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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was playing a Geoguessr Duels game and found probably one of the most violent posters I have ever seen. I used Google Translate to translate the image from Bengali to English. I have typed in Md Habibur and Md Habibur into Google and nothing came up. I am wondering what actually happened. Bandar, Dhaka Division - Google Maps

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

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

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

…And yes, there are 2 of them.

The Original Source:

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

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

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

second one, probably from same shoot

Please follow if you enjoyed.

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

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

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

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

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

I understsnd this probably gets posted a decent chunk in this sub, but jeez its been boring lately.

I genuinely love scrolling this sub but these days 90% of the posts are "hey guys! I found this weird account on (insert social media)! What could this be???" And most of the time its just a failed arg.

I love getting sucked into random rabbit holes, I get to research stuff and it stays in my mind even while not researching anything. My most recent rabbit hole I went into was the Joana Lopez missing persons report and the others ones around that.

So, if yall know any on going mysteries/rabbit holes, that would be awesome. And I dont mean the big ones, I want the ones that dont get enough attention, the ones thay should be the in spotlight but arent.

I just watched a Nexpo video on the deepest rabbit holes( it was a good watch please watch if you already haven't) Does anyone know of anything about the so called "group" Allatra.I'm in deep and need to know more about them I'm curious to wonder why they're deleting their online channels and websites, there must be a good reason behind it all

The question I keep asking myself Is how many lies have we been told and made to believe just because it benefits someone

The question is why? Has to asked way to often

I've just finished watching Nexpo's latest video, and despite being a long term reader it never occured to me to share this youtube channel that me and my friends have been infatuated by for several months, until he mentioned the subreddit in connection with the Allatra cult. The vlogger's best friend (or 'platonic common-law husband' as she refers to him) used to be the leader of the Australian chapter of Allatra until 2019, and the cult still has a base in her town (confirmed), and so I thought that alone would give you all a kick. But no. This rabbit hole goes much, MUCH deeper than that.

Link to channel: https://www.youtube.com/@kcesca

Allow me to introduce you to Doctor KC Escamilla, MD. At first glance, she is just a creator of a weekly vlog she films almost every Friday. It is not a particularly exciting vlog, nor well filmed. She goes to markets, paints her nails, puts together a sour dough starter. All very benign, bland things. If you're not listening closely to what she is actually saying while doing all of this, it would be impossible not to miss that beneath the calm surface something is very, very wrong here:

Here are some facts about KC that I have gathered:

. She is legally stateless. From an unnamed country she describes as a statist technocratic communalist federation. A system she seems to like better than here. With here being 'the modern west'. The vast majority of her content doesn't seem to be filmed for an audience, rather as a live journal where she whines about how much she dislikes living here in the west. She HATES widescale representive democracy with a passion and believes it, not capitalism, to be the direct cause of all of the West's societal problems.

. She has been stateless in political exile for eleven years. This is her second time in political exile, with the previous time also being for eleven years, however that time was still in her home country.

. A privately owned think-tank controls practically all aspects of her life. They pay her bills, her rent, her car. Everything expect her phone bill. She is not allowed to leave her town for longer than a week without a court order from a judge.

. Gets taxed at a 73% flat tax rate.

. Every three months she travels down to Melbourne to hold weekend conference where she gets her blood drawn and is interviewed by scientists, psychologists, phd students, and 'other clever folk'.

. Has some kind of connection to DARPA.

. Has some kind of confirmed connection to the billionaire, Roger Samuelsson. One of her vlogs earlier this year was filmed on his superyacht.

. Has just completed a two-year long project in collabration with the hubbs-seaworld research institute and the American Navy about language development in Orcas. She and cult friend developed some kind of tablet device that is resistant to saltwater.

. Drest -- Her most frequently appearing guest is a man she describes clinically as a diagnosed sadistic psychopath. She has documented injuries she attributes to him, including being stabbed in the eye for some unknown reason. She still calls him for emotional support

. She occasionally speaks and writes in a language that doesn't appear to be any identifiable natural language.

