182. The Reddit Conspiracy - Lake City Quiet Pills

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Into The Dark – Episode 182

"The Reddit Conspiracy – Lake City Quiet Pills"

Host: Payton Moreland
Release Date: August 12, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Payton Moreland takes listeners down the notorious Internet rabbit hole of the "Lake City Quiet Pills" mystery—a mélange of true crime, online conspiracy, and digital age horror rooted in the early 2000s Internet culture. The episode explores the shadowy origins of the website and its cryptic Reddit connections, the bizarre coincidences linking it with an infamous assassination in Dubai, and the lingering unanswered questions that continue to fascinate Internet sleuths.

Trigger warning: Includes discussions of sexual exploitation and adult content.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

The Wild West of Early Internet (04:48)

• Internet’s Changing Landscape: Payton reflects on how the Internet of the 90s and 2000s was a place of distrust and excitement. Meeting or talking to strangers online was taboo, and scams were everywhere, making people hesitant to even shop online.
• Quote:

  "A lot of people were excited about the World Wide Web and all of the potential it had, but also a lot of people were scared of it. With good reason." (03:02, Payton)

Arrival of "Lake City Quiet Pills" (05:15)

• The Moderator: Religion of Peace: A controversial Reddit user moderating a problematic board focused on sexualized images of very young women (not technically illegal, but certainly objectionable).

  • Known for rude, aggressive comments, military claims, and cryptic threats:

  "He knew how to kill people ... and he's the moderator." (06:04, Payton)

• Mysterious Phrase:

  "He would like to give the people he disagreed with, quote, a dose of Lake City Quiet Pills. Nobody knew what he meant by that..." (07:01, Payton)

  • Term ‘Lake City Quiet Pills’ appeared frequently—seemingly code for something sinister.

• Website Created: Religion of Peace repeatedly directs people to his site, lakecityquietpills.com, which largely mirrored the questionable Reddit board.

The Sudden Death (09:19)

• Disappearance: On July 17, 2009, Religion of Peace makes a final spam complaint post—then vanishes.
• Announcement by 2-6: Fourteen hours later, a new user (26 or '2-6') claims to be a real-life friend and reports Religion of Peace (Milo)’s death at his computer.
  • Details: Milo was elderly, militarily retired, had no friends/family, and didn’t want a religious funeral. Ashes to be scattered randomly.
  • 2-6 doesn’t seem particularly close, but shares estate anecdotes and confesses there’s information on Milo’s devices that needs to “stay a secret.”
  • Account becomes inactive after a few days.

Reddit Sleuths Begin Digging (15:00)

• Redditors investigate 2-6 and link him to various identities like Angel26, active across early Internet forums, all pointing back to lakecityquietpills.com.
  • Quote:

    "So, Angel 2.6 had posted a lot in other forms, and they made a lot of spelling mistakes and typos that were similar..." (15:02, Payton)

The Coded Job Postings (17:29)

• Technically-minded users examine the site’s source code and find:
  • Hidden Job Posts:
    • Language resembling military jargon (e.g., “to business class security, fluent French rec’d,” “nonconus,” “too light. Surveil no US WW no mechs WW”)
    • Redditors speculate these are covert job offerings for ex-military operatives—possibly even assassins.
  • The site’s name links to Lake City Ammunition Plant, where US military ammo is produced. ‘Quiet Pills’ might refer to bullets.

The Dubai Connection: Real-World Assassination (22:30)

• Birthday Party Post:

  • Around Jan 2010, hidden coding details an elaborate “birthday party” for Milo: 38 hotel rooms, instructions, significant money for room service—too much for a regular gathering.

• Assassination:

  • On Jan 19, 2010, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (a Hamas leader) is murdered in Dubai. Entry secured, death appears natural but later ID’d as a carefully orchestrated hit by unidentified individuals using fake passports.
  • The timing, number of hotel rooms, and logistical details align eerily with the “party” described in the website’s code.
  • Quote:

    "What are the chances that this moderator... advertising his own website... in the coding is secret messages... and then they tie it to this political assassination..." (39:46, Payton)

• Aftermath: Subsequent posts boast of the “party’s” smooth execution with tens of thousands spent—aligning more with mercenary payout than a birthday.

