In the late 1940s researchers in the Soviet Union used five political prisoners as subjects in an experiment where they used a gas stimulant that kept the subjects awake for 15 days straight. According to the urban legend the room had 5 inch thick glass pothole size windows, microphones to contact the subjects, enough books to read, a toilet and enough food to survive a month. During the first couple of days they were having normal conversations with each other but as the time passes their conversations were mostly about traumatic incidents they had to face. After 5 days things got really dark and they demonstrated paranoia. They stopped having conversations with eachother and started whispering to microphones.
After 9 days one subject started screaming. It is said he was running in the chamber and was screaming for 3 hours continuously, it broke his vocal cords. When the second subject also started screaming, the others stopped researchers from looking inside by covering the pothole windows from torn book pages and their own feces. After 3 more days researchers had to use intercom to check on men as there was no sound of them during those days but the oxygen levels indicated that they were alive. The researchers wanted to check on them so they announced that they will be opening the chamber and subjects have to lie down on the floor. Their cooperation will be rewarded by immediate freedom. After several days of silence a voice came from the intercom. " We don't need to be freed" it said.
After several discussions between the military and the researchers they decided to open the chamber on the 15th day. As soon as the chamber was flushed out from the gas stimulant, subjects were begging for the stimulant. Food they were supposed to consume after the 5th day were untouched and one subject was dead. Parts of his body were removed and it has closed a clogging in the drainage system causing a 4 inch water level inside the chamber. Remaining 4 subjects have practiced self cannibalism. They have teared off their own muscles and abdominal organs. These subjects violently denied leaving the chamber and pleaded for more stimulants. They murdered one soldier and severely injured another in an attempt to remove them from the chamber. Despite their injuries they demonstrated superhuman strength and a desire to remain awake. It was found that if one falls asleep they die immediately. Eventually only one subject survives and a researcher kills him. Before killing when he was asked what he is. He answered "Have you forgotten so easily?" the subject asked. "We are you. We are the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be free at every 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."
Whether this incident happened for real or not we don't know. What do you think? Let me know in the comments below.
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