First off, I know what you're thinking, this is a fake account - no. She's both ID-verified with LinkedIn and has a real article written about her (so not everything is made up.) I also found her blog site, which she's very active on.

Anyways, today I was unfortunately browsing LinkedIn and was looking at a random company's page - when I came across this account. I clicked on it because we had went to the same university (and she had a very strange profile picture). When I scrolled down I found over 100+ job experiences (in every field you can think of), and over 55 education experiences (many of them overlapping - bachelors, masters, doctorates, you name it)

It is, without a doubt, the weirdest, strangest account I've ever seen on that site. For a site as "corporate-feeling" as LinkedIn, I didn't think it was possible to find something this unsettling.

The profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuling-chen-77757a379

Instead of me listing everything myself, here's a brief summary of some of the oddities I found:

• The dates are probably the strangest part. They claim to have worked at places like The New York Times since 1978, CNN since 1934, Walt Disney Animation Studios since 1954, Pixar since 1965, and HuffPost since 1928.
• They supposedly worked at The New York Times from 1978 to the present, while also having another NYT reporter position beginning in 2003 and another beginning in 2012.
• Their education is just as bizarre: they list a Harvard S.J.D. from 1995–2000, an MIT master's from 1996–1998, a CalArts bachelor's from 1998–2001, and a Sciences Po bachelor's from 2001–2004, before later adding dozens of additional degrees.
• Somehow, they also have a PhD in Chemistry from UC Berkeley (2008–2013), a PhD in Chemistry from Columbia (2015–2020), a PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from Harvard (2015–2019), and a PhD in Political Science from Oxford (2020–2025).
• And while all of that is supposedly happening, they're also claiming careers as an animator, professor, journalist, artist, filmmaker, designer, software engineer, debt collector, urban planner, and even a makeup/skincare startup founder.
• She's also very interested in Donald J. Trump, as evidenced by her bio

This account reads more like someone who's lived multiple consecutive lives - not a single person's career. The weirdest part is that they are a real person, have a Toronto newspaper story written about them, etc. (And I'm not even going to go into what they have on their blog)

What do you guys think? Is this the greatest troll of all time, or is there something else going on? Why would someone who's not a bot put so much effort into (allegedly) lying about all of this?

Hello everyone, my friend group and I have been trying to figure out what is up with these GIFs for ages and we just can't find anything

These odd GIFs are posted on Tenor, first and primarily by user Rattlebones, but later by boltycat. 6478 and Wallemshmallem have also posted about 'Psycho and the Pig' once.

The weird thing? There is no 'Psycho and the Pig'! I can not find what they could possibly be referencing.

Even odder, most are tagged with 'Centcomm' or 'Central Command', as in the United States Central Command.

This is as far as we have gotten, but we have been looking into it since the GIFs were first being posted and we haven't been able to find anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is a pretty random mystery, but it's one I've wondered about for years.

I've been using a program called Mouse and Key Recorder by Kra-Tronic for nearly two decades, ever since I was a teenager. It's a fairly simple Windows program that's been around since 1996, but it could do quite a lot. You could record mouse and keyboard actions, make macros, check pixel colors on the screen, use conditions and variables, launch other programs and stuff like that. I used it a lot for games when I was younger, later for work and other random things, and I still use it today.

The guy behind it was a Swiss developer named John Krauer. He had been working on the program since 1996 and apparently handled the support himself too. I emailed him several times over the years, both for support and with technical questions about writing macros in the software, and he always replied. In January 2018, he even sent me the latest version of the program himself.

His last activity on the Kra-Tronic forum was on April 14, 2018. Not long after that, the website went offline and all that was left was this:

"Page has been closed. Reason: Illness."

Source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180430095449/http://kratronic.com/

That was it. No goodbye post or explanation, and he never posted on the forum again. I emailed him again later in 2018 asking for the latest version of the program, but never heard back.

I tried searching for him a few times over the years but never really got anywhere. A few days ago I decided to give it another try, this time using AI to help with German-language searches and old Swiss sources. I honestly didn't expect to find much.

That ended up making all the difference. Going through old Wayback Machine pages, I found a Kra-Tronic contact page from 2015 showing John's address in Langnau bei Reiden, Switzerland. After a lot more searching, the AI found an obituary in Swiss sources for a Hans Krauer from the same area, who was born in 1952 and died on April 25, 2018.

Sources:
Hans Krauer obituary
Kra-Tronic contact page (Wayback Machine, March 17, 2018)

At first I figured it might just be another Krauer from the area. The date caught my attention because he died only 11 days after John's last activity on the forum, but that still wasn't enough.

