15.
“Look wtf I found laying in the forest today.”
In 2012, an anonymous poster uploaded a photo
of a grenade on 4chan, asking the obvious
question.
“Is it dangerous?”
A number of smartass users joked, “Nah,
just pull the pin,” while others were more
serious about the matter, like one helpful
anonymous commentor, who responded, “Military
often drill the bottom out for practice grenades.
I think fuse is still inside.
Just the cap is off.
Could be super dangerous now.
See if you can see the powder?”
The OP did not heed the potential warning,
however; instead, opting to pull the pin,
as other commentors suggested.
But it didn’t explode.
“Basically, the whole top broke off,”
he said.
“I left it there for a few minutes, but
nothing is happening.”
He then asked for further suggestions.
One user suggested to smash it with a hammer,
another proposed to throw it into a fire in
the forest.
The OP microwaved it instead, then tried burning
it in a fire, to no effect.
The last post from the OP was a photo of his
car tire on top of the grenade.
He’d tried to run it over.
Then he disappeared from the thread.
What happened to him?
Did the grenade end his life?
It’s a mystery.
14.
Chris Harper-Mercer
On October 1st, 2015, 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer
rampaged through the Umpqua Community College
campus in Oregon, where he was enrolled, and
took the lives of eight students and an assistant
professor.
Then he turned the gun towards himself and
took his own life.
Sadly, this could have been prevented, as
Chris Harper-Mercer posted his plans on 4chan.
“Some of you guys are alright.
Don’t go to school tomorrow if you are in
the northwest,” he posted cryptically.
He continued by predicting his plans: “Happening
thread will be posted tomorrow.”
He signed off, “So long, space robots.”
As users started to inquire about what his
cryptic message meant, the OP posted, “Will
post again in am, 10 min countdown.
Won’t say more, too much to prepare.”
Instead of reporting the mysterious post,
others began to taunt him, calling him “pathetic”
and daring him to “DO IT!”
He’s said to have had long-term mental health
issues.
At this time, he was on academic probation
at Umqua, as his grades had fallen below a
C average.
Was this post on 4chan a last-ditch attempt
at getting talked off the ledge?
A cry for help?
Or was it just another sadistic game he was
playing?
13.
The Bunker
An anonymous poster wrote about a bunker or
“bomb shelter” that his “paranoid”
grandfather, who was a WWII vet, had built
on his land.
He was “fearful of a nuclear war with the
communists,” according to the OP.
In the post, the OP explores this mysterious
bunker, with commenters egging him on.
The OP said he had high hopes when entering
the bunker, but only found a makeshift toilet
and old rusted garbage…That is, until he
found a heavy padlocked door.
He busted the padlock and forced the door
open.
Inside the room, he found creepy carvings,
faces in the rock.
He describes them as “a bunch of ghostly
faces staring you down.”
When he looked below the carvings, he found
a bone…a human bone.
With a pounding heart, he spun around, and
spotted more bones, protruding from the concrete,
“as though human remains had been dumped
in a batch of quick-dry cement.”
He heard laughter come from a corner of the
room.
This is when he bolted “like the devil was
chasing him.”
The OP didn’t post about the event again,
leaving many to wonder if this “bomb shelter”
was discovered to be a sacrificial altar…or
something even more mysterious.
12.
The Ogre in the Basement
One day, on 4chan, an anonymous poster started
an innocent enough thread…one that would
build to epic and hilarious proportions:
“Aw yeah, just got back from the Cosco to
get my copy of Fury Road,” he said.
“Anyone else picked it up?”
Along with this message, he uploaded a photo
of his hand holding the Mad Max DVD.
This is when things got weird.
“That goblin hand.
WTF, man,” another anonymous user responded.
Soon, everyone with normal non-goblin hands
came rolling into the forum to uncover the
mystery of why the OP’s hand was goblin
green.
“Are you an ogre?”
another user asked.
The background in the pic led others to believe
he lived below ground.
“Giant rubber hand,” one user said.
The OP wasn’t having any of this riffraff.
“There’s nothing wrong with my hands,”
he replied.
“Stop talking about them.”
It got weirder and more mysterious from there.
The OP began posting photos of his living
quarters.
In one pic, there were multiple laptops, stacked
one over the other.
He claimed he couldn’t afford a laptop,
but whenever the “people upstairs” bought
a new computer, they gave him their old one.
This led one user to crack, “‘The people
upstairs’…your owners?”
