I'm currently helping build a very small web app for a startup, and I can say with certainty that there are ghosts, demons and hobgoblins infesting the internet and all it's servers.
The thing is that these people, the self-crowned lords of the internet, are too stupid to successfully make it look like the the angry ghosts of long-dead web devs took a disliking to your query... Or too full of themselves to realize the hapless peons know the difference between their supposed alogrithm problems and actual server issues.