Militaries worldwide have used or are using various psychoactive drugs to improve performance
of soldiers by suppressing hunger, increasing the ability to sustain effort without food,
increasing and lengthening wakefulness and concentration, suppressing fear,
reducing empathy, and improving reflexes and memory-recall, amongst other things.
during the 2nd World war, Nazi troops were liberally supplied with a methamphetamine
called Pervitin, while American and British soldiers stayed alert
with the help of the amphetamine Benzedrine. soldiers who took these drugs were pushed beyond
the limits of their normal capabilities, but before these drugs could be handed to soldiers,
they had to be tested on human subjects, who were not volunteers at most cases,
but rather they were forced to. And what a better story to approach
the matter rather than the story of the russian sleep experiment.
One of the most debated but yet creepy stories. If you don't know the russian sleep experiments.
What we are about to tell you will blow your mind.
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The story of the ruthless russian experiment turning people into zombie-like creatures
has been terrifying people for more than 10 years already and shows no signs of stopping.
As the legend has it, The story recounts an experiment set in the late–1940s
in a Soviet test facility. when WWII was over but Joseph Stalin still remained all-powerful.
On a well-guarded secret base, a research group conducted a cruel experiment
on five GULAG prisoners. They were promised freedom in the event that
they can last 30 days in a chamber filled with a psychotropic gas depriving them of sleep.
For the first few days, everything seemed fine. The prisoners were talking to each other in a
normal way, nothing seemed suspicious, at that time the russians were thinking that they had
just developed a drug that will make the nazi and american-british drug
look like a headache pill. But after the fifth day,
things started to take a different path; they started talking about the horrible things they
witnessed during the war, their traumas, they slowly began to exhibit signs of stress.
They became paranoid and soon stopped talking to one another, choosing instead
to whisper compromising information about one another into the microphones, apparently in an
effort to win the favor of the researchers. This was just the beginning, from now on it only
gets creepier. On the ninth day, one subject started screaming at the top of his lungs for
hours to end, another prisoner just started running around the chamber, The other captives
meanwhile; took the books apart, they smeared page after page from books they’d been given to read,
and pasted them calmly over the glass portholes to prevent the researchers from seeing what's inside.
Soon after, The screaming stopped. After three more days passed. As the chamber
became dead quiet, The researchers checked the microphones hourly to make sure they were working,
since they thought it was impossible that no sound could be coming with five people inside.
The oxygen consumption in the chamber indicated that all five must still be alive.
A few days passed without the researchers being able to look inside,
during which the chamber was completely silent.
Fearing the worst, researchers addressed the subjects via the intercom.
“We are opening the chamber to test the microphone.� they said “step away from the door and lie flat on
the floor or you will be shot, compliance will earn one of you immediate freedom”
A voice from the inside whispered, “we no longer want to be freed”
Couple more days passed without any contact with the prisoners as the scientists debated
what to do next, eventually they decided to stop the experiment at the night of the 15th day,
the stimulant gas was flushed from the chamber and replaced with fresh
air in preparation for the subjects release. Far from being satisfied with how the experiment
turned. The subjects began hysterically screaming as if in fear for their lives, they begged to have
the gas back on, but instead, the researchers sent armed soldiers inside to retrieve them. But what
they found inside was beyond their imagination. One of the subjects was found dead lying down on
his blood, pieces of his flesh had been torn off. All of the other test subjects were found
to have been severely injured and severely mutilated, more shockingly,
the wounds appeared to be self inflicted, and some had even eaten their own flesh.
The four who were still alive seemed terrified of falling asleep and refused to leave the chamber,
they fought back against the soldiers so ferociously even though they lost so much blood,
one continued flailing for a full three minutes until his lifeless body collapsed.
murdering one soldier and severely injuring another that attempted to remove them. After
eventually being removed from the chamber, all subjects were shown to exhibit extreme strength,
unprecedented resistance to drugs and sedatives, the ability to remain alive
despite lethal injuries, and a desperate desire to stay awake and be given the stimulant.
It was also found that if any one of the subjects fell asleep, they would die.
After being treated for their severe injuries in a medical facility,
the surviving three subjects were prepared to return to the gas chamber with the stimulants
by the orders of the military officials, though against the will of the researchers.
Before the chamber was sealed, one of the subjects fell asleep and died.
The military commander ordered for the three other researchers
to be closed inside the chamber as well. One researcher immediately drew his gun
and shot the commander then turned the gun on the mute subject and shot him as well.
With only one surviving subject, the terrified researcher explained that he would not allow
himself to be locked in a room with monsters that could no longer be called people. He desperately
asked what the subject was, The subject smiled. "Have you forgotten so easily?" the subject asked.
"We are you. We are the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be free at every moment in
your deepest animal mind. We are what you hide from in your beds every night. We are what you
sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to the nocturnal haven where we cannot tread."
The researcher paused. Then aimed at the subject's heart and fired. The subject
weakly choked out, "So... nearly... free..." You must be wondering by now, what the heck did
i just read! Well, ok! First things first: that story didn't actually take place in real life,
it's a completely fictional story, This ‘Russian sleep experiment’ is a 10-year-old urban legend.
Its origins trace back to the CreepyPasta website, But the original story is even older,
written for an online forum challenging users to make up the scariest “urban legend”.
The story couldn't be true for so many reasons, -First of all, why would the scientists let the
subject hide in their chamber for several days without observation!
-No gas that can stop humans from falling asleep is currently known to science.
-if you tear away your skin, and remove your organs, you die from blood loss
The Pentagon has even done studies on this, and even if men are forced to stay awake for more
than 48 hours they will become pretty slow and pretty much useless as soldiers.They’ll
make tons of mistakes, which is not ideal in war when you have to be constantly alert.
The Russian Sleep Experiment is the most viral ‘Creepypasta’ story on the internet,
with a total of 64,030 shares. It used four ingredients: an unexplained phenomenon, murder,
monsters (in this case, humans-turned-zombies) and a series of creepy images of poor
black and white quality to suggest they authentically match the time period.
well, just shut down your device now and walk away. These stories alone are
creepy enough to keep us up for two weeks straight — no experimental gas required.
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