Internet Freakshow - Stories of Internet Mysteries, Trolls, Weirdos, and Freaks

On June 25, 2015, a YouTube user named Obscure Horror Corner uploaded video to his channel of this bizarre video game named Sad Satan. Obscure Horror Channel says that, through an anonymous tip on his YouTube channel, he found and downloaded this game. The game’s origins were a total mystery, attributed only to a random forum post by a person known only as “ZK”.

On August 5th, 1996, at 3AM a user started posting hundreds of messages to various newsgroups across Usenet. User’s names and email addresses were random and partially obscured typically, and the messages were posted to at least a dozen newsgroups including alt.religion.christian, alt.religion.christian.boston-church, misc.education.homeschool.christian, rec.music.christian, uk.religion.christian, and news.admin.net-abuse.misc.

Unfavorable Semicircle is a YouTube channel that was created March of 2015, but video uploads did not begin until April 5th. While many YouTube channels are low traffic or have videos that are not immediately apparent as to their purpose, this channel was substantially different.

On April 17, 2019, a user posted 2 pictures to Facebook. One looked like a drawer and, written it Sharpie, it said, “the truth is under”. From what we can only assume was the bottom of the same drawer, more Sharpie text read, “The body lies at…” followed by a series of GPS coordinates. The Facebook user who posted this posted alongside the photos text that read, “it was donated to the store i work at a few months ago. Pics were taken but i don’t know if anyone followed through with a report. It was sold later that day.”

On May 4th, 2018, a reddit user named Dementor_of_New posted on /r/RBI (an acronym for Reddit Bureau of Investigation) about a mysterious voicemail his significant other had received on June 9, 2017. The weird thing about this voicemail, although it was sent on June 9, 2017, it was not actually received on the phone until May 4th, 2018. The voicemail contained audio of a woman begging for help. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately depending on how you look at it, the original audio from the call has been removed from the internet and I couldn’t find the original recording.

Carl Herold was something of a prolific YouTuber. His YouTube channel has almost 20,000 subscribers, totalling nearly 4 million views. His site, "Computer Science for Everyone" had a noble goal. It was meant to teach programming lessons to anyone who had the patience to sit through the videos he created. Later, he even hosted users one-on-one, answering their questions and live-streaming the whole experience so others could learn by watching. The website is long gone by now, but thanks to the internet archive and google caches, you can still peruse the site and learn some programming. In this episode we explore Carl's other, darker and more sinister life.

"I Feel Fantastic" first appeared on the internet in 2004. It features a song being sung by a robot named Tara. The robot is definitely an inhabitant of Uncanny Valley. The result is a very creepy, eerie vibe even when she’s just standing there doing nothing. As she starts to move, it gets even weirder. The movements are very robotic, as you’d expect from an Android built by an amateur in 2004. In this episode of Internet Freakshow, we explore who made this robot, and the video, and dive deep into the rumors of the creator being a serial killer.

4chan is a large internet bulletin board that hosts topics on a wide array of subjects. While they sometimes have the reputation of being dangerous or malicious hackers, that is only a small subset of the site. A lot of the posts on the site are just simple prank jokes, memes, creepypasta or green text. There is some truth to the darkside, though. On this episode of Internet Freakshows, we explore some of the dark underbelly of 4chan.

I’m sure most people listening to this have seen the TV show Hoarders. What if, instead of trying to clean up those hoarder's houses, you instead just gave them a camera and asked them to cook some of their favorite dishes? Well, you may end up with the type of video you see from MasaoHF's YouTube Channel. This episode of Internet Freakshows explores Masao's cooking, his apartment, and some history as to who Masao may be.

A user joined a paranormal chat room in the October 14, 2000. He went by the name Time_Travel0. At the time, he claimed he had been drinking wine and spoke rather nonchalantly about being a time traveler. The others in the chat room had other odd stories, like claiming to have been reincarnated over 50 times, so most in the chat room did not challenge his story too hard. Time_Travel0 was quite candid about his history, or maybe I should say future. In this episode of Internet Freakshow, we take a closer look at John Titor. He is either a time traveler or an internet troll. You decide.