The Schuylkill Notes Mystery

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  • @ScareTheater
    @ScareTheater  Рік тому +2489

    Thank you everyone for calling attention to the controversial sponsor. It was a bit of a hassle, but I managed to back out of the contract, and have cut the sponsored portion out of the video (it may take a few hours for the video to update). I'd like to say mistakes happen; however, with a channel this size I understand I have a responsibility to be more careful. From now on I am making it a top priority to carefully do an in-depth vetting on every sponsor I take. I take full accountability for what has happened, and it is on me for not doing my research. I appreciate all of you for holding me accountable and keeping me grounded. You guys are awesome.

    • @razberrie27
      @razberrie27 Рік тому +208

      you're awesome for listening to us :) love you man

    • @ScareTheater
      @ScareTheater  Рік тому +509

      @@razberrie27 I appreciate the kindness, but don't give me too much credit here. I've really only done the bare minimum by correcting my mistake. I should have been more careful from the start. I'm sorry for letting you guys down. I should be better than this.

    • @FantasticAlbum77
      @FantasticAlbum77 Рік тому +28

      Thank you and I love your content ❤️

    • @Tezorus
      @Tezorus Рік тому +67

      You took responsibility and act very fast, that's great.

    • @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378
      @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378 Рік тому +13

      ​@@ScareTheater I have a feeling about the comment section that your sponsor we're beyond questionable that i hoped it might changed thank you.

  • @bradylewis1037
    @bradylewis1037 Рік тому +759

    Food packaging honestly isn't all that complicated, especially because most people don't really pay attention to it when opening it. For boxes, use a glue gun. For bags, a heat sealer. Most either tear a box or bag open and won't notice the differences. Someone could easily buy something, do this at home, then bring it back under a coat or something.

    • @ryanseltzer3355
      @ryanseltzer3355 Рік тому +22

      Yeah to add to this I used to have a chip bag resealer that looked like a small stapler and was battery powered with a heat strip to melt the plastic back together. While it probably would be hard to do undetected you could probably even do it at the store since it easily fits in a pocket

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 Рік тому +28

      These sorts of stories make me extra paranoid. I'm already paranoid about open packages since more than once I've eaten spoiled or stale food because the packaging got damaged so ever since I started giving packaging a once over in the store and at home. There's also been cases of people doing this sort of stuff to poison people

    • @UglyPotato34
      @UglyPotato34 Рік тому +3

      ​@@arthas640 yea same, it's a big fear of mine..

    • @sudonim7552
      @sudonim7552 Рік тому +32

      The only thing that makes me really concerned is that one was found inside a *medicine bottle*. Medicine tampering is extremely dangerous. If a paper note could make its way into a medicine bottle, who knows what other, more dangerous things could as well?

    • @J.C...
      @J.C... Рік тому +2

      No.

  • @Pykrimly
    @Pykrimly Рік тому +1278

    Scaretheater is the type of guy to scare people in a theater

    • @sovietlps
      @sovietlps Рік тому +6

      literally

    • @akusemkhal
      @akusemkhal Рік тому +25

      Thank god I'm not in a theater, I may not survive from that incident

    • @TheCreepersGood
      @TheCreepersGood Рік тому +11

      I’d be petrified to see him because of what kinda scary things he’d have to offer

    • @artyom9137
      @artyom9137 Рік тому +8

      @@akusemkhalYou cannot run from Mr Ar-15

    • @YearsOVDecay1
      @YearsOVDecay1 Рік тому

      ​@@artyom9137tf

  • @hypnotised-clover
    @hypnotised-clover Рік тому +361

    This also reminds me of the so called "toynbee tiles", a series of tiles that have appeared across america since the 80s with references to theories, the tiles seemingly appear out of nowhere and are made of glass mosaics with a home made glue designed by whoever makes the tiles to melt into the road in sunlight. Nobody knows who places the tiles, and they too have had copycats. People have suspected the tiles to be made by a mentally ill person, and the reason they never get caught being that they make the tiles from inside their car with a hole in the floor, so they can drive to wherever they wished to place a tile and work on it without causing suspicion. Apparently, the tiles only started to appear after a caller called into a talk show and started making references to the same things that later appeared in the tiles.

    • @lastilnovista
      @lastilnovista Рік тому +36

      i love the Toynbee tiles! i first encountered them around NYU and the LES in the ‘90s and found them fascinating. i remember it was one of the first mysteries i attempted to research on the internet when i got AOL in ‘97. there was very little information on them at first. out of all the weird, esoteric New York City lore, this is my absolute favourite.

    • @hypnotised-clover
      @hypnotised-clover Рік тому +16

      @@lastilnovista I also find it interesting and I would try to preserve the tiles if I found them, unfortunately, the tiles either get removed shortly after being placed (some only lasted a few hours) or they get worn down by cars, since the tiles are very small and thin.

    • @TheAtroxious
      @TheAtroxious Рік тому +10

      I saw a video a couple years ago where they thought they got pretty close to tracking down the person responsible for the tiles, but they couldn't make direct contact. IIRC they did contact people he knew though. Wish I could remember what the video was. It was pretty interesting.

    • @thekiwiclipper1113
      @thekiwiclipper1113 Рік тому +3

      Yeah this reminded me of the Toynee Tiles as well. And the documentary mentioned in thr above comment can be found on UA-cam

    • @meowlazer5989
      @meowlazer5989 Рік тому +3

      I made a similar comment. The Toynbee tiles, the furnace party letter, and these notes, all coming out of the same area around Philly, seems like more than coincidence

  • @juliajumame
    @juliajumame Рік тому +281

    Omg, I saw the thumbnail and was so excited to hear you try to pronounce schuylkill. Turns out you’re a local and can pronounce it fine haha

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 Рік тому +23

      I love listening to people talk about Washington for similar reasons. Most non locals can't pronounce Chehalis, Quinault, Spokane, or Puyallup right. Many also mispronounced Rainier, Yakima, Tenino, and Skookumchuck.

