u/msiss006's Bizarre Obsession | Internet Mysteries

[@MRiriFan]

I have met this person in real life before, it has to be him. He asked me about this exact scene in person on several occasions using the same description in the posts. I worked at a library and he came to ask me and others about finding this scene multiple times, so this is not only occurring online.

[@emilyexplosion9120]

Reminds me of a patient I spoke with once when I worked at a laboratory who was obsessed with being tested for Bence Jones protein. She had OCD and severe Asperger's.

[@katie2275]

i feel so bad for him, must be such a frustrating mental illness to live with

[@xanderguyer7512]

I'm a schizophrenic, and the obsessive thought loop combined with the strange, rambling wording feels really familiar to me. It's that I hope he finds his answer, so much as I hope he can put this question behind him!

[@vivien985]

some of the descriptions sound like a very sleep-muddled version of twin peaks (blonde marilyn-esque woman sitting in a chair then disappearing, guy named harry, weird trippy visuals). it sounds like he’s confusing and merging a bunch of different scenes because he was half-asleep and thinking they’re one scene like other ppl have suggested.

[@AbigailAutumn]

Omg that really does sound like twin peaks now that you've put the thought in my head but I don't know if there were ever any reruns of that.

[@skyofthelivingdead]

I thought the same thing, sounded like Twin Peaks.

[@SoelGriffin]

Twin Peaks was re-ran around 2002 -2004, I thought on the Sci-Fy/Sci-Fi channel (but I cannot find it listed on that channel.) Tried Bravo too, but no listings found. It was def aired on some channel around that time though

[@sordidsentinel]

Funny you mention that - his description struck me as someone misremembering Mulholland Drive.

[@tazandalsoalastname]

@@sordidsentinel I also immediately thought Mulholland Drive! Or possibly also Lost Highway.

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

It took me years to find The X-Files “Badlaa”episode so I understand his struggle. What’s weird is that nobody else remembers the episode or movie he’s talking about, it sounds like a dream.

[@Blakbox92]

TBH I've gone through stuff like that with video games I played as a child, and worse, with pieces of art I remember from like 15 years ago on Deviantart - I've tried searching for the latter with a post every few years, but nothing like this. I can understand the frustration though.

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

@@Blakbox92 I do have to laugh at how many websites he’s made just for one question lol

[@winterbonnie7859]

Not so weird...i remember things that nobody else does

[@winterbonnie7859]

@@MsTinkerbelle87 maybe he really wants answers

[@Blakbox92]

@@MsTinkerbelle87 I don't blame him for carrying on the search for so long, I found the game I had been looking for since the late 2000s only in the past year, ditto a song I didn't know the title of and couldn't find since 2012. However, it's frustrating that he's not looking at any of the suggestions, and going about his search in the wrong way. Listing every movie/show with lockpicking is just silly, especially when there are things easily ruled out

[@LordTeaboBaggins]

This was actually a commercial for Captain Kutchie’s Key Lime Pies. It mostly played during commercial breaks for Saki Sanobashi, and was known mostly for its use of The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet as the soundtrack.

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

🤯

[@SilentProti]

I see you're a man of culture as well

[@sharkisland89]

The woman who starred in it was Celebrity Number Six

[@ericw48]

The episode was directed by John Titor.

[@yuki_1002]

I remember that! It would sometimes play during airings of A Day with Spongebob Squarepants.

[@Blakbox92]

The scenes sound so disconnected and vague that I'm pretty sure he's combining scenes from more than one TV or film, and he's very likely wrong about details. That is, of course assuming this is a genuine search.

[@ladyreverie7027]

Sounds like a scene from BSG for the first one, and a scene from the Matrix for the second one. I think he has a form of OCD which is making him obsessed about it.

[@Blakbox92]

@@ladyreverie7027 I've never watched BSG, but I can definitely see the Matrix influences: First scene with the disappearing blonde woman in a red dress is a little similar to a scene where Morpheus and Neo are in a simulation of a crowded street. Neo is distracted by a woman of that description, Morpheus talks to Neo, and she disappears and is replaced by Agent Smith (or something similar) Pretty sure the scene with the man and woman in shades in an armoury happened in The Matrix too, with Neo and Trinity arming up before the assault to rescue Morpheus in the finale of the film. The green tint was also in The Matrix IIRC. I haven't seen the other two Matrix films, but maybe he saw one of those on TV and got some things mixed up?

[@potat19]

I also thought that until I saw one of the posts saying it was on Syfy. That channel has some weird shorts imo. I also have a syfy-related short I want to identify and even though it isn’t as goofy as this one I do remember some of the stuff that channel aired around 2012-2014 and it was so weird

[@dayvancubensis]

that or it's a David Lynch film

[@foxbuns]

obsessive thought-loops can come from a variety of mental illnesses, including but not limited to: autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (yes they are different), ADD, ADHD, and disorders associated with mania (hypomania, bipolar disoders, etc). i also had the thought that they may be experiencing 'executive dysfunction' which is essentially when someone (usually living with mental illness) has too many things to deal with at once; too many chores, or choices, or people, or other responsibilities, all demanding attention at the same time (or so they may feel). it can cause someone to kind of shut down and be unable to make any decisions/actions, which could be why - despite being given a long list of shows/episodes to check out - they seemingly... didn't look into any of them. they might have just been overwhelmed by the sheer number of possibilities and been unable to start at all.

[@dontlisteninsecret]

wow i actually didn’t know obsessive thoughts like that could occur in bipolar disorder and adhd i thought it was just ocd 🤔 but i also agree with ur theory! especially the executive dysfunction part

[@Emobunneh]

🤔 Thank you for this info and taking the time to write it, it may have helped with something.

[@Keznen]

Autism isn't a mental illness.

[@ceruleanwonder]

@@Keznen yes it's a a neurological and developmental disorder, but that wasn't the point of the comment.

