even with an entire community of online
amateur detectives on the case some
answers continue to elude us welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 unsolved
internet mysteries before we begin we
publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
some of the most popular odd and
puzzlingly pervasive mysteries to ever
surface on the Internet or be intimately
linked with it number 10 the jak freeze
emails we’ve all heard spooky tales of
spirits communicating from the other
side but such messages are usually
conveyed via a psychic a Ouija board or
other transcendental medium what a crock
of shit it would seem however that Jack
fries who died suddenly of a heart
arrhythmia at the age of 32 in 2011
believed in taking a more modern and
direct approach to contact those he left
behind email roughly six months after
his passing friends began receiving
messages from his personal email we know
what you’re thinking
the average email isn’t tough to hack
the thing is the email made reference to
private in person conversations and said
I’m watching did you hear me
I’m at your house clean your attic
theories have been thrown around but no
definitive explanation was ever found
number 9 valid for tamaulipas also known
as courage for Tamale bus it’s a well
known fact that going up against the
Mexican cartels usually only ends one
way
with the Midler’s demise in the state of
Tamaulipas Mexico however some brave
soul decided to take that ultimate risk
he started a Facebook page to document
and share information about cartel
activity to keep the citizens informed
and safe by embracing the world of
social media this mystery had men was
able to get the word out without losing
their head a feat many journalists have
tried and failed using traditional media
though a massive bounty was put on the
operator’s life their identity remains a
secret even after their retirement in
2014 number 8 Bitcoin by now you’re
likely familiar with Bitcoin the
cryptocurrency that’s captured the
attention of the mainstream media it’s
been embraced by the technologically
savvy
the financially progressive and the
criminal underworld alike Bitcoin is is
better than currency and it you don’t
have to be physically in the same place
and yet its origin story is still
largely unknown sure the Bitcoin system
is credited to once a Toshi Nakamoto but
that’s just a pseudonym for someone
whose true identity remains concealed in
fact some believe that santoshi is not
one visionary programmer but rather a
clandestine group of programmers with
the current value of bitcoins however
whoever Nakamoto is there in possession
of the equivalent of roughly 2.7 billion
US dollars in bitcoins as of mid 2017
number seven acht
28 2011 calm so many questions
literally no answers this strange URL
and it’s even stranger content captured
the imagination of Internet sleuths and
conspiracy theorists when it launched in
2011 the date of October 28 2011 does
coincide with what many believe to be a
significant landmark on the Mayan
calendar but that date seemed to have
little bearing on the content of the
website itself the landing page
consisted of a few cryptic lines and a
phone number that led to weird and
disturbing messages it’s confusing
broken site structure changed regularly
and hid a variety of images instructions
and codes today opt 28 2011 dot-com
continues to captivate online
communities even after going down in
2015 number 6 973 – eh T – n a muh – 973
welcome to the world’s most dense
confusing and labyrinthine website
alright maybe we can’t say that
definitively because you know there are
well over a billion web sites out there
still this one certainly makes a strong
and mysterious bid for the title simply
attempting to navigate the web site is a
feat unto itself
as there are what appear to be thousands
of pages of dense content available but
parsing meaning from this overwhelming
Milosh of verse paintings in numerology
could very well drive a curious mind
insane by the looks of the site the
Creator may have lost it already
number 5 internet black holes
some areas of space are so dense that
neither matter nor light can escape what
goes in does not come back out these
fascinating celestial powers have
inspired many a science-fiction story
but they’ve also lent their title to an
earthly mystery internet black holes
have you ever sent an email that didn’t
make it to the recipient but didn’t fail
to send or trigger some sort of error
response rather it just sort of
disappeared well it may have been caught
in an internet blackhole a phenomenon
that has researchers stumped essentially
information has a habit of getting lost
on route with no conceivable explanation
as to where it went did you get my
emails mm-hmm did you see that i paged
you I did not number four John tighters
posts everyone loves a hero but that
goes double for a time-traveling one in
2000 an individual began posting in
online forums about time travel and
describing in relative detail his
functional time machine
at first I pushed the lever forward ever
so slightly later identifying himself as
John Titor he offered the world warnings
from the future his future the year 2036
though many of his predictions have
