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 • • 6h ago

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

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r/InternetMysteries • • 3h ago

Unsolved de onde veio ou como foi feito essa imagem da creepypasta do smile dog?

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r/InternetMysteries • • 18h ago

Does anyone know an old Rpg maker game named "ihateyou" maybe with "1.3B" at the end?

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Today, I sat down and tried to install RPGmaker (an old\[ish\] computer program to make games.) I should also preface I've had this computer for YEARS, I had a computer before it and all of its data has been saved on it. Well, after successfully installing it and having my fun; I looked at my files program to find a thing I had just gotten to use, so of course I put "RPGMAKER" into the search query. Well, I found this old file, a whole game file. I've always been into making games, since I was very, very little, so this didnt surprise me. What I found weird was the name; "ihateyou1.3B" I didnt recognize this game from anywhere. I wasnt allowed to download online games unless they were from official stores, so this made no real sense to me. I looked it up and found no other game by that name (if you know this game, or recall it whatsoever, that's be great if you could tell me I'm not crazy.) I'm pretty much an only child besides a couple half-siblings, which meant nobody else could have used this computer, not like my mom would, right? I have no recollection of making this, I do remember making games when I was little but never this one. Well mayhe I do? I dont know, I had a head injury which messed up my memories a little bit from when I was a little kid so of course everything would be foggy. Well, I tried playing it or accessing the files but it always would crash, tell me theres a file missing and that it was never there. I assumed maybe I had to use the proper version of RPGmaker to use the developer files but I tried out like EVERY version and it still keeps crashing. Its like some strange phantom game exists in my computer and I cant seem to access a SINGLE thing from it. Well, after fiddling with it for an HOUR, scanning through ALLLL of my past files trying to search custom keywords or tags; I got one file. It was a photo of a cat, nothing very interesting just a random stock image of a cat I'm pretty sure, I used to really really like cats so that kind of checks out. It was just titled "secretforme" I always was a weird kid, I've known that, but this just feels off, like something I wouldn't do, y'know? I dont know if I want to keep looking into this, I'm usually very curious but I just have this uneasy feeling.

Do ANY of you recognize this game name?? Or anything similar??? The oldest file I saw was from 2017 so maybe published then or a date prior?


r/InternetMysteries • • 6h ago

I found the Indonesian song and album art very strange and I was confused where the original album art came from.

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I'm currently listening to an Indonesian song called "selamat pagi" But I forgot the name of the band In my father's car, I was a little surprised to see that the album was very strange, where there was a close-up picture of an Asian man of Indonesian descent wearing a police or office uniform. And I searched for the original image on Google but couldn't find it and now everyone is saying that the man in the photo of this album died of shortness of breath, which makes me confused Only my dad downloaded the MP3 file of the song lol


r/InternetMysteries • • 1d ago

Internet Oddity Really weird website comprised of random chopped up bits of old dystopian novels

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Title explains most of it, a few months ago I was reading H.G Wells' "The Sleeper Awakes", and felt the need to google "capillotomist", which lead me to this bizarre website:

https://git.sipsolutions.net/iw.git/plain/yvULfdEWXHewSMKQyrUvdQcephaloclasia/yvULfdEWXHewSMKQyrUvdQmonophthongization-viagraph/cooree/

Screenshot of a random page, there seems to be an almost infinite amount. Each linked page links to multiple more.

At first thought, I thought this was something involving generative AI, but the quotes are actual quotes from older dystopian novels (I've been able to recognize stuff from Brave New World, 1984, When the Sleeper Wakes and The Machine Stops). The copyright information is similarly random pieces from these books, and the URL is a random mishmash of words. I tried digging deeper into this to see if its been mentioned anywhere else online, but I haven't seen anyone else mention this.

I've been wondering for months, and I wanted to ask here because I've seen a hell of a lot of Nexpo videos and I know you guys are good with this kinda thing, so please, if anyone knows, what is this website?

Thank you guys in advance!

Another screenshot, showing the maze-like construction of links.

r/InternetMysteries • • 15h ago

Internet Rabbit Hole The seasonal oracle, 90spunkstar rabbit hole… Conservative punk, tree-planting and an MLM scheme.

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r/InternetMysteries • • 13h ago

Internet Rabbit Hole blank.org - Mystery? or Just Another Art Project? ARG? Something Else?

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So I'm my free-time I like to look for internet oddities. Sometimes I find cool stuff, other times just plain weird stuff but for some reason this one stuck out to me.

https://blank.org/

Don't feel like you need to click it. I don't think it is malicious at all but since I don't know it's real purpose, one should always treat unknown sites with caution.

