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In 2010, 5 climbers from china decided to scale the Nanga Parbat Mountain in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. They were expert mountaineers with many 8000ers under their belt. They had left with a Pakistani guide and cook from Islamabad and were aided by the Alpine Club of Pakistan who also organized their mountaineering expedition. On their way they stayed in Chilas for a day before continuing their journey deeper into the Askole district. They arrived in the Nanga Parbat base camp on July 5 and stayed there for a week during which they were joined by a German mountaineering expedition which comprised of two persons.



Members of the Chinese expedition left to climb the mountain on July 12, for two days they maintained radio contact with the base camp where the two German mountaineers were present along with the cook, the guide had left with the Chinese expedition. On the third day, satellite phone communication with the climbers was lost, attempts to make radio contact ended in failure, so the two Germans decided to go after the Chinese in hopes of making contact. They also told the cook to stay at the base and try contacting the sponsors via radio communication equipment present at the base.

On July 16, attempts to ping the base camp were made but there was no reply so a party of two persons was sent to investigate. The party reached the base camp on July 17 and reported that the whole camp was empty and trashed as well with broken windows, doors and stuff scattered all over the place. Three days later a search and rescue team arrived at the camp and they began looking for the climbers as well as the Pakistani cook and guide. The cook had no reason to leave the camp and go with the climbers so his whereabouts were difficult to pin-point, it seemed unlikely (from the magnitude of damage to the base camp) that it was overrun by wild animals, more focus was being put on whether this could be a terrorist attack but there were no bullet holes or even stray bullets lying around. Many people speculated that it could be a violent storm but the nature of the damage suggested “breaking and entering”.

On July 21, the search party got a lead to one of the climbers, they found some safety equipment lying around near the mountain base and away from the camp, they found marks in the snow leading away, from their shape they appeared to be marks made from mountaineering boots. There seemed to be only one pair of tracks and following them led to a pair of mountaineering boots submerged in snow. Taking them out and examining them closely revealed that the feet were already present in the boots, they had obviously been amputated, someone or something or some event had caused this. Search and rescue were appalled by this discovery and took this with them for further analysis to determine whose it might be. Further search attempts yielded no result as no sign of any other living person could be found, after about three weeks the search was called off and the mountaineers were pronounced dead, probably by an avalanche. The German and Chinese embassies were notified of their respective loss, local news channels in Pakistan picked up the story and kept airing it for about a month before moving on back to local politics. The incident was soon forgotten as a terrible tragedy.

Approximately four months later a video emerged on YouTube which initially had little more than 30 views. It was published by a channel that appears to be recently made on the video sharing website, the name of the channel was wagey. The first video was simply titled MOV_10710 and it showed video footage from a bad mobile camera, the footage was badly pixelated and there was no audio and was mostly shaky but appears to show a hilly area with snow and night time. The minute long video appeared to be random footage of the outside except for the last 10 seconds where it zooms in to a cabin in the distance with the lights on, it’s hard to make out exactly who and how many people can be seen in the cabin.

This was soon followed by another obscure video uploaded on the same channel a week later, this time of much better quality as it appears to be taken using a different mobile camera, there was still no audio and the footage was titled MOV_17710. The footage showed inside of the same cabin that was shown in the last ten seconds of the previous video. The video is mostly of the person going around inside the cabin rummaging through stuff present there, this one was also just a minute long with the last 15 seconds focused on a piece of equipment on a table which appeared to be some sort of communication equipment, the person who was recording the video took the walkie talkie in his hands for a moment and appeared to be willing to answer it but puts it back again. The video ends.

A week later another video is uploaded named MOV_19710, the videos still barely had any views and there were no subscribers to the channel. This time the video showed the exterior shot of the same cabin but this time with other people going around the cabin apparently searching for something, the camera quality was much better as the footage might have been recorded using the mobile camera in the previous video. The footage is again only a minute long and the entire footage shows a zoomed in view of the cabin with the people frantically moving inside. There was again no audio but in the last 5 seconds the video blacks out and a heavy voice could be heard in the background. It was someone speaking in Pashto, the language most commonly spoken in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and northern parts of Pakistan including Gilgit-Baltistan. The Pashto in English roughly translated to “yes I’m coming”.

