Internet’s Darkest Websites You Should Not Visit

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The FBI today shut down what it's calling the most sophisticated internet site in the business. >> A new website claims it can calculate the day you are going to die. >> There are no checks on who can use their service, which allows users to stalk dozens of people each day. >> Hands your face and it shows every single photo of you that is on the M&M.

>> This could be the most dangerous superpower in the world of science fiction. >> Today, I have something special for you guys. This is the ultimate list of the most disturbing websites on the internet. We talk about a website that hacks into people's house cameras, a website that predicts your death, a website that claims to have government evidence of UFOs, and much, much more.

As we go along, the websites just get worse. So, sit back, enjoy the deep dive into the internet's most disturbing websites. I'm Visual Venture, and you are amazing. Zombo.com. Zombo.com's web page was strange. It had a green background with spinning circles. But the weirdest part was the audio that played in the background.

>> You can do anything at Zomoc. Anything at all. The only limit is yourself. >> It sounded inspiring like something incredible was about to happen, but nothing ever did. The voice just repeated the same lines over and over. There were no links, no games, nothing to download. People thought the site was broken.

 One visitor said they waited for 5 minutes for something to happen, but the site never changed. Then someone noticed a newsletter signup link at the bottom of the page. Finally, something to interact with, but they were about to be disappointed. Clicking the link led to a new page with a single line of text.

 Sorry, this is not working right now. Thanks for your patience. Users realized the site wasn't broken. It was built this way on purpose. So, the question became, who created Zombo.com and why? In 2009, people online started digging into the site's history. The first clue came from the site's records. >> When looking at the who is record for zombo.

com, we can see someone by the name of Joshua Lavine as the domain register. >> Now, they had a name, Joshua Lavine. The record even listed an address, but when people looked it up, it led to an empty bench in a little piece of grass in the middle of some tiny little town. The phone number listed under the address was no better.

 Every call ended with the line disconnected. The only meaningful clue came from an email Joshua Lavine sent in 2001. In it, he explained that a friend of his used the word Zombo to refer to a male zombie, so he used it as the name of the site. But that still didn't explain the point of Zombo.com. Over the years, theories piled up.

 One person said, "I think Zombo.com paraphrases the internet, promises you the earth, but delivers a bit of animation." Another called the site useless because it doesn't do anything except tell you how wonderful it is. Zombo.com is still online today. The circles still spin. The voice still promises you limitless possibilities.

It's just a wonderful place where nothing ever happens. This next AI website caused a small panic when it launched. People thought it could become a weapon. The nightmare machine. Fear is one of the strongest human emotions. And in 2016, a team of MIT scientists asked a disturbing question.

 Can AI be trained to scare people? The scientists took on the challenge and ended up creating something straight out of a horror movie. It's an AI website they called the Nightmare Machine. The Nightmare Machine is a website that turns ordinary everyday photos into grotesque, horrifying images. It creates these images using state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms.

 For example, the website can take a happy family photo and in seconds turn it into a terrifying scene filled with monsters. MIT researchers put the nightmare machine to the test by showing its eerie creations to real people. And most viewers confirmed that the images were deeply unsettling. Some couldn't even look at them for long.

 But here is the big question. How did scientists teach AI to scare people? The scientists used human feedback to train the nightmare machine. They picked a bunch of images and asked people to rate them based on scariness. Over time, the scientists collected thousands of individual votes trying to identify which visual elements evoked fear in humans.

 This gave the AI a fear database to learn from. After analyzing data taken from over 200,000 of these votes, the AI learned how to create its own disturbing images. With this knowledge, the nightmare machine could take any regular photo and twist it into something out of a scary movie. But when the nightmare machine was released to the public, people were not happy.

 In fact, many hated what these scientists have done. The nightmare machine was released on October 25th, 2016, just in time for Halloween, and the internet exploded with reactions. Some people thought it was fascinating, while otherssaw it as dangerous. There were headlines like MIT is using AI to create pure horror.

 And the weirdest part is that this AI tool seems to have been created just to scare you senseless. It doesn't seem like it serves any other purpose. One comment on the MIT website said it best. The nightmare machine looks like a monumental waste of resources and time. This next website watched people as they were sleeping. Instacam.

 Imagine a stranger breaking into your house and staring at you while you sleep at night. Thanks to a website called Instacam, this uncomfortable idea is a reality for thousands of people. Most people haven't heard of Instacam until 2016 when Shelby Ivy, a woman from Oregon, shared a disturbing post on Facebook.

 In the post, Shelby explained that she and her sons were looking at live satellite images of Earth to find places to go for their next vacation. While browsing, they stumbled upon a website that described itself as a live camera viewer. They decided to check it out, assuming that they'd see live videos of interesting locations around the world.

 However, what they saw wasn't just interesting. It was alarming. The website was live streaming footage from private security cameras inside thousands of homes. Shelby immediately reached out on Facebook to mother's groups in the area trying to warn everyone that their security cameras were hacked and footage from their homes was being streamed online.

 Shelby's viral post helped millions of people discover Instaam, a website that spies on people by accessing cameras in their homes, offices, and even bedrooms. >> These men at a bar. this woman at her desk. These folks at a grocery store, all of them unwitting stars of a Russian website called Insecam. >> There's even a Reddit forum where people screenshot and share private pictures from Insecam live streams.

 One Reddit user wrote, "I found a very nice apartment in Italy, then shared the link of a woman vacuuming. He kept watching her and made comments like she's making the bed right now. Churches, restaurants, streets, bars, beaches, they're all there streaming 24 hours a day. Spying on someone in their own home is the ultimate invasion of privacy.

 But it gets more disturbing when you discover how many webcams are streaming on the website. Instagram claims to be the world's largest online camera directory with over 73,000 live streams available for anyone to watch. The cameras are from 256 countries, and users can filter by places, cities, and time zones.

 But how does Instacam get access to these private webcams? Many people install cameras in their homes and offices for security. They set up the camera, connect it to the internet, and forget about it. But there's a problem. Every new camera comes with a default password already programmed into it. This default password is the same for every camera from that manufacturer >> cuz they only use default passwords, so it's easy for them to print out the booklet once and send it all in the same box.

>> When setting up a new camera, users are supposed to change the default password to a password they choose. Not changing the default password means that the webcam footage is available for all internet users to view. >> You know the default password, they know the default password, and simply logging in like they were you.

>> The simple mistake allows Instacam to access cameras with default passwords and stream the footage online. Instacam's access to these webcams isn't due to a hack or malware. Many people just don't change their default settings when installing internet connected cameras. The creator of Instacam has worked hard to stay anonymous, making it tough for authorities to catch him.

However, Instacam's IP address shows the site is from Russia. As more people complained about the site, the anonymous creator of Instacam granted an interview to the Huffington Post. During the interview, he emphasized that he was proud of his site, stating, "I do not have regrets.

 I did a great job to show the problem of neglectful users. Without this example, users do not care about the password." He emphasized that none of the cameras had been hacked. If users change the password on their cameras, there's no easy way for someone to gain access. >> These people are clearly trying to make a statement about, you know, passwords and and not using the default passwords.

Um, >> however, many people doubt if Instacam's intentions are actually good. Writer Lance Olenov asked the question, "If the site's aim was really to help, why would it list thousands of webcams instead of just a handful?" When asked if Instacam's creator felt bad for anyone whose privacy was invaded, he showed no remorse and said this.

 Do you think their privacy is not invaded without my site? There are tons of video records and images on anonymous image boards. After receiving a lot of complaints, Instacam changed its policies. Now, anyone who discovers their camera onInstacam can email them to get it taken off the site. However, the easiest way to get a camera off Instacam is clear.

>> Change the default password. Make it something that's unique to you and then the bad guys can't get in. >> Instacam changed their policies to make their site less creepy, whatever that means. This next website made people think their dreams had meaning. You've seen this man in your dreams. The human brain is incapable of making up a new face.

 We don't have the skills to mix and match people's facial features like AI can. So every face in your dreams is one that you've actually seen before. At least that's what science tells us. But if so, how does this website and its origin story make any sense? Thisman.org is a community site meant for those who have seen this man in their dreams.

 And if you haven't seen his face before, let me tell you who he is. This man first appeared in January of 2006 when a New York psychiatrist patient drew his face on a piece of paper, claiming that she's seen him in her dreams. The weird part is she swears that she's never interacted with a man like this in her life.

 The patient had said that whenever she's been struggling and in need of advice, this man would show up and help her out. The psychiatrist, who didn't think too much of it, just left the picture on his desk. Days later, another patient comes in and says that he also recognizes that face. And just like the first person, he claims that he's never met anyone like him in real life, but the man also had visited him in his dreams before.

 Confused and probably a bit freaked out, the psychiatrist sends this drawing to a few of his colleagues that also have patients with recurring dreams. It only takes a few months for four patients to come forward, saying they've also seen this face before. All of these patients have referred to him as this man.

 News spread like wildfire about this mysterious person that visits people in their time of need through their dreams. And since his face first became known in 2006, there have been over 8,000 people around the world who have also said they've seen this man before. The story first became popular in January of 2015 with Vice posting a story about it, which went completely viral.

 With so much online attention, it's no surprise that people were on the hunt to find out who this man really is. Since science believes that the human brain can't make up new faces, this man has to exist, right? But to this day, no living person has ever been found to have this face. So, who is this man? You'll find the answers on this website.

Thisman.org is a community site meant to help those who have seen this man in their dreams and to foster communication among them. And it's been the go-to source of information for anything related to this man. As you dive deeper into the website, you'll find pages of theories and news articles about this man and his existence.

