Dark5 Ancient Mysteries YouTube Stats

@dark5ancientmysteries · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 5, 2026

Dark5 Ancient Mysteries channel overview

Dark5 Ancient Mysteries (@dark5ancientmysteries) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2023. It has 242K subscribers and 34M total views across 95 videos, an average of 359K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 334K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 323K views. Over the last 12 months, Dark5 Ancient Mysteries published 21 videos, and 2 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 14 days, Dark5 Ancient Mysteries gained 1K subscribers and 698K views, about 50K views a day.

How much does Dark5 Ancient Mysteries make?

Returbe estimates Dark5 Ancient Mysteries's YouTube ad revenue at $6.6K – $22K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.97 to $9.92, typically $5.45, 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 $5.5K.

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Upload schedule

Dark5 Ancient Mysteries publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 51 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (31% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 30, 2026.

Dark5 Ancient Mysteries's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Dark5 Ancient Mysteries's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• 5 Ancient Encounters with The Men in Black1.3M views · May 12, 20264.2× typical views
• 5 Ancient Super Roads That Don't Make Sense1M views · Sep 24, 20263.1× typical views
• The Knights Templar Artifacts That Shouldn’t Exist in America: 5 Unexplained Clues456K views · Nov 29, 20251.4× typical views
• We Had Proof of Atlantis... Then Lost It: 5 Unexplained Artifacts450K views · Nov 22, 20251.4× typical views
• 5 Demonic Artifacts The Church Tried to Erase440K views · Feb 14, 20261.4× typical views
• The Most Massive Unexplained Ancient Walls: 5 Gates That Closed the World391K views · Jan 4, 20261.2× typical views
• The "Sky Beings": 5 Unexplained Encounters Hidden in Ancient Texts353K views · Jan 18, 20261.1× typical views
• 5 Unexplained Ancient Artifacts from Space336K views · Oct 30, 20261× typical views

Latest videos

2 of Dark5 Ancient Mysteries's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 5 Unexplained Ancient Artifacts from Space336K views · Oct 30, 20261× typical views
• 5 Ancient Super Roads That Don't Make Sense1M views · Sep 24, 20263.1× typical views
• The Impossible Screw: 5 Photos of Unexplained Artifacts Taken Before They Vanished315K views · Aug 21, 20261× typical views
• The Knights Templar Castle Still Guarded by Commandos: 5 Unexplained Artifacts of the Crusades294K views · Aug 7, 20260.9× typical views
• The Prison Built For a Face: 5 Ancient Prisoners Who Can't be Explained111K views · Jun 8, 20260.3× typical views
• 5 Ancient Tunnels Hiding Something We Weren't Supposed to Find247K views · May 25, 20260.8× typical views
• 5 Ancient Encounters with The Men in Black1.3M views · May 12, 20264.2× typical views
• The Mysterious Ancient Masks That Shouldn't Exist155K views · Apr 25, 20260.5× typical views
• 5 Ancient Swords That Can't Be Explained326K views · Apr 2, 20261× typical views
• The Ancient Secrets of WW2: 5 Artifacts the Military Desperately Tried to Find164K views · Mar 21, 20260.5× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 372 channels in this niche. 13.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 11K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

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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 Dark5 Ancient Mysteries or YouTube.