Strange Mysteries

Strange Mysteries is a YouTube channel run by Nathan Latvaitis that promotes pseudoscience via clickbait.

As of June 2021, the channel had a little over 2 million subscribers and 235 million views.

Hallucinations as enlightenment
Discussing mind-altering chemicals (particularly Ayahuasca):

Ancient aliens

 * Humans are part alien

Pseudohistory

 * More advanced civilizations predate our own
 * Historical records are sparse and hard to interpret Ancient civilizations were mysterious and their descendants are among us! 6 Hidden Clues Behind Mysterious Ancient Civilizations: "Mankind's history is like one big jigsaw puzzle, if that puzzle's pieces had been spilled down the back of the sofa and fallen through the floorboards. The Seven Mayan Prophecies foretold by the Mayan people claimed that a series of devastating events would occur to humanity beginning in 1999 and ending with Earth's apparent destruction on December 21st 2012. The ancient kingdoms of Egypt, Greece and the Mycenaeans were some of the most influential civilizations in human history, with many of their teachings and discoveries forming the basis of our modern scientific, religious and philosophical ideas. The Nazca Civilization existed in modern-day Peru between 100BC and 800AD, and this intriguing society seemed strangely advanced considering when and where they lived. The Sumerian people of southern-Mesopotamia were one of if not the very first examples of civilised society here on Earth, yet we still have a lot of questions about where these people came from, where their language was derived from, and where their genetic descendants are today. In the centuries since the west first clasped eyes on Easter Island's Moai statues, archaeologists have been confused over how the relatively primitive Rapa Nui people moved these big hunks of rock. Here's another mysterious bunch of old timey rocks for you, and we still don't know exactly how the Stone-age people of southern-Britain built this astonishing rock formation either. Viking lore is well known to many of us today thanks to the simple fact that it contains all kinds of awesome, but what remained a mystery for quite some time was exactly how these sea-faring Scandinavians interacted with their Norse mythology on a daily basis."
 * Various nonsense about the Egyptians, including the Ancient Egyptian race controversy.

Parapsychology

 * Human DNA contains "hidden abilities" 10 AMAZING Abilities HIDDEN in Your DNA: Science Unlocks Transhumanism: "Transhumanism: Amazing Genes are HIDDEN inside of us; Science has found it. In 2014 one of the craziest science experiments by some incredible scientists at Oxford University found that less than 10% of human DNA is active, meaning that the majority of your genetic code is just sitting around doing nothing. If you've ever been in a fight with a child, and I know I have, you'll soon realise that their bodies have an uncanny ability to heal faster than an adult's.Every human on Earth possesses a gene called ACTN3, but for some people this gene possesses a very special ability - the ability to be totally badass at sports.When my head is in a bouquet of flowers or I'm hovering over a batch of freshly baked cookies, I wonder how great this must smell to a dog. Remember that movie where Bruce Willis had unbreakable bones and Samuel L Jackson played a weird guy who said he was unbreakable and he proved it when he was in a car crash and his bones were unbreakable?The ability to hibernate for months at a time is a trait man has envied ever since the invention of the Lay-Z-Boy. Instead of sleeping for months, how awesome would it be to need no more than four hours sleep and still feel as refreshed as you would after sleeping in till noon? Remember the mice from the regeneration gene entry? Ever wanted to swim underwater without having to worry about that pesky little thing called drowning? On the surface this ability may sound pretty neat, because imagine how good chocolate or steak would be if your sense of taste was ramped up a few notches? The ability to become infected by an ancient virus may not seem like the best dormant trait to wake up, but they can't all be winners now can they?"
 * The afterlife exists because different cultures have similar afterlife myths Similarities in Afterlife Myths ACROSS Civilizations?: "Human beings have a limited time here on Earth in almost every religion and every myth with creation at its heart, there exist one or more supreme beings, and whether they're immortal hammer gods or sexy water goddesses, they all have one thing in common - they are better than you. And with afterlife myths this goes even further, because not only did they build you and create all that you know, but they also get to decide on where you go when you die. God was a pretty heavy topic to open with, so let's take a look at something simpler - fire. The idea of burning for all eternity in a world of fiery pits is commonly attributed to the Christian idea of Hell, but for some reason fire seems to play a role in many different after life myths, despite it being somewhat essential for cultured human beings to exist. We use fire to cook toast, to heat our homes, to light our reefers, but if you see flames after you've died, you're almost certainly in a really bad place. Another bizarre similarity between many different myths and religions is the idea that the good afterlife is located somewhere high up in the sky, whereas the bad people are sent deep underground to somewhere dark and terrible. Obviously this may have something to do with the fact that underground caves are dark and occasionally terrible, and clouds are super-duper pretty, but is this enough to explain the sheer number of religions who have adopted this idea? The Abrahamic religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism believe that humans are judged based on their actions during life, after which they'll be sent to an afterlife which represents their moral purity. If you've kept your wiener clean, wore a hat on Thursdays or done whatever other crazy business your god asked of you, you'll go to the good kind of afterlife. And if not you'll go somewhere bad, forever. In both Aztec and Norse religions, the dead move on to either a world of endless war or paradise, depending on the whims of their god or whether they died in battle. Vikings believed that half of those killed in combat would continue to fight alongside Odin after death, whereas the others get to sit in a field and get drunk with the goddess Freyja; but there's no indication that Norse mythology used morals to determine which afterlife you got. And what's even more bizarre is that anyone who died from boring stuff like sickness or old age would head off to Hel - that's Hel with one L - for an eternity of dreariness and drudgery."
 * Despite all the above, they also think free will doesn't exist

Pseudoastronomy

 * In the video "5 Planets That Shouldn't Exist", literally every planet is explained by conventional physics
 * UFO hunters might be being killed off.

Conspiracy theories

 * Supports Illuminati, Bilderberg, Freemasons, and other such nonsense.
 * Discusses the Bohemian Grove conspiracy as if it were fact.