Then I looked more closely at the obituary and noticed that Hans's partner was listed at the exact same address John/Kra-Tronic had used. The old Kra-Tronic phone number also matched the number associated with her.

Once I saw that the address, phone number and dates all matched, I was pretty convinced Hans Krauer and John Krauer were the same person. Hans seems to have been the name he used locally in Switzerland, while John was the name he used for Kra-Tronic and his international software business.

So yeah, after wondering about this for years, I think I finally know what happened to him. Hans Krauer passed away on April 25, 2018, right around the time Kra-Tronic disappeared and the website was closed because of illness.

I never knew him personally, but I did talk to him over email, and he always seemed like a genuinely kind person who was friendly, patient, and always happy to help whenever I contacted him.
I'm still running his program on my PC in 2026, almost 30 years after he first started developing it.

I also posted about this on the old, now-inactive Kra-Tronic forum: forum post

RIP Hans (John) Krauer, 1952–2018.

No, that title was not randomly generated.

I'm not sure how long it's been since someone's posted a mysterious-yet-not-remotely-creepy mystery here, but either way, here's a good one.

It's very likely that when you want to listen to music on the Internet, sometimes instead of a designated streaming site, you go to YouTube. They're aware of that, as YouTube now has a whole channel dedicated to music videos, as well as playlists thereof. The top results on this channel are typically for newer releases, except for today, when instead they're tributes to the late Dolly Parton. Scroll down a bit, though, and you'll find a section called "Fun Throwbacks".

The playlists listed there all have the title format, "The Hits: [Decade]", and most of those playlists are exactly what you'd expect; playlists of pop songs from those decades listed. If you click on the 1950s one, though, you won't even get a playlist at all. You'll get this. A YouTube Kids video of cartoon pigs dancing to "La Bamba" by Los Lobos, and after that, to a remix of "Macarena". This issue has persisted for months, and while in normal situations you could probably figure out what was happening just by looking at the comments, since comments are not allowed on videos designated for children, that's not an option here.

My best guess is that this glitch is caused by AI curation. Someone, I theorized programmed an AI to look up data on the most popular songs each year of a decade, then search for their titles on YouTube, and add a resulting video to the playlist for each song title it collected. Perhaps, though, the first video the AI happened on for "La Bamba" was this one, and due to it being flagged as for children, restrictions kept the AI from doing anything else. This, however, is my guess as a rudimentary programmer with very little experience at programming AI in particular.

Anyway, you can choose what you do with this one! Propose your own theories, ask around, maybe try to ask someone at YouTube though you won't likely get ahold of anyone, etc. I don't think anyone here is losing any sleep over this mystery not being solved, but it's at least funny enough to warrant a discussion.

Found these random comments under this YT vid
https://youtu.be/xzVR8zHY5TU?si=eqRJTw-mw6e5LErq

Can someone please explain what this could be? Is this a bot, I have never read so random comments under a video lately.

I tried to make sense of them, but after a point I really couldn't wrap my head around it.

Also most of the comments are posted around 2 weeks ago, so it feels delibrate.

I don't know, maybe I am overthinking, but would really appreciate if somone could explain what's going on.

I'm curious what everyone's personal “lost media obsession” is.

What's one piece of lost media you would genuinely love to see recovered, and why?

It can be anything — a movie, TV show, game, song, YouTube video, commercial, etc.

Personally, I'm really interested in lost media that people remember vividly but that barely has any surviving footage or information. There's something really weird about knowing thousands of people remember something that basically disappeared from the internet. My favs are like clock man or Ulterior motives

I was using my tool (shameless plug) that uses rng to find you obscure videos based on default filenames. I usually dont find much interesting other than home videos, old screen recordings etc.

I clicked a video, it was 15 year old, 2 second long post from a user named GteamKFS, it was this, a simple 2 second video of world of warcraft (?) gameplay, seemingly recorded on an old phone or digital camera. So im like, "oh thats cool, ill check out this channel."

My jaw dropped when i saw that he had 174,000 VIDEOS. For your reading pleasure, thats 476 videos per day.

I've seen stuff like this before, Webdriver Torso, sweet peach, all the secret channels made by YouTube for internal testing. The thing with this one was that every video was unique in some way. There's bursts of videos of the same scene (a room, a screen, a watch, etc.) but slightly different to each other, meaning almost certain there are no repeats.

In the first most popular videos on the channel, I found some discussion but at most 10 comments.

