Why NASA Never Returned To The Moon... Creepypasta Space Horror Stories

[Music] my grandfather was a combat pilot even though he always felt distant i liked him when i grew older i realized that he was always aware always looking for any signs of danger shell shock ptsd it has many names my mother told me that he didn't used to be like that that he changed when he came back from vietnam my grandpa's profession was likely the reason i was obsessed with space astronauts planes and pilots we used to talk about it when we were together he was a really skilled and high-ranking officer in the army and

he knew some people even a couple of really well-known astronauts when i once asked him if he met anyone who went to the moon he simply replied don't ever talk to me about the moon boy it's a dark and evil place he died back in 2004 from natural causes about two months ago we decided to renovate my grandparents old house while clearing out the attic i found an old metallic box in the box and there was a number of things which as i assumed belonged to my grandfather there was a military medal a stack of

papers and an old picture of my grandfather and two other men i didn't recognize my grandpa looked around 40 so i assume that the picture was taken in the 70s all of them were wearing spacesuits and the scene was a typical backdrop used by nasa but the logo was missing only a blank monochrome background the mission patch was titled dawnbreaker i didn't understand anything my grandfather was an astronaut why did he never tell anyone about this dawnbreaker i never heard about such mission it must have been covered up really well but why i found the

answers in the papers on the bottom of the box i'll rewrite the literal contents below but i warn you that many people might find it very disturbing my dear family if you ever find this i must confess something in 1972 i wasn't in vietnam i wasn't supposed to tell anyone but if you have found this it probably doesn't matter anymore back in 1965 me and a handful of other pilots were selected for a non-public team of astronauts who would participate in covert missions in space for our government we wouldn't get the glory and fame of

regular astronauts but our country needed us and so we were there in early 1972 we were told that for an unspecified period of time our country had a secret satellite orbiting the moon they never told us what it did or why it was there just that a few weeks prior it had crashed to the surface on the dark side of the moon for unknown reasons and that the data it carried was crucial the government needed to recover it and thus was sending me and the two other astronauts to reclaim the satellite's memory module the equipment

of the planned apollo 18 mission was essentially transferred to us from what we've been told the apollo team was furious they had a reason to be after all it seemed that whoever we've been under was much more powerful than nasa the whole mission was top secret obviously i was officially deployed to vietnam while in reality we underwent extensive training for the mission after a couple of months we found ourselves standing on the launch pad in front of this behemoth of a rocket that would take us to the moon i was the mission commander while lieutenant

carver was the lunar excursion module pilot and lieutenant ackerman was the command service module pilot the flight to the moon took roughly three days after arriving we made a couple of orbits around it each time we flew behind the horizon created by the moon itself i felt a bit of helplessness when our communication to the whole world went dark as the signal got obscured by the spherical mass of rock and dust below us the dark side of the moon was nothing like the light side which we see on almost a daily basis instead of smooth

grey fields and tranquil lunar seas it was completely covered in dark deep craters and holes like as if it was being slowly eaten away by the universe itself it was finally decided to begin the descent to the surface me and carver exchanged wishes of good luck with ackerman and in the lunar module named sharon we separated from the csm named trinity after we announced sharon has touched down our response wasn't cheers and applause but just mere this is trinity congratulations sharon i'll relay the news onto the other side be safe out there pals just like

that we became cut off from the rest of the world ackerman was our only link while he was above the light side he could communicate with ground command and while above the dark side he could communicate with us never both at once even though the csm's orbital period was roughly 2 hours we would be in touch for only about 35 minutes each orbit we landed on a flat plane inside a huge crater contrary to what some people believe the sun shines at the dark side of the moon the same way as the light side the

amount of light depends on the lunar face it was still shining daylight in the place where we landed but we knew that it would go dark in a few days i felt excited and curious about what awaits us in this alien world we waited for about an hour and a half to get the command's reply from ackerman and spent the time by preparing our suits command sends their congratulations you're to proceed with the recovery i try to think of something excessively inspiring to say but those times were already over with carver we assembled the rover