    • @torvic1236
      @torvic1236 Рік тому +32

      Was funny hearing him trying to pronounce Tamaqua though😂

    • @ScareTheater
      @ScareTheater  Рік тому +45

      @@torvic1236 Yeah, I had trouble with that one lol

    • @themayhemcalling4099
      @themayhemcalling4099 Рік тому

      @@arthas640Dr. Seuss ass state

    • @LyndsayW1194
      @LyndsayW1194 11 місяців тому +6

      ​@@arthas640dont forget Sequim!

  • @0852657luis
    @0852657luis Рік тому +421

    It's makes you think how many times this happened in the pre-internet that just never got recorded.

    • @So_Toasty
      @So_Toasty Рік тому

      80's & early 90's chicago was full of street preachers who'd harass pedestrians and hand out odd literature written in disjointed fashion and with content that was similarly all over the place in terms of connecting various religious ideology and conspiracies. I was a kid but I remember it well because my dad was fascinated by these types and he was known to engage them in provacative banter. There was also a thing back then where there were bulletin boards at train stations or in the entrance of stores and the like and people mostly would post job type things with little tabs cut out to rip off phone numbers, but every now and then you'd get something like this where some person believed they had it all figured out (what that "all" consisted of varied but was invariably nonsensical.) I always think of that when stuff like this pops up. More recently, during many hours long occasions where I fall down these weird internet rabbit holes I have discovered several youtube channels that are clearly the product of unstable minds wherein the creator has, for example, posted hundreds of videos of himself rambling about cointelpro, and accusing random strangers of being part of a gangstalking conspiracy against him. He had these things that he took as "tells" that an individual was involved in this imagined conspiracy against him like how they wore their scarf and it's color, or incidental eyecontact (because angry muttering in public tends to elicit attention); all of these were indicators of involvement in his view. It's sad but shamefully interesting in a voyeurish way. I wish I had saved or bookmarked the channels so I could link them but I generally force myself back into reality and get off the internet upon reaching this point in my browsing.

    • @stentor9640
      @stentor9640 Рік тому +12

      Look into the Toynbee Tiles.

    • @chrisdawson1776
      @chrisdawson1776 11 місяців тому

      @@stentor9640No.

    • @HotPocketsBoy
      @HotPocketsBoy 9 місяців тому

      @@stentor9640look into Y2K

  • @itsmevvacle6510
    @itsmevvacle6510 Рік тому +179

    I worked in Conservation before I got into law enforcement in Pennsylvania. I have personally seen three or four of these notes in the just the last year in counties on opposite ends of the state. The first one I saw was stapled to a tree leaf, another one was found by a hiker in a little makeshift shrine and turned into my station. Not sure if you’ll cover this in the video but a good level of preparation is put into these things… every one I’ve seen or heard about is either laminated or folded into a plastic bag, and seem to be hand-cut from a larger piece of paper. They’re absolutely everywhere, but luckily seem to be tame… can’t say the same for some other adjacent stuff I’ve come across.

    • @TheVoltDenatsu
      @TheVoltDenatsu 6 місяців тому

      They are being distributed by a dark web cult that is targeting fraternal orders globally. They have connections into Yakuza, Los Zetas, subsection gangs between Bloods, Crips, and Latin Kings. The cult is obsessed with repeating the fate of the Goths killing the Roman Legion and it is vengeance against a unified order. The Loose Change documentary being released via DARPAnet was picked up by a malevolent black hat hacker group which utilized Usenets and AOL chatrooms to send their own cyphers through anonymous terminals. They go through rigorous retraining, it's essentially torture derived from scientology except the focus is that they have their own network of onion layers that no DOJ or even DOD officials will be able to track because they don't communicate electronically. You will never find a lead. Watch Mr Robot, the TV show. Sam Esmail likely based the story on the building story of this group, details given by FBI and CIA. I am a book writer , wrote a book about wiretapping and it's history since ancient Rome. I'm not trying to be their L Ron Hubbard. But I have been on the net for a long time. The person who had created these notes was sending a message, it's not the message itself.

  • @oakgreenoak
    @oakgreenoak Рік тому +2941

    Man, I wish the sponsor wasn't BetterHelp, since it's been long proven to be pretty much a scam aimed at vulnerable people with several horror stories from people who tried it. Otherwise, this is an interesting video.

    • @SolidN8
      @SolidN8 Рік тому +377

      Curses, if only I knew how to avoid being scammed, thank god we have todays video sponser, BetterHelp

    • @ActuallyFreakyBob
      @ActuallyFreakyBob Рік тому +104

      He needs to get that bag to make videos

    • @Defosaur
      @Defosaur Рік тому +86

      ​​@@ActuallyFreakyBob isn't he a trader or something? I'm sure he has other less than morally appropriate ways to make money

    • @arcticgalaxies9160
      @arcticgalaxies9160 Рік тому +70

      sponsorblock has changed my life

    • @masonbruner1239
      @masonbruner1239 Рік тому +20

      @@Defosaur ???

  • @microwaveman456
    @microwaveman456 Рік тому +108

    Bro ive been watching this channel for years and I cannot stress how happy I get whenever you upload. I remember when you went missing for like 2 years and I checked like almost 4 times a week to see if he was back. Cannot stress it enough dude. Great channel. Keep up the amazing work!

  • @CountOfMonteCristo_
    @CountOfMonteCristo_ Рік тому +227

    Hey Scare, I’m currently having a rough week but seeing your video pop up in my feed really brightened my day! Nothing better than a good mystery to take your mind off of stress!

