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When the uncanny and terrifying disrupt our lives, it’s often a challenge to convince others that the events truly occurred. In the past, the darkest moments in one's life would remain personal, shared only with a close circle of friends—or, if they became known, they would turn into urban legends, leaving people unsure of their authenticity.
But times have changed. With the rise of the Internet, images and videos of strange, horrifying events are shared online. Murderers have posted their chilling thoughts for the world to read. And now, people across the globe can witness real-life horror unfold, live, right before their eyes on their screens.
10. Hotel ZaZa’s Room 322
A Reddit user, known as “joelikesmusic,” posted a seemingly harmless inquiry in a Houston subreddit. He explained that he and some colleagues had stayed at the Hotel ZaZa, and after noticing that his colleague’s room was quite different from his, he asked: “What’s the deal with room 322?”
Room 322 was truly bizarre. In an otherwise upscale hotel, this room featured a cold, concrete floor, and its bed was bound by chains. The walls were covered in skulls and unsettling artworks of grotesque, distorted figures; one piece depicted two twin girls with giraffe-like necks, conjoined by their hair. Amidst the chaos, however, there was an oddly ordinary photograph of a smiling, middle-aged man: Jay Comeaux, president of Stanford Financial Group.
Even more unsettling was the size of the room. It was small—only about one-third the size of a typical room. The remaining portion of the space was separated by a brick wall, which seemed to have a one-way mirror. It appeared as though the rest of the room was behind the wall, a place where people could observe whatever happened inside room 322.
When Joe’s colleague inquired with the staff about his room, he was told it wasn’t intended for booking and was quickly moved to another.
However, when the story went viral, Hotel ZaZa changed its narrative. They claimed room 322 was simply one of their “quirky” themed rooms, designed to resemble a jail cell. But the other theme rooms were lavish, with chandeliers and plush furniture, making room 322 the only one with skulls and a concrete floor. And what was the purpose of having Jay Comeaux overseeing it all?
A reporter reached out to the hotel. According to him, their staff seemed uneasy and could only respond with, “I need to look into that a little bit further.”
9. 37.761962 N, 96.210194 W
On November 29, 2011, a 4chan user shared a photo of Emily Sander, an 18-year-old girl who had been missing for six days. Alongside the image, the user wrote a single line: “If anyone can correctly guess their own post number, I will tell you where she is buried.”
When someone correctly guessed, the user responded with the coordinates “37.761962 N, 96.210194 W.” These coordinates pointed to a location on the side of a county road, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of El Dorado, Kansas. This was the exact spot where police discovered Sander’s body, just an hour and ten minutes after the post was made.
It was later revealed that Sander had been brutally raped, murdered, and left in the wilderness, dumped by the side of the road. The police quickly arrested Israel Mireles for the crime. After Sander’s death, Mireles had fled to Mexico and hidden a bloodstained knife at his girlfriend’s grandmother’s home.
Neither Mireles nor the police have ever referenced the 4chan post, but someone—whether it was Mireles himself or another person who stumbled upon her body—knew exactly where Sander was buried before the authorities did. This person may hold the key to unraveling a crucial part of the mystery.
8. Lake City Quiet Pills
In 2009, a peculiar post appeared on Reddit. It was a eulogy for a user named “ReligionOfPeace,” written by a friend who stated, “He died at his desk looking at your site.” The user, known as “2-6,” had never posted on the site before but claimed to be “the person who provided ReligionOfPeace the space for ‘That Old Guy’s Image Host.’”
As people dug deeper into “That Old Guy’s Image Host,” they discovered it was a porn website registered under the odd domain name “lakecityquietpills.com.” Though unusual for a porn site, further investigation into the site’s code revealed something much stranger. The site contained ads for bizarre, long-term overseas jobs. One ad read, “Need 5 fluent Portuguese,” while another offered a “6-month private gig.”
People began to draw connections. They realized there was an ammunition plant in Lake City, Iowa, which led to speculation that a “quiet pill” could be a bullet. As they investigated further, they uncovered clues to support this idea. ReligionOfPeace had an unsettling level of knowledge about the challenges of killing with piano wire, and his eulogist friend 2-6 had mentioned on Fark that he provided “Lake City Quiet Pills” to those “in need of permanent rest.”