and after planting our flag next to our spacecraft we drove off as we drove across the surface i saw what i thought was a flash like a glare reflected by something metallic in the far distance since it was fairly common to see flashes of light because of an interesting physical phenomenon caused by the space radiation interacting with our eyes i didn't give it much thought and soon forgot about it after driving for a couple of hours we reached the satellite or what was left of it we immediately noticed that something wasn't right there were dozens

of footprints around the probe leading to a set of two tracks dragging out into the distance what the hell is this asked carver in disbelief i don't know but it seems that somebody got what we came for before us i replied both the tracks and the footprints were different than ours whoever took the data wasn't here under the american flag as i expected we didn't find the data box we found the part where it was supposed to be but it was missing luckily for us we were just in contact with ackerman so we reached out

to him to describe our findings this doesn't make any sense who would take it russians they don't even have a lunar program even if somebody took it how could we not be aware of that how can the russians land on the moon without us noticing he responded as far as we know the russians have no idea that we are here you know said carver over the radio we're going to follow the trail i cut off their conversation are you guys sure about this asked ackerman hell i'm not sure about this we're clearly missing something here

but i'll do as you say cap responded carver yes if whatever was on the probe was so important for two countries to send people here to retrieve it we have to find out what happened to it i replied copy that sharon i'll relay your whereabouts to command as soon as i can be careful out there our oxygen was about at half capacity now but we moved on with hopes of solving this mystery it wasn't long until i saw something in the distance as we got closer i realized that it was a spacecraft its design was

different than ours and it was decorated with a flag of the soviet union i couldn't explain why but i felt that something was really odd about the spacecraft if there really was russians with us on the moon they could have picked up our comms long ago so there wasn't a point in hiding to the unidentified soviet lander this is the crew of dawnbreaker please respond we know you're here we have you in sight nothing we attempted to contact them several times again in both russian and english but always received only silence in response we got

closer and i realized why i found the spacecraft out before it looked like it had been there for a while we didn't see much of the interior through the small windows which had been covered with something from the inside our ear is running low and i don't like this miller we should really head back now said carver with clear uneasiness in his voice i know but we have to find out what's going on here it took some time until we figured out a way to open the airlock no one was home the inside was a

mess the interior was splattered with brownish red fluid presumably contents of one of the many open foot packages lying on the floor or was it no i quickly pushed that thought out of my head it was a two-seater craft there was a small amount of leftover supplies and samples but no signs of the satellite's black box there was a spacesuit hanged on the wall near the airlock two occupants and one spacesuit with a clearly missing name tag we both quickly realized that the other one must still be out there somewhere along with its occupant at

this point we were really low on oxygen so we rushed to get back on our spacecraft as we reached sharon with the last bits of oxygen in our suits i realized something tell me carver was it just me or did we not pass the wreckage on our way back i asked [ __ ] don't even mention it it wasn't there that's right we shared our intriguing discovery with ackermann later and he was as surprised as was command when he informed them in turn that night i took watch for the first four hours it wasn't really

a night since the sun was still shining but for the sake of time keeping we referred to the time when we slept as night when it was finally my turn to sleep i had a dream about following the flash that i saw the previous day i walked on and on until i found the same spacesuit from the russian craft just lying there in the dust the limbs were twisted and contorted in gruesome ways but it was clear that someone or something was inside that suit i approached and slowly began opening the sunshield that obscured the

inside of the helmet i looked in terror as i saw at the inside it was my face covered with brownish red blood in place of eyes there were only two gaping holes the next day we started picking up something on an unused channel of our radio it was a faint signal coming from somewhere in the crater we tried to patch it to the speakers but it didn't make any sense it was just a repeating sound resembling a person vocalizing the sound of a single letter or a vowel but stretched to about 3 seconds followed by

equally long pauses it was very distorted and it clearly wasn't a loop since each sound was just slightly different than the previous one we ate and once again prepared for moonwalk it was darker than the other day the sun was still shining but it was steadily creeping its way under the horizon we followed the source of the signal for about an hour when we found something lying in the dust in front of us i tensed as i looked closer and found out what it was it was a spacesuit the same as the one in the

