Disturbing Internet Anomalies
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00:00Surveillance Cameraman
00:02In 2013, a channel called Surveillance Cameraman was created on YouTube.
00:07And although the videos have all been taken down now, only accessible through a handful of internet archives,
00:13there was once a time when this channel went so viral that it was even featured in the news and in the Seattle Times newspaper.
00:19Although the videos are no longer visible on YouTube, pretty much all of the Surveillance Cameraman videos follow the exact same formula.
00:26A man with a camera would walk around the streets of Seattle, go up to random people on the street,
00:31get in their personal space, and start recording them without their permission,
00:34and without even bothering to explain to people why he was recording or what he planned to do with the videos in the future.
00:40As you can imagine, a lot of people didn't take kindly to having a camera shoved in their face,
00:45but when his targets would confront him and ask him what he was doing,
00:48he would usually either stay completely silent, make slight grunting noises,
00:52or just say something extremely vague like, I'm just recording a video.
00:56In some of his videos, people would naturally get pretty mad at him,
00:59but he never seemed to care and just kept on recording, even when being yelled at, chased away by his targets,
01:04getting stuff thrown at him, or having his camera even batted away.
01:08Most of the time, however, people would just get self-conscious and awkward when they realized they were being recorded,
01:13and would try to walk away from who they probably assumed was either a stalker,
01:16or just a jerk with no consideration for their privacy and personal space.
01:20The channel was extremely weird, and if you take a minute to analyze surveillance cameraman's actions,
01:26it might seem like there wasn't a real purpose to his videos, other than to maybe annoy people to get cheap views on YouTube.
01:32However, in one of his videos, he says something that suggests there was a deeper meaning to the channel.
01:37In his first video ever, he walks up to a young couple studying at a college campus,
01:42immediately pulls out his camera and starts recording them without their permission.
01:46After a few moments of awkward silence where the couple tries to figure out what's going on,
01:50the guy asks surveillance cameraman why he's recording them when they're just minding their own business,
01:54to which the uploader responds with a question.
01:57Can you ask us why you're taking the video?
01:59Just taking the video.
02:00Okay, well, I don't want to be taking the video.
02:04Why are you so worried about it?
02:06I'm not worried, you're just being annoying.
02:08Look at it this way, you ever go out, you ever go to the grocery store?
02:11No.
02:12And now there's like surveillance cameras everywhere?
02:14Yeah.
02:15It's not a big deal.
02:18Okay, well...
02:19It's just a video, I mean...
02:20No, you're just being annoying.
02:22After the video was uploaded, a lot of people started to speculate that
02:25maybe the entire point of the channel was to raise awareness about
02:28how much we've sacrificed our privacy in today's world.
02:31How we've silently consented to institutions to record our every move
02:35and use the footage for means we're not 100% aware of.
02:38Although, this theory was never officially confirmed by surveillance cameraman himself.
02:43Even if it were true, putting cameras in strangers' face just to make a point
02:47is a pretty obnoxious way to make a social commentary.
02:50Throughout the rest of all his videos,
02:52there's almost no further mention of the channel having a deeper meaning.
02:55Shortly after the channel was created,
02:57a local Seattle news station even made a report on surveillance cameraman,
03:01heavily leaning into the possibility that the channel was created to comment on a social issue.
03:05Shortly after, the Seattle Times even published an article about how the uploader's actions
03:09were making a lot of people question the meaning of privacy in the 21st century.
03:13Still, because YouTube pretty much wiped the entire channel's videos,
03:17it's hard to know the real motivation in recording random people on the street and posting it to YouTube.
03:26Forgottenlanguages.org
03:28Forgottenlanguages.org is a very confusing website with all kinds of theories behind its possible meaning,
03:34which has led to the creation of a pretty deep rabbit hole around it over the years.
03:38Upon visiting the site, you'll be greeted with what appears to be a library of strange articles with some very weird images.
03:45What makes this website so strange is that none of these articles are legible,
03:50as they appear to be written in some sort of unknown language.
03:53Some of the articles do have snippets of English sprinkled throughout them,
03:56but for the most part, they're pretty much impossible to understand.