The Fallout and Speculation (37:00–41:00)

• Internet Explodes:

  • Online groups, spurred by speculation, publicize the eerie coincidences.
  • CNN’s Anderson Cooper reports on the connection, emphasizing the oddity and the site’s origins, but without evidence of actual criminal activity.
  • Quote:

    "Anderson Cooper did a story on the allegations… he didn't have any hard proof..." (33:28, Payton)

• Reddit Bans the Board: Following public outcry over illicit photos and the growing infamy, the Reddit board is banned, and lakecityquietpills.com quickly vanishes from the web—purged from archives.

Alternative Explanations and Lingering Mysteries (41:00+)

• Was it an elaborate prank, Alternate Reality Game (ARG), or real criminal operation?
  • Timeline and slips (fake ages, implausible military history) suggest potential fabrication.
  • Lack of ad tie-ins debunk ARG theory.
  • Internet historians find histories for Milo and 2-6 stretching back decades—unusually elaborate for a hoax.
• Other Theories: Secret hiring for bodyguards? Smuggling? Or just an elaborate in-joke?
• Takeaway:

  "It just doesn't make much, much sense... It is hard to imagine something like this these days. The Internet is slick and corporate. It's kind of Hard to pull off a hoax that lasts..." (40:20, Payton)

• Legacy:
  • Episode closes pondering what this saga says about the wild, mysterious atmosphere of the early Internet, and why this case continues to fascinate.

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• "He would like to give the people he disagreed with, quote, a dose of Lake City Quiet Pills. Nobody knew what he meant by that..."
  (07:01, Payton)

• "There was some information that Milo had saved on one of his devices that he never wanted the world to see."
  (11:14, Payton on 2-6’s mysterious comment)

• "They found full paragraphs of text...almost looked like job postings, except full of strange abbreviations and acronyms..."
  (17:29, Payton on the website’s coded content)

• "This was a professional hit. There were too many people involved for this to be random or even something personal. This was efficient. This was quiet. It was clean."
  (26:30, Payton on the Dubai assassination)

• "This story does tell you something about the Internet of the late 2000s. It was mysterious, dangerous, and it felt like anything was possible if you just dug a little beneath the surface."
  (39:55, Payton)

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Important Timestamps by Segment

• 04:48 – Setting the scene: Early Internet paranoia and taboo
• 05:15 – Introduction to Religion of Peace and the phrase "Lake City Quiet Pills"
• 09:19 – Milo’s (Religion of Peace’s) last post and sudden death announcement by 2-6
• 15:00 – Reddit detectives dig into 2-6's digital footprint
• 17:29 – Discovery of coded, mysterious job postings on the website
• 22:30–29:51 – The Dubai assassination and its eerie timing with “Milo’s birthday party”
• 33:28 – The Anderson Cooper CNN report
• 37:00–41:00 – Reddit board ban, website’s disappearance, and speculation on hoax vs. crime

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Final Thoughts

This episode weaves true crime, Internet lore, and conspiracy, highlighting how a bizarre string of online behaviors and coincidences can spiral into a legend that still puzzles digital detectives—including mainstream media. Payton leaves listeners with the reminder that sometimes, the truth is less important than the cultural shadow a mystery can cast:

"Was there anything going on? Or do you simply just think this was a bunch of freaks on the Internet?" (41:43, Payton)

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For listeners seeking more than clickbait, this deep dive into Lake City Quiet Pills explores not just the facts, but what they tell us about the lost innocence—and lurking dangers—of the digital age’s early days.

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You're listening to an Ono Media podcast. Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the into the Dark podcast. I'm your host, Peyton Moreland. I'm really grateful you are here listening or watching today's episode. As you might have noticed, I did not release an episode last week.

