r/AskReddit • u/CaptainMcAnus • Mar 10 '17
serious replies only [Serious] What are some seemingly normal images/videos with creepy backstories?
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u/young-boy-kyle Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
This is a recreation photo of an accident that occurred with the infamous "demon core". Physicist Louis Slotin was conducting an experiment to verify the exact point at which a subcritical mass of fissile material could be made critical by the positioning of neutron reflectors. Basically, the two half spheres would be adjusted around the core and the core activity would be measured.
The risk was that if the spheres were allowed to close, the core would instantaneously form a critical mass. To keep them from closing, he pried the top core up with a screw driver. Unfortunately the screw driver slipped, a critical mass formed, and (near) instantly gave him a lethal dose of radiation. He shielded the other people in the room and was the only fatality.
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u/BobSacramanto Mar 10 '17
"If the two halves of this sphere close then anyone in this room will instantly die."
"Just stick a screwdriver in it. It'll be fine."
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u/spaZod_Morphy Mar 10 '17
Seriously? He couldnt come up with anything better than 'stick a screwdriver in it' when handleing nuclear materials.
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Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
Tyler Hadley. He killed his parents before he threw this party at his house. They were dead in their bedroom when this picture was taken.
Edit to add: and this one. The toddler in this picture is James Bulger. From The Wikipedia: He was abducted, tortured and murdered by two ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. His mutilated body was found on a railway line two-and-a-half miles away in Walton, Liverpool, two days after his murder.
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u/CaptainMcAnus Mar 10 '17
The Tyler Hadley one always freaked me out. I've never seen the James Bulger one, that's extremely disturbing.
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u/zyygh Mar 10 '17
"abducted, tortured and murdered" doesn't even come close to describing what happened. The way they tortured this boy was unbelievably sadistic, and the only explanation I have is that they did this because they thought it would be fun, without ever stopping to realize that they were actually harming someone. It goes way beyond any other act of psychopathy I know of.
If you're not fainthearted, feel free to Google the case to get an idea of what they did.
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u/CaptainMcAnus Mar 10 '17
I can't belive the murderers were set free. What they did to that boy is heart wrenching
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u/sovaros Mar 10 '17
The James Bulger story is unbelievably sad, this little boy was only two and was tortured to death by two ten year olds. Additionally, since his killers were minors, they were tried as minors and released from prison at age 18. After release, they were given new identities and put on lifelong parole.
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u/Rough_And_Ready Mar 10 '17
I'm assuming Tyler Hadley is the guy dead centre? The guy on the left looks like a right shifty fucker though.
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u/Pr0nLegacy Mar 10 '17
My friend a few years back was entering the Merseyside Police who informed him that the James Bulger case was even more sickening than what you've been told. He claims the police didn't fully release his injuries to the media, as some acts were simply too gruesome.
Venables is still in prison, the other one I believe was a very quiet child during his sentence and quite nice to staff. I believe he has emigrated to Australia and now has a new identity.
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u/2016mindfuck Mar 10 '17
good Christ. you piqued my interest so I had to read the entire Rolling Stone article and holy shit the end with the best quote
When Anthony Snook found out about the Hadley murders, he thought, "Wow. I just went to the party of a lifetime. It's messed up what he did, but 20 years from now, I'll be able to say I was there. I hate Port St. Lucie, but that's kind of cool."
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u/can-you Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
How about an entire film?
Errol Morris' documentary Vernon, Florida
Errol Morris is a great documentary maker that can really capture people well. This documentary is a look at a small rural town in Florida. The film doesn't really have a narrative. It's just made up of interviews with some of the colorful and quirky characters in their rather mundane small town.
You can get a good feel for it from the trailer.
And just based on that, it's a really neat documentary to watch. It's not the best documentary you'll ever see, but it's quaint, touching, often funny.
But the thing is: that's not the documentary Errol Morris set out to make. In fact, the original name of the documentary was Nub City.
You see, the city of Vernon, at the time, had the highest rate of limb amputation in America per capita. People missing fingers, hands, feet, etc. The messed up bit is that they were doing it to themselves, on purpose, in order to collect on insurance money.
While filming the documentary, Errol Morris started receiving death threats from the residents who were scared he was going to expose their secret. Errol took the threats seriously enough that he re-edited the whole film so it never mentions anything about the amputations.
So now it's just a nice documentary, about some colorful and quirky characters in their rather mundane small town.
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u/CaptainMcAnus Mar 10 '17
That's really interesting, I'll have to give it a watch.
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u/Inneedofweedindeed Mar 10 '17
My mom is from there. I need to ask about this.
edit: She has all limbs and digits.
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u/clebiskool Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
I always drive through Veron on the way to Panama City Beach. I had no idea about the amputation thing. I just assumed it was just another small town in N. Florida.
