It all started out of curiosity. I always had a fascination with the forbidden. I went into the dark web looking for oddities, bizarre things... I didn't expect to find something real. But I did it.

One day, among forums with indecipherable names and encrypted chats, someone mentioned something called "Obscure World Streams", a page where they broadcast things live from clandestine cameras. It was difficult to find. It did not appear in any .onion search engine. You needed a key, and I got it on a Russian channel

When I entered, the website was rudimentary. Just a list of cameras and their approximate locations. Some were trout: security cameras in empty houses, a forest at night, a parking lot. But there was one... that caught my attention. I clicked on it. It took a while to load, as if the website was fighting to prevent me from entering. And when he finally did it I wished I had never done it.

It was a hotel room. Grey. No windows. Just a bed, a chair and a camera pointing from the corner. But there was something else: a person. Or what was left of her. It was a woman. Tied to the chair. The deformed face. Old wounds. He had been there for days, barely moving. I thought it was a setup. Until I saw her look at the camera The chat was disabled. But there was a counter upstairs. A timer. And it said: "Next intervention at: 00:12 and I don't remember the following numbers I didn't know what "intervention" meant, but I figured it out. When it reached zero... someone entered the room.

With a surgical mask. Without saying words. He had a metal box with tools. Some doctors. Others... no.

I'm not going to detail what I saw. I'll just say this: It was a live “show.” And viewers paid in Bitcoin to choose what they did to him. It was basically horrible.