The Weird/Creepy Internet Stuff Iceberg
- Ash
- 2 days ago
- 31 min read
Disclaimer: Information in this blog post may be distressing to some readers. Reader discretion advised.
Hello everyone! Lately, I've been reading and watching a lot of iceberg stuff online, and I thought we could take a look at "The Weird/Creepy Internet Stuff" Iceberg. If you're unfamiliar with what an iceberg is, it's kinda like a tier of everything that's a bit odd/scary, and as you go further down the tiers of the iceberg, it gets more messed up (and has more unsolved weird mysteries). So, like tier 1 would be mild, then moderate, then really scary, and so on. I really hope that makes sense. I found the Weird/Creepy Internet Stuff Iceberg on Reddit from the user b-on. I'm assuming they made this iceberg, so credit to them.
Also, in the icebergs, they generally don't say what the things are - they just place them in a tier, so we're going to do our best to figure out what everything is, and I'll explain to the best of my ability. Apologies if I get anything wrong (I am a researcher, so I will do my best). There are 6 tiers in this iceberg.
A lot of stuff on this iceberg I'm already familiar with, so that's kinda helpful, and I think a lot of them have been solved, as some are quite old. I'm going to hyperlink my sources throughout this blog so that we don't end up with a giant reference list at the end of the blog post, as the post is already going to be gigantic.
If ya'll enjoy this, I can try and make more icebergs explained blogs (and even YT videos). So let me know what you think! I really enjoy researching this stuff because I'm weird.
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The Weird/Creepy Internet Stuff Iceberg (Explained)
Tier 1
Timecube - According to Wikipedia, Time Cube "was a pseudoscientific personal web page set up in 1997 by Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray" as an outlet for his "theory of everything" (or "Time Cube"). Gene's theory is that each 24-hour day is actually 4 days occurring simultaneously. His website is his outlet for how he believed that all modern sciences were participating in a conspiracy to omit his theory. Wikipedia also says that the website registration expired in August 2015. However, I've found "this website" here, which I'm pretty sure is similar to what it used to be. It's filled with ramblings of a conspiracy theorist.
Ted the caver - We've talked about this one before on asheycakes! Check out my "CreepyPasta Culture" article for more of a deep dive. Anyway, Ted the caver is an internet horror story (or creepypasta if you like) created by Ted Hegemann that was posted on Angelfire in 2001. The story reads as if you are following along a real-life caver while they write diary entries as he and his friends explore caves that have never been explored before. As the story goes on, it gets increasingly scarier. Eventually, Ted reveals that the story was based on his actual caving experiences, but he added a lot of embellishments.
S*icidemouse.avi - This refers to a lost episode creepypasta where a creepy black and white cartoon that features a looped animation of Mickey Mouse (yes, from Disney) walking along past buildings and has creepy piano music playing. It cuts to black for several minutes and eventually returns with distorted video and scary sounds. It was uploaded to YouTube in 2009 along with a creepy backstory. The scary part of this is that there is a rumour that people who watched this footage ended up committing s*icide. I don't think the rumour is true, I just think it's another creepypasta.
Captain Kutchie's - I think this one is referring to the Key Lime Pie mystery that circulated on the internet in the late 2010s. When you first Google "Captain Kutchie's," it takes you to a permanently closed landmark in Asheville, North Carolina. I took a screenshot of what I could see on Google Maps:
There seems to be an abandoned building, a beauty salon, and some other houses here. Anyway, the lore of this one is a bit strange. According to "this Reddit post", there was an article about fellatio posted on some website (I can't find the OG link) and many other random articles, usually discussing s*xual things in some way, BUT it wasn't the article that got people, it was the comments. In all the comments, there seemed to be references to the following: 1) Mrs Anita Peleaz, 2) Captain Kutchie Peleaz, 3) Key Lime Pie, 4) Kutchie's Restaurant, 5) North Carolina, and 6) Key West, Florida. Basically, there were a lot of online articles about random stuff, and the comments all had ties to these key lime pie recipes and Captain Kutchie's in some way. Reddit user KeyLimeWTF and some other users have done some digging on this one, and they found that there was a restaurant called Kutchies Key West Bar & Grill that existed somewhere, as it was listed on a local eatery page, and the phone number rings. They also found that most of the posts were made by people with fake names, e.g., "Jake Carson" or political figures (maybe bots?). They also found that there was someone by the name of Mark Y. Peleaz who was/is a retired Chief of Naval Research for the USA, Anita Jones worked with him, and they were both mentioned in a book about Naval Innovation. Neither of them were romantically linked nor did they have any keen interest in Key Lime Pie. Eventually, the Reddit sleuths figured out that there was a restaurant and the original owners were called Oswald C. Peleaz & Anita Peleaz (a married couple). If you have a look at the comments on the Reddit post linked, you'll see a lot more research. This one is considered solved by Google's AI thing, where it says this was created as an internet alternate reality game (ARG). There was never an actual Captain Kutchie's, but I think someone really loved Key Lime Pies.
ilovebees.com - I Love Bees (ILB) was an alternate reality game (ARG) that was a marketing tactic advertising for Halo 2. It was first advertised in a video game trailer.
