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"Imagine living in Nebraska and on top of that being forced to become Amish" 🤣🤣

"I was playing smash bros" 5 second later "I only had the xbox on for a few seconds" Me:Hold up

Clearly, Alex actually has bad internet, but he backs it up with a cutting-edge gaming setup. Playing Smash Bros on an Xbox.

Bro this series manages to scare me with things like this that aren't even supposed to be scary. I legit keep thinking about what if this would happen to me, and also realized that I am really scared of getting stalked.

Everybody’s talking about the emails, but I’m more interested on how this guy managed to play smash bros on a Xbox Edit: Somebody in the replies also made me realize. Why did they need to be online to play locally?? I don’t know many games that need wifi to make a local server…

Random dude: “Hello old friend 🙂” Me: Bold of you to assume that I have friends!

In general, opening a suspicious message can be dangerous because it may contain malware that can infect your computer or device. Malware can cause your computer or device to crash and can also steal your personal information.

Hey Dallas, I think I know what kind of malware that is. That is a worm, which is kinda like a virus but you don't have to download an executable (.exe) for you to be infected. A worm can also use infected devices to reach more devices (like what we just saw with Jack) and it can steal all the data on that device. This might be kinda like an IP logger but with emails instead of url shorteners. Hope this helps Edit: This is more likely just a hoax (like alot of things on the internet) since email sites don't allow JavaScript so it would be very hard or even impossible to run something like this. And this comment is for Dallas since I was frustrated every time he referred to this as a virus

Best part of watching a Dallas video for the first time is trying to figure out whether or not the topic he's doing is real, and if it isn't, trying to identify all the points and information he altered throughout

Me watching this at 11:00 PM with the closet door open and hearing some noise in the background- This is why I don't like night.

usually i tell myself after all these videos “OH ITS FINE, THIS IS ALL IN AMERICA, NO ONE EVEN REMEMBERS AUSTRALIA.” I was so damn scared when this video took a turn to my country.

I received this email or maybe a very similar email to this in late 2018. I responded to it to ask who they are since they might actually be an old friend but I received no reply. about a week later a creep broke in to my garden and damaged a lot of pots and also the back door handle before police handled him. It was a crack head. This email probably has nothing to do with the weirdos breaking in to peoples homes

The real mystery is how is he playing Smash Bros on the XBOX.

I like the series, but people seem to be taking this waaaay to seriously. You definitely shouldn't go opening random stuff or clicking on shady links, but what is described in this video is completely fictional. First, Google and Apple heavily restrict what can be rendered or executed in their mail applications, including blocking scripts and pretty much every attack vector possible. For the people saying they could of used a tracking pixel: yes, they could have, but it would only give an approximate location (usually down to the town or city), some basic information about the device, and that's about it. In fact, I know it definitely wasn't a tracking pixel because both Gmail and Apple Mail proxy all remote assets to prevent this kind of behavior. Second, the story doesn't really make that much sense. Think about it: what would someone possibly gain in this situation? A chance to go to prison? There are way easier and more effective ways of scaring the crap out of someone. Third, with their internet going out, yes, it could definitely happen if someone had your IP address. It's scary easy to pull off a DDoS attack, but it also gets expensive FAST. Nowadays, most ISPs mitigate DDoS attacks themselves after a bit of time, so it's also unfeasible in this situations. Could it of been a zero day? Yes, but it's highly unlikely. If this was a real zero day, it wouldn't be used for weird stuff like this, it would either be sold or abused the crap out off for financial gain. It would most definitely be used to hack some giant companies then ransom them for millions, not scare a couple people for a bit of fun. ^^ To anyone who's going to give me hate for writing this, don't waste your time. I like watching these kinds of videos, just like how I enjoy watching Nexpo. It's a bit of fun, even though there's a chance it's probably in some way fictional (or in this case, most definitely fictional). In some ways, it's good that this kind of fear mongering exists, because it makes people who don't know any better not click on random links. Remember that anyone can submit something to KZfaq Unsolved, and that it's probably not that hard to "prove" a claim, given enough time. So could it be real? Of course, nothing is impossible, but there's a VERY high chance it's made up by someone. There being two or more people who claim it happened doesn't mean anything, someone can just submit the same story twice with changes along the way. EDIT: oh something i forgot: for the gmail web app, not only would you need to exploit something in gmail's code, you'd also need to find exploits to: - compromise the browser's rendering process, - escape the sandbox that renderer process is in, and - completely hijack the OS in such a way to ring zero alarm bells whatsoever (very hard on literally anything made by Apple). yeaaaaaah that's not happening.

how this guy playing smash on xbox 💀💀💀

The moment he mentioned Broken Bow, Nebraska was the moment my ears perked up. I’ve heard some pretty sketchy stuff come out of there, so the first story kinda made sense. Pretty freaky.