A conspiracy began to take shape around a group of hired killers, though it remained unclear whether it was born from genuine paranoia or a hoax. However, the story gained chilling relevance six months later. A Hamas commander named Mahmous al-Mabhouh was assassinated in his Dubai hotel—and investigators found that the assassins had been funded with credit cards linked to a bank in Lake City.
7. Jared Lee Loughner
In 2011, Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot in Tucson, Arizona, killing six people and injuring 13 others. His main target was Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically wounded. It was one of those tragedies that left people wondering if there had been any signs, but Loughner had openly documented his downward spiral. He filmed his descent and posted it on YouTube.
Before the shooting, Loughner maintained an active YouTube channel where he ranted about the US government’s use of mind control. He filmed his school, calling it his “genocide school,” and claimed, “We’re looking at students who have been tortured.”
But Loughner’s videos weren’t just rants; they contained chilling premonitions of what was to come. He had written his YouTube bio in the past tense, expecting to be dead soon. He also promised to create “a new currency,” warning that he would bring it to America by any means necessary, “lethal or non-lethal.”
The videos offered a disturbing and unsettling window into the mind of a man on the brink of collapse. Among the chaos, there was a haunting plea for help. In one disjointed video titled “Final Thoughts,” he said, “Jared Loughner is in need of sleep.”
6. The Sleep As Android Ghost
A single mother shared a bizarre experience on Reddit about using the “Sleep As Android” app to track her sleep patterns. She had activated a feature that recorded sounds whenever it detected nighttime noises, hoping to find out if she spoke in her sleep or had sleep apnea. But what she heard was something she never expected.
The only other person in her home was her three-year-old son, yet at 2:04 AM, the app picked up strange sounds that seemed like someone was going through her things. In the recording, she groggily asked, still asleep, “What are you doing?” Then a man’s voice replied, “Nothing.”
The voice wasn’t hers. It was a deep, unmistakably male voice. She uploaded the recording along with the app’s data, hoping someone could offer an explanation, but no one could give her anything beyond the obvious: Someone had been in her home.
However, nothing had been taken. Nothing was stolen—whoever had been there simply rummaged through her things and left without taking a thing.
She continued to use the app, and although the voice never returned, the strange rustling noise was picked up two more times. Eventually, feeling she had no other option, the woman and her son moved out. It was only then that the unsettling noises ceased.
5. CB_Wizdumb
The Hole is a notorious compound controlled by the Church of Scientology, infamous for its dark rumors. It’s said to be a place where individuals are subjected to abuse, starvation, and mind control, and one Reddit user, known as 'CB_Wizdumb,' may have found himself in the middle of it.
In a post about the prison’s bladed perimeter fence, CB_Wizdumb proudly declared that this was his hometown. Unafraid, he boasted that he would try to sneak in, saying, “Give me an address and I’ll GoPro the s— out of this place.”
A few hours later, he uploaded a picture of himself scaling the fence, proving that he had followed through on his claim. More updates were promised, with CB_Wizdumb intending to give the internet a firsthand look at what lay inside the Hole.
But the promised photos never arrived. Instead, within half an hour, his post was edited to read: “I apologize if I have offended any specific community. Trespassing is never funny, nor should it be considered a hobby.” Soon after, he began deleting every post he had made about Scientology.
It remains unclear whether this was part of an elaborate prank or if he was apprehended and silenced. What is certain is that he did climb the fence—and the photos he took beyond it never surfaced.
4. David Kalac: The 4chan Killer
In November 2014, a chilling post appeared on 4chan’s /b/ board, featuring a photo of a woman’s beaten, naked body. The user coldly remarked, “Turns out, it’s way harder to strangle someone to death than it looks on the movies.”
A few moments later, he added, “Check the news for Port Orchard, Washington in a few hours. Her son will be home from school soon. He’ll find her, then call the cops.”
Initially, most users dismissed it as fake, with some labeling it as “low-quality bait.” However, the news soon confirmed the tragic death of Amber Coplin, and the poster—her boyfriend, David Kalac—was telling the truth.
