Last year,
I decided to explore the deep web and dark web for the first time. As a Computer Science and Engineering student, I was curious to see what was out there. However, I didn’t really know how to access it. After doing some research and gathering the necessary tools, I was ready to dive in.
Once I entered the dark web, I spent about 10–15 minutes browsing. I came across a webpage that listed a bunch of onion URLs, which are addresses for dark websites. Out of curiosity, I decided to click on a few of them at random, as there were hundreds to choose from.
Little did I know that this decision would leave me sleepless that night.
The first URL I clicked on led me to a website selling drugs. I wasn’t too surprised since I had read about the Silk Road when researching cryptocurrencies, so I expected to find things like that.
Then, I clicked on the second random URL and this time I landed on a website offering services for hiring contract killers. The site had a list of assassins, complete with their codenames, skills, number of kills, success rates, and even the cost of hiring them.
I was feeling a bit uneasy, but I decided to click on a third random link. This time, it took me to a website that sold human organs. Different organs were listed with their prices, and you could even select the quantity you wanted to order. Seeing this made me feel sick.
Still, I pushed on and clicked on a fourth random link. This one led me to a site that taught torture techniques. The site had many videos showing people of different ages and genders being tortured. The videos were extremely brutal and lasted for hours. I couldn’t watch them for long, but it seemed like some of the victims might have died by the end. The whole experience was horrifying, so I took a break from my computer.
After 15–20 minutes, I decided to check out one more link. The fifth link led me to a website that featured illegal and banned porn. The next few random links I clicked on were similar, all showing the same type of illegal content and asking users to buy it.
By this point, I was seriously considering quitting the dark web altogether. But I thought I’d give it one last try, thinking if the next site was more of the same, I’d definitely stop.
Then I clicked on the next link, and it was the worst one yet. It took me to a site that explained how to cook people while keeping them alive for as long as possible. The site had different methods based on where the person was from, their age, gender, and body type. There were even videos showing these procedures. I couldn’t bring myself to play any of them because even the thumbnails were horrifying. I couldn’t understand why anyone would do something so awful. That was the moment I decided to quit the dark web.
For days afterward, I was traumatized by what I had seen.
Since then, I’ve gone back to the dark web a few times for research and out of curiosity, but nothing has been as disturbing as that experience.
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