Strange Mysteries Solved By Reddit And The Internet

the internet is a big place and it's full of bizarre Mysteries many of them are never solved but every now and then self-proclaimed internet detectives band together from across the globe to dive down the rabbit hole and uncover the truth and sometimes they succeed so from an apparently cursed arcade machine to a spine-chilling photograph of unknown Origins let's investigate some seriously strange Mysteries that were solved by Reddit and the internet [Music] perplexing Post-its if someone went t

o the effort of breaking into your home you'd expect them to make off with your TV or something right not plan a bunch of cryptic Post-it notes and back in 2015 Reddit user are Bradbury 1920 posted to a legal advice thread when he suspected someone of doing exactly that in the post Bradberry explained that over the last few days he'd been waking up to find strange notes stuck around his bedroom written in handwriting that wasn't his own the notes ranged from mundane reminders to save his PC docu

ments to ominous claims that his landlord wasn't letting the mystery writer speak to him Bradbury lived alone and there was no sign of breaking and entering so he assumed his landlord was trying to scare him but he had no idea why so in an effort to catch the Intruder in the ACT he'd set up a webcam to record at night however on checking the files the next day he found they had all been deleted uh what the Reddit post exploded as people tried to get to the bottom of it all but everybody was stum

ped until one commenter by the name of kakarlak posted his two cents posited that there was no mystery intruder at all and that Bradbury himself was responsible for the nose but how three words carbon monoxide leak carbon monoxide or Co is a poisonous gas produced by some home appliances that can make you seriously ill if you breathe it in plus it's colorless and odorless so the only way to know it's even there is through special CO detectors now get this one of the symptoms of Co poisoning is a

mnesia could Bradbury have been forgetting he wrote the notes seems plausible but what about the deleted camera files and the handwriting well after checking his CO detector Bradbury made another post it turns out kaggarlack was right he'd suffered brain swelling due to a carbon monoxide leak and was writing the notes himself in a confused State and completely forgetting about them it was so bad that he couldn't even recognize his own handwriting as for the deleted cam footage it wasn't deleted

it'd never been recorded in the first place Bradberry had been so out of it that he hadn't set the camera up properly jeez ten months later he reported that he was still recovering from the effects of the poisoning but felt positive about his future so kakarlak probably saved his life hopefully Bradbury made a full recovery in the end and got a nice payout from his landlord I'd be fuming braving the basement personally I can't think of any good reason to go exploring an abandoned 19th century ps

ychiatric hospital but Reddit user and fearless Explorer boneless hot dog seems to disagree with me there's one close to his home and having apparently never seen a horror movie in his life BHD decided to explore the totally non-haunted location back in November 2022 after sneaking in through an unlocked door he traversed the halls and crept downstairs to the basement where he came across something that absolutely baffled him sat silently in the Gloom was this Enigma was it some kind of doorway

if so where the heck did it lead after getting a closer look boneless concluded that this strange structure was actually some sort of device with a door on each end and rusted gauges on the side the word ammonia was written on one of them but that was the only clue that the Explorer had I'd have just assumed this was some kind of horrific trap from the Saw movies and runaway screaming but boneless was hungry for the truth Zoe got home and uploaded photos of the unknown device to Reddit was it so

me kind of furnace if so for what huh well not quite but before we get to the dark secrets of the basement let me take a moment to talk about something that should never be a mystery your mental health better help are this video's sponsored and they know that life can be super busy making it all too common for people to neglect their mental Wellness I've definitely been guilty of this in the past whether you're suffering with a condition like depression or just having a hard time therapy can giv

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Urban Explorer had just uploaded some snaps of that strange device to Reddit after a myriad of suggestions had been ruled out one wise redditor was able to unveil the truth it wasn't a saw trap a door to unspeakable Horrors or a furnace it was an autoclave autoclaves use Steam and pressure to sterilize equipment and are commonly found in healthcare settings this particular one was so huge because it was designed for the mattresses and bedding of patients um not the patients themselves phew as fo

r why it said ammonia on it the compound can be used to increase the strength of any disinfectant used in the sterilization process simple so maybe not as dramatic as you were hoping for but I for one am glad that this thing isn't actually the work of a sadistic Madman if you want to keep up to date with the work of a non-sadistic serial YouTuber make sure you hit those like And subscribe buttons down below you wouldn't want to miss out on another mysterious video like this one okay now back to