russian lander well it looks like we found our missing friend said carver with disbelief i didn't say anything i simply jumped off the rover and slowly silently approached the suit what are you doing miller continued carver just as i was about to open the sunshield with my shaking hands the suit came alive and grabbed my hand with the sound traveling through our suits i heard a weak mujit meaning help in russian we carried him to our lander the patch on his suit revealed his identity as tarkov he was in shock and hypoxic i don't know

how long or why he was just lying there but he was lucky to be alive for the next couple of hours he fell in and out of consciousness he eventually woke up our russian was bad but luckily he spoke english enough for us to understand each other he didn't remember why he was there what had happened to him and his crew or what his mission was when i looked out of the window i realized that our flag was gone there were no footprints it looked like as if it simply vanished at this point each one

of us was really concerned and we asked to terminate the mission the command refused explaining that the recovery of the satellite's data was of paramount importance we decided to continue our search tomorrow and went to sleep i again had the same nightmare as the day before i woke up terrified and drenched in sweat i saw tarkov standing by the window and looking out he then walked over to carver and just stood there looking at him while he slept for about a minute or two silently i asked him tarkov what are you doing but he just

mumbled something like dim or when and lie down i didn't sleep for the rest of the night and i kept an eye on him but nothing interesting happened the next day we found a picture or a map of the crater we were at in a pocket in tarkov suit there was a point a few miles from where we were that was marked with a cross tarkov didn't know what was there but i soon realized that it was right in the direction where i saw the flash on the first day we had to check it out

me and carver took off and headed towards this mysterious target while tarkov stayed in the sharon in reality our rover had enough power to carry all three of us but i insisted that it didn't and that he should stay behind i don't trust this guy i said to carver after i was sure that tarkov was out of range of our short range radio we land on the moon we don't find the box and suddenly the probe is gone then we find a supposed to be dead russian who doesn't remember when was the last time he

took a [ __ ] and now we're heading towards an inconspicuous place that was marked on his map he knows nothing about you bad i don't trust him hell i don't trust a single step i take in that direction he replied what are we going to do with him he asked later i don't know yet but we can't take him with us neither the lem or csm is built for an extra passenger you know that i responded and i'm afraid he knows that too replied carver the sun was setting after driving for a while we

reached something that puzzles me to this day right there in front of us was something i can only describe as a three-sided pyramid it was about 10 feet tall and its surface was completely smooth and black as night what in the world is this asked carver with a shiver in his voice walked around it and took pictures what the [ __ ] i suddenly heard through my radio i turned around and saw carver frozen in place staring at something there in the remaining faint light was a spacesuit about 20 feet away from us i recognized

the missing name patch and realized that it was the suit from the russian spacecraft it was standing upright on its feet the sunshield was open to reveal the sight that terrifies me to this day it was empty the suit was empty but it was standing upright i came back to my senses after i heard a crackling noise coming from my radio you don't belong here it spoke in a low deep distorted voice then out of nowhere i was blinded by an intense flash of light when i recovered the thing was gone carver are you all

right i asked he was silent at first and then replied man [ __ ] nasa [ __ ] the army [ __ ] the satellite [ __ ] this whole mission i want to get out of here now without any debate we ran to the rover and drove off back to sharon when we came back the sun had already fallen below the horizon and it was completely pitch black the airlock was open and tarkov was standing in front of the module in a suit damn it in the rush we completely forgot about him i approached

him and started listen tarkov there is something you i stopped when i noticed he was holding something behind his back but it was too late he swung and struck me with a sharpened rod i hid my head on the inside of my helmet and fell to the ground when the ringing in my ear stopped i saw him and carver fighting in the dust i stood up and threw myself into tarkov propelling us both a dozen feet away before i was able to stand up again he was already on top of me we struggled and just

as he got grip on the lever that was used to release my helmet i struck his head with a sharp rock his visor cracked and while his air was slowly escaping his suit i picked myself up and grabbed the rod it was already stained with blood he lunged at me but i stabbed him in the chest he then fell on top of me and when our helmets touched he spoke as the last of his air was pulled out from his lungs he is not your friend follow the voice i picked myself up and walked over