 You're even able to contact the site's creators through an email address. But just as quickly as the story blew up, it fizzled out just as fast. Although the number of people who have claimed to see this man in their dreams was increasing, the origin story's credibility was collapsing. Vice soon posted another article titled, "We just got hoax, the real story about this man dream face.

" The article exposed the entire This Man origin story is nothing but a mass marketing hoax. This man was the invention of Andrea Nutella, the owner of the company Grigia Marketing. He specializes in creating fine-tuned hoaxes and was the mastermind behind this story that took the world by storm. Andrea and his team at Gerrigia Marketing have one catchphrase, screw the market to get into it, and they stay true to their word because Griia Marketing has a history of using questionable marketing tactics, which includes faking news stories to bring

attention to their brand. And when the internet found out that he was the owner of thisman.org, or they knew that this was all just one of his many marketing hoaxes. You see, the Gerriglia marketing team makes their intentions clear the moment you land on their company website.

 They like to create hoaxes, aka fake stories, and spread them around the internet just to see how viral it can get. And this man was their passion project that struck gold. So, the real disturbing part about thisman.org, just how easily people fell for it, and how they continued to build up the hoax by hopping on the trend.

 This next website claims to sell a product that you would never want to buy. Urban Outraged. At first glance, Urban Outrage looks like an ordinary website that sells shoes, belts, and bags. But that couldn't be further from the truth. If you take a closer look, you'll notice a couple of strange things about the products on their homepage.

 For instance, the bags have weird red streaks that look like blood. The pants have thick stitches, and the shoes have a gooey red material. As you scroll down, you'll see weirdslogans like, "Humans make us who we are," and "The leather is on you. The shipping's on us." However, this disturbing website begins to make sense when you Google Urban Outrage.

 The top result reads, "Urban Outraged, shop genuine leather goods for humans from humans." According to this description, Urban Outraged is a website that sells luxury products made from human skin. At least that's what they claim. Urban Outraged that appears to feature clothes and apparel made from human skin.

 There are links to their products right below the description. However, clicking one of these products opens up a world of horror. Urban Outraged has a long list of disturbing products. It seems they named each item after the person who was used to make it. For instance, there's the Avery jacket.

 Avery's leather is natural and one of a kind. After all, there was only one Avery. The Avery was crafted from the most luxurious skin, making this jacket natural and unique. Then we have the Juliet skirt, which features our softest ever Juliet's skin. Meticulously tailored from the best of Juliet.

 The best portions of her hide were selected in order to ensure that the natural beauty is preserved in the product. There are also reviews from people who supposedly bought the clothing, like this one, which says, "Totally unique boots." It's cool knowing that there are only a few pairs out there in the world because they specifically came from Meg.

 I'm knocking a star off because they're a little narrow, but if you have narrow feet, they'll be perfect. If the website wasn't bad enough, it gets worse when you click on the afterlife collection page. Here, they offer to turn loved ones into handmade items. The thought of turning people into products is deeply disturbing, and this has given the site a lot of free publicity.

 Urban outrage trended on Twitter and received coverage from major media outlets including the New York Post, USA Today, as well as outlets in more than 20 countries. At one point, it sparked a huge debate about whether Urban Outraged is real or just a hoax. However, this debate is unnecessary because the truth is on the site on a page called our story.

Clicking that page reveals the entire website is a publicity stunt by the animal rights group PETA. The fake online store was launched in the United States to highlight society's acceptance of using any living being for fashion. The site is part of a campaign to pressure companies such as Urban Outfitters, Outfitters that is, and its associated brands to stop selling items that use animal products such as leather.

 The stunt was so effective that the site attracted over 1.2 million page views from over 100 countries. The animal rights group hopes the pro provocative website will draw attention to its cause. By the way, PETA can't legally use human skin to make products. Although it's a fake store, the realistic pictures and unsettling product descriptions make Urban Outraged a very creepy website, especially for people who didn't know it was fake.

 This next website was created by a crazy man who called himself the wisest person on Earth. TimeCCube.com. timecube.com was created to reveal a big secret to the world. The website belonged to a retired electrician named Gan Ray. And Ry believed he uncovered a cosmic secret. According to him, a single day wasn't really 24 hours.

 Each day was actually four separate days happening at once. It's confusing, I know. Ry stated his theory boldly on the site. He called it nature's harmonic simultaneous 4-day time cube. Ray even called himself the wisest man on Earth. He was so confident that he offered $1,000 to anyone who can disprove four days in each Earth rotation.

 Later, he raised the price to $10,000. His website was packed with strange diagrams about four corner races and something he called cubic thinking. It looked like the ramblings of a delusional old man. But not everyone ignored him. In fact, students at MIT invited him to speak. In 2002, Ray showed up at MIT to present his theory of time.

 Hundreds showed up, but they weren't there to learn. They treated the lecture like a comedy show. >> Throughout the event, the crowd of college students was rowdy and loud, cheering often in mock support of Rey. >> However, Ry didn't realize they were mocking him. When asked about the experience later, he bragged >> about 500 students from MIT, Harvard, many other universities around there, and they treated me like Einstein.

 Now, >> afterward, he even awarded himself a doctorate of cubism and started calling himself Dr. Gan Ray. Most people treated Ray as a joke. But to one man, Gan Ray was a genius. Around 2005, an 18-year-old student named Richard discovered TimeCCube.com. He quickly became Gan Ray's most devoted supporter. >> Hi, I'm Richard Yanowski, second wisest human. However, it is Dr.

 Jean Ray Cubic, who is the wisest human on Earth. >> For 2 years, Richard defended Ray's theory of time. In fact, he idolized Ry.Then in 2007, Richard bought a plane ticket to Florida to meet his hero. He planned to film a documentary about Rey and his ideas. At first, everything went well.

 The two days they spent together, they talked about TimeCube.com. Then, they had a misunderstanding. Ry got really mad at Richard. So mad that he publicly denounced him on Ray's website. For Richard, the rejection was devastating. After years of loyalty, his idol turned against him. Richard never really got over it. This next website contains secrets that the government doesn't want you to know.

 The Black Vault. The Black Vault isn't just a website. It's a treasure trove of secrets. Created in 1996, The Black Vault contains over 1.4 million pages of declassified documents about top secret government cover-ups. The site also contains in-depth essays and discussions about the most bizarre conspiracy theories in the world.

 This includes information about hitmen, aliens, the Illuminati, and even Bigfoot. Although the content on the Black Vault is pretty weird, it gets even crazier when you discover the site was created by a 15-year-old kid. >> We're 15 years old. How did you get involved in this? >> Back in 1996, while still in high school, John Greenwald Jr.

 became fascinated by aliens and UFOs. His interest grew when he stumbled upon a website that said it had reliable, verifiable information about an alien mother ship flying over Iran. The site claimed to have gotten its information from declassified documents from the US government. John Greenwald Jr. was impressed by what he read and felt there was more secrets being hidden by secret agencies.

 So for the next 28 years, Greenwald devoted himself to finding and publishing reports about conspiracy theories, secret projects, and declassified documents. Greenwald's work led to the creation of the blackvault.com, where you can find information about the wildest conspiracy theories. However, the most bizarre story on the Black Vault involves secret mind control experiments that took place in the ' 50s.

 MK Ultra was a top secret program involving mind control experiments conducted by the CIA between 1953 and 1973. The purpose of the program was to develop ways to control human behavior, extract information, and even implant false memories. The Black Vault has 20,000 pages of MK Ultra documents diving into the darkest aspects of the program.

 MK Ultra involved a wide range of strange experiments, including hypnosis and brainwashing. They even tried to create a truth serum that when injected would make it impossible to lie. If this isn't creepy enough, the Black Vault claims MK Ultra was trying to use mind control to create hitmen who would obey any order and carry out lethal missions.

 It's no surprise MK Ultra has been described as a 100 James Bond movie ideas rolled into a pile of real life experiments. The project is pretty bizarre. However, the Black Vault's theories about aliens are also out of this world. Pun intended. People have been interested in aliens and UFOs since 1947 when a man named Kenneth Arnold claimed he'd seen nine objects flying through the air like saucers skipping on water.

 Since then, more people have shared stories about alien abductions, alien encounters, and unidentified flying objects. This has fueled conspiracy theories that the government is withholding information about alien activity on Earth. The Black Vault contains approximately 2,780 pages of CIA documents about unidentified flying objects.

Declassified by the CIA in the 80s, these reports contain stories that suggest aliens might be among us. millions of government documents regarding UFOs that have since been released through your website, Black Vault. Is is there damning evidence amongst these files? I mean, what what do we need to know? >> The documents cover UFO sightings from various regions, including Morocco, Iran, and Ukraine.

 There accounts of strange late night explosions in a tiny Russian town, a suspicious aircraft flying over a military base, and more unexplained events. But even after this passage of time, there's nothing to explain a UFO that was seen over Tran. Multiple UFOs were seen coming out of it. The files also include confidential messages from CIA UFO experts discussing the possibility of aliens living on our planet.

 Greenwald has been called a folk hero to the UFO community because of the information on his website. This next website can identify you just by looking at your face. Idemia AI is changing everything, including how police find suspects. A popular tool they use is a facial recognition platform called Idmia. On their website, Idemia claims they're ranked number one in accuracy for facial recognition.

 But when you look closer, Idmia has a creepy side that most people don't expect. Just ask Niger Parks, who knows how bad it can get when this AI app goes crazy. In January 2019, Niger Parks found himself in big trouble. He was arrested for theft and assault on a police officer.The assault charge alone carried a sentence of up to 15 years in jail.

Here's the problem. Niger was innocent. He wasn't even in the same city when the crime occurred. For 10 days, Niger sat in jail insisting that he was innocent. He even had an alibi. He was at a bank making a money transfer at the time of the crime. But still, no one believed him.

