Red Rooms: Conspiracy or Reality?
WARNING: This article contains graphic content. Reader discretion is advised. Some details have been omitted intentionally. This article is not intended as click bait or for shock value; it aims to shed light on a highly sensitive subject. For additional information and references, please refer to the links provided below.
If you have been a victim or are easily triggered, I would just skip this article.
Do Red Rooms actually exist, or are they merely the stuff of urban legends?
If art imitates life, then what would you make of the multiple movies depicting extreme violence and torture? Films such as the Saw franchise, Seven, and The Human Centipede push the boundaries of rational thinking. Hostel, while fictional, comes closest to depicting a Red Room, albeit the scenes depicted were not live-streamed online.
As with anything, do your own research. Believe only what you can prove. But with this topic, I would urge extreme caution. Legal issues may arise should you stumble upon illegal activities. You should also recognize the danger posed by those who engage in such pursuits.
None of my research pertains to current crimes or victims. Everything discussed has already taken place. Criminals were arrested, tried, and convicted.
My heart goes out to the victims.
NOTE: With most of my articles, I go to great lengths to provide as much pertinent details as possible. This one is a stark contrast to previous writings. I only included the bare minimum necessary. I did include many links to articles should you wish to read further. My only purpose was to prove a conspiracy as true rather than satiate someone’s dark curiosity.
When you know just how real this is…
Let’s begin…
The Different Layers of The Web
In order to understand the subject matter effectively, it is important to know the differences between the Clear Web, the Deep Web, and the Dark Web.
What is the Clear Web?
This is the internet you find through your internet browser.
The Clear Web, sometimes called ClearNet or Surface Web, is the publicly accessible internet. You’re reading this article on the Clear Web, which is composed of web pages and databases, all indexed by traditional search engines (Bing, Google, and Yahoo). The ClearNet is primarily made up of hyperlinks that will take you to other ClearNet pages or provide access to the Deep Web via some authentication.
The Clear Web has the illusion of relative safety. It is what is visible to most of the population. It holds no surprises and is mundane compared to its deep and dark web counterparts. Despite what you might believe, this is the smallest part of the internet.
According to WhoIsHostingThis, the Clear Web makes up just four percent of the total web. Because it’s public, the Clear Web is always being monitored by the government and indexed by search engines. By contrast, the Deep Web is 500 times the size of the Clear Web.
What is the Deep Web?
The Deep Web, often misconstrued as a mysterious and nefarious realm, is, in reality, a portion of the web that requires a certain level of security to access. This security can take the form of logins, encryption, or it may be concealed behind paywalls. The Deep Web encompasses a vast array of content, from your personal banking and email accounts to various subscription-based services.
These can include webmail, online banking, social media pages and profiles, web forums, and anything private from the public. It can also feature anything behind a paywall, such as an online newspaper or magazine.
Like other web content, the information found on the deep web is accessible through a web address. However, accessing this content usually requires entering a password or another type of security access, such as a fingerprint or retina scan, depending on the requirements.
Besides the invisible web or deep web, you might also hear the term hidden web to describe the same information.
Contrary to common misconceptions, the Deep Web is not inherently associated with nefarious activities. Instead, it primarily exists to safeguard sensitive information from public view. This protection is vital for ensuring the privacy and security of personal and confidential data.
What is the Dark Web?
The Dark web is a part of the web you can't access through a conventional web browser. It has to be accessed through a special browser, called a TOR browser, and accesses websites via addresses known as onion addresses. There is no searching for websites on the Dark Web. Unlike the Clear Web, where you can use search engines, navigating the Dark Web requires prior knowledge of the specific website address you intend to visit. Websites on the Dark Web are not indexed and typically remain unlisted.
The Dark Web hosts a variety of content. You will find a range of websites from legitimate businesses like the Mercedes car dealership to the illicit markets for the sale of illegal goods and services. The most famous websites for these illicit markets would be Silk Road, which was shut down by law enforcement.