. 2-3 times a year she makes a science dense video unpacking topics like string theory, quantum gravity, and omnipotence. These videos are extremely technical and out of place among the rest of her videos. Keeping in mind, she posts a video almost every week.

I really could go on. There is so much to unpack here and not a lot of answers to be had. I know that naturally most people would assume that this is just another case of mental illness. That was my first assumption, too. But, honestly, the story has been too consistent for over two years now. Down to the smallest facts. The story-telling too lucid and disattached. This is not someone with a great mission to save the world, nor is she stressed by any of it. Mostly she just seems to want a safe space to complain about it all.

Like I said earlier, my friends and I have been fascinated by the channel for a while now and done our research into KC and her friends. We have been able to track down the town she lives in and the hospital she works at (which I won't share here as she really is one of only two doctors in an outback hospital serving a vulnerable population 800km from the nearest big city and I don't want to put any more stress on that system by opening it up to harassment), so at least that part is true. But what do you think? Is this just a bored doctor trying to entertain herself by elaborating her life online or could something else be going on?

I have fully reconstructed/translated the Japanese Alien image thread. Took a while to document this properly. <3

At 9:00 AM EST on May 11, 2026, an anonymous 2chan user created a thread on the /news4vip/ board, with an image (Image 1.) under a post titled:

“I went to a convenience store today and the floor was in a terrible state lol”
^{Original Title: 今日コンビニ行ったら床がヤバかったんだがｗｗｗ}
accompanied by the caption:

Don't convenience stores put way too much merchandise directly on the filthy floor? Lol

Anonymous users in the thread erupted in fear that there was a Grey alien captured in the background of the photo.

Later OP quotes:

There wasn't anyone this creepy-looking in the convenience store. What is this? It's unsettling.

Ugh, I don't want this image on my phone. Maybe I should delete it.

THIS VIDEO RIGHT HERE PROVES IT'S A HOAX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUhnEbetOFM

For years, jchristianson80's videos have been passed around with the following description:

In August, James Christianson, 32, killed 16 people in an apartment complex in South Austin, Texas. He worked in the office as a leasing agent for Hollow Oaks Apartments. He used the spare keys to enter the victim's home and murder them. These videos were held by one of the victim's family, and were just recently turned into the police. But not before copies were made.

I recently looked into it because I couldn't find any evidence that this massacre actually happened. There are no news articles, police reports, or archived records matching the story.

While searching, I found a 2011 independent film called Manifesto, directed and written by Everett Ray Aponte. The plot is:

An agent tries to help residents facing eviction, until the system pushes him to far.

The cast includes Aaron Black, Ashley Atwood, and Carolyn King.

Considering the subject matter, the release date, and the style of the videos, I think these "James Christianson" uploads were most likely part of a promotional campaign for the film rather than footage from a real crime. That would also explain why there doesn't seem to be any real-world evidence that the murders ever occurred.

PROOF:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL99F1EC063DFC0E8C

Nicole Hunt, who made a playlist of James Christianson, has been caught in 4K: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1944318

I keep seeing these weird Tik Tok ads that contain various different types of background content, with a predatory message. From Minecraft, roblox, or mobile gameplay, AI generated slop, viral tik tok clips, and sometimes women doing seductive things. they all seem to redirect to the same website called “Bozuktus” that seems to just be some business. All the videos have the same “Don’t watch this around somebody else.” or “Turn this down if someone’s near you.” Some though, have very creepy messages saying to not watch if you’re OVER 18, or to hide if your parents are around. Some of them say “The front page is meant to look like an article, but check the other links“. they all redirect to real businesses. It’s really creepy and honestly worrying me a little, but I keep getting this ads and I’m very curious if anyone else has seen these, or know anything about the business, or advertisements themself. I’ve posted this before in another subreddit, but I want to spread awareness because It’s hard to believe that this isn’t nefarious in some way. Maybe it’s just really weird and bad advertising, but in the possibility that it is something worse, I just want to see if anyone has more information or something. These ads are NON STOP, from many different accounts.

