Become a Member ![\\"snopes](\\"/design/images/logo-main.png\\"/) Search My Profile Logout Submit a Rumor Latest Trending News & Politics Entertainment Fact Checks Quiz Sections Latest Trending Fact Checks News Collections More Contact Us Submit a Rumor Archives Quiz FactBot Newsletters About Us Categories News & Politics Entertainment Science & Technology Lifestyle Free accounts support our journalism Become a Member Login My Profile Logout ![\\"republican_symbol\\"](\\"/design/images/republican_symbol.png\\"/) Snopes fact-checked the vice presidential debate live! Read more here ![\\"democrat_symbol\\"](\\"/design/images/democrat_symbol.png\\"/) Fact Check # Was the Russian Sleep Experiment Real? ## An account describing the horrific results of a \'Russian Sleep Experiment\' from the late 1940s is a work of modern creepy fiction. ### David Mikkelson ### Published Aug. 27, 2013 ![\\"](\\" Image courtesy of Shutterstock Claim: Account describes the horrific results of a \"Russian Sleep Experiment\" from the late 1940s. Rating: False About this rating A popular creepy online tale of a \"Russian Sleep Experiment\" (with the improbable title tag of \"Orange Soda\") involves Soviet researchers who kept five people awake for fifteen consecutive days through the use of an \"experimental gas based stimulant\" and opens as follows: > Russian researchers in the late 1940\'s kept five people awake for fifteen > 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, since it was toxic in high concentrations. This was before closed > circuit cameras so they had only microphones and 5 inch thick glass porthole > sized windows into the chamber to monitor them. The chamber was stocked with > books, cots to sleep on but no bedding, running water and toilet, and enough > dried food to last all five for over a month. > > [Remainder of article here.] Advertisement: This account isn\'t a historical record of a genuine 1940s sleep deprivation research project gone awry, however. It\'s merely a bit of supernatural fiction that gained widespread currency on the Internet after appearing on Creepypasta (a site for \"short stories designed to unnerve and shock the reader\") in August 2010. ### By David Mikkelson David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994. Recommendations Advertisement: ![\\"Snopes.com\\"](\\"/design/images/logo-main.png\\") Company About Us FAQs Contact Us Submit a Topic Navigate Home Search Archive Newsletters Random Sections Latest Top Fact Checks News Account Join Login Game FactBot Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter © 1995 - 2024 by Snopes Media Group Inc. This material may not be reproduced without permission. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com Terms of Use Privacy Policy DMCA Policy
Account describes the horrific results of a Russian Sleep Experiment from the late 1940s