Obscure Lost Media You Should Know About 

"Osama Bin Laden's Animal Crossing Save" is certainly a new sentence I've never heard before. 👀

I am morbidly obsessed with Osama’s hard drive to an unhealthy degree. The fact that, at any point in time in the mid to late 2000’s, you could be playing Counterstrike with the actual most wanted terrorist in the world is further evidence that whatever created this universe has some strange sense of humor

one thing I love about your channel is the “let’s get right into it” vibe. I’ve seen a lot of channels like yours add super long pauses and / or talk really slow in order to boost video length and add a creepy effect, but all it does is take me out of the video. please please please never change that!

Shrimp McBites is HILARIOUS. I remember those, I lived around there, and everyone I knew hated them lmao. That's so wild. I didn't realize it was a "lost media" situation

I used to work for McDonalds. There's probably 3 or 4 products every year that are released in limited test markets and generally have minimal to no advertizing. Those products often never see a full release. For example, the Southern Chicken Biscuit was only available in certain areas for a limited time and had minimal promotion. I even went to a giant corporate event as part of training at one point where I learned about several products in other test markets from throughout the previous year that I'd been completely unaware of. As for the McLobster, that has more to do with the logistics of moving fresh lobster around the nation, so it's only available in areas where that is feasible.

Every time I hear or come across the Caretaker online, I instantly close the tab and try to forget about it. This isn't because the music is bad, but it's quite the opposite. The music just affected me so much that waves of sadness come over me whenever I think about it. The Caretaker accomplished what every artist yearns for.

I love that this is overall a wholesome and charming look at lost media! Lots of people tend to focus on incredibly dark or NSFL type lost media, so it's very refreshing to see about the more lighthearted mysteries (well, the animal crossing one may have a dark connection, but even then it's animal crossing. Lol)

The lost power metal band actually sounds like a really good band that, based on nobody knowing who they were, seems to have, unfortunately, never taken off. Also, three locations in total for a product across the span of a month really IS exclusivity!

There is a similar mystery to the Shrimp McBites packaging to be found in the lost Fish McBites lip syncing app. In 2012-2013 McDonald's advertised an app to promote Fish McBites that gave you a variety of mouths that would sing a song about the product. I remember my brother downloading the app on our iPod and one of the mouths singing about Shrimp McBites. I always thought it was weird because the item was never mentioned in the commercial and I never saw it advertised anywhere else. I live in the South and have never been to any of those McDonald's, but I distinctly remember the Shrimp McBites.

I’m brenden2000 from the Shrimp McBites video. I’m still hoping it can be found one day and haven’t given up fully!

When I first heard the Shrimp McBites mystery in this video my reaction was "pfft how is it possible a product that recent is undocumented? This is fake" and then she showed that McDonald's directly mentioned it. Never underestimate lost content in any form.

I would love to see Osama's save! That would be completely surreal! A innocuous, safe glimpse into the mind of a monster.

I remember seeing my siblings watching Paz in the late 00s, and it's strange to think that things I might have seen back then would just go missing for over a decade. Btw your videos are pretty refreshing compared to other similar channels Kylie. I really like your no bullshit approach to presenting these topics and your music/background video choices. Keep up the good work :)

Mcdonalds is the MVP for responding with such a detailed response about Shrimp Mcbites. That's really cool.

The whole Shrimp McBites thing makes me think about how I was trying to find any information of a promotional ice cream flavor at Baskin-Robbins during the first Shrek movie that I distinctively remember but no one else can seem to, nor does it seem to be in the archived menus: a sort of "Swamp Bugs" ice-cream that was a vanilla ice-cream that was greenish with chocolate pieces in the shape of beetles with green caramel, a sort of Shrek inspired Moose Tracks type ice-cream in a waffle cone I recall eating during a field trip with my fellow peers from Boys and Girls Club in San Diego in the early 2000s. I loved wacky treat ideas, and caramel is my favorite gooey stuff in deserts, and I remember being the only one on the trip that was brave enough to "eat the bugs". I wanted to find a visual of it when discussing Shrek snacks with a friend, and was shocked to find that the ice-cream either wasn't recorded or listed in the promotional materials.

