the Most Disturbing Internet Mysteries Iceberg

32 mysteries, seven layers. We'll start with the more dark and unsettling, and as we move down the chart, the mysteries will become increasingly sinister and horrifying. Let's start at the tip of the iceberg. Level one, paranoia.com. Paranoia.com was a free speech website created by Kevin TX in 1994, just as the World Wide Web first became

available to the public. It was a widely popular site with a bizarre range of topics, from things like The Simpsons cartoon to the Star Trek themed drinking game. But like any site that hosts free speech, it also attracted the dark side of the internet. Illicit topics like cannibalism, sui- assistance, prostitution, yeah, and for- graphy were wildly

popular on the site. It was taken down in 1999, but by 2000, the URL was owned by a German company and directed users to a French page. Today, this controversial website redirects users to the Disney website. No one could figure out why the supposedly family-oriented company would touch such a controversial site with a 10-in pole. Some said Disney

bought the domain because of its infamy and to get more hits on their site. Or is the truth closer to home? It turns out that in 2000, there was a short-lived Fox Family game show called paranoia. It even had its own website, you guessed it, paranoia.com. So when Disney acquired Fox Family in

2001, all of the web domains associated with Fox Family, including that one, could have been transferred to Disney. Mystery solved? Disney isn't talking, so only time will tell. I'm seeing gnomes. For some, gnomes are small garden ornaments that chill out in the outdoors. But for others, gnomes are mischievous tiny beings and many people