The Scarecast YouTube Stats

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

The Scarecast channel overview

The Scarecast (@thescarecast) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2013. It has 100K subscribers and 16M total views across 1K videos, an average of 16K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 30K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 0 views. Over the last 12 months, The Scarecast published 70 videos (96% Shorts), and 4 of them (6%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 14 days, The Scarecast gained 2.9K subscribers and 787K views, about 56K views a day.

How much does The Scarecast make?

Returbe estimates The Scarecast's YouTube ad revenue at $2.2K – $6.7K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.97 to $5.9, typically $3.28, 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 $3.3K.

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

The Scarecast publishes about 36.9 videos a month. Based on its last 70 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (24% of uploads), usually around 02:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

The Scarecast's best outlier videos

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

• The 4chan alien mystery photo... #aliens #alien #paranormal #creepy #unexplained177K views · Oct 3, 202635.4× typical views
• This family mysteriously disappeared #TrueCrime #UnsolvedMystery #unsolved #truestories #ColdCase26K views · Oct 13, 20265.3× typical views
• Logan Paul & the Secret Chuck Clark UFO Tape #UFO #Area5124K views · Oct 8, 20264.8× typical views
• How did this become one of the most persistent internet mysteries of the decade? #aliens #alien17K views · Sep 27, 20263.4× typical views
• Miami Mall Incident: Shadow Beings? #paranormal #aliens #alien #unexplained #miami14K views · Oct 26, 20262.9× typical views
• Security Guard Greets an Invisible Visitor at 3:26 AM? #Ghost #Paranormal9.8K views · Oct 10, 20262× typical views
• UFO Sighting Caught on Video? Witness Draws the Craft He Saw #UFO #UAP #Shorts9.5K views · Oct 6, 20261.9× typical views
• Flip Phone Captures a UFO in Costa Rica? #UFO #UAP8.9K views · Oct 10, 20261.8× typical views

Latest videos

3 of The Scarecast's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• A true scary story... She saw a little girl in a nightgown beside a country road. Her mom saw nothin882 views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Miami Mall: So Many Police, So Little Footage? #aliens #miami1.5K views · Oct 31, 20260.3× typical views
• What Really Happened at the Miami Mall? #aliens #miami1.6K views · Oct 31, 20260.3× typical views
• Scary Stories From Reddit1.9K views · Oct 31, 2026
• Could Aliens Use Our GPS Coordinates? #aliens #miami1.3K views · Oct 31, 20260.3× typical views
• Aliens or Fallen Angels? The Book of Enoch Theory #aliens #paranormal479 views · Oct 30, 20260.1× typical views
• Did Teens Open a Portal at the Miami Mall? #aliens #miami1.9K views · Oct 30, 20260.4× typical views
• Miami Mall’s Wildest Alien Story Yet? #aliens #miami1.7K views · Oct 30, 20260.3× typical views
• Miami Mall Aliens: Wrong Portal Coordinates? #aliens #miami3.6K views · Oct 29, 20260.7× typical views
• Strange Figure in Miami Mall Footage? #aliens #miami3K views · Oct 28, 20260.6× 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 The Scarecast or YouTube.