Speaking from my own obscure lost media experience, one that I see almost no talk about is when 4kids sang the national anthem for a second time. Many of you have probably seen the cringey video where actors from 4kids sang the national anthem as their characters like Sonic, Luffy from One Piece, or Bloom from Winx Club. But I remember that they actually did an updated rendition around 2007-08. With characters from Yu-Gi-Oh and Chaotic. I actually saw it on TV before I saw the RU-vid upload. I've always wondered if I'd ever be able to find it again and I even made a post on the lost media subreddit, but it didn't get much attention. Oh well, all I can do is spread the word where I can!

lost my mind seeing the paz show on here, i watched it constantly as a kid and still remember the episodes with the baby birds. i don't think i've ever seen a lost media video mentioning it, even though i've definitely tried to search for it myself. once again i'm thanking you for choosing to cover more obscure topics!

I absolutely love the "Fall of the King" song, I really hope it gets identified one day.

I feel bad for StreetLander, he must had been gaslighted so hard to be this motivated to proving he's not insane.

when i saw the chubby cat from james the cat i literally went "dawww" out loud, such a shame a show that looks so cute and charming is lost

Really obscure piece of lost media that's driven me up a wall these last few years because it seems really easy to find is the lost 2019, Japan exclusive My Little Pony manga released by Phase 6. As far as I know, we know nothing about about it itself as a piece of media (writer, artist, plot, etc), but we know exactly when and where it was published. We know what volume it was collected in, but no one has bothered to find that volume and upload at least one image from it. One that I'm rather passionate about is the, as far as I know, lost Astro Boy video game that came out a few years ago called Edge of Time. It was an online only card game featuring a suite of Tezuka characters with a really unusual artstyle. Some art was gangbusters, some was terrible.

The fallen king goes super hard, I hope it gets found🤘🏼

i'm a bit sad about james the cat. i feel like there's a lot of british tv shows lost to time just because the broadcast range was smaller, less chance that someone would be recording with a VCR or etc. i don't believe i ever saw it but it sounds like exactly the sort of thing i would love as a kid

"It could even be a faint memory of seeing it with your own eyes before it was lost and longing to see it again" damn this hits hard...I remember loving a certain series when I was a toddler...and now I don't even remember anything about it aside from a single character's name and a scene...

I find it so weird that in this era of digital media, things can still be lost. I guess a lot of it boils down to "we have it but can't release it because copyright" or "we erased it because we assumed nobody cared".

That mystery song was a genuine banger honestly

It’s interesting seeing James the cat on here. A couple years ago, in college, I had a buddy named James (like the cat) who had vhs tapes of the show that his family had recorded. My dorm regularly sat down and watched them together (more as a joke than in a serious manner). I don’t know if they were the lost episodes but he sure had a lot of them.

My friends and I used to look for the most obscure metal bands we could find. It's a great genre to dig into; seems like it never ends. 😁

The shrimp mcbites guy said he saw the ad for it and then went inside to order it, so I hopped on Google Maps to try to find a poster on the outside for all three locations, but sadly for all the streets surrounding the Mcdonalds there were absolutely no street view coverage for 2013 in the area.

hi kylie! i acutally just wanted to let you know that youtuber "tuv" was able to get into the bin laden file! he found a way to download it. he found a ton of records of games, but it was mostly just images. he did not mention animal crossing though, I just thought it'd be interesting to add!

I wonder what the creator of Animal Crossing thought about their game being loved by one of the most hated people in history. maybe there's a lost media of a interviewer asking them that question. Cool video. ^_^

There a now lost website/game called Petpetpark which I played hours of when I was little. There was also Spongebob Cartoon creator, another game I played which is lost media. So those are my connections with now-lost media.

its unusual to see a FULL list of lost media that i have never even heard of before, great work in documenting them! if theres any development please keep us posted! specially if its the shrimp

I first got into this channel a little while ago with the tipofmytongue stuff and I loved how actual obscure stuff that I never knew existed was showcased in those. I'm really glad you're still giving us these! Still going strong! Especially since I don't really wanna visit reddit -

James The Cat doesn't even have a wiki? That's a shame

James the cat rings a bell for me as a British millennial that grew up duing the 90s, alongside William's wish Wellingtons and barney the dog that I had VHSs of but which I found on DVD in the 2000s

I have an ancient James the Cat VHS somewhere, I should dig it out.

