Top 20 Creepiest Catfish Episodes

Top 20 Creepiest Catfish Episodes

Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the Top 20 Creepiest Catfish Episodes.

For this list, we’ll be looking at the most awkward and/or disturbing episodes of MTV’s “Catfish”.

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#20: “Angel & Remy”

Sometimes it’s not necessarily the story itself that’s shocking, but the caught catfish’s response. In this episode, Angel, an 18-year-old single new mother, met Remy on a dating app. It was love on her end, as the two spoke every day and Remy told her he’d gladly step in as a father figure for her child. However, as the show goes, there were a number of red flags. Eventually, Remy was tracked down and met with Nev, Elle, and Angel. He refused to give his real name, was cold and remorseless, said it was “a joke” to him and that he didn’t feel the need to apologize. The worst part was probably when he said “who wouldn’t want to be on TV?”

#19: “Craig & Zoe”

Craig was speaking to “Zoe” every day for a year and claimed she was basically his emotional crutch throughout a series of hardships. He had met her through his sister Mariah, who was also online friends with Zoe, as were a number of her friends. Things went south, however, when Craig tried to meet Zoe 4 times, and she was a no-show. On the friends side, Zoe used explicit photos and spread rumors to Mariah’s friends to turn them against each other. When confronted, she was very cold, had an attitude, and claimed she really didn’t care. She did it as retaliation for her being tormented in school, albeit not by any of the people she was currently tormenting - all strangers to her.

#18: “Jesus & Alexis”

Jesus is a complete sweetheart, which makes this one all the more heartbreaking. He was talking to Alexis online for a year, and got really attached to her emotionally. It really makes you root for him, and it’s really upsetting when it is discovered that Alexis is one of multiple profiles all belonging to the same woman. The creepy part is that the woman behind Alexis used photos of her own daughter and cousin to create the profiles, even going as far as using her cousin’s children’s photos. When confronted, she’s extremely defensive and disrespectful, constantly bringing up that she’s been through a lot, as though that excuses the ruse. Despite accepting to speak briefly with Jesus, she has a blank expression the entire time.

#17: “Lucas & Many”

When Jayme wrote in to the show, she didn’t realize she was unraveling a massive catfish scheme. A former model, dancer, and mother of two, she found Lucas online and felt accepted and emotionally understood. However, “Lucas” ended up having catfished over 400 women. When confronted, he was completely nonchalant, casual, and unapologetic. He referred to all his victims as “an experiment.” Upon meeting Nev, Max, and three of his victims, he was found to be recording their conversation. Nev got a hold of his phone and found his list of women, their descriptions, and the status of the respective relationships. As the group left for the day, he said “miss you all,” prompting Nev to give him an earful. What a creep.

#16: “Paul & Caitea”

Paul met Caitea on Xbox, 10 years ago. He was now in a happy long-term relationship with girlfriend Sam, yet he still dwelled on the 2 years he’d spent in love with Caitea a decade ago. His present girlfriend contacted the show so that Paul could get some closure on the situation, as Caitea was his first love. After some sleuthing, Nev and Kamie found out that Paul had been talking to the girl in the photo’s mother, Martha. Martha was aware she was talking to a teenager back then, and used her daughter’s photos in the process, even admitting to sneaking explicit photos off her daughter’s phone to send to Paul. We’re not sure this is the kind of closure Paul was seeking.

#15: “Brendan & Mckenna”

Brendan met Mckenna on a texting app and proceeded to have regular chats via text with her for a few months. He had just been through an awful breakup, which resulted in a severe bout of depression. A now-familiar story: his online crush was there for him emotionally. However, red flags, of course, she never spoke to him or video chatted. It turned out, Mckenna was actually Kharece, a girl who had been madly in love with Brendan since high school and pursuing him since then as well. She would drive by his house, and all that fun stalker stuff. Brendan was aware of her pursuit and wasn’t interested. After all was revealed, Kharece was clearly still infatuated, and Brendan now even more disinterested.