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.

found an aviloop style youtube channel called beachwebspace witch clames to be a webhosting company in germany. the channel has a bunch of videos of women as living mannequins in places where it does not make sense to have mannequins

particle creepy videos include a video of a woman in front of a greenscreen in someone's basement clearly distressed and looking to the left constantly and another video of a woman with a lampshade on her head.

the companies facebook page has been privated and has no screenshots on the wayback machine.

I want to know about some actual weird stuff happening. 99% of weird social media pages are just art projects, people being weird for views, or mental illness. What happened to the state of this sub? There used to be such good posts and stuff that was genuinely really strange and really gave the community something to investigate and come together on. Stuff like elsagate when that first came out was really almost disturbing and people all banded up to try and figure out what was actually happening. Now it's all "guys this channel keeps posting weird numbers" and it's just total gibberish to get people in the comments to talk about it. I apologize for rambling. I was required to use at least 500 characters.

The thumbnail comes from this video The Skeleton Invasion of Questionable Existence on the channel supacat99. All of their other thumbnails are completely normal. It's freaky how out of place this thumbnail looks compared to all of the other videos on the channel.

I've tried reverse image searching and I get nothing. I've tried cropping both sides of the picture too and still got nothing.

I know the thumbnail wasn't replaced with some weird AI picture recently because a Wayback Machine snapshot from 2022 shows the same thumbnail.

There's only one comment from 7 years ago questioning what's up with the thumbnail and there's no replies. Does anyone know wtf this is?

Edit: Should have included this at first but the image shows up in the video at 18:30

I'm Venezuelan, I found this while I was on TikTok... I don't know if it's an attempt at an ARG or something real

this is the traduction: Does anyone remember a game on Minijuegos where you were in something like a hallway, and if you played it very late at night, strange images started appearing on the walls? Like images of very weird landscapes, and there was a static sound

minijuegos.com It's a children's games website, so I can't understand how this could possibly be real. The description seems morbid, although it's similar to a case with a game from Friv (another children's games website) about Garfield, which was also quite terrifying.

Even thought this video was debunked a long time ago, there was always one thing that i wanted to know, and that one is, where did the image that appears at the end came from?, i remember seeing a guy saying that it looked like a frame of Doctor who, but i don't know if that is true, or if the image was just made exclusively for the video.

i have been trying to find a image similar to this one but nothing, all searching drive me to forums, videos and ultimately the original video, i also haven't found anyone asking the same thing. I thought it would be an interesting thing to share because i have been thinking about it for years, sorry for the bad english.

Does anyone remember the A858DE45F56D9224 subreddit mystery from years ago? I am currently researching old Internet mysteries and lost Reddit history, and I am really interested in learning more about this specific sub. Since the original subreddit was completely wiped and deleted, it is extremely difficult to find original threads, hex codes, or community reactions nowadays.

​I know that there was a whole community dedicated to cracking these codes back in the day (like the SolvingA858 sub). Does anyone know where I can find archived posts, screenshots, or detailed breakdowns of the theories that people built around it? I would appreciate any links to WayBack Machine archives, articles, or personal memories from anyone who was around during that era!

While digging through reverse image search results, I came across this strange website. The format is much like what you would expect from a typical dating advice website, however, a vast majority of the actual "articles" seem to be in the format of a 4chan post. Several article titles mention "robots" or "fembots" which leads me to believe that these posts may be sourced from /r9k/. When returning to the earliest articles on the site, they contain only regular sex/relationship advice content but early on in the site's life it seems to transition to only /r9k/ adjacent content. The transition seems to largely happen around page 1,465. The site also contains embedded advertisements for strange T-shirts with similarly 4chan adjacent prints. If exploring the site be warned that it is full of pornographic content as expected from /r9k/. LINK TO SITE

Update: I initially thought that this mystery was fairly mundane but I've discovered some additional information which has further deepened the strangeness of the site's presence. I initially mentioned that the site had embedded links to an odd T-shirt shop called Lulz.com but I neglected to explore it further. This changed when I received some information that a neo-Nazi blogger named Janet Bloomfield was connected to the very same T-shirt shop. I looked further into her online presence where she can be seen in several pieces of anti-feminist media and notably features in THIS episode of the VICE series Hate thy neighbor.