This channel is so weirdly comforting. There's so much research and attention to detail, I feel like it deserves more attention

When the shrimp mcbites segment came up I thought it was weird at first because I definitely remember trying them or at least hearing about them, only to find out through this video that I don’t live very far from the McDonald’s locations mentioned in the video so that’s probably why I remember them😅

Hey Kylie, I watch a lot of these 'mysteries' channels and you are definetely one of the best. Any day now you will blow up.

never did i think i would be invested in a mystery about lost mcdonalds products but you made it interesting, i hope you gain more subscribers, you deserve it!

Related to the Shrimp McBites: One of my favorite snacks from my early childhood were these baby biscuits made by Alete in collaboration with the Disney Babies franchise. These were sold in Germany in practically any supermarket/grocery/convenience store around the year 2000. I found nothing about these on the internet, not even on the Internet Archive. I could have contacted Alete itself (or other baby/toddler food brands) but I fear they wouldn't know about any former products from them by now anymore or'd be protective of/secretive about their archives. The biscuits themselves were your typical ladyfinger-type biscuits but had either some tiny Disney Babies logo or images along with some having the stylized "Alete" imprinted on them - I don't quite remember. I do know that the package was horizontal and had the stylized "Alete" written in blue with Baby Mickey, Baby Donald, and some other character sitting in front of or even holding some of the ladyfingers next to the aforementioned brand name. It is one of the things from my childhood I remember both fondly and vividly, so the biscuits' existence way back the day is embedded in my brian. Looking for these and finding absolutely nothing is driving me insane. I really wish these is someone else who grew up in circa-2000 Germany having the same or better memories on what I am looking for.

Omg James the Cat looks so cute! I hope we can find all the missing episodes

I don't know what the power metal band is, but the music during the introduction to the piece is definitely from the 1997 Berserk Anime, and later when you read the comments, the music is from Castlevania 😂 Keep up the great work! Your videos are really good, and after inhaling all Nexpo, Whang and Blameitonjorge stuff years ago and they only post anything every couple of months, a new channel with regular lost media and general internet strangeness content is very much appreciated!

You showing the Paz Show unlocked that memory in my brain, I used to watch that often and completely forgot all about it until I saw that puppet

idk if it's just me, but all types of lost media (children's shows, args, creepypasta, etc.) kinda creep me out, especially the ones that haven't been solved. like where did it go, who lost it, and why can't they find it? idk maybe I'm just anxious lol

That mysterious power metal song sounds so good, I hope the artist is found one day, because it sounds like classic US Power Metal!

im so glad you reminded me of paz i felt like that gif of that chef guy from ratatouille remembering his childhood

Knowing Paz is lost media is kinda mind boggling tbh, like they put so much care into making these children focused shows and they just throw them away like that.

James the cat was a crazy nostalgic call back for me. The PBS era of my childhood was so nice. This channel is going to explode soon I have no doubt. Thanks for the good content Kylie

Dude, your channel has quickly become one of my favorite mystery channels alongside wendigoon, nexpo, and barely sociable. Keep it up!

A lost media search that has been personally driving me crazy are the Nickelodeon ads for "The Lost Episode Of Ren and Stimpy" which aired on the network roughly 2 weeks before the ultimate unveiling of the delayed first season episode combo of "Black Hole/Stimpy's Invention". I have been exhaustively documenting and researching every aspect of The Ren and Stimpy Show for over 15 years, and it seems this commercial that I recall seeing at least 10 times during that 2 week interval on the network before Black Hole/Stimpy's Invention aired has vanished into thin air and has never been saved or recorded, or surfaced on RU-vid, apparently. The episode Stimpy's Invention is one of the most important and pivotal moments of the entire series, due to it's massively troubled production that saw it get delayed for months due to John K's antics which involved everything from constant fights with the network about it's content, to running off with the storyboards and re-drawing them while locked in a separate room at the Spumco animation studio at the last minute instead of sending them out, and many fights between his own staff due to his own demanding nature. It was because of all this that the episode got delayed and forced the creation of this commercial in the first place, which makes it's value significant. Obviously in regards to the story of R&S, this episode and it's development is very important, thus it would be great to finally have a visual record of the advert aired on Nickelodeon for the episode's arrival, but no footage or any of the ad has surfaced, something I would very much want to put into a documentary. The ad as it was, started out with the then prominent Nickelodeon commerical narrator saying "Just when you thought it was lost, Nick found it." and then proceeds to build up the episode as if it was some lost treasure that Nickelodeon found and were about to air as a special. They repeatedly refer to it as "The Lost Episode Of Ren and Stimpy" and asserts that "Only Nickelodeon Can Find What You've Been Looking For", leading to several seconds of the ad giving a preview of the "Happy Happy Joy Joy" song that the eventual released episode featured. When setting out to try and include this in a documentary I was writing and wanted to edit, I found this commercial is nowhere on RU-vid or the Internet Archive or any other video site. Putting this ad and early preview of one of the most notable episodes of the entire show for reasons both in front of and behind the scenes into such a documentary would be a really huge get, but this advertisement/episode preview appears to be lost forever. I'm just hoping that SOMEONE who videotaped the network, especially around the time that this would have aired, has recorded evidence of it, but to this day I haven't found any.

