Sometimes, things just don't make sense.
For the past 10 years, a mystery has been ongoing that's lately been baffling myself and quite a few others in the online horror community
The mystery that I'm referring to is one that surrounds strange and cryptic reviews and conversations between multiple people about a certain key lime pie
that does not exist.
I was recently introduced to this oddity by my friend Elder's Vault and, like before,
I'll let him jump on here and catch you guys up to speed.
Hey, what's going on you crazy kitty cats, its Elder here!
Big thanks to Nightmare Expo and his fans for letting me come back on to talk about yet another crazy internet phenomenon
This all started when a Reddit user
brought to my attention an interesting occurrence
happening in various forum sites around the Internet. We began looking into it more in-depth and found an entity with far-reaching
capabilities. Tens of thousands of posts or more to be precise,
located in the comments of articles and forums
Not only that, this entity has thousands of accounts throughout these websites,
which, generally, require verified emails and CAPTCHA processes to create. A daunting task, to say the least.
Furthermore, it's been known to clone other user's accounts it comes into contact with and even attempts to mimic their speech patterns
Some of my own friends have had direct contact with this entity, whereas in forums
it seems to be mostly just generally light-hearted discourse. In personal messages, things can get a bit darker
For example,
my Swedish friend messaged a Facebook account of this entity and while nothing on his page would have indicated that he was from Sweden, he
received a cryptic message about death
in Swedish. Does this mean that this entity is obtaining the IP addresses of those it interacts with, and if so,
why? What could it be using this
information for? And just what kind of entity has the capability of making so many verified accounts,
posting thousands of times,
but still be able to interact one-on-one when approached?
Is this just a light-hearted albeit extremely intelligent
bot, or is something more sinister going on and what would appear at first glance?
A user named u/KeyLimeWTF
presumably was the first one to become weirded out by this whole mystery
In a Reddit post to r/UnresolvedMysteries,
u/KeyLimeWTF claimed that they needed help because they just couldn't wrap their head around what the hell was happening
They claimed that they were reading a story online from their local college, and while the article is nothing out of the ordinary,
they spotted something a little strange in the comment section
A comment by the user named Robert Ramjet discussed presumable nonsense
surrounding key lime pies and made some strange references to the military
Strange, right?
Well, u/KeyLimeWTF claimed that they had done some digging and found numerous references about this key lime pie
coming from prominent pop culture names and that the central subject of every comment relates to a Mrs. Anita
Pelaez, a Mr.
Captain Kuchie Pelaez, key lime pie, a restaurant by the name of Kutchie's, the state of California, and Key West, Florida
They then went forth to explain that the first comment made about this dates all the way back to
2009 on a TMZ article and that each comment seems to be on articles that are sexual in nature
So who the hell are Captain Kutchie and Ms. Pelaez, and why are they significant?
Furthermore, why is the restaurant Kutchie's, the state of North Carolina, and Key West, Florida important here?
Well, we need to look into the name Captain Kutchie and the surname Pelaez as a whole
u/KeyLimeWTF did some digging and found that a book on Google named "Naval Innovation for the 21st Century"
makes numerous references to a Captain Pelaez
Even stranger, one of the reviews on the book seems to be by the mysterious pie fanatic referencing a place called Kutcheritaville, and
references the quote "Famous Kutchie's Key West and the world of key lime pies"
It doesn't even stop there, though
Some of these strange posts are hidden in social media, cooking show sites, general food sites,
tabloid articles, and even news articles. It truly doesn't make any sense
Anyway, back to the Captain Kutchie name
Users have found that the name ties to an old restaurant called Kutchie's Key West Bar and Grill that previously existed in Florida, although
they have absolutely no idea what kind of restaurant it was
It's been found that the original owners of this restaurant were an Oswald and Anita Pelaez back in 1989
So,
that explains the names and references to Florida, but what's the significance and how does this tie to the numerous references to pie,
Kutcheritaville, and the decade-long campaign of nonsensical posts?
Well, before we do this, we need to look into who these strange users are
Remember Robert Ramjet from earlier?