03:59The only way you'd be able to get an idea of what each article is about would be to look at the external documents being referenced in the article
04:06and do some reverse engineering to make an educated guess as to the article's subject matter.
04:11The further I've entered into the site, the stranger the topics of the article started to get,
04:15with a lot of them being written on things like occult spirituality, alien technologies, the darker side of neuropsychology, and similar topics.
04:23Although some people have speculated that the entire site is written in complete gibberish and was just made as a complicated joke,
04:30others have claimed to have successfully translated some of the articles with advanced translation software.
04:35Many people seem to think ForgottenLanguages.org is the work of a mysterious woman who goes by the name Aindrill,
04:41along with 15 other close collaborators who are obsessed with using already existing languages
04:45to create a new, universal language that can be understood by living organisms other than humans.
04:50This is where it starts to get a little confusing, as the creators of the website have also allegedly claimed
04:55that they made ForgottenLanguages.org to share some sort of secret knowledge with other speakers of the language around the world.
05:01Because some of the articles on the site seem to reference confidential government documents,
05:06lots of people have theorized that there's something deeper going on behind the scenes of Forgotten Languages,
05:10but so far none of this has been confirmed.
05:13I also found really elaborate association charts made by someone who wanted to find all the people connected to the website.
05:19But some of the associations look like a bit too much of a stretch,
05:23and it looks more like a conspiracy theory chart than anything else.
05:26Because the owners of Forgotten Languages have been uploading articles to their site for over 15 years,
05:31it's hard to believe they're doing it without a real purpose.
05:34If it were a hoax or some sort of ARG, this would be a pretty elaborate one.
05:38As I later found out, there's also Forgotten Languages YouTube channel with some very strange videos.
05:44A couple of other YouTubers have reached out to the channel owners who responded not to worry about the channel,
05:49as the videos were all made as messages for their members, or something like that.
05:53It's possible in the future more information on Forgotten Languages will surface,
05:57but for now, there's not really a concrete idea as to what the site is actually used for.
06:02Thrift Shop SD Cards
06:09In 2014, a channel called Thrift Shop SD Cards was created on YouTube,
06:13with the intention of uploading strange things that the channel owners found in the memory cards and cameras they bought at thrift stores.
06:19Since its creation, only two videos have been uploaded to its channel,
06:23with the most recent one dating back to September 2014.
06:26In the description of the first video, the uploaders claimed that the video was found on an SD card in an old digital camera around 2004,
06:34and that the footage shows two teens looking at what appears to be an abandoned school.
06:38As per the caption, there's a weird sound at 49 seconds,
06:41after which the two teens mention a moving door and turn the camera off.
06:45Because the video ends as soon as one of the teenagers turns around,
07:01it's impossible to know what exactly caused the door to move.
07:04Still, it's pretty creepy considering the video was allegedly found on a thrift shop camera.
07:09The second video shows a man staring into the camera and talking about something being in his eyes,
07:14and asking someone else if they see the things in his eyes too, with no response.
07:19There are my eyes.
07:22You see them right?
07:25There are my eyes.
07:29According to the uploader, this video was taken in 2003,
07:32and although many people have found it a little disturbing,
07:35it's more than likely that the guy just had colored contact lenses in his eyes,
07:39and was going to send the video to a friend asking if he could see them.
07:42Although, of course, this hasn't been confirmed,
07:44it's pretty likely that's all there is to this video.
07:51Help Me Susie's Dying
07:53In the UK in the 70s and 80s, there were rumors that if you went to certain telephone booths and dialed a specific number,
08:00you would allegedly reach a woman with a flat, monotone voice repeating the same creepy phrase over and over.
08:06Help me, help me, Susie's dying.
08:09However, on the internet, there's some contradicting information circulating about the whole thing.
08:13Many people disagree on the exact number you'd have to dial to reach the disturbing voice,
08:18and what the exact message you'd hear was,
08:20but the common consensus was that the number was simply 202020,
08:24or a similar combination of twos and zeros.
