The Creepiest Decade-Old YouTube Mystery Finally Solved

Summary

Over a decade ago, the YouTube channel snch perplexed viewers with seemingly unexplained paranormal activities, sparking mysteries and theories. The creators behind this mystery were just friends having fun, letting unplanned events fuel the narrative of their spontaneous horror series. While many spent years unraveling their encoded messages and eerie footage, the real story simply involved creative storytelling and improvisation during mundane occurrences, as later confirmed by one of the creators. Despite its creepy undertones, the story of snch is an example of a well-crafted digital mystery, blending real and fictional elements to enthrall an audience, only to have the mystery conclusively explained a decade later by the creators themselves.

Highlights

• The snch channel played into paranormal themes, engaging fans for over a decade. 👻
• All videos were recorded on Snapchat, showcasing unscripted spontaneity. 📷
• Mason Lusk revealed the story's origins, confirming it was all just creative tomfoolery. 🤹‍♂️
• The peculiar random events fit eerily well into a ghostly child narrative. 👶
• The 'mystery' wasn't planned and was just friends improvising and going along with strange happenings. 🤔

Key Takeaways

• The snch YouTube channel was an elaborate hoax created for fun by three friends. 🎭
• Unplanned events, like a malfunctioning baby monitor, spurred the creative paranormal narrative. 🎥
• Videos were shot as short, improv snippets meant for Snapchat, explaining their spontaneous feel. 📱
• The mystery was conclusively solved by Mason, one of the members, confirming it as fictional. 🔍
• The story cleverly intertwined real creepy happenings with fictional plots, fooling viewers for years. 😱

Overview

The snch channel, a name derived from Snapchat, intrigued internet sleuths with unsettling short videos hinting at paranormal activities. These videos were initially recorded by three friends merely having fun and experimenting with spontaneous storytelling, using random occurrences to shape their ghostly narrative.

Despite assumptions of a crafted storyline involving unseen forces and encoded messages, it was revealed by Mason, one of the creators, that their work was largely improvised. They used elements of fiction to embellish actual bizarre events, contributing to the eerie, yet misleading narrative that captivated viewers.