You could send a pixel image (tiny image you can't see, used by companies to track when you open their emails) so the server can get your IP, but this would be only approximate. Or maybe, the people who submitted were actually the same person, and it didn't actually happen...

Whoa! Good job showing footage of a car driving down the correct side of the road for the Australian story!

"...all he can do was just play outside, pick up leaves, and kick rocks around. What a life" You literally described growing up pre-internet. Born in '67, here and that was it. 3 channels on the tv, some AM radio, and kicking rocks around. Oh, and books. We had books. Reading books was big

I was a kid in the late 90’s and was one of the few at my school who had home internet access. The rules of the internet were vastly different than now. I can remember not being able to wrap my mind about computer viruses. Like why would anyone want to destroy your computer? Like for what reason? That’s it though. There was no reason. It was just to be asses. It’s not like ransom ware.

There's probably invisable pixels in the email, finding the recipient's IP address. They are completely transparent and invisible, but can still do stuff, such as finding an IP location. When the email client requests the image from the attacker’s server, the server also grabs more info than needed.

Not really a “joke” when hundreds of thousands of people are watching it intending to learn something from it.

How does one play super smash bros on xbox.

their pc could have been "pre-hacked" and they just sent an email and once it was opened the virus would be triggered

I always purge emails that have emoji in the subject line because those are always spam from twitter or they are bots hoping to steal information. Other emails I normally just read the subject lines for key words to see if they are something I need to actually check in on, if not then into the shadow realm they go.

Damn you 😭I’ve been trying to contact my childhood friends and they probably avoid me for this very reason!!

Holy crap that gave me goose bumps. Like its pretty scary but then your voice and everything else ... just chills.

imagine getting an email and it says: "why hello old sport!"

Yeah, i highly doubt these stories actually happened. Sounds like your typical creepy pasta posts.

good analogies today dallas. You should have more of those in your videos!

Holy shit man My uncle lives in Melbourne and this shit scared the hell out of me I'm telling him to stay safe

Story time: In 98 my grandma was the first person i knew to have a home computer and we got one shortly after and i used to email her every day then call her to ask if she got it lol. Back when the internet was empty and i only knew of 2 websites and didnt understand how google worked.

"Your parents growing up probably had email" holy shit i feel so old now. My parents growing up barely had a landline telephone

5:06 "Later on that night, I decided to play *Super Smash Bros.* with my little brother, as a typical Friday night ritual. I only had the -Nintendo Switch- *XBOX* on for about 20 minutes, before a whole lot of lag spikes would begin, but this is something I was completely used to by this point." *_XBOX_*

Wow… old friends are so messed up these days

I absolutely love your youtube unsolved series! keep it up!

I like how uncanny and deep your videos are! Love the work.

I would love to inspect the mail in a Cut Off Environment to analyze the email header, this way you can trace the way the email has been sent. The 2nd person probably just got their account hacked because normally you don't get randomly logged out from your Email account. This must have been some kind of fishing and then sending a Infected mail to your collegues. I would love to look into this topic but there is no way to get your hands on the Email that was send. But I need to say a really great video! have a good one :D

Ah, the good old days of AOL. I had an AOL email but due to a dispute with a certain family member, I deleted it completely. Thanks for the memories though, lots of nostalgia. Anyways, great videos 😊

My favourite series, Love the dedication!

They can't fool me because I have no friends

as a 9 year old if an email said it was my old friend in high school, I wouldn't trust it.

Officially a new follower 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼 it's pronounced MEL- BIN 🤣

I just now watched previous episode, because I love watching something while drawing comics. And here you are, another episode just when I needed.

One of my FAVOURITE series on youtube EVER!! I've been watching you since I first got my Chromebook!