Cicada 3301 - This is another internet mystery I've discussed on my blog in the post "Freaky Friday Files: 5 Internet Mysteries No One Can Solve". Cicada 3301 was a series of puzzles posted online (on 4chan originally, then Twitter) with the title "3301" between 2012 and 2014. The puzzles were intended to recruit intelligent individuals. There were 3 puzzles altogether, but the third one was never solved. To this day, we don't know who created these puzzles or why. They may have disappeared because people went to the media when they solved the puzzles.
u/YAYVIDEOGAMES - I feel weird discussing this one because it's about ill mental health, so just be aware of that (and really heartbreaking). There was a Reddit user who would post about video games on Reddit, the normal sorta stuff, then eventually the user would comment cryptic comments over and over again (like the same exact words thousands of times). As well as this, the comments got more unhinged and odd; most likely due to the user suffering from some sort of psychosis. Eventually, this user ended up un-aliving himself. The user's real name was Lyndon, and a friend of his wrote the following: “Lyndon was an amazingly kind and intelligent guy who was really creative… I know he would have loved that there is this much mystery around him after he’s left us but I think there’s some important topics to cover here re: chronic pain, self-medication, “invisible” illness, the allied health system and how important it is to seek to be among others in some way."
Rotten.com - Rotten.com was an American shock site of photography that was active from 1996 - 2012. The site focused on shock value stuff and lots of macabre images of gore and d*ath. The site was archived in 2018.
horse_ebooks - Horse_ebooks refers to a Twitter account registered in 2010 that was "meant" to promote ebooks about horses. However, the account gained notoriety for its non-sequiturs (a way of storytelling that is nonsensical) as an attempt to evade spam detection. It was eventually revealed in 2013 that in 2011, the account was sold to promote an ARG. You can read some example tweets "here".
Red room animation - I think this one is referring to the "Red Room Curse," which is a Japanese Internet Urban Legend about a red pop-up ad that announces the upcoming d*ath of whoever encounters it on their computer screen.
Shaye Saint John - Shaye Saint John (pictured below) is a character created by Eric Fournier. She was created as a conceptual art piece to feature in short films created by Empty Socket Productions.
Picture of the character "Shaye Saint John" The character was presented as an entertainer and someone who claims to hold the world record for having "the most problems". The shorts were shown in nightclubs in LA and Chicago. There were plenty of media places that Shaye popped up, but today, I can only find an Instagram account.
j*rkcity - I believe this refers to the webcomic that has been running since 1998 and has been renamed Bonequest. The story is non-existent, as most of the text comes from real-life chat logs rather than a written story. You can check out the website "here".
Tier 2
untitled.com - I can't find a specific Wikipedia article explaining it, but it's a website where you need a login to get into it. Reddit sleuths think it's either an art project or a place where a Swedish developer puts all his projects.
Chip Chan - This refers to the South Korean woman who believes that she had a microchip planted in her foot and that a police officer named "P" was stalking her. She used to live-stream herself 24/7 as she believed that P could control her sleeping patterns. The webcams were set up to see if anyone broke into her apartment. Obviously, this is another case of ill mental health, and Chip Chan no longer streams or blogs.
Yvette's Bridal Formal - This is considered one of the worst-designed websites ever. I've posted an image below
Yvette's Bridal Formal website screenshot I don't think there's anything more to the mystery than the website making your retinas want to pop out.
thisman.org - This Man (or "Dream Man") refers to a conceptual art project/hoax created by an Italian sociologist, Andrea Natella, in 2008. Natella created a website with a picture of this man (seen below) and asked if people have ever dreamed of this particular man?
This Man Allegedly, this man has appeared in the dreams of a lot of people since 2006. However, in 2010, it was revealed that this was all a hoax and part of a guerrilla marketing campaign. I think it's an interesting social experiment because I do remember seeing literal fliers of this drawing posted everywhere (in both Aus and NZ). The story goes as follows: "According to the story on the Ever Dream This Man? website, the first image of This Man was sketched in January 2006 by a "well-known psychiatrist in New York", based on the descriptions of a patient who claims he was a recurring subject in dreams, despite never knowing a man like him in real life. Several days later, another of the psychiatrist's patients recognized the drawing and said he was a figure in his dreams as well; the psychiatrist sent the image to fellow professionals, and collected the testimony of four more people who claimed to recognize the man. Since then, the site claims that more than 2,000 people from cities across the world claimed to have seen the man while sleeping." - An excerpt from Wiki.
