40 Fun Facts About Colby Brock

Colby Brock befriended Sam Golbach as a shy teenager at a summer camp for which student activity?

Marching band camp is where the two bonded, after finding out they both had a crush on the same drum major. Each was too shy to speak to her, so they agreed to push each other toward confidence.

Which piece of furniture did a teenage Colby Brock put on a mall escalator, earning a permanent ban?

A couch on the escalator got him and Sam Golbach permanently banned from Oak Park Mall. Their earliest clips were built on public mischief, including a bath in a city fountain.

Colby Brock first found fame posting comedy clips on which app, whose closure pushed him to YouTube?

Vine had made him and Sam Golbach stars with more than a million followers, so its closure forced a restart. The pair have said they never wanted to be YouTubers and only moved because their old home was deleted.

What kind of reputedly haunted building in Farrar, Iowa, did Colby Brock buy with Sam Golbach?

An elementary school, once abandoned and studied by paranormal teams for over 15 years, is now theirs. They plan to restore it and eventually let fans run their own investigations there.

In which state did Colby Brock investigate the prison where The Shawshank Redemption was filmed?

Ohio is where the Ohio State Reformatory stands, in the city of Mansfield. The story is set in Maine, but most of the film's scenes were shot inside the reformatory, which had closed in 1990.

Which cinema chain sold out a 2023 preview of a Colby Brock YouTube episode across 168 US theaters?

Cinemark screened the first episode of A Week at the Conjuring House two days before it reached YouTube. The sell-out served as a proof of concept, and a full-length film followed in the chain's theaters a year later.

Which streaming giant picked up Colby Brock's ghost hunts for a worldwide release in October 2026?

Netflix picked up a batch of the duo's episodes as part of a wider push to sign YouTube's biggest creators. Rhett & Link's Good Mythical Morning had joined the service only weeks earlier.

Which YouTuber shut Colby Brock and 49 other creators in a glass cube to compete for $1,000,000?

MrBeast called it his biggest video ever, and it drew more than 70 million views in its first 24 hours. Each contestant wore a shirt printed with a subscriber count; Brock's showed the duo's shared 12 million.

Colby Brock discussed haunted places as a guest on episode 1922 of which interview podcast?

The Joe Rogan Experience welcomed the duo in January 2023 for a conversation about haunted and abandoned places. One clip from the episode covers their first unexplained encounter, aboard the ocean liner Queen Mary.

What do Colby Brock and Sam Golbach call their annual October run of their scariest investigations?

Hell Week is the duo's Halloween tradition, and its 2022 edition packed seven documentaries into a fortnight. Brock and Golbach billed that run as their biggest event of the year.

Colby Brock and Sam Golbach grew up as childhood friends in the suburbs of which Midwestern state?

Kansas is home turf: both grew up in Overland Park and headed west together at 18, soon after graduating. All four parents backed the move, Golbach's father told a local reporter.

To which city did Colby Brock move at 18, hoping to turn short online clips into a showbiz career?

Los Angeles became home straight after graduation, and the pair said the biggest change was the traffic. In their first two weeks there they were already collaborating with other online creators.

Colby Brock shot a series at Colorado's Stanley Hotel, which inspired which Stephen King novel?

The Shining grew out of the hotel, which became the model for the story's Overlook Hotel. The Stanley was built by a steam-car inventor who had come to the Rockies to recover from tuberculosis.

Colby Brock has investigated the Queen Mary, a retired ocean liner moored in which California city?

Long Beach bought the liner after Cunard retired it in 1967 and moored it for good as a hotel and museum. The ship had spent three decades crossing the North Atlantic.

Colby Brock spent seven days at the farmhouse that inspired The Conjuring, found in which US state?

Rhode Island is home to the Harrisville farmhouse that Ed and Lorraine Warren declared haunted while the Perron family lived there. Brock had bailed out of a first visit in 2021 before going back for the full stay.

Colby Brock and Sam Golbach beat David Dobrik to a fan-voted YouTuber prize at which 2019 ceremony?

Teen Choice Awards voters named them Choice YouTuber, their first win at a show that hands its winners a custom-made surfboard. The Merrell Twins and Kian and JC were among the other nominees.

Which lifestyle brand did Colby Brock build with Sam Golbach?

XPLR is a vowel-light spelling of explore, a nod to the abandoned buildings the pair started exploring as teenagers with nothing else to do.

Which app premiered Stranded, a 2019 docuseries that followed Colby Brock to a ghost town?

Snapchat commissioned the show from Bunim/Murray, the reality producers behind The Real World. It premiered that October, days after the duo's London investigation reached YouTube.

Colby Brock's series The Castle investigated Neidpath Castle, an old tower house in which country?

Scotland followed London on the same trip, and the series was filmed over four days. Neidpath stands above the River Tweed near Peebles and doubles as a film location and wedding venue.

Which Hollywood landmark hosted the premiere of Colby Brock's film The Legends of the Paranormal?

TCL Chinese Theatre, known for the celebrity hand and footprints in its forecourt, gave the film a splashy launch. The 97-minute feature then played only in cinemas rather than going to YouTube.

