Category: Internet Mysteries
- Ted Cruz and the Zodiac Killer
A modern political-internet conspiracy meme claiming that Senator Ted Cruz is, was, or somehow stands in continuity with the Zodiac Killer, blending a real unsolved Bay Area murder case from the late 1960s with meme-era irony, political hostility, and viral folklore.
- Dodleston Messages
A British time-slip and haunting mystery centered on a BBC Micro computer in a sixteenth-century cottage at Dodleston, where messages allegedly appeared from a man named Lukas living in the 1540s, producing one of the most unusual cross-time communication stories in modern paranormal literature.
- Mel's Hole
A legendary bottomless pit said to exist near Ellensburg, Washington, first brought to wide attention through Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM in 1997 and later expanded into a full anomaly narrative involving resurrection, black projects, secret land seizure, and reality-distorting properties.
- John Titor
An early-internet time traveler figure who appeared online in 2000–2001 claiming to be a U.S. military man from 2036, sent back to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer and warning of civil conflict, worldline divergence, and a coming nuclear war.
- Polybius
A legendary 1981 arcade cabinet said to have appeared in Portland, Oregon, combining addictive abstract gameplay, psychoactive side effects, government-style monitoring, and abrupt disappearance into one of the most enduring electronic mysteries of the modern age.
- Cicada 3301
A series of ultra-complex cryptographic recruitment puzzles first posted online in 2012 under the name “3301,” combining steganography, encryption, dead drops, phone messages, GPS coordinates, Tor, occult and literary references, and a secrecy culture that made it one of the most studied mysteries of the internet age.
- The Man from Taured
A mystery traveler legend claiming that a businessman arrived in Tokyo with authentic-looking papers from a country called Taured, a nation unknown to maps and officials, before vanishing from a guarded hotel room and leaving behind one of the most enduring “parallel world” stories in modern folklore.