Laura Holliday is a freelance journalist, researcher, and internet detective based in the East Midlands, UK. Her work primarily explores the online world — especially where this intersects with the strange and esoteric — including internet mysteries and lost media, online aesthetics, and digital true crime. Her reporting has appeared in Wired, Dazed, Vice and The Daily Dot, as well as various indie mags both digitally and in print. 

Her research and scriptwriting has appeared on YouTube — including investigating dark online rabbit holes for Nexpo (3.81 million subscribers), analysing internet trends for Izzzyzzz (1.13 mil subs), and covering disasters and failed expeditions for Scary Interesting (1.96M subs.) She has also been interviewed on the podcast Something Offbeat about lostwave — unidentified songs that haunt the internet. 

Outside of writing and investigating, Laura's fave things include: classic Tomb Raider, iced coffee, road trips, puzzle box TV shows (especially Severance and Lost), film photography, pretentious indie bands, and hanging out with her cat. If she could describe herself in one word, it would be: UNLOCK.