What the Dark Web offers is its emphasis on anonymity, privacy, and freedom from censorship. However, these perceived advantages are an illusion. No one is truly anonymous. Navigating the Dark Web should be approached with extreme caution, as it carries inherent risks.
NOTE: Browsing the Dark Web demands utmost caution and protective measures. There are no built-in security features to shield users from individuals with malicious intentions. Your personal safety online becomes your own responsibility.
The Dark Web of ClearNet and Deep Web
Dark web content can, surprisingly, be found not only on the Dark Web itself but also on ClearNet and Deep Web websites, including popular platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. While these platforms do not facilitate the direct purchase or trade of illegal goods, they do host some of the most disturbing and objectionable content available on the internet. Vast networks of illicit activities operate within these websites.
YouTube's version of this Dark Web content is unpronounceable and is commonly referred to as ‘The String’. Unfortunately, individuals may inadvertently happen upon this content. If anything, this should serve as a stark warning to vigilantly monitor your children's online activity. Just because it is a popular website, does not make it safe.
Why is this content hosted here? The straightforward answer lies in the limitations of the Dark Web, namely where live streaming is not feasible. While file sharing is possible, activities like live podcasts are face severe obstacles on the Dark Web. A lot of people don't realize this. The other answer to this question is because the Tor Project is rumored to have been created by intelligence agencies. It is often easier to circumvent the guidelines of corporations than it is to evade federal government entities.
Red Rooms: The Conspiracy
What is a Red Room? A Red Room is a website on the Dark Web where individuals can pay to watch the torture and murder of another person. On some of these platforms, viewers can even make suggestions for additional acts of violence against the victim in exchange for an extra fee. The ultimate outcome of these alleged events is the tragic death of the victim, carried out for the viewing pleasure of the audience.
Do Red Rooms really exist? Well... I will let you decide.
If red rooms do exist, they would be so heavily guarded that only a select few people would be able to access them. Numerous fake red rooms have been reported, as have law enforcement sting operations across the web, making it even more difficult to find a 'real' red room.
Additionally, anyone performing illegal activities in one of these rooms would have a hard time advertising it without alerting the authorities to their dealings. Likewise, anyone seeking illegal activity is going to be wary of spending massive amounts of money on a product they cannot verify.
There is an argument to be made that these Red Rooms don't actually exist on the Dark Web. They exist on the ClearNet. This adds a layer of complexity to the debate.
The dark web is a small subset of the deep web and is largely accessed through the network Tor, also known as 'The Onion Routing' project. One of the chief arguments against the existence of red rooms is the claim that Tor is unable to stream live video.
Tor is not the only way to access the deep web, but using any other network makes red room access even more difficult. This is why some people claim that if red rooms do exist, they wouldn't be found on the deep web at all; instead, they would be hidden in heavily restricted, secure areas of the surface web.
One common claim made by those who frequent the dark web is that red rooms do exist, but the streaming itself occurs on the surface web (or the "clear web") to get around streaming issues that reportedly occur when using Tor.
So what is conspiracy and what is reality?
Cassidy Rainwater
The story of Cassidy Rainwater is tragic. She was staying with at a man's house in the middle of the woods in the Missouri Ozarks when she disappeared on July 25, 2021. Cassidy was finally reported missing on August 25, 2021.
On September 16,2021, the FBI contact local police regarding Cassidy. They had an anonymous cyber tip regarding images of Cassidy in a cage in various stages of undress as well as images of her tied to a gantry crane being eviscerated and disemboweled. These images came from the Dark Web.
Later on, traces of blood would be collected as well as pieces of meat in a freezer that would later be identified as being Cassidy Rainwater.
James Phelps and Timothy Norton would be arrested for felony kidnapping and her murder.
To add to this mystery, Cassidy Rainwater's mother, Tracy Wahwassuck, had disappeared in 2007. Her bones were later found scattered a year later not far from where Cassidy was killed. No cause of death was ever determined and no arrests have been made regarding her disappearance and death.
