What is he hiding under there?!

This story has one of the strangest and most tragic endings I have ever told, but before we move on to today's story, if you are a fan of the strange, dark and mysterious presented in story format, then you are on the right channel because that It's all we do and we upload three or four times a week, so if that's your thing, replace the mouthwash on the like button with a glass cleaner. Also subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly posts. uploaded alright, let's get into today's story in 2017 daniel beckwith was a 27 year old hacker genius and a prolific bitcoin trader.

He was living in his modest childhood home in Bethesda, Maryland, with a multimillion-dollar fortune to his name, and he was

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something important. in his basement that when authorities discovered him he would be convicted of one of the rarest criminal charges in the American legal justice system, but to understand the story we have to go back to the beginning. Daniel was born in 1991 to his eccentric and brilliant parents Linda and David. He would be their only child. David was a doctor and an accomplished opera singer who had trained with a famous French composer and had also performed at the White House.

Linda was a trained lawyer. at Columbia Law School who at one time had been a government lawyer, but left because she described it as a shoddy profession and became a vocalist like her husband. When Daniel was just a small child, he learned to read, so it was clear that he had an unusually high intellect, which Linda fiercely protected. decided that public schools were not capable of teaching his son, so he decided to homeschool him when Daniel was only five years old, he was consuming entire novels and soon after he was able to break down and reprogram his playstation, but despite his incredible intelligence Daniel He had a really lonely childhood, he was rarely allowed to go out and play with other children and on the rare chance that this was the case, his parents were always around him all the time and few playmates or adults ever entered the house.

Daniel's. house because Daniel's parents were big hoarders, you couldn't take two steps inside that house before running into a big pile of old papers, books or food containers. In the year 2000, when Daniel was nine years old, his father They were diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which left Linda with her mother to take care of them both and at that time Linda became obsessed with protecting her property and every time someone walked in front of her house, near her property, she ran out and yelled at them. until they escaped, but despite their eccentricities. It was clear to anyone who knew the Bequit family that Linda and David simply adored Daniel, they just couldn't give him any space.

A neighbor remembered seeing the three legacies going trick-or-treating one year, all wearing the same matching hamster outfits and this was already in Daniel's teenage years, Daniel loved his parents, but it was in those late teenage years. when he started to realize how suffocating they really were and started looking for other places to connect with new people and found a new community online. On the forum called 4chan, Daniel had to reinvent himself, he adopted this kind of genius tough guy persona where he boasted that he finished most of high school when he was 15 and that nowadays he just blows things up in his backyard. to test your chemistry knowledge. how, but throughout the years of posting on this channel, daniel would occasionally let his guard down and talk about something that was very close to him, that permeated his thoughts at all times and that would ultimately be his undoing and that It was his extreme fear of death.

It seems that Daniel's isolation could come to an end in 2010, when he enrolled at the University of Illinois to study computer science and electrical engineering. His parents dropped him off at the Amtrak train station with all his college supplies and said goodbye to him. Daniel jumped. on the train and waved to them as they disappeared and compared that experience to being freed. It was the first time he would be without his parents for any period of time, but unfortunately after only being at school for a couple of months. He had to come home because his mother was diagnosed with cancer and she had hidden it from Daniel, in fact, she had spread it to everyone and she hadn't even seen a doctor, so when Daniel got home he was in very bad condition and she died two weeks later, including daniel, only three people showed up to her funeral, so daniel, in his mismatched clothes and too-short pants, gave his mother's eulogy and in it he seemed dazed and in fact he said: I feel lost and Then, shortly after Daniel returned to school, his father began to decline rapidly due to Parkinson's disease, so Daniel had to put him in an assisted living facility and therefore , living alone in his college apartment, Daniel was overcome with grief and was terrified now more than ever. of death because now he had seen it up close with his mother and was watching his father wither, so he went back to 4chan and started talking about taking a more defensive stance against his own death, which resulted in Daniel starting to investigate.

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were the most common causes of death among people his age and he discovered that car accidents were a big cause of death, so he reinforced all the doors of his car with kevlar plates and every time he drove it he wore a vest of Kevlar that he believed protected him from blows.

Forcing trauma in the event of an accident, knowing that cancer was a major cause of death, he went out and removed every mole on his body as a preventive measure, but

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Daniel saw as the biggest threat to his life was not something that statisticians They would say, it's something People your age or people in your country should be worried and that was a nuclear attack on the United States. Daniel believed it was imminent. Daniel believed that the only way he could protect himself was by building a proper bomb shelter and because his mother had abandoned him.