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It was common for folks to have a rule that they wouldn't talk to strangers online. They would never meet someone in real life they talked to online. It was totally different from today because now we have massive digital communities, dating apps, conferences built around online fandoms. And while Amazon was very popular, a lot of people were actually distrustful at first of shopping websites because there were a lot of scams and individuals weren't always good at telling legit companies from fake ones. Lots of the apps and services that we take for granted weren't common yet, like Uber Food and Grocery delivery using Zoom. And even though a lot of people loved using the web to follow the news, talk about their interests, and share photos, even more people were terrified of the Internet.

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Now, in fairness, there were a lot of parts of the web at the very beginning that were pretty sketchy and not cool. In today's episode, we are going to be talking a lot about a particular Reddit board, which is still a problem today. This Reddit board was designed so people could share racy sexual photos of very young women. Technically, they didn't allow anything illegal. Technically, none of the photos were of minors. However, it did toe the line and post pictures of models who definitely looked like they were under 18. And in the mid 2000s. Okay, so this was a long time ago. A user named Religion of Peace was a moderator on this specific Reddit board, and his job was to make sure all of the posts were on topic, he would delete spam posts from trolls. And sometimes Religion of Peace talked about his own interests in his life. It may not surprise you to hear that this guy had many controversial tastes and opinions. Being a part of this group, he made a lot of rude comments about politics and drug use. He frequently insulted other people in the community. And Religion of Peace would go on long rants where he would curse, complain, just unpleasant. And on top of that, Religion of Peace claimed he'd served in the military in the past, although he was retired now. And he didn't specify which branch he'd worked with, but several times he commented, you know, on this specific Reddit page that he knew how to kill people. He was comfortable doing it, and he's the moderator. Okay, I'm not talking about, like, killing an enemy during war. He bragged about how he could get away with murder if he wanted to. He implies in the early 2000s on the Internet that he had killed people before. Now, Religion of Peace also liked to use language that was a little threatening. He never outright told anyone he would physically hurt them. But occasionally, Religion of Peace mentioned that he would like to give the people he disagreed with, quote, a dose of Lake City Quiet Pills. Nobody knew what he meant by that or what Lake City Quiet Pills were. However, in context, it's pretty clear it wasn't anything good. But this phrase obviously means a lot to Religion of Peace because sometimes he posted that he had his own website separate from the Reddit board, and that website was also called Lake City Quiet Pills. This website featured the same kind of content that was on his Reddit page. Sexual photos of very young women. And he was trying to get more visitors and traffic. So a bunch of times Religion of Peace told people on Reddit to visit his website if they wanted to post or download even more pictures. Now, sure enough, when users went to lakecityquietpills.com, they found a lot of porn, but most of the photos were just repeats of what were already all across Reddit. Lake City Quiet Pills never took off or became a major webpage. But then on July 17, 2009, Religion of Peace posted another complaint on the Reddit board, and this time he ranted about how he hated when people posted spam and how annoying it was for him to deal with as a moderator. Now, this is pretty usual for Mr. Religion of Peace to post, so it doesn't take people by surprise, but what does take them by surprise is this was the last thing he ever shared from the Religion of Peace account. Fourteen Hours later, another user goes onto the board to say, I'm actually a friend of Religion of Peace IRL in real life, and I just found him dead. He tells everyone on Reddit, okay, this moderator that they all know had died. It seemed to be of natural causes. Religion of Peace was apparently very old. He'd been in his home, sitting in front of his computer computer as though he had passed away while typing just another comment. Now, this new user had the name 2626, and his account was brand new. It looked like he had created it just to share this news on the Reddit page. Now, 26 claimed he was also retired from the military and he had served with Religion of Peace. And he says Religion of Peace is named Milo. He also said that in real life, Milo was just as argumentative as he had been online. He didn't have many friends or any living family members. And in addition, according to 26, Milo had been very anti religion. He'd always insisted he didn't want to have a church funeral. So 26 explains to everyone on the Reddit page that there's not going to be any kind of memorial. There wasn't anyone who wanted to attend and nowhere to host it. Instead, he was arranging to have Milo cremated. Then he was going to scatter his ashes somewhere local. He said, I'm actually going to lay Milo to rest near the house where he had been born. But in the decades since his birth, that home had been demolished and a mall had been built on top of it. So despite it being like, good intentions, this actually means two Six is just gonna pick a random spot in the woods and dump the ashes there that have no meaning to his good friend. 