08:27Over the years, the story's been reposted all over the internet on forums like 4chan and Reddit,
08:32and the first account of the Help Me Susie's Dying story I was able to find dates all the way back to the year 2000.
08:37A man from Lancashire named Rob Dickinson wrote about his account of what happened
08:41when he and a couple of his friends went into a phone booth in the mid-70s to see if the rumors were true.
08:46Rob's account was originally published in the It Happened to Me section of the 14 Times,
08:51a British magazine dedicated to publishing people's accounts of their encounters with the odd, paranormal, and mysterious.
08:57I found a few more accounts of the same story in the same magazine,
09:01and although there was some contradicting information in some of them,
09:04they all agreed that the phone booths were located in or around the town of Burnley in the UK,
09:08and that the incident took place in the 70s and 80s.
09:11These few accounts are the only official sources of information available in the Help Me Susie's Dying incident,
09:17which makes it hard to confirm whether any of this is true.
09:20According to one of the most logical and believable theories that has surfaced regarding the disturbing recording,
09:25the voice was supposed to be a test not meant to be heard by the public.
09:28And it's possible that due to the bad quality of the recording back in the 70s and 80s,
09:33the voice could have been saying something completely different than what the users heard.
09:36It's possible that the voice was saying something like,
09:39hold please user dialing, but because of the garbled sound of the recording,
09:42the dialer heard Help Me Susie's Dying, and the whole story became a case of broken telephone.
09:47Still, it's possible that some employees at the phone booth company programmed the test recording
09:52to say something dark and disturbing as a joke.
09:58Sweet Peach
10:00Sweet Peach is an extremely strange YouTube channel created in July 2017,
10:05featuring over 17,000 videos that don't seem to make any sense.
10:10All of the videos are the same, starting with an image of a couple of barcodes,
10:14and eventually becoming a jarbled mess of colorful graphics, geometric shapes, and smiley faces
10:19while beeping tones can be heard in the background.
10:22Although the videos vary in length, most of them range from 2 to 9 minutes long,
10:26and despite the insane amount of videos that have been uploaded to the channel over the years,
10:29there doesn't seem to be any sort of meaning to Sweet Peach.
10:33Many people have come up with all kinds of theories to explain the channel's purpose,
10:37but it seems the channel is most similar to another channel called WebDriver Torso.
10:42On September 23, 2013, WebDriver Torso started uploading videos at a pretty insane rate,
10:48often every 15 to 20 minutes.
10:50Similarly to Sweet Peach, the videos consisted of simple slides with colorful graphics
10:55and constant beeping noises playing in the background.
10:58Although most of the 624,000 videos uploaded to the channel were pretty much the same,
11:03the channel gained a lot of public attention in 2014 when a couple of users found what appeared to be jokes
11:08sprinkled throughout some of the videos.
11:10As the videos gained attention online, YouTube eventually admitted that the channel had been created
11:14by their performance engineers as an internal testing tool for visuals and audio,
11:18and in 2017, WebDriver Torso stopped posting videos at the same crazy fast rate.
11:23Still, WebDriver Torso remains active to this day, still posting videos on occasion.
11:29Considering its similarities to WebDriver Torso,
11:31it's possible that Sweet Peach is just another automated performance testing account.
11:36Otherwise, I can't really think of a good reason to have a channel like this.
11:43The Stinky Meat Project
11:46Stinkymeat.net is probably one of the strangest, most disgusting websites hidden in the corners of the internet.
11:52It's not necessarily disturbing, just incredibly weird.
11:56As per the website's description, the Stinky Meat Project was created in the summer of 2000 by a guy named Malin Smith,
12:03who thought it would be a good idea to take three different kinds of meat, put them on a plate,
12:07and place them in his neighbor's yard to see what would happen if he left the meat to rot.
12:12Long story short, because he never got arrested for his antics in his neighbor's yard,
12:16he decided to turn the Stinky Meat Project into something a little bit bigger.
12:20Over the years, Malin Smith and a couple of his friends have been taking different kinds of raw meat
12:25and documenting what happens when they leave the meat in random locations such as libraries,
12:30malls, parks, backyards, and even on top of their computers.