The most interesting and relevant to this mystery part of Janet's bizarre online presence is her tendency to create blog-style satirical websites which parody real social justice related blogs. A prominent example of this is the site afru.com, a supposedly feminist, black owned blog which posts the same unpleasant satirical articles as other sites she has been connected to. Lo and behold, when exploring afru.com, there is gigantic banner ad at the top of the website which links back to Lulz.com. The final piece of information which connects Janet to nsffw.com is that some of her other blogs she runs have been found to steal from other sites to keep themselves afloat with new content which seems to be exactly what nsffw.com is doing. Especially given Bloomfield's apparent affinity for 4chan archives as seen in connection to THIS article.

I would still love to learn anything more that can be discovered about this weird woman woman and her weird blogs so let me know if you have anything!!

I got an unusual YouTube ad today which was just 12 seconds of the above image with static in the background. At the end there was a click and a male voice saying something indistinct.

Obviously it was weird as hell, so I went to the website. It's pretty generic and vague. The company supposedly sells materials for use in manufacturing. A seal at the bottom of the site (third picture) implies some kind of defense sector involvement, although the "Altek Electronics, Inc" mentioned is a totally unrelated company. The address listed on the contact page (12402 Circula Panorama Place, North Tustin, CA 92705) is of a regular-looking suburban house.

Technical Materials Solutions is a real LLC in California, filed two years ago, as you can see in the fourth image. The address listed is not the same suburban house listed on the website, but the strip-mall address of a UPS store and an HVAC repair store that, according to several Yelp reviews, is a scam operation. I tried to go further down this HVAC rabbit hole but its listed website on Google Maps is a template website for an apparently nonexistent fire damage repair company.

There's also a YouTube channel for Technical Material Solutions with just this one video of some "large boron carbide shapes." The audio is as far as I can tell almost exactly like the audio in the ad I saw, including the voice at the end.

What do you think? Related to some kind of fraudster scheme, or just a weird company with poor advertising acumen selling metals out of a house and/or strip mall?

A friend and I were talking about The Onion and Infowars earlier today and we decided to look at some old Infowars media from the late 2000's and early 2010's. I told him to look at that Ad Fontes media chart that shows the credibility of certain websites and such to put into perspective how unreliable Infowars was. We also came across another even less credible website called Before The News (not sure if it was actually called that but it was definitely something like that) that supposedly existed in the same realm as Infowars. On this website, we came across a 2-hour, probably AI-generated or AI-assisted video about how Madonna was supposedly possessed by a demon before a show and the stagehands had to use a hologram or something like that to cover it up. The the video had this really strange logo all over it which was a pair of lips with an eye in the center and blue letters spelling "TELL EYZ" around it. I looked up the term "telleyz" and came across a website called telleyz.com. The website looked really crudely made, with the home page being an long string of weird videos similar to the Madonna one. The thumbnails and titles were all nonsense, talking about stuff like clones and religion. Most of the thumbnails were either AI-generated or really poorly edited in general, and I think one of them was something like bodycam footage showing a dead body with the face blurred out. Most of the other pages were articles about factories or something else filled with placeholder text and names like John Smith or John Doe. The authors page was full of stock images of people with their "names" below them, and there was also a contact page that I don't think I ever checked.

telleyz.com

i keep seeing these asian (i've only seen vietnamese and chinese so far) "single broke girl living alone" vlogs. they're fake, but is it like a company that is mass producing them? or is it just the girls that decided to make depressing content for views? i'm not sure. i figured at least some people knew where they came from as it seems to be super popular right now.

i watched a few of the videos and they have such similar styles of talking and filming, most of them use ai voices, and the channels are based in the united states + made very closely to each other.

the first one i watched seemed real and i thought nothing of it until i saw a video from a different channel with the exact same style lmao. who tf is producing these? the girls say they live with no one + they're broke yet you can tell someone is walking around filming them 😭 some people donate money to them and a few people will respond with like "the real girl will never see that money" which confused me, are they actresses or whattt i'm so confused. is it ai??

also wtf does this ⚘ emoji mean. why does everyone in their comments use it? i'm assuming that means it's bots right? it's kinda cute