The world of unsolved internet mysteries is a fascinating yet eerie realm, where digital breadcrumbs and obscure clues beckon curious minds. Take "Kanye Quest 3030," a bizarre video game that took players on a surreal journey, featuring strange occurrences and cryptic messages that sparked numerous theories but left many questions unanswered.
The Heaven's Gate Website stands as a haunting relic of a tragic cult's final message, frozen in time since 1997, serving as both a memorial and a puzzling artifact of internet history.
Valor por Tamaulipas, a citizen journalism platform in Mexico, became a critical source of real-time information on cartel violence and corruption before abruptly disappearing, leaving behind a mystery of its own fate.
Markovian Parallax Denigrate remains an enigmatic puzzle involving cryptic messages and conspiracy theories, challenging internet sleuths with its elusive nature.
The identity of Bitcoin's mysterious founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, continues to captivate and frustrate investigators and enthusiasts alike, despite years of speculation and investigative efforts.
These unsolved internet mysteries remind us of the internet's dual nature—where information flows freely, yet secrets can be buried deep within its digital archives. Have you delved into any of these puzzles? Share your thoughts or theories with us!
The Heaven's Gate Website stands as a haunting relic of a tragic cult's final message, frozen in time since 1997, serving as both a memorial and a puzzling artifact of internet history.
Valor por Tamaulipas, a citizen journalism platform in Mexico, became a critical source of real-time information on cartel violence and corruption before abruptly disappearing, leaving behind a mystery of its own fate.
Markovian Parallax Denigrate remains an enigmatic puzzle involving cryptic messages and conspiracy theories, challenging internet sleuths with its elusive nature.
The identity of Bitcoin's mysterious founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, continues to captivate and frustrate investigators and enthusiasts alike, despite years of speculation and investigative efforts.
These unsolved internet mysteries remind us of the internet's dual nature—where information flows freely, yet secrets can be buried deep within its digital archives. Have you delved into any of these puzzles? Share your thoughts or theories with us!
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00:00Okay, minions, we're about to embark on the elevator ritual starting on the first floor.
00:04Tony, the security guard, totally hooked me up and shut off the security camera in the elevator for 10 whole minutes.
00:10Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the Top 20 Unsolved Internet Mysteries.
00:17For this list, we're looking at the most elusive enigmas circulating around these very interwebs.
00:23Have you tried cracking these cases? Let us know in the comments below.
00:26We always were self-supporting, which a lot of entities that were in our position might not be.
00:42In 2013, a bizarre game called Kanye Quest 3030 was released for PC.
00:47Players controlled Kanye West and fought other rappers like Eminem and LL Cool J in Pokémon-style battles.
00:53However, this was merely a front for the so-called real game.
00:57If the player typed the word ASCEND into a dialogue box, they were taken to a freaky secret area.
01:04This segment of the game asked players for their personal information
01:07and contained a QR code that, if activated, would supposedly pull the user's IP.
01:12Some people believe this game was created by a cult known as Ascensionism
01:16and that it served as a recruitment tool.
01:19Others think it's a weird alternate reality game. Either way, it's super creepy.
01:43There's a reason this thing is called GhostNet.
01:46Uncovered in 2009, GhostNet refers to a massive cyber-spying operation
01:51that targeted over a thousand computers in over a hundred countries.
01:55Emails bearing sketchy attachments were sent to high-profile targets
01:59like foreign embassies and government offices.
02:01When opened, it would give the spies control over the computers.
02:05The command infrastructure was based in China,
02:07but no conclusive link to the Chinese government was made
02:11and the country denied any and all involvement in the attacks.
02:17To this day, no one knows who exactly was responsible.
02:21They are as invisible and intangible as a ghost.
02:46This sounds like a killer title for a crime novel,
02:52but it's a very real thing that was found on Reddit.
02:55The story involves users named ReligionOfPeace and 2-6.
02:59The former posted something in relation to Lake City Quiet Pills,
03:02only for the latter to announce the other user's death not a day later.
03:07Turns out they both may have been involved with a shady website called lakecityquietpills.com.
