Welcome back guys, my name is Danny Burke
and I love Reddit. Its one of the biggest online communities
and when they put their minds together, theyve acheived some pretty crazy things. Sometimes - they even solve crimes and mysteries
together that many in the real world just couldnt get their heads around. Youre about to see exactly what I mean - this
is the top 10 insane mysteries solved by reddit. Also, if you like the hat or the shirt, you
can get your own over at mostamazingshop.com … the material is very nice. Hopefully Ive really sold that to you. Ok Starting off at number 10 we have Webdriver
Torso. In 2013, a YouTube channel was created called
Webdriver Torso. All it did was uploaded videos like this. CLIP. Reddit users jumped on it - theories ranged
from the ridiculous such as aliens to the intriguing such as spy communication. Eventually, a number of Reddit users came
up with the answer to this mystery, including a blogger who made the most detailed description. It turns out that YouTube itself set up the
channel to test the quality of videos. The content is meaningless, hence the random
sounds and visuals - but by comparing that video with the original file, YouTube can
see how good their uploading system is for video quality. Google later confirmed this was the case. Shame its not aliens or spies though. Next up at number 9 we have The Post It Notes. In 2015, Reddit user RBradbury1920 posted
to Reddit saying he kept finding post it notes in his apartment reminding him to do errands
he had told nobody else about. He was seriously freaked out but found no
signs of a break in. It kept happening though so he asked Reddit
to help him solve it. Reddit user Kak-kerlak made the suggestion
that perhaps HE was the one leaving the notes and just not remembering. He suggested mental health but also a Carbon
Monxide leak. This odorless gas can have serious effects
on peoples brains and will cause death if levels are high enough. He replied by saying that he was having pretty
bad headaches and that hed set up his Carbon Monixide detector right away. It was a good job he did because that was
the problem. The level had reached a dangerous 100 PPM
- causing him to black out and forget he wrote the post it notes. Mystery solved but even more importantly,
a life saved. Coming in at number 8 we have the Nail Through
The Wood. One day a Reddit user posted this image to
Reddit. That’s a nail going through a piece of wood
- but how did it get there? As you can see, there is no hole in the piece
on the left, how did the nail end up going through the other pieces? The user who posted it said he found it on
a hiking trip. He said there was no visual trickery involved
and the wood was one solid block - no glue. Reddit was stumped, nobody could figure out
how it was achieved. And then, on November 21st 2009, woodworker
Steve Ramsey uploaded a video showing the solution. He made the block, soaked the end piece in
boiling water and used a clamp to push it down enough to nail a hole in the next block. Then, he simply soaked it again to make it
take its original form. Incredibly simple and very impressive work
by him, the video is currently sitting at over 20 million views! Moving on to number 7 we have the SIM card. In 2013, Reddit user shady business 15 posted
pictures to reddit showing his extension cord which had blown a fuse. When he took it apart , he found a sim card
with a serial number on it. Errrr what? Yeah, Id be freaked out too. Reddit users realised there was a microphone
attached to the device - he was being bugged. Everytime somebody rang that sim cards number,
it was listening to the whole room. He called the number on the sim card and an
automated message said -The service is now closed, if you have voicemail you can turn
it on- … he then called O2, the sim cards manufacturer who told him that hed need a
warrant to find out who owned that number. Well, the mystery was solved of what the device
was, now they just need to figure out who put it there … Next up at number 6 we have Hit and Run. In 2013, Reddit user Meathead posted an image
of a broken tailight from a car that had been involved in a hit and run. He wanted to identify the driver. Not much to go on with just a taillight. 400 reddit comments pouted in and eventually,
Reddit identified the taillight belonged to a grey 1991 Cadillac Brougham. He went to the police with that information
and they were able to match it to a stolen vehicle. With this lead they found the hit and run
driver and laid charges on him. Or her. I don't know. Maybe reddit can figure out the gender from
the taillight too ... At number 5 now we have The Cypher. In 2012, a Reddit user posted saying that
a homeless man had given him 50 dollars with markings on it and a note covered in some
sort of code. Redditors quickly identified it as a bifid
cypher - a message scrambled using a square grid sytem. They decoded it to read -Theres plenty more
money to make. Figure this out and prepare to meet-, it then
gave an hot dog stand address and told him to ask for Mr Input. Then he got another message threatening him
because he got Reddit to help. Soon after, the origal poster deleted his
initial post after claiming he was now getting death threats to him and his family. The reddit hunt continued though and the theories