    • @ScareTheater
      @ScareTheater  Рік тому +48

      Glad I can help!

    • @mariofanforever305
      @mariofanforever305 Рік тому +7

      @@ScareTheater
      yo at least talk about the people who are calling you out for the better help thing.

    • @SongsAboutHappiness
      @SongsAboutHappiness Рік тому +5

      @@mariofanforever305 lol dude looks into groups for videos and has never had a problem calling 'self help" groups cults. You don't think he researched em and just didn't care or respect his viewers by peddling them predatory services? It's clear. If you pay him he'll push it.

    • @mariofanforever305
      @mariofanforever305 Рік тому +2

      @@SongsAboutHappiness fair

    • @sunshinecassette
      @sunshinecassette Рік тому +7

      @@mariofanforever305 He's addressed some stuff under other comments since you posted this and is earnestly requesting for some people to elaborate on the BetterHelp junk so he can rectify the issue/take action about it. This isn't meant to be rude or confrontational or anything, just genuinely thought you'd like to know it's being sorted out :o) Hope you're doing well!

  • @TommyTheCat42
    @TommyTheCat42 Рік тому +35

    There’s a channel called The Wandering Woodsman where the guy goes around different hiking areas in Pennsylvania. He’s found a couple of them hanging on tree branches kinda recently, he had no idea what they are and put them back where he found them

  • @Picobits
    @Picobits Рік тому +67

    Finally, someone's making a video on these! I've been aware of them for years and I'm amazed at how they flew under the radar of most "bizarre/creepy mysteries" channels for so long

  • @luftballonzz
    @luftballonzz Рік тому +35

    holy shit I remember these!! I'm schuylkill pennsylvanian myself (unfortunately) so it's weird seeing this actually covered in a scaretheater video lmao

  • @SchatziSugar
    @SchatziSugar 11 місяців тому +131

    Honestly I think it's stilly to use Chat GPT as a researching tool. It probably already knows about these notes and is just regurgitating what some reddit comments said about it.

    • @Boowasphone
      @Boowasphone 11 місяців тому +12

      Yeah, I don't think a lot could've been gotten from the notes in the first place, seeing how it's nonsense, but chatgpt definitely isn't gonna add anything new

    • @lukaurshibara5837
      @lukaurshibara5837 11 місяців тому +7

      Maybe, but also maybe not, hence why it won't harm to ask it.
      Especially as the Chat GPT will be able to meticulously search all available Web files on a certain topic that a "mere" human researcher may miss. 👍
      The best is however to use it as an aid rather than as a sole research tool.

    • @the6ix72
      @the6ix72 7 місяців тому +2

      chat gpt says it doesnt know anything about it. its that simple

    • @ramseydoon8277
      @ramseydoon8277 6 місяців тому

      ​@@the6ix72there's more than just chatgpt.

    • @builder_dahomey
      @builder_dahomey 5 місяців тому

      I've used chatgpt to make a bit of sense on some excerpts from the Time Cube website. It was pretty accurate.

  • @ALCHEMYST14
    @ALCHEMYST14 Рік тому +15

    Hey it’s SO cool to see our local events on your channel! Living in Schuylkill County and the papers are definitely NOT talked about in the public. I’m really the only one who knows about them and really talks about them to my friends. Crazy that something like this here is just sneaking under everyone’s radar. SKOOK REP

  • @Deprovingg
    @Deprovingg Рік тому +16

    I think it’s awesome that scare theatre took the time to take responsibility and fix his mistake. Love the video was very interesting and informative

  • @KeplerBarnOwl
    @KeplerBarnOwl Рік тому +69

    I think the note maker got rid of the "LIES" boxes so they could, in their eyes, get more info across to people because the lies boxes took up spaces

  • @ladyj3579
    @ladyj3579 Рік тому +25

    I live in PA too! I was surprised when you said Schuylkill correctly 😅

  • @Dangerznoodlez_
    @Dangerznoodlez_ Рік тому +12

    I live in Schuylkill county and as soon as this popped up in my notifs my mouth dropped and instantly clicked, I have never heard of these before but damn is this interesting. I’ve only just moved to the county but I’ve lived all over PA my life

  • @3-DL
    @3-DL Рік тому +9

    A friend just shared this video with me. I literally picked up one of these notes on a hiking trail in Pennsylvania a couple of months ago.

  • @lindsay_ann
    @lindsay_ann Рік тому +96

    Omg I got one of these in Luzerne County! I can't remember what exactly I found it in but I know it was some kind of food that was similar to the Lucky Charms note, inside the sealed plastic packaging. So cool to see you cover a mystery that I know about personally!

    • @taylorjudge4506
      @taylorjudge4506 Рік тому +4

      I live in Lackawanna and I remember hearing about this it was crazy

    • @MachiriReviews
      @MachiriReviews Рік тому +3

      🧢🛑

    • @lindsay_ann
      @lindsay_ann Рік тому

      @@taylorjudge4506 I totally forgot about it until now! Everyone was so freaked out and afraid to buy groceries in case they would even so much as touch one of these things

    • @lindsay_ann
      @lindsay_ann Рік тому +6

      @@MachiriReviews Hey you don't have to believe me

    • @ScareTheater
      @ScareTheater  Рік тому +12

      Damn! I haven't found any so far

  • @isrulius
    @isrulius Рік тому +41

    Bro you are the best creepy content creator. I’d love it if one day you started making long form documentary style content. A 4 hour ScareTheater video is my dream.

  • @CMG1210900
    @CMG1210900 Рік тому +16

    Learned two new things about you in this video! We're both from PA(grew up in Philly burbs and now live in the Poconos) and we both have dealt with social anxiety. Props to you man. I know how hard it can be and here you are putting yourself out there with an excellent UA-cam channel. Major respect!!!

