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in the late 1940s

Russian researchers kept five people

awake for 15 days using an experimental

gas-based stimulant

they were kept in a sealed environment

to carefully monitor their oxygen intake

so the gas didn't kill them

this was before closed circuit cameras

so they had only microphones and five

inch thick glass windows into the

chamber to monitor them

foreign was stocked with books cots

but no bedding running water or toilets

but they had enough dried food to last

all five for over a month

the test subjects were political

prisoners deemed enemies of the state

during World War II

everything was fine for the first five

days

subjects hardly complained having been

promised falsely that they would be

freed if they submitted to the test and

did not sleep

for 30 days

their conversations and activities were

monitored and it was noted that they

continue to talk about increasingly

traumatic incidents in their past

in the general tone of their

conversations took on a darker aspect

after the four day Mark if you will

after five days they started to complain

about the circumstances and events that

led them to where they were and started

to demonstrate severe paranoia

they stopped talking to each other

and began alternately whispering to the

microphones in one-way mirrored

portholes

oddly they all seem to think they could

win the trust of the experimenters by

turning over their comrades

at first the researchers suspected this

was an effect of the gas itself

after nine days the first of them

started screaming

he ran the length of the chamber

repeatedly yelling at the top of his

lungs for three hours straight

foreign

he continued attempting to scream but

was only able to produce occasional

squeaks

the researchers postulated that he had

physically torn his vocal cords

the most surprising thing about this

behavior is how the other captives

reacted to it or rather didn't react to

it

they continued whispering to the

microphones until the second of the

captives started to scream

the two non-screaming captives took the

books apart smeared page after page with

their own feces and pasted them calmly

over the glass portholes

screaming promptly stopped

and so did the whispering to the

microphones

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after three more days passed the

researchers checked the microphones

hourly to make sure they were working

since they thought it impossible that no

sound could be coming with five people

inside

the oxygen consumption in the chamber

indicated that all five must still be

alive

in fact it was the amount of oxygen five

people would consume at a very heavy

level of strenuous exercise

on the morning of the 14th day the

researchers did something they said they

would not do to get a reaction from the

captives

they used the intercom inside the

chamber hoping to provoke any response

from the captives

they were afraid rather dead or

vegetables

they announced

we're opening the door we're opening the

chamber to test the microphones step

away from the door and lie flat on the

floor or you will be shot

compliance will earn one of you your

immediate freedom

their surprise they heard a single

phrase in a calm voice respond

we no longer want to be free

broke Out Among the researchers in the

military forces funding the research

unable to provoke any more response

using the intercom it was finally

decided to open the chamber at midnight

on the 15th day

the chamber was flushed of the stimulant

gas and filled with fresh air and

immediately voices from the microphone

began to object

three different voices began begging as

if pleading for the life of loved ones

to turn the gas back on the chamber was

open and soldiers sent in to retrieve

the test subjects but

again to scream

and they screamed they screamed louder

than ever and so did the soldiers when

they saw what was inside four of the

five subjects were still alive although

no one could rightly call the state that

any of them were in life

the food rations past day five had not

been so much as touched there were

chunks of meat from the dead test

subjects thigh and chest stuffed into

the drain in the center of the chamber

blocking the drain and allowing four

inches of water to accumulate on the

floor

precisely how much of the water on the

floor was actually blood was never

determined all four surviving test

subjects if you could even refer to them

as such had large portions of muscle and

skin torn away from their bodies the

destruction of Flesh and exposed bone on

their fingertips indicated that the

wounds were inflicted

hand not with teeth

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not with anything else

closer examination of the position and

angles of the wounds indicated that most

if not all of them were self-inflicted

the abdominal organs below the rib cage

of all four test subjects have been

removed while the heart lungs and

diaphragm remained in place the skin and

most of the muscles attached to the ribs

had been ripped off exposing the lungs

through the rib cage

all the blood vessels and organs

remained intact but they had just been

taken out and laid on the floor Fanning

out around the eviscerated but still

living bodies of the subjects

the digestive tract of all four could be

seen to be working digesting food it

quickly became apparent that what they

were digesting was their own flesh that

they had ripped off and eaten over the

course of days

most of the soldiers were Russian

special operatives at the facility but

still many refused to return to the

chamber to remove the test subjects they

continued to scream to be left in the

chamber and alternately begged and

demanded that the gas be turned back on

unless they fall asleep

to everyone's surprise the test subjects

put up a fierce fight in the process of

being removed from the chamber one of

the Russian soldiers died from having

his throat ripped out another was

Gravely injured about having his

testicles ripped off in an artery in his

legs severed by one of the subject's

teeth and

no

another five of the soldiers lost their

lives if you count ones that committed

suicide in the weeks following

their experience

struggle one of the four living subjects

that his spleen ruptured and he bled out

almost immediately

the medical researchers attempted to

sedate him but this proved impossible

he was injected with more than 10 times

the human dose of a morphine derivative

and still fought like a cornered animal

breaking the ribs and arm of one doctor

when heart was seen to be

for a full two minutes after he had bled

out to the point there was more air in

his vascular system than blood

even after it stopped he continued to

scream and flail for another three

minutes struggling to attack anyone in

reach and just repeating one word

or or more

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over

over weaker

and weaker

until he finally

fell

silent

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surviving through test subjects were