the Mysteries find Satoshi in 2005 an alternate reality game was released called perplex City players bought packs of cards containing random puzzles saw them and followed the clues they provided to try and find a cash prize hidden somewhere in the real world the game has largely been forgotten over the years because its creators abandon it after the first prize Was Won however one card from 2006 was never forgotten this puzzle titled billion to one featured a mysterious Unknown man with some Ja

panese tag simply reading find me players had one clue the man's name was Satoshi some people became obsessed with this mystery and quickly established a website dedicated to the search surely with the power of the internet it'd get solved in no time right wrong the web was a very different place back in the prehistoric 2000s and the conundrum would mostly need to be solved through Word of Mouth there was some level of success when someone figured out Satoshi snapped his selfie in kaiserberg Fra

nce but nothing else of note was uncovered for years time went by and it seemed the mystery would never be solved but then in December 2020 Reddit user though May blew the whole thing wide open see though May opted to run satoshi's photo through an AI facial recognition software and found this image the fella on the right holding a beer looked awfully familiar then a little extra sleuthing uncovered even more images of the man along with a page on his company website was this really him the comm

unity fired off an email and waited with baited breath then after what was probably the longest 24 hours of their lives they received a response it was Satoshi fourteen years after the search began it had finally come to an end Satoshi had forgotten what he was supposed to actually reveal but given that it'd been over a decade I think we can forgive him however because the puzzle was solved with AI Tech unavailable back in 2006 can we really say it was fair let me know down in the comments what

you think feeling fantastic if you spend a decent amount of time on the internet back in the 2010s you probably remember the video I Feel fantastic for those none of the know it's a strange bordering on disturbing clip featuring a creepy singing robot the unsettling videos bring up seemingly out of nowhere and went viral spooking everybody unfortunate enough to stumble across it the leading theory at the time was that the Android in the video was created by a crazed Criminal Who addressed the An

droid up in the close of his victims sounds a little far-fetched but the thing was undeniably creepy the original video was mysteriously taken down but re-uploads continued to haunt the internet for many years without explanation until one writer called yitzy lit set out to investigate in 2020. lit managed to track down images of the strange robot to obscure Android appreciation websites dating back to 2001 which yes were apparently a thing these sites listed the Creator as one John Bergeron Big

John was apparently attempting to create a revolutionary Android for use in the entertainment Industries named Tara the one in the video was a prototype that cost them two thousand dollars to create or some thirty four hundred dollars today his plan was to mass produce her but considering we've never seen Terror performing a world tour I'll assume this never ended up happening instead we got one very freaky music video went a whole lot of questions so there you go no crazy criminal here just a

man trying his best to invent something special there may be creepy as hell to us but I'm sure she was a labor of love for her Creator how sweet in a slightly off-putting way Teletubbies the cursed images subreddit is full of Twisted pictures that are designed to make your skin crawl none I've seen have quite stuck with me like this one though yes that's a group of people in second rate Teletubbies costumes looking like they're about to perform a Satanic ritual with a small child to say there's

something off about it is a gross understatement because of this uncanniness it's been posted and reposted everywhere usually alongside stories about how it's cursed then in 2022 redditor Bobby posted the image on the internet mystery subreddit with a newfound determination to find its true Origins and everything changed eagle-eyed commenters pointed out that because of the bed style and the IV drip in the corner it's probably in a hospital on top of that the poster on the wall features soccer p

layer Dennis Bergkamp who played for the British team Arsenal from 1995 to 2006. given this info the pick must have been taken in the UK around the late 90s aha with this in mind YouTubers scare theater did his own digging and with some Nifty reverse image searching found the first time it was ever posted redditor JF 1984 was responsible apparently he'd seen it on the wall of a hospital in England Under The Heading celebrities who visited us unable to ignore the sheer creepiness he'd taken the s

nap uploaded it to the internet and the rest is history so it looks like these demons genuinely intended to put a smile on the face of that poor kid they failed miserably extra torrential I once found evidence of alien activity inside my toilet I'd tell you more but I'm on an FBI watch list now when Reddit user Robbo 66 started scanning through Google Maps and Hampshire Southern England though the last thing he expected to come across was evidence of alien activity indeed rabo stumbled on these

bizarre markings in the middle of a field in 2022 and was utterly confused they look kinda like crop circle patterns right but none I've ever seen before could this finally be proof that aliens have landed desperate to know Rambo did what any sensible person does nowadays he posted the mysterious image on Reddit shock horror it was quickly determined that the markings probably aren't alien landing sites they're actually trial trenches and a whole lot of them basically before any major constructi

