The Lake City Quiet Pills Mystery

About

Lake City Quiet Pills refers to an unsolved mystery about the image-hosting site LakeCityQuietPills.com, suspected to have been run by Redditor /u/ReligionOfPeace (a.k.a. Milo). Some have speculated that Lake City Quiet Pills was a front for ex-military contract assassins, and have attempted to draw connections between the site and the assassination of Hamas officer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in late January 2010. Some have also speculated that "quiet pills" is a slang expression referring to "bullets."

Origin

On July 17th, 2009, Redditor 2-6 submitted a post titled "The end of ReligionOfPeace. He died today." to /r/reddit.com,^[1] claiming that the user /u/ReligionOfPeace had passed away at the age of 79.

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Following the post, Redditors discovered a Fark^[2] account for user AngelTwo-Six, which contained the message "Dispensing Lake City Quiet Pills to lousy bastards in need of permanent rest since 1968", which many speculated was created by the same 2-6 Redditor who announced the death of /u/ReligionOfPeace (shown below).

On September 30th, 2009, AngelTwo-Six is rumored to have posted an announcement that he "bricked Milo's IronKey," meaning he destroyed an encrypted flash drive owned by /u/ReligionofPeace. On November 14th, AngelTwo-Six is rumored to have published an announcement that "Milo was loaded" and instructions to "email shade if we sent you out in 2005-2009."

Assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh

In January 2010, AngelTwo-Six posted messages about an event that would be taking place at "the marriot on 46" and instructed that the "phones there are not secure." On January 19th, 2010, Hamas officer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was assassinated in a hotel room in Dubai. On October 27th, 2017, YouTuber Fright Knight uploaded a video titled "Hitmen for Hire on Reddit Lake City Quiet Pills," which discussed conspiracy theories about the site and speculations that Lake City Quiet Pills was involved in the assassination of al-Mabhouh (shown below).

On September 8th, 2019, the Barely Sociable YouTube channel uploaded a video titled "Lake City Quiet Pills Explained – Reddit Mysteries," which discussed the history of the mystery on Reddit (shown below). The following day, the video was featured on Ebaum's World.^[5]

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