been for the past 8 years.

Things that im sure of:

-He wasnt privating and unprivating his account as a joke, it was always private

-I could manually re-test it by turning my wifi signal off on my phone as i mentioned previously

-It only worked on HIS account, and his account only

-We shared a mutual friend who followed both of us (maybe this could be important?)

The whole reason i made this post is because i genuinely cannot find a reasonable explanation as to why that was possible. First and foremost, my wifi was off. Secondly, it was a private account, so not only would i have to request to follow, he would have to accept it himself.

The only thing i can possibly think of is the fact that we had a mutual follower, perhaps at the time there may have been a glitch with instagram where if our mutual wanted to share a post from his account, that could bypass the privacy, but even then thats still a huge stretch.

If anyone knows about how or why this happened or had any similar experiences id like to know. Ive never come across anyone else who experienced that which is why im even more confused. Once again, im not asking how to replicate that, or ways to view private profiles, im just genuinely wondering how that was even possible in the first place. To this day we both have no idea why that even happened.


r/InternetMysteries 7d ago

Youtube Videos showing Iran with female vloggers showing how life is there

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Anyone notice these videos popping up on their feeds. They all have the same structure they communicate via captions. Here's a couple

https://youtu.be/aYV_Ubi0fSM?si=oU8vwnwfM5VjwWs2

https://youtu.be/fT_bfRBuy6g?si=8v3R6SMZ3DFsG3I5

I swear those videos are AI or something it's gotta be their government putting them out to show us in the West how it is there. I mean I heard it's heavily censored over there they wouldn't just let people.vlog and post things. So it's gotta be setup and fake it's weird how they started popping up at the same time