on project can take place the area needs to be checked for archaeological significance if there were ancient structures or artifacts just beneath the surface they could be permanently lost so a few trenches are dug to see what can be found the fact that this area has so many means people probably thought it was hiding some real juicy stuff whether it actually was I can't say for sure but another redditor Unearthed the proposal for a shopping area in this exact location so we at least know the re

ason the trenches were dug in the first place so no UFOs this time unless it's all a cover-up of course strap band because I'm about to take you on a wild journey to a Fantastical land of wacky creatures in intrigue back in 2017 comedian Nate fernald was browsing online for some retro pins to add to his collection when he stumbled upon this exceedingly odd little trinket titled guidus having never heard of it before fernald found himself strangely allured to the weird badge a Google search turne

d up nothing though and the seller of the mystery pen had no idea when or where it was acquired now fernald was even more interested so he posted a pic of the pen to Twitter and begged the internet for help not knowing what geedus was was driving him crazy and before longitus had infected the minds of a whole host of fernald's followers too and since the self-professed geeters set out to discover the origin of the pin and even set up their own subreddit dedicated to the hunt amazingly the search

gained so much interest that within a few months thousands of Internet sluice had taken up the cause eventually a Twitter user found a lead they'd managed to track down an old sticker sheet featuring none other than kedis alongside some other wacky characters it was enigmatically labeled the land of tah as if from some long forgotten fantasy franchise another caption on the sheet informed them that it was created by a paper and branding business and named Denison in 1981 so the salutes got to w

ork trying to get in touch with its former employees however the company had since merged with another and it proved impossible to find anyone that used to work there before the merge so as Denison had been based in the city of Framingham Massachusetts they contacted the Framingham History Center to see if they'd know anything lo and behold the center responded with good news they had several Denison sticker sheets in their archives including the land of tah the sheet was legit the center put th

e geeters in contact with some employees in Denison and though their memories were Rusty they remembered the sticker artist one Sam Petrucci Sam had unfortunately passed away but his children were happy to help they looked through his old files and found the original sketches used in the sheet bam so case closed well not really we still don't know why these stickers were commissioned Guida is in the land of tar remain as obscure as it gets and the Denison employees were adamant that they never p

roduced the enamel pens so who did who would go to the effort of producing expensive pens for a fantasy franchise nobody's ever heard of gosh dang it if you have any ideas let me know in the comments below oblivious back before video game consoles were a thing people had to leave the house and head to an arcade to play games I know archaic right but arcades were kind of mystical in a way and never knew what games you'd find when you popped inside one you just better have hoped you didn't find po

lybius see polybius was a spooky arcade cabinet from 1981 that apparently had some pretty nasty side effects on people supposedly players experience seizures insomnia night terrors hallucinations and more I thought fortnite was bad for your brain according to Legend Men In Black would lurk near the machines and examine the data they'd gathered from players when nobody else was around what they wanted to know we can't be sure then after just a single month of being released the mysterious machine

vanished forever leaving no trace of its brief existence decades later in 2017 YouTuber Ahoy decided to investigate the myth properly he scoured the internet for any mention of the game and was eventually led to a website called coinop.org decide held a vast database of old arcade games and seemed to have the first online mention of Bolivia's a man named Kurt collar ran it and according to a former writer for Gaming magazine gamepro Kurt had told them about the legend in 2003 after they subsequ

ently featured it in an issue that year word of polybius spread like wildfire Ahoy reached out to Kurt and he refused to admit it but everything points to him inventing the polybius myth in an effort to drive traffic to his website that's Sly dog so it seems polybius never really existed but with Kurt refusing to play ball who knows maybe the Men in Black gave him a visit and told him to keep his lips tightly sealed mutant monster as much as I love Resident Evil we all know virus infected monste

rs aren't real right but when Reddit user pbjberger went out onto his lawn one morning in 2019 this belief was challenged in a shocking way he found this thing squirming around on one of his chairs what the heck is that a strange Beast was about the size of a bottle cap and PBJ was desperate to find out whether it posed a threat so you guessed it he snapped a pic of it and posted it on Reddit the post quickly gained traction and though the majority of commenters were just as scared and stumped a

s PBJ one person recognized the little creeper any guesses no it was actually a moth larva specifically of the hagmoth and despite how they look both larva and moth are harmless to humans or at least mostly The larva can't do any serious damage but it is coded in defensive spines that can be irritating and painful if touched so just leave him alone and he'll leave you alone there's no need to call Leon Kennedy this time door of Doom in 2020 Reddit user jerrycan88 posted this uncanny image to the