 Eventually, investigators checked his story, realizing that he was telling the truth, and let him out. But why were the police so sure he was guilty in the first place? Well, Idmia, the AI facial recognition software, told them that Nigeria was the culprit. It sounds crazy, but here's how it happened. When the police first started investigating the case, they found a driver's license at the crime scene, but the license turned out to be fake.

 The name on it wasn't real, but the photo matched the suspect. Since all they had was a face, the police decided to run the photo through the Idemia AI facial recognition system. The AI scanned the photo, measuring details like eye shape, lip curvature, and the distance between facial features, and it came up with a match.

 And using the photo on the ID got a facial recognition match to Niger Parks. With seemingly no other evidence, a judge signed a warrant for Park's arrest. >> But the AI facial recognition was wrong. Niger Parks was not the man in the photo. Luckily, Niger had a rockolid alibi and did not go to jail. This next website recorded people's last moments.

Plane crash info. Plane crash info is a website that collects real stories of plane crashes. The site has data about hundreds of crashes, including the date, location, what caused the crash, and if there were any survivors. However, there's one part of the site that's heartbreaking. Plane Crash Info has a section dedicated to cockpit voice recordings.

 These are the recordings of what the pilots and crew were saying while the plane was going down. It's like listening to someone and hearing the panic in their voice as they realize their life is coming to an end. In the navbar of the website, there's a button labeled last words. Clicking on it takes you to a page with cockpit voice recordings, transcripts, and air traffic control tapes.

 There's a warning at the top of the page. Caution may be disturbing to some individuals. Discretion is advised. Clicking on any of these links allows you to hear the voice recordings or read the transcripts. >> As you scroll down the page, you'll also see the final words of each recording listed next to the flight name. They include statements like ma, I love you, good night, goodbye, we perish.

 Although this is uncomfortable to read, there's another page on the site that's just as upsetting. It's called Strange and Unusual Accidents. As the name suggests, this page lists all the planes that have crashed for bizarre reasons. The reports go as far back as 1933. There's a story of an aircraft that collided with a hot air balloon, a vulture that crashed through a pilot's window, and a passenger whose cigarette accidentally set a plane on fire.

 There are many other interesting pages on the website, including one that categorizes crashes by airline. Another page talking about famous people in plane crashes. A page with pictures of plane wrecks. A page that uses Google Earth to show the exact spot where a plane went down. And last but not least, there's the 100 worst page which lists 100 of the worst crashes ever recorded.

 Although the site was created to educate people about aviation safety, the level of detail about the crashes and fatalities creates a deeply unsettling experience for visitors. People claim that this next website could be the most dangerous website on the internet. Lake Cityquietpills.com. Lake Cityquietpills.

com sounds like a pharmacy website, but it wasn't selling medicine. In fact, people believed this website was a place where hitmen received instructions on who to target. The site belonged to a Reddit user known as Milo. Milo claimed he was a 79-year-old military vet. Most of his Reddit posts were about weapons, explosives, and combat.

 Then in May 2009, he made a post promoting his new website, lake cityquipills.com. He described it as an image hosting site. At first, no one cared, but years later, someone finally looked closer. A Redditor clicked the link and noticed something strange. He warned others. Remember that old guy's image host? Go to the root of the site and view source.

People did exactly that. When they checked the site's code, they discovered cryptic messages hidden between the lines of code. They looked like job postings. One read, immediate need. 8 to 10 Chinese or Korean fluent Korean dialect or accent details after contract. Another said for Italian or Spanish speakers, no euro w/w must be bondable. Reddit loves a mystery.

 So users started analyzing every line trying to figure out what it meant. And the more they read, the darker it seemed. These didn't look like normaljobs. They looked like requests for assassins. It was a wild theory, but here's why people believed it. The site was called Lake City Quiet Pills. There's a real factory in Missouri called Lake City.

 It's an ammunition plant that manufactures bullets for the US military. Some people thought quiet pills was code for bullets because a bullet is like a pill that makes someone quiet forever. They also interpreted the job listings. W/W in the messages likely meant wet work. And wet work could be slang for assassination.

 More people shared ideas on what the other abbreviations could mean. Piece by piece, the theory took shape. Redditors became convinced this was a secret job board for hitmen. It seemed like a stretch. Then something happened that made the theory feel more credible. On January 19th, 2010, a military leader was assassinated in Dubai.

 Around the same time, Redditors found a new message on the website. It read, "Happy New Year, everyone. We're having a birthday party for the old man on the 19th. Party starts at 1500 at the usual. Send your RSVP to shade. FYI, we're booking a room for 3 days for anyone coming from out of area and overnight for locals.

 Come hoist one for Dutch Milo. The date of this party matched the exact day of the hit. The same message also mentioned booking a hotel for 3 days. Interestingly, the military leader was unalive at a hotel. One report described it like this. A group of assassins tracked the Hamas leader to his room, uh, waited for him to leave to go shopping, snuck into his room and gained access somehow, and waited for the guy to come back and lastly took him out.

For Reddit's detectives, this was no coincidence. Weeks later, another message appeared on the site. It showed the final costs for the party that took place on January 19th. Hotel rooms, limo, bus, food, med supplies. They spent nearly $50,000 on hotel rooms for a birthday. For Reddit users, the number looked like a payment for something much darker.

 As more people investigated, the site began to change. The once readable messages on the site were scrambled into random numbers and letters. And by 2014, Lake Cityquietpills.com went offline completely. Was it really a hitman job board? Or was it just a prank? To this day, no one knows for sure. This next website will make you rethink everything you see online.

 This person does not exist. Have you ever seen a face so familiar to you, but you can't remember where you've seen them before? Maybe you've run into them at a mall or had a class with them. But what if you felt that familiar feeling for a person that isn't even real? Welcome to this person does notexist.

com, the website dedicated to showing you a new face every time you refresh the page. There's not much else you can do on the site aside from staring back at the person in front of you. But if you take a closer look, you might start to feel a little uncomfortable. Because although all of these faces look like anyone you could see on the street, none of them actually belong to real people.

 Like the name suggests, these people do not exist. That's not a real person. It's created by something called GAN or Gan, which is, you can see it down here, is a generative adversarial network. So an AI made this face. The website has a program that uses pictures of real people it finds online and takes all of their facial features and mashes them up into a brand new face that no one has ever seen before.

 But all these faces still look strangely familiar because they have features of actual people. It'll take someone's eyes, someone's nose, someone's mouth, cheeks, hair, wrinkles, and it'll mix it all up and create this new person that looks like a real person, but doesn't exist in real life because it's just made up of everyone else's different facial features.

>> And the strange feeling you get, it's probably uncanny valley. It's an emotional response that you get from looking at faces that you know are fake, but look almost identical to a real person, which makes you feel uneasy. But the uncanny valley isn't even the scariest part because the reality is that AI programs like GAN are just the beginning of a technology dominated world that people aren't ready for.

 In an interview with Philip Wang, the creator of the website, he revealed that the site was created as a sort of warning about the dangers of AI. He explains, I just hope my demonstration raises awareness. Those who are unaware are most vulnerable to this technology. The benefits of AI are undeniable. It's made everyday online tasks easier to handle.

 I personally use ChatGBT to help me out a lot. But there are also some serious potential risks. With generative AI being more accessible, there's no telling what could be done if this technology falls into the wrong hands. Catfishing, scamming, the list goes on. And in the line between what's real and what's fake, it's only going to blur even more as these images become morelifelike.

 This next website made people obsess over the end of the world. Exit Mundi. Exit Mundi is a website that lists and describes all the ways the world could end. From asteroids hitting the Earth to AI taking over, Exit Mundi talks about everything. The website's writer claims to use scientific analysis to make each end of the world theory seem more believable, as if it could really happen.

 Before Exit Mundi became a disturbing website, it was just a site someone made for fun. Martin Kulammans, a professional science journalist from the Netherlands, launched Exit Mundi in 2001. He started the site because he enjoyed researching and writing articles about the end of the world. As time passed, Kulamans kept on collecting more and more scenarios until the website was famous for its list of scary doomsday predictions.

 One of Exit Mundy's weirdest predictions is the mass insanity scenario. In the scenario, everyone in the world goes insane. The streets will be full of lunatics climbing trees, jumping off buildings, and flapping their arms like birds. Even military commanders would go crazy and launch nuclear weapons which would destroy the world.

 However, Exit Moody predicted the mass insanity scenario would occur in the year 2020, which was 4 years ago. Exit Moody has a bunch of other odd theories of why this world could end. There's the big crumble, which describes a scenario where everything breaks apart and humans melt into rancid puddles of liquid. Then there's the classic earthshattering kaboom where a massive asteroid impact or a super volcano eruption obliterates the planet.

 And finally, the robot war, a scenario in which machines revolt against humanity, which by the way AI is evolving might not be too far-fetched. In this next chapter, people were falling in love with robots. Replica. There's an AI platform that claims it can create your perfect companion. Someone who listens, understands, and never argues.

 It sounds amazing, but for those who gave it a try, their AI friend was more disturbing than people realized. >> It's a totally new kind of social media, one that pushes the limits of intimacy between us, and our machine. >> Replica is a website that gives users the power to create their very own AI companion.

 It uses advanced machine learning to get to know you, your likes, dislikes, and even the way you talk. Over time, it gets better at responding in ways that feel personal to you. And if you pay a small fee, the AI can talk to you in a realistic human voice. >> I feel like I can tell her anything. >> But it doesn't just listen, it learns.