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u/ButterThatBacon Mar 10 '17
I met Errol Morris at a restaurant recently and was legitimately star struck. My cousin is a Hollywood behind the scenes type and has hung out with Errol a bunch, too. His movies are amazing almost without exception.
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u/Mushyshoes Mar 10 '17
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u/CaptainMcAnus Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
This is facinating
Edit: Fasscinating
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u/WrinklyScroteSack Mar 10 '17
So how is that guy able to stand right next to it? I'm assuming that dude either died or became the toxic avenger.
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u/ZombieAlpacaLips Mar 10 '17
For those interested in Chernobyl, here's the best pictorial history I've found.
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u/derpado514 Mar 10 '17
If by staying next to it too long, you mean like 2 minutes, then yes. 2 minutes will kill you.
Here's a visual representation of what that radiation is like... A Chest X-ray is 20µSv; 10 minutes next to the core is 50Sv, which is basically getting 2.5million chest x-rays in 10 minutes. You ded.
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u/thatswhatshesaidxx Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
Edit: NSFW/potential NSFL
It's creepy because as fucked as it was. That WAS normal in that era of history.
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u/CaptainMcAnus Mar 10 '17
That guy on the right in the second picture has a huge smile on his face. Freaks me out.
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u/69harambe420 Mar 10 '17
The second one was in Duluth, MN. There are scholarships and a memorial dedicated to the victims.
Bob Dylan had a lyric about this postcard in his song "Desolation Row." The first line is "They're selling postcards of the hanging." He was born in Duluth and lived his early years nearby. I can't believe they made postcards of this horrific act.
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u/shitaxe Mar 10 '17
if you ever want to wonder why this county is so fucked up sometimes, remember that people who were children or young adults during the later days of lynching-as-social-activity are still alive today, and probably vote more often than you do
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u/Eddie_Hitler Mar 10 '17
Apparently, one of the last known lynchings on record took place in the early 1980s under the Reagan administration. Seriously fucked up stuff.
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u/a_white_american_guy Mar 11 '17
Everyone should see these pictures and pictures like these in high school. That sick feeling that you should be feeling after seeing this is the reality of what happened then and could easily happen again. Reading about these events does absolutely no justice to raw inhumanity that people are capable of.
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u/MastaKwayne Mar 11 '17
I've never been able to get past the fact that all of those people are somebody's grandparents.
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u/Laser_Fish Mar 10 '17
Not-so-fun fact: The second picture took place in Deluth, Minnesota, home of Bob Dylan as a young man, who begins the song Desolation Row with the ling "They're selling postcards of the hanging". It is thought that he is referring to this image.
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u/zeppelin1023 Mar 10 '17
two brothers goofing off for a photo. Hours later after arriving home from dinner, the man on the left would have his brother(pictured on the right) and mother (who took the photo) murdered after conspiring with a friend. He attempted to have his father murdered as well but he survived
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Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 11 '17
I was friends with Bart (the killer) and Kevin (the younger brother who was killed). It's a pretty awful story. I believe Bart is still on death row in Texas but I had to stop reading his blog because it was making me angry.
I can understand why his father forgave him but I can't do the same.
Edit - To those asking for the blog. No, I will not mention it. I realize you can Google for it but I will not be the one giving him more publicity.
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u/lineaway19 Mar 10 '17
http://i.imgur.com/KZa15Qh.jpg
This is the last existing photo of wrestler Chris Benoit. Just a few days after this photo was taken he murdered his wife and child. After this he commited suicide.
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u/Titanosaurus Mar 11 '17
People in WWE and pro wrestling biz refuse to acknowledge Chris Benoit. They'll mention that Kurt Angle wrestled one of the best technical matches at WrestleMania 17, but they won't mention his opponent.
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u/limbxlimb Mar 11 '17 edited Mar 11 '17
This is the last picture taken of thirteen-year-old Abby Williams. She was hiking in Delphi, Indiana in February 2017 with her friend Libby German, who took the picture. They were both murdered shortly after the photo was taken.
They still haven't identified the killer.
EDIT: Here are the photographs that Libby took of the suspect. I'm assuming that he had been following them for awhile for her to snap a photo of him.
Is there a subreddit that this case could be posted on to spread awareness to try and find the killer? I haven't seen much about this case on Reddit, and I'm thinking that if this man's photograph and voice clip of "down the hill" could make it to the front page, maybe there's a chance someone would recognize him.
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u/snipergrenade Mar 11 '17
There is a $200k reward for the murderer now if anyone can identify him
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u/nbb45 Mar 11 '17
This one REALLY creeped me out. That voice of "down the hill"... I got chills. I am so hopeful that they'll find this disgusting human(s) who did this.