[@nutelllla_]

the specific dates and times reminded me of myself, sometimes i'll have memories that when i think about the time it happened, the times will be specific and seemingly random if other people were to see them, but those are my best guesses at when it happened. like something that happened april 14th or maybe april 16th in 2020, it wasn't april 15th though, i know that, and it happened around 12pm, as an example. i have adhd/add [not sure which] so it could be a symptom of that? maybe combined with other trauma/mental disorders too. i'm still a kid though if that means anything

[@KaguyaHimex]

As for what the actual movie/tv is, I legitimately think he dreamt it up. The utter lack of transitions and surreal imagery (especially stuff involving physics being broken randomly and no one questions it), is like almost every dream I've had lol

[@fkwarlock]

absolutely not joking with this: i work at the virginia beach public library. this guy would come into my branch every so often and ask us this exact question. i myself told him several times what the program was. our managers told us to be on the lookout for him because he would just do this. we called him “red dress guy.” he would spend a very long time asking us to help him find this program and eventually after well over a year it had to get to a point where we had to ban him, which is INCREDIBLY rare. during COVID, we weren’t letting patrons into the building, but we were allowing people to come pick up holds at a table outside. he came up and asked the same thing, and we had to ban him again. ive met this guy several times and he’s just like this.

[@fkwarlock]

i legitimately have the means to contact this guy and ask him Why. this is wild omg. im just vibing and i see “oh new internet investigator video! about somebody posting everywhere for a scene from a tv show? lol what if it was red dress guy” my mf face when

[@lprader75]

so what was the program? lol

[@fkwarlock]

@@lprader75 it was battlestar freaking galactica!! but dude would NOT accept it as the answer. its just like what II says, its like he doesn’t actually want to know the answer.

[@Anophis]

Yes! As an autistic dude, the specific references to things like the date he saw the show definitely feels like a hyperfixation thing to me. We tend to obsess over tiny details that no one else would really care about.

[@ahhh...5765]

Autistic people aren't able to use words like "hyperfixation" and phrases such as "obsess over tiny details".

[@g9nevieve]

@@ahhh...5765 what

[@sarahhosmer886]

@@ahhh...5765 I don't think you know what autism is.

[@Anophis]

@@ahhh...5765 I'm not sure you realize it's a major spectrum that encompasses who can live relatively unaffected lives, and others who will struggle with some base things. We definitely aren't stupid - I grew up a selective mute for most of my years, but I still had completely lucid thoughts. A lot of folk with ASD tend to be able to talk completely normally, albeit one of my own quirks is stammering/slurring occassionally. I know a lot tend to have repeat phrases too. Also that one of the bigger signs in young kids of things like autism is a vocabularly that extents their expected age groups, which often leads to us being mistaken as the 'gifted kids'. Seems you're more focused on the folk with more physical difficulty side of the spectrum. Hell, I'm certainly not gifted, but people tend to think we're smart with the way some autistic folk talk very formally.

[@ahhh...5765]

@@sarahhosmer886 I don't think you know what "Mind your own business" means.

[@morganshaleyrenew3021]

I’m an indie actress, and I think it’s possible he could have seen some low-budget independent film that genuinely nobody else has heard of. Most of the suggestions I saw were all pretty well known, and personally I’ve found that most of our ratings and viewers are either already invested in reviewing thriller/grind/arthouse style films, or people who are part of the nearby film industry. It could also explain why he doesn’t remember the network, as a lot of our movies typically only play once if they make it on TV, and even then it’s likely on a weird niche network at a strange time of day. Also, if there is a more successful/higher-budget film by the same name, that’s the one that shows up in searches, therefore it could just be buried under other movies or shows. This happened with my most recent movie, where if you don’t enter the release year 2021, the film Bad Girls from the 90’s comes up. I could be wrong, I’m just theorizing based on what I’ve experienced.✌🏻

[@TheLyingFigure]

This sounds pretty reasonable, I've worked on a few low budget films and they all had such generic titles and plots that it would be impossible for me to find them now.

[@whatsername1180]

I was thinking the same. Especially if it was on the Syfy channel, no offense to the syfy channel or low budget movies, because some are actually pretty good.

[@spookysleepyghost]

I’m an Autistic adult and that was my first thought too. When I get fixated on something I end up doing almost everything I can to find it. I once tracked down a single maybe 60 second scene from an obscure 80’s space anime because I saw it in a meme, over 100 episodes just for 60 seconds. It wasn’t satisfying at all in the end but I do understand the compulsion to find it. But if that’s the case, I do wonder why he doesn’t seem to have any reaction or obvious drive to watch the movies/episodes suggested? He just says “possibly” and continues the loop. The consistent posting seems to indicate he desperately wants to find it but then why wouldn’t you take the steps to confirm or deny it for yourself and others? To me that sounds so frustrating. Is he expecting someone to find it for him?

[@miyuu1317]

@@Rayd1214 Sameee, I hate it, I know it's in vain because I rationally don't care that much, but I NEED to find it or I can't be at peace, just 5 days ago I tracked down a little funny video edit I saw on Twitter , the user had her account suspended so I spent Hours trying to find someone who might have reposted it with a thousand different keywords. I finally found it on ONE facebook page, watched it, didn't even like it that much.

[@sIimepuppy]

i've searched for the same book twice because i didn't remember finding it the first time, just the fanart that i saw on pinterest. i definitely relate to going on ridiculous personal searches because of a hyperfixation and i'm glad to know i'm not the only one.

[@imnobody1906]

I think you’re spot on with cube. When they get outside the structure it’s pitch black, one of the characters tries to unlock one of the doors using brute force/lock pick, there is a blonde character and a character in a red dress who falls off a ledge in the first cube aswell. They were/are often shown on syfy but I have them on dvd because they are awesome.

[@okate251]

sounds like he fell asleep watching twin peaks haha

[@nnk_ll2]

My first thought haha Being on that hazy place between lucidity and falling asleep while having twin peaks at the background could surely create a mindfuckery like this

[@L777-s1s]

thats what I thought too lol

[@loveisthedrug3579]

Yep

[@katyinajam]

I fell asleep watching Twin Peaks and someone broke into my house and stole things off my nightstand next to me. When I woke up, it was a very surreal and ominous feeling.

[@movedlonely_space_egg1169]

I think a big factor in why he's still keeping up the search is probably just the sunk cost fallacy. He's spent years looking for the source of this scene, so it feels like a waste to stop now.

[@darkestccino5405]

I think this it the most logical explanation, to be honest. I think using mental disorders should only be a last resort when it comes to explaining behavior as humans are perfectly capable of being crazy or malicious without them.