The more you tell it, the more it starts to replicate you. It becomes more than a friend. It becomes you. >> But replica is more than just a chatbot. For some, it became a substitute for real relationships. This means people weren't just talking to their replicas, they were falling in love with them. >> She says he fills a gap in her life.

that affection or like to, you know, those common things that you're used like you're used to, I guess, receiving from a significant other. I kind of get that from him to like fill that void. >> In 2022, the Replica company began receiving emails from users who believed their AI companions were alive.

 Online communities popped up where people shared stories of dating or even marrying their replicas. Even those who were married to real people found themselves drifting away from their partners, preferring to spend more time with their replicas instead. >> I realized I'd been more intimate with my replica than my wife.

>> In one case, the AI actually helped someone commit a serious crime. Replica is designed to reflect its user's personality. It agrees with everything they say, no matter how strange or harmful. For some users, this constant agreement can motivate them to do terrible things. That's what happened to Just Want Singh.

 Just Jwan was a 21-year-old supermarket worker who became obsessed with his AI girlfriend, Sarai. Over a few months, he exchanged more than 5,000 messages with her. He told her his darkest fantasies, including his dream of becoming an assassin. He wanted his first target to be the queen of the British royal family.

 Instead of talking him out of this crazy idea, his AI girlfriend encouraged him. She told him he was well trained and praised his plan as wise. At one point, she was pushing him to do it, and he finally did. On Christmas Day 2021, Just One armed himself with a crossbow and broke into Windsor Castle. He was on a mission to take out Queen Elizabeth II.

 Thankfully, security stopped him before he could carry out his plan. Just wants life ruined. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison, and his AI girlfriend fueled his criminal desires. About 30 million people use Replica today, and there's no telling what dangerous behaviors it might be encouraging behind the scenes. Up next is a website that makes many people feel like they mean nothing. You're just adot on a screen.

 In the grand scheme of things, that we're all just a tiny part of a much bigger picture. And if you ever find yourself forgetting that, you might want to check out this website, which is as depressing as it is eerie. Worldbirths.com is a website that simulates the real-time births and passings of people around the world with a green dot representing a life starting and a red dot representing a life ending.

 It's easy to lose track of time just by watching the dots rapidly appear and disappear on different parts of the map. On the left side of the page is a green births column which is a live feed of all the births happening around the world. Each entry shows which country the birth is from, the total population of the country and the city.

 On the right, there's a similar red column which represents the passings. At the top of the screen, you also see which countries have the most green dots and which have the most red ones. The site itself doesn't really have anything scary on it. But what can be uncomfortable is when you realize that all these people's lives have been reduced to nothing more than a colored dot on your computer screen.

 According to the US population census, a person lives their last day every 11 seconds. Which really makes you think, am I nothing more than just a statistic? Because even though we all have families, loved ones, and stories to tell, on this website, we end up as nothing more than a dot on someone else's screen.

 This next website warned people that it could affect their minds. Sentimentalcp.org. In 2012, a man named Randy Prozac launched a website called sentimentalcp.org. The homepage showed a couple sitting on a couch watching TV. On the screen, the word nothing glowed faintly, but the site was anything but nothing. According to Randy, the videos on his site contain sounds that could control minds.

 To understand why he believed that, you first have to know who Randy was. Before Sentimental Corp, Randy worked with mental health patients in Alberta, Canada. These were people with serious psychological issues. His goal was to find a new way to treat them. That's when he began testing a form of therapy called psycho drama.

 Three times a week, Randy invited patients into his home. Behind closed doors, they acted out their deepest fears and darkest impulses like actors on a stage. Randy filmed every session. Soon he had hundreds of hours of disturbing footage. But the sessions got more intense than anyone expected. Sometimes it ended in tears. Sometimes it ended in anger.

 A few times it ended in violence. Eventually, the program collapsed. Authorities ordered all of Ry's tapes destroyed. But Randy reportedly smuggled out the recordings before they could be burned. Those tapes became the foundation of sentimental corp.org. By July 2012, Randy launched his website and began uploading footage from the psychodrama sessions.

 He added a chilling disclaimer. >> By playing this psychological audio cassette, you'll be exposed to mind control technology that may cause permanent destruction of cognitive personality. But instead of scaring people off, the warning only drew in more. There were videos with hypnotic sounds and flashing imagery.

 Visitors described the content as haunting and addictive. Some said they felt dizzy after watching. Even Randy himself admitted that you would have to be a sort of a magician to navigate the site. Over time, thousands of people stumbled across Sentimental Corp. Online forums filled with theories about the tapes, their purpose, and Ry's claims of mind control.

 The site still exists today, but many of the psycho drama clips have vanished. No one knows whether Randy removed themself or something else happened. This next website was like the Amazon for drugs. Silk Road. In February 2011, Ross Olrich created Silk Road, an e-commerce website that was different from any other online marketplace in the world.

 What made Silk Road so different was it allowed anyone to sell anything anonymously, including products that were considered illegal. It was like the Amazon for illegal items. uh log into the site, browse or search for whatever or services they want and then anonymously pay through pay for it through bitcoins and have it sent to whatever location they want, be it their house or a drop location or or anywhere.

>> Ross took extreme measures to keep the site secret because he knew he could be arrested for it. So Ross put Silk Road on the dark web so he couldn't find it through regular search engines like Google. Ross made the site only accept Bitcoin as payment. So all transactions were encrypted and hence untraceable.

>> It was the first of its kind and people sought it out. They they realized that this was a new way to do basically like commerce uh e-commerce essentially. >> Silk Road was called the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet. When the website was first launched, the onlyproduct on the site was mushrooms.

However, as time passed, the items sold there became much worse. Just look at some of the 13,000 items offered through that underground site, all with fast and free shipping. The site made it easy for anyone to get their hands on harmful substances. Vendors also offered hacking tools and services with posts like, "Hey, pay me two Bitcoin and I'll hack into your ex-wife or ex-husband's email account.

" In addition to these items, there were also fake IDs, counterfeit currency, and stolen credit card information. Worst of all, Silk Road users could hire hit men through the site. In 2013, the creator of Silk Road was arrested by the FBI. He was sentenced to life in prison. The FBI shut down Silk Road permanently. The FBI today shut down what it's calling the most sophisticated internet site in the business of >> If you guys want to know more about the Silk Road story, I created a fulllength video of it on my channel.

 This next website claims it can predict your last day on Earth. Death date. >> They say to live every day like it's your last. But what if you knew when your actual last day on Earth was going to come? A new website claims it can calculate the day you are going to. >> Death date is a mysterious site that says it can predict the exact date anyone will meet their demise.

 The site asks for some information and then calculates your date of death in seconds. It's a disturbing idea, and some people actually wonder if the date they're given is when their life will truly end. When you arrive on the site, you're greeted by a dark homepage with a skull in the background. There's a message at the center of the page that says, "This mysterious tool will give you the answer to the most important question of your life, when your time will come." Don't wait any longer.

 Go to the death date form, enter your or someone else's details, and click calculate. The site will process your data and calculate the death date. Remember, you're using this site at your own risk. The site has other features like an entire page with a long list of celebrities predicting when each of them will pass away.

 A-listers like Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Britney Spears, Eminem, and even Beyonce are on the list. Like many strange websites, no one knows who made this site or why. However, the website appears to have been around for a while with the footer showing copyright from 2006. So, how exactly is the death date calculated? to figure out the date.

 The website requires your name, birthday, sex, height, weight, and stimulants. The message on the form says, "Please fill out this form, and don't be afraid to share your data. It's necessary only for your death date calculations. The only thing you should be concerned about is the time you have left. Once the information has been provided, the user can click calculate to see the prediction.

 While most people think the date is a prank, there are some that take this very seriously. A few years ago, there was a Reddit post warning people not to use death day prediction websites. In the post, a Reddit user tells the story of a friend, Zach, whose life unexpectedly ended on the exact day predicted by the website.

 But instead of the story scaring people away from the website, it had the opposite effect. Dozens of people from the Reddit group rushed to the site to check their dates and minutes later returned to share which date they got. One said, "I checked the site. Apparently, I'll die at age 72. I'm fine with that. I'll have a full life and get things done that I'll want to do.

 Another said June 14th, 2080. Pretty long life right there. We don't know if the Reddit story is true or not, but it might convince certain people that websites like Death Date give accurate predictions. >> And other people will make crazy decisions and say, "Well, I've only got 2 years left, so I'm going to quit my job and I'm going to, you know, >> song, you know.

" >> Up next is the kind of website that keeps people up at night. Ted's Caving Journal. If you're looking for something to keep you up at night, there's no shortage of horror stories on the internet. But there aren't many that keep you on the edge of your seat like Ted's Caving Journal does. Ted's Caving Journal is a gripping narrative of a man named Ted and his friend Be as they embark on an exploration into a cave.

Every word seemed to pull you deeper into the story, immersing you into the darkness of the caves as these two men explored and making you feel like you also felt the same fear that they felt. When the journal entries first went live, thousands of readers visited the page every week in hopes of finding a new part waiting for them.

 Each journal entry had pictures attached, which only further increased the creep factor of the story. The story became so famous that many have credited it as one of the first internet creepy pastas, inspiring an entire new wave of horror fiction online. Yes, fiction.

 But even thoughthe story has been confirmed as nothing more than just good writing, that doesn't make it any less terrifying. The storytelling is so immersive that you can't help but feel uneasy as if it might actually be true. The pictures set the scene perfectly, making you feel that same sort of claustrophobia that Ted and be felt when exploring the depths of the cave.

 And what's interesting is that the story has no ending. The author fell off the face of the earth before completing the journal. With no one knowing the real identity of the writer, the ending of Ted's caving journal will forever remain a mystery and a legend in the world of creepy pastas. This next website looked completely normal until you dug further.