03:12Redditors started to believe that Quiet Pills was a euphemism for bullets
03:16and that the website was a part of an international assassination ring.
03:19There was mention of an upcoming event at a hotel
03:22and the specified date coincided with the 2010 assassination of Mahmoud El Mabrouh,
03:28who was killed inside a Dubai hotel.
03:31Did Reddit users stumble upon a secret cabal of hitmen?
03:42Who's first?
03:43No, we don't want you to kill us!
03:54YouTube can be a weird place and it is filled with some puzzling videos.
03:59Beginning in April of 2015,
04:01a user called UnfavorableSemicircle began uploading some very strange videos.
04:06These didn't have proper titles or descriptions and they were very abstract in content.
04:12Nothing about them really made sense and the videos ranged from just a few seconds
04:22to 11 hours in length.
04:24The channel quickly caught the attention of internet sleuths and even the BBC,
04:28who reported on it in 2016.
04:31In a shocking turn of events,
04:32UnfavorableSemicircle was suspended by YouTube shortly after the BBC piece had been published
04:38and has never been heard from again.
04:40Number 16.
04:41The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
04:44There are millions of songs out there.
04:46Some are bound to get lost.
04:48The most mysterious song on the internet refers to a tune
04:51that once aired on the German radio station NDR.
04:54Sometime in the early 80s,
04:56a man known only as Darius S recorded the song off the radio
05:00alongside other popular singles of the time.
05:02Darius digitized his cassette playlist in 2004,
05:05but that song from the 80s was long forgotten.
05:10Darius' sister Lydia began using the internet to search for the mysterious ditty,
05:24but to no avail.
05:25The search has continued since 2007 and is now a bonafide web phenomenon.
05:31Unfortunately, no one has been able to crack the case of the mystery track.
05:41Number 15.
05:42Grave Robbing for Morons
05:54Could we have a genuine body snatcher on our hands?
05:57Some people certainly think so.
05:59Grave Robbing for Morons is a famous VHS tape of unknown origin.
06:03It depicts a young man holding a human skull
06:06and giving detailed instructions for robbing graves.
06:09No one knows where the tape came from,
06:12who is in it,
06:12or even if it's genuine.
06:24The man in the video calls himself Anthony,
06:26and some people believe it could be Anthony Casimissima,
06:29who was arrested for pillaging graves in the late 90s.
06:32Others believe it's a hoax made by a bootlegger known as Scrooge.
06:36Real or not,
06:37the video is supremely creepy.
06:50Number 14.
06:51The Heaven's Gate Website
07:02Heaven's Gate was a small American cult
07:05that was made famous in March of 1997
07:08after 39 members of the cult took their own lives
07:10in order to ascend to a new plane of existence.
07:14A few of the members who survived have since been given the task
07:17to preserve the group's legacy digitally.
07:20Heaven's Gate's website remains in operation,
07:22and as much as it is a glorious time capsule back to 90s web design,
07:27it also proclaims messages about leaving, quote,
07:30this world.
07:31No one really knows who runs the website,
07:33but all signs point to a couple named Mark and Sarah King.
07:46Number 13.
07:47Alex from 4chan
07:49Spend about two minutes on 4chan,
07:51and you're bound to come across something disturbing.
07:54But this probably takes the cake.
07:56In April of 2013,
07:58a post was made providing coordinates to an industrial area of Tennessee.
08:02Accompanying the coordinates was a piece of text
08:04claiming that a prize was awaiting those who visited.
08:07After users joked about going,
08:09the OP provided unsettling pictures
08:11of what looked like human remains in a body bag.
08:14A user calling himself Alex then visited the location
08:17and documented his frightening progress,
08:20but he abruptly stopped posting after hearing someone approaching.
08:24Maybe Alex was real and met a tragic fate,
08:26or maybe it was all just an elaborate hoax
08:29concocted by the original poster.
08:31Who knows?
08:38Number 12.
08:40John Titor
08:41We all want to believe in time travel,
08:43and John Titor may be proof of its existence.
08:52A user named timetravel0
08:54posted on the Time Travel Institute and Art Bell BBS forums in the early 2000s.
