‘We See You’
“Deep Web horror story“
To understand this, you need to go back couple decades when the “Internet’ was not as you know it today. Instead it was basically just pure HTML and geocities back then,
So when our story-teller was browsing through geocities, he/she (I’m still confused about the identity, but for the scope of this article let’s consider it as a “she”.) came across web-page, which looked way ahead of it’s time. Because well it was a HTML only age, and the web-page was pretty advanced.
And from what it felt like to our narrator, it was as if a lot of people were exchanging secret data and messages. While our narrator was still confused, he/she found a bunch of IP-address hidden inside a Javascript code.
So she did exactly what any curious mind would do, she started pinging those IPs. Well most of the IPs came up as “university” routers and having warning messages like “This is a secure Server” etc.
It was only when she came across a web-server that had a lot of TIFF images (its an image format, just like JPG) and HTML files. When she ran a DNS lookup, there was nothing that could give a solid lead so as to whom the server belonged, and then she ran a “visualroute trace” which ended giving up the position as “colorado”.
What was in the files?
The stumbling upon strange IPs and reaching university servers wasn’t the strange part! The strange part was the HTML and TIFF files she found.
The HTML files seemed records of “psychologists” or someone who worked in the “mental health” department.
While the TIFF image files were that of “Fax machines”, both personal as well as military grade.
What Happened After
So after she found the files, she browsed back from the subdirectory to the parent directory.
The strange thing is, once she came back to the parent directory, she found that there was a new file which was named something like “HelloThere.html”.
She opened it, and there was a message there written exactly like this:- we see you
If you aren’t scared or creeped out yet, don’t get comfortable because you might not be a computer nerd so let me tell you that the “hellothere.html” file couple appear the way it did only if someone uploaded in real-time, exactly when it appeared, meaning someone did it when she was looking at those other directories and photos.
So well someone watching what we do on the Internet and that too almost 1 and a half decade back when the technology wasn’t developed enough? Yeah this definitely is the winner of my “#1 creepiest Deep web stories award“.
