Youtube burst onto the scene in 2005 and 16 years later it remains a staple of entertainment
and education for millions of people around the world.
There are approximately 300,000 videos uploaded to Youtube every day and whilst some of them
are light-hearted or educational, some of them are truly disturbing.
5 - Kate Yupp In 2019 Youtuber Kate Yup uploaded a video
on her channel titled “2 whole fish, whole giant squid, lobster, king crab, salmon & tuna
raw, octopus, scallop, shrimp” but it wasn’t the colossal amount of food that she was consuming
that got the internet talking.
In the video, Kate is seen chowing her way through the food in what has become known
as a ‘Mukbang’.
Commenters were quick to notice that Kate had bruises on her arms and one on her lip,
leading them to believe that she was in danger.
The internet went crazy and began micro analysing every aspect of this video with people theorising
that the captions were written in such a way that Kate was trying to communicate with the
audience.
One caption read “I’m SoOo HUNGRY.
The meat is so delicioOoousS, soft and tender” with the letters SOS being capitalised throughout
the captions.
When put together, this reads SOS leading many to believe that Kate Yup is in danger
and may be being forced to upload these mukbang videos by whoever is holding her captive.
Other attentive users pointed out that whilst eating, Kate taps repeatedly on the side of
her bowl in morse code which when translated means “I need help”.
Users flooded Kate’s comment section asking her if she needed help or instructing her
to insert certain messages into her next video as a sign that she needed help.
In a video published on October 5th 2019, she wrote “As you can notice.
I am happy, nobody is torturing me.
<oh no.
I’m lying.
In fact, there is people torturing me everyday.>”
In some videos, faint whispers can be heard saying “Go, swallow it.
Just eat, hurry up, fast, just eat”.
In her video titled “I’m Alive,” the letters of the first 4 sentences spell out
HELP along with a door mysteriously opening on its own.
These videos sent the internet into an even bigger frenzy, trying to figure out who Kate
Yup really was and what was happening to her.
Some have even speculated that Kate may be missing Karlie Guse, however, this has never
been confirmed by law enforcement.
Kate’s last upload was on October 24th 2019 and she hasn’t been heard from since, numerous
times on her channel she has addressed the fact that she is safe and well, however, her
mysterious disappearance has left fans very concerned for her well being.
Do you believe that Kate Yup is being forced to make mukbang videos or is this all an elaborate
conspiracy theory?
4 - 112 Dirtbag The mysterious disappearance of Maura Murray
has haunted investigators and the true-crime community for over 17 years.
Despite numerous advancements in technology and hundreds of leads, we are still no closer
to solving the case.
On February 9th 2004, Maura Murray, a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts
emailed her professors telling them that she would be absent for the next week as there
had been a family emergency.
The only problem was, was that there was no family emergency, her family later confirmed
this and to this day we still don’t know why Maura emailed her professors telling them
that she would be gone for a week.
After emailing her professors, Maura got into her car and headed north towards New Hampshire.
At around 7:30 pm that evening, Maura was involved in a crash and her car became stuck
in a ditch.
A passing bus driver asked her if she needed help to which she declined, she also begged
the bus driver not to call the police and was acting strangely.
When police arrived at the scene, Maura’s car was still stuck in the ditch and was locked
but Maura was nowhere to be found.
In the few moments that the bus driver had returned home to call for help, Maura had
mysteriously vanished.
A large-scale search was coordinated to try and locate Maura, however, the searches proved
fruitless.
As of 2021, Maura’s case remains unsolved but her case is anything but cold.
On February 8th 2012 a channel by the name of 112dirtbag uploaded an ominous video titled
“Happy Anniversary”.
In the video, an unknown man laughs maniacally before suddenly stopping and winking at the
camera, the end message reads “Happy Anniversary” before the video cuts off.
This video was uploaded the day before the 8th anniversary of Maura’s disappearance
and several clues lead investigators to believe that the man in the video is somehow responsible.
The name 112dirtbag holds significance in Maura’s case, her car was found along Route
112 and her father said that the person/persons responsible for Maura’s disappearances were
“some dirtbags”.
Other videos from the channel show the unknown man at the place where Maura was last seen
and videos of him showing off stubs from nearby lodges/hotels that are dated around the time
of her disappearance.
Shortly after the video was uploaded the channel was taken down, however internet sleuths can’t
help but wonder if this video is connected to Maura’s case.
Is the man in this creepy video responsible for what happened to Maura or is this a sick
hoax?
3 - Most Mysterious Song On The Internet In 2019 Juston Whang posted a video titled
“The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet” as part of his ‘Tales from the Internet’
series.
In the video, Justin explores a mysterious song that no one has been able to identify
for over 37 years.