08:59They claimed to be a time traveler from the year 2036,
09:03describing the workings of a time machine in detail
09:06and even making various predictions about the future.
09:08The most elaborate was an American Civil War
09:11that would break out in 2005 and lead to World War III.
09:21The posts were eventually traced to a Florida lawyer named Larry Haber,
09:26and it's now believed that both Larry and his brother Richard
09:29were the men behind John Titor.
09:30Still, even a likely conclusion is not certifiable proof,
09:35and the enticing posts remain a mystery.
09:54Number 11.
09:55The Elevator Game
09:59It seems like every other month,
10:10the kids are participating in a new trend.
10:13One dating a while back was called The Elevator Game.
10:16This trend originated in Korea
10:18and was said to bring its players into another dimension.
10:21The ritual game comes with a specific set of rules and instructions,
10:31like going to specific floors in a building
10:34and refusing to speak to the mysterious woman
10:36who supposedly eventually enters the elevator.
10:39The game gained popularity after the death of Elisa Lam,
10:42as some people theorized that she was participating in the game.
10:51Though this might just be some glorified creepypasta,
11:00one thing is for sure,
11:02it was popular enough to get a movie adaptation.
11:05Number 10.
11:06The Jack Friese Emails
11:17It's one of the greatest and most popular ghost stories
11:20of the 2010s.
11:22Jack Friese contacts his friends and family from beyond the grave
11:25through the modern miracle of smartphones.
11:27Friese passed away in 2011,
11:29and people started getting strange emails shortly after.
11:32These emails were of a very personal nature
11:35with inside jokes and things that only Friese would have known about,
11:38including a dream his cousin had about him.
11:51Numerous theories have been put forth regarding the source of the emails,
11:55like scheduled sending and even Friese's mother posing as her deceased son.
11:59Either way, his friends and family were happy to hear from him,
12:02and that is good enough for us.
12:16Number 9.
12:17The Publius Enigma
12:21Publius Enigma
12:26For this internet puzzle, we're going back to 1994,
12:29which makes this one of the earliest viral internet mysteries.
12:32At the time, Pink Floyd was on their Division Bell World Tour,
12:35and a user by the name of Publius posted a cryptic riddle
12:38relating to the band's album on a fan forum.
12:40On July 16th, Publius wrote on the forum
12:43that he would prove his authenticity in person.
12:46Two nights later, the words Enigma Publius
12:48were briefly spelled out in the stage lights at a Pink Floyd concert.
12:52Band members David Gilmour and Nick Mason
12:54claimed that it was all a marketing stunt by the record company.
12:57Regardless, the riddle itself has never been solved.
13:00Then again, maybe it was never intended to be.
13:03Number 8.
13:03Valor por Tamaulipas
13:05Given its high level of journalist assassinations,
13:08Mexico is among the most dangerous countries for those in the press.
13:12This makes the work of Valor por Tamaulipas so much more honorable.
13:16This was a Facebook page run by, well, no one knows.
13:21They would report on violence in the state of Tamaulipas,
13:23with most instances linking back to organized crime.
13:26UT Brownsville Chairman of Government Studies,
13:29Dr. Guadalupe Correa Cabrera,
13:30says people in Mexico, and particularly in Tamaulipas,
13:34have turned to social media to stay informed about organized crime
13:37and its effects on the community.
13:39By exposing such people,
13:40the administrator or administrators were putting themselves at great personal risk.
13:46Indeed, one criminal organization offered around $50,000
13:49for information about them and their family.
13:52But thankfully, none of their identities were ever revealed.
14:08Number 7.
14:09Oct282011.com
14:15The internet is filled with many haunting and enigmatic websites,
14:24and Oct282011.com was one of them.
14:27The page consisted of little more than a dark screen,
14:30some cryptic text that no one understood, plus a phone number.
14:34This is where things get really creepy.
14:37Those who actually called the number reported a series of unsettling noises,
14:41such as strange voices, heavy breathing, loud beeps,
14:44and one person even claimed to hear something being dragged across a floor.
14:57No one knew what the heck was going on,
14:59and October 28, 2011 didn't amount to much either.
15:02That is, unless you count the release of DreamWorks' Puss in Boots.
