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r/mysteryNSFW

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

603.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 5K upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
603.4Kmembers
5Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
454posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

34% 31% 15% 9%
Link 34% Image 31% Text 15% Question 9% Gallery 7% Video 4%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Unexplained 76 Disappearance 56 Unresolved Crime 47 Media 22 Mysterious Person 22 Murder 17 Online/Digital 12 Scientific/Medical 8 Video 6 Lost Artifact 5

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Second Boeing whistleblower suddenly dies after accusing company of 'ignoring defects'

↑ 5K 💬 121 image 2026

Kyron Horman - 7 year old missing from Portland, OR since June 4, 2010. New statement from his best friend may shed light on the mystery.

↑ 4.7K 💬 934 image 2026

Three babies abandoned in London

↑ 3.1K 💬 349 image 2026

26 year old Australian tourist Sally Contarino disappeared from Las Vegas, NV on June 20th, 2026. There’s been no trace of her since.

↑ 2.8K 💬 461 image 2026

This photo taken by a western tourist shows hundreds of people on top of a roller coaster in North Korea. It's still unclear what exactly they're doi…

↑ 2.6K 💬 138 image 2026

Her body was stolen from her casket and has never been found

↑ 2.6K 💬 405 image 2026

13-year-old Scott and 8-year-old Amy Fandel vanished from their Alaska cabin on the night of September 4th, 1978. Their mother and aunt returned to f…

↑ 2.5K 💬 168 image 2026

Dead in a dishwasher : the Christopher Morris case

↑ 2.1K 💬 354 gallery 2026

Blake and Chynna Dickus

↑ 1.6K 💬 146 image 2026

For 65 years, he was known only as the Boy in the Box. In 2022, one of the most heartbreaking cold cases finally gave its youngest victim his name ba…

↑ 1.4K 💬 101 link 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/mystery, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/mystery have?
r/mystery has about 603.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 454 of its posts; the biggest reached 5K upvotes, which is 8 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/mystery?
"Second Boeing whistleblower suddenly dies after accusing company of 'ignoring defects'" reached 5K upvotes and 121 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/mystery.
What subreddits are similar to r/mystery?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/StarWarsBattlefront.
What kind of posts do best on r/mystery?
Of the posts we hold, 34% are link posts and 31% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/mystery?
Across 453 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 17:00 UTC (1.7K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (983 avg upvotes), Monday at 22:00 UTC (922 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/mystery?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/mystery has 769 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 136 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/mystery, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.