The Madness That Lies Within

There has been many versions of what is known as the "Russian Sleep Experiment". People have been writing creepypasta's about this urban legend for years and it was also made into a movie in 2015 but of course history and evidence suggests that this never took place and it was nothing more than a legend created to scare people. What people don't know is that with all these legends there is an element of truth behind them and this is the case also for this sleep experiment that was said to have taken place in the 1940's.

It was back some twenty years earlier in Minsk; the capital of Belarus, where six death row prisoners were involved in an experiment that would guarantee just one of them freedom but this wasn't what they were told. They were asked to partake in a thirty day simple experiment, researchers wanted to see what effects sleep deprivation had on people, so they were asked to stay awake for those days helped with a stimulant gas and if they did so then they would all go free but in fact they were each told individually during their screening process that only one would go free and that each individual was their chosen person to walk away, all they had to do was not tell the others and make sure that they walked out after the thirty days alone!!!

After 3/4 days nothing was to note, they each stuck to themselves reading what books were given to them and not wanting to engage with the others as they each thought they were the so called chosen one and didn't wanna get to know the people they were gonna dispose of. Day 8 came and everyone was getting very weak and started murmuring to themselves a bit more often and also louder, their eyes twitched uncontrollably and the books they had were now torn up and each page scrunched up and tossed around the chamber room.

It was in the next few days or so, 11/12. that things really started to get weird with each prisoner seemingly getting more energy and pacing up and down the room talking to themselves clearly out loud, the murmuring had evolved and the paranoia now in full swing. The researchers and prison officers were getting concerned about this as no one had been killed off yet, it seemed as though they had all forgotten their "Special" task they were given and now their minds had wandered past that. The officers threw in a knife through a hidden passageway but what happened with the knife was the exact opposite of what they wanted.

All of the camera's became smeared by the inmates by their own faeces and the officers and researchers found it hard to see what was going on, all they could hear was the paranoid chants of them all as they walked around in circles going from laughing to crying.  So on day 15 they decided to get a few armed guards to enter the room to shake things up a little but what they saw was horrific, they had each used the knife on themselves cutting pieces of their flesh off as if they were preparing Sunday dinner, two guys lay on the ground torn to pieces and face down in their own pool of blood, another guy was in the corner shouting about how he is free while slicing up his abdomen and pulling out his intestines. The guards tried using force against the remaining three torn up inmates but found them surprisingly strong and ended up shooting one of them, subduing the other two.

The remaining two were brought into the infirmary and put under strong sedation. As the gas stimulant from the chamber started to wear off their situation started to get worse, their bodies started convulsing to the point where one of them actually died as a result of the gas leaving their body. The researchers decided to pump the one last remaining survivor with more of the stimulant to keep him alive, he immediately shot up from the bed foaming at the mouth, trying to get at the people observing him but his shackles prevented this.

One researcher asked him "Do you remember who you are" to which the crazed inmate replied "Yes, I am what's in you, what's in all of us, what we all try to control out of fear, the purest form of mankind". "Do tell me, what is this thing you speak of" asked the very curious researcher, the man started shaking with laughter , blood draining from his eyes before responding in a raspy deep voice unfamiliar to him " I am the madness that lies within". He then broke free from his shackles and leaped at the frozen with fear researcher before the officers shot him in the chest putting an end to his life and also this experiment. It was never talked about since and wiped clear from any records but it does make you think is there that madness in all of us and if we weren't all so conditioned by society would we turn out this way??