Photos With A Creepy Backstory

[kingwhopper]

Intresting thread taken from another forum, i'll post it here just in case the thread gets deleted.

The toddler is being led away from his mother by one of the 10 year old boys who abducted and would later murder him.

The red car next to them was a car bomb that went off shortly after this picture was taken. The photographer died, but the father and daughter survived. In all, 29 people died.

This teenager, Tyler Hadley killed his parents so he could throw this party. His parents’ bodies are still in the bedroom.

In March of 1998, Amy Bradley, a 23-year old girl from Virginia, went on vacation with her parents and brother on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, Rhapsody of the Seas. While they were in the vicinity of Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles, Amy mysteriously vanished from the ship. Amy’s family last saw her on their suite’s balcony in the wee hours of the morning of March 24, and eyewitnesses reported seeing her in an elevator with a member of the ship’s band sometime afterward. The ship docked in Curacao shortly after Amy’s parents reported her missing, but it was not locked down while the crew searched for her. Seven years later, Amy’s parents were E-mailed a photograph from an adult escort website featuring a woman who resembled her.It is speculated that Amy may have been smuggled off the ship in Curacao and sold into sexual slavery. There have been numerous eyewitness sightings of her over the years. One of them came from an American sailor who visited a brothel in Curacao and claimed that a woman who said her name was “Amy Bradley” asked him for help before she was escorted away. While Amy’s family have launched an extensive investigation to find her, her ultimate fate is still unknown.

Her before :

The photo her parents received :

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A 21-year-old student from Vancouver, Canada, was found dead inside the Cecil Hotel’s rooftop water tank in Los Angeles. The L.A. County Department of Coroner said no traces of drugs or alcohol were found during the autopsy. This is the last footage seen of her. She was found two weeks after her death when residents complained about the water.

A volcanic eruption destroyed this 13-year-old’s entire village and trapped her in the water for three days straight. She died shortly after this photo was taken. It won the World Press Photo of the Year in 1985.

Columbine Class Photo: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are in the top left pretending to point guns at the camera. They’re of course famous for the Columbine Shooting.

Oh and btw..

The (always classy) NY Post put this on the front page of their daily newspaper. The man was hit by the train and died moments later.

A Filipino politician took this photo of his family just a second before he was assassinated.

Four friends took this picture in Beirut, Lebannon. The vehicle in the top left was a car bomb… all died.

Such a demonic world we live in .

 

[jdubnyce]

 

[Heretic]

The pic with the little girl in the water makes me more angry than any of them. Why the fukk are they snapping pictures instead of trying to free her.

 

[Don Dada F Poppa]

That Amy Bradley story though

 

[WaveGang]

I dont think the white woman and the prozzy are the same person

 

[kingwhopper]

Looks like a goofy picture, but both kids were struck by lightning seconds later. Hair standing on end is a tell tale sign of an electrical storm nearby. For future reference, if this happens you’re suppose to crouch low to the ground and cover your ears. Don’t lie down, you want to cover as little surface area as possible

This Polaroid photo found by a woman in a supermarket parking lot in 1989 is supposedly of Tara Calico, a girl who was kidnapped and never found.

Regina Walters was abducted by truck driver and serial killer Robert Ben Rohades. Before he killed her he forced her to wear this black dress and cut her hair.

Russia sent this astronaut, Vladimir Komarov into space knowing the space shuttle had over 200 structural instabilities. Komarov screamed the entire way down cursing the people who sent him up there. This is what remained of him after the incident

A Chinese photographer accidentally took this picture of a woman falling to her death. She committed suicide by jumping off the bridge.

After the bombing in Hiroshima, the shadow outlines of people who literally disintegrated could be seen.

The above picture was published in National Geographic in 1913, part of an otherwise beautiful series by Stefan Passe from his travels to the newly independent Mongolia. The caption is simple: A Mongolian woman condemned to die of starvation. Yet, it’s not entirely clear that starvation was the woman’s fate. Westerners had previously written of people placed in cages in Mongolian markets, where passersby could taunt and insult them as they starved. However, later reports described the cramped padlocked boxes as cells rather than methods of execution. Other reports claimed people would be locked in the boxes, unable to properly lie or sit, sometimes for years. Some of the boxes were placed in public, where people could pass the prisoner food through the small hole. Those punished for minor crimes would stay inside for one or two weeks. Given the bowls on the ground around the woman, Passe and National Geographic may have been pessimistic with their assessment of the woman’s fate.

Mademoiselle Blanche Monnier – the girl who who was locked in a dungeon for 25 years

The last photo of Travis Alexander taken by Jodie Arias right before she murdered him

skull of a person with bone cancer

The last known photo of Chris Benoit, taken on a cell phone by a fan at Dr. Phil Astin’s office on June 22nd, 2007. It was later determined that his wife was already dead by the time this photo was taken.

