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

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

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

GNPN

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

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

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

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You can’t really have a podcast that discusses the internet without talking a lot about Google. So this episode is all about Google’s role in real-life missing persons cases and other crimes. We’ll start with the story of William Earl Moldt.Mol
Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a band originally formed in Canada in 1994. They’re an experimental rock group who has had quite a bit of success. Their most popular song is called East Hastings, and it was featured in the 2002 film, “28 Days La
This is the story of Bianca Devins, a young woman who put too much trust into a man she’d met online, and a man who used a murder to elevate his social media clout. We’ll go over the role technology played in this crime and the distribution of
This is a story about how the internet played a part in both the propagation and the collapse of a large, multinational network of child pornographers.We know from shows like To Catch a Predator that, sometimes, law enforcement will pose online
n October of 2009, a user on the internet took to comment sections on various blogs and articles and started leaving comments about key lime pies from a restaurant named Kutchie’s Key West Cafe. Comments like this are one of the reasons the int
Jennifer Ringley made history on April 3, 1996. At the time she was a junior attending Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. Like so many college kids, she wanted to use technology to share her life with friends, family, and strangers alike. This
In 1999, Kaycee Nicole created an account at an early social media network called CollegeClub.com. Social media networks and CollegeClub were quite new at the time, and Kaycee, an eager, smart and ambitious high school senior from Kansas, was r
In 2006, a user on 4 chan accidentally stumbled across a live stream of a Korean woman’s apartment. The woman on the camera was sleeping so deeply that the 4-chan user believed her to be dead, but she did awake and quickly hid behind some hand-
This internet freakshow begins on Angelfire of all places. Back as the web was evolving, services like Angelfire and Geocities provided web space and hosting that enabled anyone to create their own websites. These days, the services have faded
In some ways Sharon Lopatka was an extremely ordinary woman. Classmates would later describe her as “as normal as you can get”. At age 30, in 1991, she married a construction worker named Victor. Sharon was interested in the internet early, and
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 th
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 newsgro
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
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…
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, althou
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 anyo
"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
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 ar
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
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 o
On October 12, 2015 a website called "GadgetZZ.com" posted an article on their site saying they’d received a "creepy puzzle" from Poland. The package contained a DVD with a code written in Sharpie on the top. The DVD was not a data DVD, but a s
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