So here I am, binge watching your content, now on this video, getting goosebumps, feeling the creepiness, and then at 11 mins, I nearly piss myself. 😂 That was fuuuunnnyyy.

Big fan of the KZfaq unsolved series! Keep it up

Both stories are just that. Probably someone saw the 1st story and end up, creating another. The 2nd story has more non-sense and bad research in police procedures than Attaway Hospital have in how a hospital and medicine works. Some major details gave me red flags. One: Police can't know if objects has been stolen or moved in a person's house that they aren't familiar with it, they will not tell you: "your house has been broken but nothing was missing and just look like someone move some things, but is all good". How they would know you aren't missing money or jewelry? How they would know if you have a hide out place with valuables that are missing or not? How they can tell the messy was not there prior to the brake in? Or what objects you have and what was the position of those objects in the house? if they were not there before in a methodic way taking detail notes, they can't be certain of what was there or not. For a police to conclude that, they will need a statement either of a witness who saw it or have the owner inspect the premises and make a brief inventory with a police scort to say if and what has been stolen or moved. Second: When someone is stopped in a police barrier, often the info that is passed on is vague or even none to avoid especulation or to give details to a possible perpetrator, and is more likely an officer will ask you questions (not the other way around) to determine if you possible are the victm or a person of interest. The chances for you to stop in front of a police barrier and asked what is going on and the officer tells you a house was broken in and than give you the full address is very little because can cost his job. They probably will tell you a possible crime has been committed, and tell you at this time they can't coment without a further investigation , or they will say is police business and ask if you live in this area, and your address, and if the address is the one that is a possible crime scene, than is when the office will pull you aside and say some info disclosure to you as such: we got a call about your address apparently has been being broken to. Third: Police doesn't pay for hotels or accomodations, (save from few exceptions) through out an investigation, and in this case where was not a major crime or even a crime was committed and the life of the resident was in immediately danger, as far the police knows, a random person entered and has not stolen nothing, it could be a robber or just a drunk dude that thought was his home and broke the windows because his key didn't work, so the "victm" would be advise to sleep with a friend or a family member. And my question is: why someone would brake the front door that is visisble by any number of folks, when he/she already broke the back window granting access to the house in a less visible manner? And why if the person was already entered through the front door 1st, why the necessity to break the back window? Why a individual would risk to be caught by forcefully entered a residence and not steal and to just (apparently) be looking for something that end up not there? Don't you think that would make the police suspect the "victm" is not really being thrutful and is hidden something and not just let it go so fast? Cops possible would think that something illegal and very important the dude is involved with to have someone to break in and be shifting things like if they were looking for something. Jack would have his life investigated inside and out by the cops just to make sure he is not a cyber terrorist-spy selling important info on a dark web market and is just using a disguise of computer illiterate Jack who loves to watch KZfaq funny cat videos. . The 1st story also has plenty of non-sense but if I comment this will be much longer than already is. Edit: I just want to make sure that I can't comment if a malware as such in this 2 cases exist because when it comes to computer programming, software etc I'm a cave woman. I'm just commenting on the other aspects of the stories( actually just the 2nd one) like what was a possible motives and many of the non-sense plot holes (in my opinion)

I am so glad I never check my emails, and if I did stumble across the email, I'd know that it isn't from anyone I know because the only person I've given my email to is a friend for Boy Scout things.

I was afraid to click on the “Hello comment reader 🙂”

as soon as you started the video, you made me feel old as hell, i lived in a time where internet was obscure and only nerds would connect to it, also if you got a phone call it would disconnect the internet completely

Man I love these KZfaq Unsolved videos so much!

I have watched this whole video but it has only been released 30seconds ago,I am traveler on time call my lawyer and ask him .

reminds me of that I love you virus as you mentioned. I was a contractor at Comcast cable many years ago and the IT department gave us a heads up not to open the damn thing and sure enough someone opened it 🙄

The scariest freakyist spine chilling part of the first story is that he was playing shaman bros and an xbox

The sketchiest part of the story is the fact that he's somehow playing Super smash bros (A Nintendo owned and published game) on an Xbox (A Microsoft console) online.

hey Dallas, i just wanted to comment real fast to say, you're a lifesaver man, a few days ago i got painfully sick, and today is the worst day of my severe cold, right now i am in bed, and honestly you do not know how frikin happy i get when you post, its nor always but its always entertaining subjects, you could not have posted this at a better time, this series is my absolute favourite and i cannot wait to enjoy this video with some tea. thank you Dallas.. love from ecuador

I live in Melbourne and now I’m terrified.