26 had also given Milo's cat away to a friend, and I guess he was donating most of his stuff to charity. It's all pretty impersonal and unemotional, but it was the best 26 could come up with, he admits on Reddit. Like as this is, this information is exploding on this page, he says, I I haven't really been that close to Milo. Nobody had. I just knew him in real life and for a while. But two six was stepping up because Milo didn't have anyone else to handle his affairs after his death, and he knew that the Redditors would want this update. Now, Religion of Peace, or Milo, whatever his name is, had been a big presence in this Reddit community for years. I mean, people loved him on this page, even though he was rude and crazy a lot of the times. Tons of users replied to two six's post talking about how sad they were. And for the next two days or so, two Six stuck around. Remember, this is a brand new account. And replied to people's comments. He talked about some of the struggles he had had trying to manage Milo's estate. Apparently, there was some information that Milo had saved on one of his devices that he never wanted the world to see. So now 26 is telling the Redditors on this creepy dark page he needs a way to destroy it. He doesn't tell him what the data was or what he had done to it. In fact, this whole situation was kind of surprising to people. I mean, Milo was a moderator in a porn community who also ran his own separate porn website very openly. Even his friend two six, who wasn't that close to him, knew to get onto the specific Reddit page and announce Milo's death. So what digital information could he have that possibly needed to stay a secret? 26 doesn't say, but he did share more stories about how much he missed Milo, what sort of person he had been in real Life. And on July 21, 26 shared that he had scattered Milo's ashes. And that day, he also admitted he thinks he had spent too much time on Reddit and it was time to move on. He wasn't going to be back to post again. His account becomes inactive. This was all just to update the people. And here's where this story gets even a little more strange. Like I mentioned before, this particular Reddit community was built around creepy, toxic photos, plus certain ideas and behaviors that wouldn't be okay on other parts of the Internet. Okay, some of the people on that board were nosy. They were not good at boundaries. I mean, think of who would be on this. And somewhere along the way, a few of those users decided they wanted to know more about this 26 account that's now deleted. 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And of course, these Reddit users know how to read this, because when they looked at the code, they found full paragraphs of text. It almost looked like job postings, except they were full of strange abbreviations and acronyms that were hard to decipher. If you're confused, these Reddit users are trying to get to the bottom of who this moderator was. What did they have to do with 2 6? They go to this website, they decide to look at the coding of the website. They have the knowledge to read the coding and realize it's weird, and they start deciphering the wording within the coding. Now, one of these said, quote to business class security. Another one said, non conice. Another one said, fluent French wreck. Now, some people interpreted this as meaning someone was hiring a security guard to support a business person and the guard needed to speak French. But nonconus N O N C O N U S isn't a word. Could be an abbreviation meaning something like non continental U.S. so maybe the job was in Alaska or Hawaii. This is just a guess the Redditors are using. Nobody can tell for sure. Another, you know, post read quote too light. Surveil no US WW no mechs WW presumably someone wanted to hire somebody to do surveillance work, either as part of a team of two, or they'd be watching two people. It's unclear what W W means. There were lots of other posts like this, just full of, like, unfamiliar terms and lingo that really had nothing to do with the website. So it was pretty hard to make much sense of them. But the people on Reddit pick up on it, and they begin forming some theories. First, they noticed that the website's name was very similar to a company they called Lake City Ammunition Plant. This plant makes bullets and other kinds of rounds specifically for the US Military. So those users wondered if Lake City Quiet Pills was actually slang for Lake City bullets, especially since Religion of Peace talked about how he would use these in a threatening way. Maybe he was threatening to shoot people, but in a roundabout way. Where nobody actually would know what he meant, or that could get him kicked off Reddit. And as for the job posts themselves, the theory was that someone was hiring for short term gigs that were all over the world using this hidden code, kind of using slang that sounded like military phrases. So they believe these could have been jobs for retired military service people. And if you're posting a short term job on a website named after bullets in the coding, you're probably hiring assassins. I want to be clear. There was no hard evidence that any of this had anything to do with murder. This is just wild speculation until everything fell into place after one particular listing went up. So in early January of 2010, someone posted they were planning a birthday party for milo on the 19th at 3pm this was presumably the same Milo who had died the year before. Now, the