I asked my dad, a metalhead who was a teen in the 80s, who he thought the fallen king song was, and he said his instinct says Queensryche but he says he remembers Queensryche being a bit heavier than that.

Just wanna say i found your channel recently and love to see the diversity in weird topics covered, awesome liminal space visuals, and incredible music picks (aphex twin, the caretaker, Boards of Canada!) All coming together in a perfect storm of all my favorite interests. Really scratches the brain itch, keep it up! And of course, thanks! :)

Thank you for exposing Paz to more people. I remember watching that show with Brum right afterwards. (If you don't know who Brum is, you should look into it). I don't remember a whole lot of specific episodes outside of an animated segment of Paz giving a flower bouquet to his mom for mother's day while giving flowers out to his friends until only one was given to his mother. The only puppet bit I remember specifically is where Paz had to button up his pajamas the whole episode and when he did, they were all in the wrong holes. I once again have to thank you for this video and teaching me about how lost one of my cherished childhood tv programs were. I am definitely taking a look at more of your work!

With the shrimp mcbites, i would recommend calling those three locations to see if they have anything. There is a solid chance an employee took a photo of the shrimp, or they still have some of the packaging laying around since it was a very limited item!

When you said obscure, you sure did deliver. Never thought I would have ever, and I mean EVER read the words "Osama Bin Laden Animal Crossing Town" in my entire life. Well done.

The shrimp mcbites mystery is gonna be hard to solve considering how small it was (only sold at 3 locations in 2 cities!)... But it'll be interesting if someone does find something!

There's some sort of poetic irony to the creator of the dementia album forgetting the names of his sample tracks.

"The Fallen King" reminds me a bit of Manowar or Iron Maiden. Such a good song with great pacing, I'm hoping they can find whoever performed it.

Surprised to see that The Paz Show got lost for a while (with some episodes still missing). I used to watch it with my younger siblings. I remember one of the cartoon show episodes was made to teach children about death: Paz and his mom found a nest of baby birds that had been knocked onto the ground by a storm. At the time, I'd been a bit surprised to see this; I wonder if any parents ever complained? I hope not, as I remember the episode being written tastefully.

Maybe the Shrimp McBites, according to the fact that it was mostly for people celebrating Lent, was something that a lot of people KNOW about, but just don't WANT to know about (like it's taboo); which makes sense because like any bad food products, once they've done their deeds, nobody wants to remember how embarrassing it was/is. Take the McDonalds Pizza as an example. Translation: Good in concept, bad in practice. But A+ for effort!

The Shrimp McBites thing is super interesting because that was served in my state and I had never heard of them. I don't even like shrimp but now I want to try them. Maybe they'll bring it back at some point.

There’s this completely lost movie called “You Gotta Walk it Like you Talk it (Or You’ll Lose that Beat) from 1971 that starred Robert Downey Sr. and Richard Pryor. But what’s interesting is the soundtrack, which was made by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen before they really became Steely Dan, is widely available on RU-vid/streaming services. However, nothing else besides 2 stills, some posters, and a short audio clip which was on early releases of the album.