to carver i saw that his suit was punctured on the thigh and brownish red blood was being sucked out into the airless vacuum all around us when i brought him inside the sharon i realized that our first aid kit was gone he was bleeding a lot and i managed to slow it down but i had to treat him properly i was afraid that if we took off he would bleed out in zero gravity even faster there was a med kit in the russian thing wasn't it he said yeah i replied miller you have to go

get it [ __ ] it's not that far from here is it is it carver no it's not are you sure you can hold on until i get back i asked yeah just go so i went don't die on me carver that's an order i said before leaving as i said it didn't take long until i reached the russian lander but it felt like ages throughout the whole journey i waited for something to jump out of the darkness around me i wasn't surprised when i saw that the suit that was previously hanged on the wall

was now missing but still i felt the shiver run down my spine i took their med kit and hit it back as soon as i could but i couldn't stop thinking about tarkov's last words he is not your friend follow the voice i kept repeating inside my head i then switched the channel on my radio to the one we heard the incomprehensible noise on it was still on i realized that it was stronger in one particular direction follow the voice i said to myself was this the voice tarkov meant who is not my friend tarkov

carver the mission commander back on earth i had to find out i drove off in the direction of the signal after driving for at least 15 minutes i reached a small crater about 30 feet in diameter with my headlight on i immediately saw that something was inside but i couldn't recognize it yet i stepped over the edge and walked into the crater and switched my light to full intensity i stood there paralyzed with raw terror for what felt like hours there was a rectangular block of the same material as the pyramid in the center of

the crater a body was lying on top of it its limbs were contorted in the most twisted and gruesome way possible his eyes were missing and in their place were only two gaping holes it was carver there was a small box stuffed inside his mouth it was the black box from the satellite i took the box and ran out of there as fast as i could carver was dead if carver was dead oh who was the carver i left in the sharon he is not your friend what's the only thing i had on my mind

the rest of the way back when i returned tarkov's body was gone but carver was still there lying and bleeding but it wasn't carver what was that thing thank god you're back miller said carver not carver carver was dead mutilated dead miller are you all right continued not carver yeah i've got the kit i replied he couldn't know that i knew it couldn't know i treated his wounds and the bleeding finally stopped i strapped him in and then strapped myself in i didn't tell him that i had found the black box i didn't tell it

that i found him [Music] with the engine roaring below us the sharing split in half and the crew compartment pushed us up into the void while the legs stayed planted on the lunar dust eternally now i already wrote on several occasions that i had felt minutes pass as if they were ours the ascent and rendezvous took only a bit more than a dozen of minutes but those minutes felt like decade i wanted to scream so loud that my lungs would break and i wanted to vomit but i couldn't because it would find out i wanted

to black out but i couldn't i had to save ackerman after several lifetimes we finally talked with ackerman and the trinity throughout the whole ordeal we kept him updated but meeting him was different he was scared but i was cared even more he didn't know that carver was not carver but i knew i unstrapped myself first and pushed ackerman out of the docking tunnel i kicked carver right in the face when he followed i then closed the docking tunnel behind me what the hell are you doing miller what is wrong with you shouted ackerman and

slammed me to the wall of the command module don't open it mike it's not carver that thing in the lem is not carver do you understand i shouted back in pain even though he was a battle-hardened soldier ackerman finally broke into tears i float past him over to the controls and before i undocked the sharon i glanced at the docking tunnel window one last time there it was a thing with carver's face and body but not carver staring at us but his eyes were completely smooth and black at snide itself he opened his mouth in

a way that was simply not possible for a human and let out a loud disturbing screech that i wish i could forget so much in a heartbeat it turned to dead silence as the sharon detached from the csm and drifted into the void me and ackerman didn't say a single word throughout the three-day journey back to earth we were placed in quarantine for months after we came back home nobody ever explained to us what happened on that mission i never learned what was on the black box honestly i didn't want to know after all i

experienced but whatever was there was apparently enough to cancel all other missions to the moon and beyond they eventually released us and made it very clear that we're never supposed to talk about it i never saw ackerman from that day on the only time i talked about him was when a pair of men in suits came to my home one day a couple of years after the mission captain miller have you been in touch with lieutenant ackermann lately one of them asked after we exchanged our greetings no i never spoke or heard from him since