With a multimillion-dollar trust fund, he had the means to build one, so he dropped out of college and returned to his house, went down to the basement, picked a spot right in the middle of the floor, and started digging in the next one. For two years, Daniel spent part of his time living at the university being a very good student and the other half of his time was spent living in his family's house hiring different contractors to come in and excavate this huge labyrinth of tunnels underneath. of his property, but in 2012 his school work and his work at the tunnel had to stop completely because he had problems with the law teachers at Daniel's school and they started reporting that someone was sneaking into his office, hacking into his computer and then sending these really inappropriate and embarrassing emails to everyone on his contact list, which was mainly former and current students and professors, and then whoever was hacking into his computer glued the door shut after several months investigation, the police finally found a suspect when students on campus said yes, daniel beckwit is actually a prolific hacker and he just spoke at a hacker conference so he seems like someone who would be able to do this and then a Detective went to Daniel's apartment to pay him a casual visit but Daniel wasn't there or didn't come to the door and the detective looked down and saw a package that was there that was addressed to S Loomis Detwiler.

The detective thought it might be an alias for Daniel Beckwit, so he went back and they looked up that name and sure enough, it was connected to an online person who had recently bragged about breaking into his teachers' offices and hacking into their emails, so so the police used this information to obtain a search warrant. They went back to Daniel's apartment, he wasn't there, they used the key they had been given to him. They entered the unit and found this ridiculous mess of an apartment that looked exactly like Daniel's house growing with piles of papers, books , cables, computer equipment, trash and old food containers and there was only one dirty mattress.

Right in the middle of the apartment with no sheets and in the back, on top of a mini refrigerator, was Daniel's laptop. It was open and not secure, so they logged in, cloned his hard drive, and went away and used the information on it. On this hard drive, detectives were certainly able to connect Daniel to the vandalism and hacking that had been occurring at his university. daniel was arrested and charged with several felonies, but shortly before his trial, daniel took a plea deal and then immediately took to reddit to tell the world that he hoped the state governor would forgive him because he had made a number of significant contributions to his campaign, but that forgiveness never came;

However, Daniel's sentence was remarkably light; ordered to pay 23,000 in restitution to the university and then given two years of probation, daniel was expelled from a school and so moved back to his childhood home, where he lived alone full time once in House, Daniel focused his efforts on this bunker he was building in his basement, which was now a fairly large series of tunnels that zigzagged and sank in different directions well beyond the boundaries of his property. Once Daniel hired a couple of good contractors to continue expanding this bunker, he turned his attention to a new bitcoin trading activity and in a relatively short time Daniel became extremely good.

Faced with this and made millions of dollars in 2015, Daniel was on parole, his bunker was almost completely built, although at some point he had plans to hire more people and continue expanding it and, in terms of daily bitcoin transactions, he was not doing so. . so much because he had made a lot of money now that he just spent his time sitting inside his bunker live streaming on this new website called blab about his investment prowess and every time Daniel went live he was careful to never reveal his identity and that's why He used the username es scooter with three alarm lamps and wore a large fire protection hood over his face and used a voice changer among his small but avid followers.

In blab there was a 19 year old young man named Oscar Kofra who completely idolized Daniel even though he only knew him. like three alarms oscar was from a middle class home and was the son of immigrants from trinidad he also lived just 15 minutes from daniel but he didn't know that because daniel never left the place where he lived because he was very obsessed with protecting himself against a possible nuclear attack , just told people that he lived in an underground bunker in the middle of Virginia somewhere, Oscar longed to be successful and rich, which is part of the reason he idolized Daniel so much when he was 18 and received A 100,000 settlement for a lead poisoning case and for a second he was able to live the life of someone rich and famous and he immediately blew it on expensive dinners and rented Mercedes and BMW cars and once the money ran out he was sure that I could get it. all back and his big plan is to create an app called Equity Shark, which is basically crowdfunding that allows people to invest small amounts of money in promising startups and he believed that this app would be the way he would make millions. but billions of dollars, but he had no real money to fund this app, so he and his business partner applied for a 100,000 grant for young entrepreneurs who dropped out of college, something Asya had just done and they were sure that they would.

He would receive this grant, but despite Oscar's confidence, he was far from a sure bet for this money because Oskia still had many of the blind spots of someone who is still learning to become an adult and one of his biggest blind spots was how quick he was to trust. people and it was shortly after Oscar and his business partner applied for this 100,000 grant that Oscar met Daniel at Blab and was so taken with him that he got all this money and was so successful, and that's when Daniel told him to his followers. that he was open to new investments and that's why Oscar, who wanted to approach Daniel and thought that he could use some extra money because even when they got this 100,000 grant they would need more money to build the business, decided to ask Daniel if he and his business partner were able to propose to talk about Equity Shark and Daniel agreed, so in June 2016, Oscar and his business partner went to a hookah bar that was about 20 minutes from Oscar's house and sat there waiting a three-alarm lamp. scooter to get through the door and they didn't know what it would look like because every time they saw him on his live streams he had that big fire protection hood on, but as soon as daniel walked through the door,they immediately knew it was him because he had this comically bulky shirt where it was obvious he had a bulletproof vest and that's why this guy in the bulletproof vest walks up and introduces himself as three alarm aka daniel and now oscar and his business partner are very used to three alarming eccentricities like his bulletproof vest, they simply overlook it and begin to throw it at the stock shark and tell him that the success of the company they believe depends on this hundred thousand dollar grant that, as they explained to him, they will surely obtain.

