The internet is a wild place full of mysteries that have kept us guessing for years. Join us as we dive into the most intriguing online enigmas that were finally unraveled, from strange YouTube channels to cryptic messages and viral sensations that had everyone scratching their heads!
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00:00So I go up to Pepe's office, and what do I find out, man, what do I find out?
00:04There is no Pepe Silvia. The man does not exist.
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the internet-based mysteries that we finally have answers to.
00:19Number 10. Giydas.
00:21You can never predict what the internet will obsess over.
00:24And I'm scrolling through, and I see this little critter, and it says Giydas on it.
00:29In the summer of 2017, comedian Nate Fernald noticed an enamel pin of a strange creature named Giydas on eBay,
00:36and wondered what the heck it was on Twitter.
00:38Online sleuths came to his aid, even setting up a dedicated subreddit.
00:42Podcast co-hosts Amory Severson and Ben Brock Johnson eventually cracked the case,
00:46discovering that Giydas was the creation of artist Sam Petrucci for a series of fantasy stickers titled The Land of Toph in the early 1980s.
00:54This is like in the quest when you beat a fantastical monster, and then you realize that behind the monster's carcass,
01:00there's like a door to a secret chamber which houses a magical scroll.
01:03And in this case, the magic scroll tells us that Giydas was the creation of Sam Petrucci.
01:09This is awesome.
01:11Although Petrucci had passed away before getting to see his work create such a stir,
01:15Severson and Johnson reached out to his surviving family members and got to see a bunch of his original artwork.
01:20We started to realize that not only had Giydas and The Land of Toph been lost to fantasy fans all these years,
01:26they'd been lost even to the Petrucci family.
01:29Number 9. Lonelygirl15. She walked so that today's influencers could run.
01:34In the early days of YouTube, Brie Avery, also known as Lonelygirl15, amassed a following with her relatable content.
01:41Hi guys, so this is my first video blog. I've been watching for a while and I really like a lot of you guys on here.
01:52It wasn't long after her first video in the summer of 2006 that her channel became the most subscribed on the platform.
01:58The videos became more bizarre, with a mysterious religion and a cult language introduced.
02:02But you're not handling it!
02:04I'm handling it right now!
02:05No, you're not! You're just sitting here when we should be taking Emma to a hospital, Jonas!
02:09You can't take her to a hospital! The Order's gonna be looking for her everywhere!
02:12She has lost so much blood!
02:14After a few videos, suspicions that her channel was a hoax appeared in the comments.
02:18In late 2006, members of the forum at Lonelygirl15.com managed to track down her IP address.
02:25Soon after, her real identity was exposed, and the channel's creators confirmed that it was all part of a scripted series.
02:31Eventually, a trio of web sleuths tracked Brie to Amanda's office at Hollywood's esteemed Creative Artists Agency.
02:39People suddenly assumed Lonelygirl was some sort of Hollywood project.
02:42The truth was, even the creators weren't sure what they had or what they wanted.
02:47Funnily enough, this only made her channel more popular.
02:53After it was uploaded in 2009, the unsettling video, I Feel Fantastic, eventually went viral, and for good reason.
03:00I feel fantastic. Hey, hey, hey.
03:07In the puzzling clip, an animatronic robot sings inside a nondescript room.
03:12Some viewers suspected something dark was going on behind the scenes,
03:15and from there somehow reached the conclusion that Terra was a serial killer or the creation of one.
03:20The truth, it turns out, is that Terra was created by one John Bergeron, a musician and Android enthusiast,
03:26who actually built a few different versions.
03:28Little did he know, he'd make such an impact on internet culture in the future.
03:39The concept behind 2006's Find Sadoshi was simple.
03:42I was a big player of Perplex City when it was running.
03:45I was really into Billion to One, the card for finding somebody by only using their name and picture.
03:52As part of an alternate reality game called Perplex City,
03:55players were given the name and photo of a mysterious man and tasked with locating him somewhere in the world.
04:00At first, the trail ran cold.
04:02It wasn't until 2020 that he was found after a man in Germany, Tom Lukas Seiger, did a reverse image search of the original photo.
04:10So I took the picture of Sadoshi.
04:12In this version, you can just upload a picture, so you don't have to trick the machine.
04:17You just upload the picture.
04:19And I think the first three results were the exact same picture from around the web,
04:26and the fourth picture was the other picture that then cracked the case.
04:32AI facial recognition delivered him photos of a man who resembled Sadoshi,
04:36who was located and contacted, confirming his identity.