#14: “Ari & Lanum”

Ari was an emergency responder in her early 20s who met Lanum on a dating site. She fell hard and found an emotional crutch in chatting with him. He even asked for her ring size. With a little digging, Nev and Max found out he’d been catfishing multiple women, and gathering explicit photos. When they finally met with “Lanum,” he ended up being Marcus, a man in his forties. He claimed his reason for coming clean was because he wanted to know if it could work out between him and Ari, even presenting her with an engagement ring, which she promptly refused. Max was disgusted, calling Marcus a [“mid-40-something-year-old man who's sad, sitting home in his crusty boxers.”]

#13: “Keyonnah & Bow Wow”

This one is… something. Keyonnah, a huge Bow Wow fan, sent a message to the rapper on what she thought was his Facebook page. When she got a response, she was beyond excited and began communicating with him. She did doubt it was him at one point, but after he sent her over $10,000, she felt reassured. “Catfish” sleuthing revealed that the person Keyonnah was really talking to was a woman, Dee. The creepy part? Dee admitted to setting up the page to attract women, claiming she could “convert” straight women. When questioned a little further, she admitted to Max that she’s gone as far as fooling women with prosthetic genitalia. She had borrowed money from everyone she knew to send and appear rich.

#12: “Spencer & Katy”

We’re not sure if the creepy part in this one was the catfish or the victim. Spencer was convinced he had been in a relationship with Katy Perry online for six years. He even had an expensive ring made in order to propose when he finally did meet her in person. After Nev and Max joined him, they discovered that “Katy” was in fact Harriet, a girl living in Gloucester, England, with a sexual preference for women. They traveled across the pond with Spencer in tow, only to have him still not believe it wasn’t Perry. He was sure he was being punked. He claimed Perry had sent him clues in her songs, and that she had set him up to believe it wasn’t her.

#11: “Antwane & Tony”

This one is infamous in the “Catfish” canon. Antwane had been chatting online and on the phone with Tony for three years. His cousin, Carmen, had written in to the show to find out if Antwane was being catfished. After a few dead ends in their search, Nev and Max were at an impasse. This is when Carmen confessed to being Tony, in a classic case of taking revenge a little too far. When Antwane asked her why she did it, she responded with the now-classic line: [“you shouldn’t have called me a fat Kelly Price!”] In another classic moment, Carmen was asked which voice was used on the phone calls, and answered in a low, surprisingly accurate, and creepy masculine tone: “the Tony voice.”

#10: "Danny & Rosa"

There were red flags in this online courtship from the get-go. Florida boy Danny had fallen in love with Rosa, a beautiful if troubled young woman. Unfortunately, Rosa was always coming up with bizarre excuses for why she couldn’t meet in person; the worst being that she was arrested for beating up another girl. Nev and Max’s arrival only served to make things worse, but even they couldn’t have predicted what was about to happen. They took Danny to confront Rosa in person, but were shocked to discover that Rosa was actually a man by the name of Jose. In the words of Nev, it turns out Jose was putting on an “impressively creepy” fake voice the entire time.

#9: "Falesha & Jacqueline"

Falesha’s life was upended when someone stole her name, photos and created a fake profile; and what Nev and Max found during their investigation was freaky with a capital F. It turns out that the person behind the mask was a girl by the name of Tracey. Not only was Tracey unaffected by the confrontation, but she openly boasted that she was proud of her actions. This internet Jekyll and Hyde was living as Tracey during the day and posing as Jacqueline by night. When Max asks her if she ever worries about one of her online victims taking their own lives, she flippantly responds by saying it would be their fault, not hers. The worst catfish are the ones who have zero remorse for their actions.

#8: "Lucille & Kidd Cole"

The internet is littered with creeps like Kidd Cole, aka Jerez Coleman, who are trying to make a quick buck any way they can. In season three of “Catfish,” Coleman’s scams were brought to light with the help of Nev and Max. The con artist had been posing as a successful rapper in order to fleece unsuspecting victims of their hard-earned money. Well, Lucille had had enough and decided to fight back. Unfortunately for her, the confrontation with her aggressor didn’t exactly go as planned and ended with Nev tossing Kidd Cole’s phone into a river. Seeing as how Coleman was later arrested for making serious and violent threats, it would appear he failed to learn his lesson.