12:34The whole project consists of them going back to the meat they've left in different locations,
12:39checking to see how disgusting it gets over time, and uploading the pictures to their site,
12:43as well as some descriptions of what they had to go through for the meat to end up where it did.
12:47There doesn't seem to be much more to it, the sheer effort they've put into the whole thing is pretty insane.
12:53Over time, Malin and his friends have even made some merch with the Stinky Meat Project logo on t-shirts,
12:58and it appears they even had a bit of a fanbase at their peak.
13:02It seems the project is no longer active, but the website definitely still is, and probably will be for a while.
13:13Floating Chinese City
13:15In 2015, a video of what appeared to be a floating city in the clouds above the Chinese city of Phoshan
13:21started circulating everywhere online, and after it was covered in several news stations around the world,
13:26all kinds of theories started surfacing regarding the video's origin.
13:29The quality of the video itself is pretty bad, but because it was allegedly shot on a cloudy day,
13:34it doesn't immediately look fake.
13:36Despite the fact that even sources like CNN covered it,
13:40nobody really knows who shot the video or where it came from,
13:43which is pretty strange regardless of whether it's real or not.
13:46As you can imagine, as soon as some of the more credible news sources began speculating about the video's origin,
13:51people started throwing around all kinds of conspiracy theories,
13:54with some people claiming that the footage is undeniable evidence of the so-called Bluebeam Project.
13:59According to the now deceased Canadian writer and poet Sergey Monast,
14:03Project Bluebeam was NASA's effort to broadcast holograms of the Second Coming of Christ all over the world
14:08to implement a totalitarian takeover of Earth by the New World Order.
14:12Although this is one of the wilder theories regarding the video's origin for sure,
14:17some of the other more credible theories that have also gained traction over the years
14:20suggest there's a more plausible explanation for the video of the Floating City.
14:24According to one of the most believable ones,
14:26the Floating City could have been a real video of something called a Fata Morgana,
14:30which is basically an optical illusion or a mirage caused by light rays being bent by extremely dense air trapped by alternating layers of warm and cold.
14:38This phenomenon sometimes causes boats and ships on the ocean to look as if they're floating above the water in the distance,
14:44or that there's water in the distance on the road.
14:46Still, to say the Floating City looks anything like what even the most impressive Fata Morgana usually looks like is a huge stretch,
14:53suggesting the very real possibility that the video was somehow faked.
14:57Project Red Sun
15:03In 2012, supposed footage of a secret NASA mission to Mars in 1973 started gaining massive traction online.
15:11Many people bought into the theory that NASA had launched a covert project codenamed Project Red Sun in the late 60s and early 70s
15:18to land human beings on Mars and establish relationships with aliens without the general public noticing.
15:24The footage itself starts with a blue screen warning viewers that the video was not meant for public distribution,
15:30after which we see three minutes of blurry, wobbly footage of the supposed Mars landing.
15:35At first glance, it's hard to know what to make of the video,
15:38and it's not hard to see why many conspiracy theorists tried to position the footage as proof that NASA had been working with aliens for the past 50 years while keeping the public completely in the dark.
15:48Obviously, the most logical explanation is that the video and the theory behind it are fake.
15:53Some people have claimed that the footage is the work of the Faking Hoaxer,
15:56a small channel on YouTube that has released similar footage in the past and promoted it as real.
16:01It might also be worth mentioning that John Moonwalker, the YouTuber who originally uploaded the video back in 2012,
16:07has uploaded similar videos of questionable origin in the past.
16:11The most popular video on his channel, uploaded 14 years ago, is titled Apollo 17 Alien Encounter,
16:16and it shows some obviously edited footage of a moon landing.
16:20So, just with that, we have to take everything published by the channel with a grain of salt.
16:24A lot of people seem to favor the idea that the footage was created using some of NASA's still images of Mars
16:29and manipulating them with some basic editing software.
16:32But, there are of course people in small pockets of the internet that still believe this is real,
16:37despite the overwhelming evidence against it.