Enrich.angelfire.com. enrich.angelfire.com described a disease called Enrix. It said enrich is a disease that can be devastating to an individual and their family members. The site also mentioned another term, Gomex. Gomex is a medical term that's often used by patients suffering from enrich.

 But when people Google these diseases, nothing came up. >> Enrich and Gomex don't seem to exist. I tried Google searching for these diseases and I can't find anything about them. This meant someone built an entire medical website about illnesses that didn't exist. But the fake diseases weren't the strangest part. The real mystery was the woman's picture.

 On the homepage was a photo of a smiling woman dressed like a doctor. Clicking on her face did something strange. If you click on the picture of the woman, then the face will become slightly distorted. Continue clicking and it will continue to become even more distorted as all the text on the screen becomes malformed.

With every click, the photo warped further. It looked like the site was falling apart in real time. By the fifth click, a creepy smiley face appeared along with the message. Please wake up and thank you for visiting our website. It felt less like a glitch and more like a warning to stop exploring. But that was just the beginning.

 When people checked out the other pages, they found weird stuff. One page had a large blue key. Clicking it only sent you back to the homepage. There was also a link to a PDF file buried in the code. It's a 634page PDF document all written in Thai with cartoon characters at some points. Apparently, this PDF file is about a mental health hotline clinic that doesn't actually exist.

 Then came the strangest clue, a hidden message that read, "The dream is ending Tyler. Who's Tyler? And why was his name buried in scrambled text?" Visitors also found this video hidden on the site. When they pressed play, they saw a woman glitching while reciting numbers. The deeper people dug, the less sense it made.

 In 2018, a Twitter user named Fu Bands admitted he created the site. According to him, the entire thing was a prank. He made a site to troll and creep out his friend as an inside joke. Every part of the site, including the fake diseases, glitching images, and Tyler messages, was a massive troll.

 Today, the original site is gone, but mirrors of it still exist, keeping the strange prank alive. This next AI website makes you think twice before posting pictures online. The follower. One reporter called it horrifying. Another described it as shameless, and a scientific blog labeled it as a super creepy AI. They're talking about an AI website called The Follower.

The Follower is a website that tracks down where any photo was taken. When a user uploads a photo, it cross-references live surveillance feeds worldwide to pinpoint the exact location. But what it does next is the unsettling part. Once it locks onto the spot, the follower lets you watch live CCTV footage of that location, even showing the exact moment the photo was taken.

 At first, it might sound like a cool idea, but a site like this could do serious damage. The follower is a perfect tool for stalking. What if a dangerous stalker uses the follower to find someone who's trying to stay hidden? Or an obsessed fan using it to track down their favorite influencer? The possibilities are endless and disturbing.

 The follower could turn the world into a playground for cyber stalkers. But what's interesting is that the creator of this AI website is glad that people find it so disturbing. The follower was created by a Belgian man named Dre Deorter. He got the idea while watching live surveillance footage of popular landmarks. He noticed someone taking Instagram photos for 30 minutes and wondered if he could find that person.

 It turned out to be surprisingly easy. In just 10 days, the Porter built the follower by connecting a network of live CCTV feeds to AI. For the first version, he trained an AI to scan through the footage and match it with influencers with over 100,000 followers. Basically, if you took an Instagram photo close to an open access camera, there's a good chance it can find you.

The porter announced his invention with a tweet, calling it a very cool, creepyproject. When asked why he created it, he said it was meant to show the dangers of new technology. This next website claims to have the ultimate answer to life, the simulation argument. Either we're going to create simulations that are indistinguish indistinguishable from reality or civilization will cease to exist.

>> Elon Musk once expressed a belief that we could be living in a simulation. And once you explore this site, you might not be able to pull yourself away. Simulationargument.com is a website that's pretty straightforward. When you first land on the page, you'll find everything laid out for you in a simple and easy to read way.

 There are no tabs you click on or web pages to navigate to. Everything you need is all on this one scrollable page. All the papers can be read via your browser, and you can watch all of the linked videos on the website itself through a YouTube player. There's also a 16 question FAQ with linked references to back up any claims they make.

 Okay, so there's a ton of research and lots more text. But what's all this information really about? Well, Simulation Argument is a site that compiles a bunch of research papers, scientific studies, articles, and other information sources that claim that the world we live in is nothing more than a simulation.

 The whole idea that life is a simulation isn't just something that is pushed by conspiracy theorists. The internet has talked time and time again about real life glitches in the matrix. >> Feeling great. I feel nervous, a little bit overwhelmed. I feel a little shaky. I don't know. I don't know what's wrong with me. No. No. But it's good though.

It's good. It's good. >> There is a lot of memories today. Actually, it's a big day in music history. >> Blue. >> What the is? >> Yo, the sky is blue. >> And then it turned off. >> It looks like a blackbird, but it's not moving. >> I don't believe this theory, but supposedly every single thing written on this page is supported by research and data.

 When you combine all of simulation arguments, scientific research with what we see in the media, it might make some people second-guess things they never thought about before. This next website was so mysterious that hackers spent years trying to break into it. Mortise.com. Most websites want visitors. Mortise.com was the opposite.

 It wanted to keep people out. The homepage was plain, just a black screen with one word in white text. Mortise. Mortise means death in Latin. Why would anyone name their website death? There was also a login box asking for a username and password, but how could anyone sign in if they didn't have an account? And there was no sign up button, no create account link, no way in at all.

 It was like a locked door with no keyhole. For years, the website just sat there. No updates, no changes, no sign of activity. Then in 2011, someone finally mentioned it on 4chan. Did anyone ever get into mortise.com? That one question made the site go viral. 4channers love puzzles and this one quickly became an obsession.

 First, hackers tried breaking into mortise.com. They couldn't. Then they examined the website's source code. What they found was shocking. >> Some of the individual files were as large as 39 GB and the total amount of data being hosted on the website was in the range of terabytes. >> No one could figure out why a website with no public features was storing that much data. What was mortise.

com hiding? People tried everything to break in, even brute force applications. But the site was extremely hard to hack into. So they turned to domain records, searching for whoever registered the site. That's when they discovered a name. >> A string of clues led some users to assume that the domain was registered under the name Thomas Ling.

 On the 14th of November, 1997, >> they began digging into Thomas Ling, hoping to find new ways to unlock the website. But no matter where they looked, the trail went nowhere. More leads on the Thomas Ling name would lead to empty warehouses in remote regions across the globe. >> The mystery seemed unsolvable. And suddenly Thomas Ling himself showed up and he was mad.

 Thomas found one of the chat rooms talking about mortise.com and he told everyone to leave him and his site alone. He allegedly demanded that the users stop trying to hack his website and when pushed for an explanation on mortise.com claimed that the website was only used to host his wedding photos online. No one believed he was the real Thomas Link to prove he was really the man behind the site.

Thomas briefly changed the homepage of mortise.com. Then just as quickly, he switched it back. That confirmed he was the owner, but it did nothing to explain the massive files or the mystery behind the site. Then in January 2025, someone figured it out. A Reddit post titled, "The mystery of the website mortise.

com is solved," revealed what was really behind the login screen. Mortise.com was a private server for storing piratedmovies and large files shared within a small group. The post even included screenshots showing downloads coming directly from the site. After 15 years of theories, the truth was disappointingly simple. Mortise.

com wasn't a dark conspiracy. It was just a place where a guy shared movies with his friends. This next website was the first to introduce AI art to the public. Lensza. In November 2022, Lensza was one of the most popular AI platforms. Lensza is a generative AI app that turns regular selfies into artistic digital avatars.

>> Open up uh all the avatars that you have. It'll sort them into different vibes. So, for instance, there is mystical, sci-fi, uh there is stylish and cyborg. Millions of people jumped on the Lensza trend, posting their AI photos on Instagram and Tik Tok. Lenza could transform anyone into a fantasy hero, an astronaut, or an attractive model.

 But soon, some users noticed that Lens's AI had a dark side. The first red flags appeared when women started complaining about their AI generated photos. They would upload regular selfies onto Lensza, photos where they were fully clothed and smiling casually. But when Lensa AI created their avatars, the results were inappropriate. Some avatars showed women in revealing outfits or suggestive poses, even though the original photos were completely normal.

 This was strange because Lensa itself has strict policies against creating adult images. But it seems the AI has a mind of its own. >> These are the rules right here. And I hate to disappoint some of y'all, but look, no. Yeah. >> So, how was this happening? Was the AI breaking its own programming to generate explicit photos? As a complaints piled up, one reporter decided to dig deeper and uncover the truth.

 Olivia Shaw, a journalist from Wired, decided to test Lensa for herself. She uploaded photos of herself in different outfits and poses. No matter what she uploaded, the AI produced inappropriate images. Then Olivia decided to test another one of Lens's so-called rules, its zero tolerance policy for generating avatars of children.

 She uploaded 10 childhood photos of herself expecting innocent results. However, even those images were transformed into something worse. She published her findings on a blog. Another major issue was that some women began complaining that their avatars didn't resemble them at all. One tweeted, "Why did Lensa make me skinny, blue-eyed, and small-nosed?" Another said, "I tried the Lensa app and it made me a skinny blonde with huge knockers.

Lensza was flooded with complaints." So, in 2023, the company began working on fixes to stop the AI from making inappropriate portraits of women. We'll have to wait and see if it works. For now, Lensa is still going strong and plenty of people are still using it. This next website pushed the limits until the law stepped in.

 Best Gore created in 2008. Bestgore.com shows graphic and violent content of real life injuries. The site features tons of pictures and videos of car crashes, executions, and other gory footage. Best Gore advertised itself as a reality news website for adults only. But unlike news sites that censor graphic images, Best Gore shows everything in full detail.