failed to come true he did stipulate
that his future was a parallel one and
therefore not guaranteed for us some
claim to have found the pranksters
responsible Larry and John Hebert
however there are many online who still
have faith in tighter as the real deal
the truth we may never know are you
saying it’s from the future
one possible future from your point of
view I don’t know tech stuff number
three Markovian parallax denigrate
Usenet an early precursor to the
internet debuted in 1980 as the first
networked system that allowed computers
to communicate with one another it
popularized such terms as FAQ flame and
most importantly for our case spam the
Markovian parallax denigrate is the name
given to a massive bit of spam that hit
Usenet accounts in 1996 a seemingly
random string of words that people are
still trying to interpret decades later
what
it all mean it became associated with
Susan Lind our an anti-war activist who
many believe was forwarding coded
messages is this strange assemblage of
words encrypted government information
or just an early example of nonsensical
spam you tell us number two
cicada 3301 everyone loves a good
mystery it’s why we as a culture read
books like The Da Vinci Code and watch
shows like Sherlock the name Sherlock
Holmes in the address is 221b Baker
Street cicada 3301 however is a mystery
that despite bearing all the markings of
a work of fiction is very much grounded
in reality no one knows what they are or
what their purpose is but this secret
group posts some of the most challenging
puzzles imaginable online and then
begins to vet those very few who succeed
to what end
well at that point anyone who makes the
cut stops talking to the press so we
don’t know some think their hackers
others call it a CIA recruiting tool
number one a eight five eight since
reddit is the community based online
problem solving hub it’s only fitting
that it’s home to the greatest of all
unsolved internet mysteries a h58 is
actually short for a eight five eight de
4 5 f 5 6 d 9 bc 9 the name of a user
and subreddit responsible for posting
complex ciphers since 2011 new lines of
code were updated daily until 2016 and
though some have been broken when taken
as individual pieces of information they
didn’t amount to much a 8 5 8 1 Sivan
held an extensive AMA but it resulted in
more questions than answers whatever the
project was it’s now over but the
purpose of it all is still far from
being uncovered talk about a mystery for
the Internet age while why didn’t I take
the blue pill do you agree with our pics
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
you
amateur detectives on the case some
answers continue to elude us welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 unsolved
internet mysteries before we begin we
publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
some of the most popular odd and
puzzlingly pervasive mysteries to ever
surface on the Internet or be intimately
linked with it number 10 the jak freeze
emails we’ve all heard spooky tales of
spirits communicating from the other
side but such messages are usually
conveyed via a psychic a Ouija board or
other transcendental medium what a crock
of shit it would seem however that Jack
fries who died suddenly of a heart
arrhythmia at the age of 32 in 2011
believed in taking a more modern and
direct approach to contact those he left
behind email roughly six months after
his passing friends began receiving
messages from his personal email we know
what you’re thinking
the average email isn’t tough to hack
the thing is the email made reference to
private in person conversations and said
I’m watching did you hear me
I’m at your house clean your attic
theories have been thrown around but no
definitive explanation was ever found
number 9 valid for tamaulipas also known
as courage for Tamale bus it’s a well
known fact that going up against the
Mexican cartels usually only ends one
way
with the Midler’s demise in the state of
Tamaulipas Mexico however some brave
soul decided to take that ultimate risk
he started a Facebook page to document
and share information about cartel
activity to keep the citizens informed
and safe by embracing the world of
social media this mystery had men was
able to get the word out without losing
their head a feat many journalists have
tried and failed using traditional media
though a massive bounty was put on the
operator’s life their identity remains a
secret even after their retirement in
2014 number 8 Bitcoin by now you’re
likely familiar with Bitcoin the
cryptocurrency that’s captured the
attention of the mainstream media it’s
been embraced by the technologically
savvy
the financially progressive and the
criminal underworld alike Bitcoin is is
better than currency and it you don’t
have to be physically in the same place
and yet its origin story is still
largely unknown sure the Bitcoin system
is credited to once a Toshi Nakamoto but
that’s just a pseudonym for someone
whose true identity remains concealed in
fact some believe that santoshi is not
one visionary programmer but rather a
clandestine group of programmers with
the current value of bitcoins however
whoever Nakamoto is there in possession
of the equivalent of roughly 2.7 billion
