r/InternetMysteries

Hello.. please forgive me as I am rather computer illiterate.. and I had stumbled on what started as one website which was rather peculiar.. the images on the website didn’t exactly match the subject matter, and the blogs/articles on the websites didn’t always make sense with the supposed subject matter either. I would like to add this all coincided with a search for Easter eggs for a pop star who is known for them as well as a friend of hers who released a children’s book called spaghetti code.. that same friend also runs a coding camp for women..

At the bottom there was an address along with coordinates for the website that ultimately was an empty spot on a random road.

When searching the coordinates two more websites were found that are identical in setup but not in subject matter.. over the course of a few days and finding more websites a random few would change in theme/ pictures/ subject matter and address/coordinates.. and as time has gone one there have probably been around 100 websites found.. all identical in set up..

Most of the articles/information have overarching themes of education, and working with others.. while the actual subject matter ranges from vehicles, cpap machines, education/teaching, legal advice, business advice, travel, and animal care.

I find other websites by either searching the coordinates or key words/phrases or hash tag phrases which will then result in a few more websites with similar information.. it’s like a never ending nesting doll..

(again want to reiterate that all websites have addresses that are random spots on roads with no buildings usually and so far most addresses are either in Australia, Great Brittain or the US)

I really cannot discern what this is and would love help figuring out if this is part of a game or some sort of seo training using defunct website domains. I have lost literal sleep about this but feel way in over my head to get to the bottom of what all of this is..

Here are a few of the websites found more recently. I will add screen shots of some of the earlier websites found as well in the comments..

https://www.fanshake.com/

https://www.ksstmyanmar.com/

https://www.freeglobaldirectory.net/

https://www.204mainbarandbistro.com/

https://www.mnealui.info/

https://www.freeglobaldirectory.net/

https://www.grow-endive.com/

https://www.etrade-value.net/

https://www.bonsaiinformation.com/

https://www.worldfriends-party.com/

https://www.workersworld.net/

https://www.shortlineservices.com/

https://www.nhhr.org/

https://www.guestbooksforfree.com/

https://www.crusades-encyclopedia.com/

https://www.ub-global.com/

https://www.suchflink.com/

https://www.aurelienpolice.com/

https://www.fotoforever.net/

https://www.doramaniacs.com/

https://www.weightlossnutrition.org/

https://www.surmastore.com/

https://www.fudosan-mame.net/

https://www.fancyscrubs.com/

https://www.mcclellanaviationmuseum.org/

https://www.ps21cn.com/

https://www.experienceandcreativedesign.com/

https://www.alliancees.org/

https://www.lawsofform.org/

https://www.angelitoslist.com/

https://www.kscysb.com/

https://www.tryitoneverything.com/

A couple of years ago I watched this video and I tried finding it again with no luck. Basically I have seen a Reddit post on a r/letsnotmeet type subreddit, maybe even it but I am unsure. In it was a story written of the encounter, at first it sounded a bit fantastical, like as if it was meant to be a fictional letsnotmeet type ish story. However, the poster recorded the entire encounter to fully back up the story. I will now tell you the story in as best detail as I can remember, consider it‘s been at least a couple or so years if not even longer so some details may be off. 

The video starts and appears to be filmed by assumingely the phone camera of one of the two tourists. He records the video but I suppose doesn‘t want the hermit to see so a lot of the time the camera is just pointed to the ground or to the sky or with subideal angles, it is also dusk with night setting in so a lot of the footage is very dark and things are not properly in focus, the quality is also poor, however it captures audio that‘s audible enough. The 2 tourist are native English speakers I believe of the US, they are in an Amazonian jungle, I am of the belief it was in Brazil but I am unsure it could be a couple of South American countries. My memory is a bit blurred and I can‘t pinpoint how the video exactly starts but it‘s either them standing on the side of some road that’s located in the jungle, talking to the hermit or them already on the path towards his hut. The hermit looks completely like the typical Robinson Crusoe castaway stereotype with deeply brown leathery skin, a very unkempt appearance with long white hair and a long beard. I think he is in his 50s or 60s but I suppose the environment has aged him drastically and it‘s obvious he has been there a long time. Also, he is definitely not a native English speaker but he is also not native from the country that their in, in fact I am quire sure he is of foreign descent, I am very unsure of which country but possibly a German accent? (I really don’t know though, that lead didn’t lead me to anything at all so I might be very off here) but he speaks English well enough to understand him. He invites the tourists to his house. His house is a wooden worn down hut deep into the jungle. It is very baren with almost nothing but he has a couple dozens of rats he claims are his pets. What‘s a bit unsettling is he has dozens of notes stuck to all of his walls (maybe ceiling too) on which he has scribbled something on all of them. The tourist asks him about this he says something along the lines of „yea I do write a lot…“ but doesn’t explain any further on what’s written on them or why he did it. Unfortunately the video doesn’t capture what’s written on the notes so we can’t make out what language he used. The footage gets a dark turn soon, while the hermit appears friendly and maybe happy about the human companionship, as the tourist begin to leave, and mind you this, after they realized the notes they made excuses why they have to go early, they did seem unsettled and, the hermit then asks them to take them back to the road where they came from, however he insists on taking a smaller much less well stepped on path (the original was already very jungle ish, not even a real trail or anything). The tourists are immediately sketched out and insists on taking the same way back. The hermit then starts arguing telling them that it is a shortcut, when they still refuse he tells them that the way they came from has “more mud” saying the “shortcut” is better. It is clear though (and we can see this) that the “shortcut” path is going into a completely different direction and definitely appears to lead deeper into the jungle. When the tourists still refuse, they walk the way back (maybe on their own). The hermit when arguing is not crashing out or getting angry, he keeps his friendly demeanor up but it is very clear that his intent is most likely nefarious since he kept on insisting on taking that path leading deeper into the jungle. The tourists wrote that they were getting extremely unsettled once he wanted them to take this other path. The whole vibe was very eerie since it was very dark too with night settling in as they step out the hut beginning to leave and the guy changing his tone, like yeah he stayed friendly in tone but it was very obvious that there was some bad intent. 

Some time later I also seen this video in some kind of YouTuber‘s ”YT darkest video“ type video, smaller to but similar to Nick Crowley, Chilling Scares, InternetInvestigator, etc. 

anyone remember this and help me find it again? I already tried looking up searches that might fit the criteria, when this didn’t work I also asked ChatGPT telling the story since that did actually work in finding very obscure articles and videos again but this time without any luck. I almost thought for a moment I was maybe imagining it but I am 100% sure this video does exist, at least did so at some point in time, since I have read the story, seen the video linked and then I have seen it again in a YouTuber’s video.