Yeah, he's likely fake, and is just one of hundreds of accounts made discussing this phenomenon
Doing any searches over any of these related topics
will take you to these said accounts, including a newer one by a so-called CaptainKutchie on deviantART, who writes stories that are
...odd
Anyway,
hundreds of Reddit users flock to the case on the subreddit, throwing their two cents in on their findings,
and I'll have a link to that in the description
However, I'd like to go forth and present some theories on what this could be
The first theory in mind is that this is a single poster going all across the Internet and
posting these strange and cryptic reviews about this supposed key lime pie
This very well could be someone who exhibits restricted interests and delves and to repetitive behaviors
Now, I'm in absolutely no way insinuating that this person has any sort of foul intentions here
They could just have an obsession with the key lime pie that they could have tried way back in the 80s when the supposed restaurant
did exist, and nothing more than that
We could,
although very loosely, be looking too far into this, as it's just one person posting about this around the Internet since 2009
One major reason I'd like to discount this theory with, however, is the fact that it's far,
far too widespread to easily consider this as done by one single person. The various names, references,
conversation style, and semantics are just too strange for it to seem like a single choreographed effort by someone
With this in mind, I'm going to have to throw this theory out
Now this one is interesting
Looking into these comments myself. I noticed a certain
...style, if you will, on how these reviews and comments are made
They all seem to jump back and forth with their thoughts and appear to capitalize unnecessary words
Also, Elder pointed out that they seem to have a sort of
sign-off after every comment, and it usually involves a string of periods followed by the name of the supposed commenter
This majorly supports this theory, as a bot would definitely have the ability to post
unrestricted comments about this across the Internet while holding a strikingly similar style every single time
What starts to knock this theory, though, are modern efforts by large sites like Google to prevent this type of behavior on their platform
CAPTCHA is becoming harder and harder to bypass and more recent findings of these strange posts are still being found by the day, even still
This would have to be a pretty advanced bot to be able to bypass these measures, especially if it was created all the way back
in 2009
Now, this doesn't consider the possibility of this potential bot being updated over time, which definitely could be a possibility
However, there's one thing that we're severely lacking here:
A motive
We could consider the idea that this could be a test bot for comment services
But, there are some privately-owned websites without these restrictions that show this kind of behavior in their comment section,
much like u/KeyLimeWTF's online school paper
While this doesn't entirely discredit this theory, it definitely leaves it up in the air for interpretation
A third theory that I'd like to throw you is the possibility of this being done by a cult or a large group of people
This could support the evidence given, since these posts are so widespread over such a large period of time
Like we said, these comments started back in 2009 and are still going on today all over the 'Net
The reason I'm saying cult, though, is the possibility that these potential people could be hiding codes in these messages
We, as
normal Internet prowlers, have no idea what Kutcheritaville or anything else that these people say really means, and
honestly, if we're casually browsing,
chances are we probably don't care
They likely want this
What if these strange terms and sentences actually mean something under the surface and we haven't quite cracked it yet?
Elder also pointed out that these people find out information about you, even if you don't make it public
Why would they do this and what further purpose would they have with your possible IP address?
While this theory almost seems like it dips into the tinfoil hat area,
it very well could be possible
that these supposed people have something to hide and don't want to risk direct contact with each other in a messaging application
This inevitably begs the question once again for a motive. Why would they do this in plain sight?
The fourth theory is one that I've seen circulating around Reddit, and honestly, it just doesn't make any sense to me
It's on the basis that the key lime pie reference is a big inside joke, and that these people are trolling us with this as
we look too far into it
The reason I throw this out is because it's been going on since 2009
It's now 2018 and we're barely finding this
It just doesn't make sense and with this, I'll personally throw this theory out
There's also simply no motive for something like this
The mystery surrounding these key lime pies is truly an interesting one
It almost reminds me of the old "Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM" phenomenon that I covered back in July of last year,
in the sense that the
semantics are just strange enough to leave us curious as to what the hell is happening, in the most unnerving sense possible
So,
what do you think?
Is this some sort of sophisticated bot that's running around the Internet making strange posts about key lime pies?
Could it be a cult that's communicating some secret messages in plain sight?
Is this some sort of widespread joke, or is it something that we haven't figured out yet?
I'd love to hear your input so we can get to the bottom of this
Anyway I'd like to thank u/KeyLimeWTF on Reddit for their findings with this mystery and my friend Elder's Vault for introducing me to this
Lastly, thanks so much for watching. I'll see you in the next one. I love you all, and good night