US dollars in bitcoins as of mid 2017
number seven acht
28 2011 calm so many questions
literally no answers this strange URL
and it’s even stranger content captured
the imagination of Internet sleuths and
conspiracy theorists when it launched in
2011 the date of October 28 2011 does
coincide with what many believe to be a
significant landmark on the Mayan
calendar but that date seemed to have
little bearing on the content of the
website itself the landing page
consisted of a few cryptic lines and a
phone number that led to weird and
disturbing messages it’s confusing
broken site structure changed regularly
and hid a variety of images instructions
and codes today opt 28 2011 dot-com
continues to captivate online
communities even after going down in
2015 number 6 973 – eh T – n a muh – 973
welcome to the world’s most dense
confusing and labyrinthine website
alright maybe we can’t say that
definitively because you know there are
well over a billion web sites out there
still this one certainly makes a strong
and mysterious bid for the title simply
attempting to navigate the web site is a
feat unto itself
as there are what appear to be thousands
of pages of dense content available but
parsing meaning from this overwhelming
Milosh of verse paintings in numerology
could very well drive a curious mind
insane by the looks of the site the
Creator may have lost it already
number 5 internet black holes
some areas of space are so dense that
neither matter nor light can escape what
goes in does not come back out these
fascinating celestial powers have
inspired many a science-fiction story
but they’ve also lent their title to an
earthly mystery internet black holes
have you ever sent an email that didn’t
make it to the recipient but didn’t fail
to send or trigger some sort of error
response rather it just sort of
disappeared well it may have been caught
in an internet blackhole a phenomenon
that has researchers stumped essentially
information has a habit of getting lost
on route with no conceivable explanation
as to where it went did you get my
emails mm-hmm did you see that i paged
you I did not number four John tighters
posts everyone loves a hero but that
goes double for a time-traveling one in
2000 an individual began posting in
online forums about time travel and
describing in relative detail his
functional time machine
at first I pushed the lever forward ever
so slightly later identifying himself as
John Titor he offered the world warnings
from the future his future the year 2036
though many of his predictions have
failed to come true he did stipulate
that his future was a parallel one and
therefore not guaranteed for us some
claim to have found the pranksters
responsible Larry and John Hebert
however there are many online who still
have faith in tighter as the real deal
the truth we may never know are you
saying it’s from the future
one possible future from your point of
view I don’t know tech stuff number
three Markovian parallax denigrate
Usenet an early precursor to the
internet debuted in 1980 as the first
networked system that allowed computers
to communicate with one another it
popularized such terms as FAQ flame and
most importantly for our case spam the
Markovian parallax denigrate is the name
given to a massive bit of spam that hit
Usenet accounts in 1996 a seemingly
random string of words that people are
still trying to interpret decades later
what
it all mean it became associated with
Susan Lind our an anti-war activist who
many believe was forwarding coded
messages is this strange assemblage of
words encrypted government information
or just an early example of nonsensical
spam you tell us number two
cicada 3301 everyone loves a good
mystery it’s why we as a culture read
books like The Da Vinci Code and watch
shows like Sherlock the name Sherlock
Holmes in the address is 221b Baker
Street cicada 3301 however is a mystery
that despite bearing all the markings of
a work of fiction is very much grounded
in reality no one knows what they are or
what their purpose is but this secret
group posts some of the most challenging
puzzles imaginable online and then
begins to vet those very few who succeed
to what end
well at that point anyone who makes the
cut stops talking to the press so we
don’t know some think their hackers
others call it a CIA recruiting tool
number one a eight five eight since
reddit is the community based online
problem solving hub it’s only fitting
that it’s home to the greatest of all
unsolved internet mysteries a h58 is
actually short for a eight five eight de
4 5 f 5 6 d 9 bc 9 the name of a user
and subreddit responsible for posting
complex ciphers since 2011 new lines of
code were updated daily until 2016 and
though some have been broken when taken
as individual pieces of information they
didn’t amount to much a 8 5 8 1 Sivan
held an extensive AMA but it resulted in
more questions than answers whatever the
project was it’s now over but the
purpose of it all is still far from
being uncovered talk about a mystery for
the Internet age while why didn’t I take
the blue pill do you agree with our pics
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
you
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