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 Рік тому +5

      Everyone in PA has dealt with social anxiety. Anxiety and fear are normal responses to talking to anyone in Philly. That's why they invented their famous cheesesteak sandwiches: the delicious grease eases the anxiety of living in a state that willingly houses the Steelers fans.

    • @CMG1210900
      @CMG1210900 Рік тому +6

      @@arthas640
      @arthas640 While I appreciate the humor if you have ever truly experienced actual severe social anxiety it's not something remotely funny or even something I would wish on my worst enemy.

    • @Grumb-ld4jz
      @Grumb-ld4jz 7 місяців тому

      You don't tell anything about the content realy.. you only talk about how to track this ones who where writing them... is es uch

  • @8Spikey
    @8Spikey Рік тому +22

    Love it when a new scare theater drops.

  • @YearsOVDecay1
    @YearsOVDecay1 Рік тому +5

    DO NOT STOP doing what you do bro, been watching your channel for years, love what you do.

  • @kitschypunk
    @kitschypunk Рік тому +6

    found one of these in 2021, in a box of cookies from aldi in luzerne county! I couldn’t find much info on it at the time, so I made a tiktok on it hoping to find someone else who found one too, but no luck. when I saw the subreddit I was blown away at how common these were to come across. I’ve been wondering if it’s the same person or persons that leave homemade signs along the interstate in the surrounding counties with nonsensical religious warnings for decades now. whatever the outcome is with these gaining popularity, I do hope the person gets the proper mental health help if they need it. great vid as always, thanks for covering this!!

  • @MercuryKurogane
    @MercuryKurogane Рік тому +91

    Love your work but it does kinda suck that your getting deals from betterhelp, with the controversy of poor therapists and selling data

    • @ScareTheater
      @ScareTheater  Рік тому +51

      You are absolutely right. This was a massive misstep from me.

  • @hypnotised-clover
    @hypnotised-clover Рік тому +59

    Similar mystery that happened to me and other people: All over the world, random people will throw fake money with hebrew text at people, it happened to me, so I made a post about it, I had a bunch of fake €10 notes thrown at me, then people linked me to other posts from other countries where the same thing happened, but the fake notes were of their nation's currencies, yet still featured the same hebrew text and still were acquired in the same way. I decided to keep one of the fake notes that was thrown at me.

    • @100dead
      @100dead Рік тому +4

      Probably some sort of anti-Semitic messaging about the stereotype of Jewish people being greedy. Did you ever figure out what the Hebrew meant?

    • @hypnotised-clover
      @hypnotised-clover Рік тому +19

      @@100dead You cannot be any more wrong with your biased assumption. The hebrew related to the israeli military.

    • @100dead
      @100dead Рік тому

      @@hypnotised-clover Hey man, if I was getting dollar bills thrown at me with Hebrew on them, the greed joke would be my first guess. It feels pretty straight-forward, knowing how degenerates operate.
      Really strange though, delivering a political message about a military through fake note campaigns. It's a good delivery system, as you'll want to pick it up and look at it.

    • @cgimichaelmyers2806
      @cgimichaelmyers2806 Рік тому

      People will give out fake dollars that end up being some type of religious note or something so it's not too surprising.

    • @hrr597
      @hrr597 Рік тому

      ​@@100deadsilence Liberal

  • @grand1415
    @grand1415 Рік тому +8

    I LOVE SCARETHEATER WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO THANKS FOR ALL THE AWEOMSE CONTENT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS MAN

  • @sleepy4016
    @sleepy4016 Рік тому +4

    Hello Mr.Theater. I just wanted to thank you for coming back and making content again. Despite the topics in most of your videos being dark the way you are able to tell the stories helps calm my mind. Keep up the amazing work my friend!

  • @josephmellott8113
    @josephmellott8113 Рік тому +5

    Omg, Scaretheater! Thank you for introducing me to this. I actually live in Schuylkill County, near Schuylkill Haven. I haven't heard of it until now.

  • @TheLindenbeat
    @TheLindenbeat Рік тому +2

    Keep the content coming. We're loving it!

  • @Sarckus
    @Sarckus Рік тому +8

    Hey love your content man, been watching around 4 or 5 years now. Glad to see a new upload
    Edit: Congrats on 1 million by the way

  • @JudgeDrey
    @JudgeDrey 6 місяців тому +4

    I was very struck by the Redditor who admitted to writing stuff like in the notes when having "episodes" of his own, or when he was "manic". This type of self-awareness is SO rare, and encouraging to see these days because it clearly gives hope to those who are suffering with mental illness that they are not always acting "crazy", or whatever other stereotypical derogatory term people think about, and often use to describe such individuals.
    My loving wife Lori of 15 years was highly Bipolar, may she RiP, and she was my soul mate. As our relationship grew in the beginning I got to witness first hand what a MANIC episode was. It really shocked me to no end! It came up on her without warning and it was like she was a VERY different person all of a sudden! She was always hyper. Wasn't sleeping. Super paranoid. And walk around the streets visiting people she knew all day and all hours of the day...etc. It was really scary to say the least. All I could do was pray that she would come out of it soon. Which she did.
    After a few years of being together, and having to go through these "episodes" about 4 or 5 times, it got to a point where we could talk about it when she was herself again. She was very self-aware of what she was like during these trips. To a point. I'm not sure she remembered everything she did, but a lot of it, yes. But it was so great to be able to be with someone who recognized her mental problems and knew that it was hard for me to deal with. And she loved for it so much. She really appreciated having someone who accepted her with all her so called "baggage". She came from the streets before we met, so she had a troubled life. Eventually we were able to build a great life together with a beautiful home. And she reconnected with her daughters...etc. She was finally happy. She told me many times. And that made everything worth it! I would give absolutely anything to just hear her laugh, and kiss her again and hold her. Unfortunately her troubled life on the streets affected her health badly which is why she's no longer with us. But my time with her was the best years of my life.
    Anyways, sorry for the long-winded post. All this to say that it is truly special to listen to someone who has personal insights into mental illnesses. If you are one who has never had to deal with someone with a pretty severe mental illness, then at least try to learn about what it is and don't view it negatively. I realize it can be scary being around a person who is having a pretty severe manic episode. So it's normal to avoid such situations and go about your way. But if you ever have the chance to just talk to someone who has mental illness, or has personally had to deal with it a lot. Maybe take the time to listen and learn about it. There is so much to learn, and it sometimes sounds like a case of simply making a common sense decision...etc. But for them, it's NEVER that simple.
    Ok, that's enough outta me. Lol.
    Peace!
    And thanks for the video!