Additional information has been included at the end. However, this video goes more in depth into the story.
Peter Scully
For this next one, I am going to stick to the Wikipedia version of the story. Other versions are too graphic to include here.
Peter Scully was an Australian citizen arrested in the Philippines for human trafficking and the abuse of children. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 2018. In November 2022, he received an additional 129 years in prison. His crimes were so horrific that the Philippine government considered bringing back the death penalty just for him.
Peter Scully offered pay-per-view video streams of children being abused and tortured on the Dark Web. Clients would pay up to $10,000 to watch. Due to the content, law enforcement became quickly aware of the Dark Web website.
Peter Scully wasn't the only person arrested in relation to the website. Matthew David Graham was sentenced to 15 years for his participation in "pure evil" according to the judge. Josh Duggar was sentenced to over 12 years. All three men engaged in pay-per-view video streams either as clients, hosts, or participants.
Peter Scully only had 3 known victims. Two who lived and one who died. Of the two that lived, one will bear permanent disability due to what she endured.
Selected excerpts from the video:
TARA BROWN: Peter Scully is finally in jail likely never to walk free again. Charged with kidnapping, rape, torture, murder, and selling the gruesome videos he's made which detailed the terror and pain of his child victims.
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TARA BROWN: What is the case against Peter Scully?
PAUL HOPKINS: There's two cases in Philippines. The first case is the slavery. The fact that he's kept two young girls in a house and sexually abused them, tied them in dog chains, and allegedly made videos of them. That's one case. The second case involves the holding of young victims and sexually abusing them. And then it went to violence against the young victims, as well as abuse. And then unfortunately and horrifically, it ended in the death of one of the victims.
TARA BROWN: Peter Scully filmed his atrocities at his base in Mindanao, a remote part of the Philippines. Then sold his made-to-order viral videos to pedophiles around the world.
AGENT JANET FRANCISCO: Anything that the consumer or the member of the group will tell him to do, he will do to the point of, you know, killing the child in the course of their sexual abuse.
TARA BROWN: And who are those people? Where do they come from?
AGENT JANET FRANCISCO: From UK, Germany, and the US.
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TARA BROWN: In finding the strength to go to the police, Rosie would help expose the full horror of Scully's most degenerate operation. Even younger victims, possibly held captive for years, and more pedophiles willing to pay $10,000 to watch vile stuff like this.
Shipping Containers
In June 2020, Dutch law enforcement made multiple arrests related to the discovery of modified shipping containers. These shipping containers were sound proofed and turned into torture chambers. Several individuals were apprehended in connection with these cases. The allegations made included kidnapping and hostage-taking.
From an article by CNN:
They found six shipping containers which had been converted to what are believed to be 'prison cells,' as well as a stash of weaponry including pruning shears and loppers.
'In each of the cells, handcuffs were attached to the ceiling and floor, in order to be able to chain someone standing up with their arms raised,' the statement said. 'The rooms were finished with noise isolating panels and heat-insulating foil.'
One of the units also contained a dental chair, with straps for feet and arms. 'The sea container with the dental chair contained bags with objects that were presumably intended to torture or at least put pressure on victims,' the statement added.
The National Crime Agency and police during raid on a property in Birmingham, UK, part of a huge operation after international law enforcement teams infiltrated Encrochat, an encrypted communication system used by organized criminals.
Hundreds arrested after police infiltrate secret criminal phone network
'The police found, among other things, pruning shears, loppers, a branch saw, scalpels, pliers, extra handcuffs, fingercuffs, tape, balaclavas, and black cotton bags that can be pulled over the head. During a search at a home in Rotterdam, 24 kilos of MDMA was also found.'
A Dutch court has sentenced 11 men to between one and nine years for maintaining an 'underworld prison' with a torture chamber, hidden in shipping containers, in a case that shocked the Netherlands.