Monkey hate - I'm not 100% sure if I'm right on this one, but I think it refers to the concept of Monkey Hate as a form of zoosadism where humans have such a hatred for monkeys and take pleasure in seeing them suffer. According to the BBC, there was a global monkey t*rture ring uncovered in 2023. WTF is wrong with people?
Junko Junsui - I believe this one refers to another ARG (yet again). According to Reddit, this ARG began in 2009, disappeared, and then came back again. The story goes that a woman called Junko Junsui messaged people on the internet in an attempt to find her little sister and like-minded people. Eventually, it was uncovered that her sister was being held captive in a cell. This was discovered as people found a fake Google page & YT video of a girl in a cell. Over a short period (about 2 months), the Junsui sisters were put up against Russian Special Forces. There were thousands of players on both sides of the ARG and a lot of puzzles to solve. Randomly, it disappeared and then came back again 5 years later. According to CNET, this ARG was created as a new type of digital storytelling experience by Rob Auten and Patrick Markesano.
Mysterious Internet Song - This refers to the song "Subways of Your Mind" by the German band Fex that was recorded in 1984. In 2007, a tape recording of the song from broadcast radio in the 1980s was uploaded to the internet and became known as the mysterious internet song. It took internet sleuths 17 years to find the title of the song. In November of 2024, the song was identified by a Reddit user, marijn1412. I believe this was also confirmed by a daughter of one of the band members. I kinda feel like this should be in tier 1?
johntitor.com - Ooooh, this one is exciting because it's "alleged time travel" hehe. I don't think the website works anymore, but according to Wikipedia, "John Titor and TimeTravel_0 are pseudonyms used in communications and on internet forums between 1998 and 2001 by an individual claiming to be an American military time traveler from the year 2036." Posts on the website discussed stuff about time travel and also predictions, one in particular being a prediction that in 2015 there would be a global nuclear w*r. We can easily debunk this one, as it led to a lot of skepticism, it was eventually thought to be a hoax and created by a guy called Larry Haber, OR one/both of his brothers. Larry was an entertainment lawyer, and his two brothers, John Rick Haber and Morey Haber, work in IT. Even though the men have denied any involvement, it was 99% likely to have been them.
Markovian Parallax Denigrate - I haven't heard of this mystery before, but according to trusty ol' Wikipedia, it refers to an internet mystery where there were a lot of messages on Usenet in 1996. Messages looked as if they were gibberish, as it was all random. It was thought that all subject lines of the messages were titled with the words Markovian Parallax Denigrate, but this has been disputed. This mystery has not been solved or debunked, and there's really only been a few theories as to what it might be: 1) The messages were connected to antiw*r activist Susan Lindauer as her name was written in an email address somewhere; however, it was found in 2012 that this was a spoof. 2) An early chatbot/text generator that was experimental. 3) An internet troll. 4) A programmer testing spam filters or a programmer experimenting with Markov chains. Even though it hasn't been solved, we can apply Occam's Razor, and say it was most likely something to do with spam.
deeper - I literally can't find ANYTHING on this one. So I'm not sure what it is. The only thing that really comes up on Google is the deep web, which is stuff on the internet that hasn't been indexed, so maybe that's it, but it doesn't feel right. If anyone knows, please let me know!!
Karin Catherine Waldegrave - I feel sad when cases like this come up because, as I've already said a few times in this article, people's ill mental health isn't an unsolved mystery. Anyway, we'll still talk about it because it's on the iceberg. In 2011, a woman named Karin Catherine Waldegrave posted a series of unnerving messages on Facebook - I assume the messages were made public. The messages read like a conspiracy theorist, but she wasn't talking to others; she was just talking to herself (500+ replies within 12 hours), rambling about the CIA & other stuff. Reddit sleuths thought that it could be a hidden spy log, but eventually they realised that it was just another case of ill mental health, and she may be schizophrenic.
Heaven's Gate website - I wouldn't call this one a mystery because we know why it's still there. Anyway, Heaven's Gate was an NRM (cult) which committed mass s*icide back in 1997. Their website still exists today, and 2 former members stayed alive to keep it running. It's most likely kept running if anyone else wants to join.
Bitterroot Footage - In 2012, there was an internet hoax that circulated called "Bitterroot Footage". The hoax centred on photographs that were found on an 8mm reel in a wooden box from Craigslist. There were photographs and a movie that depicted a story of a hooded figure who was dumping body parts and experimenting on a giant baby in an incubator. There is a deleted Reddit post explaining why the guy called "Chad" created it and what he did following the hoax.
Meatsleep - I believe this one refers to an inactive YouTube channel that used to upload videos that were really odd and led viewers to believe they were seeing real footage from the perspective of a m*rderer, k*dnapper, and worse. Apparently, the channel belonged to a group of 11 people who would create content based on the roll of a dice. There are no videos on the channel anymore, so I'm not sure whether it was legit, an art project, or an ARG of sorts.