  • @HorsesArePeople2
    @HorsesArePeople2 Рік тому +155

    Dude why are you still pushing the Better Help scam? You can do way better

  • @efe_aydal
    @efe_aydal 11 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for the upload.

  • @cyphershock9712
    @cyphershock9712 Рік тому +1

    Appreciate you putting in the time and making videos after all these years. The care is apparent, much love.

  • @brunobucciaratiswife
    @brunobucciaratiswife Рік тому +100

    Been following this for a while. I strongly believe it’s a schizophrenic man who used to go to the local university there. Can’t remember his name but he was apparently really well off until recently. When I find the sauce I’ll edit my comment

  • @_timecop05
    @_timecop05 Рік тому +2

    Nice to see this channel still uploading. Been watching since 2017

  • @evergone7737
    @evergone7737 Рік тому +220

    better help has been proven as a scam ages ago.

    • @isrulius
      @isrulius Рік тому +2

      How so? I’ve heard it in passing but I don’t know the details of how it’s a scam.

    • @megaspit
      @megaspit Рік тому

      I hear it's bad quality but how is it a scam?

    • @notadvertiserfriendly6084
      @notadvertiserfriendly6084 Рік тому +17

      @isrulius & @megaspit - They had some unlicensed (underlicensed?) “therapists,” and the terms and conditions say your data may be shared with/sold to companies (when, for health-related things, the terms and conditions should explicitly say it cannot be shared.)
      Granted, this info came out a while ago (2018ish?), idk if they’ve corrected the problems since then.

    • @cxireen2193
      @cxireen2193 Рік тому +3

      Better Help was a scam proven by myself.

    • @dssd7685
      @dssd7685 Рік тому +8

      And as far as I remember scare theater is friend with some ordinary gamers muta so I find it hard to believe that he didn't know that better help is a scam 😑 cause muta reported on better help

  • @namelesswolf2625
    @namelesswolf2625 7 місяців тому +2

    YES I FINALLY FOUND IT!! I saw this video back when it came out, and many weeks later found one of these things while hiking (in Maryland), but couldn't remember what horror channel I recognized this mystery from, or what you called it. it's been well over a month since I found the note and this video finally came back up on my homepage. I guess I have to make a reddit account now to report my finding lol

  • @Engel-07
    @Engel-07 Рік тому +25

    Cmon man, is there really no better sponsor right now?

    • @kaiseramadeus233
      @kaiseramadeus233 11 місяців тому

      Dude literally used ChatGPT to "analyze" the notes. You shouldn't expect much from someone like that

  • @sham9505
    @sham9505 Рік тому +2

    Hey scare. I just wanted to thank you for still uploading after all these years. Every time I see you upload it makes my day!

  • @JasonVokins
    @JasonVokins Рік тому +28

    Nice video man! Enjoying it all through :). Just a question though, why the sponsor?

    • @THE_TROLLS_WIN_BOY
      @THE_TROLLS_WIN_BOY Рік тому

      Not enough patrons probably

    • @THE_TROLLS_WIN_BOY
      @THE_TROLLS_WIN_BOY Рік тому

      Not enough patrons probably

    • @THE_TROLLS_WIN_BOY
      @THE_TROLLS_WIN_BOY Рік тому

      Not enough patrons probably

    • @dssd7685
      @dssd7685 Рік тому +2

      Mr ballen also sponsored this scam with his scam story of adapting to civilian life using better help that it helped him a lot lol 🤡😆

    • @ScareTheater
      @ScareTheater  Рік тому +11

      To put it simply, I'm an idiot for not even doing a bare minimum amount of research on the sponsor. This was my fault entirely. I've taken it out of the video, and am going carefully research every sponsor I take from now on.

  • @demon_lover6669
    @demon_lover6669 Рік тому +4

    Nice to see a man enjoy his Lucky Charms.

  • @am2023
    @am2023 Рік тому +56

    Now he needs to make video on why better help is mistery crap secret society

    • @ScareTheater
      @ScareTheater  Рік тому +16

      @dssd7685 I genuinely never saw the video Mutahar made about it. I'm searching for it now, and can't find it. Nonetheless, this was a major mistake on my end, and I'm making sponsor research a top priority from this point forward. I've removed the sponsor from the video. Thank you for holding me accountable for this.

    • @dssd7685
      @dssd7685 Рік тому +9

      @@ScareTheater I trust you man it's not your fault scammers are prevalent in this time and age sadly too many of those scammers message UA-camrs to sponsor their brand and some just don't know what they're sponsoring

  • @sandsmoker
    @sandsmoker 2 місяці тому +3

    Im from Pennsylvania and i remember a time when everyone who went to the local supermarket (Weis) would occasionally find these exact messages inserted into a box of pasta or taped to a can of food.

