Director: Skye Borgman
Cast: Lauryn Licari, Sophie Weber, Macy Johnston, Owen McKenny, Shawn Licari
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish is a 2025 American documentary directed by Skye Borgman, running 94 minutes. It examines a sustained anonymous-texting campaign that terrorized a teenage couple for more than a year, and the investigation that eventually unmasked the sender.
What is Unknown Number The High School Catfish about?
For over twelve months, a high-school couple in the United States received a stream of vicious, anonymous text messages. The abuse was relentless — threatening, demeaning, and seemingly impossible to trace. Borgman's film follows Lauryn Licari, her family, and the circle of people around her as investigators and loved ones attempt to find out who is behind the messages and why. The documentary builds steadily through interviews, reconstructed exchanges, and emotional testimony, pressing hard on questions of trust, social media, and how easily cruelty can hide behind an anonymous screen. The identity of the sender, when it emerges, is more unsettling than most viewers expect.
Cast & crew
Skye Borgman is a documentarian known for true-crime and social-impact subjects. The film centers on Lauryn Licari and her father Shawn Licari, who appear extensively in interviews alongside Sophie Weber, Macy Johnston, and Owen McKenny, all of whom were part of the social world the case unfolded in. None of the participants are professional actors; their unscripted candor drives the film's emotional weight.
Context & significance
True-crime documentaries have built an enormous global following, and Persian-speaking diaspora audiences have been among the most engaged viewers of the format. Cyberbullying and anonymous online harassment are issues that resonate across communities worldwide, including Iranian families raising teenagers in North America. This Netflix documentary is available with a full Persian dub as well as Persian subtitles, making it fully accessible whether you prefer to watch in Farsi or follow along in the original English. For families curious about how digital anonymity intersects with adolescent social life, this film offers a direct, factual case study rather than a fictional dramatization.
Where & how to watch
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish is available on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Subscribe and cancel anytime.