Island of Dark Stories YouTube Stats

@islandofdarkstories · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 11, 2026

Island of Dark Stories channel overview

Island of Dark Stories (@islandofdarkstories) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2025. It has 48K subscribers and 5.3M total views across 61 videos, an average of 87K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 65K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 33K views. Over the last 12 months, Island of Dark Stories published 18 videos, and 4 of them (22%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Island of Dark Stories make?

Returbe doesn't have enough recent views to estimate Island of Dark Stories's monthly revenue. 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

Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (70% of uploads), usually around 06:00 UTC. The last video went out on Jul 14, 2026.

Island of Dark Stories's best outlier videos

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

• My Most Disturbing Case as a Morgue Attendant - The Corpse That Opened Its Eyes Still Watches Me264K views · Jan 15, 20268× typical views
• My Most Horrifying Case as a Coroner - The Autopsy That Had to Stop Halfway Through232K views · Jan 15, 20267.1× typical views
• I Work in a Crematorium - The Ashes Spelled a Name I Never Told Anyone119K views · Feb 14, 20263.6× typical views
• My Most Terrifying Case as an Embalmer - The Body That Woke Up Still Terrifies Me105K views · Dec 16, 20253.2× typical views
• My Most Terrifying Case as an Autopsy Assistant - this still haunts me97K views · Dec 16, 20252.9× typical views
• I Was a Forensic Photographer — The Picture I Took That Night Broke Me84K views · Dec 16, 20252.5× typical views
• I Am a Funeral Home Worker - The Coffin That Opened From the Inside Still Terrifies Me68K views · Jan 15, 20262.1× typical views
• My Most Disturbing Discovery as a Funeral Director - this still terrifies me36K views · Dec 16, 20251.1× typical views

Latest videos

7 of Island of Dark Stories's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• My Most Terrifying Case as a Morgue Worker - What Walked Out of the Cooler8K views · Jul 14, 20260.2× typical views
• I Work in a Crematorium - The Ashes Spelled a Name I Never Told Anyone119K views · Feb 14, 20263.6× typical views
• I Worked in a Hospital Morgue — The Corpse That Sat Up Still Haunts Me14K views · Jan 15, 20260.4× typical views
• My Most Horrifying Case as a Coroner - The Autopsy That Had to Stop Halfway Through232K views · Jan 15, 20267.1× typical views
• My Most Disturbing Case as a Morgue Attendant - The Corpse That Opened Its Eyes Still Watches Me264K views · Jan 15, 20268× typical views
• My Most Horrifying Case as a Hospice Nurse - The Patient Who Died at Midnight Still Calls My Phone16K views · Jan 15, 20260.5× typical views
• My Most Unsettling Case as a Funeral Director - The Body That Wouldn't Stay Embalmed33K views · Jan 15, 20261× typical views
• My Most Terrifying Case as a Morgue Worker - What Walked Out of the Cooler21K views · Jan 15, 20260.6× typical views
• My Most Disturbing Case as an ER Doctor - The Patient Who Flatlined But Kept Talking33K views · Jan 15, 20261× typical views
• I Am a Funeral Home Worker - The Coffin That Opened From the Inside Still Terrifies Me68K views · Jan 15, 20262.1× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.1K videos from 922 channels in this niche. 10.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 17K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (403K subs, best video 20.9×), Criminally Obsessed (248K subs, best video 25.9×), Crime 360 (242K subs, best video 13.2×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (26K subs, best video 58.4×), FOX 29 Philadelphia (431K subs, best video 34×), Crazy planet (31K subs, best video 71.4×).

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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 Island of Dark Stories or YouTube.