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The Infographics Show, Bizarre Things That Happen on Dark Web

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.

The Dark Web can be home to some pretty bizarre stuff, but did you know that right now it

might also be home for your personal data, up for sale to the highest bidder?

Thankfully with a tool like Dashlane and its free dark web scan, not only can you know

what data hackers may be buying and selling that's yours, but you can also help make

sure you take action to protect yourself online by using auto-generated super strong passwords

that are unique to each account.

Dashlane's password manager tools help to keep you secure while keeping your life simple!

Head on over to www.dashlane.com/infographics for a free 30 day trial, and if you use the

coupon code ‘infographics' you can get 10% off a premium subscription today!

Do you know of a bizarre Dark Web story that we missed?

Let us know in the comments!

Also, be sure to check out our other video called How To Access The Dark Web!

Thanks for watching, and, as always, don't forget to like, share, and subscribe.

See you next time!

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Bizarre Things That Happen on Dark Web Strange|||||| Bizarre Dinge, die sich im Dark Web ereignen Παράξενα πράγματα που συμβαίνουν στο Dark Web Cosas extrañas que ocurren en la Dark Web Choses bizarres qui se produisent sur le Dark Web Cose bizzarre che accadono nel Dark Web Coisas bizarras que acontecem na Dark Web Причудливые вещи, происходящие в "темной паутине Dark Web'de Yaşanan Tuhaf Olaylar 暗网上发生的奇怪事情 暗網上發生的奇怪事情

This episode is brought to you by Dashlane; Try Dashlane Premium free for 30 days at dashlane.com/infographics |||||||Password manager service||||||||||

and never forget another password and keep all your online accounts secure!

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 |||||secured or coded||||||||||

as Tor. |As Hill.

This encryption allows users to have an anonymity that keeps their identities mostly but not |Secure data encoding||||||||||||| Esta encriptação permite que os utilizadores tenham um anonimato que mantém as suas identidades na sua maioria, mas não

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. ||||||||||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 кроме людей на Reddit, 4Chan и Hidden Wiki, "торгующих из вторых, третьих и четвертых рук".

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.” |||Federal Bureau's|||||

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 |||Motherboard article|||||jokingly||||

bacon,” but the live torture turned out to nothing more than footage of a man being bacon", mas a tortura em direto não passou de uma filmagem de um homem a ser

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,” |||||||||not officially documented|

are taken to one of four warehouses where doctors and medical students perform brutal

and unethical experiments such as vivisection, sterilization, and drug trials. |morally wrong||||live animal dissection|||| e experiências não éticas, como a vivissecção, a esterilização e os ensaios com medicamentos.

There are even tests for “neonate and infant tolerances to x-rays, heat, and pressure.” |||||newborn baby|||acceptable limits||||||

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 |||||thrown away|||trash containers|||||| Os mortos são dissecados e depois eliminados em contentores de lixo de lojas de carne onde os seus corpos

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. |Nathan Barter's 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 ||||||||||||Issuing a subpoena|

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, |||||||serious crimes|||criminal request Barter foi preso e acusado de vários crimes, incluindo "solicitação criminosa",

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 |||Contract killer||||||||||

Allwine wanted his wife, Amy, dead. The husband|||||

In February 2016, he attempted to hire someone to kill her on the Dark Web, choosing Besa |||||||||||||||a hitman

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 ||||||||DogDayGod: Alias||

in untraceable Bitcoin in an attempt to hire a hitman” to kill Amy, although some sources |impossible to trace||||||||||||||

say the amount was $6,000.

Despite this setback, Allwine would not give up. Apesar deste revés, Allwine não desistiu.

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. arma de fogo" em agosto de 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 |||||||Amy Allwine's||||||

“large amount of scopolamine, a nausea treatment that can incapacitate someone who takes high |||nausea treatment incapacitant||Anti-nausea medication||||render unable to||||

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 |||||||Mark Lanterman||||

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. ||||||early release option|||

Some of the circumstances leading Allwine to kill his wife are just as bizarre as the Niektóre z okoliczności, które doprowadziły Allwine'a do zabicia żony, są tak samo dziwaczne jak

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. |his church members

After learning about the infamous adultery website Ashley Madison from his marriage counseling |||||cheating website|||||||

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 |||||||related to Satan||Nazi imagery|||

“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 |||Common themes||||||||||||

game, leading to the player's demise. ||||the player's|player's defeat

Sad Satan may seem like an aimless and badly made walkthrough game, but it is far from ||||||||||guided exploration||||||

harmless.

The game was featured on a YouTube channel called Obscure Horror Corner (OHC). ||||||||||||Obscure Horror Corner

The owner of OHC told gaming website Kotaku that he downloaded it from an Onion site on |||||||gaming website Kotaku|||||||||

the recommendation of a subscriber, but OHC's owner eventually had to delete the game because ||||||OHC's owner||||||||

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. ||||graphic death content||||||||||

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.” o jogo é absolutamente perigoso de jogar porque danifica o computador".

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.” |make widely known|

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.

The Dark Web can be home to some pretty bizarre stuff, but did you know that right now it

might also be home for your personal data, up for sale to the highest bidder? ||||||||||||||highest offerer

Thankfully with a tool like Dashlane and its free dark web scan, not only can you know

what data hackers may be buying and selling that's yours, but you can also help make

sure you take action to protect yourself online by using auto-generated super strong passwords

that are unique to each account.

Dashlane's password manager tools help to keep you secure while keeping your life simple! Dashlane's tools|||||||||||||

Head on over to www.dashlane.com/infographics for a free 30 day trial, and if you use the

coupon code ‘infographics' you can get 10% off a premium subscription today! discount code||||||||||

Do you know of a bizarre Dark Web story that we missed?

Let us know in the comments!

Also, be sure to check out our other video called How To Access The Dark Web!

Thanks for watching, and, as always, don't forget to like, share, and subscribe.

See you next time!