A man named Darius S claims to have recorded the song during the early 1980s whilst he
was listening to a German radio station called NDR.
Over the years, Darius used his tape deck to record his favourite songs from the radio
and eventually digitised them when cassettes became obsolete.
It wasn’t until 2007 when his sister, Lydia came across the songs that she uploaded short
snippets of the song to various websites in the hopes of identifying it.
It wasn’t until 2019 that the ‘most mysterious song on the internet’ made its way onto
Youtube and since then, it has been a hot topic of conversation.
Internet sleuths eagerly sank their teeth into the mystery, believing that they would
crack the case within a matter of hours, however, that has not been the case.
Reddit and Discord communities have popped up with the shared aim of finding the artist
and title of the song but to no avail.
There are numerous videos covering the ‘most mysterious song on the internet as well as
videos of the song itself.
If you have any theories about the song, leave them below in the comments.
2 - Benjamin Bennett Youtuber Benjamin Bennett took the platform
by storm in 2014 when he began uploading and streaming videos simply titled “Sitting
and Smiling”.
In these videos, Benjamin sits eerily still in front of the camera and smiles for the
whole duration.
What makes these videos unnerving is the fact that some of them have a run time of 4 hours
and Benjamin remains composed and still throughout the whole video.
These bizarre videos went viral as people desperately tried to figure out why Benjamin
was doing this.
People began theorising that Benjamin may have been suffering from a mental illness
and these videos were a reflection of this.
Others theorised that there was a much deeper meaning behind them and that as time progressed,
we would have more pieces of the puzzle to put together.
During one live stream, Benjamin is sitting and staring directly into the camera when
a burglar tries to enter his house.
Viewers of the stream were horrified to see an unknown person push Benjamin’s door open
and shout out “Hello”.
The stream chat went wild, altering Benjamin that someone was trying to enter his house,
but for the entirety of the intrusion, he remained still, sitting and staring into the
camera as if nothing was happening.
Once the burglar realised that Benjamin was inside and was sitting still staring into
the camera, they shut the door and left.
In another instance, Benjamin urinates himself whilst streaming and continues to sit and
smile as if nothing had happened.
In 2015 Vice interviewed Benjamin, when asked the all-important “Why do you do this?”
he responded with “I don’t know.
It seemed like something that the internet was lacking.
It seemed like it needed to be done and nobody else was doing it.”
At the time of writing this video, Benjamin is still uploading and streaming on Youtube.
He has moved away from “Sitting and Smiling” and now posts 4+ hour-long videos of him walking
around and talking.
His channel has been called a performative art piece but there is something creepy and
unnerving about his content.
1 - Lisa Holm On June 7th 2015 Lisa Holm finished up her
shift in a cafe located in Sweden.
Lisa had been working at the cafe throughout the summer for some extra cash whilst she
was waiting for college classes to start again.
After leaving the cafe she hopped on her moped and sent a text to her father telling him
that she had finished for the day and that she would be home soon.
Sadly, this would be the last time Lisa’s family ever heard from her and when she didn’t
return home, they began to worry.
At first, her family believed she may have gotten into an accident on her moped, however
after searching the local area, they found no sign of her.
Her family knew that something was very wrong and immediately called the police after they
failed to locate her.
For days, Lisa’s family waited for any updates in her case, praying that she would walk through
the front door as if nothing had ever happened.
Sadly, for Lisa’s family that wasn’t the case and on June 12th her body was discovered
in an abandoned workshed close to her workplace.
This is where Lisa’s case takes a dark twist.
On May 24th 2015 a channel by the name of “Lisa Holm” uploaded an incredibly disturbing
video titled “13”.
The video is only 11 seconds long but it shows a 60-second countdown.
Obviously, the video cuts off before the countdown is complete but those who watched the video
couldn’t help but notice the connection to Lisa’s case.
Redditors pointed out that 13 days after May 24th 2015 would be June 6th 2015, the day
before Lisa Holm mysteriously vanished.
Coincidentally, the video also went viral on June 12th 2015, the day that Lisa’s body
was discovered, leading people to believe that this count down video had been a warning
that had simply been drowned out in the hundreds of youtube videos that are uploaded to the
platform each day.
Nerijus Bilevicius was arrested and convicted for Lisa’s murder in November 2015 after
his blood and DNA was found at pieces of evidence found at the crime scene.
During the court proceedings, there was no mention of the infamous ‘13’ video and
Bilevicius has never commented on it either.
At the time of writing this, the video has over 1.1 million views and there have been
no new videos.
Is this a case of a creepy coincidence or was the person responsible leaving behind
a trail of cryptic clues for us
to follow?