  • @elisabete5492
    @elisabete5492 11 місяців тому

    I've been watching your channel ever since 2016, your videos are still as good as ever, thank you so much for still uploading to this day!

  • @SonicdaShapeshifter
    @SonicdaShapeshifter Рік тому +13

    Something to consider: for the cereal one, maybe the note was in the box part,and was only noticed when the man tipped the box of cereal over into his bowl. It may not have ever been in the plastic bag part, but instead fell out alongside the cereal after the plastic bag was cut. The guy just didn't know it was there until shaking the box afterward. It's rare for someone to take the bag fully out of the box after all. Usually you cut the inner bag and leave it in the box so you can get a good grip while shaking the cereal into your bowl. At least, that's a possibility here I think.

  • @DougCresswell
    @DougCresswell 11 місяців тому +2

    I can't believe this popped up on my feed! I found one of these notes in my Purina cat food years ago! I live in the area and there is a Purina plant within a half an hour drive from the pet store I bought the box from. I saved the note in my drawer and I still have it.

  • @Muggsy_
    @Muggsy_ Рік тому +3

    I’m glad this is being covered since I found one in my brownie mix box last a year or two back

  • @BarryDylan111
    @BarryDylan111 11 місяців тому +1

    First Slenderman has us running around a forest hunting for notes and now he even made it into cereal. Damn he sneaky

  • @luminolmortis5927
    @luminolmortis5927 Рік тому +19

    i read in other comments that you're already talking to your manager about the betterhelp sponsorship - thanks. you're doing better than some big youtubers who i used to respect, but who haven't taken the simple step to stop taking on a bad sponsor.
    great video as always :D

    • @ScareTheater
      @ScareTheater  Рік тому +5

      Thank you. I feel really bad about my mistake, and am taking my sponsor research a lot more seriously from here on. I genuinely didn't know how bad the controversy on this was. This was a pretty big wake up call for me

  • @DwarfFrogWholesale
    @DwarfFrogWholesale 11 місяців тому +1

    Please never change your intro, that little chime brings me back ❤

  • @allmightywhale
    @allmightywhale Рік тому +4

    I've been watching your videos for 8 years now and it's great to not only see you keep making videos, but improve consistently since I started watching you as a child. To 8 years more man.

  • @slipawa
    @slipawa Рік тому +2

    Glad to see you posting

  • @VocalSynthFan7
    @VocalSynthFan7 Рік тому +22

    Fellow Pennsylvanian here (very nice to see that one of my fav UA-camrs is from the same state as me!). I'm from Luzerne County which is a bit north of Schuykill County like you said in the video, and I've not yet seen any of these weird notes or even heard of this situation, which is kind of surprising being a fan of mysteries like this but anyways. This whole situation is very weird, if I or someone I know happens to come across anything, I'll let you know.

    • @HxnterJane
      @HxnterJane Рік тому

      I'm right outside of Luzerne (over in Columbia) and we don't find any here either that I know of, and same here that I've not even heard of anything here about these, it's so strange! Creeps me out a little lol

    • @braedenM366
      @braedenM366 Рік тому +3

      I live in pottsville. The heart of schuykill county. Ive never met anyone who knew anything about this

  • @captainrelyk
    @captainrelyk 11 місяців тому +2

    6:16 this is what ChatGPT should be used for, NOT for writing stories or other creative mediums. It should be a tool, not a replacement for human book authors

  • @cowsquid8859
    @cowsquid8859 Рік тому +17

    Sponsor aside I wish every UA-camr would do sponsored ad readings while hiking off trail. That was quite fun to watch lol

    • @ScareTheater
      @ScareTheater  Рік тому +6

      Yeah, the sponsor was a massive misstep on my end. I'm really ashamed to have not thoroughly researched them before. Even a simple Google search could have prevented this mistake. 100% my fault on this one

  • @TasmanianTigerGrrr
    @TasmanianTigerGrrr Рік тому +5

    There's nothing more discouraging then finding out that a creepy mystery is just an ARG

    • @Nuniixo
      @Nuniixo Рік тому

      Yeah unfortunately

    • @gardenagnostic
      @gardenagnostic 2 місяці тому

      yeah ARGs and unfiction are cool and all but i need some creepy esoterica

  • @gravitydisrupter
    @gravitydisrupter Рік тому +15

    u gotta drop the betterhelp shit man ☹️

  • @mikenayers5981
    @mikenayers5981 Рік тому +2

    Someone could be either buying or shoplifting the food items, and then sneaking them back onto store shelves.

  • @Muv22HD
    @Muv22HD Рік тому +3

    this is really interesting, and props to you for making sure your careful and dont say anything insensitive, it must be weird having a job where you look for scary things

  • @jimbidders9882
    @jimbidders9882 11 місяців тому +2

    Oh my god! I found one of these in a box of cookies I purchased a few years ago! I always wondered about it, never expected to see it on UA-cam of all places lol

  • @TheAnimationArchives
    @TheAnimationArchives Рік тому +3

    I found one of these years ago. Somewhere between 2009-2013, down in Harrisburg PA. I think I still have it somewhere but it’s crazy to see one of these videos that hits close to home lol

  • @Jer_Bear_616
    @Jer_Bear_616 Рік тому +2

    I still have one of these tucked away that I found years ago wedged between the carboard cover and plastic lid of microwave bowl ramen from a local scratch and dent grocery store in my hometown, and it still perplexes me to this day. For reference, I live in Lebanon County PA a few miles outside of the city of Lebanon.