It happened exactly as he had foretold. Coplin’s 13-year-old son returned home to find his mother’s bloodied and battered body in her bedroom. Her face was badly beaten, and next to it, Kalac had placed her driver’s license with the word “dead” scrawled on it. On a photo hanging on the wall, he had written, “She killed me first.”
Kalac had promised 4chan that he would commit “suicide by cop,” but in the end, he couldn’t go through with it. When the police apprehended him, he surrendered, too frightened to face the same fate he had inflicted on Amber Coplin.
3. The /b/ Serial Killer
In 2015, another anonymous 4chan user posted two pictures: one a glamour shot of a young woman, and the other a grim image of her lifeless body on a bed. “I have killed several women for pleasure,” he wrote. “If you can guess a name, I’ll upload another picture. [ . . .] Guess them all, and I’ll show you where I dumped a body in 1999.”
People eagerly started guessing the names of as many women as they could, and the user kept his promise, adding more gruesome photos of dead women. The images weren’t found anywhere else online, and they didn’t resemble the typical photos taken by law enforcement at crime scenes.
When people began to investigate further, they uncovered GPS coordinates hidden in the images, pinpointing the user’s location in Carlin, Nevada. They also discovered that the first woman in the photos was Shauna Maynard, a woman who had disappeared in Las Vegas and has never been located.
The FBI was notified, but they have yet to locate Shauna Maynard or the /b/ Serial Killer, and they’ve not confirmed whether the body in the image was truly hers. As for the Las Vegas police, they have suggested it might be a hoax.
However, the police won’t clarify why they don’t believe it—and not everyone is convinced it’s a fabrication. After all, as one user noted: “It’s not the first time a killer has been on /b/.”
2. Mr. Anime
“Mr. Anime” was Trey Sesler, a YouTube personality with thousands of subscribers, who initially reviewed anime and video games, but as time went on, increasingly shared his thoughts on guns as well.
His show began normally enough, but as time passed, unsettling signs of his unraveling mind began to emerge. He shifted from discussing anime to focusing on guns and serial killers, even joking in one video that he was “the guy that does all the gun stuff now.”
The last video he uploaded was ominously titled, “Mr. Anime is Planning Something.” In it, he mentioned taking a break but assured his audience that “everything is going really good.” He never revealed what he was planning in the video—but soon, his viewers would discover the tragic details on the news.
Not long after, Sesler murdered his mother, father, and brother. He left behind a haunting message on the wall that read, “Why did I do this? I love my mom, dad and brother.” A manhunt ensued, and the police eventually found him, heavily armed, in his car heading toward Waller Junior High School.
Sesler had planned to carry out a school shooting. Had he not been apprehended, he intended to kill at least 70 people before ending his own life. He explained that he murdered his family so they wouldn’t have to suffer the pain of learning about his horrific actions.
1. Sad Satan
On the Deep Web, the hidden portion of the Internet inaccessible to search engines, an unsettling video game called Sad Satan surfaced. Uploaded anonymously, it quickly became infamous as a creepy, disturbing game—but it turned out to be far more than just a chilling survival horror experience.
The game had players navigating through a foggy, black-and-white corridor while strange, backward recordings of a child's voice echoed in the background. Mostly, it was a game of aimless wandering, but unsettling occurrences continued to appear.
As players explored the maze, bizarre images would flash—one even showing Jimmy Savile, the infamous pedophile and sexual predator. At one point, a voice recording of Charles Manson played, delivering a chilling message: “If I started murdering people, there’d be none of you left.” There were also cryptic messages that, when decoded, read things like “I can track you,” “kill kill and kill again,” and “5 victim!! :) :).”
The game gained notoriety when a YouTube user posted a video about it. However, according to one 4chan user, the version shown on YouTube was a sanitized version of the game. “Don’t believe that coward,” the user warned. “He did not show you what was truly in this game.” The user then shared another version—one allegedly containing disturbing flashes of child pornography.
The true creator and purpose of the game remain shrouded in mystery. Some believe the version on 4chan is the authentic one, while others claim the 4chan user added the disturbing content themselves. Some suggest it was merely a hoax intended to attract YouTube views, while others argue it’s part of a sinister child pornography conspiracy. Whatever the case, the game remains deeply disturbing.