Tier 3
Lake City Quiet Pills - According to Unsolved Me, in 2009, there was an anonymous Reddit user who passed away. His username was ReligionOfPeace, and then one of his friends made a Reddit account to announce his passing. That user's account was called 2-6. They said his name was Milo, and he died in 2009 at age 79. Normally, that would be the end of it, but over time, Reddit users started to look through both accounts, and they found references/links to a website called Lake City Quiet Pills. I think a lot of the website has been removed from the WayBack Machine (it was an NSFW site with hidden military messages, allegedly). Lake City Quiet Pills may be a colloquialism for "b*llets". It is thought that Milo ran the Lake City Quiet Pills website and that he may have been a hitman. However, a lot of theories suggest this may have been a one-man ARG that went wrong. What do you think?
A858 - According to Reddit, A858 was a mystery series of cryptic puzzles that were never solved. Apparently, it was a failed commercial venture. A MOD in the subreddit Solving_A858 explained that the person who posted them was paid to.
Superbad.com - This one refers to an art project online that was created by graphic designer Ben Benjamin in 1997. I think it was just a series of really random images. I don't think this has ever been a mystery, just a weird side of the internet.
Erratas - This one refers to a "conspiracy theory" or ARG about a computer programme used for mass surveillance. The theory began on 4chan when an employee was told to throw away an item that had the word "Erratas" written on it. It turns out this was a marketing campaign for the band KFC M*rder Chicks, and one of their songs had the word "Erratas" in it. If you like mass surveillance spy shows, I recommend checking out Person of Interest.
Publius Enigma - This refers to the time when a person known as "Publius" online posted a riddle about Pink Floyd on a Usenet forum for Pink Floyd fans. The riddle followed the 1994 Division Bell World Tour. On the 11th of June, Publius wrote the following message: "AS SOME OF YOU HAVE SUSPECTED, "The Division Bell" is not like its predecessors. Although all great music is subject to multiple interpretations, in this case there is a central purpose and a designed solution. For the ingenious person (or group of persons) who recognizes this - and where this information points to - a unique prize has been secreted. How and Where? The Division Bell Listen again Look again As your thoughts will steer you Leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes. Lyrics, artwork and music will take you there" On the 16th of July, 1994, Publius said that there would be a clue with flashing lights, and on the 18th of July, 1994, there were patterns in the lights on stage of Pink Floyd's concert, and something briefly spelled out "Enigma Publius". In 2002, it was revealed that it was a silly way to puzzle people.
humanbeing15 - This refers to a YouTube channel where there is one video posted. In the video, we see a person's POV, and throughout the room are just a lot of notebooks. During the video, we see a sign with the line "Mr Diddy all this hard work I have done for you," and then we also see a notebook open with the words "Brother Diddy Please Accept". It is believed that the creator of the video was a stalker of P. Diddy. Also, the stuff coming out about Diddy is pretty f*cked up.
973-eht-namuh-973 - I believe this refers to the cryptic website that makes odd puzzles with maths. It hurts my brain, so check out this Reddit analysis explaining it (kind of). It's also 973 the human 973 backwards.
www.nobodyhere.com/justme/ // Nobody Here - I think these are the same thing and are referring to the website created by Dutch artist Jogchem Niemandsverdrie in 1998. It is part of the net.art movement (i.e., internet art). It's like an interactive story. You'll probably spend a lot of time on the site exploring.
Happy Valley Dream Survey - There isn't a lot of information about this one, but I believe it refers to fliers/leaflets posted around Portland, Oregon, in 2015 (and online - they seem to have an IG account), asking people if they've been having strange dreams lately. The posters said they should call them and explain their dreams. Many people believe this was a prank, but apparently, the number on the phone works - just a robotic woman's voice and then nothing else. You leave your dream as a voicemail and get on with your day. In 2020, the posters were spotted in Utah with the same thing, and then, apparently, there were two Reddit sleuths investigating this & their accounts got deleted. Is it an art project? ARG? Who knows?
Every day I grow some more - I think this one refers to "this song" from Worldcorp Enterprises, and the title is slightly wrong on the iceberg chart. I think Worldcorp Enterprises posted disturbing stuff online, and it was all part of an ARG (we'll go into more detail later on). It's basically the singer singing the theme song from the kids' show, Caillou (but creepier).
MayDay Mystery - This mystery refers to the mystery of cryptic ads that are posted in the Arizona Daily Wildcat newspaper (a student newspaper for the University of Arizona). The ads are posted annually on the 1st of May. They have been appearing since 1981.