The compelling blend of real but misunderstood occurrences, like a malfunctioning baby monitor and unexplained sounds, with cryptic Plotlines, led many to believe in the haunting mystery. Yet, in truth, it was clever improvisation that blurred lines between fact and fiction, maintaining a creepy aura that kept audiences guessing for years.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:00: Introduction and Background The chapter starts with an introductory dialogue, possibly informal in nature, presenting an exchange between individuals about an issue related to a game or a technical glitch. It includes expressions of surprise and confusion over the situation, particularly relating to visual anomalies on a screen that becomes entirely black. This suggests a theme of unforeseen challenges or technical difficulties encountered by the characters.
• 01:00 - 02:00: Channel's First Video and Friend Group A YouTube account named snch posted short clips over a decade ago, showcasing a normal friend group having fun. The videos quickly took an unsettling turn, leaving a mystery unsolved for over a decade. The channel stopped uploading in 2016, leaving viewers puzzled until today.
• 02:00 - 03:00: Paranormal Phenomena and Strange Events The chapter titled 'Paranormal Phenomena and Strange Events' begins with a video created by a group of friends. They are seen in a car waiting for their friend, who is inside a liquor store buying alcohol. The videos are being filmed by Tyler, a member of the group. While talking, someone jokes about sending a friend to buy alcohol as if they were still teenagers. During the conversation, they make observations about a mole on a person's head, commenting on David in a Best Buy shirt, but assure that the person with the mole is a kind lady. The chapter appears to capture the light-hearted and whimsical interactions typical among friends, set against the backdrop of everyday activities.
• 03:00 - 04:00: Video Title and Sequence Issues The chapter titled 'Video Title and Sequence Issues' discusses a scenario within a friend group where they are waiting for alcohol. A core member of the group has issues with unlocking something, but eventually manages it. The reason for their recording is revealed to be random and humorous, aiming to capture amusing events, resulting in potentially a hundred such videos. The chapter then describes a sequence of shots where the friends are enjoying their time messing around in a car, singing, and playing. The scene transitions to them arriving home, ready to play a board game when something unexpected occurs.
• 04:00 - 05:00: New Series and Connection to Bas 64 The chapter opens with an ambiguous scene involving the characters shuffling something and engaging in their objectives. There seems to be a technical issue or strange occurrence which is described as a 'bright' thing affecting only a character named Tyler. The conversation is informal and punctuated with expressions of surprise and confusion. The overall mood is tense and mysterious, with characters reacting to an unexplained phenomenon.
• 05:00 - 06:00: Continued Strange Occurrences The chapter 'Continued Strange Occurrences' describes a peculiar incident involving a baby monitor. The device starts going off unpredictably, and its volume increases whenever Tyler, the cameraman, is nearby. Meanwhile, Mason, another friend in the group, observes the situation. Despite unplugging the monitor, it continues to function, leading to more confusion. The friends decide to experiment further by calling out to it, echoing the phrase 'Charlie Charlie, are you there?' in a mocking manner, as they explore the unexplained behavior of the device.
• 06:00 - 07:00: Analysis and Theories This chapter delves into historical trends, specifically the attempt to summon ghosts for answers, akin to using an Ouija board. This was notably popularized in 2015, reflecting the age of the series being discussed. The narrative then shifts abruptly to a casual conversation about traveling to Cuba from Florida, which inadvertently reveals the story's setting in Florida. The discussion is illustrated with lively, surprised reactions, emphasizing the chapter's dynamic tone.
• 07:00 - 08:00: Investigation of Second SNCH Channel The chapter titled 'Investigation of Second SNCH Channel' involves a mysterious noise that prompts David to investigate, but he becomes too scared and asks Tyler to check instead. There is a moment of technical difficulty where the camera's screen goes completely black, adding to the suspense. A figure is supposedly captured in the video.
• 08:00 - 09:00: Conclusion and Real-life Connections The chapter 'Conclusion and Real-life Connections' describes a mysterious event where a figure is seen staring through a window. Once noticed by the friends, it vanishes into the darkness. The friends, after gathering courage, enter the room to investigate, but the video abruptly ends. The next video is described as disconnected, showing merely a black, static-filled screen, reminiscent of static from a baby monitor. It serves as a recap of the events experienced by three friends: Tyler, Mason, and David.
• 09:00 - 10:00: Identity and Motivation Behind the Mystery The chapter titled 'Identity and Motivation Behind the Mystery' follows a group of boys who decide to record their experiences while driving around, hoping to capture something interesting. During their adventure, they encounter several paranormal events. A baby monitor goes off unexpectedly, especially in proximity to Tyler, one of the boys, adding to the eerie atmosphere. They also hear a loud noise originating from another room, which terrifies them. Unbeknownst to the boys, they are being observed by an unidentified presence from a window. This mysterious watcher quickly disappears from sight once noticed, indicating a desire to remain hidden, suggesting that its intentions might be to observe without revealing its identity.
• 10:00 - 11:00: Final Revelations and Hoax Confirmation The chapter titled 'Final Revelations and Hoax Confirmation' delves into the disorderly nature of a series of videos uploaded on a particular channel. These videos lack coherence in their sequence, compelling viewers to assemble them manually to derive any meaningful narrative. The titles of the videos are merely random numbers, possibly the ones automatically generated by a recording device, indicating that the uploader had no intention of organizing or giving them descriptive titles. This randomness suggests that the decision to upload might have been impulsive, hinting at a lack of structured planning.
• 11:00 - 12:00: Speculations on Unplanned Events In this chapter, the boys return to posting videos after a year-long hiatus, completely ignoring past events. The new series consists of 16 uploads featuring an intriguing element: each video's title is encoded in Base64, containing secret messages upon decoding. The narrative hints at exploring these messages further in subsequent sections.

