I have come across many weird porn videos, gore etc. but a few times I have come across something that isn’t that disturbing but uncanny. A random login page on a dark web site, a random comment on some sports blog seemingly written to conceal something. What are the things you have seen?

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    A thread on the 4chn (back in the days when it was still ruled by non-jaded M00t).

    There was this guy, who described a place he visited in his dreams every night. It resembled a cross between “House of Leaves” and some prison and the dreamer didn’t know what he had to do, but felt that something is required of him. He was part exhausted by the experience, part scared. What struck me was that the guy sounded genuine, and convincing. His testimony was unlike all those abominable greentext edgy bullshit.

    The story is now lost to the time, since there’s no archive of threads from such ancient past.

    I sometimes wonder to this day what did happen to the guy, whether he found the solution to this cruel puzzle, or succumbed to it, thus losing his sanity and possibly life…

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        You may try to download this archive and check it for the thread. With some luck, it’s there…

        What little I remember is that it happened on /x/ (obviously) and either the thread or the guy in talking was named “Vault Dweller”. It was taking place so long ago that the name didn’t result with immediate “hue, hue, hue, BASEMENT DWELLER, morelike” responses. The story wasn’t very complicated, but the guy sounded tired, very tired, like someone on the edge of collapse, or resigned. He claimed that he feels some presence there, in the structure he always lands in when he falls asleep, but he didn’t encounter nothing, just empty spaces.

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    I’m a former Livejournal user (yes I am that internet old, I imagine many of you won’t know it). When the Russians overtook the site, there were some very weird photo communities called carpet_rise and flower_carpet that basically were photos of Russian people that included the Turkish patterned rugs that Russians often use, in all sorts of peculiar situations. I put many of them on r/anormaldayinRussia back when I used Reddit. I always wondered why they were created (if you decide to visit them be aware they are often nudes). It wasn’t porn, it was just odd.

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    The 4chan UAP larper.

    A fun read, even if it’s as substantial as smoke. The writer does his best to connect the dots of all the recent UAP news and sightings that have been happening. Still, his posts helped drive a fair bit of the engagement surrounding current events. The air of anonymity from places like 4chan really captures the imagination.

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    Also I ended up on the dark web once before because I had just started taking Ambien and didn’t realize you have to lock up your phone (managed to download Orbitz and everything), and wound up on some reddit clone.