the mission did something happen i replied i'm sorry to tell you but lieutenant ackerman was found dead in a nearby forest yesterday i had to sit down i didn't know him that well but we spent a considerable amount of time together in training and we lived through hell itself together so it was more than enough for me to consider him a friend poor mike did he die i asked we don't know yet but he had multiple fractures on all of his limbs and his eyes were gouged out my search for the truth had finally yielded

some success oh where do i even start i've mentioned that my grandfather knew some people here and there he even introduced me to some of them and i convinced myself to contact one such person who works at nasa unfortunately he couldn't help me but he gave me a contact for someone who possibly can the other person didn't help me either but they bounced me back and forth between about 10 other people until i finally met this guy who actually knew what i was talking about well i mean i didn't meet him only on the internet

but you get it obviously i won't reveal his identity or any more information than what i'm going to write here he wasn't very friendly when i first got in touch with him when i asked him if he knew anything about dawnbreaker he almost hung me up straight away who told you about this you're playing with things you don't understand young man miller was my grandfather i explained he went silent for a few seconds i see i suppose we wouldn't be able to hide this forever i can help you not because you ask me but because

it's time but i warn you there are things you don't want to know he emailed me a flash drive and in a very complicated way explained to me what to do with it the drive was actually just a dummy and after i took it apart it revealed a micro sd card i don't know if i'm doing the right thing by posting it to the internet because what you're about to read is going to give you many answers but open even more questions the sd card contained a transcript of what was probably an audio recording in

russian same as with my grandfather's message i'll rewrite the contents below [Music] damn piece of crap is it working oh thank god it is i apologize for my rude introduction my name is leonid ivanovic tarkov i am i was a cosmonaut on the kamchatka station now let's cut the crap and get straight to the point you know that we are here and you've been spying on us with your little stay put nick for a while and while i hate giving this to you i hope you'll use this information well because i have no other hope

in case you've really been living under a rock i'll explain what's going on we've been here for two months now me lenko novak and commander poliakov god bless their souls our station is tiny but serves us well it is a small dome with four rooms a laboratory a storage room machine room and a central living area our purpose was to research the moon and its structure long before you americans found out we already knew about the crater anomaly on every other celestial body the size and depth of a crater vary depending on the strength of

the impact but their shape should stay consistent but on the moon it is not like this the craters here are too shallow they never extend below a certain depth we place the station in one particularly large and deep crater with hopes to learn more about this curious phenomenon all was going well until we started digging it was the 64th day of the expedition we all gathered here to watch the result of our hard work the drill was a true engineering marvel designed specifically for this mission the plan was to drill a hole as deep as

we could ready to start rolling comrades excitingly asked lanco our engineer we all cheered and after he hit the switch the drill came to life silence transitioned to buzzing buzzing transitioned to spinning and spinning transition to drilling i was very proud of being here doing a service to the union but i look forward to returning to earth this was the first step to our journey home we made sure that all was going well we started packing and heading home naturally lanco was last since he behaved like if the drill was his little child he must

watch over what do you guys think is down there he asked as he rushed to catch up with us our equipment couldn't pick up anything below some five meters under the surface so there must be a layer of some very dense mineral or maybe some unknown element who knows elaborated novak our geologist i think we're going to find cheese i said and we all laughed even commander polikov chuckled i was wrong we all were so wrong the trail jammed the next day lanco and novak went there to elaborate while i stay at the base with

the commander he didn't talk much and when he did it was mostly to criticize someone he was the kind of person who wasn't satisfied no matter what you did but deep down he cared for us and we respected him for that lenko and novak later returned with a handful of sharp black rocks and rather surprising news as we predicted about four meters below surface there is a layer of this immensely hard black material it is so hard in fact that it broke the drill head explain novak so do you have any idea what it is

ask the commander not yet it might be some metastable crystalline mineral formed under high pressure but we won't know what it is until i have a look at it the next few days were very interesting myan lenko spent almost all the time by replacing the drill hits novak was completely consumed by studying that strange material the fact that it didn't make much progress only fueled his amazement i was just doing some maintenance on the drill with lenko when the drill suddenly plummeted down the hole almost taking us with it did you see that asked lenko