The teasing led the OP to ask if everyone
could “please get back to the original topic
at hand?”
Which only made everyone ROFL and reply, “At
hand???”
For some reason, the OP continued to upload
photos of his home.
In response to where he goes to the bathroom,
he replied, “I’m not an animal, you asshole.
I use a bucket.”
Although the mystery “at hand” may seem
like one involving whether the OP was a real-life
troll living under a bridge, most started
to wonder whether he was simply your average,
everyday internet troll.
His responses and photos in the thread seemed
to indicate he was.
At the end, he posted an image of what looked
to be an underground tunnel, alongside the
caption: “Also, I’m expanding the basement
a little of my own accord.
It’s just kind of cramped down here, so
I’m in the process of digging it out…They
said it was okay upstairs, after they heard
me digging.”
One anonymous user seemed to finally be keyed
up to the trolling.
“Well, the troll had his fun,” anonymous
wrote.
“Now stop pretending you all think this
is real.”
Why, though?
Why?!
11.
Liquid Injection
An user appeared on the 4chan scene in 2012
to pose an idea that was both mysterious and
creepy.
Posting a photo of a syringe full of neon
florescent blue liquid, he wrote:
“37 decides where this is injected.
No limits.”
He claimed he was high on “class A” drugs
and wanted people to tell him where on his
body to inject this potentially dangerous
liquid.
Others questioned if it was a real request,
so the OP (original poster) offered up a time
stamp to verify the legitimacy of his photograph.
At last, he took up the suggestion by one
user that he inject the glowing liquid into
his wrist.
The OP uploaded photos of the injection to
the thread, with the needle deep in his wrist
and the words “veins glowing” beside it.
His veins were, indeed, glowing, leaving many
to wonder what the heck this substance was
and what it might do to the OP’s body.
After the liquid worked its way through the
user’s system, he failed to respond anymore
on the thread, and nothing more was heard
from him on the forum.
This has led many to wonder whether he passed
away from this mystery liquid.
While some claim the liquid was a dye whose
florescent nature is activated by UV light,
others believed it was just the liquid from
a glow stick.
Some thought the OP was a prankster and the
thread was entirely photoshopped, while truthers
tend to think the mystery injection caused
him to go into cardiac arrest.
The reality of the event remains a mystery,
and as long as the OP stays mum, it’s unlikely
any redditors will solve the case of the glowing
injection.
10.
Someone is Following Me
Four years ago, a user by the name of parthomp
posted a claim that someone had placed a GPS
tracker on his vehicle.
“I noticed that one of my shocks on my car
was making a lot of noise and my car was riding
hard,” he said, “so I just figured that
I had blown it.
When I crawled up under my car I found this....
I can only assume it's a GPS tracker held
on with a large magnet.
Now, what should I do?”
What ensued was a reddit investigation the
likes of which the Internet has never seen.
After much back-and-forth about whether the
user was a target of government spying, an
illicit target of some kind, or simply the
partner of a jealous ex, one serious redditor,
by the name of Ohmec, clarified what type
of GPS tracker it was:
“This is a civilian-purchasable GPS tracking
device called a ‘SleuthGear GPS Tracker.’
They cost anywhere between 400-800$, depending
on where you buy them, and are very accurate
on their location pinpointing.”
He also claimed that law enforcement and the
FBI use a different, sturdier model, with
a longer battery life.
So, having ruled out the government, this
amateur detective’s focus turned to the
civilian population:
“My guess: crazy ex, stalker, etc.
You need to ask some questions, and make sure
and stay safe!”
Parthomp jokingly posted in response, “Maybe
I'll remove the GPS from the waterproof casing,
and leave a ransom note, ‘If you want your
GPS to live, replace this note with $250 in
unmarked bills!
And I'll put the GPS back, no questions asked.’”
As more and more users pushed the OP about
whether he had a crazy partner who wanted
to track his every move, parthomp admitted
he did.
He also admitted that a month prior, he’d
wanted to attend the birthday of a close friend,
who just so happened to be a girl.
His ‘crazy’ girlfriend didn’t like that.
He told his girlfriend that he wouldn’t
go.
Until the fateful day arrived…
“When the time came up, I thought, ‘Screw
This, I'm going!’” the OP said.
“So I did, and all night my girlfriend called
and called, I think it was 45 or more (times).
When I finally talked to her, she mysteriously
knew more than she could have, but never told
me how.”
