The Internet has brought many benefits to our lives - from the ability to connect with anyone, anywhere, to photos of pink-cheeked babies and fluffy kittens. However, it also has a dark side. Courageous explorers of the depths of the World Wide Web know that there are sites hidden in its depths, the content of which can cause disgust or horror even among trained viewers.
For those who like to tickle their nerves, we offer a selection of 10 Internet sites - unpleasant, nasty, scary and shocking.
10. Human shell
Our selection of the most creepy places on the Internet opens with a site relatively innocent. The goal of Skinsight is to help people suffering from any kind of skin disease find reliable information about diseases and methods of their treatment.
The authors of the site say that the method of combining photos with text works best. And the photos are great. All skin diseases are documented with frightening clarity. Not only that, if you are curious about what types of rashes, acne and ulcers are common in your area, you can filter the database available on the site by these criteria. And start itching on nerves.
9. What is not talked about in living rooms
It's no secret that there is a page for everything on the Internet. And one of the nastiest corners of the web called Number Two Guide is no exception. On this site, caring creators have posted a lot of information related to the waste of the human body.
There you can find a dictionary of faeces, stories on this exciting topic, and even a counting-book with which a visitor can estimate how many kilograms of brown substance have produced in his entire life.
And with a suitable mood (and a complete absence of disgust), you can look at the "Ratings" section. There, site visitors who share this hobby, post photos of their "works" and even rate them. In terms of appearance, shape, structure and consistency.
8. Edarem
Some make money with a fresh face and provocations, others are trying to go to the gaming popularity, others discuss politics ... And Edward Muscard decided to go the other way.
Taking advantage of the fact that nature has awarded him with a strange appearance and acting talent, he took the pseudonym Edarem and began uploading videos on YouTube, where he mostly grimaced to popular songs. With this, he quickly gained popularity among lovers of the strange. True, his stellar career lasted only three years, from 2006 to 2009.
As it turned out, in the early eighties, Muscar was convicted of pedophilia, served time and was released subject to a number of conditions. One of them was a ban on computer ownership. So, despite all the support from fans, Edward was convicted of violating the release regime and sent to prison, where he died three years later. But to this day, Edarem continues to enjoy the fame of one of the most creepy video bloggers on YouTube.
7. The cycle of life
It is difficult to say how many people die on the globe during the time that you are reading these lines.And not because humanity has not yet invented a way to do this, but because death is a phenomenon so commonplace that it is of little interest to others. Of course, if this is not a movie star or a famous politician.
Therefore, counting deaths on the World Births and Deaths website is pure speculation. True, based on existing statistics and the average life expectancy of residents of different countries.
The site is a map of the globe, on which ominous red inscriptions appear from time to time - someone died somewhere. However, if you do not feel like gloomy, World Births and Deaths offers to turn off death and leave only birth. So the picture looks much more optimistic.
6. Gateway to Heaven
The Heavenly Gates sect gained worldwide fame in 1997 when its members ate a portion of sweet cream with barbiturate seasoning, washed down with alcohol and fell asleep forever. Everyone was wearing the same uniform - a black T-shirt, pants and boots. Next to them was a bag with things, with which they intended to resurrect after death in a spaceship and go to the highest level. This ship was supposedly hiding from the uninitiated in the lush tail of Comet Hale-Bopp, which was then approaching Earth. In just four days, 39 people committed suicide at the sect's villa.
More than twenty years have passed since then, but the Heaven's Gate website still exists. Some of the surviving members of the sect maintains it in its original form to this day. It contains excerpts from the sacred texts of the cult and recordings of speeches of their leader. Although, of course, no new information has appeared on it since then. The most recent update was in that same 1997, shortly before the mass suicide. The contact address of the site is still working.
5. Census of crashes
Over the past couple of decades, advances in science and technology have turned airplanes into one of the safest modes of transport.
However, life is still a cruel thing, and planes still fall and people die. And now certain people became - we do not even know what to call it, probably, "interesting" - what happens to the plane and the living beings inside in the last moments before nothingness.
For this, the Plane Crash Info site was created, where those who wish can find all the available information about all aircraft crashes in the entire history of aviation. Including a detailed description of the events that led to the accident. And even the voices from the "black boxes", reaching us many years after the death of their owners.
4. The last words of the death row
Human life in the eyes of the state and society is becoming more and more valuable. Even if this is the life of a dangerous person, a criminal.
According to statistics, most countries of the world, if they have not abolished the death penalty completely, then adhere to a moratorium on its implementation, which means that at least over the past ten years, death sentences have not been carried out on their territory. And although in 56 states the death penalty officially exists, but in reality, few use it.
But there are also exceptions - for example, Muslim countries in Africa, Asia, communist China, Japan and the United States. The bulwark of democracy uses the death penalty often and willingly; for example, in 1994, 328 people were executed there. And of all the states, Texas is her favorite. According to statistics, a third of death sentences are in Texas courts.
Moreover, Texans like this national legal tradition so much that they even started a special website where they index the last words of prisoners before death. True, lovers of horror stories will be rather disappointed, because the last words of suicide bombers, as a rule, are addressed to their loved ones and are imbued with love and tenderness.
3. Real photos from the crime scenes
In almost all countries, crime scene photographs do not leave the confines of specialized agencies (courts and police). However, this does not mean at all that those who like to tickle their nerves cannot lay hands on them.Often there is a person who, in search of profit or fighting for justice (as he understands it), brings them to the public.
So there are shocking sites with real photos from the crime scenes. Crime Online is far from an isolated phenomenon. However, among a number of similar ones, it stands out for its quality of performance and ease of use. Here you can find photographs from the crime scenes of many serial killers, including Ted Bundy and Manson.
Not all are depicted dead bodies, but to some extent there are more terrible things. For example, photographs of pots and pans on which a cannibal killer cooked himself dinner from parts of human bodies.
2. Souvenirs of death
Murder has accompanied humanity throughout its history. There have always been people who are ready to take the lives of their neighbors, if it is beneficial. And there have always been people who, although they themselves do not commit crimes, are very, very interested in them. Watching documentaries about serial killers is no longer enough for them, they want something more substantial.
Therefore, there are sites like Murder Auction where you can buy items that the hands of killers have touched. There are no bloody knives or bullets deformed from being shot into a human body, since everything found at the crime scene is the property of the state. So spicy lovers have to limit themselves to playing cards, old newspapers and Christmas cards with the signature of the killers.
1. Revelations of a serial killer
If you've never heard of Edward Duncan, the Iowa serial killer, then you're in luck. He is one of America's most violent criminals; his last victim was a family of five. We will not tell you exactly what and how he did, but the fact that the American judicial system sentenced him to two deaths and three life sentences gives an idea of the gravity of his crimes.
He was sentenced in 2008. In the United States, it usually takes about ten years from a lethal injection. We need to keep them busy somehow, right? So Duncan started a blog on the Internet. And the name I chose is rather pretentious - The Fifth Nail (the fifth nail). There he describes his thoughts, dreams, recollects, writes letters and even keeps track of the books he read.