Stranger Stories YouTube Stats

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

Stranger Stories channel overview

Stranger Stories (@strangerstories) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2018. It has 1.1M subscribers and 260M total views across 639 videos, an average of 406K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 346K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 244K views. Over the last 12 months, Stranger Stories published 45 videos, and 12 of them (27%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 14 days, Stranger Stories gained 0 subscribers and 699K views, about 50K views a day.

How much does Stranger Stories make?

Returbe estimates Stranger Stories's YouTube ad revenue at $4.3K – $13K 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.

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

Stranger Stories publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (92% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 2, 2026.

Stranger Stories's best outlier videos

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

• Cops Find Missing Girlfriend's Body In Garbage Bags1.7M views · Jan 12, 20267.2× typical views
• She Dumped Him. He Spent A Year Planning Her Murder.1.3M views · Apr 14, 20265.4× typical views
• Police Finds Blood Covered Son After Murdering His Father1.3M views · Dec 22, 20255.2× typical views
• Evil Grandpa Caught Hiding A Body In His Home1.2M views · Jan 19, 20265.1× typical views
• 16-Year-Old Killer Didn’t Know She Recorded Everything1.2M views · Mar 9, 20265× typical views
• Wife Realizes The Hitman She Hired Was Actually A Cop1.1M views · Dec 8, 20254.5× typical views
• Dad Kills Newborn In Front Of His Toddler1.1M views · Apr 27, 20264.4× typical views
• Entitled Killer Realizes He's Never Going Home1M views · Dec 29, 20254.2× typical views

Latest videos

9 of Stranger Stories's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Killer Has No Idea Police Found His Name Under the 18-Year-Old's Body He Burned88K views · Nov 2, 20260.4× typical views
• Son Thinks He Got Away With Murder. His Bloody Footprints Lead Police to the Body134K views · Oct 26, 20260.6× typical views
• 17-Year-Old Killer Didn’t Know Doorbell Camera Recorded Everything85K views · Oct 19, 20260.4× typical views
• Cop Has No Idea Police Are About to Find His Stepson's Body in His House692K views · Oct 12, 20262.8× typical views
• Killer Forgot The Body Was In The Coffee Table320K views · Oct 5, 20261.3× typical views
• Parents Hired Babysitter On Facebook. She Fractured Their Baby's Skull.208K views · Sep 28, 20260.9× typical views
• Crazy Mom Forgot The Body Was In The Trunk58K views · Sep 21, 20260.2× typical views
• Psycho Mom Trying To Hide Her Son's Body From 17 Cops74K views · Sep 14, 20260.3× typical views
• Crazy Man In Wheelchair Trying To Kill 18 Cops130K views · Sep 8, 20260.5× typical views
• Police Face Florida's Most Disturbing Child Abductor245K views · Aug 17, 20261× 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 Stranger Stories or YouTube.