Chilling Scares YouTube Stats

@chillingscares · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Chilling Scares channel overview

Chilling Scares (@chillingscares) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2020. It has 2.9M subscribers and 641M total views across 192 videos, an average of 3.3M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 2.2M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.9M views. Over the last 12 months, Chilling Scares published 33 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Chilling Scares gained 20K subscribers and 14M views, about 676K views a day.

How much does Chilling Scares make?

Returbe estimates Chilling Scares's YouTube ad revenue at $69K – $206K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $9, typically $5, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $5K.

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Upload schedule

Chilling Scares publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 71 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (31% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Chilling Scares's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Chilling Scares's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• 6 Most Disturbing Camping Encounters Caught on Camera11M views · May 7, 20243.5× typical views
• 5 Most Disturbing Internet Rabbit Holes9.8M views · Nov 13, 20243× typical views
• 5 Disturbing Recordings Left by Missing Persons9.2M views · Jul 6, 20242.8× typical views
• 6 Most Disturbing Abandoned Building Encounters Caught on Camera8.8M views · Dec 27, 20232.7× typical views
• 5 Most Disturbing Reddit Threads7.7M views · Feb 25, 20242.3× typical views
• 5 Most Disturbing Reddit Threads4.3M views · Sep 2, 20262.3× typical views
• 6 Most Disturbing Moments Caught on Live TV Footage4.1M views · Mar 25, 20262.1× typical views
• 6 Most Disturbing 4Chan Threads6.7M views · Oct 23, 20242.1× typical views

Latest videos

7 of Chilling Scares's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• YouTube Channels Abandoned for Disturbing Reasons262K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• 31 Minutes of Unexplainable Incidents4M views · Oct 26, 20262.1× typical views
• Obscure Internet Mysteries2.7M views · Oct 9, 20261.4× typical views
• 6 Most Dangerous Computer Viruses Explained1.6M views · Sep 28, 20260.9× typical views
• Disturbing Internet Anomalies2.2M views · Sep 17, 20261.2× typical views
• 5 Most Disturbing Reddit Threads4.3M views · Sep 2, 20262.3× typical views
• 5 Most Disturbing Posts on the Internet2.3M views · Aug 21, 20261.2× typical views
• YouTube Channels Abandoned for Disturbing Reasons3.7M views · Aug 10, 20262× typical views
• 5 Most Disturbing Audio Recordings1.6M views · Jul 31, 20260.8× typical views
• Disturbing Internet Mysteries2.7M views · Jul 14, 20261.4× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.2K videos from 518 channels in this niche. 8.4% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 20K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 15×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 9.6×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.3×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Crazy planet (31K subs, best video 58.2×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Chilling Scares or YouTube.