Tier 4
normalp*rnfornormalpeople.com - I believe this one refers to the No Sleep story titled "Normal P*rn for Normal People" - I don't actually think the website works, I think it's just a creepypasta, and someone either made the website for the story or it was made after the story was written. In the story, the website is designed for the eradication of any sort of abnormal s*xuality. The link was sent to OP via email as some sort of chain mail. OP finds a few really odd/disturbing videos on the site - I won't go into detail here & then eventually they get deleted. I think this one is considered a mystery because we don't know for sure if the site was a real place or if the videos OP described were real. Real or not, it's pretty disturbing to read.
Tannasinn - This refers to an odd website but someone on Know Your Meme (circa 2011 - 2012) explains it as "The most likely explanation is that "tanasinn" is a 2channel fad of trolling users with bizzarre images and statements as if it is some sort of religion or higher level of thinking. When users ask about the meaning of "tanasinn" on 2channel, most often they are met with a series of responses featuring cryptic, nonsensical messages and ASCII art. However, when the meaning is asked elsewhere, it has yielded an answer of "it means nothing, it's just ASCII art and Doraemon put together." The website began in 2004 and is still active today.
Mortis.com - Allegedly, there was a creepy website created in 1997 called Mortis.com, and when people accessed the site, it would come up with just a login page and a black screen. The password was extremely hard to guess/hack into for non-members. As more internet sleuths started to look into this creepy website, things got a lot weirder. For example, the website was linked to a dentist's office, a lawyer, and a security firm (high-end), files on the site were heavily encrypted and had weird titles, with some of the files being really big (like 39 GB), and references to the website online have been removed. It was also found that the site was owned by someone called Thomas Ling, but it's thought that this was an alias, as there was literally no information on this person. Someone found a website that was linked to Mortis that only had 1 white chess piece on the site, and apparently, Thomas Ling said that this website was for his wedding photos. It no longer exists. I think this one is technically solved because many sites have said that the website just belonged to a dentist and was "normal". It's a really weird one because I don't know for sure what is true. Barely Sociable does a great YT deep dive video you can check out "here".
Lex the Wonderdog - I don't know if this is a real film, but on IMDB it lists a movie called "Lex the Wonderdog (1973)" which was created by a person called Sidney Ling who wrote and directed an adventure movie about his dog Lex. Sidney Ling is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest ever director (as he wrote and directed the film at just 13). However, there's no proof that this movie actually exists. Is it lost media? Or did Sidney Ling make this up and somehow get verified on IMDB? The only other thing I've been able to find is a blogspot blog, I assume that's created and written by Sidney himself. ABC Australia did a bit of a deep dive and came to the conclusion that Lex the Wonderdog doesn't exist at all. I just don't know why someone would go to all that effort and how it ended up in the Guinness Book of Records; does that mean other records are "fake"?
LHOHQ - This refers to a website called "The Laughing Horse Orrifice" that has had a lot of conspiracy stuff and artwork on it. It's either the workings of someone experiencing psychosis or some sort of art project. When I clicked on the website link, it just said stuff about Jimmy Kimmel and nothing else.
Dozerfleet wiki - I believe this is referring to the Dozerfleet Database, which is a one-man Wiki dedicated to a made-up company, and it seems that he has catalogued everything that has ever happened to him in this database. I think the person who created it is a far-right conspiracy theorist/right-wing extremist. There has also been speculation that this person may be on the spectrum, and the database is an outlet of sorts (and it's suggested that people just leave it as is, as we don't want to give this person a lot of attention).
Worldcorp Enterprises - Ah, we've already stumbled across this one in tier 3 with that song, but I believe this refers to a really weird internet ARG (and maybe rabbit hole). It's a bit of a long one. Nexpo describes Worldcorp Enterprises as a deep web cult. In 2015, there was a YouTube account called Worldcorp Enterprises, which uploaded bizarre vaporwave-inspired music videos to its channel. On a surface level, it all seemed like an ARG; however, there were two particular videos that stood out to people. These were 1) Fatherhood Part II and 2) Each Day I Grow Some More, which we've already discussed. Fatherhood Part II had clips of an anonymous man yelling at a child, and the child is begging him to stop. I haven't watched the videos because I'm scared. These two videos made people think that this was something more than an ARG. One year later, a YouTuber by the name of SilvaGunna released a video where Worldcorp Enterprises was credited as a producer, and so people believed this was all a fake ARG. In 2016, the Worldcorp Enterprises YT channel was taken down. In 2016, there was also the big Pizzagate conspiracy theory, and this led to many people believing that politician John Podesta had something to do with Worldcorp Enterprises and that his voice was rapping in the music videos (tbh I don't hear it). In March of 2019, another YouTube channel got involved in the mix. This was ScareTheater, and he uploaded a video called "Strange YouTube Videos Episode 7". In one of the clips he shared, there was audio that sounded like a screaming man yelling at either a child/children. The man was shining a torch at the children, and the children were pleading to be left alone as they were distressed. 4chan and internet sleuths believe that this clip was taken from the deep web and some sort of CP (disgusting). ScareTheater has removed the clip from his video for obvious reasons. There are obvious links between this video and Fatherhood Part II from Worldcorp Enterprises. So, were these videos real, too? The Nexpo video dives deeper into the Worldcorp Enterprises website via the Wayback Machine (I tried to access it, but I couldn't, and I'm a scaredy cat anyway), but on the site, there was the same video that was shown on ScareTheater's channel. During this time, SilvaGunna claimed that it was all just an ARG, but the CEO of Worldcorp Enterprises claimed that it was real - why the contradiction? It was later revealed that Worldcorp was NOT involved in SilvaGunna's video and reached out demanding to be credited in his video. It is heavily believed that Worldcorp Enterprises was just an ARG. However, some people believe that it is a place for some illegal content to be "hidden in plain sight". So in conclusion, we don't really know what this was, and it's so creepy. I feel like it should be further down the iceberg.