For another month nothing else was uploaded on the channel and during this time the views on the previous videos barely crossed a hundred views and there were no comments under any of them either which reflected the general disregard for the content of those videos. There were two channel subscriptions but other than that there was nothing else of importance. About a month after the previous video was uploaded, another video was uploaded on the same channel, and this one was about 3 minutes long. The video didn’t have any audio and appeared to be recorded using the mobile camera in the first video, it showed the dark interior of a home, this wasn’t the cabin that was in the previous videos but was some other building. There was no light and the person who was recording the video seemed to be carrying a dim lamplight with him. First two minutes simply show him roaming around with no visible idea of what he wants to do. Then he opens a door and makes his way downstairs, the room in which he arrives is well lit and shows a man with his wrists bound to a makeshift bed (called a palang in Pakistan) and blindfolded with a handkerchief, his mouth was also gagged with a handkerchief and he seems to be sweating profusely but doesn’t show any signs of consciousness when the mobile camera gets close to his face. Right at the end of the video the camera shows that his feet seem to be amputated and cloth bound where the feet were cut away. There also appeared to be blood on the floor.

Just like all the other videos, this one didn’t receive much views either, in fact even after a month it barely got more than 50 views. Around the same time another video had been uploaded on the channel. This time the video was 20 minutes long and contained audio as well. The video quality was much better and one can clearly see what was happening and what the concerned persons in the video were saying. First 5 minutes showed an empty chair in the room that was shown at the end of the previous video, one can hear two men arguing in the background in Pashto, they appear to be arguing over money and local politics, many times the audio simply glitches out and it’s hard to make sense of what they were discussing. After about 5 minutes the conversation ends and a door can be heard opening and closing. Then footsteps can be heard as if they were coming down a stairway. Then a man with a red cloth wrapped all over his head can be seen carrying another man. He puts the man in the chair, the man’s arms and legs were tightly wound with rope and pieces of cloth while he was also gagged and blindfolded. There was no audio after this as the person in the chair can be seen trying to struggle and move out of the chair. During this time, the other man holds him to the chair and appears to be saying something to the other man after which he calms down and stops struggling anymore. The audio comes back again and the man bound and gagged on the chair can be heard breathing heavily, he moans sometimes too in an effort to breathe from his mouth since the place where he was appears to be quite suffocating. The audio glitches out again and the other man returns this time with a large kitchen knife, the man sitting on the chair seems calm as he is blindfolded and unable to see what the other man was carrying, the man appears to whisper something to the other guy before violently stabbing him in the stomach three times. The bound and gagged man falls from the chair trying very hard to scream out of his gag while he bleeds from his stomach, the video continues with the man struggling on the floor in front of the camera, after about 2 minutes of this the man with the knife comes near the camera to shut it down and that’s where the video ends.

The next video came just two days after this, by now the subscribers for the channel had crossed a 100 and the previous videos had started receiving views in the number of thousands with many comments in English, Urdu (language commonly spoken in Pakistan) and Pashto, most comments claimed that the content in the videos appeared to be fake and it was probably a set up. The new video that was posted was about a minute long and it showed the man from the previous video (who had still wrapped up some cloth around his face to hide it) cooking in a kitchen while someone was recording him using a poor quality mobile camera while constantly engaging in conversation with him. As before, the language they were speaking in was Pashto and they appeared to be discussing how the guy (most probably the one in the previous video) reacted when he was stabbed relentlessly to which the guy who was cooking let out a laugh before saying “he took it well” in Pashto. This continues for about a minute, the last five seconds of the video show both men reacting to a loud screaming noise coming from somewhere and then the video ends.

