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You've probably heard the expression
two heads are better than one.
Well, what about 330 million heads?
That's how many people use
the American Social News Aggregation web content rating
and discussion website known as Reddit.
When something mysterious hits this network of communities,
some of these users band together and take on the challenge
and sometimes those users bring forth incredible results.
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These are 10 mysteries solved by redditors.
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Number 10 is Nequam Sonitus.
Back in 2013, a man got something quite strange in the mail
and he decided to post the content immediately on Reddit.
What he got was a CD with a playlist and a police report.
When he played the CD,
he realized that one of the audio files
contained hidden GPS coordinates
which led to an abandoned factory in Tampa, Florida.
When redditors started commenting about
what they knew of this property
and speculating why it could possibly be significant,
a mysterious and creepy user account
started responding to these comments.
People lost their minds over the whole thing
and were determined to figure out who is behind it and why.
Eventually, they determined that it was all viral marketing
for the band Nequam Sonitus from Florida,
a group of performance noise artists
whose members remain unknown.
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Number nine is ring thing.
Pretty much any young person
with an imagination for adventure
dreams of exploring and finding lost or buried treasures,
but in the case of one Reddit user
that thrilling dream became a reality.
As a youth in the mid to late 1990s,
they came across a golden ring
in a grocery store parking lot.
The piece of jewelry was engraved with A, B and P 14K
and F-L-P-R-M-C nine 1917 all along the inside of the ring.
After keeping the ring for about 20 years,
they took to Reddit in hopes that they could get help
finally locating the ring's rightful owner.
Soon after posting, another user uncovered
a marriage certificate matching the engraving
and the date on the ring.
Further research revealed the initials
stood for Frank Phillip Listin and Ruby Marie Crisp
who are both sadly deceased.
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Number eight is Frame 3-9-4.
A 28-year-old cinematographer from Toronto, Ontario
named Daniel Voshart managed to entangle himself
in one of America's most high profile
police-involved mysteries.
It all started in April of 2015
when the redditor first saw shaky cellphone video footage
of an unarmed man, Walter Scott, falling to the ground
after being taken down by Officer Michael Slager
who, moments later, apparently planted
and then retrieved what looked like a taser
next to Scott's body.
After weeks of watching this clip,
he noticed something in the 394th frame
that had him reaching out to the FBI and ballistics experts.
It was evidence that could've potentially saved Slager
from facing a life sentence.
Voshart refused a retainment offer
from the ex-officer's lawyer
and the case eventually concluded
without using Voshart as an expert witness.
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Number seven is an ear worm.
Have you ever heard a song you liked so much,
you quickly pull out your phone to figure out what it is?
Well, what if that song is so obscure
that even the internet doesn't know?
This was the case with a new wave song from the '80s
that no one could identify.
Dubbed "Stay" by fans,
the song had been ruminating on message boards and Reddit
but stumped everyone for years.
The song's origin was muddied and lost in time.
All that was known was that it was recorded
at a German radio station between 1984 and 1986.
Finally, a redditor named Stefan
who worked for a Swedish radio show
recognized the song
revealing that it was by an artist named Johan Lindell.
The show interviewed Lindell discovering that "Stay"
was really called "Up on the Roof"
and was from his 1985 album, "Ghost Rider".
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Number six is A858.
In 2011, a previously unused reddit account
began posting seemingly random strings of numbers and text
in a new subreddit that it created.
To the casual eye, there wasn't much to see
as it shared the same unreadable set
of numbers and letters as its moderator.
But soon enough, redditors saw those strings of characters
and decided that it was a code
and a dedicated group of users began trying to crack it.
The creator of A858 was aware of the growing attention
and began dropping hints, jokes and words of encouragement.
One post even featured an encrypted image of Stonehenge
referencing a comment that had called the puzzle
the Stonehenge of Reddit.
Some believe A858 to be a piece of art
using the digital world as its canvas.
Though the codes have been solved,
the reason for them still remains unknown.
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Number five is alien abduction.
In 2013, a Reddit user tramstopdan
began to document his experience
digging through a box he found in the trash.
Inside he found beautifully hand-rendered illustrations
of heavily four-headed creatures
along with technical drawings of UFOs, personal belongings
and a handwritten note about what was either
an extraterrestrial invasion
or some kind of government coverup.
There were even some non-patented drawings of train wheels
and hand-drawn maps from the late 1930s.
In 2014, another redditor tracked down
85-year-old Elmer Arbov who is the nephew
of Daniel Christianson, the guy behind the box.
Arbov said that his uncle was obsessed with
the book of Ezekiel
and felt a tremendous need to create
based on his thoughts about it.
Many agree that Christianson
probably suffered from schizophrenia.
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Number four is an extension cord enigma.
We all need our privacy,
somewhere that we are free from the gaze of others
in order to relax and feel at ease.
But in April of 2013,
one user realized his privacy had been destroyed
after an extension cord in his own dorm room
suddenly blew up.
Upon taking it apart, he found that inside
was a strange series of small wires and a sim card.
He posted pictures of it to a subreddit
where one commenter provided a link
to a device sold on Amazon
that looked like what he had found.
It turned out to be a surveillance device
which allowed someone to secretly listen
to any noise in the room.
He contacted the bug's manufacturer
asking for more information
but they told him that they'd need a warrant.
While we now know what the device was,
we still don't know what it was doing there.
Very creepy.
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Number three is meathead asking for help.
In 2013, reddit user meathead posted an image
of a broken headlight that came off a car
that had been involved in a hit-and-run.
He asked for any help that might lead
to the possibility of identifying the driver.
It didn't seem like much to go on
seeing as that it was just a piece of a headlight,
but 400 Reddit comments poured in
and eventually, one Reddit user left the following comment.
That was a tough one.
It took me a minute to figure it out.
That light came off a 1990 Cadillac Brougham.
That comment received hundreds of upvotes almost instantly.
So meathead took his new information to the police
and they were able to match it to a stolen vehicle.
Thanks to this lead,
they not only recovered the stolen vehicle
but were able to identify the thief
who had almost committed the hit-and-run
and pressed charges.
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Number two is Cicada 3301 puzzle.
Between 2012 and 2014, a cryptic message began appearing
once a year on message boards across the internet.
Claiming to seek highly intelligent individuals,
the Cicada 3301 puzzle challenged visitors
to find a secret message hidden in an image
that accompanied it.
Joel Ericson, a 34-year-old crypto security researcher
and redditor from Sweden
was one of the few people who actually solved it
since the first challenge appeared online.
To this day, nobody has publicly
taken credit for these puzzles,
but Cicada must be the work of more than one person
with some hefty resources at that.
So far, physical artifacts from the group
have appeared in eight nations and 11 US states.
It has bought phone numbers,
paid for server uptime
and offered something to the winners
which has earned their silence.
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And number one are carbon copies.
In 2016, Reddit user bradbury1920
described finding mysterious post-it notes
around their home with handwriting on them
that they didn't recognize.
The user had even set up a webcam to solve the mystery
but discovered that the footage had been deleted
and the computer's trash emptied.
They found no other signs on a break-in
but they were obviously disturbed and asked Reddit for help.
A fellow redditor commented that it was possible
that it was bradbury1920 who was writing the notes
and forgetting about them,
stating that headaches and memory loss
were possible signs of exposure to carbon monoxide.
After reading this,
bradbury1920 put up a carbon monoxide detector
and discovered dangerous amounts of it in their home.
They sought medical attention and had the issue addressed
and no more notes ever appeared.
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