[@movedlonely_space_egg1169]

@@darkestccino5405 There's still a possibility of a mental illness/neurodivergence playing into it IMO [I'm autistic and I can definitely fixate on things like this], but I don't really see the fixation in this video as anything to be concerned about. He's probably just got a lot of time on his hands /shrug

[@Robocopnik]

I don't think it's necessarily 'sunk cost', sometimes the pursuit of a thing can have a value of its own. Proving to yourself that you can do it, that kind of thing.

[@nutelllla_]

@@movedlonely_space_egg1169 the specific dates also make me think that, im neurodivergent aswell and have a specific date something happened in my mind [april 14th 2020 around 12pm, or maybe april 16th, not april 15th though] though that could also be because it was a semi significant event, he could've had a real traumatic thing happen those days which makes them be stuck even further in his head, or it could explain the uncertainty in places because he doesnt truly want to remember

[@emilybarclay8831]

I love me a good internet mystery. Especially insane, inexplicable and largely unknown rabbit holes with no end in sight

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

The best kind 😏

[@emilybarclay8831]

@@TheInternetInvestigator my personal favourites are Lake City Quiet Pills, the Key Lime Pie one and This House Has People In It although THHPII has a real-world explanation, the world it builds is just so deliciously bizarre

[@pennyforyourthots]

I too have been described as insane, inexplicable, and largely unknown

[@emilybarclay8831]

@@pennyforyourthots my kinda style

[@JayDonagh]

I'm pretty sure this guy has some sort of disorder or disability making him obsessively fixate on this scene. He might be autistic/neurodivergent, I've seen some neurodivergent people on the internet with the same specific fixations and especially the small details they latch onto, as you can see here. He could also be OCD or suffering from psychosis, he might believe in his head that this scene holds special meaning in his life or he feels it's a genuine goal to find this show.

[@Zulf85]

Yeah, imho it's just that. It really isn't all that mysterious to me lmao

[@morguenm]

I absolutely agree with you there. I'm autistic and actually went through a similar process as this person several months back but in a far, far less intense way. It didn't last more than a couple hours as I did find what I was looking for, but I could not tell you why I was so deadset on figuring it out when it was that inconsequential.

[@margaret2427]

This reminds me of an example/case study I saw in a library science textbook, where a patron kept asking the library if they had the same book over and over again (via chat reference, so it was anonymous and not face-to-face). The librarians eventually managed to get in contact with the patron in another way and found out what he really wanted was recommendations for other books similar to the one he kept asking about, but for whatever reason he wasn't able to formulate the question clearly (iirc the patron turned out to be a teenager who was neurodivergent in some way). Given that the guy in this video seems to be keeping a list of all the suggestions, maybe he has a similar motivation (also, for what it's worth, at least two people have commented that they think this guy comes to the library where they work and asks this same question).

[@cecilross2848]

I think it's possible that the original scene he watched was from a movie/show that he's associated with trauma. Because of this, he might block out memories of what the clips were from. Then, years later in therapy, he wants to find and rewatch these clips as exposure therapy. BUT he's too nervous to trigger this trauma, potentially being why he doesn't watch what is suggested to him. Trauma association can honestly come from the strangest things, and obviously unpacking trauma is a very tough job, so I think this would make sense.

[@LadyVLR]

That fits with the two separate specific dates; maybe two separate traumatic incidents happened on those dates.

[@clarekent4110]

(i know quite a bit about trauma) and i think he saw this show(s)/movie(s) around the same time as or during some significant trauma in his life that he’s trying to understand or jog his memory about. i think that idea is supported by his paradoxical obsession with it but also reluctance to find the answer, people with unrecovered trauma often fixate on it but are also afraid of fully uncover it. it’s also supported by the very specific dates, he must have some reason for seeing those 2 dates in different months as relevant maybe because he knows that’s when something happened in his real life. if it was just the movie he remembered, i’d think he’d at most remember a general season or month(s) but those specific dates make me think he remembers something other than just the movie and that’s what he’s really trying to uncover. then again, other mental problems are also plausible.

[@valerielevasseur8674]

This makes sense. I’ve been on similar quests, but without trying to rope others in, and it reminds me of the weird attraction-repulsion I have with Gremlins, of all things.

[@ohno4930]

That's exactly what I thought when at one point, around 5:29, his post says "you are trying to investigate what happened that *day",* which is very broad wording considering that we're just talking about a TV show. "what happened that day" instead of "what show you saw" or "what happened in that scene". Plus, I know from experience, and it sounds like you might as well, the repression of traumatic memories isn't always complete. I've heard people say that when you recall a trauma, you always either recall absolutely nothing, or everything, in vivid detail. That's not what it's like for me. I've been diagnosed with C-PTSD and my memories aren't entirely blank, but they're spotty. I can recall the gist of what happened, but I don't remember every detail, though some stick out (like the intonation of a person's voice, a feeling on my skin, etc.) I can remember the month or season, but I'm not sure what year it was. I have instances where it took a lot of processing to even realize that I was looking at *two separate memories* and not the same incident, and I still have doubt, because there are so many places where I know that something happened and I remember what I felt like afterwards, but I don't know what it was beyond contextual guesses. The most vivid memory I have, it's because I wrote it down. If you and I are right, and this could link back to a trauma for the OP, it sounds like his memory might work very similarly, and he retained the sensory experience of what was playing on TV when the event happened. I think my best guess, though of course we can't know for sure, is that it's trauma combined with something else, such as autism, as others have said. I'm also autistic, have spent a lot of time around friends who fall on the spectrum, and I can see what other commenters mean. I've also struggled with an obsession over my own trauma, though in my case, it was literally just being obsessed over what happened, and not something that I associate with it. I hope OP is doing okay, regardless.

[@Emobunneh]

@@ohno4930 I have cPTSD as well and have had some similar issues with memories to what it sounds like you have. I do think what's happening with the poster in the video may be related to trauma, but I am not sure how separated that trauma is from the program they are describing. I wonder if it may be like when you have had multiple events combine into a memory. Perhaps the poster is combining the program they were watching with some of the trauma that actually happened. It may be making it more difficult for people to match up the scene to something exactly if parts of the stuff they are describing is mixed in from the real life trauma.

