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I want to add a couple of good ones I've found:

Jeff the Killer lost media: no one knows where the original Jeff The Killer image came from.

Mortis.com: old weird website

Also here's a good website on various obscure computer/Internet related oddities: https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Do people still know about TimeCube these days? Not sure if that counts as a "mystery" per se, but it certainly has an air of the unknown.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Clintons live here.

XD

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The other similar case is 'the ball on a string' guy who went to different communitites including on reddit for years to promote his weird theory. IIRC his theory was that balls on strings of different sizes has their surface rotate at the similar speed if the central axis has a constant rotational speed too. Although many people tried to explain it to him, he insisted that larger ball therefore would spin like a Ferrari's wheel.

These cases are all depressive rather than mysterious.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's fun to laugh at these weird theories, but a bit depressing when you realize a lot of them come from a place of serious mental illness.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's that one celebrity who firmly believes that 1 * 1 is 2, or something equally bizarre...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It's probably fine as long as they don't try to push it onto others. Hope they don't.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

well tell us about it

is it that schizo guy with weird theories?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yep, you got it.

Down The Rabbit Hole did an episode about the guy.

Similarly, the Terry Davis episode is a wild ride.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also, here's a backup of TimeCube for anyone uninitiated: https://timecube.xyz/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I felt myself getting a brain tumor while reading that, I’ll have to come back to it later

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I was not prepared to remember the Time Cube when clicking on this thread...