The Creepiest Decade-Old YouTube Mystery Finally Solved Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 we're not going to no but it's Monopoly you can do that it's fine yes you holy or they know I'm like oh oh it's a little there's a little hand look there's two little hands dude it's like starting to like wig out man dude what the my camera's off dude the the screen's like completely black dude no it's completely black
• 00:30 - 01:00 over a decade ago a group of short 10 to 30 second Clips would be uploaded by a YouTube account named snch these videos showed what appeared to be a normal friend group just having fun and goofing off as any young men do however the videos would quickly begin to take an unsettling turn as they went on leaving behind a mystery that would posle viewers for over a decade and with the Channel having completely stopped uploading in 2016 it remained unclear if it would ever be solved until today
• 01:00 - 01:30 the Channel's first video was of some friends in a car waiting for their other friend to get back from buying alcohol at a liquor store the person talking is named Tyler who is one filming all of these videos sent a friend in there to get alcohol he's surrounded what are we 15 whoa look at the mole in the Cyber head dude look at the mole that's mean to say what do you mean I don't I'm not she's the nicest lady that walked in there I bet he made it he's here the guy in the Best Buy shirt is named David the
• 01:30 - 02:00 friend they waiting for to get alcohol and another one of the core members of the friend group he's going to I had to put unlock there you go he's got it he's got it's here where they give us the actual reason for why they're recording I'm just going to record random things and see if something happens it's funny it's going to be 100 of these videos next series of videos just shows a messing around in a car singing songs and just playing around they finally arrive home to begin playing a board game when suddenly bring him here bring
• 02:00 - 02:30 him here all right Shuffle these and we're going to do our little objectives did you guys hear that what is that I don't know it's like making a really bright like dude it's like starting to like wig out it only affects Tyler boom boom do it what the [ __ ] dude I don't I don't dude I have no
• 02:30 - 03:00 a baby monitor starts going off they also notice that the baby monitor seems to become much louder whenever Tyler the cameraman is nearing Mason is a third friend in the friend group he's a bearded white guy on the left they continue to mess around with the baby monitor wondering why it's acting so strangely they unplug it to try and see if they can get it to stop being so loud when surprisingly it remains working even after having been plugged out they then start messing around with the baby monitor even more mocking it by saying Charlie Charlie are you there which if
• 03:00 - 03:30 you don't know is a very old Trend where you would try to summon a ghost to give you answers to questions similar to a oua board this trend was popular in 2015 which really shows the age of the series they messed with it a bit more then completely stopped what they were doing to have a random conversation about taking a boat to Cuba from Florida they also indirectly reveal that the story takes place in Florida CU was right below Florida all we have to do is take a boat down to CU my camera is like what the [ __ ] dude holy [ __ ] what the dude
• 03:30 - 04:00 like holy [ __ ] I'm I'm like I am I have no [ __ ] clue I'm not checking that [ __ ] door dude I'm not [ __ ] checking that door dude after hearing the mysterious noise coming from another room David Goes to investigate but becomes too scared and makes Tyler do it [ __ ] man the [ __ ] is going on you out the place my camera's off dude the the [ __ ] screen's like completely black dude no it's completely black did you catch that in this video a figure can be
• 04:00 - 04:30 staring into the window watching the guys when it suddenly notices it's in their field of view it then vanishes into the darkness they finally muster the courage to go into the room and check what's going on when the video abruptly ends the next video seemingly has no connection to what just happened and appears to be a black screen with heavy static perhaps the same static that came from the baby monitor plane to recap what we have just seen a trio of friends Tyler the cameraman Mason the bearded guy and David the Best Buy guy
• 04:30 - 05:00 are driving and messing around when they decide to start recording just in case anything interesting happens and experience many paranormal phenomena such as a baby monitor going off especially when it's near Tyler and hearing a loud noise from another room which frightens them they also are being watched by someone or something in the window who the boys don't seem to notice and who does not want to be discovered by them since they move quickly out of view once the camera is in their Direction implying all they want to do is watch something that is also very
• 05:00 - 05:30 strange about this whole channel is the way they uploaded these videos you see none of these videos are actually in order there're scattered mess that you have to piece together yourself to make sense of the titles of these videos that I've showed you so far are just a random sequence of numbers the type that your phone automatically generates whenever you record a video suggesting that the uploader did not have any sort of plan for these videos since I didn't even bother coming up with the title maybe it really was a sort of random DEC decision