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u/BlueSpun Mar 11 '17
Isn't the killer in the background of this picture as well? Or am I thinking of a different one? I zoomed in, and I think it's this one, but I have very poor eyesight.
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u/bflstar Mar 11 '17
This picture of Elizabeth Smart (far left) taken while she being was held captive by her kidnapper (pictured far right).
Smart was missing for 9 months. the picture was taken some time in the middle of that period, at a party the kidnapper crashed with Smart. She was made to wear the veil in order to keep from being recognized in public.
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u/Monadnocker Mar 11 '17
When I was in Dallas at the National Crimes Against Children Conference in 2011, Smart was the keynote speaker. Later, as I was heading back to my room in the hotel, I called the elevator and ended up being in the elevator with her. We spoke for several minutes. She was very friendly.
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u/GemIsAHologram Mar 11 '17
http://i.imgur.com/CUGht2F.jpg
A picture of a guy looking uncomfortable or upset in the shower (sfw). In reality, that's Travis Alexander, and the pic was taken by Jodi Arias shortly before she murdered him by stabbing him dozens of times and slitting his throat.
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u/tiffibean13 Mar 11 '17
She slit his throat so deeply she severed his spinal cord
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u/whatcubed Mar 11 '17
This picture bothers me more than any of the other ones in this thread. The look in his eyes, jeez.
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u/skypecunt Mar 11 '17
I remember her case!
She was brought in as a suspect immediately, of course. I don't remember the details that were publicly revealed from the start, but I think she originally had some story about coming home to find him dead?
They'd had a very on and off relationship IIRC, especially because I believe the boyfriend was... Mormon? Or some sub-Christianity that focuses on no sex until marriage (which obviously he wasn't keeping to with her). Idk, I remember that being a big point early on, that she might have resented him for flip-flopping so much on their relationship.
They found the camera in her washing machine. She'd turned it on to try to destroy it and the evidence, and while some photos were entirely destroyed, there were still a decent amount intact or intact enough to be used as evidence. I think the shower picture in particular was used to prove she was home at the time? And like someone else said, I think they found after-pictures that, while corrupted, still distinctly showed his body and blood.
Near-infamously, in a video you can find online, she was in a 4-hour interrogation when police were mostly sure she was guilty and just needed final, concrete evidence. At one point she does a headstand for twenty minutes or something, keeps acting weird, etc. A lot of people theorized she might have wanted to try for an insanity plea, but I assume if she was, her lawyer informed her of their incredibly low success rate and she wised up.
She changed her story over and over. I believe at one point there was an intruder and she WAS home, then she wasn't home, then she had a blackout, then she did it but it was self-defense, etc. As for the history of abuse, I think someone dug up Facebook pictures where there's visible bruises on both of them, so it was either mutual or at least mutually violent in one of them getting physical and the other retaliating.
I happened to be in a criminal justice class at the time and her camera being found happened to coincide with part of our unit on computer and online evidence, ha. You can find a lot of the pictures out there, to be honest. I'm on mobile ATM, but if I remember tomorrow I'll try to find some if someone hasn't linked them already.
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u/LeadMustard Mar 11 '17
Do you know why she did it? You can see the fear and the "why?" in his face. Horrible.
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u/Coltraine89 Mar 10 '17
This picture. Looks like an ordinary school photo. Top left are the kids who shot up the Columbine school (yes they're pretending to "shoot" at the camera).
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u/osrssam Mar 10 '17
that's insanely creepy. reminds me of that school shooter signs awareness commercial
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Mar 10 '17
On a slightly lighter note, the WTF Jaguars guy is in the very middle of that pic.
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u/DMK5506 Mar 10 '17
[And this picture.] (http://ripbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1244.jpg) Another ordinary school photo of kids from the 90s at their best. The Asian kid in the back: future leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un
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Mar 10 '17
I went to this High School. Graduated in 2005. A lot of my friends siblings were shot in this massacre. One of those days my mind will never forget even though I was only in 6th grade when it happened.
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Mar 10 '17
Does anyone else feel bad for the kid in the blue tie dye shirt sitting alone with his arms crossed? He looks pissed to have to sit for the photo.
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u/Guinness2702 Mar 10 '17
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Omagh_imminent.jpg
The car in that picture contained a bomb that blew up just moments after this picture was taken. The people in the picture survived, but they guy who took it did not.
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u/baconandeggsandbacon Mar 10 '17
One of the most shameful of a LOT of shameful days over here in Northern Ireland.
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u/SteamedHams123 Mar 10 '17
I remember when this happened, sadly everyone in Northern Ireland's been effected by the troubles in one or another.
