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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 package contained a DVD with a code written in Sharpie on the top. The DVD was not a data DVD, but a standard video DVD with a menu. The

The song you just heard is a little song called “I Feel Fantastic” by Tara, a singing Android. It first appeared on the internet in 2004. It features the song you just heard being sung by a robot named Tara. The robot is definitely an inhabitant of Uncanny Valley. She resembles a human, and

Depending on who you ask, John Titor is an early, and very famous, internet troll. Or, just maybe, a time traveler.

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 just gave them a camera and asked them to cook some of their favorite dishes? Well, you may end up with the type of video you see from MasaoHF’s

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 malicious hackers, that is only a small subset of the site. A lot of the posts on the site are just simple prank jokes, memes, creepypasta or green

Carl Herold was something of a prolific YouTuber. His YouTube channel has almost 20,000 subscribers, totalling nearly 4 million views. This is what his YouTube description says about him:

First off, let me apologize for going over 2 years without any new episodes. While I assumed that Internet Freakshow would go in seasons with bursts of content and some breaks, I didn’t really anticipate 2 full years. I am not going to make excuses, but for those who reached out via Twitter and

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 what we can only assume was the bottom of the same drawer, more Sharpie text read, “The body lies at…” followed by a series of GPS coordinates.

Unfavorable Semicircle is a YouTube channel that was created March of 2015, but video uploads did not begin until April 5th. While many YouTube channels are low traffic or have videos that are not immediately apparent as to their purpose, this channel was substantially different.

This season on Internet Freakshow, we’ve focused a lot on Reddit, Facebook, and YouTube. We’ve covered GPS coordinates and video compression algorithms and embedded messages. But let’s go back to a simpler time of the internet. Before we even knew what a social network was, back in the days

Some people think the dark web or the deep web is just Hollywood fiction, but I can assure you it is very real. It is used for a variety of things that we’ll likely get into in future episodes of Internet Freakshow, but the one we’ll be discussing today is using it for distribution of

The internet is great for building communities around common interests. That’s the whole basic point of social media, right? In Facebook you can join groups for TV shows you like or hobbies you may have, or even the neighborhood you live in. On Twitter you can follow brands you enjoy or

This internet freakshow begins on Angelfire of all places. Back as the web was evolving, services like Angelfire and Geocities provided web space and hosting that enabled anyone to create their own websites. These days, the services have faded away to other, easier services. For most people, social

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 that the 4-chan user believed her to be dead, but she did awake and quickly hid behind some hand-written signs, written in Korean. He posted his

In 1999, Kaycee Nicole created an account at an early social media network called CollegeClub.com. Social media networks and CollegeClub were quite new at the time, and Kaycee, an eager, smart and ambitious high school senior from Kansas, was ready and willing to help the small, but growing, site.

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, she wanted to use technology to share her life with friends, family, and strangers alike. This was years before social media and instragram, so Jenny

In 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 a restaurant named Kutchie’s Key West Cafe. Comments like this are one of the reasons the internet is so great. In fact, entire social networks

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