I tried searching more info on it & found this video on YouTube, unsure if it is directly related or not. But I can save you a click & 30 seconds by just telling you it is a black screen for 30 seconds with silence. There could be something hidden in the video itself but I haven't looked deeper yet.

YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/QApBJDNDvtE

"Channel Description

subscribe for nothing"

Has anyone ever heard of this site? Seems like one of those strange rabbit holes & it has be interested in looking deeper but I just don't have a clue on where to take it from here.

If anyone has any info on the origin, creator or anything at all, let me know!


r/InternetMysteries • • 2d ago

Internet Oddity Found a Facebook profile called "Chloe Lovesbooks" that I can't find much information about, does anyone recognise it?

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r/InternetMysteries • • 1d ago

Found a strange/absurd TikTok account, probably meaning to scare people. Do you think there’s a deeper meaning behind it. Hebrew speaking voice. Just a trolling account?

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Strange TikTok account with disturbing analog horror vibes — any ideas?
I stumbled across @helsinkikipinacolada_666, and its videos feel like some obscure analog horror project. They feature distorted faces, glitch effects, dark imagery, and Arabic text, almost as if they’re trying to convey a hidden message.
Could this be an ARG, an art project, or something else? Some imagery also reminds me of Dave Dave, a close friend to Micheal Jackson, were a bunch conspiracy theories about him and stuff. Has anyone encountered this account before or recognized any clues? I’d love some help figuring out what’s going on. https://www.tiktok.com/@helsinkikipinacolada_666?_r=1&_t=ZN-9Ac2EVOShLK


r/InternetMysteries • • 5d ago

Unsolved Screenshot of an unsettling Facebook post without context (circa 2013)

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So I was going through a folder with stuff I had saved from 4chan's /x/ during my teens and found this really weird image (with the file dating to 29/05/2013) of a kid with a Sonic the Hedgehog OC Facebook profile called "Chandlor Thehedgehog", holding a copy of Black Ops 2 for the Xbox 360 with a caption about how he doesn't go outside and only plays Call of Duty. At a glance it just looks like a funny post, but once you brighten up the image there's clearly something pretty weird behind him? It's definitely not impossible that this could just be another person and everything that looks odd here is just the result of low light noise but as hard as I try, I cannot not see a weird, uncanny skeletal bald thing with an exposed ribcage. I wanna say it could be a skinny old man but really, I've never seen a living person look *as* emaciated as this thing does?

What brought me to making this thread is that there seems to be almost nothing about it online. Google, Bing, and Yandex's reverse image search options gave me exactly zero matches, and TinEye only gave me a single archived 4chan thread where someone had reposted the collage. By using the archive's own reverse image search function, I was able to find a couple of other threads where people had reposted the image, but only one of them actually had something of a discussion going on. First, the anon who presumably made the collage came out and talked about how it was discovered:

The original thread was from march 2013, the OP only posted the left pic so we could laugh at the autism (thehedghehog), after a while someone looked a little closer and asked if anyone else can see it. Someone took the pic and changed the lighting to reveal that spooky thing in the backround and people shat their pants. I just took the two pics and put them side by side.

And then here's someone's alleged backstory, which honestly sounds like creepypasta bullshit made up after the fact to me but I'll leave it here for the sake of posterity anyways:

Shit, I have a screencap of the story behind that picture, but it's on my iPad which I currently don't have access to.
Basically that kid in the background was a homeless kid that was living in the woods. No parents, didn't go to school, very basic knowledge of English, etc. The kid that took that pic befriended him and had secretly been letting him play at his house for like 5 months. In the mean time, his mom was becoming more and more paranoid because she kept finding these dead animals in the woods and hearing strange noises in the house when her son wasn't home (both caused by this weird homeless kid). Anyway, that kid uploaded that pic to Facebook, and his mom quickly found out about it. She fucking lost it when she saw that figure in the background. Her son didn't want to get in trouble for keeping that homeless kid around and whatnot, so he told her he had no idea what the thing in the picture was, and it really messed with her. She was paranoid as fuck for a while and started getting less and less sleep, so her son felt guilty and finally told the truth one night when the kid was spending the night there. He led his mom to his closet to show him the boy and explain the story, and his mom went on to lock the homeless kid in the closet and beat her son out of anger. She told all of that to her nephew, who was the one who was posting about it. He declined to go into further details after the last event due to legal trouble or something.

Unfortunately, this is where the trail goes cold, I basically can't find anything else on the archives or elsewhere. Again, I want to believe that the explanation really is something as mundane as "weird lighting makes normal person look weird", but I honestly, just can't see it, it really looks like some weird unsettling mummified corpse instead. If anyone can dig out more info on it, it would be great to satiate my curiosity.


r/InternetMysteries • • 5d ago

Unsolved Found a weird IG account posting numbers, mental illness or something else?