Approximately two weeks later another video was uploaded on the channel, this one was long with a running time of 20 minutes, and it contained audio and seemed to involve three men. One was obviously the one who was recording (this time with a better quality mobile camera) and the other carried a lot of rope and pieces of cloth and the third guy lay on the floor unconscious. The video proceeds with the guy tying up the unconscious person while being recorded, they occasionally exchange remarks about the third unconscious guy in Pashto but mostly they stay silent. After tying up the arms and legs of the unconscious man he then proceeds to stuff a cloth into his mouth and then wrapping another cloth over his mouth to make a tight gag. After this he blindfolds the guy and goes to another part of the room and starts pulling a rope which was tied to the unconscious man’s feet. The man recording all this backs up a little to show how the unconscious man was being pulled up to be hung upside down. During this whole process, the unconscious man starts to regain consciousness as he is dragged across the floor to be lifted and, after realizing the predicament of his situation starts to violently shake around to get free from the rope bounds while also trying to scream through the gag which became evident from the loud moaning. The other two guys didn’t feel threatened by this behavior which became apparent when they started laughing and taunting the guy in Pashto. After getting the bound man to quite some height from the floor, one of them leaves the room for a moment while the other guy continues recording the man struggling in the upside down position and laughing at him while he does that. The other man returns with a bowl which he places beneath the upside down man. He then takes a knife and places it at the throat of the man and warms him in Pashto to not move so much or else he would be killed. This worked and the bound and gagged man stopped moving and moaning at the same time. The camera gets closer to the bound man and the other man with the knife drags the bowl so that it is just beneath the bound man’s head, he then proceeds to cut the man’s neck quickly while holding his head, the bound man tries to scream through his gag but his screams soon turn to a whimper as more than half of his neck appears to be cut clean with blood oozing out and falling into the bowl beneath. The guy with the knife holds the head a little back to allow most of the blood to fall into the bowl. The video ends here.

Two days later another video was uploaded to the YouTube channel, the subscribers and video views had barely gotten more by now, in fact the channel seems to have lost some subscribers as well while this new video barely had more than 30 views. This new video again had footage from the bad quality mobile camera and showed children playing in the street. There were six children and they were playing football and the man who was recording them would occasionally engage in conversation with one of the kids, most of the time he would ask the kids whether they want to come to his home for some sweets but the children appeared to be ignoring him with one of them even getting angry at him and using strong language against him in Pashto while telling him to go away. The video was of 3 minutes and ends with the man leaving the children.

A day after this, another video was uploaded and this time it showed a recording of a busy marketplace done from the roof of a building, the video was only a minute long and ends with the recording zooming in on a woman browsing stuff in a shop nearby. Next video was uploaded a day after the previous one and showed the man who killed the upside down bound and gagged man in one of the previous videos talking with another man who had not been seen in any of the previous videos, most of their conversation was in Pashto (rest in Urdu) and they seemed to be arguing about the quality of some contents but it wasn’t explained in the video exactly what these contents were, after about 5 minutes the man hands over a large plastic bag to the other man and the video concludes, identities of both men were hidden because they had wrapped a piece of cloth over their faces.

About two weeks later a new video was uploaded to the YouTube channel and this one was of almost 5 minutes. This time it showed two men bound and gagged on a chair while facing one another, one of them was blindfolded but the other was not. They seemed quite calm but seemed to have a lot of bruise marks on their faces while one of them (the one who was not blindfolded) was bleeding from his left ear. The video starts with a man walking behind the guy who was not blindfolded and whispering something in his ear, there was no visible reaction from the bound and gagged guy other than taking slightly longer and faster breaths. Then another guy with a knife goes behind the other guy who was gagged as well as blindfolded, he grabbed his head and raised it slightly and placed the knife on his neck and proceeded to cut through the flesh while the other guy (who was not blindfolded) watched in horror and started struggling to get out of the chair while moaning really loudly, he falls from his chair and could be seen moving towards the camera as it continued recording. The other two men started laughing. The video ends with the bound and gagged man (who was kept alive) being hauled over one of the other men’s shoulder while the other bound and gagged man continues to bleed in the chair with a half cut neck.