Well, I think we know how.
Mystery, solved.
9.
The Stalker
Have you ever wished someone loved you to
the point of obsession?
When you read the Philmarillion [fil-mar-il-ee-en],
you’ll rethink that wish.
This mysterious and creepy 97-page document,
composed by a 4chan user called “the archiver,”
is a sample of just how disturbing stalking
can become.
The devil is in the details, as they say…and
the document – which contains artworks,
poems, and intense and extensive note-keeping
– is as detailed as they come.
The target of the stalking: 4chan user, “UTV.”
In June 2013, the archiver started to follow
UTV’s threads on the /sp/ (sports) board
and comment on everything UTV said with great
enthusiasm.
UTV responded with a whole lot of cussing.
That’s when the fantasy began.
In the Philmarilion, the archiver archives
UTV’s site activity, writes about their
fantasy future together, produces sonnets
and collages surrounding UTV’s posts, imagines
what their apartment will look like, and even
writes up an obituary and funeral plans for
the stalker’s beloved.
In one of the creepiest sonnets of all time,
the archiver writes:
“How can I explain my deep-seated love for
UTV?
I could compare him to an Aston Villa goal
But unlike a Villa goal UTV enlightens me
I want him with me always like a benign mole”
It’s no Shakespeare, but kudos for rhyming
goal with mole.
You might think this is where the stalking
ends, but no, it got even creepier.
The archiver wanted UTV’s personal info,
so he/she started “the bait club,” which
included the UTV Archiver YouTube channel.
The channel uploaded three videos, which some
thought might be coming from inside the house…UTV’s
house, that is.
The extent of the archiver’s creepy stalking
all came to a head on October 6th, when the
archiver posted his magnum opus – The Philmarilion,
his stalking’s collective works – along
with the following message:
“I have been with UTV for 255 threads.
This is the last one.
My parents have discovered my UTV works, and
they have insisted I remove everything of
the type from my computer and be done with
it.
They will be monitoring my activities now
to (be) sure I cannot do it anymore.
They have given me a day to remove everything
and this is my final message.
I am sorry to UTV and hope he sees this and
understands.”
‘Twas a sad day for imaginary love.
8.
The Westroads Mall
Another perpetrator posted cryptic warnings
on 4chan was the 2007 incident at Westroads
Mall in Omaha, Nebraska.
As nineteen-year-old Robert Hawkins gunned
down eight people and wounded four, before
turning the gun on himself.
His note remarked that part of the allure
was the fame that came along with it, even
after his passing.
His note read: “I just want to take a few
pieces of shit with me... just think tho,
I'm gonna be ... famous.”
Hawkins had been in therapy since he was four
years old and was hospitalized for depression
at six.
At 14, he’d made “homicidal threats to
his stepmother,” which landed him in a mental
health treatment center.
According to one reddit thread, on December
5th, 2007, at 12:38PM, he posted the following
message, “Later today, I’m going to bring
my rifle to Von Maur department store at the
Westroads mall, Omaha, Nebraska to try to
beat Cho’s high score.
I’m going to go out in style.”
Hawkins was referring to Seung-Hui [sue-ing
hoo-ey] Cho, the man who took 32 lives at
Virginia Tech earlier that year.
Other 4chan users chided Hawkins, telling
him to “do it” and saying “4chan is
behind you all the way.”
Again, was he reaching out for someone to
tell him not to go through with it?
We’ll never know.
Beginning just a little over an hour after
his 4chan post at 1:43PM.
7.
Sally Acorn Doll
Blow up dolls are creepy enough…so what
if some dude made a life-size doll out of
a human skeleton?
No “what if”s needed.
This actually happened.
And it was chronicled on 4chan.
The homemade doll was fashioned after Sonic
the Hedgehog’s Sally Acorn.
Though the OP said the bones weren’t real
bones, but wooden replicas, it’s hard to
tell if the framework is human or not.
Whatever the case, it frightened many a reddit
user, with fratr_horos saying, “oh, dear
god,” and Durtyjoey saying, “People like
this really bother me.
It's too creepy.”
We agree with you all the way, Durtyjoey.
6.
The Voice on the Sleep App
In 2014, reddit user, Redwantsblue80, posted
about an android app she used to get a better
sleep, called “Sleep as Android.”
The app records your sleeping noises, including
coughing, talking, snoring, and tossing/turning.