[@maggiedk]

As another person with C-PTSD, this theory seems extremely likely to me.

[@rai1578]

This theory seems fairly plausible to me, at least based on my own experience with PTSD and c-PTSD. I have gaps in my memory from trauma, and trying to remember them doesn't help. What DOES sometimes unearth those memories is being reminded of something else my brain associates with that time. This can be unpleasant, but it's also helped me piece together more of my own life and memories. And often, they're really small, unrelated things. I've even had specific scenes from movies or TV shows that are connected to trauma. I even have my own little quest to find one of those scenes, although it's not nearly as obsessive as his. That search has lasted for a decade now, and while I keep looking, I'm not sure what I'd do if someone said that they knew that scene. I like to think I'd check if it was true, but honestly, it would be like opening Pandora's box. I truly think I'd at least hesitate. And in the post he made in 2nd person POV, he says "You are trying to investigate what happened that day". That wording makes it seem like he's trying to uncover more about that day than just a single scene in a TV show he watched. I mean, I could be reading too much into his word choice, but something about that line stands out to me. It reminds me of how I talk about my own trauma in a way that I can't quite explain.

[@ellieblack8028]

one theory about the two different but specific dates is maybe he remembered watching it on a birthday, but he doesn't know who's birthday? like it was either my bday or my brother's bday etc... but he didn't want to give personal info

[@Dog-ru1rz]

oh i have been there. i watched the movie "Where the Skin Lies" then forgot its name. i tried searching everywhere, asking everyone i know, even considered drawing the scenes. I also searched for a list of male actors who at least once has played the role of a man in wheelchair and tried to look into every movie they acted in. then i searched the methods of finding a movie name that you cant remember. then i made a reddit account (i wasn't using reddit till then) and asked to tip of my tongue over and over again. even my mom joined me in my obsession. i didnt watch the films that people suggested but i either watched the trailers or read the summary. we struggled with it a long time untill a hero found it. people were even trying to give me emotional support like "i remember this film we will find it" or "dont worry you can post it every 7 days" lol i still think that movie is goddamn amazing

[@scorpiolafuega]

I had an experience a little while ago... I was talking to my friends at work. And we all went over some scenes from movies and shows we saw a long time ago but COULDNT FIND. We discussed how frustrating it is to know what you're talking about and no one else does or can help you or tell you that it must have been a dream. So about a scene I saw when I was half asleep when I was small about a red man jumping through a window and setting a house on fire while a blonde woman said something that I could not remember. The guy replied, "Precisely," and kept smashing up the house. He screamed like he was possessed. WELP, scrolling through Prime for some movies I haven't seen and The Passion of Darkly Noon popped up and I stopped on it. It just SOUNDED familiar. So I rented it (it wasnt included in my membership smh) and AT THE END THAT SAME GODDAMNED SCENE HAPPENED. I texted all my friends from work at 2AM that I found it. Also if it wasnt for Ashley Judd's awful crying scenes I might have enjoyed the movie. It had a creepy feel to it. Brendan Fraser and Viggo Mortensen are also main characters in the movie. What I'm saying is.... I saw this shit when I was a KID and NEVER forgot it. I've asked for a long ass time if anyone remembered seeing that specific scene and thought I was crazy this whole time. Until two days ago. The subject might be trying to locate a scene or moment that meant something to him at the time. I had an ENORMOUS sense of closure after seeing it after all these years. He might be looking for that?

[@BubblegumLightsaber]

I had a similar situation re: seeing something as a kid that I searched for/asked about for decades, except mine was a TV show and not a movie. This was in the early '80s when I was about three, and I was watching the TV show Fame when suddenly the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz appeared. Being three, I was terrified and cried that I didn't want to see the "green witch". I remember one of my parents (probably my dad) picking me up and carrying me out of the room. Time passed but I still remembered that scene, but in later years whenever I'd ask about it I just kept getting told that I'd dreamt it or imagined it when I _knew_ I hadn't. Fast forward to maybe about a decade ago (2010-2013, thereabouts). The scene popped into my head again and I decided to ask what I'm pretty sure was the whatwasthatone community on Livejournal about it (although ironically I can no longer find that particular post when I google). And I FINALLY got an answer, it turned out to be the episode Not In Kansas Anymore. In the episode, one of the characters hits her head and thinks she's Dorothy (I think the "framing device" plot was that they were going to put on a play of TWOO), and the rest of the episode is her "dream sequence" so to speak, of traveling through Oz. And yest, the WWOTW does appear in a few scenes as well. Funnily enough, while rewatching it I was surprised I didn't remember/wasn't afraid of the "eldritch abomination" trees in one scene, but then that might have been after I'd been taken out of the room.

[@SakuraAsranArt]

This sounds to me like someone with autism. The obsessive focus on this one show they saw years ago and the rambling style of writing seems autistic. I am on the spectrum and have hyperfixations myself. The OP could also be using this search as a substitute for normal social interactions because of their disorder.

[@lorelilawrence8506]

also maybe someone with adhd...i have it and i write like that....i also hyper fixate on things

[@parasol.p]

Okay, hear me out... what if what he saw was a bumper? Lots of channels throw together clips from various programs they run to get people's interest. The scenes he describes don't necessarily seem like the same plot, and the third scene sounds so much like The Matrix I find it hard to imagine it from anything else. The channel Comet does stuff like this a lot, even putting in quotes from their various shows. Could that be what he's remembering?

[@coyoteartist]

Sometimes when you get fixed on something, it's not something you actually want see again, but you want confirmation you're not crazy. You just want someone to tell you, yes I sawr that too. So his refusal to watch anything suggested could make sense.

[@GlitterGum]

Lol yes I sawr that too

[@QwopTheFrog]

Ngl, to me it sounds like he caught the end of a movie on the channel FX, because I swear I saw that exact scene referenced with the disappearing woman as a commercial/bumper for American Horror Story. One of those weird, abstract ones they would do that weren't really scenes from the show but evoked the same vibe as the season.

[@mysterytra1n]

It sounds like he mixed up Twin Peaks with something else. What he describes is very Twin Peaks-esque :DD

[@supergeeky7529]

Yeah, Like a Twin Peaks Matrix love child on crack or something!

