Ross Ulbricht created the most notorious website in history when he launched the The Silk Road in 2011. An online marketplace for drugs, guns, poisons, and explosives, the Silk Road would become synonymous with the Internet's lawless new frontier: the so-called "Dark Web."
But what really IS the Dark Web? And how did a middle-class suburban kid become the notorious criminal kingpin known as the "Dread Pirate Roberts"?
Fire up your TOR browser and cover your digital tracks as you follow Shane and Duncan into the darkest depths of the web for a fascinating true story of drugs, contract killings, and betrayal.
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~ KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, AND SLEEP IS OVERRATED ~
Cryptids, Mark 2: From the Mothman to the Wendigo
Welcome to the Manosphere: Pick-up Artists, Incels, and the Seduction Community
The Devil
Spectacular Failures: From New Coke to Segway
The Sordid Science Behind Interrogation and Torture
Battle for the Living Room: from Atari to the Console Wars
Mentalists, Faith Healers, and Frauds
Sketchy and Unethical Psychological Experiments
Sleep and Insomnia (finally!)
The Darwin Awards
Organized Crime, Volume 1: The Yakuza
Weird and Terrifying Animals
Off the Deep End: Facts and Mythology of the Ocean
Lost Civilizations
Insomniacs Inbox: Bats, Penguins, and the Great Emu War
Cryptids: from the Loch Ness Monster to the Dobhar-chu
Unfiltered Fairytales
Ancient Texts: from the Devil’s Bible to the Magna Carta
Scandals: Hollywood Edition
Superstition: Black cats and devils and mirrors, oh my
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