Obscure Encounters YouTube Stats

@ObscureEncounters · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 10, 2026

Obscure Encounters channel overview

Obscure Encounters (@ObscureEncounters) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2026. It has 16K subscribers and 470K total views across 74 videos, an average of 6.3K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 37K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 11K views. Over the last 12 months, Obscure Encounters published 15 videos, and 2 of them (13%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Obscure Encounters make?

Returbe estimates Obscure Encounters's YouTube ad revenue at $1.8K – $5.3K 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

Obscure Encounters publishes about 16.3 videos a month. Based on its last 15 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (27% of uploads), usually around 22:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 11, 2026.

Obscure Encounters's best outlier videos

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

• 8 Most Disturbing Incidents Ever Caught on Camera404K views · Oct 27, 202637.2× typical views
• 10 Most Disturbing Incidents at Sea Caught on Camera35K views · Oct 22, 20263.2× typical views
• 7 Most Disturbing Encounters That Will Haunt You Caught on Camera18K views · Oct 27, 20261.6× typical views
• 8 Most Disturbing Fishing Encounters Ever Caught on Camera17K views · Nov 1, 20261.5× typical views
• 9 Most Disturbing Moments That Will Haunt You Caught on Camera16K views · Oct 18, 20261.5× typical views
• 45 Most Disturbing Incidents at Sea Caught on Camera14K views · Oct 27, 20261.3× typical views
• 10 Most Disturbing Forest Encounters Caught On Camera11K views · Oct 20, 20261× typical views
• 11 Most Disturbing Videos You Shouldn’t Watch Alone Caught on Camera11K views · Oct 16, 20261× typical views

Latest videos

5 of Obscure Encounters's last 15 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 50 Most Disturbing Incidents at Sea Caught on Camera7.5K views · Nov 11, 20260.7× typical views
• 10 Most Disturbing Bear Encounters Ever Caught on Camera5.4K views · Nov 7, 20260.5× typical views
• 20 Most Disturbing Incidents Caught on Camera2.3K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• 10 SCARY VIDEOS Caught On Camera!1.5K views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• 20 Most Disturbing Internet Videos That Will Haunt You1.9K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• 8 Most Disturbing Fishing Encounters Ever Caught on Camera17K views · Nov 1, 20261.5× typical views
• 25 Most Disturbing Incidents Caught on Camera6.1K views · Oct 31, 20260.6× typical views
• 20 Most DISTURBING Theme Park Incidents Ever Caught on Camera8K views · Oct 29, 20260.7× typical views
• 7 Most Disturbing Encounters That Will Haunt You Caught on Camera18K views · Oct 27, 20261.6× typical views
• 8 Most Disturbing Incidents Ever Caught on Camera404K views · Oct 27, 202637.2× 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 Obscure Encounters or YouTube.