what is this thing subreddit he'd spotted a strange door in the sound of a sea wall in bury its France man I can't say I blame Jerry CAD for being so curious the door looks super off I mean who's using it does some horrible creature lurk in there just waiting to crawl up the side and snatch someone thankfully Reddit stepped up to quell my uh I mean Cherry cat's fears believe it or not the image doesn't show a horrific portal to the underworld at all it's just a tide gate what the heck is that I

hear you ask well tide Gates can be opened or closed whenever needed to prevent floodings the doors lead to special overflow areas so if there's a storm the extra water can run into the open doors instead of rising up over the edge and onto the roads simple right that said the idea still isn't entirely scare free imagine being trapped inside one of them as as it steadily fills with water or actually maybe don't the device I hate getting work done on my car it always cost me an arm and a leg wel

l when Californian resident and Avid redditor Khalid went to a mechanic with his buddy Yasir in 2017 they discovered something even more unsettling a strange device had been stuck near your Sears car exhaust khalid's immediate thought was that it was some sort of tracking device though after showing it to his Pal's roommates they thought it was a bomb yikes concerned Khalid turned to Reddit and posted a photo of the strange object with some extra context see you Seer had apparently been of inter

est to the FBI because of his late father why exactly is unclear but the boys believed it had something to do with his role as a Muslim leader the organization had previously tried to contact Yasir but backed off when he lawyered up so could the FBI have been secretly following him Reddit quickly identified the object and it wasn't good news as feared it was a guardian GPS tracking device sales of such a Tracker limited only to Army and law enforcement so it was totally the FBI's doing the duo h

ad no idea what to do with it but they wouldn't have to think too long within just 48 Hours of the post FBI agents showed up to get the device back from youseer the truth was they'd been monitoring him because of a Reddit comment made by none other than gallat supposedly he'd been propagating extremist ideas but that's a huge stretch in reality he just posted a short comment about shopping mall security and because of it Yasir ended up getting tracked just for being a known friend of khalids wel

l Yasir was rightfully annoyed by this and tried to sue the bureau though he was unfortunately unsuccessful hopefully the officers that planted the tracker got at least a firm reprimand though sadly I doubt it have you seen this man since January 2006 thousands of people across the world have supposedly dreamed of this man sometimes he acts nice other times he acts maliciously but it's always the same man the question is have you ever dreamed of this man in 2008 a website appeared asking that ve

ry question to the whole world and featuring a host of testimonials from people who claimed to have dreamed about him shortly after posters started appearing in different cities across the globe each bearing that spooky image in the same text anybody else getting the heebie-jeebies then one year after it first appeared the enigmatic website went viral suddenly there were more eyes on the mystery than ever before and it only got stranger over 10 000 people wrote to the website's email address rep

orting their own experiences of the Curious man paranoia over who he was had erupted into a fever pitch however users on online forums like 4chan were more skeptical they thought the entire concept was fishy so they performed a techy little maneuver called a reverse IP lookup on the website long story short they discovered that it was affiliated with a guerrilla marketing site guerrilla marketing essentially means promoting a product or idea by unconventional means could this man be nothing more

than one big marketing Ploy it certainly seemed possible but there wasn't enough evidence yet until the following year in 2010 that is when in another dramatic twist the creator of the website came forward and revealed himself Italian sociologist and marketer Andrea Nutella had seen the growing skepticism surrounding the project and confirmed not only that he was behind it but that it was indeed all just a stunt a sketch of the mystery man was based on nutella's father and those initial website

testimonials were nothing but lies perplexingly Nutella had never revealed what the campaign was supposed to advertise but the site was never updated or taken down in fact people continued to believe this man is a real phenomenon which isn't actually far from the truth the 10 000 people that emailed Nutella when the stunt went viral weren't all lying many of them probably did see the man in their dreams though only because they were influenced by seeing the image in the first place hmm I still

find it super weird that we don't know what Nutella was trying to sell I can't imagine that face as the mascot of a new cereal brand can you foreign traveling tourists if I had a nickel for every case of real-time travel reported by the internet I'd be in a mansion in Hawaii not making YouTube videos that said what I'm about to show you made even cynical all me take a pause a YouTube video posted in 2011 shows a seemingly ordinary old video of a Charlie Chaplin movie premiere from 1928 but it go