  • @DerelictCountry
    @DerelictCountry Рік тому +34

    no Eric....don't do betterhelp. I know you're as little clueless but you were warned about this :(

    • @THE_TROLLS_WIN_BOY
      @THE_TROLLS_WIN_BOY Рік тому +7

      He was warned? When? By who?

    • @dssd7685
      @dssd7685 Рік тому +6

      There were many UA-camrs informing about better help being a scam also his friend muta made an entire video about better help so really hard to believe that he is clueless
      It's all about Logan Paul era of scamming fans no matter what

    • @dssd7685
      @dssd7685 Рік тому +6

      Also there's MrBallen promoting better help in recent video I watched saying that he used better help to adapt to civilian life bruh i was like you're full of it ballen when I heard him talk about better help helping him so full of crap scamming fans

  • @ThunderTrain2930
    @ThunderTrain2930 9 місяців тому +1

    It makes me happy how flawlessly he pronounced "Schuylkill," BUT the way he pronounced "Tamaqua" made me wince a little.

  • @dorocook1426
    @dorocook1426 Рік тому +20

    “Instead of my own analysis I’m just going to put it through an AI and let it ‘explain’ for me”
    Are you fucking kidding me lmao

    • @Nuniixo
      @Nuniixo Рік тому +7

      People lost all creative and critical thinking the moment ChatGPT became widespread.

    • @Cruxinoli
      @Cruxinoli 11 місяців тому +1

      God forbid someone doesn't wanna spend hours deciphering some conspiracy mumbo jumbo.

    • @Ironmaryable
      @Ironmaryable 11 місяців тому +4

      the fuckin chatbot didnt do it either @@Cruxinoli

  • @mariofanforever305
    @mariofanforever305 Рік тому +12

    yo.
    don't push better help, bad peeps, look it up if you don't believe.
    sad you took their money

  • @MRoccoMarzullo
    @MRoccoMarzullo Рік тому +5

    hey very big move highlighting the comment about better health being a scam instead of deleting it.
    You obviously dont have any bad intentions and just want to do the right thing and as a fan I appreciate that.

  • @AveryCreates
    @AveryCreates Рік тому +3

    I've seen one of these. I am in PA. I remember snorting like "well okay then hope they're okay" then later discovering there were lots more. I regret not taking and keeping it. It was taped to a powerline post.

    • @AveryCreates
      @AveryCreates Рік тому

      It reminds me of that namuheht website, like there is something more to decode; like numerology or something. Who knows.

  • @tux1468
    @tux1468 Рік тому +5

    The fake conspiracy written on the notes pales in comparison to the actual conspiracy relating to how these notes are distributed in the first place

  • @lolyyyy8729
    @lolyyyy8729 Рік тому

    I love the vibe of your videos!! The music you use especially!!Great job&been watching a long time now

  • @jpslb418
    @jpslb418 Рік тому +4

    Congrats on 1 million subscribers!!

  • @TheNikean
    @TheNikean Рік тому +4

    I believe Ockham's Razor suggests this is the work of a lone wolf with some sort of mental problem and/or too much time on their hands.

  • @cynicole1860
    @cynicole1860 Рік тому

    So awesome that you're covering this. I live in SW Pennsylvania, no where near Luzerne or Schuylkill counties but i find this topic absolutely fascinating. Thanks, Scare Theater. Much love from PA 🖤💛

  • @angeltheangel2088
    @angeltheangel2088 Рік тому +7

    What a crazy video, can't believe he did that

  • @oxyfae
    @oxyfae 11 місяців тому

    thank you for covering this! i've seen so many of these on reddit and there's no other information about it online

  • @julesvasquez4547
    @julesvasquez4547 Рік тому +4

    This isn't even close to anything relevant but thought it might be interesting. I was working as a gas station attendant during my last semester of master's degree (imposed upon myself, don't ask) in Colorado for about six months during 2015. There were many unhoused I met, some of whom were mentally not very stable, and I have multiple experiences like this (that being said, many unhoused in the same area were also extremely stable and kind). One such guy constantly had a note very much like these that and he'd try to get me to take it. I mean, it was very similar, but some differences. What stands out to me is many of these types of conspiracy theory notes really resemble the backs of Dr. Bronner's soap bottles. I felt empathic, but always refused to take the note.

  • @HannahandCailinLoesch
    @HannahandCailinLoesch Рік тому +2

    Incredible investigative work here!

  • @jasonblundelldobebussing
    @jasonblundelldobebussing Рік тому +8

    Literally holding my poop rn to watch this video 😂

  • @shelbdizz
    @shelbdizz 11 місяців тому

    I just wanted to say that you did a great job covering this & I really enjoyed the watch. I found one at bake oven knob vista in 2016 on the trail. Lehigh County not far from Leaser Lake where 5 were found in one day. Ive been thinking about it for years! So glad to see its being covered

  • @jrutman4441
    @jrutman4441 Рік тому +6

    What the hell!? I'm in Allentown I've never even heard of this. Anytime you wanna look for notes I'm up for it. Although i feel with anxiety also lol

    • @geneveandersson
      @geneveandersson Рік тому +1

      I'm not quite in Allentown but I neighbor it, and yeah I've also never heard of this either. It's really interesting to learn something like this is happening so nearby,

  • @VoltasP
    @VoltasP Рік тому +25

    Chat GPT isn't a source, and shouldn't be used as a source. Why are people asking Chat GPT for answers to questions no one knows? It's basically a glorified predictive text program like on your phone, but instead of trying to predict your writing style, it's trained on a bunch of writing styles. That's it.
    Yes, it can spit out basic, simple answers to things. Because it was trained to. But it's not a cutting edge AI that can reveal mysteries anymore than the "Let your predictive text write a sentence and add "in bed" to the end to reveal your deviant sexual desires" meme is true. It's bullshit and you really need to stop treating it like a source of information and instead realize that it's basically still just a chat bot.