Which mall chain sold a limited run of Colby Brock's merchandise in 2019?

Hot Topic stocked the limited-run collection online in the same year the duo won their first major awards. The chain opened its first store in a California mall in 1989.

Meta Life, a subscription platform Colby Brock co-founded, offered fans lessons in which area?

Emotional health was the focus, with courses on confidence, stress and asking for help. Part of every subscription went to Love Is Louder, a project of the suicide prevention charity The Jed Foundation.

Colby Brock's novel Paradise Island was inspired by a real vacation on which Hawaiian island?

Kauai, the Garden Isle, was where the duo holidayed with childhood friends before turning the trip into fiction. In the book a detour along the Na Pali Coast strands them overnight at a widow's eerie estate.

Colby Brock's film The Legends of the Paranormal was shot at Mount Wilson Ranch in which state?

Nevada's Mount Wilson Ranch sent the duo after what Brock called something completely different: cryptids and aliens as well as ghosts. Fan demand pushed the release from 260 screens to 350 and from three days to a full week.

Which London hotel did Colby Brock investigate for The Graveyard, his first series filmed overseas?

The Langham, billed in the series as London's most haunted hotel, shared the four episodes with an abandoned church graveyard. Brock called it the duo's biggest-budget production up to that point.

Colby Brock investigated the National Homestead, a former orphanage in which Civil War town?

Gettysburg gained the orphanage in 1866, three years after the battle. It turned notorious under a later headmistress, Rosa Carmichael, who built a dungeon to punish the children in her care.

Which Canadian star of TikTok character skits has joined Colby Brock on several ghost hunts?

Kallmekris, the screen name of Kris Collins, has made several ghost-hunting videos with the duo alongside her friend Celina Myers. She went on to direct her own found-footage horror film, House on Eden.

Which gadget in Colby Brock's ghost-hunting kit scans radio stations so that the dead might speak?

Spirit box is the name for a radio that hops across AM and FM frequencies, so that any words breaking through can be taken as replies. Brock's team also carries an EMF detector and a REM pod.

Which weapon killed eight people in 1912 at the Villisca, Iowa, house Colby Brock investigated?

An axe belonging to the father of the house was used on all eight victims, six of them children. A travelling minister tried for the killings was acquitted in 1917.

Which beings of Navajo tradition did Colby Brock say his 2024 film went looking for?

Skinwalkers shared the film's wish list with cryptids, aliens and ghosts. In Navajo belief the term describes a harmful witch able to take the form of an animal.

Stranded took Colby Brock to which near-ghost town, emptied by a mine fire burning since 1962?

Centralia, in Pennsylvania's coal country, had about 1,000 residents in 1980 and only five by 2020. The semi-scripted show starts out as fun there before things take a terrifying turn.

Which online-video ceremony gave Colby Brock and Sam Golbach its 2019 prize for Action or Sci-Fi?

Streamy Awards night that December brought the duo's third national prize in six months. A second Streamy followed in 2023, when the channel won the Unscripted Series category.

Which mystery game brand cast Colby Brock in its 2025 release The Haunting of Wicker Ridge?

Hunt A Killer sent players into a haunted estate beside the duo, with props such as a planchette and video footage of the pair. Solving the puzzles lets the team banish the demon.

Colby Brock's Hollywood escape room was inspired by his visit to Beechworth Asylum in which country?

Australia's Beechworth Asylum, in the state of Victoria, closed in 1995 after 128 years. The room, Asylum—Room 152, casts guests as new patients, and at launch only about 30% of groups got out.

Colby Brock has investigated the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, a former hospital in which state?

West Virginia opened the asylum in the town of Weston in 1864 and kept patients there until 1994. It reopened in 2008 as a tourist attraction and a regular stop for ghost-hunting shows.

Which true crime podcast hosted Colby Brock in 2025 for an episode staged as a séance?

Morbid is hosted by a former autopsy technician, Alaina Urquhart, and her niece Ash Kelley. The duo first appeared in 2022 to swap true hauntings, then returned three years later to dial the dead.

Colby Brock's solo drop Genesis, built around a rotating skull, was his first set of what?

NFT artworks set to a track by Connor Mason made up the drop, sold for 24 hours with the music label Heard Well. The top tier was auctioned with a signed replica and a 15-minute call with Brock.

Colby Brock and Sam Golbach both graduated from which high school before heading west?

Blue Valley was the first high school its district built, and its teams compete as the Tigers. The pair left for the coast soon after collecting their diplomas.

Colby Brock said his series The Graveyard was shot in the style of which long-running TV show?

Ghost Hunters followed the TAPS team, founded by two plumbers who investigated hauntings after work. Golbach said the series tried asking any presence to pass energy through an instrument on cue.

Which Challenge Accepted host guest-starred in Colby Brock's run of documentaries in October 2022?

Michelle Khare, a former professional cyclist and stunt performer, joined the guest list for the two-week event. Its opening film was shot overnight in the abandoned Yorktown Memorial Hospital.