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The podcast formally know as 'The Last Resort' returns after a year away. Are you pumped? We certainly are! Join the Internet Trolls: Jack, Chris, and Alasdair as they scour the internet to bring you the weirdest news, craziest stories, and important questions from the world wide web. What fictional character would we least like to meet in a dark alley? How can you con a buddhist monk out of his cash? And why can't you play the didgeridoo in church band? Find out the answers to all these que ...
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The internet is a strange and sometimes mysterious place impacts us all day, every day. Internet Freakshows offers bite-sized episodes on true crime, mysteries, freaks, trolls, and weirdos that happen exclusively on the internet, on social media sites, chat rooms, and the deep web. So toss on those headphones, download these episodes off this freaky internet, and prepare to be creeped out by the very same internet that has infiltrated the lives of you and everyone you know.
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Google Maps Solving True Crimes and Mysteries
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You can’t really have a podcast that discusses the internet without talking a lot about Google. So this episode is all about Google’s role in real-life missing persons cases and other crimes. We’ll start with the story of William Earl Moldt. Moldt was a 40-year-old man with a pretty average life. He was a mortgage broker. He was about 6 feet tall, …
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the Lost Demo Tape
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a band originally formed in Canada in 1994. They’re an experimental rock group who has had quite a bit of success. Their most popular song is called East Hastings, and it was featured in the 2002 film, “28 Days Later”. Anyone who has seen the movie likely remembers that haunting song as the film’s protagonist wanders …
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This is the story of Bianca Devins, a young woman who put too much trust into a man she’d met online, and a man who used a murder to elevate his social media clout. We’ll go over the role technology played in this crime and the distribution of the horrific photos taken at the crime scene, how always looking for more internet influence can sometimes…
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This is a story about how the internet played a part in both the propagation and the collapse of a large, multinational network of child pornographers. We know from shows like To Catch a Predator that, sometimes, law enforcement will pose online to bait potential or active predators into a trap. And that’s how this story starts as well. An agent ch…
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n 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 are devoted to leaving reviews like these, like Yelp. E…
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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 had to get clever if she wanted to share what was g…
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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. She offered her help with administrative tasks and …
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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 discovery to 4-chan and thus begins the story of Chip Chan…
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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 media serves their needs to get their stories out …
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In some ways Sharon Lopatka was an extremely ordinary woman. Classmates would later describe her as “as normal as you can get”. At age 30, in 1991, she married a construction worker named Victor. Sharon was interested in the internet early, and made her living with various businesses online. She created websites for selling home decor booklets, wri…
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On June 25, 2015, a YouTube user named Obscure Horror Corner uploaded video to his channel of this bizarre video game named Sad Satan. Obscure Horror Channel says that, through an anonymous tip on his YouTube channel, he found and downloaded this game. The game’s origins were a total mystery, attributed only to a random forum post by a person known…
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On August 5th, 1996, at 3AM a user started posting hundreds of messages to various newsgroups across Usenet. User’s names and email addresses were random and partially obscured typically, and the messages were posted to at least a dozen newsgroups including alt.religion.christian, alt.religion.christian.boston-church, misc.education.homeschool.chri…
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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.Av GNPN
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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. The Facebook user who posted this posted alongside the photos t…
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On May 4th, 2018, a reddit user named Dementor_of_New posted on /r/RBI (an acronym for Reddit Bureau of Investigation) about a mysterious voicemail his significant other had received on June 9, 2017. The weird thing about this voicemail, although it was sent on June 9, 2017, it was not actually received on the phone until May 4th, 2018. The voicema…
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Carl Herold was something of a prolific YouTuber. His YouTube channel has almost 20,000 subscribers, totalling nearly 4 million views. His site, "Computer Science for Everyone" had a noble goal. It was meant to teach programming lessons to anyone who had the patience to sit through the videos he created. Later, he even hosted users one-on-one, answ…
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"I Feel Fantastic" first appeared on the internet in 2004. It features a song being sung by a robot named Tara. The robot is definitely an inhabitant of Uncanny Valley. The result is a very creepy, eerie vibe even when she’s just standing there doing nothing. As she starts to move, it gets even weirder. The movements are very robotic, as you’d expe…
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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 text. There is some truth to the darkside, though. …
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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 YouTube Channel. This episode of Internet Freakshows explor…
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A user joined a paranormal chat room in the October 14, 2000. He went by the name Time_Travel0. At the time, he claimed he had been drinking wine and spoke rather nonchalantly about being a time traveler. The others in the chat room had other odd stories, like claiming to have been reincarnated over 50 times, so most in the chat room did not challe…
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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 background of the menu had a pile of human bones and skulls, and the vi…
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05: Squeaky Clean and Wondering What To Do
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The boys are back in town, with a brand new name and a brand new attitude. In this episode, we pretty much humiliate Alasdair from start to finish. We learn about his hatred of peanut butter and find out about some of his old facebook statuses.P.S. We are sorry Alasdair sounds like he has a mouth full of cotton. Jack dun goofed on the edit.…
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This week we dun goofed and ran out of our monthly hosting space. That's why you are listening to this on SoundCloud. Sorry!Anyway, This week Chris & Ali have a secret mission, Jack meets Mr Blobby in a dark alley and Alasdair tells us about the time his dad made him cry.Av The Internet Trolls
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03: The Interrupting Alasdair Incident
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This week we cover essential knowledge such as proper public toilet etiquette, the importance of eye contact, & how to transport a G-Pig. Also, Chris goes a bit crazy and Alasdair's interrupting tendencies get real old.Av The Internet Trolls
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02: Passion Fruit Juice & Political Incorrectness
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This week we talk about porn a lot, Alasdair learns about what fruit is, and Jack says some things which are probablynot politically correct. Suggested talking points: Sending chicken by post, Messing around with movie titles, burger speed, & honesty.Av The Internet Trolls
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