M Cave Vlogs - This mystery refers to the mysterious d*ath of a hiker called Kenny Veach. One day, Kenny went for a hike (and was known to do so a lot; he was a very experienced hiker), and he stumbled across a cave that was shaped like an M. Kenny made vlogs of his hikes, but he didn't video this particular cave. Commenters on his videos suggested that he set out for this "M" cave again. The first time, he took a video camera and a g*n. He was unable to locate the cave. He was then provoked to try another time, but this time he didn't make it back. One comment on YT wrote, "No! Do not go back there. If you find that cave entrance, don’t go in, you won’t get out." Kenny set out on the 10th November, 2014, telling his family he was going for a short overnight trip. When Kenny didn't return home, a search and rescue team was sent out. I also remember reading somewhere that he wasn't reported missing straight away, as he was often known to go for longer hikes than intended. By the 22nd of November 2014, the search and rescue team had located Kenny's cellphone near an old mine shaft, and where they believed was close to the M cave he had found previously. Kenny was never found, but a lot of theories were speculated online: Did Kenny fall down the mine shaft? Had he discovered aliens? Was it connected to the M cave? Or did he just succumb to the elements? We don't know for sure, but his GF at the time believed he un-alived himself. He probably just didn't want to be found. RIP Kenny. There's also no confirmation whether the M Cave is real.
Cthulu.net - Apparently, this one is connected to the Mortis website and has been taken away from the Wayback Machine (as Thomas Ling is known to do that). I can't really find any more information on it other than Reddit saying it's a secret link. I think it's the site with a random white chess piece.
Glitter conspiracy - This conspiracy questions who purchases all the glitter produced by Glitterex, given the enormous quantity they manufacture. It's believed to be a multimillion-dollar company, if not more. Glitter is made from something called aluminum polyethylene terephthalate, but it can also be made from some metals/gases. Also, once you use glitter for something, you'll be finding it for years to come. Anyway, there are some theories as to who is the biggest consumer of glitter. They are as follows: The US Military and glitter being used for radar reflection, the boating industry, which would use glitter to make vessels super shiny, cosmetics, as this would be obvious, toothpaste or food products (idk why), or the government is hiding glitter for a future use. However, it's highly believed that it is just the boating industry.
Magibon.com - This is a website where the creator seems to be obsessed with a YouTuber called Magibon. Magibon is an American YouTuber based in Japan who used to post videos of herself in silence. Reddit describes the Magibon website as "it's basically grainy black/white videos of a guy in a gas mask named "Frank" who has a psychopathic obsession with Magibon from YouTube. The audio is quite loud on them. 3 videos total. No jump scares or anything. Give it a watch - it's creepy but it isn't like shit-your-pants scary". Many people thought this could have been some sort of campaign for Japanese horror, but apparently, it was all just a hoax created by a digital media artist called Danung.
jodi.org - This one is just an art piece, and if you change the number of "w's" at the start of the URL, it changes your start page. I'm not really sure why this one is on here; it's even been featured at MoMA in New York.
Tier 5
Sentimentalcorp - I believe this is a website that hosts creepy and disturbing music (I can't find any videos so I'm hoping it's not tied to Worldcorp).
Fandom wiki circumcision meltdown - This refers to the Silent Hill Wiki (for the video game) where one of the mods got obsessed with circumcision for a period and would ramble about how it was tied to the Illuminati and got very conspiracy theory oriented in nature. A lot of the Wiki pages about the Silent Hill game were rewritten to say that the evils behind the game were all to do with this stuff. This stuff got the attention of the mainstream media, and the mod was banned, and everything went back to normal.
