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I found the source of internet horror

I love internet horror stories, hell I've been known to write a few. my favorite part was how realistic they could be. one day i decided to look into one of these tails i found in a deep part of the internet. like any sane and reasonable fan of horror i didn't think it could possibly be real, but i began to wonder how deep the rabbit whole would go. so with the story in my hand I booted up my Tor browser and began to dig through the dark web for similar tales.

The story I had come across at the start of this journey seemed to have a large following on the dark web, weird stuff on the dark web is not unusual so I decided to dig deeper.

Let me stop here and warn everyone that decision to go even deeper was a stupid decision, under no and I mean no circumstances should you go to the deepest places of the dark web. The truth behind some of these stories is to disturbing for human eye's and I don't think the people who caused these incidents are human, at least not anymore.

I started my dig by going to a chat room for horror fans, and the like. I started asking around where the stories had come from, I thought they were awesome and wanted to see if some of the authors could give me some tips on my stories. Several of the story writers were easy enough to find, but a few were shrouded in mystery. so for the next several weeks I contacted person after person being sent contact info for the person they got the story from. The last person I contacted sent my an encrypted link and, being a computer hardware guy and not any good with code, I got one of my programmer buddies to decrypt it for me. He did, and sent the decrypted URL back to me. He warned me not to open it, he pleaded with me. “Don't open the link, I only sent it back because I promised I would. for god sake for all of sanity do not open this URL.”

At this moment if I had been smart I would have heeded my friends warning. But of course like a cat, my curiosity demands to be the end of me. So I moved my mouse over the link and clicked. a website popped open. It was a video feed, on a red background with a message over it.

The site asked me to register for an account and enter my age to watch the video. So, thinking I was being clever, I used a fake name and said I was born in 1930. The site accepted the information, and began to play a video. On the screen an old man was sitting in a chair, tied down with ropes, his hair was white as snow along with his skin, and those eyes, those blood red eyes, they dug into my soul. Beside him I could see two assault rifles rigged on some sort of mechanism point directly at the mans head.

"Tell them! I want a confession!" I heard the man behind the camera yell, as the man began to weep uncontrollably.

“No please you have the wrong guy.” The old man pleaded, as he struggled to get out of the ropes.

“We know it was you! Now talk!”

One of the rifles swiveled and fired barely missing the mans face.

“Ok ok I'll talk.” The old man seemed to regain some composure as he began to speak.

"Hello my name is (bleep) and I created internet horror in real life. I am the man behind a large amount of internet stories you thought were only stories, I made them reality."

I was thrown into shock, racked with guilt and anger. Many of the stories I had so enjoyed were for real, I had to tell someone, anyone. I opened note pad and began to types what I had found, but then all of the sudden, I heard gunshots from the video. The old man was ok, but blood was flowing towards his chair from behind the camera.

A man in a black body suit and tactical gear, walked up to the chair and cut the old man free. The man got up and his expression went from one of pleading to something sinister, he came closer and stared into the camera with those red eyes, he smiled the most sinister grin I have ever seen. It was like he was starring directly at me, then the feed cut out and my web-cam came on. My face was now showing on the feed, text written in red underneath it saying. “It's only a story, if you tell anyone the truth I'll make a story out of you.”

I hard shut off my computer and left it off for the next day or two. Now normally being the internet I would not have even been phased by the video and after calming down from the excitement of the moment realized this video was probably a hoax as well, but my web cam, and that message had scared the shit out of me. When I finally got my computer back on I emailed my friend and asked if how much he had scene, he simply said he told my not to watch it.

<p style="margin-bottom:0in">A few day later they found my friend dead, his lungs full of sand and his eyes and mouth sown shut. A message on the wall written in blood, read, “It's only a story”.

<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Writing this I know my fate may be sealed but people need to be warned, don't dig to deep, don't try to find the origin of a story. Most of them are fake stories, but some of them are real. I now sleep with a knife under my pillow and a 12 gauge under my bed, but I know that won't be enough, i know to much. the truth is out there and if you're smart you will leave it alone, if your not you will be like me. <ac_metadata title="I found the source of internet horror (this is my first original could someone tell me how it is)"> </ac_metadata>