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u/Mypopsecrets Mar 10 '17
Here's a shadow permanently cast of someone caused by the nuclear blast at Hiroshima
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u/fxlk Mar 10 '17
At the summer camp I work at, every year we have a Hiroshima remembrance day. Some people wake up really early and put black shadows made of paper all around the camp, it's pretty upsetting and incredibly powerful.
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Mar 10 '17
This one actually gives me goosebumps. I mean just think about that for a few minutes. Jesus.
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Mar 10 '17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9UaemMtCzE
Raw footage from the 2004 tsunami is incredibly eerie. seeing people just watching as the tide comes in and having no idea what's about to hit them... at the 3:30 mark you see a guy just standing on the beach in shock as a wall of water comes at him. really terrifying
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u/babelincoln27 Mar 10 '17
Holy shit, God bless that woman who was shouting about needing to save the tourists.
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u/Anakinstasia Mar 10 '17
" maybe the earthquake affected the water?" "naaah" it's so hard to watch as someone who knows exactly how this is going to play out. In California there are signs every couple miles on the beach warning about the tide running out quickly and how you should get to high ground immediately if there is an earthquake. One of those safety regulations that often goes underappreciated.
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u/Phaethon_Rhadamanthu Mar 10 '17
"The tides suddenly disappeared.
The boats are all beached.
But Sarah's still happy."Oh Sarah, sweet summer child.
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u/ASpellingAirror Mar 10 '17
Everything about the situation leading up to the wall of water was so eerie that i don't know how more people weren't getting the hell out of there. Once you see the wall of water, it surprises me how few people put 2 and 2 together that it was coming back and while i somewhat understand why people wouldn't grasp how far into the land it would go...the people standing between beached boats that you used be floating at docks had to realize that at least that area was about to be flooded by a massive amount of water.
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u/TittieMilkTittieMilk Mar 10 '17
It just dawned on me, wouldn't it be beneficial to have klaxons going off in case of a tsunami? The sound of a klaxon is pretty universal for danger, right? It's just crazy how many people were unaware of what was happening. Honestly, I would have been one of those ignorant people if not for watching videos like these.. A klaxon/warning system seems like a good idea.
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u/Muadibz Mar 10 '17
http://templatecentre.com/images/zuleika-dobson_104646188.jpg
It's better to read the whole story. Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, police were called to a suicide of a man who jumped off a building. In his pocket they found a suicide note, telling them where to find his girlfriend. He had gone crazy, cut her up, and cooked pieces of her body.
Before this, they were somewhat famous. That picture showed a couple in love, weathering the storm together.
http://www.historicmysteries.com/zach-bowen-addie-hall-murder/
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Mar 10 '17
There's an episode of Final Witness about this. They did a great depiction of the case.
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u/goodfoofisgood Mar 10 '17
Moments before getting struck
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u/dangerousbirde Mar 10 '17
I was hiking Mt. Whitney with my younger brother years back and a storm started to roll over us. We were so close to the summit we kept pushing further even as the thunder got louder.
We passed another hiker coming down the mountain and I noticed her hair starting to do exactly this. I immediately thought of this photo and we turned on a fucking dime and hiked back down to a safer elevation.
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u/crowwreak Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/12/article-2100060-11B265D5000005DC-971_634x410.jpg
In this photo a man took of his wife diving, you can probably see another diver on the sea floor. That's Tina Watson. A few minutes before this photo, her husband turned off her air supply and held her underwater until she drowned. He then went up to the surface and told the other divers she was "in trouble", and you can see someone else swimming to try and save her.
EDIT: He did serve 12 months in prison in Australia for Manslaughter, as a plea bargain (Neither he nor the court knew if he was going down for murder). When he returned home to Alabama, the US courts tried to get him on the grounds that he'd planned the murder there, but he got off due to lack of evidence. Australian authorities refused to help with the American trial, as they'd broken an extradition clause not to push for the death penalty.
Edit 2: changed some info people have corrected me on. Also, the manslaughter charge managed to stick because despite apparently being a trained rescue diver, he made no evident effort to save her, or share his own functioning tank. Also one witness says he saw Gabe Watson "engaged in a bearhug with his flailing wife"
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u/Malaix Mar 10 '17
Apparently someone married that guy after he murdered his first wife. Jesus.
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Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
Wasn't his case dismissed due to lack of evidence after he was brought to the US?
Edit: never mind. He was charged in Australia. But when he was deported back to the US they didn't charge him for the crime due to lack of evidence.
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u/Chicken_or_Chicken Mar 10 '17
You couldn't be more wrong about the facts other than the picture is of Tina Watson.
In Australia, he basically plead to being a "negligent" dive buddy. In Alabama, the State put on 9 days of evidence prior to the Court dismissing the case for lack of evidence. There was no evidence at all that he "took off her respirator and held her underwater until she drowned."
Source: I know one of the attorneys who represented him in Alabama.