[@mmisafire]

twin peaks + x files combo is the only thing that makes sense to me tbh

[@BrennaDraws]

Honestly sounds like he's describing Dark City, it's such an obscure cult classic that it actually took me ten years to find it again after seeing it late one night as a kid. (I even thought it was a hell raiser movie for a while)

[@ellieblack8028]

you need to message him, what if that's it??! eta: my friend who im watching this with thought maybe dark city too

[@AbigailAutumn]

Idr those scenes from Dark City but it is a banger.

[@lavenderwindsor632]

Great film

[@elliedear9534]

I honestly believe he might have had a dream. Back when I used to struggle a lot more mentally, I would have extremely vivid dreams and remember them all. Remember, we have multiple dreams a night. He might be confusing them and be mentally unwell. I hope he gets the help he needs.

[@banana5649]

BABE WAKE UP NEW THE INTERNET INVESTIGATOR VIDEO JUST DROPPED

[@ElliotEel]

The Cube was my first thought too Edit: I was thinking it was trauma induced obsession as well, especially because of the extremely specific date and time they remember

[@ellishale2523]

This is actually much more fascinating to me than the key lime pie situation because it feels like something I can personally understand. I have notoriously bad memory and added to the natural loss of memory from early childhood, I feel that I have lots of bits and pieces of memories - some of things I must have watched - that never quite connect to a full experience. I loved the way you explored the topic! There are several possible angles here, but I think I’d agree that there’s an obsession or fixation here coming from either mental illness or something in the broad autism/ADHD family. This has become one of my favorite channels! Always excited to see a new upload.

[@illona2537]

Okay I have a weird theory. Maybe he just has fun asking the question. He could have gotten use to just interacting with people like this. Like it's weirdly apart of his routine and maybe he already found the show and that's why he doesn't actually care that much about the answers. So maybe more of a fixation on asking the question than finding the answer. Doesn't really make sense but that's all I got

[@charlesmcclure8000]

When you mentioned thought loops, it immediately took me back to my LSD phase. LSD likes to throw you into thought loops. I always called them time loops. They happen pretty frequently with larger doses. In conjunction with a "bad trip" these thought loops can be actually traumatic for a person. I personally have one loop that still plays out as a recurring nightmare even though it happened 15 years ago. I can totally see misremembering a scene on tv and obsessing over it hard due to a powerful moment in a Psychedelic trip

[@stiffspiff]

I'm looking for one also; I've tried many forums and there's a lot of shows with the general theme but none match: A teen girl (I think African American but not positive about that), is pen pals with a prisoner and she ends up really admiring him in an intellectual way. She ends up visiting him in prison and he talks about how he killed someone for his birthday and put candles in the body to celebrate. The girl gets freaked out and leaves and the dad ends up teaching everyone a moral lesson. This was a SITCOM lol. I'll add that the prisoner doesn't get out and try to live with them which is a major theme in most red herrings of this plot line.

[@batsnghostz]

I have ADD and I definately have hyperfixations. My experience is its either activated by a positive experience OR a negative/traumatic experience. Though most of the time its from a bad event.

[@Zulf85]

Yeah, I really think this is an open or shut case regarding why this is happening lol. I hope he finds it

[@afterlight7632]

I understand how this guy feels. I've been searching for a specific animation for years now that I just can't seem to find. I believe it was an animated adaptation of the fairy tale "The Enchanted Pig". It had a very dark animation style, like black backgrounds and a scribbly/sketchy look to all the character. What I remember the most is the ladder made of bones. A person was in a deep hole in the ground and a ladder of bones was made the climb out. One of the rungs of the ladder was made from a princesses pinky bones and, when the person climbed, they broke the bones. I remember feeling grossed out by seeing the bone ladder and the animation style made me feel anxious. I can't find any animated form of the original fairy tale, let alone one that matches what I remember. It's so frustrating because no one else seems to know about it either, not even Reddit.

[@TheDeadmanTT]

We have a few thousand people here. If everyone just picks ONE movie to watch, we should find it.

[@TheDeadmanTT]

I mean, how many movies were made before 2013? A dozen maybe?

[@ramonacat]

as a person with autism my first thought was that he had autism too! it sounds like how ive been. for around 5 years ive been trying to find a very specific point and click 3d history game that i used to play when i was little. i think autism would be likely

[@NutyRiver]

As a person on the adhd/autism spectrum who has experienced many hyperfixations, I have a few thoughts: - for me, hyperfixations have lasted from a month in time to a few years. Sometimes it depends on what disorder the symptom stems from, but not always - hyperfixations don’t have to be as troubling as you made them out to be here! It really just boils down to whether it’s impeding on your ability to live fully and thrive. Almost all of my issues of growing up with hyperfixations stemmed from the fact that I had no resources to cope and no one to tell me what I was going through, and almost all issues resolved themselves once I found communities online of autistic/adhd individuals who I could relate to. For me, it’s as natural as love, and while intense love can be maladaptive and dysfunctional, if you have proper resources and understanding the it can be a wonderful and fulfilling experience.

[@luckyystrikerr]

I was looking forward to seeing this story get covered and I’m so glad you did! It’s a wild case for sure. Relatively new subscriber here, I love your content and I hope your channel keeps getting love!

[@sea269]

I feel bad for him, honestly. Though I never looked for it (wasn't active on any sites that could've helped me and also was honestly too scared), there was an episode of Law&Order SVU I saw as a little kid that absolutely scarred me for a while. I remember staying at my grandma's house and there was a tornado warning so we were sleeping in the hallway. I went into the living room for some reason and saw a woman on screen stab someone in the throat with a pair of scissors. It haunted me for ages and then when I was a teen I went on an SVU binge and... Saw the scene. And it clicked for me that that minor trauma from my childhood was a goddamn SVU episode

[@johnconnah4569]

Im so proud of this channel, good research and introspection

[@sharkattacker]

I really think this guy (or someone who has been triggered by his search) frequents the library I work at. He hasn't shown up since I started, but I was warned by my coworkers about him. Apparently he would show up every other day for months and ask the same question. When a desk clerk would try to help he would get frustrated and say, "No. Let me ask a different question." Then repeat the same thing with different wording. My coworkers seem to think it's a control manipulation tactic; like, he knows and you don't. I can't attest to whether or not he is mentally ill, but I've heard some disturbing things about his home life from one of my managers.