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So I stumbled onto this account that posts numbers I’m not a math guy so I can’t tell if these mean anything. The numbers are always in the same format and there’s creepy ai voice over sometimes. Sometimes there’s comments on post but those seem to be bots too? I’m not sure if this whole thing is a bot or a person with mental illness or a woo woo numerology thing or what. I thought I’d share it here since it seems like something this community would be interested in exploring. Let me know if anyone has any insights into this. Thanks


r/InternetMysteries • • 6d ago

Does anyone know where this image came from, or the location where it was taken?

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r/InternetMysteries • • 6d ago

What is going on in Baltimore? Second Chance Inc in Baltimore MD found on FB

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So I was just casually scrolling through Facebook, and you know how sometimes Facebook randomly recommends posts from accounts you’ve never followed, interacted with, or even heard of? Well, one of those posts popped up on my feed, and something about it caught my attention. I ended up clicking on the profile to see what it was, and it turns out it’s an actual company based in Baltimore. Like, a real business, not just some random account someone made.
But here’s where it gets weird. Their last few posts have been really strange and honestly kind of creepy. They don’t seem like the type of content you’d expect an actual business to be posting. One of the things they posted was a Facebook story where random numbers start flashing on the screen, and then out of nowhere there’s a jump scare.
Now, obviously, the jump scare makes me think this is probably fake or some kind of joke, but I’m still confused. Why is an actual company randomly posting creepy stuff like this? And why on a random Sunday of all days? Is this some weird marketing stunt? Did someone hack their account? Is an employee just messing around? I genuinely have no idea.
I feel like there’s probably a really simple explanation for all of this, but the whole thing is just so random that I can’t stop wondering what the hell is going on. Has anyone else come across something like this, or does anyone have any idea why a legitimate business would suddenly start posting stuff like this?


r/InternetMysteries • • 6d ago

Unsolved Person on ao3 planning a murder? Found years ago but I wanted to post it.

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Back in 2022 I was browsing a03 (fanfic website for those that don't know), and looking through the original character tag. I found this. I posted it around to some buddies and they all told me it was just some edgy kid and at the time I believed it, so I forgot about it for years. I recently saw a post in this sub showcasing an Instagram account of a kid sounding like he was planning a school shooting and it reminded me of this.

I feel horrible that I never reported it seriously, and that if this actually happened that I might have been able to help prevent this by contacting authorities. The account no longer exists and I managed to get screenshots before it was deleted. I thought I'd post it just to see what you guys think.

Was it just some edgy kid, or a genuine plan for a murder that might have happened?

Edit: general consensus seems to be that it's someone trying to be edgy or just having an unfortunate mental breakdown. Glad that I didn't miss something bad back then. Hope this person got help.


r/InternetMysteries • • 6d ago

Does anyone know where this funker came from. I’ve seen him so much and can’t find anything.

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r/InternetMysteries • • 6d ago

General Discussion A weird, somewhat cultish website I found. I don't have much desire of looking deeper, but thought some of you may find it interesting

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r/InternetMysteries • • 7d ago

YouTube cedillomontes "xxxxxx" uploader posted a video titled "osaka" after 19 years (september 14 2026), which has been deleted

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cedillomontes uploaded a new video titled “osaka” after 19 years since the infamous "xxxxxxx" video. the new video was of a woman screaming with loud sounds playing in the background, and the only clip i have is 4 seconds long, which i will link in the comments. i haven’t been able to find anything else about it, so i thought i’d post it here to see if anyone else has seen this or know anything about it.

the video was deleted about a day or two after it was uploaded (if i remember correctly), and most people in the comments were saying it was a hacker. it might be one, but im surprised no one else posted about it. people have already talked about the "xxxxxxx" comment he pinned on his original video, but i'm not seeing anything on this.

(third photo was taken from u/Schoolbusfoamer24 's post on this, saying it was hacked)


r/InternetMysteries • • 8d ago

Who is populist47 ? His video comes from nowhere right in my recommandations...

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For the past two months, I’ve been randomly finding videos by "populist47" in my recommendations. They’re strange—featuring "weirdcore" music, an unusual static image, and odd titles like "this video found you at the right moment." The tracks all have timestamps, and there are hidden messages in them. I've seen in his channel description that he was very very christian and he was fighting against the seven deadly sins with his videos. If anyone knows anything about this, please let me know.