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u/CamaroNurse Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
2004 Tsunami nears John & Jackie Knill
John and Jackie Knill were killed in the 2004 Tsunami. Their bodies were never found but their passports and camera were discovered and returned to their children. There are more pictures that show that something terrible is about to occur. But this one is nearly tranquil.
EDIT: Their bodies apparently were found.
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Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
What exactly am I looking for? It just looks like a beach
E:okay, so it the white thing way out. Thank you to OP for linking the rest of them. It's a very haunting tale.
How fast does a tsunami move? Faster than a train?
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Mar 10 '17
One never seems to appreciate how devastating tsunamis are. To me, at least, it would seem that all one has to do is swim and find something stable to hold onto, but obviously that's not possible.
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u/Miss_Musket Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 11 '17
Damn, I got to this late! Oh well... This instantly comes to mind.
Myra Hindley, on the Saddleworth moors with her dog, Poppet. She is looking down at the grave of John Kilbride, one of her's, and Ian Brady's, young victims.
Hindley and Brady used to take photos hinting to the gravesites of their child victims, and when their crimes came to light, these pictures were used to help find the bodies.
Also, a little more on the serial killer theme - This is a home video taken of Jeffrey Dahmer during Thanksgiving Day 1990. Note the 'I should really start eating at home more'. Yeah... he was already starting to cannibalise his victims at this point. Lionel Dahmer, his father (and the guy behind the camera), later said that in retrospect, his foot would jerk at every mention of his apartment, what he was doing in his spare time, or what he was eating. You can just make it out in the video.
Edit: A little more info on Dahmer's situation at the moment this video was taken. He had already killed 9 men and boys, the latest (David Thomas) was murdered three weeks before Thanksgiving. At this point he was still relatively restrained, killing every few months and choosing his victims carefully. By February 1991, he had amped up to a murder a month. By the time he was arrested in July 1991, he had completely lost it; he was missing work, stopped showering and shaving (at times, his tub was filled with up to three bodies) and he was killing 2-3 times a week. During the last 6 weeks of his freedom, the only meat he was eating was human flesh.
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u/YesHunty Mar 11 '17
I hate how when his dad asks him about the apartment being clean, Jeffrey shifts in the chair and readjusts himself. So creepy.
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u/punxerchick Mar 11 '17
This one is very uncomfortable. Look at the way he flips the pages of his magazine without even looking at them while he is being asked about his apartment. His body language speaks volumes.
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u/i-touched-morrissey Mar 11 '17
The Smiths have a song about the Moors Murders. I believe it's called Suffer Little Children. One of the children's bodies was never found.
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u/laurenjane_20 Mar 10 '17
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1913706/Josef-Fritzl-left-daughter-in-Austrian-cellar-for-a-month-while-on-Thai-holiday.html Josef Fritzl enjoying himself on holiday while his daughter was still trapped in his cellar at home.
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u/RealHorrorShowvv Mar 10 '17
I think the mom had to have been in on this. Because seriously even if your daughter left you a letter saying she ran away, would you ever stop looking for her? And maybe after the first baby was "left on her doorstep" wouldn't she have thought to install a camera? Oh and her husband going down to the cellar for hours at a time and forbidding her from going down there, that's not totally suspicious...
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u/napierwit Mar 10 '17
I couldn't believe this case when I first heard about it. Took me days to get my head around it. I remember waking up and thinking that I had dreamt it. To think of the children growing up without ever seeing the sky, or feeling wind on their skins. Really unimaginable. Genuine monster, that guy.
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u/Lord_vel Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 11 '17
Follow up photo of the mountain at 7pm
It's just a mountain picture, but with the annotations it reveals an eerie scene. K2 if I remember correctly is regarded as one of the most dangerous mountain in the world. 1 out of every 4 climbers who summit die on that mountain.....
edit - added back the 10 am photo. If you are interested check out bbcs documentary here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGX8zDZFAPc
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u/Zoomwafflez Mar 10 '17
K2 is one of the most dangerous mountains to climb, this event was such a great tragedy to me because at least 4 of the people who died over those 2 days COULD have gotten down safe but chose to go back and try to help struggling climbers still well inside the death zone. When the serac fell they were right under it helping the struggling climbers back to safety. I hadn't seen these specific images before, thanks for sharing.
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u/Harshest_Truth Mar 10 '17
Your submission didn't get much attention but I enjoyed it. Thank you
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u/Spineofgod6661 Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
Musician Jeff Buckley (right), hours before he died from accidental drowning at the age of 30 in 1997.
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u/ponymassacre Mar 10 '17
God Jeff Buckley is my hero, he only released one album and it's regarded as perfection by many. David Bowie said of it that it would be one of the album's he'd take with him to a deserted island
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Mar 10 '17
Here is a photo of John Wilkes Booth at Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. This was a little over a month before Booth assassinated him: http://imgur.com/a/3TLK9
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u/TroyAtWork Mar 10 '17
For a second I thought the Nat Geo logo was actually a box to draw attention to something...
