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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

149: The Kate Yup Conspiracy

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The mystery behind the bizarre YouTube channel that posted its last video on November 10th, 2019 leaves many troubling questions unanswered. New YouTube Video Haunted Merch Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3mZ33IS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A muckbang mystery. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town.

0:20.1

On November 10th 2019, the final video of Kate Yupp was posted. Since then,

0:26.8

both the identity and what happened to this individual is a mystery. This is what I like to call

0:32.4

the Kate Yupp mystery. You're probably thinking, who, what, what's going on? I'm saying yep, nope.

0:41.6

The internet's been around long enough. I think YouTube's been around long enough where enough

0:47.1

has happened culturally, where I think at least for us, it warrants talking about if it's interesting.

0:56.0

Although I like to go right back to the 80s or the 70s, I don't really dabble too much in the

1:02.0

present, but since I came from the world of YouTube, I guess, chewed me up and spit me out, and

1:09.0

here I am. And people on YouTube do this all the time. They kind of say, what happened to this

1:14.8

person? And I think we do that. What happened to this person from this 90s television show?

1:19.9

And I have a new YouTube video out, early plug, early plug, on the dark side of TikTok.

1:26.5

Ooh, baby. I feel like even the way things have progressed TikTok, especially the ease of uploading

1:33.8

and the strangeness and the many different cultures that are contributing to this app at

1:41.2

such a fast and furious rate. This new YouTube video, dark side of TikTok, and one of them that I

1:47.9

showcased is the Kate Yupp mystery. And I was, I think, vaguely familiar, basically from just

1:54.2

seeing so much YouTube, but it's nothing that caught my attention and then it did. It's not the one

1:59.8

where she goes into her bathroom mirror. No, this isn't a bathroom mirror based one. Are you sure?

2:04.9

Positive. Okay. I've spent a lot of, I spent a amount of time that it actually started getting nauseous

2:11.6

spending so much time on this. Oh, so here's the lay of the land. The name of the YouTube channel

2:19.1

is Kate Yupp. The last video is posted November 10th, 2019. Now, many channels, YouTube channels

2:27.6

just stop putting up videos for whatever reason, whether it's they lost interest or it got demonetized

2:34.0

or they just life happens and you just stop doing it or you don't have the means. But they're

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