Dark Web

The deep web is one of the most amazing things on
earth. Not because of how joyfull it makes people or
anything, but because it is a completely uncensored
view of people. You can speak your mind, buy what you
want, do anything you want, when on the deep web,
you have complete and total freedom.I had always been
fascinated by the deep web, and at the time the events
in this story occured, I was in college. Lots of people at
my campus had really been getting into accessing the
deep web. It was almost like a trend. With so many
people getting on it, it seemed perfectly safe for me to
give it a try.Now I had always heard of the deep web
horror stories, stories of hacking, stumbling on
disgusting sites, and people even somehow finding your
address. These stories were mainly what kept me off
the deep web, but with most of the people at my college
using it on a normal basis, I decided to give it a go. I
asked a friend to comd over and help me set it up.
When my friend arrived, we opened up my laptop and
began to set everything up.He told me that we were
using tor, a program that lets you access the deep web.
He also asked me if I was planning on doing anything
illegal, to which I replied no. He said that since I wasnt,
we didnt need to install TAILS which is apparently a
software that makes it more secure if you plan on doing
illegal things.A little while later, everything was set up. I
had my new ip address, and my friend gave me a brief
rundown of what to do and what not to do. He made it
VERY clear that when I was useing the hidden wiki, that
I kept it on censored mode, so that it would be less
likley for me to see something I didnt want to see.After
about two weeks of using the deep web, I felt like a pro.
I had accessed many different sites, spoken with some
great people, made friends, even bought some weed. I
had become cocky and was ready to dig deeper into the
dark web.I turned off the censored mode on the hidden
wiki and began to browse the links. It took a while,
mostly because tor is a bit slow and many of the links
just led to dead webpages. Eventually, I stumbled onto
a site called "All the gore"It was mainly a big chatroom,
with many different topics. I had a fairly strong stomach,
I had seen many violent movies, and had seen
beheadings, killings, ect through the normal internet.
After looking at a few different chat rooms, I noticed
how sick this site really was. The people in these chat
rooms were actuall killers, bragging about some of the
things they had done. In the chat room, you could also
post pictures, one man by the name of "Culture 045"
had the stage in one of the chat rooms. He was
explaining in detail how he had broke into someones
house, kidnapped a little girl, and brutally killed her
parents by hiding under there bed, and then opening
their throats.He then explained how he brought the little
girl back to his house, raped her, beat her, and cut her
up. I didn't think he was telling the truth at first, but then
he posted pictures. These were the most horrifying
pictures I had ever seen. Close ups of the poor 8­10
year old girl, being brutally raped, beaten, and cut with
a knife. Culture kept posting pictures, the new ones
were of the girl, tied to a chair, bleeding, crying,
throwing up, ect. Then, he showed a picture of him with
a drill, drilling into her skull. The most haunting part, is
that while he was doing it, he was looking at the
camera...with sheer joy on his face.I had seen enough,
and typed in the chat room window "you people are
sick, and deserve to die, how can you sleep at night?"
Immediately people began making fun of me, saying
that I was "just as helpless and ignorent as the little girl
in the pictures" and that I should "get off the big boy
part of the internet" they began saying I was a pussy,
and calling me an "empath" when Culture typed
something in the chat box.He said "Really? Where do
you live buddy? Im sure everybody would love to see
you on this site," I then maked the biggest mistake of
my life, and typed "Im calling the police, and having this
site shut down" less than a minute later, everything on
the site when black, and a new chat box appeared in
green. In it, someone named "Admin 1" typed in the
box. He said "Call the cops, and you will regret it" I didnt
type anything in the box, and reached for my cellphone.
What happened next, haunts me to this day.My phone
said I had a new message, I opened it, and it said "Call
the police, and your dead" there was no number, it didnt
even say 'unknown number' it was just blank. I looked
back at my laptop an saw my webcam light turn on. I
quickly covered it but I saw on the screen, a picture of
me, looking at my phone. I got wideeyed and froze for a
moment, when the admin typed again. "Put the phone
down, right now, and uncover your webcam." I put my
phone down, but kept the webcam covered, when he
typed again. "Ok then, be like that" right after, he posted
my full name, age, and address, in the chat box and
typed "it would be a shame if you and your college
buddies went missing, wouldnt it?" He said. I then did
as he said, and uncovered my webcam.He then told me
to follow his instructions on how to make it impossible
for me to reach the site again. I followed each and
every one, when I finished, I got a text that said "Now
don't ever try and come back" just like before, it had no
number. I still called the police from my friends phone,
but they were never able to find the site.If you ever go
on the deep web, dont ever just mindlessly explore,
especially if you dont have additional software to keep
you more secure. I was a stupid college kid, and I just
hope nobody makes the same mistakes I did