My name is Mark. I am a investigative journalist, podcaster, storyteller, and for the last six years I've been running The Dark Mind Detective, a podcast that I'm proud to say have reached a global reach in the top 1.5%. And this is my first podcast where I'm now going into a new direction. I want to expand my audience to a bigger, broader audience. Now, I'm very appreciative for everything I learned in the last six years, but I did learn some
pretty tough lessons. And I'm here in this episode to kind of share my journey, the good, the bad, the ugly. Hopefully as we move forward, you the listener can learn from my trial and errors, things that I've been through, and hopefully you can avoid them as well because there, there's a couple of things, right? The there's a dark side to social media. I'm here to talk about that as well. There's a lot of benefits. There's a lot of wonderful things about social.
I met some amazing people. Without my platform, without my reach, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to talk to some amazing people. I've talked to forensic doctors about some of the cases I've researched. I researched the some of the scariest, darkest cases in human history. I've researched over 150 serial killers. I've researched over 1000 missing person cases. And I come from an area where thousands of people go missing under very mysterious
circumstances. It's actually the area where I live. It's a highest missing person rates probably across United States and Canada, but definitely across my nation. And, and it's it's three times the national average. So I've been researching strange clusters of missing persons for for a long time, since about 2007. And as we get more deeper into the series, I am going to do a breakdown of these clusters of
cases. I've researched cases in Vancouver, BC, I've been researching cases in Chicago, IL, and I've also been researching cases in Austin, TX, New York State and across Canada and across the United States. I also do a lot of work and research on missing indigenous women. We in a province, there's a place called Highway of Tears and a lot of strange, mysterious
cases of that. And I'm down the road, I will be breaking down those cases, but primarily this new podcast, it's called Dark Realities and it's going to focus on different a few different areas. It's going to go into serial killer cases. I'm going to go abroad across, but I'm going to look at them differently. We're going to look at things from a multifaceted angles.
We're not going to just look at what's already been reported and we're going to look at it from a variety of angles, but I'm not trying to create like a conspiratorial slant. So together, as we break down these cases, we're going to look into what we know from an investigative point of view and rule out the practical aspects of these investigations, especially some of the really baffling missing men cases.
We're going to really breakdown what we know how and then rule those things out before we get into the spookier stuff, right? There are some amazing researchers out there and I'm not, I'm not into the whole calling people out bullshit shit. And there are some people who've done some amazing storytelling and they really break down these cases and they have me over the cold. I feel like I'm at a campfire because they're so good at telling these stories and, and you know, they, they've
convinced me that. And then I feel that sometimes, not all the time, they cherry pick a narrative to try to fit into these, to make the cases spookier than they have to be when they're already are. Pretty terrifying.
And one of the things that I have been doing for the last six years especially is I try my best to work with victims families because at the end of the day, right when something terrible happens to your son, your daughter, your loved one, they go missing in a way that is just horrifying. In almost every case that I've worked with, the families have never been satisfied with the investigation. And lot of times they get pretty handled pretty rough by
investigators. And then there's the media component to it, where the media comes in and suddenly sit down with them and they talk really nice to them. And then they publish something that really didn't have much to do with the conversation. And the families will talk to me and say, Hey, we told them this and we told them that. And they never said that in the, in the article is either very soft boiled down like, or it's a hit piece.
And then they call back to the media person and says, Hey, you got this wrong and that wrong. And he said this and they're like, oh, oh, did we? Oh, that's too bad. Oh, so then there's that, right. And I worked, I, I'm friends with a lot of victims of families and, and they've been treated very rough, not by only, not only by the system, but also by the media and also by the investigators. Like I, you know, I have, I could tell you guys stories that
would really upset you. So I really aim to do things differently here, right? I come from a compassionate place. First, these were real people. They had loved ones, these people, they didn't want to be victims. So then it comes to the other aspect of what's important in my series. And I'm really big believer in what I call dark psychology. And I use dark psychology as a umbrella term because quite frankly, for the last little while, all we hear is
narcissist, narcissist. And of course there's narcissist, but I think that narcissism brush gets painted too broadly. So I instead I say dark psychology. Dark psychology is manipulative, toxic behavior that's used against you or used against a person to facilitate either criminal behavior, abuse, or trauma. Over the last six years, I have worked with so many people that been on the receiving end of it. And quite frankly, I've been on the receiving end of it it as well. I really have.