The user said that she’d never heard anything
on the app recordings, other than normal sleep
noises.
But that all changed on December 30th, when
a strange noise was heard on the recording
at 2:04 in the morning.
She was alone with her 3 year old that night,
just the two of them in her bed.
At the appointed time, a loud clicking noise
came across on the recording.
The user’s voice is heard, saying, “What
are you doing?” and a deeper voice answers,
“Nothing.”
The clicking sound amplifies, and the deep
voice says, “That’s them,” according
to the user (although other commenters who
listened to the recording say it sounds like
“I’m dead” or “I’m Danny”).
Needless to say, Redwantsblue80 was super
creeped out by this incident.
In her post, she says: “I don't remember
being awake that night.
The only plausible explanation is that I answered
my own sleeping talking, but the voice doesn't
even sound like me or something I could emulate.
It definitely doesn't sound like a voice my
preschooler could emulate, either.”
She says the only thing that clicks in her
room is the fan, but it’s not loud enough
to resonate at such a volume on her recording.
Four months later, the poster had changed
the locks and improved her home security system.
She said no more voices had been recorded,
but she’d been awoken by the clicking noise
two more times.
The first time it recurred, she got up and
approached her fan, and the sound started
to fade away.
The second time, she walked through her house
and asked whatever was making the noise to
please leave.
“I felt like a complete ding dong doing
that,” she said, “but I was up for trying
about anything.”
An interested redditor took it upon himself
to PM Redwantsblue80 to offer his professional
opinion of the posted recording:
“The other person in the recording definitely
isn't you talking to yourself, nor is it your
son.
Your voice's pitch in the question ‘what
are you doing?’ is around 265Hz (C4 in musical
notes) and the answerer's voice seems to be
around 95Hz (F#2).
That is relatively low voice for even a man.”
He continues, “Unfortunately, the recording
seems to have clipped a lot of the lower frequencies,
which makes it seem like the ‘man's’ voice
is around 190Hz.
But there's a little hint of the 90Hz tone
left, and judging by the upper frequencies
and some test recordings of my own voice (I'm
a man) it definitely seems and sounds like
a man to me.”
Although no one seems to have arrived at a
consensus as to who or what was making the
clicking noise and responding to the user’s
sleep talking, many have suggested that she
was the victim of a home invasion.
Thankfully, she’s no longer residing at
the home in question.
5.
The Guy Who Lived a Lifetime in a Moment
One poster, called temptotosssoon, related
a mysterious experience on a thread five years
ago, in which an assault knocked him unconscious
and, in his unconsciousness, he lived a whole
lifetime.
In this second life, he met the perfect woman,
whom he pursued for months before winning
her heart and marrying her.
They had a daughter together.
In the OP’s second life, his job paid well
enough that his wife could stay at home with
their growing family.
They also had a son, and the OP loved them
both.
For a while, everything was going swimmingly…until
the OP noticed that the perspective of a lamp
in his home was off.
“I was transfixed,” he wrote.
“I couldn't look away from it.
I stayed up all night staring at it, the next
morning I didn't go to work, something was
just not right about that lamp.”
This lamp took over his life.
He stopped eating and sleeping.
His wife tried to talk to him, but after a
while, she left, taking her kids to her mother’s.
Then the OP realized the lamp and all the
rest wasn’t real.
It expanded and consumed the OP’s entire
perspective.
“All I could see was red,” the OP wrote.
“I heard voices, screams, all kinds of weird
noises and I became aware of pain...the first
words I said were ‘I'm missing teeth’
and opened my eyes.
I was laying on my back on the sidewalk surrounded
by people that I didn't know, lots were freaking
out, I was completely confused.”
This is when the OP was taken to the hospital
in a cop car.
After this, he suffered years of depression,
impacted by this imaginary life he’d never
lived and the loving family he’d never had.
Sad, weird, and very mysterious.
4.
4chan Mystery
Before Facebook Live was used to stream horrendous
acts in real time, 4chan was an online source
for criminals to broadcast their misdeeds.
One of them was posted on the site by another
Oregon state 4channer.
33-year-old David Kalac was charged with taking
his girlfriend’s life in Washington, after
which he posted photos of his victim and the
scene, writing about his girlfriend, Amber
Lynn Coplin, and about how he wanted police
to take his life in a shootout.
Instead, what actually unfolded was a peaceful
surrender.
Sgt.