Excellent video! Thanks for letting me know that Shrimp McBites are confirmed to have existed, and I'm going to go look up James The Cat. I just wish r/lostmedia hadn't given me the cold shoulder when I asked bout the missing Stephen Colbert Mr. Goodwrench rubber cows commercial.

Wow, james the cat has me invested. I use to love that show. I use to play in the woods and pretend james the cat and all his friends were there.

Heeeyy, stepping into Lostwave with "The Fallen King"! Such a sick piece of music, my favourite piece of 1980s metal. Thanks for playing it kylie, I hope it gets solved one day!

Oh my gosh; I’d completely forgotten about the Paz show until it appeared in this video! I had no clue any of it was lost media. I did have episodes recorded on my family’s TiVo (always preceding Magic School Bus episodes), but that was an old TiVo that I don’t have anymore… and I’m pretty sure my parents deleted the recordings. That being said, I hope someone finds the lost episodes someday! It makes me sad to think of people’s hard work vanishing.

Kirby not remembering the name is just too ironic lmao

I know this one obscure Finnish children’s show that not even all the kids my age remember. It’s called Viivi ja Leevi. It’s about these siblings called Viivi and leevi. Yle the Finnish version of bbc owns the show and has posted a short commercial and used to have it in their website. It’s gone now but there is this Vhs that I used to watch. I could get the vhs for myself but don’t know how I could transfer it to internet Edit: the show is really really important to me and I will start trying to search and ask the company who own it to release it from their archives. I will tell if I find it

Another obscure piece of lost media, that is technically lost media: Spiderman 3 (2007) Raimi Cut. Venom was supposed to be scarier, and the movie had an original ending where Eddie Brock is reduced to a skeleton, but was changed because test audiences thought it was too scary. So if that version of the movie made it to a test screening, doesn't that mean footage was made? We do have a few images of the set, but that's all.

Great video as usual! Huge fan of these channels and it’s awesome to see someone new in the scene. Also great to get to know more about you through little tidbits in the videos, like your enjoyment of metal. RIP Trevor🤘

What's cool about THIS video in particular is that -- since it consists of a bunch of random (for lack of better words?) loosely connected (only by the fact that they're obscure lost media) segments...it means that, technically, a second video could be made. Right? "Obscure Lost Media You Should Know About (Part 2)". This could actually be a recurring series on this channel. If they're ever undergoing writer's block, they can always fall back on another compilation of short segments about different lost media. Childrens' shows, lostwave music, McDonald's menu items haha. Videos like this are just chock full of substance and appeal.

I bet Osama’s save is probably super cute and innocuous. They might not want to humanize him 😂

Your channel got recommended to me and I’ve gotta say. I’m impressed. For a smaller creator you sure dig deep and are a great narrator! Also digging your choices for background music and imagery! Can’t wait to watch your channel grow :)

Been watching this channel for about 4 months now. And now that I come back to this I realized you should have more subs ‘cause this is criminally underrated.

omg i watched the paz show as a kid! when i was in middle school i used to watch shows made for young kids as a hobby (couldn't tell you why. boohbah and the upside down show were my favorites btw) and the paz show was one of the shows i watched. i remember one time i was home sick from school and there was nothing on tv so i went to the baby channel i watched once in a while and the paz show was on. i thought it was super cute and charming, i'm really glad most of it has been found

Wow, I think I found my favorite lost media channel, without having nightmares after watching them.

just found ur channel and i love explorations into lost media/mysteries like this i appreciate the efforts to not make anything overly creepy like a lot of the other mystery channels do... can't wait for more content!

i’m so glad i got this video in my recommendations, i was looking for some more channels that had quality lost media content and this fits the bill perfectly. i’ll definitely be staying tuned. on a side note i really hope that metal song gets found, i love power metal and that band sounds like they’d be one of my favorites.

The metal song sounds amazing! I hope it is identified soon, so I can listen to more of that band.

The last case of lost media, the shrimp mcbites one, made feel passionate and got me invested in it since the very first minute. It obviously is becasue of the misterious nature of the case, but just the way the story was told and the ambience generated by you, Kylie, made me feel incredibly integrated to the whole case. Thanks for this.