with confusion of course i did you idiot it almost pulled me into the hole in case you didn't notice i responded i then realized he probably didn't mean the drill and i thought that he was going to say something but he didn't [Music] i looked into the hole i pulled the glow stick out of the pocket of my suit cracked it and dropped it into the hole it fell into some sort of a cavity the rest of the team arrived shortly after and the commander started cursing at the drill then at us and finally he

congratulated us to making the first major discovery on this rock i knew what was going to happen next prepare your gear and get some sleep we're going down there tomorrow said poliakoff when we return to kamchatka lenko insisted that he needs to service the exterior equipment i thought that it was a bit odd because he serviced the exterior two days prior but our equipment breaks all the time so i didn't consider it as a big deal i wanted to stay with him so he wouldn't be left alone outside but he refused with any possibility of

convincing him so i gave up on that he returned inside some 30 minutes after we did anyway however a couple of minutes after he came back we heard a bang from the airlock then another we rushed there and novak took a look out of the window he widened his eyes and scanned the outside with a blank expression on his face what is it i asked uh i don't know he replied lenko do you know what's going on you returned last inquired the commander no i swear i have no idea what that was he answered novak

continued watching the outside for a few seconds and then went back to continue his work so we did as well the next day we descended down the hole the commander went down first and then i followed i rappelled down some four meters when i reached the layer of the black material as if it wasn't hard enough already to fit through the narrow opening with the suit on i had to be careful not to cut the suit on the sharp jagged edges of the dark substance i then got into a hollow section and to descend it

some further 10 meters down until i hit solid ground it was pitch black but with my headlight on i saw that we were in sort of a cavern or dome and the walls were out of sight but the floor was the same material like the ceiling [Music] the drill was down there it had collapsed down the hole when the ceiling gave away we waited for the rest of the team and then hit it into the darkness after a few minutes we sighted the wall it was made out of the same material as expected do you

have any idea what this is novak ask the commander i can't figure it out it's like a really tight packed crystal but i couldn't find out what it is made out of it's completely inert doesn't melt and doesn't conduct heat very well he explained in return we followed the wall and circled the whole cavity until we came back to where we started the walls the ceiling and the floor were just this completely smooth black material we headed back to the opening however on our way back we came across another opening in the ground there was

a ramp that went down like a spiral and after hesitating for a while we walked down [Music] we descended into another smaller cavity where tunnels extended in four directions like crossroads nobody asked the obvious question this wasn't a natural formation there was four of us and four tunnels one might think we would split up to cover more ground but again we were soldiers not a bunch of stupid school kids and so we stuck together we walked for maybe 40 minutes we passed several other intersections the whole place seemed like a maze or a web of

tunnels and it would be really easy to get lost here so each time we passed such intersection we left a glow stick in the mouth of the tunnel we came from [Music] the whole place was eerie and the farther we went the more uneasy i felt somewhere deep in my mind i felt that we're not supposed to be here we just came to maybe the 10th or 11th intersection we continued straight but after a couple of steps i noticed that lenko wasn't by my side anymore i turned back to see him looking into one of

the side tunnels at the intersection guys stop i spoke to the radio linko what is it he turned to face us and said i i don't know guys i don't feel well we need to go back something is not right down here what followed happened so fast but i felt like watching a slow motion video at one moment he stood there looking at us but in the next moment he was gone something pulled him into the tunnel we ran back and i wanted to follow but commander pulled me back what are you doing we can't

leave him behind i shouted he's gone we need to get out otherwise we're all dead he said he was right this wasn't our world whatever took lenko was still down here with us we needed to get out we ran back where we came from running in such low gravity was really awkward but at least it was easier so we didn't need to stop and catch our breath even with our heavy suits on however when we reached the next intersection we stopped nonetheless the glow sticks wasn't there as we soon learned all of them were gone

at first we remembered the way but at some point we probably took the wrong route because we never reached the spiral ramp we eventually reached something that seemed like a dead end we wanted to head back when we all heard and felt a thumping in the distance there was obviously no air so the sound probably traveled through the ground novak was the first one who panicked oh [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] what now what are we going to do commander please we have to do something i want to go home he

