Some corners of the Internet are already terrifying and depraved, but there is an even more sinister version where criminals are free to roam.
The “dark web” is a part of the world wide web, but it cannot be traced and can only be accessed using a specialized browser.
A YouTuber asked 100 people in chat rooms about the worst things they’d ever experienced and called the responses “sadistic.”
Austin Patton He said two-thirds told him they had seen child pornography, while others said they had encountered hitmen, drugs and seen people being killed.
An anonymous visitor claimed to have seen “a corpse with 50 knives on it and that it had been shot more than 50 times.”
A man spent hours on the dark web, asking 100 people what the worst thing they’d ever experienced was, and the answers were disturbing.
The dark web began in 2000 with the launch of Freenet, the thesis project of University of Edinburgh student Ian Clarke.
Clarke set out to create a “distributed, decentralized information storage and retrieval system,” promoting it as a new way to communicate anonymously and share files online.
That groundwork was the basis for the Tor Project, which launched in 2002 and released a browser in 2008.
Unlike the World Wide Web, there are no publicly available links and you must know exactly where you are going on the dark web.
It can only be accessed through a Open source web browser and network, called Tor, that allows users to browse the Internet anonymously.
Once there, people can be whoever they want, say whatever they want, and buy whatever they want, without repercussions.
The Department of Justice announced in 2022 that it had shut down Hydra Market (Hydra), the world’s largest and longest-running darknet marketplace.
In 2021, Hydra accounted for approximately 80 percent of all cryptocurrency transactions related to the darknet market, and since 2015, the market has received approximately $5.2 billion in cryptocurrency.
Patton has shared countless videos of his strange encounters on the dark web, but he tried an experiment by asking people about their experiences — and the first conversation took him by surprise.
He told the person he was doing a school project on the dark web and asking people what the worst thing they’d seen was, and the person immediately said they’d seen child sex.
The YouTuber was visually horrified by the response and said: ‘It’s literally our first one, this is because this is going to be a bad video. This is going to be a really bad video.
A YouTuber asked 100 people in chat rooms about the worst things they’d ever experienced and called the responses “sadistic.”
‘Well, that’s one, 99 more to go.’
Although Patton said he asked 100 people, he noted that it would have taken too long to show that each one revealed only the most bizarre and disturbing things.
One dark web user told the YouTuber: ‘I’m a seller on the darknet.
‘My services include marijuana delivery, piracy, contract killing, Apple products at 50 percent off, credit cards with driver’s licenses, credit cards with known limits, guns and ammunition, and US and UK passports.
‘All international shipments.’
The YouTuber also shared that he spoke to people who saw videos of other people being killed and which they claimed were live-streamed videos.
She also said that users have encountered paedophiles looking for their next victim and have received explicit images of that person.
DailyMail.com visited the dark web last year and within minutes was redirected to sites openly selling thousands of stolen credit cards, hard drugs and “hacking services” that will plant child abuse material on people’s computers to “ruin their lives”.
We also accessed “hitman” websites where alleged assassins offered “worldwide services” to kill people for as little as $5,000.
Austin Patton, who documents his crazy experiences on the encrypted browser, found that about 65 percent said they saw children, while others said murders.
One website described itself as the “most reputable” hitman website on the dark web (it’s worth noting, however, that there have been no proven cases where a hitman has been hired through one of these sites).
But one of the darkest things hiding on the Internet was published in 2012.
Peter Scully is an Australian citizen jailed for more than 130 years in the Philippines for making videos of abuse involving the torture of young children available on a pay-per-view basis on Tor sites.
Scully released ‘Daisy’s Destruction’ on the dark web in 2012.
The vile hour-long video shows an 18-month-old girl being sexually assaulted by three adults.
The images were part of a case against Josh Duggar, a former reality TV personality on TLC’s ’19 Kid’s and Counting,’ in 2021 over child pornography allegations.
It is unclear whether Patton spoke to anyone who had lived through such horrors.
DailyMail.com visited the dark web last year and within minutes was redirected to sites openly selling thousands of stolen credit cards, hard drugs and “hacking services” that would plant child abuse material on people’s computers to “ruin their lives”.
However, he found a chat room with people who denounced the idea that there are hitmen for sale on the dark web, saying they are fake ads created by law enforcement to trap those willing to buy such services.
A Texas woman was sentenced to prison this year after law enforcement was alerted that she had offered to hire a hitman on the dark web.
In January, James Wan was sentenced for paying a hitman he found on the dark web to kill his girlfriend.
Wan then electronically transferred a 50 percent down payment of approximately $8,000 in Bitcoin to the dark web marketplace.
“You can certainly buy cars on credit, you can buy anything in the banking industry, but you can’t buy a hitman,” an anonymous person told Patton.
Patton shared other disturbing conversations that included a man bragging about sexually abusing a minor.
However, other users told him they use the browser for its privacy.
Peter Scully (left) is serving a life sentence for abuse videos involving the torture of young children that he posted on the dark web. Josh Duggar allegedly downloaded a video made by Scully showing an 18-month-old boy being tortured and is now spending more than 12 years in prison
“I realized after talking to about 20 people at the beginning and noticing that they’re all there for different reasons, the main one being internet security, that using these dark web browsers actually gives them a lot of peace of mind because it allows them to be completely anonymous,” Patton said in the YouTube video.
‘There’s always something negative and when someone is 100 percent anonymous, their true nature comes out.
‘I noticed that about 65 percent of the people I talked to said the worst thing they’d seen was children.’
