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Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (2025)

Documentary | 94 minutes
3,26 122 votes

Genre: Documentary / Crime

Duration: 94 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Skye Borgman

IMDb score: 6,7 (19.607)

Releasedate: 28 August 2025

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Unknown Number: The High School Catfish plot

A teenage girl and her boyfriend are viciously bullied online for months by an unknown phone number. Who is this perpetrator, and why does he constantly send them vulgar, provocative messages? As the investigation into the bullying continues, authorities uncover a shocking secret that turns everything they thought they knew about the case upside down.

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mrkos

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Unkown Number: The High School Catfish

In Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, a teenage girl and her boyfriend are harassed for months with hundreds of anonymous, hateful messages.

Bizarre, truly bizarre. I'd never heard of this case before, and the documentary immediately draws you into the story. It remains fascinating to watch how everything unfolds, while I constantly wonder who's behind those messages. And then comes the denouement: her own mother. Unbelievable, I seriously didn't see that coming.

The amount of hateful messages she sent her daughter, even encouraging suicide, is staggering. She even gets the chance to tell her "sad story," but honestly, who cares? What she did to her daughter, her ex-husband, her daughter's ex-boyfriend, her parents, and that other girl is simply inexcusable. That woman really needs help.

What perhaps surprises me most is that the girl still wants contact with her mother. On the other hand, we know her mother is adept at manipulation, so that undoubtedly played a role. And she's still your mother, right?


All in all, an intense documentary that I will not soon forget, with a denouement that came completely unexpectedly to me.

4 stars.

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rep_robert

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Why the heck is this called the High School Catfish? A catfish is someone who assumes a fake online identity and fools people. This has nothing to do with catfishing because it's all done anonymously and not with a fake profile. It's pretty stupid that the creators don't even know this and no one alerted them to it during the whole process.

Otherwise, a decently shocking documentary. Perhaps a bit too long-winded, but it builds to a satisfyingly wtf ending with a perpetrator you didn't see coming.

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lang pee

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A shocking documentary, with an ending I didn't see coming. Social media can be a good thing, but it can be a great danger in many ways.

It's just gotten a lot harder to raise children and make them somewhat happy.

And what horrible creatures people can be...and it's only getting worse...

There is something important incriminating about the perpetrator that was left out of the documentary, which can be found everywhere online...

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