shouted across the radio the pounding got louder and louder or perhaps closer and closer i was on the verge of panic as well when i noticed that the wall in front of us wasn't a single piece there was a groove running from the top to the bottom at the center help me with this i said with the combination of various tools we managed to pry it open to reveal that the wall was in fact a door the sound was now so close that i thought that if i looked back i would have seen the source

but i didn't want to we squeezed through the door and let it close behind us [ __ ] that was close are you alright ask the commander how are we going to return back now ask novak in response we'll find a way said the commander how we have no idea where we are and there's the commander caught him off we'll find a way we walked to another tunnel for some time until we reached a room it was circular in shape maybe 15 or 20 meters in diameter it was filled with concentric rows of black boxes

or tables perhaps in the center there was a black three-sided pyramid again four tunnels continue into the unknown at each side like at the intersections what was that place we decided not to waste time and went into one of the tunnels we probably walked for hours but our oxygen was almost gone and not for long after we left the circular room i started to feel it my mind became cloudy and my legs felt like jelly i remember that we eventually reached a room it was circular in shape with concentric rows of black tables and a

three-sided pyramid in the center i didn't have any energy left to realize that we returned somehow to the same room we came from i collapsed to the ground breathing heavily struggling for any oxygen left in my ear in the final desperate measure i detached my helmet i took a deep breath and cold air filled my lungs before i collapsed i saw something while i was unconscious i can't remember it clearly like when you wake up and you remember your dream but you forget it in a couple of minutes i remember that i saw some kind

of being i can't remember how it looked like but i knew that it was sleeping then it woke up tarkov a voice said at the edge of my consciousness wake up i woke up to see novak wake up talk off he repeated and shook me i saw that he also had removed his helmet somehow there was air and we could breathe it but after all that's happened it was one of the last surprising facts what happened i asked thank god you're right i don't know but something isn't right with poliakoff he answered i stood up

and saw him standing in front of the pyramid commander poliakov i shouted he didn't respond we started walking towards him with novak i passed out when we got back here when i woke up he was already standing there he wouldn't respond and he didn't move an inch then i found you and woke you up explained novak polyakov moved his arm and touched the pyramid i don't know why i didn't notice it before but anyway his helmet was still on there's no way he had any oxygen left suddenly the surface of the pyramid went black i

mean it was black even before but now it was so black that i couldn't even see the surface anymore only the outline it was like if somebody simply torn away a part of space itself some sort of black hand appeared in front of the pyramid i can't comprehend where it came from but it seemed to extend out from the pyramid itself it grabbed polikov's arm and in a blink of an eye it pulled him into the darkness we turned and ran into the tunnel to our right a few dozens of meter into the tunnel i

stumbled and fell face down onto the ground breaking my lamp in the process the last light in the tunnel disappeared with novak as he sprinted away and then i was plunged into darkness i then heard heavy footsteps behind me i wanted to stand up and run but i couldn't i couldn't take it anymore i just lay there and awaited my end as the footsteps got closer the thing got right next to me and i felt a hand touch my leg it touched my suit several other times and advanced towards my head then to my horror

it touched my face it was cold i imagined the same hand that i just pulled poliakoff into the pyramid i imagined it dragging me backwards and pulling me inside the pyramid to do terrible things to me this was it this was my end but that didn't happen who is this a shaky voice asked i was startled and i didn't know what to do [Music] it was lanko's voice it's tarkov i said after a while oh thank god i found you i thought i would die here alone he said i stood up and we walked through

the tunnel together in pitch darkness we roamed the tunnels for hours maybe days weeks at first it wasn't so bad because i wasn't alone we filled the time by speaking about various things we talked about our families about our jobs and about how we became astronauts at one point i asked him what happened after he was pulled away from us he didn't answer and went silent ever since it wasn't long until the silence forced me to start questioning each step i took how did lenko survive what happened to poliakov but there was one thought that

was much stronger than the others was it really lenko next to me was it him or that monster with the black hand i wouldn't know because i couldn't see why didn't he have a light how did he find me my gratefulness of not being alone shifted to terror each second my desperation to see any light was stronger i couldn't bear it anymore i suddenly tripped and fell are you all right tarkov asked lenko i tripped on something i explained i turned and with my hands proceeded to feel the object that caused my fall it was

