A topic as important as 10 the sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web clearly deserves a proper introduction to what this virtual space -where everything is said to be possible- really is. Most people don’t voluntarily try to access the Deep Web because they are either unaware of its existence, or terrified of what they heard they might find there. They do, however, access it involuntarily. You do too, every day in fact. Curious yet?
The first thing you need to know is that only 4% of the material on the World Wide Web is publicly available, while the other 96% remains hidden, and contains 7.9 zettabytes of information (that’s equivalent to 7357448339458.5 gigabytes, so you get an idea of its immensity). The diagram often used to represent this is that of an iceberg. The visible portion, with which we are familiar, is called “Surface Web”, and the part we don’t see is what’s referred to as the “Deep Web” (or “Invisible Web”), which has several different levels.
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The next question should be: what kind of material does the Deep Web contain? The answer is quite simple, the Deep Web encompasses all of the information and sources that can’t be found on the World Wide Web by regular search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing! These engines employ a software called “Crawlers”, which can only find catalogued data, but can’t access anything behind a paywall, CAPTCHAs, dynamically generated content (meaning it doesn’t possess a permanent URL), “4chan” domains, or whatever stands beyond a password. This brings me to what I said earlier about us all unknowingly accessing the Deep Web daily: when we log into our emails, transfer money, use bitcoin, upload a private Facebook photo, or illegally stream (even torrent) audiovisual material we are, in fact, making use of the Deep Web. Still, that’s only the portion of it that the Surface Web enables us to access; if you wish to go deeper, you’ll need to learn the ways of TOR.
The Onion Router (aka TOR) is a system developed to guarantee online anonymity, the name of which stands as a metaphor for the onion-like layers of safekeeping employed to conceal the user’s location and identity, eluding all monitoring activities. Its browser provides access to hidden websites, suffixed “.onion”, for a domain (instead of “.com”, “.org”, etc.) This is possible because Tor encrypts the data several times and casts it through a great number of networking nodes, rendering it virtually untraceable. This, however, makes it quite slow and tricky to handle; also the sites often go down, making it an inefficient tool for general browsing, although some people who just REALLY care about their privacy use it for such means.
In case my precarious description left you hanging before, here’s a more detailed explanation of how Tor’s routing works.
Unsurprisingly, The Onion Router actually began as a military development, sponsored by the US Naval Research Laboratory, and then, like all secrets, it spread. Mostly, it’s used for research, in order to obtain otherwise unavailable information, forbidden books, and questionable porn (yes, at this level the word is “questionable”, because it gets much, much worse); it is also a discrete mean of communication. Since sites here are hard to find, there are portals, such as The Hidden Wiki, that enlist several of them. When in one of them, the purchases happen through Bitcoin, to preserve the anonymity of both buyers and sellers. The Deep Web is, of course, Hackers’ paradise, which you can read about in our 11 Countries With Most Hackers and Cyber Criminals list. One thing I must clarify: neither Tor, nor navigating the Deep Web are illegal themselves, and there’s nothing wrong with a little curiosity; however, you should know this place is swamped with hardcore malware that will give you virtual viruses forever if you aren’t careful. Not to mention absolutely disturbing and illegal content.
In a way, this vast ocean of possibilities is in itself a manifest of freedom and independence in this day and age, where we are constantly surveilled through almost any electronic device that surrounds us. Doubtless, being able to move undetected is extremely useful when it comes to crossing the line just enough to achieve your non-harmful goals, but sailing the Deep Web waters is a dangerous endeavor; there’s a very terrible side to this world of possibilities as well, and you might accidentally stumble through the wrong door at any time. This is the horrible place you’ve heard about: the Dark Web, where being too curious might lead you to see things that will stick with you for the rest of your life. The Dark Web is often confused with the Deep Web, but it actually represents just a piece of it–the rotten core.
Even though the Deep Web is also used for noble means (such as journalists who live in strongly regulated countries being able to send and retrieve information), over half the activities that take place in the DWM (Dark Web Markets) are illicit, and a great deal of them, unbelievably inhuman. Here you can find virtually ANYTHING you can imagine. Want drugs? You’ve got them. Want a tiger? You’ve got it. Want to take out a hit on someone? Definitely. You can even buy “child spirits”, from abortions or miscarriages.
It is really the darkest place there is; it’s virtual hell, and its circles run deep. All the activities listed next will probably send you to jail, many for life or worse–and some of them will send you to hell for sure. Be careful now, what comes next is NOT for the faint-hearted (All information, content, and materials available on this site are for entertainment and general informational purposes only. Insider Monkey doesn’t endorse illegal activity and doesn’t accept any responsibility for your actions. Please read our Terms of Use and leave our site if you don’t agree with the terms and conditions of this agreement). If you think you can handle it click on Next to read about the 10 sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web!
