The Russian Sleep Experiments

The tale of the ruthless Soviet experiment

turning people into zombie-like creatures has
been terrifying people for almost a decade and
shows no signs of stopping.
As legend has it, the story took place in the late 1940s, 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 would last 30 days in a chamber filled with a psychotropic gas depriving them of sleep.
Dreamless monsters

In the course of the five days, the situation went out of control - the subjects blocked
observation and went all kinds of crazy, screaming and moaning. Then they turned
completely silent for several days, and when the scientists broke into the chamber, they saw
the unspeakable: the subjects tore most of their skin off of their bodies; blood covered the
floor.

Somehow, the mutilated prisoners remained alive, pleading to turn the stimulant gas back on,
screaming that they “must stay awake”. When the research group tried to immobilize them,
the subjects showed astonishing strength, even killing some of the soldiers who were helping
the scientists.

Eventually, the subjects were pacified. One of them, instructed to asleep, died immediately
after his eyes closed. The rest were killed while trying to break out.

Before shooting the last subject, one researcher screamed: “What are you?!” And that
mutilated, blood-covered body answered with a terrifying smile: “We are you. We are the
madness that lurks within you all, begging to be set free at any 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.” So he
said, before the researcher shot him in the head.