P.S. Sorry if my English is bad; I’m a French speaker 😅


r/InternetMysteries • • 9d ago

[Trigger warning: Suicide, possible grooming] Original untranslated screenshots from the earlier post about Rorochan_1999

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Since the earlier post on Rorochan only had the tweets translated by grok, i figured it would be helpful to also have the original source untranslated incase any person fluent in Japanese and familiar with rorochan’s case could maybe have a better translation. If you don’t know the context, I’ll briefly explain it, Rorochan_1999 was a japanese 14 year old streamer who passed away in 2013 on a livestream due to suicide. On twitcast, a popular japanese streaming platform that rorochan used, you can automatically tweet the messages you are sending in chat and this is what is happening here. The “エロいメンヘラ処女jc” part is the title of rorochans stream, and the link is the link to the stream. For a few years, before this all of rorochans stream chat logs were lost apart from the chat log of her final suicide stream, and i found these out of curiosity just wondering if anyone had tweeted about rorochan before she passed away.

(I also want to end this by warning that rorochans case is extremely tragic, please don’t try and recreate it thinking that it’ll make you famous as there are far better healthier ways to gain attention that dont leave behind sadness. Please take her case as a caution instead of an inspiration. If you’re struggling, please reach out to someone, suicide is never worth it.)


r/InternetMysteries • • 9d ago

YouTube What is the I Want Dat Meatball Video pigman third origin? Potential exploitation ring.

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Hi, im looking for the origin of the pigman part of the youtube video called I want dat meatball. Do know that this video is loud and creepy, so viewer discretion is advised.

There is a disturbing part of the this video at the end of a person crawling around in a realistic pigman.

The most disturbing part?

You can hear children.

Im worried this is part of something much, much darker than we thought, so I want to be able to find this video so I can make sure.

Please, as this video kinda gave me a panic attack.


r/InternetMysteries • • 10d ago

Internet Rabbit Hole [Trigger Warning: Suicide, possible grooming] Offputting Twitter account with *possible* grooming evidence related to rorochan_1999, a 14 year old girl who live-streamed her suicide in 2013

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Background: rorochan_1999 was a 14-year-old girl from Shiga, Japan, who streamed on FC2, Niconico and TwitCasting. She died by suicide during an FC2 live stream on November 24, 2013, after saying she wanted to become a "legend." The case got wider attention years later through a 2019 song by the Japanese band Shinsei Kamattechan inspired by cases like hers and the resurfacing of the stream archive.
While it is a well known fact that she was exposed to online grooming / bullying to some extent, those cases weren’t really known or archived

Why I'm posting: while most of her streams and their chats are lost media and are not archived,TwitCasting had an option that let users automatically tweet their own stream comments to their Twitter account. The account had this enabled, so tweets from her streams are still visible. Some of the comments look inappropriate for an adult to be saying to a minor, hence "possible" in the title. I can't say who runs the account and i DO NOT ask you to find personal info about this person or contact / harass them. Please DONT do this 🙏


r/InternetMysteries • • 13d ago

General Discussion Found a deeply disturbing Instagram account that posts repetitive, violent text and “insect crush” content nonstop

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Hey everyone,

I came across a very strange and disturbing Instagram account recently and wanted to share it here to see if anyone has encountered something similar or understands the motivation behind this type of behavior. The account’s name is supe.rmario8500. It is private but they will follow you back I suppose, but

❗️beware of disturbing content❗️

The account posts at an extraordinarily high frequency—sometimes multiple times every few minutes—despite having zero likes, comments, or followers. The content follows a very specific and repetitive pattern:

  1. Graphic and Cruel Descriptions: The posts consist of text and images describing the killing or crushing of small creatures (like flies, snails, and insects).

  2. Bizarre Personal Oversharing: The captions contain hyper-specific, oddly phrased details. The user frequently claims specific names, ages, exact timestamps, and references to adult/BDSM websites or videos they were allegedly listening to while making the posts. They sometimes even post pictures of the 🌽 sites and have repetitive, almost hauntingly similar descriptions under each post.

  3. Shock Value and Escalation: The tone is aggressive and grandiose, often talking about "dominance" over tiny pests or bragging about bizarre actions in a basement or household setting.
    What strikes me as odd is the sheer volume of posts combined with the complete lack of an audience. It feels like a mix between an automated bot script, extreme attention-seeking/rage-baiting, or someone using a public profile as an unfiltered diary for unsettling compulsions.

I have already reported the profile and individual posts to Instagram for violating community guidelines regarding graphic content and animal cruelty.

Has anyone else run into accounts operating like this? Is this just a classic case of a bot testing algorithms with shock content, or an individual operating in a total void?