Indeed, there are lots of reasons to avoid the dark web entirely 6 Reasons You Should Avoid the Dark Web Thinking about visiting the dark web, the sinister underbelly of the internet? Here are reasons why you should avoid the dark web. Yet, at the same time, the dark web is well worth exploring.
Advertisement2) Comic book, still in the plastic sealing, perfectly legit except the entire back page directly inside the cover was a sheet of LSD.3) I was a part of the No Love Deep Web Alternate Reality Game where we had to do a deepnet scavenger hunt which culminated in me driving to New York to answer a pay phone at 3:00AM. That was cool.4) I downloaded TOR and within 20 minutes of downloading it and browsing random shit I got a phone call but there was no one there and they just hung up after 10 seconds. I didn’t even know if it was legal at the time so that was enough to freak me out and I stopped right there.5) There was a german man selling pretzels, just pretzels.6) Silk Road. Purchased what was promised as a “mind-blowing” experience.
Received a Dust Buster two days later. Strangely, no complaints on my end.7) They said you could find anything you want on the deep web, but I was looking for Cher concert bootlegs and all I found were drugs.8) I took photos for several vendors on silk road in exchange for samples.
I looked for bad product photos then I’d message them offering processional macro shots and logos I was sent beautiful buds of great weed, a giant shard of crystal meth(spent like 12 hours photographing that)9) I found someone selling a “wish pill” online. Basically you take the pill, make a wish and it’s suppose to make it come true.
What is the deep web? If you don’t know, consider yourself lucky. The deep web consists of hidden websites that you need a special browser and a direct link to access. It’s completely anonymous, so obviously, some seriously heinous stuff goes down there. Selling and purchasing illicit substances is probably the most innocuous thing you can do on it.
These aren’t just stories of the deep web - these are deep web horror stories. We dug through the bowels of the internet to find first-person experiences of some seriously messed up stuff that happened on the deep web. Just be glad we did all the research and compiled all these scary dark web stories in one place for you. Now you don’t have to worry about being on an FBI watch list because you were researching these things yourself.
Before you dive in, here's two things you need to know: Tor is the browser you need to browse the deep web, and the hidden wiki is a kind of portal to different websites.
Recipes For Human Meat
From Redditor /u/baconboyloiter:
In CompSci, we often got bored and d*cked around. Kijimea. One day we ran into the deep web. The most disturbing site we found was a comprehensive guide for cooking women. We're not talking about a short joke here. This page had information on what body types to use for specific cuts, how to prepare these cuts, and how to cook the girl so she lives as long as possible.
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I Spy Five Guys
From Redditor /u/cletch:
Was on tor, browsing da usuals. Go out to eat foods at the Five Guys. Come back. More tor. Find a picture of me eating at Five Guys.
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Hello, Mr. [Your Last Name]
From a former Redditor:
I posted a comment on a video, and when I went back to that page to watch the video later, someone replied to my comment saying: 'That is very astute of you Mr. (insert my last name).'
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They See You
From Redditor /u/fake_fakington:
This was back before Google. Web pages were, for the most part, still very basic HTML with Javascript. Hardly anyone used CSS. Only discussion boards and some banking sites had anything approaching mature front-end/back-end combinations. Etc. Early 'Net. Real 'deep web' story, not just one about illicit activities on-line.
I was browsing random blogs, Geocities sites, and the like, just going from link to link. Eventually I came upon an odd page - it appeared to be random thoughts from different people, but for the time, it was very well-designed. The messages seemed to be cryptic in nature, like several people trying to pass secret notes. I started through the source, and hidden in the comments of a javascript were various IP addresses.
I gathered all of the IP's in a text file and began enumerating. Some were routers with banner messages I could telnet to - almost all at universities ('Warning! This is a secure system at University of Bla Bla..'). The default Cisco credentials from back in the day worked on most of them, but I didn't poke around. A few of the IP's were web servers with little to nothing on them, mostly Apache on Linux or some BSD, at least one IIS server I can recall.
I finally came upon a web server with a huge directory of HTML files and TIFF images, with a few smaller sub directories containing the same. nslookup returned no reverse records for the IP. A VisualRoute traced it as far as Colorado. The HTML files appeared to be records a psychologist or similar mental health professional would keep. The images were of faxes, apparently of both military and medical nature.
As I browsed from a sub directory back to the parent, at the top of was a new HTML file named something like '1-.HELLO-THERE.html'. The time stamp was from right that minute. I opened it, and in plain text was the message 'we see you'. No quotes, all lower-case. About 15 seconds later the server dropped.
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