The Strangest YouTube Stats

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

The Strangest channel overview

The Strangest (@thestrangest) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2017. It has 25K subscribers and 10M total views across 662 videos, an average of 15K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 6.8K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 480 views. Over the last 12 months, The Strangest published 61 videos (100% Shorts), and 3 of them (5%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 14 days, The Strangest gained 200 subscribers and 255K views, about 18K views a day.

How much does The Strangest make?

Returbe doesn't have enough recent views to estimate The Strangest's monthly revenue. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.03 to $0.1, typically $0.06, 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 $60.

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Upload schedule

The Strangest publishes about 18.5 videos a month. Based on its last 61 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (20% of uploads), usually around 23:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

The Strangest's best outlier videos

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

• Kanye West has always tried to open our eyes to the dark side of Hollywood and the music industry112K views · Oct 30, 202622.4× typical views
• The Cat in the Hat Suit Is Absolutely Terrifying - the costume Mike Myers wore in the 2003 movie63K views · Sep 8, 202612.5× typical views
• Patrick Stewart's Haunted House: The Terrifying Paranormal Encounters He Claims Were Rea #ghost #fyp27K views · Oct 29, 20265.5× typical views
• Fox Window or Kitsune no Mado an ancient Japanese folklore hand gesture used to see hidden spirits12K views · Oct 22, 20262.3× typical views
• Was Michael Jackson Secretly the Mysterious Mask Man With Pamela Anderson at a London Fashion Show?11K views · Oct 25, 20262.2× typical views
• Dolly Parton's Toast to Azazel a praise to a false god, a fallen angel, a demon or a symbol of sin9.6K views · Aug 28, 20261.9× typical views
• Creepy Cave Paintings - early humans drew what they saw, did they paint aliens, demons, or monsters?8.4K views · Oct 4, 20261.7× typical views
• Crazy Coincidence - There Are Two Different Dennis the Menaces Characters #comics #cartoon #tv #fyp5.2K views · Sep 5, 20261× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Michael Jackson Dangling His Baby Over a Balcony - the scary moment was captured on camera #mj #fyp1.5K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• She Found Her Ex Hiding in Her Trunk - Kim Sprenger found Ricky Simonds Sr. inside her car #crime1.5K views · Nov 4, 20260.3× typical views
• Manhattan Alien Abduction of Linda Napolitano - 23 others witnessed this UFO in New York City #alien256 views · Nov 2, 20260.1× typical views
• Demons or Glitches - They Are Among Us! What is going on with Hollywood celebrities? #horror #glitch226 views · Nov 1, 20260× typical views
• Kanye West has always tried to open our eyes to the dark side of Hollywood and the music industry112K views · Oct 30, 202622.4× typical views
• Patrick Stewart's Haunted House: The Terrifying Paranormal Encounters He Claims Were Rea #ghost #fyp27K views · Oct 29, 20265.5× typical views
• Demon or Glitch Caught on Camera #jinn #shapeshifting #viral #shorts #scary #creepy #ghost #mystery450 views · Oct 28, 20260.1× typical views
• Ted Bundy's Volkswagen Beetle - one of the most evil cars in American true crime history #crimenews1.9K views · Oct 28, 20260.4× typical views
• Princess Diana's Revenge DressWhen She Upstaged Charles 👀 #royalfamily1.4K views · Oct 26, 20260.3× typical views
• Was Michael Jackson Secretly the Mysterious Mask Man With Pamela Anderson at a London Fashion Show?11K views · Oct 25, 20262.2× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.2K videos from 518 channels in this niche. 8.4% 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×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 9.6×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.3×), 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 Strangest or YouTube.