I want to not only for myself, but hopefully for you, the listener, because I want to give you tools and Shields against this type of behavior. Because in my experience and my research, every victim starts off as being manipulated, get into a relationship. The relationship, of course, is always good at first, but then, you know, something turns around and maybe they're not like abusive, like a like smack you or hit you, but they're, you know, they're distant, they're
cold. And all of a sudden it's a game of hot and cold, pulling levers, pulling strings, parrot and stick. And then over time, the, the behavior and the abuse gets worse and worse and worse. And when people who are predators and there's people that are good at this, like we get into the realm of social engineering, manipulation, even mind control stuff that cults use, right. And I'm a big believer that everything is on a spectrum on the low spectrum.
It's subtle. It's it's you can't quite place it. And then if you call him on it, right, oh, they have something to say. Oh, it's all in your head. I've met a lot of people. I have also a corporate sales background. And before that I did stockbroking. Before that I worked in construction. I've been around all kinds of different behaviors. I also worked in the nightclub world, where I've been exposed to a whole spectrum of behaviors. But universally, these toxic behaviors are a pattern.
Sometimes they're applied overtly, very aggressive, coercive, and sometimes they're very applied to subtly. And there's people that are very skilled at it, very slick. So I mean too. So I want to give you guys tools. This is not a podcast. It's going to be about this fire housing you with morbid and terrible facts and gore and stuff. And trust me, my head is full of it. From the cases I I've witnessed and, and +2, I have some pretty
amazing confidential sources. I have sources that have been in the highest realms of organized crime. I've talked to some people off the record about the darkest stuff, stuff that goes on the dark web, human trafficking, even stuff like red rooms and people. Oh no, red rooms don't exist. Yes, they do. They do. They do.
And I'm going to tell you a quick story about a story that kind of got me on this journey a long time ago and really opened my eyes to this horror that is now more of a prevalent reality that we are facing. Back in 2000, I went to school. I went to school for programming computer skills and, you know, learn all the different graphic design programs and I even took a desktop printing program to learn how to, you know, make stuff like, you know, and it can print shops and posters and
magazines. And and then I took a lot of back end stuff like program back in the day when it was JavaScript and HTML and that kind of thing. Classes at night because I was a real night owl because I came from the club scene and I wanted to change in my life. So I want a new skill. So I decided this whole Internet thing seems to be blowing up. And so I started taking these
courses. So I met this guy, he became a roommate of mine and he was also doing, he was doing more like computers, like science courses and kind of in a different direction. I was doing more front end development. He was more on the back end development, right, servers, that sort of thing. And one day I'm drinking with this guy. I don't know him very well, right? And I lived in this big dupe. Actually, it was a quadplex, so it had 4 units in this one big house.
So it was like big cob. This place was huge. The part that I lived in had three bedrooms. So to help out with, you know, school and stuff, I rented out two of the bedrooms and I lived in one with my girlfriend. You get the ideas, right? So we had two other roommates, so this guy had one. And one day, you know, we're having some beers and stuff, yucking it up. And then he looks at me and goes, hey, I want to show you something, right? And I was like, OK.
And he pulls up his computer, right? We go up to his back when there was nothing, you know, laptops were around, but everyone had desktop. So we go, I go in his room, right? And he fires up the desktop. And then he starts typing around and he goes to some kind of message board. And then he pulls up some folders and on his computer. And he showed me some of the most horrific pictures I have
ever seen. And I don't really want to say what what was on them because, you know, again, I'm putting this on YouTube and Rumble. I don't want to get docs with community guideline strikes as I'm just starting to roll out my stuff. But it was horrifying. It was absolutely horrifying. The pictures was of a young woman and the pictures were looked like they were taken by professional photography. Very clear, very crisp, very
good lighting. And you know, this is before there was no AI, there was no really good graphic design programs. And it was shocking because I've never seen anything like this. And remember, this was back in 2000. I've never seen anything like that. And I, and I honestly, I just felt, I felt nauseous because I've never ever seen anything like, I haven't even heard of anything like this.
