Goregrish.com is a

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that contains uncensored images and videos of cadavers, accident victims, drug overdoses, suicides, murders,

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s, including decapitations, botched surgeries, necrophilia, and war crimes. It also contains other adult content. Videos such as murders by the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs and the

murder of Jun Lin In May 2012, Jun Lin (December 30, 1978 – May 24/25, 2012), a university student, was fatally stabbed and dismembered in Montreal, Canada, by Luka Rocco Magnotta, who then mailed Lin's hands and feet to elementary schools and federal political ...

Luka Magnotta In May 2012, Jun Lin (December 30, 1978 – May 24/25, 2012), a university student, was fatally stabbed and dismembered in Montreal, Canada, by Luka Rocco Magnotta, who then mailed Lin's hands and feet to elementary schools and federal political ...

are freely available to view on the site. The staff behind the goregrish

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have been interviewed over the debate surrounding the morals of allowing such material to be shown online. In 2017, the website was named one of "The 7 goriest and must F#(ked up sites on the web" by '' Inked''. Goregrish.com is banned from

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. The website is believed to be an offshoot of the now-defunct Uncoverreality.com shock website, which itself was an offshoot of the defunct

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shock website (later called LiveLeak.com and now redirecting to ItemFix), with many former members of both websites presently residing on the goregrish message boards. As of December 2021, the site was inactive, with a message promising it will return, and stating "

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". As of January 2022, the site has been reactivated.

History

Goregrish was established in June 2008 under another name, pwnographic.net. It changed its name and domain to Goregrish.com in 2010.

Ngatikaura Ngati autopsy images

In October 2011, controversy arose when the

autopsy images of Ngatikaura Ngati Ngatikaura Ngati was a New Zealand-Tongan people, Tongan toddler who died of child abuse in January 2006. The deliberate judicial release of official autopsy photographs after the trial of his killers, for the subsequent distribution of those images ...

appeared on the site. The Children's Commissioner, Russell Wills was "appalled to learn that images of Ngatikaura Ngati have been used on hewebsite."

2021 data breach

During July 2021, the site was unreachable for a few days, and visitors were met with a 404 page. When it came back online on the 23rd July 2021, a member of staff posted a thread explaining that the down time had been due to a

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, during which the server had been accessed and a dump of the site data was stolen. In addition, it was also mentioned that a clone of Goregrish had appeared at another domain, which members were advised not to visit due to a risk the site could be

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for passwords. A clone of Goregrish had indeed appeared online, and was registered at the domain goregri.sh. The site had replicated the entire Goregrish forum, including (but not limited to) all threads, media attachments, private messages, the chat archive and even every registered member. Users who had been banned from Goregrish were un-banned on the clone and were able to log in to their original accounts, deleted content was now un-deleted, and the staff forums, usually only accessible to moderators and admin, were open to the public. The clone remained online from July 2021 to May 2022, it renamed itself to Wargrish, and was additionally registered at a number of domains, including wargrish.com, reallygore.com and ashleymurderedmadison.com. During the months that the clone site remained online, it was discovered it was being staffed by users who were active on the main Goregrish site, and who were under the instructions of the Goregrish owner, user TehBitch (Ms Elizabeth James) and goregrish founder and admin D.O.A. (Mr Damien Roach). This was confirmed by TehBitch on October 8th 2022 in a thread discussing why members were running a site made from stolen hacked data. To date, no explanation has been given by the Goregrish owner or admin regarding why they kept a site running for so long, which had over 300,000 members' breached data open to the public.

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