Bizarre Things That Happen on Dark Web
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The Dark Web can be considered “dark” for a variety of reasons.
It is dark in the sense that it is largely hidden from public view.
It is made up of encrypted networks that can only be accessed with special browsers such
as Tor.
This encryption allows users to have an anonymity that keeps their identities mostly but not
completely in the dark.
And then there is its dark content.
While the Dark Web contains harmless and helpful websites, it is better known as a black market
for illegal items and a breeding ground for other criminal and inhumane activities.
We will present five strange stories from this part of the Internet in today's episode
of The Infographics Show, “Most Bizarre Dark Web Stories.”
5.
Red Rooms The existence of “red rooms” is the most
popular myth about the Dark Web according to journalist Eileen Ormsby.
A red room is a website that offers “pay per view” live streaming of someone being
tortured and/or killed.
Red rooms can be interactive too.
Paying viewers have the opportunity to “type in torture commands in a chat box.”
Red rooms are generally thought to be an urban legend due to a lack of solid evidence that
they exist.
According to a Washington Post article, there is not much more proof of their existence
other than people on Reddit, 4Chan, and Hidden Wiki “trading second- and third- and fourth-hand
accounts of red rooms opened and closed.”
In addition, the article points out that red rooms and “such operations have never been
busted in the FBI's increasingly frequent Dark Web raids.”
What also makes people doubt the existence of red rooms are the fake ones that have popped
up over the years such as one that created a stir amongst 4Chan and Reddit users in 2015.
According to a Motherboard article, the site's owner humorously promised “there would be
bacon,” but the live torture turned out to nothing more than footage of a man being
forced to eat bacon.
4.
The Human Experiment A bizarre Dark Web website that seems like
an urban legend is called The Human Experiment.
The website presents the chilling story of what these experiments involve.
Test subjects, who are “usually homeless people that are unregistered citizens,”
are taken to one of four warehouses where doctors and medical students perform brutal
and unethical experiments such as vivisection, sterilization, and drug trials.
There are even tests for “neonate and infant tolerances to x-rays, heat, and pressure.”
The test subjects usually don't live very long, and the website goes into gruesome detail
about what happens to them after they die from the experiments: “The bodies of the
dead are dissected and then disposed of in dumpsters of meat shops where their bodies
will not be found.”
The Thought Catalog cautions that “we may never know whether ‘The Human Experiment'
is real or just an elaborate hoax.”
3.
Cannibal Victim “Ad” In 2018, a 21-year-old Texas man named Alexander
Nathan Barter went on the Dark Web on a horrifying mission.
His plan was to find a young girl he could rape, kill, and eat.
According to a Daily Mail article, he allegedly wrote a Dark Web posting for “anyone willing
to let him eat a young girl and then have sex with the corpse.”
Instead of finding a victim, however, he caught the attention of an undercover agent.
The agent pretended to be a parent willing to offer up his daughter to him.
Barter and the agent set up a meeting by email.
Authorities were able to “trace the dark web posting to Barter by subpoenaing subscriber
information and IP logs,” so they were able to arrest him outside of his home on the day
of the meeting.
He was found with “a plastic trash bag and a knife.”
Barter was jailed and charged with several felonies, including “criminal solicitation,
attempted capital murder, conspiracy to commit capital murder, and attempted sexual performance
of a child.”
2.
Church Man Hires Hitman on Dark Web A 44-year-old Minnesota man named Stephen
Allwine wanted his wife, Amy, dead.
In February 2016, he attempted to hire someone to kill her on the Dark Web, choosing Besa
Mafia for the job.
Months passed, and Amy was still alive.
According to Fox 9, the FBI eventually informed Stephen and Amy Allwine that “agents had
shut down a phony murder-for-hire operation on the so-called Dark Net called Besa Mafia.”
They also learned that “someone with the name ‘DogDayGod' had transferred $12,000
in untraceable Bitcoin in an attempt to hire a hitman” to kill Amy, although some sources
say the amount was $6,000.
Despite this setback, Allwine would not give up.
