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Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Project X: The Birthday Party That Caused a Riot

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Moms got ya covered-feed

True Crime

4.68.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In 2012, a 16-year-old girl in a quiet Dutch town made a simple mistake: she accidentally set her Facebook birthday party invitation to “public.” Within days, the invite went viral, attracting tens of thousands of RSVPs and becoming known online as “Project X Haren.” While the birthday girl and her family fled, thousands of strangers descended on the small town, ready to party. What started as a digital joke quickly spiraled into a real-world riot. Fireworks, flipped cars, and clashes with police turned the night into a scene of chaos that made international headlines. This is the unbelievable true story of how one click of a button unleashed the power of the internet and turned a quiet Sweet 16 into one of the most infamous parties in European history. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday! Follow us on Instagram: @momsandmysteries Join our Patreon: patreon.com/momsandmysteries Visit our website: momsandmysteries.com #TrueStory #Podcast #ProjectXHaren #FacebookFail #Viral #Riot #Netherlands #SocialMedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

A quiet Dutch town went to bed expecting a normal Thursday night.

0:04.2

Instead, thousands of strangers showed up to a teenager's house because of one accidental Facebook invite.

0:10.4

And the night exploded into fire, chaos, and nationwide panic.

0:14.8

It became the most infamous birthday party in Europe, and the girl who created it wasn't even there.

0:27.6

Music party in Europe and the girl who created it wasn't even there. Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself,

0:33.4

Mandy and my dear friend Melissa.

0:34.9

Hi, Melissa.

0:35.6

Hi, Mandy.

0:36.2

How are you?

0:37.2

I'm doing well. I actually feel

0:39.2

a little pep in my step. I feel bright of spirit today. I know I don't look like it. I look like I went

0:45.8

jogging this morning and like sat down and did nothing. I, well, I did. Okay. All right. You're good.

0:53.7

Funny story. I was going to take my dog, Lila, for a walk because actually. Okay. All right. You're good. Funny story.

0:54.3

I was going to take my dog, Lila, for a walk because I got her a new harness and a new leash and stuff. She doesn't normally walk on a leash. Like, we just have a large yard. So, you know, we let the dogs out. We don't really walk them on leashes very much. Who? Me and my family. No, but the song, who let the dogs out.

1:11.8

You said, we just let the dogs out.

1:13.7

Oh, I the song.

1:11.8

Who let the dogs out?

1:13.2

You said, we just let the dogs out.

1:30.8

Oh, I missed that. Yeah, so we just let them out into the yard. But I want to start taking my dog Lila. She's a German short-haired pointer. I want to take her out just for nice walks. I don't know why. I have this thing in my head where I'm like, you know, it would be great if I could actually just like take my dog on a nice walk or she doesn't act like a crazy animal, but that's asking a lot of a GSP actually. She has learned how to walk on a leash before. She was actually trained by a professional, but then I never took her on walk. So it's been a couple years. So I actually asked our dog trainer. I was like, is it too late for Lila to learn how to walk on a leash?

1:45.4

And she was like, well, she our dog trainer. I was like, is it too late for Lila to learn

1:44.4

how to walk on a leash? And she was like, well, she can certainly relearn. But like you as a, as the dog owner are probably not going to like love the methods that's going to require to get her back to like doing it, you know, because I didn't have to do it the first time. So I don't know. I don't know how a dog is trained, like exactly.

2:01.1

So anyway, so I decided to just get her this like no pull harness where like the leash attaches to the front like in the chest area. And I, it seemed to work really well. I put it on her at the house and it was like a miracle, right? Like as soon as she started like trying to pull, it just turns her towards me and so she wasn't able to do it and I was like a miracle right like as soon as she started like trying to pull it just

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