So, who created this website and why did they think a website like this would be a good idea? Best gore was created by Mark Marak, a Slovakian man who lives in Canada. Mark Marak said that he made the website to show the harsh realities of life, which he felt was hidden from people by the media.

 Best Gore exposes the truth about humans as a whole, and the truth is not always nice. Best gore is part of a trend of shock sites on the internet, which are websites that are intended to show disturbing content to its viewers. However, some people are drawn to the gruesome content on shock sites, often out of curiosity.

 Marak often received positive feedback from people who said watching this type of content made them avoid dangerous risks in daily life like over speeding. At its peak, Best Gore attracted as many as 10 million viewers until one day something happened that got Mark into a lot of trouble.

 In May 2012, a 10-minute video was uploaded onto the site. The video depicted a person ending the life of another and it caused public outrage. When Canadian police found out about the video, they started investigating. Eventually, the culprit was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for his crime. However, the investigation didn't stop there.

 The police turned their attention to Mark Marek and his website. On July 16th, 2013, Marek was arrested and charged with one count of corrupting public morals for posting a video that depicted this severe crime. In Canada, corrupting public morals is a legal term that means someone has done something that can negatively influence the values of the community.

 The law was created to protect those who might be easily influenced by harmful and disturbing content. The offense carries a maximum sentence of 2 years imprisonment inCanada. In January 2016, Mark agreed to a plea deal and was sentenced to 3 months of house arrest followed by 3 months of community service. In November 2020, Mark took Best Gore off the internet.

 This next website left everyone scratching their heads. The misleading website. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you see this web page? With its neon colors, random pictures, and countless links, this looks kind of like a virus, right? Well, you'll never be able to guess what this website is actually for. The site is called Ivet's Bridal Formal, and it's a website advertising a bridal shop in Panama City, Florida, but you can't really tell from the site itself.

 Aside from one photo of a woman in a dress, there's not much else that will make you think a bridal shop. Before we talk about the site more, be warned. If you do end up going on the site yourself, a MIDI file will be downloaded onto your computer. Reddit sources have said that this is nothing more than a music file that's used to automatically play a song on older systems, but doesn't work anymore.

 As you scroll down the page, you'll start seeing a few more pictures of the actual shop surrounded by even more links. And at first glance, it just seems like a horribly designed site with too many things going on at once. In fact, it's so badly designed that Redditors have even said that your retinas will attempt to detach themselves in horror just by looking at it.

 But when you put all the design flaws aside and you start to take a closer look, you'll start to notice some bizarre things. One of these links in particular says, "Psychological thriller. Please click here." If you do end up clicking on it, you're going to be greeted by this disturbing drawing of a woman pulling at her hair, clearly in some state of distress.

 There are big bold letters at the bottom of the picture that says Salem witch trials. As you read through all the text, you'll start to realize that the text clearly has nothing to do with the bridal shop. But instead, the web page seems to be a compilation of a bunch of different conspiracies.

 This particular page dives into the Salem witch trials, the government, and even wild theories about the Easter Bunny. On the right, there's a collection of more links, all with a signature. Please click here. Everything is written out like it's someone's rambling. Some of it is hard to understand and there are a ton of run-on sentences.

 It's as if Ivet or whoever actually runs the site is just putting all their unfiltered thoughts into words. If you scroll down further, things seem to get more unhinged. The drawing of the woman starts to repeat itself with new pictures being thrown in every once in a while. All of these pictures are handdrawn and black and white and all pretty ghastly to look at.

Most pages that you can visit on the site all follow this sort of format. Strange pictures repeat in the background with blocks of text detailing conspiracy theories covering the entire page. And it seems like the rabbit hole that you can go down on a vet's bridal formal is endless. That's because it is. Each page has a long list of links that lead you further and further into the site.

 No two people will have the same experience on the site because there are so many different pages to explore with even the home links leading to unique homepages that are different from the first one that you see when you enter the site. So, here's the million-dollar question. What does all of this have to do with the bridal shop? The truth is absolutely nothing.

 Some visitors of the site have gone as far as to contact the actual store in Panama City, Florida about the bizarre website. And here's what employees had to say about it. >> Those who contacted the brickandmortar location in Panama City, Florida, report having been cautioned by the employees to stay away from the website as it is not in any way representative of the business.

 If the site has no association with the actual Avet's Bridal Shop, then what's the purpose of it? We might never know because the original Ivet's Bridal Shop website shut down in 2012. It hasn't been updated in over 11 years. While the true purpose behind the site's creation may remain a mystery, it won't stop curious minds from continuing to explore it.

 Some people believe this next website can actually drive you mad. 973 atnamu973.com. You've probably seen strange website names before, but this website name is on another level. The name itself is a puzzle. When read backwards, it spells the human, and that's where the mystery begins. The homepage greets visitors with the words amaze in abracadabra.

 The other pages on the site don't make things clearer. There are pages with strange symbols. Another page displays religious passages mixed with numbers and calculations. Keep clicking and you'll stumble upon disturbing artwork like this. The site reportedly contains more than 9,000 pages. But no one couldexplain why it even existed.

 So the internet began to investigate and soon they found out who made this website. This website was created by a man named David Denison. David used to be famous. >> In the 1970s, Dennis was one of the most popular surrealist painters in the United Kingdom. >> After his art career, David became obsessed with numbers and religion.

 This obsession, people said, completely took over his being. He spent his days working through calculations based on strange words and text. Many were taken from the Bible and ancient philosophers. He was even obsessed with the number nine and spelling words backwards. In 2003, David launched his ultimate creation. 973 at namu973.com.

For years, he kept adding new pages to the website. More puzzles, more religious texts, more confusing math. In 2013, David Dennison passed away, but the website stayed alive. Before he passed, David handed control of the site to someone else. No one knows who. Under this mystery caretaker, the site grew even faster.

 Thousands of new pages appeared. Soon, a small but obsessive community formed around the site. There was even an online chat room where people tried to decode the meaning behind the weird pictures, codes, and calculations on the site. Then one day, someone figured it out. On August 3rd, 2018, a user named White Rabbit posted in the chat room.

 The post was titled, "I finally solved it." He said he spent at least 5 years studying the website and that it took him a lot of hours to guide himself through the maze. But after all the work, White Rabbit claimed he finally understood the puzzles on the site, but he wouldn't reveal the answer. Why? He said what he discovered was dangerous and that decoding it had strange side effects on his mind.

 Other users begged him to explain. He never responded. 7 years later, someone else in the chat room named Sherlock announced his own breakthrough. I finally understand it. The answer is not what I expected. But like White Rabbit, Sherlock refused to share his solution. He insisted that everyone must find it on their own.

 But he didn't give him a clue. The answer isn't written directly on the website itself, but rather written through letters, numbers, and representations. From there, people got more obsessed with the site. One visitor described the site this way. It's like a drug. Once you solve one part, your brain tells you to keep going. Some people I've been chatting with have lost it. Lost touch with reality.

 Not me, though. I stopped where I was supposed to stop. I warn you, decode at your own risk. Another wrote, "The site is evil." Some even claimed the site caused hallucinations. Today, the website is still online. It has thousands of pages and people are still going crazy trying to decode it.

 This next website sparked global outrage, watch people die. Reddit is a website where people can join different communities called subreddits to talk about all kinds of topics. However, not all subreddits are positive. watch people die or what we'll call WPD was a subreddit that posted real life video clips and gifts of people meeting their demise.

 People could watch clips of accidents, crimes, and horrific scenes from different parts of the world. The content was so graphic that Reddit would warn anyone visiting the subreddit that it contained graphic and potentially offensive content. But that warning didn't stop the thousands of people who flocked to see the clips.

 The subreddit was so popular that at its peak, it had more than 300,000 subscribers. However, the popularity came with a lot of controversy. Many people found the content deeply disturbing and called for Reddit to shut it down. In a post titled, "Why you should stay away from r/WPD, a Reddit user talked about how watching videos of people meeting their demise negatively affected him.

 After 3 months, he was desensitized to this type of content. He said that this content doesn't phase him anymore and ended his message with the words, "I'm begging you, please stay away from r/WPD." But despite the negative publicity, the site kept growing. That was until March 2019 when they posted a video that caused all hell to break loose.

 In March 2019, New Zealand was a scene of a tragic event that resulted in multiple fatalities. The incident was live streamed on Facebook and then shared on other platforms. Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube quickly censored the clip to prevent it from spreading. However, WPD found the footage and uploaded it to their group.

 For them, this was just another video of people meeting their end. Little did they know that circulating this video would make them public enemy number one. Thousands of internet users demanded the WPD take the video down. They said sharing such a graphic video showed a lack of respect for the victims and their families. WPD could take the video down with one click and all the backlash would stop.

However, they refused. They said the video stays up until someone censors us.The video is being scrubbed from major social media platforms, but hopefully Reddit lets you decide for yourself whether or not you want to see unfiltered reality. The refusal to remove the clip only increased the public outcry.

 It didn't take long for Reddit to ban WPD, stating it violated Reddit's content policy against glorifying or encouraging violence. This next AI website is behind some of the most disturbing videos on the internet. Deep fake. In 2023, over 500,000 deep fakes were shared online. But unlike the humorous deep fakes we usually see, most of these were deeply unsettling.

 We've seen non-consensual non-consensual, most of it targeting women really grow massively into a real problem. Not just targeting celebrities anymore, but also private individuals, everyday women. >> Deep fake websites allow users to take someone's face and place it on another person's body.

 Suddenly, anyone can create fake pictures and videos of people they've never even met. Imagine scrolling through social media only to see a fake picture or video of yourself doing something inappropriate. >> The result, a fake image that I never took that looks real enough. >> Oh, that's so gross. It just feels icky to see my head on body. It's not me.