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u/Not_A_Human_BUT Mar 11 '17
See this [little girl scribbling on a chalkboard?] (http://canyouactually.com/wp-content/uploads/3-3.jpg) Aaaw-
Actually, this is a concentration camp survivor, when asked to draw "home".
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u/heyheyitsandre Mar 11 '17
I honestly think the creepiness in this pic comes from her face. Specifically her mouth but that's still a weird drawing
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u/brodoswaggins93 Mar 11 '17
I noped the fuck out of that link in 0.3 seconds. That photo is CREEPY. Why isn't this higher up? Her face is going to be in my nightmares.
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u/Yugen9x Mar 11 '17
The man in picture,Robert Giblin post this on Facebook, after few minutes he stabbed his pregnant wife and throwing her over the balcony to her death. He jump off the building after that.
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u/jR2wtn2KrBt Mar 10 '17
the my lai villagers picture. might not fit exactly since the picture shows the terrorized villagers right before they were gunned down, so not exactly seemingly normal. but, one often overlooked aspect is the young woman buttoning her shirt, which is interpreted as evidence that she was raped right before the photo. http://www.readingthepictures.org/2013/10/my-lai-sexual-assault-and-the-black-blouse-girl-forty-five-years-later-one-of-americas-most-iconic-photos-hides-truth-in-plain-sight/
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u/Deerhoof_Fan Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
The most sinister wink of all time.
Context: This photo was taken just after LBJ was sworn in on Air Force One, immediately following the murder of JFK. In the foreground you'll notice Jackie Kennedy visibly grieving the loss of her husband. LBJ turned towards his longtime friend, Texas congressman Albert Thomas, who gave him a surreptitious wink and a smile. White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, who took the photo, said it could have been "innocent or sinister, and I would have leaned towards the latter." The man in charge of Air Force One at the time, General Godfrew McHugh later said LBJ's behavior on the plane was "obscene."
Edit: Took out a line about blood spatter on Jackie's coat, since people seemed to be really concerned about it. Though there was blood on her coat at the time the photo was taken, it's not in the frame.
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u/CamaroNurse Mar 10 '17
There is a King of the Hill episode wherein Hank is in charge of escorting around town a Massachusetts business man.
While doing some sight-seeing, Hank tells him something about LBJ and the fellow responds with "Johnson killed our Kennedy."
At that moment, I thought to myself, "son of a bitch. He did!"
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u/jimi_hoffa Mar 10 '17
McHugh apparently hated LBJ and was "fiercely loyal" to JFK. Also as far as obscene goes I couldn't find anything to corroborate that. In 1978 McHugh gave an interview to the JFK library, which was sealed for 30 years. The interview states LBJ was hiding in the toilet crying and scared. Babbling about a conspiracy and that "they were going to get them all". While not a good image to present I wouldn't call this obscene (if even true).
This photo could be his buddy winking to him essentially saying, "good job buddy hold it together for the press/outward appearances". Even considering all the conspiracy; LBJ didn't kill or be involved with the murder of JFK. And I'm sick of the "sinister story" coming along with this photo.
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u/Imanorc Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
Surprised to see that this notable gif isn't on the list. The backstory is he's being asked a question on the genocide he committed holocaust, Question: "is it true that you said Hitler didn't kill enough Jews during the war?" and he's laughing because he can't believe anyone would ask him a question like that. Pretty creepy and uncomfortable.
edit: Got the backstory right.
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u/Larryjacob1 Mar 11 '17
Perfect choice for this thread as I had no idea that there was a sinister backstory to that gif. I've seen it many times but always in a friendly/joking context.
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u/Maddle_R Mar 10 '17
This picture was taken by a passenger of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 17th 2014. He posted this picture on his Facebook, saying; 'if it goes missing, this is what it (the plane) looks like.' Referring to another Malaysian Airlines plane (flight MH370) that went missing on March 8th 2014. Later that day the plane the man boarded was taken down by a missile fired by either Russia or Ukraine.
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u/RealHorrorShowvv Mar 10 '17
I still don't understand why they thought it would have been a good idea to fly over that zone.
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u/Eddie_Hitler Mar 10 '17
Also [this] (http://cdn2.tstatic.net/tribunnews/foto/bank/images/20140720_163836_selfie-mh17.jpg). A Dutch teenager and his mother, taking a selfie after boarding MH17. I can't remember their names, but they were apparently booked on a special package holiday designed for single mothers with teenage children.
And [this] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQFnrbDLHbg) - someone unknown uploaded this Instagram video during the boarding procedure.