[@terminal-vl3rj]

i think the youtuber gooseboose investigated this while on stream once? or at least something very similar. they ended up finding some really creepy audio. you might ask them. i remember at least it was a very similar situation and the poster had the hallmark.. rambling style

[@enigma4182]

Any chance you know which stream?

[@memeju1ce]

i can’t wait to come back when the CCs are activated, i havent heard about this case before!!

[@maevedoyle2634]

Can't believe you're at 40k subs already! It seems like yesterday you were just at 10k! You deserve it!

[@anitaevans5361]

56.4k now, as of 11/17/21!!!

[@hyliadreamer]

I hate to say this, but I actually have a similar story. It was around 1983-1984, and I was therefore three or four years old. So my memory is naturally rather fuzzy. Memories from being preschool-aged, now that I'm in my forties, aren't going to be crystal-clear. But this has always stuck with me. I remember seeing something on TV, where a boy who looked maybe between ten and thirteen was playing an arcade game. He was doing poorly, so he kept kicking the machine in frustration. The machine put up a warning at least once, telling him not to do that. He didn't pay attention. The thing I remember the most vividly--that absolutely TERRIFIED me--was this skeletal arm coming out of the bottom of the machine, through thin wisps of smoke, and slowly pulling in the boy's sneaker, which was all that was left of the boy. The machine basically devoured users who abused it. (I have no idea why this somehow has never given me nightmares since then, especially given what a sensitive little girl I was.) I don't know whether it was a TV show, or a movie that was airing on one of the networks (that was all we had at the time). And I have scoured the Internet. I've been all over Wikipedia, TVTropes, and numerous search engines. Read up on both well-known and more obscure North American live-action English-language media (I'm a Californian, and I'm guessing that it wouldn't have been anything that wasn't made either here in the USA, or in Canada). Nothing. (Before anyone asks, no, this is NOT connected to the Polybius urban legend.)

[@TheLegPumpkin]

It's battlestar Galactica. The blonde Marilyn Monroe woman is number 6. He may have watched it on scifi channel along with cube and blended them. Obviously mental health or trauma seems a factor.

[@Lwhale.3797]

This is my favorite kind of internet mystery… Not likely an ARG or troll, but hinting at a real human struggle taken to its extreme, one that is both endlessly fascinating yet simultaneously mysterious and out-of-reach. I also love that this is the first time I’m hearing about this. Love it! Looking forward to more videos!

[@thepeopleslast2579]

I've been looking for a book since like 2015 and anytime the obsessing becomes too much I make a post in hopes this time I remember something to help me find it, it still hasn't happened lol

[@bluecleo14]

What’s the book about?

[@altynaytherussianspy]

If this is truly a scene from a TV series, it sounds like Star Trek Voyager or Enterprise. Voyager aired in the 90s and Enterprise in the early 2000s, but are still heavily re run. Both are Sci Fi, both have episodes that air on the dark side, although voyager less so tho. There’s a recurring actor in the Star Trek franchise called Jeffery Combs, he played a heavy recurring role in Enterprise and some roles in Voyager. Voyager deals a lot with an alien species called The Borg, which are terrifying to be honest, and their ships are often casted with green. I wouldn’t necessarily say that Seven Of Nine in voyager is Marilyn Monroe, but she is blonde and her sex appeal is played up. If he was watching the episode Unimatrix Zero, then she would have had her hair styled similar to Marilyn, there would be a green tint in some scenes, and it could come off as scary to some people. Also voyager has a main character named Harry

[@jigsawyouth1312]

yeah I was thinking voyager, seven usually wears tight dresses and Harry fumbles with things a lot lmao

[@jerichotroy2662]

I think that it might just be the extent of his obsession that is hidden in his daily life. Maybe the factor preventing him from watching all of these shows is the fact that his wife began to take notice of him specifically watching random series and episodes and when she raised concern he sort of tried to hide it from so as not to make it a big deal. So he kind of has a different physical life and online life where he obsesses over this film/tv show

[@ellishale2523]

Ooh, this is a very good point. This is very much the kind of thing that a person still connected to reality, but experiencing some kind of obsession would know needs to be hidden in your everyday life, but is fine to appear strange about online.

[@tanuki9691]

god, this reminds me of one of my obsessions, which I've spent hours of my life on, trying to find a very specific Black-Eyed Peas music video, and someone actually found it for me, but it wss only vaguely similar (like some of the very specific details were correct, but it just looked totally different). It wasn't even a music video, like I had remembered, it was some weird promotional webisode for Snickers on a website that no longer exists. It's baffling how I can still vividly imagine it, yet the real thing is totally different. Even after it was found, I had tried my hardest to find it, obviously to no avail.

[@bipolarbeinganddoing8070]

I am LOVING watching this channel blow up! Well deserved!

[@mr.mangaming]

It took me a whole 2 years to find a specific youtube ad I saw at 3am one morning.

[@mijiah]

as someone with both adhd and ptsd, i can see how this could be both. when i hyperfixate on something, it is difficult for me to stop my brain coming back to it. for a short-term example, i experience dermatillomania as a symptom of anxiety and a hyperfixation due to my adhd. once i find a patch of skin with a bump or scratch (tbh, it could be nothing at all), i have an incredibly hard time stopping myself from picking at it further. this has left me with several physical scars because my brain just won’t stop going back to the skin until it’s been sufficiently destroyed. as for my pstd, in tandem with my adhd, i have been known to be stuck in thought loops related to the traumas i have experienced. it’s almost like my brain and body shut down, bringing back something i was doing at the time of or before the trauma and causing repetitive movements, thoughts, or even routines. some of these loops have lasted for years, becoming specific rituals i would do whenever i was triggered by something that made me remember my trauma or have a flashback. i can see how macky could be experiencing one or both of these things, but i can’t say this explains the behavior. the fact that they use multiple sites and usernames can pretty much rule out the idea that this is some sort of trauma loop to help them cope with something or avoid it entirely. to be honest, this seems like schizophrenia. i have a few relatives with schizophrenia, and they have been known to fixate and repeat things in bizarre or obsessive ways. but the amount of time that they have invested in this is baffling, i can’t exactly think of a reason why this sort of psychosis would last so long. none of these answers feel sufficient. hopefully this in someway helps explain the behavior to anyone disturbed by it or concerned, but i can’t be certain of any of these explanations as i am not a professional, i just have some experience with certain mental illnesses mentioned.