• 05:30 - 06:00 to start recording considering this the boys don't post again for an entire year but when they do they completely ignore the events that happen a year ago as if they never existed the new videos consist of 16 uploads this time with a Twist instead of the randomly generated titles are prevalent in the last series every title is now encoded in Bas 64 which when decoded brings about a secret message which every video has and that we will get to you later the first of these new videos appear appears
• 06:00 - 06:30 extremely mundane similar to how the first of their video started with them just kicking back and talking about legitimately the French language suddenly a pair of hands from the next door window appears with one of the boys mentioning how small they look maybe indicating that these are supposed to be a pair of child hands there go the window I don't know if they know I'm looking or they know I'm look oh oh it's a little there's a little hand look there's two little hands oh they're knocking wave wave I think she's in
• 06:30 - 07:00 trouble maybe she is in trouble no if you were in trouble you should be should be maybe she can't make [Music] noise we can see Mason who is a guy in the blue shirt playing around with a few dogs in the background the others leave to go inside while Mason just stares at something blankly in the background they ask Mason if he's ready to go out for drinks and he just replies yeah but looks visibly shaken and unsettled as if
• 07:00 - 07:30 he could have potentially saw something disturbing or perplexing in the distance they take a quick break to play some dark sauce after which they have a somewhat interesting conversation where you can make out Tyler now in front of the camera instead of behind it saying he doesn't really want to talk about it and mentioning something that is unclear to hear because Mason is talking at the same time but sounds like we were the cause of it and Mason at the same time saying that he would be worried if he didn't have four dogs for the time being until everything like kind of
• 07:30 - 08:00 I don't know man it just I don't really want to talk about it it's just a lot of Weir going on if I didn't have four dog like the cause of we were the cause and we made oh my God there's Katie and Sarah and oh this sounds to me like Mason was talking about something he saw earlier and was explaining it to Tyler Mason mentioning that he wasn't worried because he had four dogs suggest to me that whatever he saw he perceived as a threat Tyler mentions that whatever Mason saw they
• 08:00 - 08:30 were the cause of who knows what this could be referring to nonetheless they meet up with some friends and explore the local store nothing really notable happens here except for Mason showing off his singing skills which thoroughly impresses his friend know it's I also noticed that whenever Tyler moves by the refrigerator in the store it seems to open by itself this can
• 08:30 - 09:00 probably be more reasonably explainable through the idea that someone else out of you is opening another fridge door causing a shift and air pressure that slly opens one that we can see on camera momentarily eventually they leave and something interesting is seen she was asking what shirt I had on the shirt yeah she like is that Regular Show where we found his baby bottle a baby bottle Waits right outside of the store
• 09:00 - 09:30 now we have a running theme here from the baby monitor going off to the small hand seen in the next door window to the baby bottle right outside of the store we obviously can tell that the group is being haunted by a baby just kidding what we can make out is that this whole thing is probably an elaborate hoax or a madeup story making the group appear as if they were being haunted due to all the Paranormal phenomena surrounding them on the slim possibility that they are really being haunted then it could be Tyler who is
• 09:30 - 10:00 the source of all this considering that he seems to be the most affected by these events perhaps something happened in the past where he had a baby who had died or a mother who died while pregnant let's just see what happens stay all right this is [ __ ] [ __ ] every time we play this goddamn game not going to form an alliance we're not going to allance it's Monopoly you can do that it's fine yes holy [ __ ] oh my
• 10:00 - 10:30 god get back here W what the [ __ ] was that my what the [ __ ] was that what the [ __ ] your phone dude [ __ ] your phone phone the [ __ ] door just got ripped off the [ __ ] room shut the [ __ ] up shut the oh my God it's outside the door it's outside the door a loud noise is heard in the background the lights showed off and the doors
• 10:30 - 11:00 blasted right out of the door frame the group Waits silently while something is right outside of the door the very last video is just a blank screen which when put through spectogram reveals this image Tyler and a woman resting on a shoulder the snch channel never posted again after this leaving behind a mystery of what happened to them whether or not it was fake and what if it was real was Haunting them for for over a decade now that we've seen the entirety