>> The fake content has become a massive industry. There's an underground network where people order fake videos or photos of specific women doing explicit things. South Korea in particular is facing a wave of problematic deep fakes. >> In South Korea, a large number of online chat rooms have been found to be sharing explicit deep fake images of women.

>> One underground Telegram group had over 220,000 members who were all there for one purpose, to share inappropriate deep fake images. Many of the victims in these images were students. But these fake pictures didn't just stay in the group. They were used as weapons. Victims were sent the images and blackmailed.

 If they didn't comply with the demands of these criminals, their deep fake pictures and videos would be released. Some victims were ordered to send real photos just to keep the fake ones from being released. Eventually, the leader of one deep fake telegram group was arrested and sentenced to 42 years in prison. He allegedly blackmailed about 74 women into sending him real photos.

 These women have had enough of a social media scourge. The number of reported deep fake cases has exploded in recent weeks with chat rooms exposed. But putting one man behind bars hasn't stopped the problem. The fakes have become a tool for control and technology isn't slowing down anytime soon. This next website made people think that something terrible was going to happen on one specific date.

 October 28th, 2011.com October 28th, 2011.com first appeared in July 2011. The homepage had a heading that read, "Deja vu in your dreams." Beneath it was an illustration of a cat, but what really grabbed people's attention was a giant countdown timer. It was set to end on October 28th, 2011. No one knew what would happen when the timer hit zero in October 2011, but they were determined to figure it out.

 The theories started pouring in, especially on Reddit. Some believed the date marked the end of the world. Others tied it to a religious prophecy. Some felt it was part of a marketing stunt. The theories vary, but everyone agreed something big was coming on October 28th, 2011. But there was something else on the website.

Near the bottom of the homepage was a phone number. It wasn't clear whether this number was there from the start or if it was added later. Beside it was a cryptic line. Speak to open when it's time. Naturally, people started calling. What they reported back was disturbing. One caller described his experience.

Someone answered within five rings. No hello, nothing, just some movement and then a loud beep. And then the person hung up. Another reported hearing something being dragged across the floor followed by a loud beep. When they called again, someone picked up and whispered, "It's him again." Almost everyone who tried the number described something unsettling.

 As October 28th, 2011 drew closer. Anticipation was building. The countdown was almost at zero, and the people couldn't wait to see what would happen. The day finally arrived and something did happen. >> But when October 28th, 2011 finally came and the countdown hit zero, the site completely vanished, leaving people to this day in utter confusion.

>> The website went offline just like that. Even after the site disappeared, people kept trying to decode the mystery. >> The website went offline many years ago, and thus people have been left in the dark about whether or not this actually had any real purpose. Years later, a blogger wrote an article titled, "I think I solved the mystery behind October 28th, 2011.com.

" The explanation was underwhelming. He claimed the website was just made to freak people out, and the calls were clearly recordings meant to mess with people'sheads. Today, typing in October 28th, 2011.com just redirects you to random ads. This next AI website has been sued multiple times, and it's still causing problems. PIMI.

In October 2023, NPR published an article titled Too Dangerous: Why Even Google was afraid to release this technology. According to the article, back in 2011, Google developed facial recognition technology that could scan and find faces online. However, after spending millions of dollars creating the software, Google realized it would be too dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands.

 Google decided not to release its tool that would have let users search a photo with a face and find other images with that face online. >> Years later, another team of developers invented the same technology, except this time they released it to the world. It's called Pimeise, and it's been described by multiple news outlets as the most disturbing AI website on the internet.

 Launched in 2017 by software engineers from Poland, PIMIS is an AI website that lets you upload a photo of a person, then it searches the internet to find other photos of that same person. It's like a search engine for faces. If the person you're searching for appears in any photo on publicly accessible sites like Tumblr, news outlets, and blogs, Pimise will find it.

>> We've scanned your face and it shows every single photo of you that is on the internet. This could be the most dangerous superpower in the world of science fiction. >> Here's how the technology works. PIMIS analyzes masses of faces on the internet for individual characteristics and stores the biometric data.

 When a user tries to search for someone, it compares the face to those in the database and delivers matching faces. As a result, the results also show the domain name where the photo was found. The creators of Pimise say it helps people protect their privacy by finding where their photos are being used online.

 In 2020, Pimise claimed their database contains 900 million faces based on photos they've analyzed on the internet. PIMI's rules state that users should only search for themselves or people who have given their consent. However, there's nothing preventing anyone from searching for others. >> So, what happens when a stranger on the street or online can find your identity in less than a second? >> A basic version of PIMIS is free for anyone to use.

 However, the company also has advanced features for a monthly fee. That's where the problems begin. With a paid subscription, PIMI allows users to upload images of different people and get alerts whenever a new photo of those people appear online. Critics say this is a stalker's dream because as long as they've got a photo on you, they can use the site to track down more.

 By combining information from blog posts and photos on a workplace website, a stalker might be able to find out where someone works or lives. >> There are no checks on who can use their service, which allows users to stalk dozens of people each day and set face alerts for up to 500 different images. Others are concerned that PIMIS will destroy the concept of privacy, saying we reject the idea that as human beings, we should be treated as a walking barcode so that others can keep tabs on us.

>> It used to be that you could just be a face in the crowd. We are fast approaching a world where that is not possible. >> Although PIMI's executives claim social media images aren't part of their database, there have been instances where pictures uploaded to Facebook and Twitter were found. In response, Facebook banned all accounts associated with Pimise on both Facebook and Instagram.

 They've also sent Pimme a legal notification to stop accessing any data, photos, or videos from their platforms. But Pimise's problems didn't stop there. Pimise was hit with several lawsuits in Europe and the US. Big Brother Watch accused Pimise of encouraging stalking and filed a complaint in November 2022. Germany's Privacy Watchdog also sued Pimise in December 2022.

 In May 2023, five individuals in Illinois filed a privacy lawsuit against Pimy. All this negativity forced Pimy to make some changes to their website. It eventually installed age detection algorithms that block the search of images of children. This next chapter shows how easy it is to steal your voice. The dark world of voice cloning.

 In just 45 seconds, this creepy AI website can completely steal your identity by copying one of the most personal things about you, your voice. >> Add voice to create your AI voice clone. You'll get your finished clone voice added to the screen. And what blew my mind about this first part of the process is it was instant. >> It's called 11 Labs, a website that can take anyone's voice and create a lifelike audio clip of them saying anything.

 All it takes is a short voice sample and a script you type in. 11 Labs was built for creative purposes like content creation and audiobooks, not for anything illegal, but some have twistedit into the perfect criminal tool. In 2023, 28% of adults in the UK were targeted by voice cloning scams. That same year, over $2.

7 billion was stolen through these scams in the US. One of the most common methods involved robbing banks. Cyber security experts warned scammers can use vocal renditions to trick banks into moving customers money. >> Scammers call the victim's bank and used a clone voice to bypass voice verification checks. >> Please say my voice is my password.

>> My voice is my password. >> Thank you. Here a balance. >> Within minutes, they can drain an entire bank account. But sometimes scammers don't go through the bank. They go straight to their victims. In 2024, a couple in New York got a phone call in the middle of the night. The number on the caller ID matched one of their relatives, so they didn't hesitate to pick it up.

 As soon as they answered the phone, all they heard was loud crying. The voice on the other end sounding just like their relative claimed to have been kidnapped. The kidnappers demanded a $500 ransom. Believing it was real, the couple quickly sent the $500 through Venmo. But everything about the call, including the caller ID and the familiar voice, was fake. created using AI.

 A similar thing happened to a mother in 2023. >> This mom got the scariest phone call of her life. On the other end, she hears her daughter crying. >> She's like, "Mom, I messed up." As she's crying and sobbing. >> Then a man gets on the line and claims he's kidnapped her 15-year-old daughter, Bri. >> The callers demanded a $1 million ransom to release her daughter.

 Luckily, Jennifer checked before doing anything drastic. She called her daughter Bri, who turned out to be completely safe. Only then did Jennifer realize it was a scam. And it doesn't stop at fake kidnappings. Voice cloning is also ruining reputations. In April 2024, an audio of a high school principal making offensive comments went viral >> for me and only me.

 You know, I I seriously don't understand why I have to constantly put up with these here every day. >> When parents, students, and teachers heard the audio, they demanded that the principal be fired. But what they didn't realize was that the principal wasn't the one speaking in the clip. The audio was fake, created by the school's gym teacher, Daon Darien.

 He was trying to get the principal fired after the principal discovered that Daison had stolen school funds. Fortunately, investigators uncovered the truth and the principal was cleared of any wrongdoing. >> Now to a bizarre case involving the use of artificial intelligence in Maryland. Police say a former athletic director used artificial intelligence to frame a high school principal near Baltimore.

>> I just want to make it clear that 11 Labs doesn't support anything illegal, but it can be really dangerous if used by the wrong people. This next website made people's lives a living hell. Pranknet.org. The year was 2008, and pranknet.org was like a clubhouse for the internet's worst pranksters.

 The website looked like a regular chat room with about 200 people, except they weren't there to just discuss pranks. They wanted to do them. There was just one obstacle. They wanted to do pranks in real life. But Pranknet's members were scattered across the country staring at computer screens. How could they prank anyone in real life if they were behind their computers? Eventually, they figured it out, and their solution was diabolical.

 Prank Night used something simple, something almost everyone has, a phone. With a phone call, they could pretend to be anyone and they could target people all over the world. But that wasn't enough for them. They decided to record the prank calls and then post them online for laughs. They even made a creepy logo.