And he seemed like the look on his face, he became very animated and his eyes just looked fucking crazy. And I'm just looking at him in a new light. And then he starts showing me all these message boards, you know, where men can gather and do this kind of stuff and countries that have like the most lenient laws and were, you know, and all the tricks of how to do it and get away with it
and this horrible. And I was shocked and I felt sick and I, and it felt like I instantly sobered up and I couldn't talk for about 10 minutes. And then finally I just said to him, I said, dude, you got to move out. You got to move out. Because now I'm thinking this guy's into this stuff here with my girlfriend in this place. And then there's like another, there was another woman living in the other room. I'm like, this guy's a creep. Like this guy's a bonafide
creep. So remember, this was 2000 and the Internet, so people back then already were organizing, facilitating the most darkest horrific crimes predators. So imagine what it is now. And I've done a lot of investigation on this. So my aim for the series is 1 inform you. We'll talk about historic cases. We'll, we'll get into the dark depths of these cases and we're going to use mainstream forensic research before we get into the
spooky stuff. And then we're going to teach you how to avoid becoming a victim, all myself included. We all can be manipulated. We all can be played. There are some good people out there and there's cyber wolves out there. There are people out there that want to do you harm, like the scary people. And then in my last like 6 years, right, I have, I've had this kind of like been on the receiving end of a lot of bad behavior. So again, my platform, this was
I what I was all about. I'm not about controversy. I'm not about trying to get views and likes and all that kind of stuff. My platform that I built on Instagram exploded. I had different platforms before I had a fitness 1. I had mindset and motivation and that kind of thing. And then I did a true crime platform back to mode 2019 and it just went kaboom. I, I, I was getting 1000 followers a week and at its peak
I had about 50,000. But the thing was it, it just that the toxic people I would deal with like this, people that would really make me sick. I did a case about a woman. Her friend reached out to me and this woman was from Australia and she was murdered in front of her son in a very awful domestic violence. If you go on my Spotify and Scroll down, you can find it like a really heartbreaking case. It's just absolutely awful. I'm interviewing her friend. Her friend's talking about her
life. What a great person this was and it brought out the creeps like it really did like I I was just blocking people. They were like just saying the most awful stuff. And when I would get mad, Oh, you're a snowflake. No, I'm not a snowflake. This is someone's mother. This child saw saw her. So there's a dark side brought out some weird things.
So I got tired of it. I got tired of like these weirdos, so I decided to become the dark blind detective where I look at things in a very more forensic, more of a deep dive analytical way. You know, into my credit, I built a great following from that. I've interviewed many like forensic doctors about the cases and stuff because I feel that these cases are not just entertainment. These are tragedies. So I'm kind of creating new ground rules now, right?
Because I have to preserve my health, right? I can't deal with the Karens, the, you know, the people that just want to scold me because, oh, I posted this and I posted that. And to fairness, after my wife died in 2020, I was in kind of deep trauma. So I would kind of make myself available to lots of people.
You know, I'd answer every DM and there's a lot of people that when you come to familiar with you, they just see you're, they just get, it's just too easy for them just to be unpleasant and be kind of shitty. So I'm building myself boundaries more as I move forward and build more of a bigger platform. And one of the things I'm going to really deep dive back into is, is books that have helped me through the year. So one of the books I'm really going to get into is a 48 Laws of Power.
I read this book first in 2000. I went to chapters. I used to read a lot and I still do. But back then I would try to force myself to read a book. A week went into chapters and I saw this book and it really stood out. It was orange and royal blue and it had these gold letterings of 48 laws of power. And the words power horizontally down was unlike any book I've ever read. It was like it combined history. It combined life lessons that provided examples. Yeah. Truly amazing book.
And I used to review, make myself read it every year kind of because these are the tools that people use universal. And I've seen it, I've seen it in every aspect. I've seen it on the construction site, I've seen it in the nightclubs, I've seen it in the boardrooms, I've seen it in the stock broker boiler rooms. These are the tools. They're universal, right? There's a Romans would say nothing new under the sun like these. These rules are really ancient tricks of humanity of how to
have power over people. Book acted as my shield and I'm going to review it again because I need it again because man, I've been through a lot of bullshit six years and I don't want to go through it anymore. And the biggest bullshit I've got was accepting people in my inner circle.
So then they can abuse you and abuse is very subtle and there's there's punch you out abuse or there's a shitty cutting remarks or scolding like people don't know you well, don't have the right to scold you about your their thought process. They don't like I don't understand, like I and I've never done this where someone posts, you know, a story and I used to post news because I wanted to share, you know, breaking news stories doesn't mean I agree.
What happened in the news? News is like, Oh, look what happened today. And then I get the Karens. Oh, why are you talking about this and that? But they never say it like that. First they insult you. They it's always like the first line. It's an insult and you're just supposed to take it, right? But but what I'm saying that happening once or twice, whatever, you're going to meet shitty people. But when you get a constant barrage, they're like pebbles in
your shoe, right? They become quite unpleasant. And then over time, it's like I'm doing all this war people and tragedy and you want a nitpick, right? So no more nitpicks, right? And this is what I mean. But the, the laws of the four, eight laws of power, it becomes your shield to all types of manipulation, even someone, even allowing someone to subtly nitpick you make snide remarks,
make comments about you. It's disrespectful and they're trying to exert a certain level of power over you. And then there's a government. The government is very different now than when I was raised. The government wants you powerless because the more power, the less power you have, the less you can stand up for yourself. So again, to recap this, what this podcast is about the program, the program's about conditioning, mind control, dark psychology. And then how are these
principles? These techniques are used in the most awful circumstances by predators and evil people that truly want to do you harm. And also this podcast is about empowerment, how to have a shield, how to create boundaries, how to have no more room for nitpickers, you know, shit talkers, people that try to undermine you, the people that are pretend that they're your friend, but they're jealous of
you. And, and like I said, I went through a real like crazy roller coaster ride in the last six years of this platform. I came out on the other side tougher, more determined, more focused. But there's times where it really did affect my mental health, where I'm in the deep, darkest weeds of some of the most grotesque, darkest deprived cases that the government essentially covered up or just really softballed it to make. It's being like, oh, too bad serial killers exist.