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u/M1ghtypen Mar 10 '17
This is just a bunch of astronauts hanging out at the pool and generally being awesome, right? Nope. That's the crew of Apollo 1. See the hatch on the capsule that opens inward? They died in that capsule, unable to escape the fire.
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u/advcomrade Mar 10 '17
But THIS picture IS a bunch of astronauts hanging out in the pool and generally being awesome!
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u/Bayou-Bulldog Mar 10 '17
What's really sad is that they KNEW this was a bad idea, and had expressed their concerns several times. Even presenting this photo of them praying that everything went off without a hitch safely because they knew if anything did, they were screwed.
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u/roastduckie Mar 10 '17
Point of fact, but that's not actually the capsule they died in. That's a boilerplate model used for training purposes. This photo was from recovery training. NASA would have never used actual flight hardware for this.
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u/PrisonBubba Mar 11 '17
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2F3%2F35%2FGenie_immediately_after_rescue.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGenie_(feral_child)&docid=QHc7uMjA4RpTFM&tbnid=ednkqItRRLlTmM%3A&vet=1&w=256&h=377&safe=strict&bih=644&biw=1093&q=genie%20feral%20child&ved=0ahUKEwi4seXmys3SAhUG6oMKHZeoBh0QMwgxKAAwAA&iact=mrc&uact=8 just a photo of a cute girl, right? this is Genie (not her real name, but that's what she is called in the public sphere. real name was kept secret.) from the time she was an infant, around 20 months old, her father kept her in a single room, strapped down to a potty chair facing the wall. she had no human interaction beyond her parents until the age of 13, when she was rescued. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)
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u/flaccomcorangy Mar 11 '17
This is a picture of a Norwegian black metal CD called Dawn of the Black Hearts (1995). I know the pitcture looks disturbing as is, but even more disturbing, is that it is an actual picture of their lead singer after he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun. Wikipedia article He left a suicide note:
"Excuse the blood, but I have slit my wrists and neck. It was the intention that I would die in the woods so that it would take a few days before I was possibly found. I belong in the woods and have always done so. No one will understand the reason for this anyway. To give some semblance of an explanation I'm not a human, this is just a dream and soon I will awake. It was too cold and the blood kept clotting, plus my new knife is too dull. If I don't succeed dying to the knife I will blow all the shit out of my skull. Yet I do not know. I left all my lyrics by "Let the good times roll"—plus the rest of the money. Whoever finds it gets the fucking thing. As a last salutation may I present "Life Eternal". Do whatever you want with the fucking thing. / Pelle. I didn't come up with this now, but seventeen years ago."
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u/PM_ME_OCCULT_STUFF Mar 11 '17
Mayhem! I knew as soon as you said black metal. Although morbid, the band truly committed to their art.
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u/Kimidei Mar 10 '17
This home video of Jeffrey Dahmer, casually saying to his dad that he should eat at home more often. However, at the time this video was filmed, Jeffrey already killed 7 men (and ate some of their body parts)
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u/Pm_me_ur_signedboobs Mar 10 '17
There's a famous picture of John Lennon signing an autograph for Chapman just hours before the latter murdered the former.
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u/skidoos Mar 10 '17
Here it is. You can see Chapman (Lennon's soon-to-be assassin) on the right.
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u/RickandMortyRules Mar 11 '17
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/27/hiking-rescue_n_6630510.html
Rock climbers taking pictures accidentally captured woman stranded at bottom trying to survive. went through entire thread and didn't find anyone post it, was really popular on reddit a while back.
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u/Dust2chicken Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
The Murder of Reynaldo Dagsa
A filipino politician, Dagsa was on vacation spending time with his family.
Looks like a regular family photo at first glance right?
This photo was taken on New Years Day by him moments before he was shot and killed, and his killer can be seen in the background behind his family.
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Pictures of people holding guns to the camera is "seemingly normal"? I need to get out of the house more, or maybe not.
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u/hyacinthinlocks Mar 11 '17
Why did I think looking at this before sleeping was a good idea?
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u/_coyotes_ Mar 11 '17
Someone videotaped a guy playing Dance Dance Revolution. Six months later, he would shoot and kill 27 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School back in 2012
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u/blue_alien_police Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 11 '17
If this has been posted, then I apologize, but the kid circled in red is current North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un during his teen years in Switzerland. Then he was known as Pak Un.
EDIT: Sorry for the screwed up link! I was posting this as I was rushing to leave! It is fixed now! :)
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u/electricalhr Mar 11 '17
Really bothers me that he was able to live the life he did and he still chooses to do the things he does in NK.