heavily restrained and moved to a

medical facility the two with intact

vocal cords continuously begging for the

gas demanding to be kept awake

the most injured of the three was taken

to the only surgical operating room that

the facility had

in the process of preparing the subject

to have his organs placed back within

his body it was found that he was

effectively immune to the sedative that

they had given him to prepare him for

the surgery he fought furiously against

his restraints when the anesthetic gas

was brought out to put him under

he managed to tear most of the way

through a four inch wide leather strap

on one wrist and even though the weight

of a 200 pound Soldier was holding that

wrist as well it took only a little more

anesthetic than normal to put him under

in the instant his eyelids fluttered and

closed his heart stopped

in the autopsy of the test subject that

died on the operating table it was found

that his blood had tripled the normal

level of oxygen

his muscles that were still attached to

his skeleton were badly torn and he had

broken nine bones in his struggle to not

be subdued

most of them were from the force of his

own muscles

being exerted onto him

but the second Survivor had been the

first of the group of five to start

screaming his vocal cords destroyed he

was unable to beg or object to surgery

and he only reacted by shaking his head

violently in disapproval when the

anesthetic gas was brought near him

shook his head yes when someone

suggested reluctantly if they try the

surgery without anesthetic and did not

react for the entire six hour procedure

of replacing his abdominal organs and

attempting to cover them with what

remained of his skin

surgeon presiding stated repeatedly that

it should be medically impossible for

the patient to still be alive

in one terrified nurse assisting the

surgery stated that she had seen the

Pit's mouth curl into a smile several

times whenever his eyes had met hers

and when the surgery ended the subject

looked at the surgeon and began to

wheeze he began to whee as loudly loudly

than they ever heard before attempting

to talk while struggling

and assuming that this must be something

of drastic importance

surgeon had a pen and Pad fetch so the

patient could write his message but his

message

was very simple

the other two test subjects were given

the same surgery both without anesthetic

as well although they had to be injected

with a paralytic for the duration of the

operation

the surgeon found it impossible to

perform the operation while the patients

laughed continuously once paralyzed the

subjects could only follow the attending

researchers with their eyes the

paralytic cleared their systems and

ended abnormally short period of time

and they were soon trying to escape

their bonds the moment they could speak

they were again asking for the stimulant

gas

but the researchers tried asking they

said why why why did you injure yourself

why

had they ripped out their own guts and

why do they want this gas once more

and once again the response was clear

I must remain awake

all three subjects restraints were

reinforced and they were placed back

into the chamber awaiting determination

as to what should be done with them

researchers facing the wrath of their

military benefactors for having failed

the stated goal of their project

considered euthanizing the surviving

subjects

the commanding officer of former kbg

agent instead saw potential and wanted

to see what would happen if they were to

put back

the gas the researchers strongly

objected but in the end they were

overruled in preparation for being

sealed in the chamber again the subjects

were connected to an EEG Monitor and had

their restraints padded for long term

confinement to everyone's surprise all

three stopped struggling the moment it

was let slip that they were going back

on the gas

it was obvious that at this point all

three were putting up a great struggle

to stay awake one of the subjects that

could speak was humming loudly and

continuously the mute subject was

straining his leg against the leather

bonds with all his might first left then

right then left again just for something

to focus on the remaining subject was

holding his head off his pillow and

blinking rapidly having been the first

to be wired for EEG most of the

researchers were monitoring his brain

waves in Surprise

they were normal most of the time but

sometimes flatlined inexplicably

it looked as if he were repeatedly

suffering from brain death before

returning to normal as they focused on

papers scrolling out of the brainwave

monitor only one nurse saw his eyes slip

shut at the same moment his head hit the

pillow

his brain waves immediately changed to

that of a deep sleep then flatlined for

the last time as his heart

simultaneously stopped

the only remaining subject that could

speak started screaming to be sealed in

now his brain waves showed the same flat

lines as one who had just died from

falling asleep the commander gave the

order to seal the chamber with both

subjects inside as well as three

researchers

one of the named three immediately drew

his gun and shot the commander point

blank between the eyes oh my gosh the

horror he turned he turned the gun on

the mute subject and blew his brains out

as well

he pointed his gun at the remaining

subjects still restrained to a bed as

the remaining members of the medical and

research team fled the room

I won't be locked in here with these

things not with you

he screamed at the man strapped to the

table what are you who are you he

demanded

I must know

the subject smiled

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have you forgotten so easily

the subject asked

we

are you

where the madness that lurks within you

all begging to be free at every moment

in your deepest animalistic mind and

tendencies 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

the researcher paused then aimed at the

subject's heart and fired

flatlined as the subject weakly choked

out

so nearly

free

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