I love how he left in the voice crack. 😂 Thats so Dallas

Seems to me that the criminals were finding something. They watched the victims, broke into their house, but nothing was stolen. Only things were out of place. Plus, that looks like my room when I try to find something important.

The first kid had a stalker

7:02 *"Imagine having to live in Nebraska."* Me, who lives in Nebraska: *WeLcOmE tO tHe GoOd LiFe*

Love this series!

Im very scared that they got a nintendo game on an xbox

Love your vids. They are the only thing helping me get through school right now.

Hey quick question, if you are to receive one of these, would you be safe to delete it? Do you have to just leave it? Just wondering, DW lol.

Dallas: go make some more other friends ; I know you can do it. Social anxiety + me : *no, we can't, really!*

You've got to love that he didn't edit out the part where his voice cracked.

I feel bad for the Nebraska guy. I live in Kansas about 20 minutes from Nebraska. I’m not exactly in the middle of nowhere, but you still have to want to live here to live here. There’s nothing to do in rural USA.

i live right next to Nebraska ...totally agree with ye

I live in Nebraska and still was shocked that brocken bow got mentioned 😂

Is everyone ignoring the fact he was playing smash on an Xbox😭

You uploading just made my day! Plus it’s nice that you finally uploaded a new KZfaq unsolved video.

im sorry but like, i think you might just be my new favorite youtuber knowing how your content is my type of content i love--

It truely horrifies me how some of these stories happen. Like the Bjorn case where whoever was behind it always knew what he was doing. Not even the closest people to you would know how to do these things. I'm just lucky I haven't been a victim but seeing how people have become victims by simply commenting that could change.

This man is a literal god. He made up a whole story and managed to make one little mistake for the nerds to point out: How is he playing Super Smash Bros. on an XBox? I thought Super Smash Bros. was only on Nintendo consoles…

its just a virus the "hacker" gets ip and can control his network. just by having ip you can get someone's general location but its possible they found info on their device and yes iPhones do get viruses.

I live in California and my internet goes out all the time.

I did see that email with the exact same subject "hello old friend" with the smilly face on my email account maybe 2 or 3 years ago can't remember correctly. But guess I have to thanks my habit for just ignore every email I got or stuff are about to get real shit lmao

I'm from Australia, thanks for making this creepy and fun to watch, always come here to watch your awesome content. It kind of feels X-Files ish from my old days

imagine they actually were your old friend but you dont click or reply bc you think its a scem and when you see your old friend again they hate you

The link the boss showed him in the first story was probably a phishing site that harvested his details.

The biggest mystery is how a pretty mundane story where very little happens and no conclusion or answers come to light took 5 million words to explain.

This reminds me of the ghost whisperer episode where the ghost haunts people through them seeing an online message

As interesting as those stories were, I seriously have to question their validities… smells like BS to me 🤨

Now I have an excuse for never checking my email

the way he said “mElbOrnE” like no -an annoyed australian

5:05 Smash on and Xbox? That makes me question the validity of this story.

This always keeps me entertained keep up with the good work ❤️

How the fuck did they manage to play Smash bros on an xbox???

"It's demons, Jim! Demons!" - Jim from Jim News

Finally, my favorite series is back. Can't wait to watch it!

This could have been multiple people who are all connected with the same Email scam thing.

And then there's the matter of the creepy intruder in both cases...continents apart.

In this video, it's _"unthinkable"_ how one tiny stuff can do/cause *crazy* things, like the iceberg, or going deep down the _rabbit hole_

these videos are made amazingly. Most of the time when I watch one of these I stupidly make the recurring mistake of watching them at night, which is really stupid of me. I tend to have to click off eventually but this one I decided to watch midday so that's good

"I decided to play super smash bros with my little brother" "I only had the xbox on for about 20 minutes" But you can't play Smash bros on an Xbox...?

The background music you use for these is amazing.

I don’t even check my emails