• 11:00 - 11:30 of the story there are a few things to go over the store that they visit is this pubic in lenai Acres Florida they mentioned earlier that they are from Florida so it's likely lenai acres is where the story takes place as mentioned before some of these video titles are encoded in B 64 and translates to legible text when decoded now all of these titles actually don't seem to relate to anything that's going on in any of the videos the names of the titles goes as follows limbo forgotten
• 11:30 - 12:00 Typhon gate child Pride sloth lost Leviathan sticks and where is your daughter ponac some of these titles do seem to have a sort of shared meaning though as they all relate to some sort of afterlife and Spirits for example limbo is a state between life and death
• 12:00 - 12:30 a sort of purgatory stinks in Greek mythology is the path between the dead and the living or is your daughter seems to imply that there was a lost forgotten child a ponac in East Asian folklore is a woman who is now a sort of spirit or demon who is wronged in life by men and actively goes and hunts them out she also too is often the victim of a Stow birth the snch channel actually responded back to somebody who commented
• 12:30 - 13:00 so in this video we see a baby bottle with milk in it when decoded the last for video say where is your daughter do you guys think there is any correlation between the two things I think the bottle means something other than a joke to make fun of Mason to which snch responded with this although if we just take those three characters a a z the term a z is the iso 639 code for the amarus language a meleo Polynesian language spoken in West Tamer Indonesia
• 13:00 - 13:30 this probably suggests that the creators are hinting at a connection to an Indonesian folklore given that the ponac is a eventual female spirit in Indonesian and Malaysian folklore here is my complete analysis and final take on the story that the creators are trying to tell their videos and titles earlier on before the events of the story Tyler had a girlfriend who he got pregnant and who died giving birth she returns as a eventual spirit and terrorizes a Treo of men with various
• 13:30 - 14:00 hauntings because she feels that she was wronged by them for something that they did a year passes after the hauntings and everything seems to be going back to normal except that the spirit of the woman is slowly crossing the gate between dead and the living and has returned to terrorize a group eventually the spirit appears and they all huddle together in the dark in fear that is the end of the snch channel but it is actually far from over let's now explore
• 14:00 - 14:30 the more unknown second snch Channel and later the reason why I said this mystery was solved the second snch channel was created a few months after the snch channel stopped posting and as a bio stating I don't know how it happened this channel post a few videos the first of which being a quick view of a baby toy another video shows them attempting to write their own name on a piece of paper before cutting out before their name can be shown
• 14:30 - 15:00 a very uncharacteristically long 7-minute video is posted to you this time from the perspective of a figure walking around a basement like area the only interesting part here is at 59 seconds where there is a picture of two women with with babies which might
• 15:00 - 15:30 relate to the original poniac idea of a woman dying in childbirth and later returning as a spirit Beyond this though they don't really do anything that interesting just walk around and flash a light towards the stairs but beyond that nothing much another video is posted called Rip Danny which shows a distorted view of another room with the description reading may his soul be driven into the depths of Heaven
• 15:30 - 16:00 my conclusion from researching this channel is that it is a fake made by a different Creator than the originals to continue upon the story after it was finished there are many differences between snch and this new channel the first notable difference is the way these videos are shot the original Channel almost always films vertically while the second channel is mostly shot horizontally with the exception of the 7-minute video where the cameraman explores the basement that brings us to the second notable difference all of
• 16:00 - 16:30 snc's videos are very short 10 to 30 second long Snippets and while this channel mostly does the same they have a large 7-minute video which is very uncharacteristically long for the original channel the original Channel almost always features one of the boys talking and interacting with one another while the second Channel just seems to be one person not interacting with anyone else at all besides these directorial differences there is one major reason why I believe this channel is not related to the original Channel
• 16:30 - 17:00 at all they uploaded a video where a man holding a snake in his hands can be seen a person talks in the background see if you can make out what they say the power to be please open your right please do not make if you didn't catch it the man says something like please open the door to
• 17:00 - 17:30 your right SCP 097 help they're after me do not make eye contact with SCP 097 if you don't know what scps are they're basically internet Legends of strange creatures and phenomena that are simply works of fiction as a side note the SCP they mention SCP 097 is simply a 10 acre plot of land in the midwestern United States the most unscary SCP they could have possibly mentioned and likely mixed it