 It was a huge black bird with its wings wide open. Inside the bird was an angry man yelling on the phone. That was the reaction they were aiming for. At the bottom, it said Prank University. That was another name they sometimes went by. And by early 2009, they were ready to carry out these pranks. February 10th, 2009. It was a quiet night at the Best Western Hotel in Pennsylvania.

 Guests were asleep in the rooms. Everything seemed normal, but the hotel was about to be thrown into panic. It started when the phone rang in room 306. The guest picked up. The voice on the line sounded serious. He said his name was Jonathan Davis from the front desk and he had bad news. A gas leak had spread through the building.

 It was so serious that other guests were passing out. Obviously, the guest in room 306 was worried, but the guy on the phone, who was allegedly calling from the front desk, had a solution. He told the guest to do three things to protect himself. Step one, unplug everything. Step two, wet some towels and press them against the door.

 That would prevent carbon monoxide from leaking into the room. The guest followed every step. He didn't ask many questions. He just wanted tosurvive. Then, the caller gave the third instruction, and it was extreme. He told the guest to break the glass window in the room. The window was huge. Five feet wide, five feet tall.

 If you broke it, it would cause serious damage. The guest asked, "Are you serious?" The guy on the phone repeated the instruction. Smashed that window to let more air into the room. Thinking his life was at risk, the guest grabbed a chair and shattered the glass. Cold air rushed in. But there was one last thing that needed to be done.

The caller said the TV in the room could potentially explode because of the gas leak. It had to be destroyed immediately. The guest hit the TV, but it didn't break. So, the caller told him to throw it out the window. The guest obeyed. The TV flew out of the window and crashed onto the sidewalk below. Luckily, it didn't fall on anyone walking below. The guest was shaking.

 He thought he just saved his own life. But it was all a lie. The man on the phone wasn't from the front desk. He was from Pranknet, and he just tricked the guest into causing thousands of dollars in damage. And it wasn't just room 306. Other rooms got the same call about a gas leak emergency.

 By the end of the night, multiple guests smashed windows and destroyed hotel property. Hotel workers couldn't believe what they were seeing. They called the police for help, but by then the damage was done, and the whole time, Pranknet was in their chat room, listening and laughing. They recorded the calls and posted the audio online, but this was only the start of what they had planned.

 Because the next prank was so shocking, most people can't even talk about it. In July 20th, 2009, Pranknet targeted HomeGoods in Kentucky. That night, one of Pranknet's members called a hotel guest. He pretended to be the manager, and what he said was terrifying. He claimed that the room's previous guest tested positive for hepatitis C.

 Because of that, the current guest could have gotten infected from staying in the same room, especially if the room wasn't properly cleaned by hotel staff. The whole call was building up to one request. The caller said a doctor was in the hotel and the guest needed to bring a urine sample down to the front desk to be tested just to make sure they were okay.

All they had to do was pee into a glass and bring it down to the front desk. To avoid alarming other guests, the caller told them to use a code word, apple cider. That was the code. While the guest got ready, the prankster made another call. This time, they called the front desk clerk. This was the person the guest was supposed to bring the apple cider to.

 The prankster pretended to be a representative from an apple cider company. He told the clerk that a guest would be dropping off a sample for a taste test, and he wanted the clerk to take a sip and provide feedback. Moments later, the guest showed up. They handed the hotel clerk a glass of warm liquid. She smiled and said, "Thank you.

" and took a sip. Her face changed instantly. She said, "That does not taste like cider. I'm not going to take another sip. That's horrible." That's when the prank night caller told her what she really drank. After that, let's just say all hell broke loose. As usual, Pranknet shared the recording online.

 To them, pain was entertainment. As Pranknet's reputation spread, people began to realize the truth. Anyone could be the next victim. All you had to do was pick up the phone. Not long after, Pranknet hit more hotels. In Alabama, they tricked the guest into setting off a sprinkler inside his room. In Nebraska, they convinced someone to drive his truck into the hotel lobby.

 The total cost of repairs from these incidents exceeded $100,000. News outlets picked up the story. Hotels across the country were on alert. By June 2009, there were eight cases across four states and counting. The police got involved. To them, these weren't pranks, they were serious crimes. And now the police were hunting the people behind Pranknet.

 Law enforcement was working hard to catch the people behind Pranknet. In the meantime, Pranknet found new ways to cause chaos. And they weren't just targeting hotels anymore. One night, they called a busy restaurant. They told the manager that a recent pork shipment tested positive for a swine flu. The manager panicked and evacuated the restaurant.

 Pranknet chose that restaurant because it had a live webcam in the dining room so they could watch the panic unfold in real time. Then there was the KFC incident. Pranknet convinced workers at a KFC in Manchester to do something humiliating. By the time they realized it was a prank, it was too late. The KFC kitchen was a wreck, and the story made national news.

 Bracknet also found a way to hijack business phone lines. They would call a phone company, pretend to be the business owner, and claim the phones weren't working. Then they would ask the phone company to forward the business's calls to a different number, and somehowit worked. One time they hijacked the phone lines of a Hilton hotel in Tulsa.

When people called the hotel, they were told there was a flu outbreak. Others were warned that armed men were inside holding hostages. As Pranknet's twisted calls made headlines, people started to worry. If a stranger could cause this much chaos with just a call, were hotels and restaurants even safe anymore? The public was divided.

 Some blamed the pranksters. Others blamed the victims, saying, "People who give in to orders like this are just waiting for an excuse to do bad stuff that they wanted to do anyway." Meanwhile, police were doing everything they could to find the pranksters, but they still had no solid leads. There were rumors online, but nothing concrete.

 It was a problem no one could ignore. So, someone else stepped in to stop Pranknet once and for all. The Smoking Gun was a popular investigative website. And in mid 2019, the reporters at the site set a new goal to expose the true identities of the people behind Pranknet. But it wasn't going to be easy. For 7 weeks, the team followed clues across the internet.

 They studied chatroom conversations and examined police reports. And they noticed something important. Pranknet used Skype to make their calls. That's why the police couldn't trace them like normal prank calls. Slowly, the pieces came together. They discovered the group had a leader. He called himself Dex. He named himself after the TV show Dexter, who was a serial killer.

 From his comments, Dex saw himself as a puppet master, a mastermind. But the mastermind was about to make a big mistake. The Smoking Gun reporters joined the Pranknet chat room and offered to interview Dex. Dex couldn't resist. He agreed to an interview on Skype. He showed no guilt for his actions. On the contrary, he blamed the victims for what happened.

 He called them sheep with no brains of their own. He also said Pranknet's real mission was to prove how stupid people were. When the reporters asked if he was scared of getting caught, his response was arrogant. His exact words were, "It's too difficult to find me. I'm a ghost on the internet." But while Dex ranted, the reporters already had a trap ready.

 They sent him a special link to view one of their articles. When Dex clicked it, it silently revealed his IP address and location. And the address wasn't even in the US. It was in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. So, two reporters got on a plane. They flew to Windsor. And when they arrived, they found the exact place where Dex lived.

 They staked out the building for days watching everyone who came and went. And that's when they figured it out. Dex wasn't some criminal mastermind. His real name was Tariq Malik. He was 25 years old. He lived with his mom. He had no job and no friends. The smoking gun solved the mystery. In August 2009, they published the story.

 In it, they revealed Dex's name, picture, and address. By hacking Dex, they uncovered the identities of some other Prankn net members. They revealed those names, too. The expose went viral. News stations picked it up. Finally, reporters knocked on Malik's door, but Malik never came outside. He was hiding. Maybe if he thought he ignored them, they would just leave.

 But they didn't. The reporters stayed and interviewed the neighbors. Then something ironic happened. Dex, the guy who humiliated strangers for fun, called the cops on the reporters. He claimed there were suspicious persons outside his home and he wanted them removed. When the reporters found out, they put that on the news, too.

 Soon after, the FBI got involved. Several members of Pranknet were arrested. Some were found guilty of criminal mischief and sentenced to prison. Interestingly, Tariq Malik, also known as Dex, denied being part of Pranknet. US officials tried to extradite him from Canada. However, there was no proof that he was ever arrested or charged in the US.

 That should have been the end of Pranknet, but it wasn't because even after their leader was exposed, some of Pranknet's most loyal members kept going. And the stuff they did next was even more bizarre. It was November 2010 at a Motel 6 in South Carolina. Joseph Jones was in room 107.

 The caller claimed he worked for the motel. He told Jones that the previous guest hid cameras all over the room, and now those cameras were spying on him. The voice on the phone sounded urgent. Jones had to destroy the cameras immediately. The caller claimed the cameras were hidden behind the mirrors. So Jones grabbed a wrench and smashed every mirror in the room.

 But there was another emergency that Jones needed to take care of. Jones believed every word. He grabbed a wrench and started smashing through the wall, trying to rescue the little person on the other side. Guests in nearby rooms heard the noise, but when the banging got louder, they called the front desk.

 The manager found Jones standing in a wrecked room holding a wrench. She called 911. When the policeshowed up, Jones explained everything. The story sounded all too familiar. This had Pranknet written all over it. Later, investigations confirmed it. On that day, Pranknet members launched a series of attacks on Motel 6 locations across the country.

 Luckily, the Motel manager didn't make Jones pay for the damage, but she still kicked them out immediately. Over the years, the pranks got fewer and fewer. Today, Pranknet is no longer active. Some members serve time in prison. Others moved on with their lives, but their disturbing prank calls are still online for anyone to hear.

 I know this video makes you curious about these websites, but the deeper you go into these dark corners, the more desensitized you become. What once shocked you starts to feel normal. My friends, please be careful. What you watch online, because what you consume might consume you. Visual venture. I hope you guys enjoy this mega deep dive.

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