Last photo of two engineers stuck atop a wind turbine they were working on, that caught fire, and killed them.

 

[Smoke]

The pic with the little girl in the water makes me more angry than any of them. Why the fukk are they snapping pictures instead of trying to free her.

I was about to post this exact same thing

 

[london]

This world is fukked up we need to hit the reset button

 

[H.I.M.]

Powerful thread breh

 

[kingwhopper]

This is a picture of John Lennon signing an autograph for a fan. That "fan" is Mark David Chapman. When Lennon returned a few hours later Chapman shot him four times with hollow point bullets. He died before he reached the hospital.

"Serial killer and necrophiliac Jerry Brudos took this photo of 19-year-old college student Karen Sprinker in his garage. He had kidnapped her from a department store parking lot and brought her to his house, where he made her model women’s underwear and pose for photos. He killed her by hanging her from a hook in his ceiling, then had sex with her body and cut off her breasts."

The man (oldest, sitting down and holding his daughter) is Joseph Goebbels, one of the most infamous Nazis in WWII. Towards the end of the war, he and his wife (also pictured) would kill all of their children except the oldest, who wasn't with them, and commit suicide.

Is of part of the floor at New Mexico State Penitentiary, scene of the most violent prison riot in US history where 33 inmates died and 200 were injured. A roving gang of drugged up inmates raided the Protective custody unit and began slowly cutting through the cell bars 1 at a time with acetylene torches before torturing and murdering their victims.

R Budd Dwyer seconds before he shot himself on TV at a press conference.

First selfie

(not creepy)

Chris Hondros was an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated war photographer. In 2005, he traveled to Iraq in order to cover the war. On January 18, 2005, Hondros was in Tal Afar when he witnessed a car that failed to stop at a U.S. checkpoint. U.S. Soldiers feared a suicide bomber and opened fire on the car killing both parents and injuring one of their five children.

Hondros approached the scene and captured a picture of 5-year-old Samar Hassan splattered in her parent’s blood. After the photo was published, it quickly caused controversy and was spread across the world.
Many feel the picture is the most iconic image of the Iraq War, similar to the naked Vietnamese girl screaming and running after a napalm attack. The Iraq War delivered few singular images, partly because it was too dangerous for photographers. The U.S. military also set strict rules for journalists.

In 2011, Samar Hassan looked at the picture for first time and was interviewed by the New York Times Middle East. About the incident she said that her family was in the car because her brother was sick and that they were returning from the hospital. In 2011, Samar was living on the outskirts of Mosul in a two-story house with four other families, mostly relatives. Chris Hondros was quoted about the once in a lifetime photograph: “Almost every soldier in Iraq has been involved in some sort of incident like that or another, I would say. Their attitude about it was grim, but it wasn’t the end of their world.” It was reported on April 20, 2011, that Chris Hondros and photojournalist Tim Hetherington were killed by a mortar attack in Misrata while covering the 2011 Libyan civil war.

Towers of Silence (Dakhmas)

The Zoroastrians have these as sky burials so that the vultures and other animals eat the corpses of the dead.

Carl Tanzler also known as Count Carl von Cosel (February 8, 1877 – July 23, 1952) was an American radiologist of German decent who became morbidly obsessed with with one of his young patients, Elena Miagro “Helen” de Hoyos (1909 – 1931). At the time Tuberculosis was still a dreaded disease that took the lives of many who suffered it. Tanzler’s job meant that he came into a lot of contact with TB sufferers which is how he met Elena. He fell in love with her – after seeing an apparition of his future love (a dark-headed woman bearing a striking resemblance to his patient).

Despite Tanzler’s hard work, Hoyos died. Tanzler (with no arguments from the Hoyos family) paid for the funeral and the erection of an above-ground tomb for his beloved Elena; a tomb with which he would become very familiar. Every night when he finished work – when most people were at home eating dinner – Tanzler would visit Elena’s tomb; but he didn’t just lay flowers. He had a key and would let himself in and sleep beside her corpse. After six months of practicing this bizarre ritual he decided to go one step further. He stole Elena’s body from the tomb and took her to his home. The details so far are bizarre enough but Hoyos has more indignities to suffer in death.

Tanzler reconstructed Hoyos’ decomposed body by rejoining disjointed bones with piano wire and he stuffed her body with rags. He gave her glass eyes and, as her skin disintegrated, he replaced it with layers of silk soaked in wax. As her hair fell out he made her a wig with hair given to him by her mother after the funeral. He dressed her in finery and sprayed her liberally with perfume – much needed given the strong stench of decay. She spent her days and nights in his bed. He went so far in his madness as to add a tube into her vagina so he could have sex with her.

