Internet Freakshow - Stories of Internet Mysteries, Trolls, Weirdos, and Freaks
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Google Maps Solving True Crimes and Mysteries
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the Lost Demo Tape
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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. Th...
Bianca Devins
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 soc...
Ring of Cannibals
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Kutchie's Key Lime Pies
03 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Jennifer Ringley
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, s...
Kaycee Nicole
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1999, Kaycee Nicole created an account at an early social media network called CollegeClub.com. Social media networks and CollegeClub were quite ne...
Chip Chan
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Ted the Caver
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This internet freakshow begins on Angelfire of all places. Back as the web was evolving, services like Angelfire and Geocities provided web space and ...
Sharon Lopatka
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Sad Satan
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Markovian Parallax Denigrate
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 r...
Unfavorable Semicircle
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Unfavorable Semicircle is a YouTube channel that was created March of 2015, but video uploads did not begin until April 5th. While many YouTube channe...
The Body
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 wha...
Mysterious Voicemail
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 hi...
Carl Herold
01 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Herold was something of a prolific YouTuber. His YouTube channel has almost 20,000 subscribers, totalling nearly 4 million views. His site, "Comp...
I Feel Fantastic
25 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ...
4chan Killers
18 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
MasaoHF
11 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ju...
John Titor
04 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
11B X 1371
28 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 packag...