Nothing we can do about it, where we're just like, what the next target? And then there's going to write like some little softball article. Oh, too bad, Mark shouldn't have been out late that night, right? So there's like this weirdness in our society that I don't like. I really don't like it. I want to be understanding of what is happening to us, right? Why are we always pushed in these little directions and keep pushed and pushed and pushed until it's like you don't
recognize where you are anymore? So I want to bring back mental sovereignty, the ability to critical think. And by doing this, we're going to apply this to some of these really baffling cases. Like I said, missing men cases have have troubled me for a long time because there's a lot of of them and they're very strange. I study cases that are that are very upsetting. They're the missing indigenous women and they are hugely widespread, not talked about.
Awful. Is this to say they make the perfect victims for these predators because they get away with it and they continue to get away with it over and over and over again. And then these missing men cases are even more baffling because they're the complete opposite of a lot of the women cases because these boys are just like normal kids, going to school, hanging out with their friends, going to college. They disappear off the face of
the earth. And some of the cases I've researched, they disappear out of their bedroom. They were last seen going up in their bedroom saying goodnight, mom, see you in the morning. Can you make pancakes for breakfast and never be seen again. I really want to have a real examination of these cases, the clusters throughout North America. And like I said, we're going to use check off the list of all of the, you know, conventional possibilities of these cases.
So I've been thinking a lot about this. Like, for example, there's these strange cases like out in the woods, for example. Again, I live in an area where it's heavily wooded. Lots of people go missing. Sometimes people go missing because an animal right again, or they slip and fall. Some are treacherous path because I grew up in the wilderness and did a lot of camping and I know a lot of people that do search and
rescue. Search and rescue people are usually know their area very well and they know the spots were that are problematic and troubling. And The thing is, the difference between when you're out in the wilderness, you have a backpack, you have, you know, a lot of times you're wearing hiking boots, so you're heavy. So it makes clear footprints when you're walking on a trail.
So if someone attacks you, let's say, let's say you know, some crazy person living out in the woods, there's going to you're going to see the scruff marks, you're going to see the the event happening. Animals, It's messy. It's bloody. A Big Bear. Oh yeah, you're going to know that. And not at times in these areas. There's one way in and one way out. So we're going to rule those things out first before we get to the spooky stuff, right? And there's some strange stuff out there.
There really is. I truly believe life is stranger than fiction. Then on the other side of it, someone goes missing in the urban area, which to me is a little more frightening because it's like this, right? Say you're a woman, good looking woman who keeps in really good shape and you know you're wearing your athletic year and you jog the same path every day. Every day at that same time, 3
o'clock. You go to a park or on a running trail, you have your headphones in, you get to your car, maybe do a little stretching before you get in. You don't notice there's a dude in a van who's been watching you the last three days. Or let's say you are an attractive young man, right? And you work that, say at a coffee barista. Every day at 10:00, you know
you're doing your closing shift. You throw your the garbage away in the dark back alley knowing there's some creeper stalker who's been waiting for you, who's been watching you for the last 5-6 months. And you only know that, right? Because I'm saying there are some creeps out there. I've experienced creeps. And in this podcast we're going to, I'm going to share a lot of my own personal experiences. So hopefully you can learn from the things that I've been
through. So again, welcome to the program where we shed light on the darkest realities. I want to thank you for listening for the first one. Please join me on Spotify and iTunes where I can talk about these cases a little bit more detail because again, this specific talk that I'm doing in this one is going to be for YouTube and Rumble. And I don't want to get off on the bat. So this censorship it's it's hard to understand what you can say or can say.
And I don't really want to talk like a a toddler and say Pew Pew and I'm alive. I want to talk to you guys like you're adults, right? So thank you so much for tuning in. We're going to come back here. Hopefully you'll come back and join me again tomorrow because I'm going to be doing this five days a week. Each conversation is going to be between half an hour to an hour each day. And we're going to keep building on to these cases as as we go farther and farther and deeper
into these darker cases. So again, my name is Mark. I am an investigative journalist, storyteller, deep dive researcher of serial killers, predators and dark psychology.