The case revolved around seven containers found by police almost two years ago in a southern Dutch forest, following up on information from a hack of the European-wide EncroChat encrypted phone system, popular with criminal gangs.
The breakthrough in these arrests can be attributed to the interception and decoding of messages exchanged through an application called EncroChat. It's noteworthy that EncroChat operates within the Deep Web and not the Dark Web itself.
This law enforcement operation resulted in the arrest of over 800 individuals. These arrests were related to a variety of criminal activity not necessarily associated to Red Rooms.
It is important to note that these arrests occurred prior to these shipping containers actually being used.
Jeffrey Epstein Dentist Chair
The images from inside the shipping containers raises some questions, mainly regarding images which became public after Jeffrey Epstein's arrest.
A fully equipped dentist's chair, close-up photographs of young girls' backsides and a snap of a pedophile meeting a pope. These were the images that police found when they searched evil Jeffrey Epstein's waterfront mansion.
Why would someone have a dentist chair in their home? What was it used for?
Now ask yourself this. Is it possible for PizzaGate to be real?
Sources and Additional Information
Sources for the Dark Web:
Everything You Need To Know On Tor & The Deep Web
Sources for Cassidy Rainwater:
KY3: TIMELINE: The death and disappearance of Cassidy Rainwater in Dallas County, Mo.
[PDF] James Phelps Arrest Warrant Affidavit
[PDF] Timothy Norton Arrest Warrant Affidavit
Sources for Peter Scully:
Vice: Inside the Repulsive World of 'Hurtcore', the Worst Crimes Imaginable
WARNING: The linked article contains extremely disturbing and graphic content. This article also contains graphic descriptions of the fetish and BDSM lifestyles, but there is only one willing participant. The other participant is not willing. Please use discretion with respect to this article. You have been warned.
The Age: How Matthew David Graham's 'Hurtcore' Paedophile Habit Began on the Dark Web
Fox News: Josh Duggar will remain in prison until 2032 after appeal terminated in child pornography case
NOTE: Notice the lack of details in US News. They tell you that it was CSAM. But what they don’t tell you is that CSAM contained hurtcore or snuff film imagery. No wonder people still think this is just a creepypasta conspiracy theory.
Sources for Shipping Containers:
CNN: Dutch Police Discover Secret Torture Site in Shipping Containers
The Guardian: Dutch Court Jails Drugs Gang Who Built Torture Room and Cells in Containers
BBC: Six Arrested After 'Dutch Torture Chambers' Found
Good to see you here, Elizabeth, and thank you for your candor and your bravery in looking where most refuse to look or even acknowledge that anything is wrong. This must have been so difficult to write. To say this is beyond heartbreaking is a massive understatement, but people need to know. They need to stop looking the other way. Sending my love. 🙏🏻💜
Pretty extensive coverage of what's out there and evidently related to Red Rooms.
The modern iteration of sadistic torture delivered on a whim for delighting another, and it's commodification as a product, is something I've recently forgotten about. Been plumbing the depths of ancient, medieval and modern history of late because today's news is no news and yesterday's horrors are unfortunately nothing new under the sun.
Gilles de Rais existed, Marquis de Sade existed, yet even more obscure charnel horror house spiritual pursuits from the East existed as well https://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/files/2013/02/Haynes-Dalton1.pdf
Not entirely sure what my point is in recounting a historical forebearance here.. showing off maybe? offloading cursed knowledge maybe?
In our modern digital paradigm you can also look at the horrifying rise of online Suicide baiting and livestream recording, or the instructional history of INSEX as a masterful example of blurring the lines between commerce, crime and torture.
I'd go so far as to posit that the meteoric rise and success of INSEX represents a far darker modern shadow (in terms of spread and reach), than the red room snuff-on-demand commercial transactions facilitated online do. Documentaries exposing the very core exploitative roots of nascent online buisness practices like this simply do not exist anymore. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326224/
Glad you are covering this topic and spreading awareness to a wider audience.