assumption was that the party organizer wanted to honor their friend. They were gathering a bunch of people to memorialize him on what would have been his birthday. They didn't specify where exactly the party would be, but they did say they were booking hotel rooms so people could fly in from out of town to attend. And on the 18th, one day before the party, the poster added some new details. They said there had already been 38 rooms reserved. There were instructions on how people can check in, get their keys, how much they were allowed to spend on room service. It honestly sounds like a huge elaborate event with at least 38 out of town guests assuming nobody was sharing rooms. A lot of coordination and complicated logistics. Again, this is all via the coding on the website. Okay, and then on the day of the party, January 19, a political leader was assassinated in Dubai. His name was Mahmoud Al Mabu and he had ties to the regime ruling Palestine at that time. Mahmoud was very controversial. Usually had a huge security team with him everywhere he went. But for whatever reason, at this time the day he was assassinated, he was traveling alone, without any guards, and he was using a fake name. And it gets stranger than that, because Mahmoud was found dead in his hotel room on the morning of January 20th. His door was locked and the security chain was also in place, meaning it looked like he locked himself in his room. Nobody would have been able to place the chain in the lock from the outside. At least in theory, there wasn't a mark on his body. So at first, officials were like, maybe he just died of natural causes. Maybe he had a heart attack or stroke in his sleep. That explains the door still being locked. Except then an autopsy showed he'd been poisoned, electrocuted and smothered with a Pillow. And when officials looked at security cameras from the hotel, found a bunch of footage showing how the killers managed to pull this off. This footage showed a bunch of people walking back and forth outside of Mahmoud's door, starting even before he had checked into the hotel. To be clear, these were not other guests. A lot of them weren't even staying in the hotel. Police were able to pull other footage of them staying at other resorts all over the city. But all of these people had arrived in Dubai on the same day, the 18th, which was one day before Mahmoud even got to town. None of them were originally from Dubai. They had all come into the country on international flights from all over the world. They were staying at different hotels. They had traveled separately. There wasn't anything to connect any of these people except that on the 19th, all of them came to the same hotel where Mahmoud would eventually stay and spent the day walking up and down the hallway. They just went back and forth outside his door. Seemed like these people were keeping tabs on the room or him staying close so they could see, you know, when he got into his room, when he left. This included a man who was staying in the room right across the hall from Mahmoud. He kept opening his door, looking around, and then going back inside. Other people changed clothes multiple times over the course of the day. Sometimes their hair color or style would even change. So appears like no one in the hotel would be able to realize they were all just loitering. They were putting on wigs and taking them off. They were making sure they wouldn't be recognized. Now, in total this day that he is murdered, there are 11 people doing this at the hotel. 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But I have to tell you the backstory about Mahmoud. At one point in the afternoon, when Mahmoud wasn't in his room, some of these people appeared to start tampering with the lock. It looks like they were trying to get it open even though they didn't have a key. And they did it because they get the door open and they go inside. They were still in the room at 8:30pm When Mahmoud came back to the hotel after being out in the city all day. Again, he's alone. He goes to his room, and then he never comes back out alive. But roughly 20 minutes after his arrival, the door opens again and all these people who had been waiting inside come out. Somehow they're still able to lock the door and get the chain into place, but you can't really tell how they managed it even with this security camera footage. They do close the door, though, and mess with it. Now, after they're done locking up, all 11 of these people leave the hotel and head straight to an airport, and they catch flights out of the country. And then Mahmoud's body isn't even found until the next morning. And since his death initially looked natural, it took days for investigators to figure out that this had been an assassination. And by the time police pulled all of this footage, all of the killers were clearly gone. This was a professional hit. There were too many people involved for this to be random or even something personal. This was efficient. This was quiet. It was clean. And even more shocking, the police were not able to identify one single person of the 11 people in this footage. They had captured all of their faces on the security camera footage. They were able to find passports they'd used when they came into the country, when they checked into their hotel rooms. But every single passport was fake. The names and photos did not correspond to real people. So the officials had no idea who had done this, where they had come from, or who they were working for. This was obviously a pretty big deal politically. I mean, when a political leader gets assassinated, it's a big deal anywhere.