15:10The site was taken down in 2015,
15:12leaving behind a ton of questions that are still unanswered.
15:22Unlike Oct282011.com, this website is still up and running,
15:26so you can explore it to your heart's content.
15:29Fair warning, you might be there a while trying to figure it all out.
15:32It's more like a Russian doll than a website,
15:34with links opening more links that open other links that open...
15:37well, you get the idea.
15:39The whole thing is super weird,
15:40with pages featuring distressing pictures, numerology, and bible passages.
15:45Someone get Robert Langdon on the phone's stat.
15:56To this day, both the administrator and the nature of their website are unknown.
16:01It is one of the internet's finest and more tantalizing mysteries.
16:11God?
16:21This is an all-time classic internet puzzle, and also one of the first.
16:25It dates back to 1996,
16:27when nonsensical texts were posted to the discussion system Usenet.
16:31Usenet is a online bulletin board system where you can post really almost anything,
16:36and it's organized by topic.
16:38Every single post had the subject line Markovian Parallax Denigrate,
16:42and the messages themselves were filled with even more unintelligible nonsense.
16:47It's not necessarily creepy or troublesome, just weird.
16:50Many people believe that the messages are spam or some kind of primitive text generator,
16:55while others think it was the ramblings of a single troll.
17:01Whatever they are, the posts are no clearer today than they were in the 90s,
17:13and no one has any idea what they're supposed to mean.
17:19Inspiring many epic works of science fiction,
17:22black holes as defined by NASA are quote,
17:24regions in space where the pulling force of gravity is so strong that light is not able to escape.
17:30The name was lent to this strange phenomenon in which web traffic simply disappears.
17:50Working much like a black hole in space,
17:52an internet black hole sucks in discarded data packets
17:55when they can't reach a router that's either offline or disconnected.
17:58Neither the sender nor the recipient are informed of the delivery's failure,
18:02and the packet of info just up and vanishes from the digital sphere.
18:09May have heard of it, few understand it, but that's not the mystery.
18:13The mystery lies in the currency's founder, or maybe founders.
18:17Absolutely nothing is known about the person or people responsible for Bitcoin.
18:29All we have is the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto and a few alleged bits of personal information,
18:37like a Japanese heritage and the alma mater California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
18:42A few people have been put forth as potential suspects,
18:45and an Australian computer scientist named Craig Stephen Wright has claimed to be Nakamoto.
18:51However, many experts doubt his claim.
18:54Unfortunately, it is the best we have at the moment in deducing Nakamoto's identity.
18:58There are two competing theories.
19:00There's the good Satoshi hypothesis,
19:02which holds that Satoshi really wanted to let Bitcoin go and become its own thing without him.
19:07The other hypothesis is that Satoshi really just saw Bitcoin taking off
19:12and wanted to keep his privacy.
19:24No other mystery has captivated Reddit quite like A858.
19:28In the early 2010s, a mystifying subreddit was created that contained
19:33nothing but strings of letters and numbers.
19:35It soon gained popularity, and many Redditors devoted many hours to cracking the code.
19:41Some messages were successfully decoded, but not many.
19:44And unfortunately for the internet sleuths who dedicated countless hours to solving the case,
19:49it led nowhere.
19:50The subreddit went private in 2016, leaving Redditors stumbling in the dark without answers.
19:57No one even knows why A858 was created in the first place,
20:00but hey, at least a valiant effort was made.
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20:47Perhaps the greatest internet mystery of all was derived from
20:51where else but 4chan on January 4th, 2012.
20:55The post consisted of an elaborate puzzle centered around data security and cryptography.
21:00Two more puzzles followed in 2013 and 2014, both of which were again posted on January 4th.
21:07While the first two were eventually cracked, the third remains frustratingly unsolved.
21:12The puzzles were apparently made to recruit quote
21:15highly intelligent individuals for some cryptography-based mission or job.
21:19Many people believe it has something to do with government agencies like the NSA or CIA.
21:23Others believe that the challenges have a darker source
21:26and could be linked to cults or conspiracies.
21:37For now though, it is all up to individual discretion.
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