10. Stolen Credit Cards and Fake IDs
These crimes may not precisely be sick or disturbing, but I’ve decided to begin lightly and index these as one of the 10 sickest and most disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web anyway. I just want to give you something to compare to what comes next; in order to get you to understand how deep the iceberg goes.
These sorts of crimes are bad enough to go to jail, and are most common among the sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web. In 2016, a 30-year-old man was arrested for trafficking fraudulent documents, narcotics (which were determined to be for personal use), along with goods purchased with stolen credit cards, causing nearly $17,000 worth of damage. The offender is in custody until the investigation is completed. On the same year, various others Deep Web ID scams, counterfeit money, and stolen cards were discovered and stopped, but I can only imagine how many criminals remain free.
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9. Drugs and Illegal Substances
You might have heard, or even seen the documentary film “Deep Web” (which has it’s highs and lows at times), on the trial of Ross Ulbricht (aka Dread Pirate Roberts), creator of Silk Road, the first large drug-selling site on the deep web. However illegal or questionable it was, the real pursue was freedom; it was an anonymous virtual community, with its own moral code. They would only sell pure, quality drugs to people who seemed able to handle them, and stayed away from anything stolen, weapons, or anything that could do harm beyond drugs. Still, violent requests and death threats against “traitors” were found on the site, giving the whole case a grimmer aspect, and casting a shadow over the figure of Dread Pirate Roberts.
If this is still too “vanilla” for you, just keep reading our list of sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web.
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8. Guns and Other Weapons
Even though there is, in fact, a black market for guns on the Deep Web, it is not its most blooming industry. For one, mailing guns is not as easy as doing so with drugs or porn, they actually take up a lot of space, and you can’t really ration them by pieces; it’s just too complicated. This market is especially unsuccessful in the US, and here’s why: it is so incredibly easy to get a gun legally in this country, that doing so through the dark web just isn’t worth the trouble. This market is mostly developed in Eastern Europe, mainly for German military weaponry. Even though Dark Web Markets have been pulling out of the gun trade because the demand is not big enough to be worth the risk, especially in the low scale trafficking, it doesn’t mean gun trafficking doesn’t, in fact, occur. Here’s a bunch of news on weapon trafficking online and guns. Now, let’s see what’s next on our list of sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web.
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7. Terrorism and Espionage
For years, extremist groups have been using the surface web to “provide information to fellow terrorists, to recruit and radicalize, to spread propaganda, to raise funds, and to coordinate actions and attacks” without it being completely illegal, because of freedom of speech and stuff. However, in late years these efforts have been redirected to a less heavily-monitored arena, especially after ISIS’ 2015 attacks on Paris. Not only is the Dark Web used for scheming and plotting, but it has also made available new methods of attack. In 2016, President Barack Obama urged security leaders of the world to watch out for the terrorists’ purchase of toxic isotopes that might later be spread-through-drone over civilian areas. That’s some very scary stuff.
Also, espionage of all kinds is carried out throughout the Dark Web. By this I mean military, counter-intelligence, industrial, nuclear, you name it, the Dark Web’s got it. It is no mystery why the big corporations and governments are frightened of this invisible instrument. Let’s se what else we have on this list of sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web.
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6. Hitmen and Kidnappers
Even though there are a lot of contract-killer related scams going on in the DW (such was the case of BesaMafia) there are, however, very real opportunities to find a gun for hire. The transaction is completely anonymous, and the perpetrators make sure to disguise the event as an accident or suicide, and the whole thing is practically untraceable. There are all kinds of killers; some claim to be de-humanized and able to do practically anything to the victim for the right amount of money, others sustain a more practical and “sensitive” prerogative, implying that if the murder is going to happen anyway it better get done nice and clean – almost like an angel of death. You can also order someone’s kidnapping, although what happens after that you’ll find out further down this list of sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web.
Still not dark enough for you? Go on, then, I dare you.
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5. Bestiality and Animal Torture
Well, this is awkward.
Next in line on the list of sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web is Sex with animals that has always been present in human history; it’s not even that hard to find, just walk up to a ranch in the middle of nowhere–some strange farmers must have been sexing up goats and sheep for generations. The Dark Web, however, has given this unwholesome activity a whole new spin. Websites like Cruel Onion Wiki, and Animal Nightmare earn their income by facilitating picture and video material of animal rape and torture, “crushing” being a particular paraphilia that has largely gained success lately. The latter consists of women in heels stepping on a small–or not so small–animals until their bones break and organs explode, causing an excruciating death. These activities are certainly one of the sickest and most disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web.