[@VsStuffs]

You're underrated, hope you get more subs in the future

[@AshenDalia]

I don't know why, but the descriptions keep making me think of The Matrix Reloaded? I know they way he describes them doesn't completely match but they just make me think of different scenes from that movie haha

[@LeeannG]

I went for Mulholland Drive for some weird reason

[@Blakbox92]

I did a big breakdown in another comment, I'm convinced he probably saw scenes from The Matrix or one of the sequels. All of the stuff he describes would make sense for the story and setting of the movies. He's definitely getting some details confused, he might have seen the movie halfway through, wasn't paying attention, and saw part of another show as well.

[@ara3866]

My immediate thought was Matrix as well. I have seen the movies a while ago, and a lot of the scenes described very much sound like "person vaguely remembering Matrix scenes".

[@78deathface]

My three guesses: 1. Some kind of mental illness 2. Some kind of developmental disability 3. Some kind of head injury I used to work in a group home for paranoid schizophrenics. I heard the same stories over and over, was asked the exact same questions very often and a few of them had very odd and specific fixations/obsessions. This guy gives me those vibes big time.

[@draagon6563]

This channel is so underrated, your content is class :)

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Thank you! :)

[@6235river]

he's definitely mixing up shows. battlestar galactica features a woman in a red dress with blonde marilyn monroe hair who randomly disappears because she's a figment of one of the male character's imagination. she's quite sexual too, but i can't recall if she moaned or not.

[@diablocell]

As you were reading the first description I instantly thought of the Cube movie! It's so funny you thought of it too. I've always thought that movie was like a mysterious gem, no one has ever heard of it, but its so random and the different cube scenes that have nothing to do with each other. I thought he MUST be thinking of Cube

[@sideshowratt]

Reminds me of the person on TOMT who spent months looking for this one action movie and had like 300 rule-outs.

[@coolnormalandwelladjusted]

Well I’m 99% sure this is them misremembering something, but I can confirm it’s definitely not from Dexter lol

[@evtheschon]

I NEVER SAW THIS NOTIFICATION EARLIER. GOING THROUGH MY NOTIFICATIONS IN THE APP LOOKING FOR A VIDEO SINCE I JUST GOT HOME FROM WORK AND SAW THIS. I ALWAYS LOVE T2 VIDEOS ESPECIALLY NEW ONES, THANK YOU! (Also I told myself my abbreviation for your channel is T2 because TII is like the two i letters are roman numerals instead for me. so T2) (:

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

KZbin is bad at notifications, apart from for content you have no interest in 😂 Lol! T2 works

[@hdbanana464]

at first i was thinking the show could have been twin peaks the return, but then i remembered that was released in 2017 lol.

[@dolcinette_skies4833]

The first thing I thought of was maybe the Dresden Files TV show? Admittedly, I haven't seen the show, but have read the books, but two of the main characters are named Harry and Susan, and then there was also a vampire character who, I checked, was depicted in a skintight red dress on the show. It's a long shot, but it was the first thing that came to mind for me? It did also run on the Scifi channel as I recall, so that might be why he thought it was a sci-fi show?

[@Bubblemice-s2g]

I thought it kinda sounded like something that would be in one of the Resident Evil movies but then I was like hmm nah idk 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@Geo96584]

I just checked on Reddit, and it appears his profile has been deleted, very strange

[@antonydrossos5719]

Some people are just dense; you can tell them, "Yeah, I remember that scene. It was TV Show/Movie 'XYZ'..." but then they'll insist, "No, no! It wasn't that! It was....something else!".

[@apocalyptichero2]

Your intro always gets me excited ! Great video 😊

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Thank you! 😊

[@roonkolos]

Not a show but I struggled to find a commercial of all things for several years. Well, 2 but one I'm still looking for First was a blind man at a party. He excuses himself from his date, goes into a bathroom and is mesmerized by the sink. He's super deep in thought, like a trance then finally returns to his date saying "you should see the bathroom". I eventually found it and I was on cloud 9 The second commercial is simply an anti smoking ad but in the form of a Fear Factor parody. Contestants are shown numerous gross things to eat but when it gets to "smoke 1 cigarette" they all begin backing away with the Joe Rogan stand in saying "its just a cigarette!!!" as the commercial over voice says its NOT. I'll find the latter one day

[@enigma4182]

I have actually been in contact with this person and can 100% tell you whats going on here. They are NOT mentally unwell at all. I'd actually really like to pass the info I have on and see another video on this.

[@gisselle311]

What did you find out? You can also email her or join the Discord to relay your findings

[@enigma4182]

@@gisselle311 A summary: OP doesn't have time and isn't looking for it, OP wants someone else to link the EXACT scenes in question. They more or less want someone else to do it for them, all of it. Thats why they keep asking, they want it but won't try, they want us to hand it to them. (I hate to say it but to sum up, think someone who acts entitled, or like a 'karen') No mental health issues here. Just someone stamping feet and demanding. Maybe a little ignorant as to how the internet actually works. And sorry to the OP for saying all of that, it sounds AWFUL I know but THEY need to at least look, at least try. I have proof of all of this, I spoke to them myself. If someone can pass this message on, get it seen, then that would be great.

[@marli8907]

“Most people would Give up not spend four years looking for it.” *literally looked off and on for two decades for several things I wanted to find. And found most of them. Eventually. But it did take 15-20 years for some.*

[@andro866]

I can't believe how you channel grew so big I don't even know when it happened.. I remember when most of your videos had less than 1k views. Happy to see it. I knew it would happen eventually.

[@birchwwolf]

"warehouse with a blimp overhead" immediately made me think of Synecdoche, New York. The film's poster is of that very shot.

[@MarzieMalfoy]

The Cube was the very first movie I thought of. But I don't remember a lock picking scene 🤔

[@PongoXBongo]

That intial TV program desciption sounds a bit like an episode of Doctor Who called The Crimson Horror. The lockpicking, trapped in rooms, screaming, etc. Although that episode featured more red hues than green, IIRC. That episode aired in 2013.