es from an interesting piece of historical Intrigue to an episode of The X-Files within seconds when an elderly woman steps into the frame holding a cell phone I mean what else could that be what's more an old photo from the second world war went viral in 2022 for the same reason the image taken in Reykjavik Iceland in 1943 shows groups of U.S soldiers chatting with each other but wait who's this this strange man in the light code seems to be holding yep another cell phone the web was sent into

an absolute frenzy who were these people were they really Time Travelers some dismissed the objects as portable radios but they weren't invented until 1941 which wouldn't explain the chaplain clip another theory was that they were ear trumpets a type of old school hearing aid but the device is in question are far too small hmm was this real time travel then well perhaps not several commenters pointed out that while the devices were clearly not here trumpets they could still be a certain type of

hearing aid specifically a compact carbon Amplified one that was held up to the year and patented in 1924. while there's no way of entirely confirming this explanation and makes a lot of sense much more than the idea of time travel so these guys aren't Time Travelers after all I'm afraid just two regular people that were hard of hearing less Doctor Who more Doctor Who said that nightmare fuel I've always found that the less information I have on something the more unsettling it has the potential

to be enter 11b X 1371 no I didn't just bash my head against the keyboard that's the name of a disturbing DVD that was mailed to Johnny crablicker the editor of Swedish Tech blog Gadget ZZ and 2015. take a look if that didn't make you slightly poop yourself then you're braver than I am the whole video is comprised of strange visuals and comfortable noises and that man and a plague doctor outfit after watching it Johnny was more than a little creeped out especially when he realized the footage w

asn't just a prank it seemed to contain coded messages strange symbols and alphanumeric texts flashed up in some frames and the plague doctor had a blinking light on his hand that appeared to Blink in Morse code perplexed Johnny posted the video on his blog and it wasn't long before the internet sleuths got to work on it there was a ton to unpack one of the codes translated into GPS coordinates for the White House and the morse code was an anagram for a threat on the president's life yikes the m

ystery deepened when one clever redditor news the Nifty program to translate the video's audio into imagery and found while all this yeah totally not worrying uh if I was Johnny I'd have destroyed the DVD and fled the country by now but nope he kept on working with the internet detectives and one of them actually figured out where the whole thing was filmed the former zovoika's sanatorium south of Warsaw even with the codes cracked and the filming location found though the video still didn't mak

e sense who made it and why those questions remained frustratingly unanswered until the initial frenzy died down then a man named Parker Warner Wright suddenly came forward claiming he was behind the video now many others had falsely claimed the same thing in the months prior but this time was different Wright actually released a sequel video on his YouTube channel with a similarly catchy name 11b 3 1369 features the return of the same plague doctor proving that right was indeed behind the mask

according to him it was just an art project all along although he also said it does have a message which nobody has managed to decipher yet right if you have any idea at all what it could be I'd love to hear it in the comments down below laughs The Walking Dead I'm sure everybody has spent some time thinking of their own zombie apocalypse survival plan it's all a bit of fun huh after all something like that would never happen in reality right well in May 2021 a shocking event made the residents

of Seattle believe it could a tic Tacker user uploaded a haunting video of a bedraggled zombie-like woman stumbling through the street and screeching excuse me what the chilling clip sent shockwaves through the web and caused rampant debate on Tick Tock some claimed that the so-called zombie was just an unwell woman in need of help While others touted that she was possessed by a demon and yes some even believe this really was the start of a zombie apocalypse days went by and suspiciously there w

as absolutely no news coverage or official update from Tic Tac on the matter but those in the know needed answers so they took the investigation into their own hands some other clips of the woman had surfaced in which she was approached and eventually detained by police our budding detectives new police have body cams to record incidents like this so if they could just get a hold of the cops footage they'd gain more insight into what happened that day well YouTuber Rebecca Ms got straight on the

case and requested it from the police a few months later they sent it to her I can't show you the clip itself because you know the monetization but it revealed a shocking revelation the cops go from caring and concerned to confused and annoyed when they realize the woman is actually just wearing makeup that's right further digging uncovered that the so-called zombie was one Kimberly Kasai and the whole horrific stunt was a coveted vaccination protest I guess she was trying to say the vaccines c

ould make people zombies or something jeez it's safe to say people were not happy with Kimberly as well as wasting police time she'd worried the entire internet sick as a result she's locked down all her social media and I'm not complaining she's got one thing in common with zombies though I guess she really needs more brains I'm exhausted I felt like I was the one solving all those Mysteries which did you find the most surprising and are there any other internet Mysteries you'd like me to cover

let me know down in those comments thanks for watching [Music]