BlankRoomSoup.avi - I used to think this one was 100% real, but I was quickly humbled LOL. If you haven't seen it, Blank Room Soup is a video where there is a man in a white room hunched over eating noodle soup. He is wearing a white tank top and is eating his noodles with a giant ladle. It appears that the man is either laughing or crying (I'm pretty sure it's crying), and then the bowl spills. A figure then appears in the room with him that looks like a life-size POP! doll - he then approaches the man and rubs his back. Another figure appears - exactly the same as the first, and also starts to comfort the man. The video abruptly ends and has baffled people since it was first posted in 2005. However, this one is solved as performance art for an artist called RayRay, who brought the two POP! like figures out on stage in 2010.
The Fifth Nail - This refers to the online personal blog of American serial k*ller Joseph Edward Duncan, who was on d*ath row at the USP, Terre Haute, Indiana. It ran from 2010 - 2020, and he died in 2021. It's pretty disturbing stuff. I've linked the blog, but I even felt sick just reading some of the titles. If you do dare to read it, make sure you have a really strong stomach.
4chan Baboon story - I can't actually find the original of this, but apparently this was a 4chan user who posted on /x/ about how he had recurring nightmares of being terrorised by a demonic baboon. From the linked thread, it kinda just seems like a creepypasta.
Haunted library webcam - I don't know for sure what this one is because it's so vague, but the best thing I can find online is the Willard Library Ghost Cams in Evansville, Indiana, which just shows a live feed "ghost cam" of different rooms. I watched for a few minutes, and nothing happened, so I dunno if the library is really haunted. I was about to say where are all the people, but then I realised that it's 12 AM in Indiana as I write this (3 PM in Melbourne, Australia).
fusionanomoly.net - I believe this is a website that has over 1700 pages of information and is a website that revolves around technoshamanism - meaning that traditional shamanic practices are combined with technology (shamanism is entering into alternative states of consciousness to interact with the spiritual world).
SLC Daycare Center - I believe this one people thought was a part of the "Satanic Panic" when everyone believed that daycare centres were a*using children. It's a day care centre in Salt Lake City, Utah, called "Fun Time Kidz Kare" and it kinda looks run down and abandoned. Theories about the day centre emerged because a lot of people driving by didn't see any kids going in or out (like money laundering, CA, Satanic Panic etc). The reality for this place, though, is that it's most likely just a not-so-busy day care centre. You can read about inspections at the centre "here".
Worlds.com cult - Worlds.com was a 3D online chat programme launched in 1995 that ran until 1998 when it was succeeded by Worlds Ultimate 3D Chat. I think it's a combination of a chatroom and a game. Allegedly, there is a user called "Nexialist" who plays this game and is thought to be a "cult" leader, but I don't think there's a virtual cult; I just think it's a form of role play. Many people believe it is a virtual cult.
Alex from Tennessee - I remember this one as it was happening. In 2013, an anonymous person on 4chan posted coordinates to a "prize" in which they instructed players to park near the area and continue on foot to the prize, which was hidden under plastic somewhere. Most people thought the anonymous OP was just trolling. However, someone called Alex from Tennessee believed otherwise. The location was a creepy building in Elizabethtown, Tennessee. OP started to add in more vague clues and eventually wrote creepy stuff like "It is warm," "No cops here," and even posted a photo of a rotting hand with the caption "Why is no one here?" Five days/nights later, someone called Alex from Tennessee posted a follow-up thread saying, "Alex from TN here. I am at location of creepy guy. Came early." The thread was filled with creepy photos at the location and a bag that contained "a mummified pelvis and a folded paper plate." When the plate opened, it read "Plate’s a date, a very important date. You shouldn’t have come. I lied." Alex's last post read, "I hear someone outside driving really slow over the gravel. I think it’s time for my date," and then he disappeared off 4chan completely. There are two theories about this internet mystery. The first one is that Alex went to the location and was met with foul play, and the second theory is that Alex himself was OP and it was an elaborate hoax. The latter is what most people believe.
coldnessinmyheart - I think that this one is referring to a Tumblr user who posted extreme SH (of herself) content on Tumblr around 2013. It was VERY gory. 3 of her blogs were removed and after the third blog was removed, she vanished from the internet entirely. Some people have speculated that she passed away from blood loss or infection, and other people say she got the help she needed. Logically, though, she most likely passed away, and it's so sad.
Mostly Harmless - This one refers to the d*ath of an American hiker called Vance Rodriguez (who was also known as Mostly Harmless, Denim, and Ben Bilemy). His body was found on the 23rd of July, 2018, in Big Cypress National Reserve, Florida, and the body remained unidentified for two years. A previous coworker identified him in 2020. Rodriguez started his hike on the Appalachian Trail in April 2017, from Harriman State Park (about 48km from NYC). On his journey, he met a lot of people who took pictures of him and claimed he liked ketchup and sticky buns (not sure if together or separate, I hope separate). He told people that he was hiking up to Key West, Florida. By 2018, he had reached Florida. In July, he was found d*ad in his tent by two other hikers and had no form of ID with him. An autopsy could not find any cause of d*ath, and there were no signs of foul play. The only thing the report mentioned was that he was emaciated (i.e., thin or weak, usually from lack of food). At the time, no one knew who he was; he only carried cash and never used a credit card. In 2020, he was identified with the help of the internet and stories about "Mostly Harmless" going viral. However, his backstory is just so tragic. You can read about it "here".