All the parameters are exactly what they are looking for and by the end of the conversation, Daniel was convinced that not only would they get this 100,000 grant, but that shark of capital seemed like a great investment, so after several sessions of Following up, in the meetings, Daniel finally pledged five thousand dollars to Equity Shark and told Oscar that they would have to pay him back with the funds from the hundred thousand dollar grant or if for some reason that didn't come through Oscar and his business partner I have to find another way to pay him. Daniel Oscar and his business partner were totally excited to feel that that 100,000 grant is a done deal so there is no risk to this investment of Daniel's and shortly after they got the five thousand dollars, the manager of the 100,000 grant program thousand dollars called Oscar and said: Hello, you guys have moved on to the second round.

Of the applicants we need them to fly to San Francisco and present their company to us and so they are totally excited, they tell Daniel that everything is progressing exactly as planned and then they fly to the west coast, but they book their flight so they don't relax . to the San Francisco airport, so they land 400 miles south of where they needed to be and curse themselves for being so stupid about this and realize they can't even rent a car they're not old enough to rent. a car, but they were old enough to rent a u-haul, so they rented this huge u-haul and started bombing down the coast towards San Francisco to get to this meeting on time, but they entered the wrong address into their GPS and didn't go. .

To the right building they went in the opposite direction and when they finally got back to the meeting place in San Francisco it was too late and the manager who was waiting for them was clearly upset about it and said just go. At home we will be in contact by phone at home Oscar was totally embarrassed when he told Daniel about his failed trip and was convinced that they weren't going to receive the grant now because of how much they had ruined the meeting and so on Asuka. He started to ask Daniel if he would give them more money because maybe if they used that extra money to beef up the app and make it more attractive, they would have a better chance of getting that 100,000.

Daniel finally said he would commit more money, but Oscar chose. He was said to be very hesitant and just didn't seem to be very interested in the stock shark, so Oscar was hoping to be in Daniel's good graces and wanted to make sure he had confidence in this investment and said, Hey, let me do something for you. You, I heard it. on one of the online channels you are looking to expand some of the tunnels inside your bunker, let me do it for you. Daniel, who was looking to expand his bunker, was eager to hire Asya, but he told him that if you go to work for me, there will be strong restrictions on how this works because it is a very secret place.

I don't want this to leak. You know where my bunker is because, as you know, there will be a nuclear attack on the United States. any day and my bunker is one of the only places that will be safe, Oscar said he was totally fine, he would do whatever Daniel needed, so on January 28, 2017, just after 2 a.m., Oscar sat outside his house waiting for a car to come pick him up. and at some point Daniel showed up in a minivan and walked up to Oscar, took him to the truck and then put glasses that were darkened on his head and then Daniel drove around the road and the background neighborhoods that gave Oscar the impression that they were actually going somewhere far from Maryland, but in reality they were only going 15 minutes from Daniel's real house and when they arrived at Daniel's house, Daniel made Oscar keep his glasses on.

Daniel came out and guided Oscar through a They entered the house and once they entered, Daniel had to carefully walk around all the trash that was accumulated throughout the house. They headed to the back and down the stairs to the basement where Daniel had intentionally created. This incredible maze all over the basement floor with chicken wire and piles of bikes, books, and more junk was designed so that anyone who was working inside the tunnels, even once they got out the exit, wouldn't even know how to get out. from the basement and finally, after taking oskia through this maze, he stopped him right in front of this hole in the ground that was the entrance to the underground tunnels and at that moment he told oscar to take off his glasses.

Daniel told him to jump. He gets down and takes a look, so Oscar jumps in, he's looking around and he sees these huge tunnel systems going out in every direction and everything is extremely well lit and he couldn't believe what he was looking at. He's looking at Daniel, how far away? This goes and Daniel said it's huge? It was at this point that Daniel handed Oscar a pick, a shovel and a helmet and then explained that every time you are in the tunnels I will have to cover this hole. Since I can't even have you in the basement, it's a huge threat to my safety and in fact I would prefer if you worked several days in a row because every time you leave we will have to do everything. blindfold thing, so you should expect to live in the tunnels for days at a time, but don't worry, there's a mattress down there, there's wifi, everything is well lit, and there's a five-gallon bucket if you need to go to the bathroom and So Oscar, who trusted Daniel, didn't love this setup, but in a strange way, he was excited to be a part of this guy's life, this guy who he thought was a really amazing person and so on for the next winter and spring.

He would have the blindfold travel to Daniel's house, 15 minutes away, and then spend several days in the tunnel, chiseling these different tunnels that Daniel wanted to expand, but while it was working, Daniel Oscar got some bad things. news in late spring when it turned out that Equity Shark had been rejected for that $100,000 grant. Oscar was surprised that he was devastated and now knew that he would have to return those five thousand dollars that Daniel had invested in Equity Shark because he was no longer getting it from the hundred thousand dollars and so he asked Daniel if he could increase his hours in the tunnel to try to pay that debt.

Daniel agreed and so on September 10 Oscar was back at Daniel's house and he was down. inside the tunnels in one of the lower sections which required passing through a very narrow section which Asya had texted her friends about and said that section made it really claustrophobic but she had to do it, she needed pay the debt and then that. On the day at 4 pm, when Askia was in that lower section, the power in the tunnel suddenly went completely out, it was completely dark and Daniel, who was above, recognized what happened and navigated through all the rubbish.

Upstairs, he walked down the stairs and navigated the maze to the end. to the circuit breaker in the basement and flipped the switch and the power came on, but Daniel heard a loud humming noise coming from upstairs in the kitchen and he was so worried that it might be an electrical fire that he turned off the circuit breaker and turned Asya back on. Total darkness deep in this tunnel and Daniel went back through this really epic maze in the basement, he went up the stairs to the kitchen to investigate the humming noise and as soon as he came out of the basement he could smell the smoke and he turned around and looked .

He went down to the basement and could clearly see that smoke was filling the basement, so Daniel ran down the stairs and shouted for an Oscar and some were far down in the tunnels. He heard Oscar yell "Hey buddy, what's going on?" and Daniel says, come on, you have to get it. He got out of there, but he was totally overwhelmed by the smoke and Daniel had to run up the stairs, he ran outside, caught his breath and then he went back into the house, into the basement, but as soon as he got to the bottom of the stairs, he couldn't find it. did.

He didn't see Oscar, but he saw flames jumping from the entrance to the tunnels and he knew that Oscar was down there and he was yelling at Oscar to get out, get out, but he didn't hear anything from him and at some point Daniel had to turn around. and he left because he was completely overwhelmed by the heat and the smoke a neighbor saw daniel run away they saw the smoke coming out of his house and then they called 9-1-1 and so while daniel was walking outside screaming for oscar oscar has fallen In total darkness, there was smoke filling the tunnels and he started to go through that very narrow section, but once he got out of there he had no idea where to go because this tunnel system was huge and there was no electricity so it was pitch black. and there is smoke inside the tunnel and then he starts desperately crawling all over the tunnel, he is reaching dead ends and finally miraculously he reaches the exit of the tunnels, everything around him is on fire, he jumps but now he is in a covered basement . in smoke and every time they took him to that point in the basement they blindfolded him, he didn't know how to navigate the maze so he looks outside and it's all full of smoke and all he can see is there's a window in the other end. side he could get to and then he starts jumping over the chicken wire and the bikes and he sneaks past an oven and there's just flames and smoke around him and he comes to this little glow of light that is the window except he notices They have placed metal bars in front of him, there is no way to get through, but in desperation he grabbed a chair with wheels and put it in front of him, he climbed on top and managed to break the glass but he couldn't.

He crashed through the bars and finally, after several agonizing minutes, fell backwards and was consumed by flames after the fire was finally put out and Oscar's body was finally found inside the basement beneath that window. Investigators did not understand how Oscar could. I came out of the basement and Daniel tried to lie about it and say, "Well, he could have been asleep, you know, that's his bachelor pad down there, but eventually, as investigators were looking for the cause of the fire, they discovered the entrance to this huge tunnel system and that's when they realized that daniel had effectively put oscar in a death trap when the fire started osceola was at the bottom of this tunnel system so we had to navigate to the top killing all of this. precious time as the fire grows and he finally reached the basement and there are flames everywhere, but he has no idea how to navigate the maze that Daniel had made there, so he managed to get to the window because it was the only thing he could see, But of course, Daniel had put bars in front and so Oscar had nowhere to go and he simply died.

The investigators would point out that where he died was just two steps from almost certain safety. He just didn't know after eight-month investigation, the prosecutors. They charged Daniel with involuntary manslaughter, as well as one of the rarest charges in the American justice system: it's called second-degree depraved heart murder, where Daniel's disregard for human life was so extreme that it amounted to intentional homicide. , for which he was sentenced to nine. years in prison so that'll be enough guys if you found the secret in today's episode let us know in the comments what it is and where you found it so give us the timestamp and if you're the first to do it we'll will. pin it at the top of the comments section if you enjoyed today's video and haven't already, change the mouthwash on the like button to glass cleaner, subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any. our weekly uploads of 3 or 4 videos if you want to contact me you can send me a direct message on Instagram or Twitter.

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