About a month after this another video was uploaded to the channel. This video had the shortest length amongst all the previously uploaded ones as it was only half a minute long. The video showed a recording of an empty room while an argument could be heard in the distance between two men in Pashto, the men can’t be seen but their voices can be heard, both of them appear to be angry at each other for some reason, as the conversation goes on their voices become louder, they appear to be arguing over money problems but it still wasn’t clear as to what exactly they were having this feud over. The video abruptly ends after half a minute right when a door can be heard being slam shut.

<p class="MsoNormal">On May 20, 2011 IGP of Gilgit-Baltistan announced aggressive measures to curb extremism in the area, locals were encouraged to report any suspicious activity to their respective police stations. These as well as other measures were taken to counter increasing extremist activities in the area. On June 5, 2011 police in a town in the Askore district were notified of suspicious activity in one of the homes. A team was sent to investigate the household and initially found the place empty. However, further investigation revealed a room which was dirty and had blood splats everywhere, a video camera could be seen on an upright tripod stand in one corner of the room while a chair partially covered in blood was also present. A bloody knife along with several inches of rope could also be seen in the room. The person to which the house belonged was arrested from a nearby hotel, investigation of his hotel room didn’t reveal much. His laptop was searched for content relating to any terrorist activities but nothing related to that was found, instead there were a lot of snuff porn videos in the hard drive which ranged from brutal animal killings to even human ones, there was also the presence of many videos and photos related to CP (child pornography) on his laptop. The man was questioned by the police and during the questioning he showed signs of extreme erratic behavior and was locked up when he tried to assault one of the officers at the police station where he was being questioned. His home was investigated further and a Kalashnikov, a handgun and some grenades were also uncovered from a hidden space in one of the rooms.

<p class="MsoNormal">The man was questioned about the blood, ropes and weapons in his home to which he gave vague and unclear answers. At one point he remarked how he “fed them to his neighbors”, police asked him exactly who these people were to which he initially laughed but after being pushed further to answer the question he said “Goray! Goray!” which translates to “white people”. A homicide investigation was launched and a search for his accomplice was underway but the arrested man later on claimed that he had murdered his accomplice as well shortly after both of them had an argument over the distribution of money from the organ sales. The man would later admit that he killed people and sold their organs to another man for money, this other man’s identity he can’t remember for some reason. He would later on confess to the killing of 7 men who he and his accomplice had nabbed from the base camp of Nanga Parbat before transporting them to this location where they were tortured and subsequently killed for organ harvesting, he also claimed that he would cut their necks and let the blood flow into a container from which he would drink it, he also claimed that he cooked and ate a body part of one of the victims. Further investigation revealed that he had killed and sold off the body parts of all of his victims except that of his accomplice whom he didn’t kill inside his home but somewhere else where he successfully ambushed and killed him although he claims he can’t remember the exact place now. The man was charged with murder and sentenced to life in prison. Local news channels took this news up for a few days before dropping it for broadcasting local politics and other news especially regarding the death of notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden who was recently killed by a US Navy SEAL in Pakistan. The families of the victims were notified as well.

<p class="MsoNormal">A year later another video appeared on the wasey YouTube channel, it was only a minute long and showed a man sitting in a car that was being driven by one of the local Pashtuns, inside the car were a couple from a foreign country and they were sleeping in the back of the car unaware that they were being recorded. The camera moves towards the driver who stares into the camera from the rear view mirror and starts smiling. The video ends there. As of right now the wasey YouTube channel has been taken down and no video after that was ever published, it is to be noted however that a few days after that last video was uploaded a German couple was declared missing from the Gilgit-Baltistan area, a search and rescue team is currently looking for them. <ac_metadata title="I need help with this story, it was deleted as soon as it was uploaded, are there any plot holes in it that I am unaware of or is it simply bad or cliched, please let me know so I can improve it"> </ac_metadata>