#7: "John & Kelsey"

Prepare to have your rage meter turned up to 11. John contacted the “Catfish” team when he began to suspect that his internet crush Kelsey wasn’t who she said she was. When the team finally tracked Kelsey down, they were outraged to discover that Kelsey was actually Adam, a serial catfisher who bragged about his numerous online trickeries. In fact, Adam claimed to have duped 30-40 people! The cringiest moment comes when John asks Adam what he thought of an intimate pic he sent. However, the creepiest moment comes when John asks Adam what his endgame is, to which he replies, “just to have fun with you”. Yikes.

#6: “Mike & Caroline”

When someone you meet online refuses to meet up in person and instead chooses to leave super-creepy notes on your car, you know you have a problem. Such was the case for Mike, who thought he’d met the love of his life in Caroline only to discover that she was an entirely different person. The creepiness didn’t stop with drive-by notes either. Mike claims that “Caroline” would take pictures of the outside of his work and send them to him and that she told him she had colon cancer. In the end, “Caroline” turned out to be a woman by the name of Heather, who was not only cancer-free, but had actually catfished Mike before! If that were us, we’d be on the next bus out of town!

#5: “Rod & Ebony”

These two potential lovebirds met on an online dating site for gay men. Rod was looking for love while Ebony, a transgender woman, was simply looking for a friend. The two wound up chatting and eventually professed their love for one another. However, trouble was brewing beneath the surface of this seemingly perfect online connection. It turns out that Ebony was not transgender or transitioning at all, and was in fact a biological lesbian woman. Rod was shocked and ultimately confessed, saying he “was just using Ebony because she was sending me money, and I don’t really have feelings for her.” Damn, that’s harsh. The two have since mended their relationship, but at this point they’re just friends.

#4: “Blaire & Markie”

This relationship was steeped in drama from the get-go. Blaire met Markie on Instagram and the two quickly hit it off. However, when Blaire asked to meet up, Markie concocted an elaborate tale involving a kidnapping and a stint in the hospital. Things only got stranger when Nev and Max were finally able to get the two women together for a sit down. The mystery girl was surprisingly upbeat about the meeting, but still couldn’t stop herself from spinning a web of lies when she was asked to explain herself. We don’t know what the creepiest part about this episode was: Markie’s lies, or her overall aloofness to the entire situation.

#3: “Kayla & Courtney”

If a stranger contacts you claiming to be a medium for your dead father’s spirit, maybe call the cops and not the producers of a reality show. Kayla, whose dad killed her mother before taking his own life, went with the latter; with predictably creepy results. Unlike most episodes of “Catfish”, Courtney never pretends to be someone else; she simply claims to be acting on behalf of Kayla’s deceased father. It’s all incredibly spooky, with the eeriest moment occurring when the two finally meet in person. With Nev and Max looking on, the two women share an awkward embrace, with Courtney remarking that Kayla has her father’s eyes. While the “Catfish” boys appear skeptical, Kayla seems willing to accept Courtney’s story, which just makes it creepier.

#2: “Tracie & Sammie”

This “Catfish” episode still sends shivers down our spines. Tracie, an actress living in Los Angeles, was contacted by Sammie, one of her fans. She told Tracie all about her friend Reese, who was dying from cancer. She later claimed that Reese had passed away and even provided Tracie with footage of her funeral. Sammie turns out to be 100% real, which does little to calm our nerves. During their tense confrontation, Tracie asks Sammie about that creepy funeral footage, only to discover that it was from Sammie’s cousin’s funeral. Uh yeah, it doesn’t get much weirder than that.

#1: “Artis & Jess”

Everything about this “Catfish” encounter was creepy as hell. Artis met Jess online and the two immediately hit it off despite both being in relationships at the time. Artis was willing to leave the mother of his three children to be with Jess, but things uh, didn’t exactly work out the way he had hoped. Nev and Max arranged for the two to meet, but Artis was flabbergasted when a scruffy dude named Justin showed up instead. The encounter was something out of a David Lynch film, with Justin emerging from his car slow clapping and dripping in attitude. He immediately launches into an aggressive tirade that culminates with the now-infamous, [“you could still be my chocolate kiss”] comment. Sweet dreams!