Nate Thompson said that Kalac approached him
while he was on patrol and said, “‘I have
a warrant for my arrest.’”
Police found Coplin’s remains in her bedroom,
where Kalac had left her driver’s license
near her head.
What was Kalac’s motive for posting this
photos on 4chan?
Was he bragging or did he want to be caught?
The mystery remains.
3.
The Shipping Container
An Australia 4chan user wrote about a mysterious
find in the middle of the outback.
He worked for a company that sourced labor
for rural areas, sending temps into the outback
as farmhands.
On one occasion, he says he was working for
a large property, clearing bushland with three
other guys.
His boss, Jeremy, gave the workers the day
off, since it was swelteringly hot, and he
told the OP about a watering hole 25 miles
north.
The other guys stayed behind, but the OP took
Jeremy up on the offer to drive there.
While they were driving, Jeremy pointed out
something strange to the OP.
In the middle of nowhere, they spotted “a
large blue angular structure far off in the
distance.”
Heading toward it, they found a big shipping
container which, according to Jeremy, hadn’t
been there when he drove through five weeks
prior.
They decided to investigate.
Attached to the shipping crate was a big diesel
generator and the crate was being monitored
by CCTV cameras.
Regardless, the building was on Jeremy’s
property and was trespassing, so they broke
the padlock on the door with bolt-cutters
and entered.
The crate was an office, fitted out with computer
equipment, desks, rolling chairs, and plastic
storage boxes.
On the computers were what the OP described
as “endless lists of ‘computer talk’…picking
up and receiving data then recording it on
several windows.”
The OP had no idea what was going on, but
when he approached the boxes, he became sick
to his stomach.
“This box was full of posters, DVDs and
photos, all of children.”
The OP leapt up and dragged Jeremy out of
the place, explaining what he’d found.
They raced back to the farm and called the
police, who arrived an hour later.
They led the police to the shipping container,
but by the time they’d arrived, a fire had
been set.
Nothing was uncovered from the fire, but the
OP remains shocked from the incident.
“I'll never forget what I saw in those boxes,”
he wrote.
2.
The Sad Tale of Fridgebro
Here’s one 4chan thread that will make your
skin crawl.
A poor anonymous user, who became known as
“fridgebro,” uploaded photographic evidence
on 4chan of his disgustingly dirty home one
night, with the accompanying sad tale:
“every night, browse 4chan on phone in bed
drain flies attracted to light so they bounce
off phone
get fed up one night and sob into pillow while
drain flies bounce off my head
dining room table is completely covered in
old dishware and beyond mummified food
plastic milk container rots and explodes
the smell was the most unpleasant thing I’ve
experienced”
He goes on to tell of walking his dog outside
and being approached by a concerned neighbor,
who asks why his windows are so grimy and
why his Christmas decorations from four years
ago are still up.
His response?
“I just forgot, haha.”
The OP further claims that once when he was
sick, he threw up all over the toilet and
still hasn’t cleaned it.
He dare not sit down on it now, instead hovering
above it.
He also claims that his old fridge wouldn’t
close, and everything in it rotted.
Instead of getting rid of it, he just used
a minifridge until a neighbor put an old one
out on the curb.
He uses that one now…though the old rotting
fridge is still in his home.
Without photos, many would likely believe
he’s spinning a tale, but the photos seem
to prove he lives exactly as he’s telling
it: garbage everywhere, vomit, flies, everything
in a state of decay.
How can he bear living in such a vile swampland?
“Lived like this all my life,” fridgebro
says, “pretty much used to it.”
While some might laugh, some might gag, and
some might shake their heads, you can’t
help but feel sorry for the mysterious fridgebro.
“The only time I talk to people is when
my neighbors say hello,” fridgebro claims.
With no friends or family, he even predicts
how it will all end for him: “I am going
to be found a rotten husk in my computer chair,
surrounded by filth, when a government worker
comes to see why I haven’t picked up my
neetbux check for the month yet.”
Here’s hoping fridgebro has since got some
help…and some friends.
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1.
First Toad in Space
For whatever reason, one 4channer decided
to send a poor toad into space, using what
he describes as “state of the art aviation
equipment.”
After putting the toad into a “docile, cryogenic”
state, he attaches the toad to what looks
to be eight green balloons and prepares him
“for launch.”
Lastly, he posts a photo of the toad being
sent off on an adventure, a la the old man
in Up!
Why anyone would do this is beyond my reasoning.
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