FreakyLinks2000
“What you don't know can't hurt you, but what you search for might get you.”
Created by David S. Goyer, Gregg Hale
🏆 1 nomination total
The premise
Derek Barnes, assisted by his friends Chloe and Jason, runs a website called "FreakyLinks.com" that seeks out the dark and forbidden truths behind paranormal phenomena and urban legends. He took over the site after his twin brother, Adam, died under mysterious circumstances. Follow as Derek and his friends investigate supernatural claims for the website and uncover clues that might reveal the truth of his brother's fate.
Horror Vault's take
When Derek Barnes inherits his late twin brother's paranormal website, he transforms it into a mission — part content, part obsession — as he and his tight-knit crew chase down urban legends and supernatural phenomena across America. Every case they investigate peels back another layer of a world stranger and darker than most people dare to acknowledge. Running beneath the monster-of-the-week format is a deeply personal mystery: the unsettling circumstances surrounding his brother's death that refuse to add up. FreakyLinks blends early internet culture with X-Files-style unease, delivering a late-night cult vibe that feels both of its era and oddly ahead of it.
Content: Paranormal Themes, Depictions Of Mysterious Death, Mild Horror Imagery
Episode Guide
S1.E1 · Subject: FearsumPremiere6.0Oct 6, 2000 · Dir: Todd Holland
Derek, with his friends Jason and Lan, is the producer of freakylinks.com - a website devoted to paranormal events, creatures, and stories. Derek took over the website after his twin brother, Adam, mysteriously committed suicide. One year l
S1.E2 · Subject: Three Thirteen7.0Oct 13, 2000 · Dir: Stephen Cragg
The Freakylinks group investigate a pregnant woman who believes that she is possessed. Derek is doubtful, and takes the case only because the site needs money. However, several unexplained events lead Derek to accept that the possession may
S1.E3 · Subject: Edith Keeler Must Die6.0Oct 20, 2000 · Dir: David Straiton
The Freakylinks trio heads to New York City to explore a lead that they suspect will confirm that an undiscovered race of humans live in the city's subway tunnels. Derek and Jason, however, stumble upon an unexplainable string of attacks an
S1.E4 · Subject: Coelacanth This!7.0Oct 27, 2000
Returning from a fruitless attempt to find proof of the existence of Bigfoot, the Freakylinks group comes across a town that appears to be guarding the secret behind a series of deaths that dates back nearly 150 years. All of the deaths hav
S1.E5 · Subject: Desert Squid! Myth or Legend?6.0Nov 3, 2000 · Dir: Scott Lautanen
A mysterious tentacled animal is mutilating livestock in the New Mexico desert. Although the local police decide to treat the "Desert Squid" as a hoax, Derek and the Freakylinks crew suspect that there is something behind the mutilations.
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