In 2018, a strange website appeared online seemingly mundane at first.

Over time, it began forwarding to other bizarre sites.

Online, rumors began to spread about its purpose, but both the website and the discussions

surrounding it have since vanished.

Today, we discuss the mysterious website known as facefamous.org.

This is Red Web.

Welcome back, Task Force, to another episode of Red Web, the podcast's all about unsolved mysteries, true crime, and the supernatural.

I'm your resident mystery enthusiast Trevor Collins and joining me hearing about this mystery for the very first time, Alfredo Diaz.

Okay, weird internet stuff.

Yeah, I just don't mess with it.

You know, I built my own computer.

Mm-hmm.

I've been building my computer for a long time and just typing in a weird, like, I just, man, I don't want viruses, key loggers, all that kind of, I just, and I feel like that's where you end up

getting that kind of stuff. Yeah. Aside from the like, you know, the freaky sites,

I feel like those are also dangerous to just like pick up stuff that you don't want on your

computer, you know? Oh, yeah. And so task force, let this be a warning when you start Googling

stuff on your computer. Like, be careful. so task force, let this be a warning when you start Googling stuff

on your computer. Like, be careful. Out the gate, be careful. Yeah, these webs, some of them that we're

going to talk about are still up and around kicking. I'm not saying that they're going to do anything,

but you're totally right. You got pop-ups that happen. You got malware that forces its way in. There's QR codes now that show up in people's mailbox and they go,

I don't know what this is. And then they scan it. Boom, virus on their phone. It's a unhinged world.

And it's only been, what, four to a half years since we started. But this is going back to our roots.

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