r/HighStrangeness

High Strangeness

Founded April 2009 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 27

Explorations of the Paranormal, UFOs, Ancient Cultures, Cryptozoology, Consciousness, Futurism, Fringe Science, Anomalies, Animal Mutilations, and instances of High Strangeness.

Members

1,213,908

1.2M

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

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no sample yet

Comments per post

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no sample yet

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

+0.8%

+9.3K members · ≈24d

Promo tolerance

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not assessed yet

Last post

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no sample yet

Distinct posters

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no sample yet

Tracking since Sep 3 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

What works in r/HighStrangeness

Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.

FormatShare of postsAvg score
Discussion30%5,078
News / link25%1,944
Show & tell16%4,139
Question15%792
Lessons / story14%1,976

Based on 73 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.

Median score
527
Top 10% score
9,013
Text posts
21%
Got no replies
4%
Busiest windows
Tue 02:00 UTC, Tue 18:00 UTC

Posting rules, in plain words

Self-promotion is allowed at a ratio — contribute before you post about yourself.

  • Posts and comments must focus on High Strangeness related subjects.: Content must clearly relate to subjects listed in the sidebar. Posts and comments unrelated to High Strangeness, such as: sociopolitical conspiracies, partisan issues, current events and mundane natural phenomena are not relevant to the sub and may result in moderator action.
  • Titles must accurately and informatively explain the content of the submission.: Posts involving vague, clickbait, ALL CAPS, sensationalized and/or misleading titles will be removed at moderator discretion. Sightings report posts of any kind must include date, time and approximate location.
  • Low effort, spam and fake content is subject to removal. Self promotion may be restricted.: Hoaxes, memes, images, spam and general low effort content may be removed at moderator discretion. Posting for personal gain may be restricted to a twice weekly limit.

Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.

What a good comment looks like here

  • — Skepticism and critical analysis of presented evidence.
  • — Humor and sarcasm, often used to highlight absurdities or common tropes.
  • — Providing additional context, links, or alternative explanations.
  • — Relating specific events to broader societal issues like media manipulation or AI.
  • — Personal anecdotes or relevant experiences that add to the discussion.

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r/HighStrangeness — frequently asked

How many members does r/HighStrangeness have?

r/HighStrangeness has 1,213,908 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 27. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/HighStrangeness growing?

Over the last ≈24 days r/HighStrangeness changed by +0.8% — a gain of 9.3K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".

How active is r/HighStrangeness?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/HighStrangeness yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

When was r/HighStrangeness created?

r/HighStrangeness was founded in April 2009 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Can I promote my product in r/HighStrangeness?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/HighStrangeness yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/HighStrangeness for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/HighStrangeness into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/HighStrangeness's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/HighStrangeness's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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