highly irregular but sometimes symmetric at some places it was soft and flexible while at others it was cold and smooth i didn't realized what it was a spacesuit i eventually found the lamp and after some struggling i detached it from the suit at first to my surprise i was afraid to turn it on i was afraid to see what was in the darkness all around us i was afraid to see who was in the space suit but i did it anyway the brightness blinded my eyes and after they adapted to the light i saw novak's

face in the suit and lanco standing over us our eyes met and for a brief moment i felt that his eyes were somehow unnatural something wasn't right about them i was just on the verge of realizing what it was when the body beside me twitched and took a long deep breath no [ __ ] are you okay how did you get here i asked he was very disoriented i i don't remember is that he said and looked at lenko he then looked at me and we both stood up i thought you guys were dead he

said so did we i answered i was delighted to finally see a human face but it wasn't over we still had to find a way out i ran as far away as i could until i realized that you weren't following me i wanted to head back for you but i thought that you were gone as well i i can't remember what happened next my head hurts just from trying to think about it explained novak after managing to get a closer look at him i realized that he was looking terrible sick perhaps his eyes were red

and he was completely pale something was wrong with him as well after a few hours we decided to stop and take a break i finally drifted into sleep this time i didn't have any dreams just pitch darkness it was that more terrifying because it reminded me of the time i spent in the dark i was awoken by something it was novak he gestured to me to stay silent i saw lenko sleeping a few meters away tarkov listen he whispered we need to go now we need to get away from him what are you talking about

are you crazy i whisper it back tarkov do you remember the banging back at the station he asked when i looked out of the window i saw something but at that point i thought that my mind was playing tricks on me so i stayed silent he explained in the far distance i saw a figure standing with its back turned to us it was walking away but it stopped when i focused my eyes on it it turned and looked at me it was him it was lenko finished novak his revelation i took a minute to process

all that i then nodded and silently stood up we proceeded to carefully walk away something was wrong with this place something i can't explain people disappeared people appeared if what novak was saying was true was the person behind oslenko if not what was it was novak telling the truth was it really novak or something else i couldn't trust anyone i didn't even trust myself it all felt so unreal but so real at the same time i had so many questions i didn't want answers to i felt like i would break at this point i felt

as if the walls of the tunnel were collapsing on me getting tighter and tighter each second i wanted so desperately to get out i wanted to go home but i was so far away from home [Music] then i heard a voice behind me are you my friend tarkov aslenko i turned to see him standing right behind novak who was just behind me i didn't know what to do i of course i'm your friend i responded good he said i looked in his eyes and realized what was wrong with them they were pitch black what are

you i shouted he said in an unsettling unnatural voice he then opened his mouth in an impossible way and clamped around novak's neck engulfing his head in its throat novak screamed in agony but his screams were muffled by the thing's flesh i turned to run while i heard ear piercing roars and screeches behind me i was too afraid to look back but i felt that it was getting closer i ran through the tunnel for a while until i reached an intersection in the center there was a spiral ramp my heart dropped this could be where

we came from it had to be i ascended the ramp but the higher i got the harder it was for me to breathe i put my helmet back on and reached a big room in the ceiling there was a small ray of sunlight coming from a hole i climbed out i was finally out but i didn't have time to celebrate i was out of oxygen what was left was the only air that became trapped in my suit as i reattached my helmet my reserves were completely out i went to walk to the base when i

froze i dropped to my knees the pace was gone like if it was never there both of our landers were there but the base itself was gone i crawled into one of the landers almost suffocated on the way but i made it to whoever receives this i'm presumably the last survivor of the kamchatka expedition i'm sending out this transmission in case i don't make it i think that whatever is down there was asleep for a long time but we woke it up the engine is warming up now but i'm afraid i'm out of time i

can see him outside he's getting closer god help me end of record to think about it i can't sleep knowing that our own moon is something unnatural something hiding so many terrifying truths whenever you take a look outside at the night sky remember that sometimes the most mysterious and terrifying things are hidden in plain sight [Music] you