He came up with another plan to kill her.
This time he would do it himself.
A Washington Post article reports that he “got a permit for a 9mm Springfield XDS
handgun” in August 2016.
This did not raise any suspicion because local law enforcement suggested they get “increased
security.”
It would be the same gun found near Amy's body on November 13, 2016.
She died in her bedroom with a single gunshot wound to her head in what initially appeared
to be a suicide.
However, a growing body of evidence pointed to Stephen Allwine as her murderer.
According to the Washington Post, there was physical evidence.
For instance, there was no gunpowder and blood found on Amy's hands, but “gunshot residue
was found on Stephen's right hand.”
Another important piece of evidence from Amy Allwine's autopsy was the discovery of a
“large amount of scopolamine, a nausea treatment that can incapacitate someone who takes high
doses.”
She “had no prescription for the drug.”
Digital evidence linking Allwine to his wife's murder also emerged.
Fox 9 reported that “computer forensic expert, Mark Lanterman, discovered a 34-digit Bitcoin
address on Allwine's computer.”
Lanterman found “it matched the same address obtained when FBI agents shut down Besa Mafia.”And
apparently Allwine was dumb enough to purchase scopolamine under the same alias he used to
hire the hit on his wife.
A detective “discovered ‘DogDayGod' also attempted to buy the anti-nausea drug
Scopolamine on a Dark Net site called ‘Dream Market.'”
In February 2018, Allwine was found guilty of his wife's murder and sentenced to life
in prison without the possibility of parole for his crime.
Some of the circumstances leading Allwine to kill his wife are just as bizarre as the
killing itself.
Before the murder, Allwine was a church elder at the United Church of God in Cottage Grove,
Minnesota.
One of his church duties included acting as a marriage counselor to troubled couples in
his congregation.
After learning about the infamous adultery website Ashley Madison from his marriage counseling
sessions, he ironically began using the service himself.
According to the Washington Post, he allegedly “had affairs with at least two women he
met on the site.”
He wanted to end his marriage, but he had a high position in a conservative church that
looked down upon divorce.
In his twisted mind, killing Amy seemed to be the best solution to his problem.
1.
Sad Satan Sad Satan is a video game that was supposedly
discovered on the Dark Web in 2015.
One horror news website called the 13th Floor describes it as a “weird, semi-abstract
horror game made up of black and white visuals, obscure ghost children, and a soundtrack of
famous serial killers like John Wayne Gacy and Charles Manson.”
It also features disturbing images such as “Satanic and Nazi imagery” and creepy
“backwards speeches and music.”
Oddly enough, while there seems to be a message about child abuse in the game, the children
are the ones who abuse the player in Sad Satan.
According to TV Tropes, they eventually follow and harm the player in some versions of the
game, leading to the player's demise.
Sad Satan may seem like an aimless and badly made walkthrough game, but it is far from
harmless.
The game was featured on a YouTube channel called Obscure Horror Corner (OHC).
The owner of OHC told gaming website Kotaku that he downloaded it from an Onion site on
the recommendation of a subscriber, but OHC's owner eventually had to delete the game because
it “came with a file that freaked them out.”
According to TV Tropes, OHC's owner also eventually admitted that he posted the wrong
link to the game on his YouTube channel after he discovered the game contained illegal images
of minors and “actual snuff” that he did not want to spread on the Internet.
Different versions of the game have been made over the years.
There are some “clean” clones, but others are not.
Besides “graphic and horrific content,” TV Tropes states that “some versions of
the game are downright dangerous to play because they mangle your computer.”
There has been a lot of speculation about why the game was made.
The 13th Floor states that some people believe it is a “sting from police” or a “recruiting
tool for cults.”
One news website presents the possibility that the game might have been the “starting
point for an alternate reality game“ or “part of some narrative project or viral
marketing scheme.”
According to TV Tropes, another theory is that the game was part of a “publicity stunt
to popularize OHC.”
We may never know if this theory is accurate.
While the game has remained in the spotlight, OHC's owner has disappeared along with the
original version of the game.
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