04:39Eventually, they got a response, confirming he was our Satoshi.
04:45It was a victorious end to such a long mystery, closing a chapter of internet history.
04:52Plenty of odd websites have cropped up on the internet.
04:54Some have been fun, some have been unsettling, and others have been downright weird.
04:59Hell.com managed to be all three at once.
05:01With mysterious messages, difficult navigation, and dark aesthetics, it quickly became a staple of the web in the late 90s.
05:08Many who stumbled across it did their best to understand the deeper meaning behind it, and came up short.
05:13It was eventually revealed that the site was created by artist Kenneth Aronson,
05:17apparently as an experiment project in collaboration with other artists.
05:20Sadly, he sold the domain in 2009, and the site no longer exists.
05:28What would you do if you started finding odd messages around your home?
05:31For one man, the answer was simple. Ask Reddit.
05:34Redditor rbradbury1920 reported finding disturbing notes scrawled on post-its around his apartment.
05:40Even setting up a webcam hadn't given him answers.
05:43The comments exploded with different theories for what had happened.
05:46However, one answer from Redditor, Kakerlak, stood out amongst the rest,
05:50suggesting that the poster himself had been leaving the messages in a daze.
05:54They were right! The OP had been breathing in carbon monoxide, causing him to write the notes.
05:59Luckily, the advice was taken seriously, and they were able to get help before it was too late.
06:04Number 4. Celebrity Number 6.
06:06This years-long conundrum began in 2020, when Finnish Redditor, Tansa H,
06:11posted a photo of a collage on some curtains, asking for help identifying the faces there.
06:16Seven of the eight were identified, but one, dubbed Celebrity Number 6, proved elusive.
06:21This led to the establishment of a dedicated subreddit, rcelebritynumber6.
06:26Several different methods were utilized to find her, including going through a decade's worth of Getty photos.
06:31It was all in vain, until in 2024, Redditor Stefan Morse colored in the image,
06:36and ran it through factual recognition tool, PimEyes.
06:39It turned out to be Spanish model, Leticia Sarda, who used the momentum to reinvigorate her modeling career.
06:45Number 3. Webdriver Torso
06:47When a YouTube account called Webdriver Torso began posting a dizzying number of nonsensical videos in 2013,
06:53it naturally drew in quite a crowd.
06:55The clips varied in length, and usually featured random colors, shapes, and noises.
06:59However, three videos seemed to contain humorous references, such as a Rickroll.
07:09The channel posted for years, with fans speculating desperately on what the cryptic uploads might mean.
07:15In mid-2014, website Engadget figured out the truth, and YouTube confessed.
07:20The channel was used to run internal testing for the website.
07:23Number 2. The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
07:26Having a song stuck in your head is frustrating enough.
07:29Not knowing what the song is, only amplifies that.
07:32In the 2000s, German teen Darius and his sister Lydia uploaded a song recorded from the radio in the 1980s,
07:39hoping to identify it.
07:40It took years, but eventually, more and more people began taking an interest,
07:45analyzing the accent of the singer, and the instruments involved.
07:49The song was Subways of Your Mind, by German band Vex.
08:00The band corroborated the answer.
08:02After a two-decade search, the search for the most mysterious song on the internet was complete.
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08:11The band corroborated the answer.
08:12After a two-decade search, the search for the most mysterious song on the internet was complete.
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08:33Number 1. The password to my email account
08:36Scholars and historians have been scratching their heads for years,
08:39ages even, to crack this case.
08:41Did I include a special character?
08:43Is it one of my five previous passwords?
08:45Did I accidentally let my laptop generate one of those keysmash passwords that I'll never write down, let alone remember?
08:51Password?
08:53What is my password?
08:55Just kidding!
08:56Here's your real number one.
08:58Number 1. 11BX1731
09:01The popularity of ciphers and online mysteries has led people to look for messages in the strangest places.
09:10When an odd video depicting someone in a plague doctor costume first hit the web in 2015,
09:15the automatic assumption was that there were secrets to be decoded.
09:18Viewers immediately took to the task, uncovering various messages and horrific imagery.
09:27Things quickly spiraled out of control, with the creator even being accused of planning a bioterrorist attack.
09:32A few months after the clip was posted, an American resident of Poland,
09:36named Parker Warner Wright, came forward and admitted it was his creation.
09:39Apparently, it had all been for an art project.
09:42Well, it certainly turned heads.
09:48Which online mystery do you hope gets solved next?
09:50Let us know in the comments below.
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