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So now we're gonna go back to our little creepy Reddit users who are trying to figure out where their moderator went and if it's the same person as two six. Okay. They are like okay, this birthday party that was booked, they begin to notice some coincidences. How the Lake City Quiet Pills website had claimed Milo's birthday party would be on January 19th at 3pm this is the exact date and time when over in Dubai Mahmoud arrived. And the birthday party post had mentioned they were booking 38 hotel rooms for out of town guests. We know each assassin was staying in a separate hotel room in Mahmoud's death, and while there wasn't necessarily 38 people caught on camera, we don't know how many people were actually booked for this operation. And the birthday party post included highly specific instructions about where party attendees were supposed to check in, what they were supposed to say, even what names to use at the hotel. It was just a bit much for a birthday party. And all of these are coded instructions. I mean, the fact they're even thinking maybe there were hiring assassins in the Coding of this website of their dead moderator.

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And now they're like, well, this political figure was assassinated. And it feels like maybe this is lining up with this, like they're literally putting it together. And they're like, this just feels a little too eerie. In other words, these Redditors now wondered if the person who ran Lake City Quiet pills was responsible for Mahmoud's death. Especially because another post goes up about two weeks after the assassination. Now, the writer said they were proud of how the party had gone. They were going to settle up all of their bills, which added up to tens of thousands of dollars. It was way too much to spend on a birthday party or even a memorial, but the amount felt more reasonable if it was to pay, say, 11 people to professionally assassinate a public figure. Now, the problem is, this is all speculation from a bunch of random Redditors, okay? Nobody could prove that their moderator Milo's birthday party had any connection to Mahmoud's death, which, by the way, he's dead. The fact that it happened at the same time and day could have been a coincidence. But either way, discussion groups about Lake City quiet pills begin blowing up online. Okay? These redditors begin spreading this information. People are speculating. They're coming up with their own theories. And eventually, a CNN reporter named Anderson Cooper did a story on the allegations. And in his special, he acknowledged he didn't have any hard proof that this website was basically set up to hire assassins. But he talked about the parts he could prove, like how all of this came about from a porn website, basically a Reddit porn page. You could only see job postings for all of this. If you then went to the website that these Redditors were given and looked into the code. However, Anderson Cooper spent a lot of time talking about the creepy pictures and their connection to the Reddit board where Religion of Peace or Milo had moderated, and how this is how all of this had been discovered. Now, this was the first time that this particular board had gotten media attention. Obviously, it becomes very famous very quickly, and overall, the press is obviously bad. More people are, like, more worried about the porn and that this site even exists. They pressure Reddit to take it down. Reddit obviously does. The board was banned, and a bunch of the people who had been involved with it were warned. So that particular community and its photos don't even exist on Reddit anymore. In the end, it was a good thing that everyone had been investigating Milo Lake City quiet pills in 26, because it literally got the board removed, made the Internet safer, which is A win, even if all of these assassin allegations and what's really going on behind the website kind of just was left to float in the dust. Now, as for this Lake City Quiet Pills website, whoever ran it obviously got nervous when it became national media. So around this time, they began putting new security programs in place when they realized people are looking into their code. Casual visitors all of a sudden couldn't get into the code anymore. See the job listings, it's hard to say if they still existed but were hidden or if they had just disappeared entirely. I will say that in 2010, the entire website just goes offline, no longer exists. And afterward, the person who owned the domain ensured it wouldn't appear on the Internet archive. So to this day, it's impossible to study the page or learn anything more about it. We can't say if people really were hiring assassins through this site or if there's just a more innocent explanation. But a lot of security experts think that Lake City Quiet Pills had nothing to do with Mahmoud's death or any other murders, because there's no hard evidence connecting the web page to any crime. We also can't prove that the people who killed Mahmoud ever visited the Lake City Quiet Pills website, because we don't know who they are. Now, when this becomes like, public knowledge, some people are like, this