I definitely watched the Paz Show as a kid and am so surprised to see that the puppet parts were lost media. Honestly really liked those parts cause the moms voice was so kind sounding and they both looked super soft

The first one I don't think I've ever heard of, but I still got a lot of nostalgia at the mentjon of Sprout TV, I swear that's where I used to watch stuff like the Bernenstein Bears, memory unlocked for sure lol

This was so fun, and I love the visuals you used throughout the video! It's always fun to see what kind of lost media different creators choose to talk about - everybody has such different interests but the world of lost media is so vast everyone has something to talk about.

Your channel’s coverage of these topics is refreshing! The BMGs you use and your commentary makes it a little more comfier to watch the spooky or weirder topics you cover Hoping for your success this year! Also I recognized the use of Behelit around 11:40 so cheers to that

damn, the day's gets better when I see you upload down the rabbit holes I go

The Paz show! A show I actually remember on a lost media video for once 💀 the shrimp one interests me too, it’s really strange that it was only released in obscure Illinois towns, wtf lmao

i dont usually have any connection to lost media but as soon as i saw paz i realized i watched him all the time when i was little, i wouldn’t have ever guessed that the paz show was lost media

i don't have much experience with personal lost media except for this one flash game that used to be on the old ABCKids website back in 2009-2011. it was a kind of hub called 'The Playground' and it had these little creatures like a fairy, a big fluffy thing and a robot. the main one was called 'Ruby' who i think is a monkey...? or a bear? i'm not sure. she has this little blue outfit and waves a flag. it's archived on the Wayback Machine, but not fully. you need an old browser with flash to get it to work, though some games don't work correctly or at all, and the videos that used to be up on the main page are gone now (they had a section, i think it was called something like ABC TV that had little bumper animations with the characters interacting with the logo or each other). it's something that's pretty nostalgic to me and that i hope i can recover one day. i like hearing stories about other people's personal lost media and i hope they can all get found too!!

11:52 weird vhs 3d with just metal hits different

This video was awesome! It especially made me happy to see James the cat being talked about, as I did see the reruns on sprout as well. I really hope the lost episodes are found soon in the future, because I actually did like watching those episodes!

I really wish I'd had Sprout to see James The Cat. I love kids shows to this day and as a cat lady, this one sounds up my alley. I quite enjoyed the Paz show on the occasions I sawr it and I do remember the particular puppet segment you mention. I liked the puppets better myself as I grew up with Sesame Street and Captain Kangaroo, so they fit that vibe of old fashion kids shows that I love the most.

Man, that metal song is going to bother me, was really hoping that was one of the solved ones so I could look them up. It sounds maddeningly familiar though. It actually sounds a little like an '80's Finnish metal band called Tarot (and I highly recommend them regardless), and it matches their music thematically, but they only put out one album prior to 1987 called Spell of Iron and no songs were called the Fallen King. It could possibly be one of theirs from when they were called Purgatory, but I couldn't find any songs put out under that band name. I might be mistaken, but I could swear I hear some kind of accent in that song that could maybe be Finnish. It sounds more like European metal than American metal to me, but then again I'm also an American who's never been to Europe and is admittedly shit at identifying accents, so take it for what it's worth.

I am glad youtube is starting to recommend smaller channels for me. I only found your channel 2-3 weeks ago and i binged all your episodes that day. I was happy to see i got a new episode today!

This is driving me crazy, I live in Illinois and I vividly remember those shrimp mcbites bc I thought they sounded *awful*. I asked my parents and they don't remember them at all, but we backtracked and figured out we were definitely in Chicago at the time, and all those locations are Chicago based. This is gonna drive me crazy fr

feels like this channel is catered to show me everything i didn’t know i needed. i love it! keep up the great work, and congrats on 20k!!!

Funnily enough, McDonald's still sells fried shrimps here in Germany at least, saw it just yesterday in Mainz. I don't think that they're the ShrimpMcBites though haha 🦐🙅‍♀️

I've never recognized a bit of lost media until Paz. I forgot about him but I remember him SO vividly now... I can't believe it was lost!

About the topic „the fallen king“ : there is another song out there, people call it the most mysterious song on the internet, it’s gotten the name „blind the wind“ I guess. No one knows whose song that is and no one ever found it out yet. Only information known is that it got broadcasted in a northern German radio station. I find this topic so interesting, hopefully more people know about this