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ROBHGIEN YRGNA - This is "angry neighbor" written backwards, and it refers to a YouTube channel where the user gets upset about the noises that their neighbours make. The last video posted on their account was 8 years ago. The best explanation for this is some type of mental illness, and it kinda sucks how much mental illness is on this iceberg (albeit it is like 5+ years old).
Godlyrecon - This one has been debunked as either fake or a hoax (I guess those words mean the same thing in this context). Anyway, someone called Nation Squid posted a YouTube video a while back about creepy stuff on the internet, and in the video, they talked about a person called Caroline, known as Godlyrecon on YouTube. Apparently, Caroline posted videos to YouTube about having a stalker, and then one day she posted a video titled "Goodbye" and had audio of screaming. There is no proof that a YouTuber called Godlyrecon ever existed, and most people believe it was a hoax and Caroline was an actor. You can check out ScareTheater's debunking video on this topic "here".
discharges.org - This was a shock website, I believe. There's not a lot of information about it.
eon5.com - When you Google this stuff, a music label comes up, but I think this one is referring to a mysterious website that was active in the early 2000s and was some sort of social experiment to see what people would do with a lack of information. I'm guessing they probably made up conspiracy theories.
KURAT 193 - I believe this one is a typo and refers to the "Kurat 963" ARG. Kurat is an Estonian word for devil. You can check out their YT channel "here". It's a pretty f*cked up ARG because a lot of the stuff in their videos talks about how much they hate you, and it's giving Blair Witch vibes, but scarier.
John Lang - This one refers to the case of a Californian man from Fresno. Lang believed that the police were conducting scams in low SES neighbourhoods, particularly to do with licence plates. Lang started to make headlines as he posted on social media about these alleged scams. Following that, he noticed strange and unsettling people outside his house at night. These people would often be in a van recording him with heat sensor cameras, allegedly. Lang became more and more paranoid over time and posted a cryptic Facebook message that may have predicted his own d*ath. A few days later, his house went up in flames, and he passed away. Some articles say that Lang was found with stab wounds to his back, but it has been concluded that Lang inflicted these himself, and his case was closed as a s*icide. However, many theories have come to light that the Fresno police targeted Lang and hid it. I don't know for sure, but it does sound like Lang was very mentally unwell. I also think there is more to this story than what the police are saying.
helpwithadvice - This refers to a creepy YouTube Channel you can find "here". It's a lot of videos of people getting t*rtured. I didn't watch, I just looked at the thumbnails (I do like creepy stuff, but I'm also squeamish as f*ck). Most people online suspect these videos were made by people who were paranoid or on dr*gs. No videos have been made for 11 years (at least publicly anyway).
PL4YGRND - This is an ARG YouTube channel. A Reddit user describes it as follows: "An ARG in the form of a Youtube channel called “The Remnants of PL4YGRND”. It’s about the owner of the channel, referred to as the “Protagonist”, explains he belonged to an internet group “PL4YGRND”, consisting of 5 people. 4 of them were sharing videos, unaware of the “Protagonist”."
WKCR hijacking - This refers to when the WKCR-FM radio station was hijacked mid-broadcast from an unknown source. This was around 1995, and the sounds were eerie, screeching noises, silence, then a woman reading obituaries of disaster victims. Eventually, the radio station was able to get back on air, but there has not been an explanation for the hijacking.
Oct282011.com - This was apparently a cult/religious sort of website predicting a rapture.
happycube - I am unable to find anything about this one; all I could find on Google was a toy called the "Happy Cube" - not sure if it had any controversy. Update: I have found that this is an ARG that's now called "The Wyoming Incident (ARG)" - which began in 2006, and it's about a video that, when people watch, they go into complete madness. In this ARG/creepypasta, there was a broadcast of this video on a news station that resulted in mass confusion and terror.
Enricks - Apparently, there used to be a website about a fake disease known as "Enricks," - some sort of genetic mutation, and it came under the Gomex family of diseases. The website was all about supporting victims of the disease. However, no such disease has ever existed. The website was pretty creepy because every time you clicked on an image, it would get more deformed and show corrupted text. Most of the text was written in Thai but people say it just reads as gibberish, so it was most likely someone using Google Translate. Also, there was some sort of creepy PDF attached.
Hope you enjoyed this iceberg breakdown/explanation. Let me know if you'd like to see more of this stuff in the future - it was pretty fun to do a big project like this!
Thank you for reading.
Stay safe.
Ash xx