for this now range from recruitment for the department of defense to an elaborate marketing
campaign for a local Spy museum. Some say this one is solved while others say
thats what Mr Input wants you to think … Next up at number 4 we have the Strongsville
Jane Doe. In 1975, 3 boys found a skeleton by a river
in Ohio. It was identified as belonging to an 18 - 25
year old woman who had been shot in the head some 5 months before her discovery. Detectives hit a dead end on identifying her
and it became a cold case. Fast forward to 2015 where reddit user Call
Me Ice decided to do some digging on the case herself. She managed to obtain the original autopsy
report including a photo of the womans skull. She then enlisted the help of a forensic scientist
to create this facial reconstruction. A while later, they found this image of 17
year old Linda Pagano who went missing in September 1974 after an argument with her
stepfather. They contacted the medical examiners office
who say they were already working on the match. Shortly after, Lindas sister confirmed that
the skeletal did belong to Linda. The Reddit community praised user Call Me
Ice for her incredible initiative and detective work … Moving on to number 3 we have Stonehenge. In 2011, Reddit users noticed that someone
had created a strange subreddit with a long string of numbers and letters and was just
dumping weird code into it. Thousands of redditors tired to figure out
what the code all meant. Eventually, one Reddit user called Fragglet
decided to put his programming skills to good use. He decoded one of the posts to reveal it was
a picture of stonehenge drawn in ASC2 art. Other posts were decoded to read -happy new
year 2001- and what looked like co ordinates in North Korea. Eventually, the thread just closed. Most of the code was never decoded. On the one hand, it was a victory to even
uncode some of it but many users still want to figure the whole thing out … Coming in at number 2 now we have Grateful
Doe. In 1995, a hitchhiker was killed in a car
accident in Virginia. Because of his injuries, police were unable
to identify who he was. They found a note on his body referring to
him as Jason from two women called Caroline T and Caroline O. The police were lost. Almost 20 years went by and nobody had solved
the mystery. Then, in 2014, Reddit user ZombieGrey, real
name Layla Betts, began to research the cold case herself. A community sprung up on Reddit to help her. She posted digitally recreated pictures of
the hitchhiker. Then, she was contacted by a man who said
the images looked a lot like his roommate Jason Callahan who he hadnt seen since 1995. They were onto something. Incredibly, Jasons mother saw the pictures
online at the same time. They were able to contact the Virginia Medical
Examiners office to do a DNA comparison between the hitchhiker and Jasons mother, sure enough,
it was a match. Layla Betts, with the help of the larger Reddit
community, had solved a 20 year old cold case and brought closure to Jasons family. And finally at number 1 we have The Box Of
Crazy. In 2013, Reddit user TramStopDan posted images
of a box he found in the trash. What he found inside was a weird collection
of posters, illustrations, maps, and personal belongings. Some of the text and pictures made references
to alien invasions and trains with animal faces. The pages were so intricately detailed - this
was obviously done by someone who took the work very seriously. Eventually, Reddits investigation led them
to a man named Daniel Christiansen - a Danish Immigrant to the US who has since died. They found out that Daniel had become obsessed
with the book of Ezekiel from the Bible. Couple that with his apparent schizophrenia,
and the book appears to be his belief in the bible as proof of aliens visiting Earth. The case was closed as solved, however, for
the people who said this was a government cover up the whole time, this only added fuel
to the fire … what do you guys think? Very interesting stuff there - which one was
your favourite? Do any of you guys use Reddit? Let me know - Im Danny Burke - thanks as always
for watching and Ill see you in the next video! 10 https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/26ee9n/youtube_mystery_webdriver_torso_solved/ 9 https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/ 8 http://incredibleengineering.com/reddit-mystery-is-solved-this-youtuber-has-cracked-impossible-nail-through-the-wood-puzzle/ 7 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-reddit-bureau-of-investigation-solves-cases-online-2013-8 6 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/reddit-internet-solving-fighting-crime/ 5 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/weo8j/today_a_homeless_looking_man_handed_me_50_and/ 4 https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5z6rkn/redditor_helps_id_jane_doe_from_1975_cold_case/ 3 https://www.dailydot.com/culture/code-redditor-secret-ascii/ 2 https://redditblog.com/2015/12/11/how-redditors-solved-the-20-year-old-mystery-of-a-deceased-teen-known-only-as-grateful-doe/ 1 https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatsInThisThing/comments/1ptpj5/large_box_full_of_odd_illustrations_of_an_event/
- http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/11/06/found-in-the-trash-a-box-of-otherworldly-notes/
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