• 17:30 - 18:00 up with another one the Creator mentioning fictional monsters is leading me to believe that the Creator is simply a horror fan that likes stuff like scps creepy pastas and other internet horror and also snch and made their own spin-off between the uncharacteristically long video the lack of vertical filming and the mentioning of other generic internet horror creatures I think it's safe to say this is an impostor besides if snca were to make a continuation why would they
• 18:00 - 18:30 create an entirely new Channel with a completely different style instead of just continuing on their main account where all of their fans are it just doesn't make any sense this does beg the question though if this isn't the original snch then where are they and what happened to them well I as pretty much every other person who covered this felt this question may never be answered as I was digging through videos for research on this channel I came across a strange comment on one of them if only
• 18:30 - 19:00 they kept going by an account with six subscribers called Mason Lusk 3566 while any other day I might have skipped over this comment I thought the name sounded a bit familiar Mason on this channel there is not a single person fully in view but a ton of animals in every video specifically almost every video is of injured animals being rehabilitated mainly dogs who else do we know has a bunch of
• 19:00 - 19:30 dogs and his named Mason the account was also created a full year before the events of snch adding to the authenticity of the account upon seeing this I grew suspicious that this could be the real Mason from the channel and started looking through other videos on snch where he could have also commented it's here where the mystery is officially solved and the motivations behind the channel were revealed hi I'm one of the guys from the video we were just messing around and some
• 19:30 - 20:00 actual weird stuff happened so we made stories around the weird stuff the baby monitor was freaking out and we didn't know why and that's how it all started thank you for all your support we wanted to get back into it but life gets in the way hope everyone had as much fun as we did making it it turns out that the snch channel was a hoax designed to make it look like the trio were being haunted by some paranormal entity which is often the case with these online Mysteries he mention that this all happened because
• 20:00 - 20:30 Tyler didn't want to play the risk board game and David made up the titles because they were bored Mason goes on to say that the reason why the videos are all short Snippets is because they are designed for Snapchat and that the name snch is short for Snapchat we never made a story line or Story Board every single thing was improv we thought might be related we would be sitting at the table and something weird would happen so we'd quickly make a plot film right there and call it the major thing we did was we didn't edit or remove videos other than the creepy static noise saying I
• 20:30 - 21:00 appreciate the support so it appears that the entire story wasn't one that was planned out it was completely improved I was able to find Mason's Reddit account and I privately messaged him and he agreed that I could share our conversation of even more details about the channel the baby monitor picking up static is how this all started the clips before were just random Clips unrelated to the whole ghost narrative the little girl's hand in the window random happen stance and we filmed the screen door in the last video our dogs broke it being too excited and we ran with it David Our
• 21:00 - 21:30 Best Buy guy actually came up with the whole puzzle idea and we find it to make it harder but views beat it so damn fast meaning that viewers figured it out before they can further refine it since the common theory is that Tyler had an exg girlriend who had a still birth and began haunting the group maybe that is what happens in the story lur wise the figure in the mask that we see early on is either Tyler or David wearing a mask from the payday game and the spectrograph is actually a Ros sonogram of teller's daughter the door that had blown off in the very last video was
• 21:30 - 22:00 already broken by the dogs and they had people pull the door with rope to make it look like it had flown off the whole snch story was an elaborate fictional story made to look real it was done mostly out of improv by three friends out of boredom and later became popular in the late 2010s is an unexplained story at least in Mexico there is one thing I find a bit strange though Mason mentioned that all the events in this entire series besides the man in the mask and the door being pulled the end were completely unplanned random
• 22:00 - 22:30 occurrences meaning that the little girl's hands knocking on the window the baby bottle at the store and the baby monitor going crazy when you're Tyler were all completely unplanned what's weird is how these ideas fit perfectly in a child ghost kind of narrative Mason mentioned multiple times that there are strange things going on that they just tuned out because it became too frequent if you are a believer in the Paranormal maybe there is a slight possibility that even though the pony NE story was
• 22:30 - 23:00 fictitious maybe there could have been some real paranormal activity going on between them