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4. Snuff Films
At this point in my research, I began to come across a lot of comments claiming this sites to be fake or absurd, but the thing is there are so many horrors in the DW, I wouldn’t rule any of them out.
So to continue with our list of sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web – you’ve probably heard the word “Snuff” as a synonym of “murder”, however, you might not be aware that it also stands for a movie “genre” that, according to Urban Dictionary consists of “real (not staged) filmed murder; usually of raping and killing a woman. In some cases it is viewed for sexual arousal.” Like most horrible things, snuff films have existed for a very long time, before the web and they were distributed in a black market or illegal fashion. In this way, they’ve kept a status of “urban legend”, but if you swim deep enough into the web, you’ll find what you’re looking for: amputation, dismemberment, rape of all sorts and flavors, and much, much more.
If you’re curious about snuff, one of the sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web, but not sick enough to actually go after it, I would recommend watching “A Serbian Film”, it will clear it all up. But ONLY if you have a strong stomach; fiction or not, it’s hard to watch.
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3. Cannibalism and Necrophilia
Believe it or not, the DW hosts quite a large vorarephile community, and it just keeps growing. These are people who enjoy the idea of consuming others, and/or being consumed, which is surprisingly not as much as an odd fantasy as one would think. Vorarephilia doesn’t make you a cannibal, but acting on those impulses does, and on the Deep Web, as we know, you might run into all sorts of people. Cannibal Café, the first big vorarephile forum, and one of the sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web has been down for years, but there, as well as many other cannibal forums, you could find recipes on how to cook certain limbs or genitalia, articles on which are the juiciest cuts, and some reeeally creepy user artwork.
As for necrophilia (sex with corpses), next sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web, it’s kind of a Deep Web leitmotif at this point, embedded here as well as many of the other categories I have mentioned earlier or will soon. I mean, if there’s people who torture and rape others for money, who dismember children for pleasure, then there’s certainly many eager to have sex with the bodies, right? That’s just how our sick world works. Here’s a video of a guy narrating his navigation through Cannibal Café; he justifiably uses the F-word a lot in the description of his findings.
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2. Live Human Torture
I know it overlaps with “Snuff”, but I placed this item further on the list of sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web, because even though it might imply the same level of visual awfulness, here, you get to participate. For a long time the myth about “Red Rooms” has been going around the Internet. This concept, fictionally originated in the movie “Videodrome”, refer to websites where, for the right amount of money, you could request basically anything to be done to a person… LIVE.
First, an announcement would be posted, advertising something truly unimaginable, urging people to sign in as not to miss the “opening”, then people would log in at the right moment in order to enjoy their horrid delights on live streaming. Most of this live-torture sites have, however, proven to either be scams or just compilations of pre-existing footage. Nonetheless, there was one site that was shut down in 2011 called “The Human Experiment”, that went all out to prove that “not all humans are equal for some of them are born superior to others”; that was their slogan. These folks would abduct unindexed (or uncared for) people, such as the homeless, and perform hideous experiments on them, to see how long they could survive. What experiments? That was for the paying customers to decide.
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1. Child Pornography and Child Torture
Child pornography, usually abbreviated as “CP”, is one of the most sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web. In fact, according to Wired’s article based on Gareth Owen’s study, child pornography constitutes over 80% of the DW searches. Not only are there waaay more pedos than you thought, but this number also reflects the fact that they are the most frequent users of the websites, since their appetites can’t be satiated anywhere else.
Here’s a very interesting Reddit forum entry where a self-accepted child porn lover offers to answer questions about himself and the sites he visits. He mentions the website Violent Desires and states that it’s a “site where people into hurtcore (CP involving pain) and discuss how to plan kidnapping” adding to the very disturbing statement, “It seems like some people have posted their own homemade pictures.”
CP comes in many shapes. There’s also ‘jailbait,’ which involves underage girls who look a bit older. Then there’s the nauseating term ‘hard candy,’ meaning girls from 12-to-16, and after that it gets really, really ugly. ‘Hurtcore’ is what they call violently raping children, or even babies, and this is where snuff and child porn begin to overlap–sufficient to say this is disgusting.
Our go-to sicko in this area would be Peter Scully, an Australian man arrested in Indonesia, where he lived, for the abduction, rape, and torture of 8 girls from 18 months up, and the murder of at least one. He was the author of “Daisy’s destruction”, a legend on the Deep Web (as far as I know unreachable), which is said to feature a little girl being beat and raped by two men, before having her limbs chopped off with a machete, and her throat slit. There’s also claims of a video that shows him smashing two babies together until they’re utterly destroyed.
So, now you know, the 10 the sickest disturbing things you can find on the Deep Web. Our advice is to try to avoid these things and others like them at all costs.
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