is just an elaborate hoax or prank. Especially because some of the things Milo and 26 said online, that's where this all started. It didn't make much sense. For example, Milo mentioned that he had been born in 1930. But then another post, he claims that he was in the military for World War II. That would mean Milo was just 14 years old, and no one was allowed to go into battle while they were that young, even in the middle of World War II. And on top of that, in 2007, Milo mentioned in one of his posts that he was 70 years old. But if he was born in 1930, that would have made him 77. And when he allegedly died in early 2010, 26 wrote that Milo had actually been 79. So basically, the numbers aren't adding up, the stories aren't matching, no matter how much you make them try to work. It seemed like Milo and two Six couldn't keep track of how old Milo was. Which would make sense if Milo wasn't even a real person, but someone pretending to be a veteran in his 70s. In fact, someone actually ends up collecting all of Milo's posts over the years, putting them into a website so people could easily, like, analyze them. It looks at what slang they use, the topics, what abbreviations they preferred, and from all of that it guesses how old the writer is. And the site said that this Milo person was most likely between the age of 35 and 50. It also suggested he really had served in the military, but probably more recently than he claimed. He knew too much about modern terminology and strategies, and not enough about World War II. So in other words, it seemed very likely that Milo was not who he said he was. He had probably been lying on Reddit, and perhaps his alleged death and everything that happened after it were also fake. It might have even been part of a professionally designed online game. Again, this was common in the mid to late 2000s. Companies would advertise new products by setting up puzzles, basically tricking people into thinking they were real. So users would watch staged YouTube videos or stumble across websites that seemed to hint at crimes or cover ups. They'd investigate and figure out this was all an ad for a new movie or a video game or an album. But the problem with that theory is that there was no advertisement on Lake City Quiet Pills. We only learned about it from this random Reddit user. No one ever got to a solution that could be tied back to a product besides porn. And frankly, it's hard to imagine any company wanting to be associated with alleged assassinations and porn that was very barely legal. If this all wasn't an ad, what would be the point of this being a prank? Religion of Peace and Angel2.6 both had Internet histories going back to the 90s. They would have needed to spend decades establishing histories, making connections, planting hints, just to then go on a random Reddit board and tell everyone to [e-mail] then as soon as they started getting attention and people actually somehow randomly go into the code, they would have had to delete it and disappear. It just doesn't make much, much sense. Another theory was that the website really was hiring people to do illegal jobs in the coding, but maybe not murders for hire. They might have been looking for retired military service people to smuggle drugs or weapons, maybe just simply looking for bodyguards. I mean, this is technically the dark web. What would you go to for the dark web? It has been over 15 years since Reddit users first discovered the coding of this website, and there are still so many questions about it that really haven't been answered, despite the amount of users who have tried to dig into it. To be honest, it's hard to imagine something like this these days. The Internet is slick and corporate. It's kind of Hard to pull off a hoax that lasts more than a day or two before debunkers come out and pick it apart. But this story does tell you something about the Internet of the late 2000s. It was mysterious, dangerous, and it felt like anything was possible if you just dug a little beneath the surface. I mean, what are the chances that this moderator of a barely legal porn Reddit board, who has spent a lot of time on this board, is basically advertising his own website, according to him. And then when that website's coding is looked into, they realize there's like secret messages going on in the coding. And then they tie it to this political assassination that happened in Dubai. And was it the same? Was it not? And then CNN picks up the story, blasts it, and is like, guys, this has been going on. There's a bunch of people who believe these are connected. And how weird is all of this? And also, it's barely legal porn on the Internet. That's definitely not okay. And the entirety of viewers are like, oh my gosh, get the Reddit page taken down. So they take the Reddit page down, but you don't actually have any answers about what was going on beneath the surface here. Was there anything going on? Or do you simply just think this was a bunch of freaks on the Internet? You guys let me know in the comments. But that is the complicated and honestly intriguing history of Lake City Quiet Pills. If you've never heard of it, now you have.

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