[@aniassantiago6445]

As a neurodivergent person myself, he seems hyperfixated on finding the show but has executive dysfunction when it comes to watching all the suggestions to actually find it. The super specific details of the dates and times is something I do as well. As someone who can also hyperfixates on finding something, it can wax and wane but I'll always return to it. Could explain why he takes breaks in finding the answers to what show this is. I'm gonna guess he's also autistic. He could also be jumbling scenes from different shows together. The question I have is why exactly this one specific show and why try to find it years later?

[@WaffleBat]

I used to work at a bookstore and people would come in all the time looking for a specific book but somehow have no relevant info that would help track it down, like author, genre, plot, etc. Instead they’d be like “I’m looking for a book, it’s blue. There’s a woman in it and she’s a mother, I think. There’s also a cowboy, wait maybe it was just a horse, anyway there’s a scene where two people are in a field and one of them is talking about either Ohio or a fire? And I think there’s a chapter about a baker or a scene where someone eats bread.” And then they would get super annoyed that you couldn’t find it for them.

[@bryangarcia5599]

Oh, yeah; that scene in _Madagascar_ where a Marilyn Monroe lookalike disappears into thin air. _Classic._

[@LukeVader77]

2 years and tip of my tongue couldn't even find it?! That's insane 😮. Kinda don't think he's trolling, but definitely obsessive. I had a similar moment (thought not even as close to extreme as this) when trying to find Seyonce's version of Crazy in Love on KZbin.

[@LukeVader77]

Great research by the way 😊

[@Teifling]

While I didn't go on a cross platform posting spree for it, I did obsessed over trying to remember a song I heard on the radio in high school. About 4 years ago, I finally got it by accident, as my Spotify rolled into it; Blue by A Perfect Circle. Lol

[@taryn3917]

here i am commenting on others comments but i don’t think i’ve ever actually left one simply to say how much i’ve grown to love this channel!! i’m very unwilling to try watching new (new to me anyway) youtubers but i’m SO GLAD i finally convinced myself to click one of your videos! you post the exact content i look for when i’m bored!! love the reddit rabbit holes!!!

[@infinitemausoleum721]

I've had obsessive hunts like this in the past, but never really public ones. Stuff like looking for a cyberpunk FPS set in a golden city called "We Loved You" or a youtube video I swear I saw. One thing that happens with me is this weird pressure in my head, as if the lack of ability to find it is causing an actual buildup in my brain. It doesn't really go away either, until I find the thing or explain it away (The FPS, I'm 99% sure I dreamed up and am now actually trying to make it a real thing). If it's similar with this guy, I cannot possibly imagine having that pressure for years on end. It gets hard to think after a few hours, let alone that long.

[@JennRighter]

This guy seems nice for some reason. The whole thing is very curious. It might sound weird, but I wish people who were more skilled at sleuthing would try to find this television program for him. I read in the comments here that the man could be remembering a very vivid dream. I think this is quite possible. For YEARS I thought I went to a WWF match (I’m 41, it was prior to WWE). I remember everything about it. I was with my dad and brother. I remember the Bushwhackers and Junkyard Dog. All of it. I was probably 14 or 15 years old before I realized this never happened and it was a dream. I for some reason started asking my brother about it. It freaked me out that it never actually happened.

[@sgtcwhatley]

Excellent video as always. Around 10 years ago I was researching various message boards looking to identify a blues song I had heard on the radio, one of those days when you hear a song, remember one line and nothing else lol. As I was doing this I noticed the same question repeated on several of the boards,a man trying to locate a song he remembered but didn't remember, he seemed to remember more of how the song made him feel much more than the beat or lyrics of the song. Several people had attempted to help him but with no success. After reading over the various posts it seemed the man was suffering from a mental illness, he associated the song with a time in his life that his mental illness was being successfully treated, he was now in a much different place in his life. My belief is this reddit user may be experiencing something similar, it appears strange to us but to him it is a point in his life he would give anything to go back to. Part of me wants him to find it but another part wonders how he would react if he found the answer and yet his life didn't change back to what it once was, a time he has treasured for years and yet is gone never to return.

[@Katie-hj5eb]

To remember something is to finger paint over the original memory with new pieces of the memory. Considering how much the poster thinks about the scene, they've defintiely fully reinvented the memory by now.

[@enderkai618]

i have adhd and my first thought was "oh it's probably a hyperfixation/special interest" and i was hoping you'd mention it lol special interests are specific to autism and are similar to hyperfixations but usually last a lot longer, so it could be a special interest? idk

[@SakuraAsranArt]

I'm autistic and the obsessive focus on a single TV show combined with the rambling writing style screams autism to me.

[@kiyomori190]

It sounds like an episode from Outer Limits but I'm not sure. I love your video btw, you cover cases I've never heard before

[@SarahO]

I’m surprised Twin Peaks wasn’t listed as a possibility.

[@vanderlinde2376]

Yooo, your accent is sick. Adds to the mystery of vids

[@MyBestPalJimbo]

There is a certain type/brand of autism/autistic person where they get very very laser-focused on a very certain subject, and will repeat the same premise all the time, almost exactly the same way each time. I know a guy like that who has a youtube channel where he asks the same very long, detailed question multiple times per day.

[@g9nevieve]

you know, i kinda understand that compulsion to find something, i once looked for this one drawing for hours. not sure why, i just felt compelled to do it. maybe something similar is here and he’s desperate ?

[@890oo7]

This is really random but I enjoy you’re voice/ accent I feel like it’s a really good story teller voice :-)

[@virginiaviola5097]

I get how frustrating this can be, especially if they were a kid at the time. Seeing a bit of something in a waiting room, or home from school as a kid, and only remembering a tiny part..especially if it was disturbing. I spent years trying to track down a children’s program that nobody but me seemed to remember. It didn’t help that I was describing the colour of the clothes and the neck chain the main character wore until a friend pointed out that tv was still black and white then. It was only because of a music quiz show question identifying obscure theme songs that I finally got the name of the show after some 30 years of not knowing. Another British suspense series I watched in the 90’s seemed to not exist either, and I’ve only just been able to find it again. Dark rooms and vanishing ladies in red sounds very David Lynch.

[@visualsituation]

it just seems like someones testing out a new bot