    • @Buttfucker420
      @Buttfucker420 Рік тому

      🤓☝️

    • @Nuniixo
      @Nuniixo Рік тому +9

      Yeah I don't know why people still treat ChatGPT like it's some godsend every-took, when it's just basically a digital parrot.

    • @bebop7311
      @bebop7311 Рік тому +6

      THANK YOU! holy shit i felt like i was going crazy seeing no one else mention the usage of chatgpt

    • @VoltasP
      @VoltasP Рік тому

      @@bebop7311 Yeah, I had to put my foot down when a Gen Z friend of mine began telling me how he began asking ChatGPT for advice on literally EVERYTHING from driving safety to how to manage anxiety, and he'd begun asking it probing questions about spirituality and the nature of personhood and he was taking everything it said as the absolute truth.
      Literally the same week I was searching for some good photoshop brushes for painting realistic hair, and the top google result cautioned me "If you use too stiff of a photoshop brush on your hair, you may damage the hair follicles, so stylists recommend you stick with a softer brush".
      No human would make that mistake, it had been written by ChatGPT.
      It couldn't even keep the concept of photoshop brushes and hairstyling brushes separate and would switch between the two mid-sentence, but people are expecting it to give them valid answers about the nature of life, mental illness, and ethics.
      Ask ChatGPT whatever you like as entertainment, but please, PLEASE, do not fall into the trap of accepting it as true just because it can write beautiful sentences.

  • @barman6475
    @barman6475 Рік тому +1

    Scare: I wish I could scare someone somewhere
    Theater:

  • @kraktJOE
    @kraktJOE Рік тому +4

    only redditors would complain about the word "schizo" in the subreddit title of notes clearly from a schizo.

  • @instruella
    @instruella 11 місяців тому

    Thank you, scaretheater.
    You always make me smile and feel so much better whenever stress feels over barring. I appreciate what you do

  • @StrikeMasteryYT
    @StrikeMasteryYT Рік тому +11

    Betterhelps a scam you know mate.

    • @Nuniixo
      @Nuniixo Рік тому +1

      Probably does know but does not care. Money is money, morality comes second to people when a substantial amount is transferred.

    • @therockwizard.9687
      @therockwizard.9687 11 місяців тому

      @@Nuniixopinned comment blud

  • @libertinesis2angel
    @libertinesis2angel Рік тому +1

    Everytime I see your vids pop up. I love it.

  • @MarvelsScreamSimp
    @MarvelsScreamSimp Рік тому +7

    Scaredaddy, you have to pay more attention to who sponsors you. Do research on the sponsors. This isn't the first time I've seen you get sponsored by a scam/harmful service, and there might be more examples I'm not aware of because I haven't watched all of your videos. This is a surefire way to not only spread harmful services but also lose trust in your audience and maybe even lose said audience entirely. It's not good for your channel or its viewers

  • @caittheaalien
    @caittheaalien Рік тому +2

    Hey ScareTheater, I have been watching your videos for over 7 years now, and I am a huge fan! (I really want to buy some of your merch, so I might for my birthday in March!) Your videos are always so interesting and I love how you have the patience to research everything you cover! Keep it up! Also, random question, but what’s your favorite unsolved mystery? I’m just curious because I love unsolved mysteries and I know you cover one every so often. But yeah I love your videos and your content never gets old.

  • @xbennyboox
    @xbennyboox Рік тому +5

    This case reminds me of when I worked at Spencer’s and someone hid Christian fliers in the t-shirt towers. Was really fun hunting and collecting them…

  • @Katie-hj5eb
    @Katie-hj5eb 11 місяців тому +1

    I've been researching conspiracies for a book I've been writing and I can confirm this is just a soup of basically all the different ones put together. Whoever wrote this is very deep down the rabbit hole.

  • @Theguyoverthere603
    @Theguyoverthere603 Рік тому +19

    Yeaaaah Betterhelp ain’t it chief.

    • @Nuniixo
      @Nuniixo Рік тому +2

      Morality comes second to monetary gain unfortunately

    • @therockwizard.9687
      @therockwizard.9687 11 місяців тому

      @@Nuniixothis ain’t blameitonjorge blud

    • @j444lia6
      @j444lia6 9 місяців тому

      Girl tf this gotta do w the video stfuuuu😂

    • @j444lia6
      @j444lia6 9 місяців тому +1

      @@Nuniixoyall can’t watch a video w/o complaining abt ANYTHINGGGG😂😂😂

    • @arthurfleck629
      @arthurfleck629 8 місяців тому +1

      @@j444lia6Then they have something in common with you

  • @talkingsillies
    @talkingsillies 7 місяців тому +1

    I live in Schuylkill County! How have I not heard of this?!!!

  • @calicolate
    @calicolate Рік тому +31

    Boooo betterhelp 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

    • @mikat8062
      @mikat8062 2 місяці тому

      I actually had to step back and think “damn how many of these ads have I seen? Should I start up a channel and make betterhelp ads” 😂😅

  • @clavius0131
    @clavius0131 Рік тому

    I’ve been waiting for someone to cover this!

  • @jaydeem1264
    @jaydeem1264 Рік тому +24

    Do NOT take betterhelp as a sponsor. You should know this by now. I don't think anyone's gonna sign up from this video, which is good, but it could happen and should stop

    • @Nuniixo
      @Nuniixo Рік тому +3

      The need or greed for money they offer for sponsorships is greater than the morality behind it.

  • @placeholderblankspace
    @placeholderblankspace Рік тому +1

    OKAY BUT HOW COOL WOULD IT BE WHEN SCARETHEATRE DOES A VIDEO ON THE HORRORS OF BETTERHELP