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r/mysteryNSFW

558.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 5K upvotes, which works out to 9 per 1,000 members.

9peak upvotes per 1,000 members
558.7Kmembers
5Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

35% 30% 16% 8%
Link 35% Image 30% Text 16% Gallery 8% Question 6% Video 5%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Unexplained 46 Disappearance 41 Unresolved Crime 34 Mysterious Person 18 Media 15 Murder 11 Online/Digital 9 Scientific/Medical 8 Lost Artifact 4 Video 3

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Second Boeing whistleblower suddenly dies after accusing company of 'ignoring defects'

↑ 5K πŸ’¬ 121 image 2026

Kyron Horman - 7 year old missing from Portland, OR since June 4, 2010. New statement from his best friend may shed light on the mystery.

↑ 4K πŸ’¬ 746 image 2026

26 year old Australian tourist Sally Contarino disappeared from Las Vegas, NV on June 20th, 2026. There’s been no trace of her since.

↑ 2.7K πŸ’¬ 446 image 2026

This photo taken by a western tourist shows hundreds of people on top of a roller coaster in North Korea. It's still unclear what exactly they're doi…

↑ 2.6K πŸ’¬ 138 image 2026

Her body was stolen from her casket and has never been found

↑ 2.6K πŸ’¬ 405 image 2026

Dead in a dishwasher : the Christopher Morris case

↑ 2.1K πŸ’¬ 354 gallery 2026

Blake and Chynna Dickus

↑ 1.6K πŸ’¬ 146 image 2026

For 65 years, he was known only as the Boy in the Box. In 2022, one of the most heartbreaking cold cases finally gave its youngest victim his name ba…

↑ 1.4K πŸ’¬ 101 link 2026

In 1876, 14-year-old Karolina Olsson went to bed in her home in the village of OknΓΆ, Sweden, to remain asleep for 32 years, baffling doctors and fasc…

↑ 1K πŸ’¬ 47 image 2026

In 2005 Miguel Angel Martinez Santamaria took a vacation to Sweden. He went missing and roughly 4 mo later he was found dead adjacent to a bridge. A …

↑ 789 πŸ’¬ 69 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/mystery, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/mystery have?
r/mystery has about 558.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 5K upvotes, which is 9 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/mystery?
"Second Boeing whistleblower suddenly dies after accusing company of 'ignoring defects'" reached 5K upvotes and 121 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/mystery.
What subreddits are similar to r/mystery?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/complaints.
What kind of posts do best on r/mystery?
Of the posts we hold, 35% are link posts and 30% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/mystery?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (550 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (461 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 20:00 UTC (438 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/mystery?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/mystery has 487 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 209 posts from it in the last 30 days.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/mystery, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.