The Soviet Sleep Experiment · Editor's Choice

According to the story, the results were pure nightmare fuel:

The subjects talked normally, but conversations grew darker. The Soviet Sleep Experiment

The story was first posted in 2010 on the Creepypasta Wiki by a user known as "OrangeSoda". According to the story, the results were pure

Viral posts often include a terrifying photo of a ghoulish, grinning figure. That image is actually a commercially sold Halloween animatronic prop named "Spasm". That image is actually a commercially sold Halloween

A subject famously whispered that they represented the innate evil inside the human mind that is only kept at bay by sleep. 💻 The Reality: Born on the Internet

Despite looking like a real historical account, the entire story is a fabrication.

The best-documented real-world case of extreme sleeplessness belongs to a 17-year-old named Randy Gardner , who stayed awake for in 1964. Under the supervision of Stanford sleep researcher Dr. William Dement, Gardner experienced: