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Gateway of the Mind

Anonymous2009

In 1983, a team of scientists sever all sensory nerve connections from a pious elderly volunteer — no sight, sound, taste, touch, or smell. Isolated in absolute nothing, the subject begins hearing voices. Then messages. His final transmission before death: 'I have spoken with God, and He has abandoned us.'

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Lore & Origin

Gateway of the Mind is celebrated for its lean, clinical prose and its philosophical dread — what happens to the human mind when stripped of every anchor to the physical world? The story belongs to the tradition of 'experiment horror' and has been widely reprinted, recorded as audio drama, and cited as an influence by professional horror writers. Its final line is considered one of the bleakest endings in creepypasta.