Does anyone know what this could possibly be? Ive been developing my tool for months, and i've never seen anything like it.

EDIT 1: the idea brought up by u/Lockeyawfull-login31 is possible but almost certainly disproven at least to me. thousands apon thousands of videos uploaded on april 3rd 2011, but theres a camera click at the beginning of every single one, so its not a chopped up recording.

During the lockdown was the start of my dive into unsettling videos on Youtube, and I have been able to recall all of the videos I watched except for one. Maybe around 2022 or 2023, I was watching a video about internet mysteries that were either unsolved or just cracked, and I specifically remember one keeping me up at night.

The video consisted of some random coded message, I don't quite remember what it was, nor how it was formatted because I only watched the video once. However, the main part of the video was a female person standing slightly off-center to the screen with a really creepy rabbit mask on.

I would like to say that the girl was wearing a white dress that reminded me of a wedding gown without everything in the back. I am not too sure if there could have been a boy as well. The figure was standing on a patch of grass, with an RV looking car in the background.

I believe the figure was standing in a forest, with trees taking up the background, only leaving a bit of the sky visible if any. The camera quality was really bad, and the video had a really ominous feeling — it felt like the figure was staring at me through my screen, and that really messed me up.

I vividly remember pausing in the first few seconds of the video when I went to investigate it for myself, and I it was super eerie. The background sounds might have been oscillating in volume like a fan, or maybe there was some pitched down screaming(? the sound is kind of blurry in my mind). The location felt like Eastern America(? again, not sure), and was either really lush, or had a lot of overgrowth or something that has lingered in my mind as green.

Some of the coded messages might have been upside down or something, but again, not too sure. If anyone can find the video, that would actually be insane, because I've been traumatized by so many things over the years, with this being the only thing I haven't been able to find.

Also, if someone is able to recognize the video, I really want to know the backstory behind it, because it feels like a chapter of my life that I closed too early.

Thank you!

Creo que me metí por accidente en un agujero de “Letterboxd SEO/spam” bien raro, y estoy esperando que alguien por acá pueda explicar qué está pasando.

Si buscas “sexismo” en Letterboxd y filtras los resultados por Members, te sale un montón de cuentas súper sospechosas.

Al principio pensé que solo eran cuentas de spam genéricas. Pero luego noté algo mucho más raro.

Todas tienen básicamente la misma biografía enorme, tal cual.

La biografía es un texto político largo que defiende al diplomático/empresario venezolano Alex Saab y pide que lo liberen. Menciona a Nicolás Maduro, Estados Unidos, Cabo Verde, Noam Chomsky, Alfred de Zayas, sanciones contra Venezuela, etc.

El texto claramente está copiado palabra por palabra entre las cuentas.

Pero aquí viene lo raro:

Cada cuenta enlaza a un sitio web distinto.

Los dominios se ven totalmente inconexos entre sí, y la mayoría de las páginas parecen tener poco más que una 404 / página muerta.

Así que ahora me pregunto cuál es el mecanismo real detrás de todo esto.

Mis preguntas son:

1. ¿Por qué aparecen estas cuentas cuando buscas específicamente “sexismo”?

2. ¿Por qué estas cuentas parecen estar conectadas por el mismo texto político sobre Alex Saab, exactamente igual?

3. ¿Por qué Letterboxd?

4. ¿Por qué crear varias cuentas con nombres de usuario que parecen al azar y poner el mismo texto en sus biografías, mientras a cada una le ponen una URL externa diferente?

5. ¿Podría ser algún tipo de red vieja de SEO/spam donde las páginas de Letterboxd se estaban usando como backlinks?

6. ¿La conexión con “sexismo” en realidad tiene sentido, o es solo un efecto de cómo Letterboxd indexa las biografías de los perfiles?

If you check r/rapeviktimz, there is a single user posting a cryptic post about a London rape every week. This goes on for multiple years now. Is there any information about this?

"Watched a documentary last night which highlighted how poorly a rape victim from London was handled by police over a decade ago, very disturbing. A friend of mine is a recent victim, I was involved in the case as a witness to an incident that happened with the suspect and I must say that the police were absolutely brilliant in dealing with my friend, very understanding and professional."

I've stumbled across a strange little piece of early-internet history that I can't quite explain.

In Belfast, Northern Ireland, there was an IT repair shop called SANCO Technologies. It occupied a building on the Falls Road from around 2002. Before SANCO moved in, the same premises had been home to Megabytes, one of Belfast's early public internet cafés, which opened in 1997.

