Mystery Archives YouTube Stats

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

Mystery Archives channel overview

Mystery Archives (@mysteryarchives) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2016. It has 337K subscribers and 37M total views across 591 videos, an average of 62K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 23K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 27K views. Over the last 12 months, Mystery Archives published 55 videos (22% Shorts), and 10 of them (18%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Mystery Archives gained 1K subscribers and 828K views, about 41K views a day.

How much does Mystery Archives make?

Returbe estimates Mystery Archives's YouTube ad revenue at $3.9K – $12K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.9 to $8.7, typically $4.83, 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 $4.8K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Mystery Archives publishes about 8.7 videos a month. Based on its last 23 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (35% of uploads), usually around 04:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Mystery Archives's best outlier videos

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

• The ZOZO Demon Is Back | 3 Terrifying New Encounters284K views · Sep 3, 202610.7× typical views
• The Untold Story Of The Terrifying Corvo Family Haunting - Connecticut76K views · Apr 20, 20262.9× typical views
• The Untold Story Of The Demonic Curse Of The Mummy | The Caleb Weaver Case42K views · May 5, 20261.6× typical views
• The Untold Story Of Sloss Furnances - Birmingham, Alabama27K views · Jun 10, 20261× typical views
• My Dad Can't Explain What He Experienced | Was It Demonic?27K views · Nov 2, 20261× typical views
• The Untold Story Of Jerome, Arizona The Most Wicked Town In The West23K views · May 20, 20260.9× typical views
• The Dover Demon Story - Massachusetts23K views · May 11, 20260.9× typical views
• He was called the Army’s Satanist #satanism #occult #documentary2.8K views · Mar 19, 20260.6× typical views

Latest videos

3 of Mystery Archives's last 23 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Mystery Archives Spooky Road Trip Live Part 31.3K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Mystery Archives Spooky Road Trip Live Pt 21.9K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Mystery Archives Road Trip Live 11K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• My Dad Can't Explain What He Experienced | Was It Demonic?27K views · Nov 2, 20261× typical views
• The turtle bewitching hour LOL I love my critters btw just have to match their Crashouts #shorts1.6K views · Oct 21, 20260.3× typical views
• Son Sees Something Terrifying in Cemetery #haunting #shorts1.2K views · Sep 13, 20260.2× typical views
• Terrifying Zozo Ouija Board Story! #ouijaboard #shorts1.8K views · Sep 13, 20260.4× typical views
• The ZOZO Demon Is Back | 3 Terrifying New Encounters284K views · Sep 3, 202610.7× typical views
• Fox Hollow Farm | Indiana's Darkest Mystery #truecrimedocumentary #shorts2.3K views · Aug 18, 20260.5× typical views
• A Truly Terrifying Haunting 👀996 views · Aug 8, 20260.2× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.2K videos from 517 channels in this niche. 8.2% 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×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.3×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.8×), 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 Mystery Archives or YouTube.