Top 5 Unknowns YouTube Stats

@top5unknowns · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Top 5 Unknowns channel overview

Top 5 Unknowns (@top5unknowns) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2014. It has 2.2M subscribers and 462M total views across 2K videos, an average of 226K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 30K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 29K views. Over the last 12 months, Top 5 Unknowns published 65 videos, and 6 of them (9%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 13 days, Top 5 Unknowns gained 0 subscribers and 1.1M views, about 84K views a day.

How much does Top 5 Unknowns make?

Returbe estimates Top 5 Unknowns's YouTube ad revenue at $8.1K – $24K 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

Top 5 Unknowns publishes about 33.7 videos a month. Based on its last 65 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (15% of uploads), usually around 21:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Top 5 Unknowns's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Top 5 Unknowns's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• 25 TV Conspiracy Mysteries That Turned Out To Be True406K views · Oct 9, 202614× typical views
• 25 "As Seen on" TV Products That Led To ENORMOUS Lawsuits197K views · Sep 28, 20266.8× typical views
• 10 Scary Missing People Mysteries Solved Unexpectedly in 2026196K views · Sep 30, 20266.7× typical views
• 20 TV Conspiracy Mysteries That Turned Out To Be True175K views · Sep 26, 20266× typical views
• 10 "As Seen On" TV Products That Led To EXTREMELY MASSIVE Lawsuits169K views · Oct 1, 20265.8× typical views
• 10 "As Seen On" TV Products That Led To Truly MASSIVE Lawsuits115K views · Sep 11, 20264× typical views
• 20 Very Disturbing Documentaries That Exposed Dark Secrets76K views · Oct 17, 20262.6× typical views
• 10 Disturbing Declassified CIA Secrets You Need To Hear...75K views · Nov 2, 20262.6× typical views

Latest videos

4 of Top 5 Unknowns's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 25 Creepiest Deathbed Confessions Ever That You Need To Hear...8.4K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• 10 Terrifying Mysteries That You Need To Hear...18K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• 10 Scariest Mysteries Ever That Were Recently Solved...11K views · Nov 4, 20260.4× typical views
• 10 Darkest Mystery Cases Ever That'll Creep You Out12K views · Nov 3, 20260.4× typical views
• 10 Disturbing Declassified CIA Secrets You Need To Hear...75K views · Nov 2, 20262.6× typical views
• 10 Disturbing Mystery Cases That'll Creep You Out!43K views · Nov 1, 20261.5× typical views
• 20 Terrifying Mysteries With Disturbing Backstories You Need To Hear16K views · Nov 1, 20260.6× typical views
• 10 Terrifying Last CCTV Footage Before They Went Missing21K views · Oct 31, 20260.7× typical views
• 10 Scariest Mysteries Ever With Disturbing Endings26K views · Oct 30, 20260.9× typical views
• 10 Dark Mysteries That'll Creep You Out...29K views · Oct 29, 20261× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 499 channels in this niche. 8.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 17.9×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.2×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.5×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Shezi Vlogs (270K subs, best video 63.9×).

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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 Top 5 Unknowns or YouTube.