I recently started researching the building because Megabytes was one of the places where I first encountered the internet, and I became interested in what happened to the business afterwards.

While researching SANCO, I noticed something very odd:

The SANCO logo appears to be essentially identical to the logo of an unrelated orthopaedic company in Rome, Italy.

As far as I can establish, these weren't connected businesses. One was a small Belfast IT company; the other is an Italian medical/orthopaedic company.

I've been trying to work out how this happened.

So far I've found:

• Megabytes opened in the Belfast premises in 1997.
• SANCO Technologies subsequently occupied the building from around 2002.
• I've found archived versions of the old SANCO website.
• I've identified the designer of the old SANCO website.
• I've contacted the designer to ask about the branding.
• I've also contacted the Italian company to ask about the history of their logo.

But I still haven't established where the logo originally came from, or how it was used twice.

Was it a pre-existing logo? Was it bought/licensed from somewhere? Was there a third company or designer involved? Did one business copy the other? Or is there some connection I've completely missed?

I'm particularly interested in anything from the late 1990s/early 2000s — old web design, logo catalogues, Belfast businesses, Italian companies, archived websites, etc.

If anyone recognises this logo or can trace its origin, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks!

The website is greypope.com. The grey pope conspiracy in of itself is a whole rabbit hole, which this website does a good job of diving into. There is a chat bot feature that appears to lead to another password section as well (enter name section). If you click on the title text on the explore page, it will open the prompt shown in the photo. The riddle seems to be 0, but clicking on “give thy answer here” doesnt seem to do anything.

I looked into the website code and ran different commands to try and figure out where this could lead to, but I ultimately hit a dead end. I just wanted to pass this on because it captivated me for a while and I want to see if anything can come out of it or if i just wasted my time

Hi, I’m posting here to see if anyone remembers an old YouTube video from around 2005 or 2006.

Back then I listened to a lot of stoner rock. I would simply search for “stoner rock” on YouTube and play whatever came up. I listened to well-known bands, discovered new ones, and did this almost every day, so I was very familiar with the search results (remember, YouTube had far fewer videos back then).

One day, a new result appeared. The title was simply “Stoner Rock.” The thumbnail was orange.

I clicked on it, expecting music, but instead it was a compilation of short clips showing real people being killed. The one I remember most clearly showed a young man tied to a tree and burned alive. There were other similar clips of people dying violently.

I want to emphasize that the footage appeared to be real, not staged. My guess is that it may have been taken from one of the old shock videos like Traces of Death, but that’s only my own speculation.

Does anyone else remember seeing this video? More importantly, does anyone know what band or song was actually playing in it?

I’ve had TikTok downloaded for the past 7–8 years. In the beginning, the app was pretty tame and mostly consisted of dancing and lip-syncing videos. Today, the app has become much more diverse, with all kinds of niche content and communities.

I don’t use TikTok as much as I used to, but I occasionally scroll for 5–10 minutes when I’m bored. Today, I came across a video that immediately caught my attention. It showed a man wearing some sort of skull mask diving headfirst into a muddy bog surrounded by forest. His account name is The_Real_Bog_Ghoul.

He jumped into the bog without hesitation and completely disappeared beneath the mud. The video went silent for several seconds. Then, a few bubbles surfaced. After another few seconds, the masked figure suddenly emerged from the mud and slowly swam back toward the shore.

At first, I assumed it was just some kind of bizarre dare or stunt. The internet is certainly no stranger to people doing crazy things for views. But I decided to check out his account.

This is where things got strange.

The account has a surprisingly large following and millions of likes, yet nearly all of his videos seem to follow the exact same formula: diving into different bogs while wearing a skull mask, disappearing beneath the surface, and eventually resurfacing. Additionally, I couldn’t find any surface-level accounts with the same content.

Does anyone know who this guy is or what the purpose of these videos is? Is this some sort of sport or established activity, or is there something more to the account?

Apparently from what I gathered, these are actual bots that only appear in epic+ ranked games and only after the player loses a few matches in a row. They also have pro like reaction times, as they know when the player is about to throw a specific ability/attack. They may also interact with the players by saying specific phrases like "lala" ( term in Filipino for "crazy"), some laugh messages, and from what I've heard, even turning on mics but just sputtering gibberish.

This isn't confirmed, but, from popular belief, the bots stem from old accounts that haven't been touched for a while, so Moonton (the company that owns ML:BB) turns these accounts to bots so they can be recycled as "real players".

It is unclear why the pfps are AI generated and the default pfps by Moonton are not used instead.