American Soldiers Dragging Viet Cong
Kyoichi Sawada, 19 August 1966

This picture was taken in South Vietnam in the aftermath of the Battle of Long Tan. The Viet Cong were repelled after launching a night attack on Australian forces, and the Viet Cong soldier in the picture is one of the casualties.

Kevin Cosgrove's last phone call during 911.

 

[NatiboyB]

This was actually a good article wonder if they can add more to the series.

 

[Mr. Negative]

The pic with the little girl in the water makes me more angry than any of them. Why the fukk are they snapping pictures instead of trying to free her.

they couldn't.

Omayra Sánchez lived in the neighborhood of Santander[14] with her parents Álvaro Enrique, a rice and sorghum collector, and María Aleida, along with her brother Álvaro Enrique[15] and aunt María Adela Garzón.[14][16] Prior to the eruption, her mother had traveled to Bogotá on business.[17] The night of the disaster, Omayra and her family were awake, worrying about the ashfall from the eruption, when they heard the sound of an approaching lahar.[14] After it hit, Omayra became trapped under her home's concrete and other debris and could not free herself. When rescue teams tried to help her, they realized that her legs were trapped under her house's roof.[15][17] Sources differ as to the degree to which Sánchez was trapped. Zeiderman (2009) said she was "trapped up to her neck",[18] while Barragán (1987) said that she was trapped up to her waist.[14]


Sánchez was immobilized from the waist down, but her upper body was free of the concrete and mud. For the first few hours after the mudflow hit, she was covered by concrete but got her hand through a crack in the debris. After a rescuer noticed her hand protruding from a pile of debris, he and others cleared tiles and wood over the course of a day. Once the girl was freed from the waist up, her rescuers attempted to pull her out, but found the task impossible without breaking her legs in the process. Each time a person pulled her, the water pooled around her, rising so that it seemed she would drown if they let her go, so rescue workers placed a tire around her body to keep her afloat. Divers discovered that Sánchez's legs were caught under a door made of bricks, with her aunt's body under her feet.[14]

All they could do was watch, keep her company and comfort her as best they could.

Apparently, the people watching her began to break emotionally, and SHE comforted THEM.

 

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[dontreadthis]

Carl Tanzler, what the fukk.

 

[kingwhopper]

This is the skeleton of John Aasen (1890-1938) who was employed in the circus as a sideshow freak. John was 7’1/2″ (214cm) tall. Due to his height he was also used in Hollywood movies

german pow's react when they are shown video footage of what happened in the concentration camps

Picture of the Hindenburg as it crashed

In 1990, a 106 year-old Armenian woman guards her house with an automatic weapon

Walter Yeo, one of the first people to undergo a skin transplant and advanced plastic surgery in 1917.

The Hiroshima stains on the sandstone walls of the school is one of the most confronting things, along with their clothes still stained with burned skin

Photography was new & expensive. Most folks didn't have large albums of their children growing up unless they could paint or draw themselves or were able to afford an artist or photographer to do it for them. Child Mortality rates were also high during the Victorian age. This led to the practice of post mortem photography. Sad, sometimes seen as morbid, these photos were sometimes the only visual record a family had of a loved one's existence. Grieving loved ones would pay for the memento.

Children in an iron lung machine before the advent of a polio vaccination. Many children lived for months in these machines, though not all survived. 1937

Scoliosis treatment

This is a photo of the remains of the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal. It currently resides in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, because when the boy's parents refused to donate his body after he died from a cobra bite at the age of 4, the English courageously dug him up and chopped his head off. For science.

While it may seem like an odd place to find a huge collection of classic cars rusting away, there’s actually a very good reason for this Belgian forest traffic jam. Though urban legend holds that the cars were left behind by U.S. soldiers following World War II who hoped to return to retrieve them one day but never did,

Robert McGee. 1890. Scalped by the Sioux as a child and survived

On Monday, January 12, 1998, near the end of his shift, Deputy Kyle Dinkheller of the Laurens County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) in the U.S. state of Georgia, pulled over motorist Andrew Howard Brannan, for speeding. A verbal confrontation ensued which escalated, causing Dinkheller to be shot and killed. The incident was captured and recorded on video.

Brannan was shot and wounded in the abdomen by a bullet fired from Dinkheller's sidearm. Despite the wound, the perpetrator, Andrew Brannan, was able to kill Dinkheller and flee the scene; he was discovered the next morning hiding in a sleeping bag beneath a camouflage tarp in Laurens County, Georgia, by police, and arrested for the murder of Dinkheller. Brannan pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but the jury found that the murder of Dinkheller was carried out in a torturous and cruel manner.Brannan was found guilty of murder on January 28, 2000, and was sentenced to death on January 30, 2000.

The GI standing next to the photographer shot the boy after the photo was taken. This happened during the My Lai massacre in the Vietnam War where between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968 were massacred. It was committed by U.S. Army soldiers from the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated. Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years under house arrest.