Is the deep web real?

[Andy]

I mostly want to know is the silk road, the hitman sites, the sites that sell guns, people, slaves, animals, credit card information, fake IDs, passports, drivers liscences, U.S. citizen papers, PayPal accounts, counterfeit bills, buttery bootlegging, the underground fight to the death tournoments, the gore videos and all of the stories on the deep web forums, and the stories about the deep web and any other tor services/sites you can think of I'm having a hard time believeing that these are all legitimate. I think that they're all scams. Are they scams, I was just wondering, also if they are scams why would the people spend all of the time and effort to put up all of those sites for nothing? Why does the deep web even exist in the first place? Also, what about Tesla experiments WWII experiments governemant secrets company secrets location of Atlantis, conspiracy theories and anything government related, would they actually put that stuff on the internet? What about that terrorist and the government uses the deep web, I just have a very hard time believing that they're real.