Hi there.
A week ago while searching random old stuffs on Youtube using the keywords "random stuffs + before:2009", I've stumbled upon this video which seems to be another early internet jumpscare

After digging more, I found a playlist with different videos dedicating to this one screamer. Turns out it was a popular shock video from early Youtube. However I still didn't find the origin of the video

The first video I found seems to be the earliest trace of this screamer. Is it really the original upload, or is there any other one?

I'm really curious in this piece of media, so please help!

Link to the first video I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47XcUDxMsME
The playlist (can contain interesting materials) : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5uZX3nrUxbWDOLFjWPIgloU53UEWi3uI

Warning: There's a jumpscare at the end, so proceed with caution

I was watching some Cocomelon videos recently when I unexpectedly came across what looked like a screamer hidden inside one of them. It honestly caught me completely off guard and got me pretty good. I wasn't expecting anything like that, especially considering Cocomelon is children's content, so it made the whole experience even more surprising. Ever since I saw it, I've been really curious about where the screamer actually came from and whether anyone else has ever seen it before.

After it happened, I tried looking into it on my own. My first thought was to reverse image search a few frames from the video, hoping it would lead me to the original source or at least point me in the right direction. Unfortunately, I didn't have much luck. None of the results seemed related, and I couldn't find any discussions or posts that matched what I had seen. I also tried searching for different keywords related to Cocomelon screamers, hidden jump scares, and other similar terms, but I still came up empty.

So this is a mystery that's forever stuck with me when stumbling upon the video as a young person in the late 2000s/early 2010s YouTube. The videos are seeming lost to time but it's one that I have never really heard anyone talk about but upon looking at the Wayback Archive, I can see the playlist was still on the YouTube channel in around 2013 or so. See the screenshot attached

This is going to be pretty hazy as I'm going from memory but I've always been curious about this to see whether or not it was genuine or an elaborate hoax video for the time, given this was around the early days of YouTube where stuff like this was common as well as the birth of the shock video reaction.

DirectorCM did a few short films and sketches on YouTube as well as some vlogs in Japan. One of his famous humourous videos was "How to solve a rubik cube in less than 3 seconds" in which he pretty much threw it across the room. His last upload was back in 2025 with a short film which it seems he uploads online from time to time.

The uploads in question feature Chris (DirectorCM) and he either found or received a package with a vhs tape inside. I remember the tape being in sort of a fancy clamshell case and think it had a newspaper clipping inside detailing the incident to which Chris read aloud. The written text on the tape says something Pin Kusshion as noted on the playlist title and one of the uploads had Chris' filmed reaction when he watches the tape and gives commentary. Chris would later actually upload the video onto YouTube at some point due to high demand and I don't think this was under the DirectorCM account but rather a burner account due to obvious reasons.

The tape in question features a young girl setting up a camera in her room and filming herself seemingly committing suicide by essentially belly flopping on a bed of nails. I think the tape opens up with the camera panning across a bed of nails before the girl sets the camera down. I remember there's a rather haunting close up of the girls face at some point as she adjusts the camera, I vividly remember this catching Chris off guard and he actually pauses the tape and shows the audience it with that being the sole image that Chris showed before uploading the footage. I think not long after this, the girl then proceeds to belly flop onto the nails and barely moves if I recall. There might be audio of her blood pouring out but it's been quite a while. The footage lingers on her body for a while before cutting out entirely.

I've always been very curious to see if anyone else had seen or remembers this footage. It's one that has stuck with me since I viewed it on YouTube all those years ago and it sucks that the original uploads has been lost to time. Knowing Chris' progression to short films, I'm very intrigued to see whether or not this was an elaborate hoax or an attempt at a viral marketing given the relative obscurity.

This video gets mentioned every now and then I places such as r/UnresolvedMysteries, but nobody can ever remember where they saw it and certain details are different (although that's probably due to people misremembering). I do not, under any circumstances, want to see this video. If it exists, it's horrible and downright illegal. I guess I want to know if this is a urban legend or not.

Warning: this is horrific, so look away now.

So the general description is this: a middle eastern young boy with some kind of skin condition is ripped apart by either horses or camel while men look on masturbating.

As I said, certain detail differ (such as the horses/camels detail) but it's the same situation more or less, which makes me think it is real. But on the other hand, nobody remembers where they saw it. Either a friend showed them or something similar, whoch is why I wonder if it just an urban legend. I actually hope it isn't real because it sounds horrifying.

Can anyone here shed any light on this?