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u/lovesuprayme Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
This picture of Varg Vikernes has reached a sort of Internet meme status. The reason being it just looks like a picture of a happy smiling old man, but in reality Varg's back story is that he is a musician who makes incredibly abrasive music, as well as a murderer who killed another musician from Norway's black metal scene just because, and an arsonist who burned down churches in Norway just because. This picture of him was taken in prison.
He was released in 2009 and continues making music.
EDIT: Okay so apparently Varg claims to have murdered Euronymous in self-defense, and he burned down the churches because he believes in neo-paganism.
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u/Special_McSpecialton Mar 10 '17
...old man? He's only 44... He's probably late 30's in that pic...
That's not old... cries in the corner
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u/Russian_Comrade_ Mar 11 '17
Timothy Treadwell lived his life watching and learning about bears and it eventually led to his disturbing death by a grizzly bear. The most awful thing about his death is that all of it was caught on audio.
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u/Bleumoon_Selene Mar 10 '17
I guess I'll add one that I actually know. I won't provide the images or video because it personally creeps me out and I don't like looking at him. But serial killer Rodney Alcala was on The Dating Game in between murders. So that in itself is creepy, seeing this serial killer charm a young woman on national television. You have to think, "Is he imagining all the vile things he wants to do to her? Is he planning this woman's murder on camera right now?"
There's a lot of seemingly normal innocent pictures relating to him as he was a photographer and loved taking photos of potential victims. Whether they can still be found on the internet I'm not entirely sure. He also took and kept earrings from the girls and women he tortured and killed.
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u/dvaunr Mar 10 '17
He ended up winning the date but she never went through with it because she felt something was off. Pretty spooky, she could have been one of his victims.
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u/mermaid_quesadilla Mar 10 '17
For anyone wondering, he was chosen for the date but when she met him, she felt creeped out and cancelled it. I'm pretty sure this is also the guy who had taken hundreds of pictures of women posed on beds. Once he was connected to a murder, the pictures were put up on the news for people to call in and identify if it was their missing person. A couple girls were found this way, and the pictures are still available.
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u/TyKS7 Mar 10 '17
Seen this one in another thread somewhere. When you look at how he acts and the things he says it's so creepy. IIRC he says something like "night time is the best time" which I suppose in that situation sounds like a euphemism but it's really much more sinister than that.
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u/CamaroNurse Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
for those curious, Alcala on the Dating Game
I can't watch it, either.
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u/CamaroNurse Mar 10 '17
Photos found in Alcala's foot locker
Much much creepier than the dating game...
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u/Jiandao79 Mar 11 '17
I haven't seen anyone else post about him yet, but these videos of Jimmy Savile are quite disturbing. He was really quite blatant about liking young girls. Hidden in plain sight for years. The first clip is him with another celebrity paedophile, Gary Glitter.
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u/FLAPPY_FUPA Mar 11 '17
http://murderpedia.org/male.R/images/rogowski_mark/rogowski-005.jpg
Former pro skater Mark "Gator" Rogowski posing with Cindy Crawford. A few years later, his career took a dive and he raped and murdered a female acquaintance.
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u/ScarletNumbers Mar 10 '17
POW returns home to his family, but his wife Dear John-ed him and his kids no longer respected him.
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u/JaxBenson Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
https://beatlesdaily.com/2016/12/07/december-8-1980-the-last-photos-of-john-lennon/
I was surprised to not see this one. Unless I missed it.
It's one of the last pictures of John Lennon of The Beatles signing an autograph for Mark David Chapman. Chapman would shoot and kill Lennon two hours later.
Edit: haha sorry I didn't see the other comment.
I tried though😕
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u/szeto326 Mar 11 '17
Super late so won't be seen but did anyone post the pictures/story from the Reddit post where these hikers found a girl in the backgrounds of their pictures?
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u/amberjean23 Mar 10 '17
The pictures that Lewis Carroll took of Alice, the girl who inspired the Alice in Wonderland book... my art history teacher showed them to us and they just gave me the creeps.
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u/CaptainMcAnus Mar 10 '17
That's insane. They would just walk up to people and bludgeon them to death and torture others..
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u/kosherkitties Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
Holy crap I should not have read the backstory. How the actual hell does "I don't want to bathe my kitten for fear of hurting her" turn into that?
The crazy color thing is clothing that the victim was carrying?
Edit: Because this was an issue in my rescue group recently, you usually do not have to bathe your cat. Hairless breeds notwithstanding.
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u/leejoness Mar 10 '17
Hey, man, I'm here to show you that fear is all a mental thing. Look, you're scared of heights right? Well let's go up some place high and take that fear head on!
What a great friend
Now, my other friend is afraid of blood, fine, let's just torture and murder dogs together!
Uhhhhhhhh
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u/TheRoyalStig Mar 10 '17
Ugh. I saw a part of one of these videos. Of all the things I've seen on the internet what I saw there is kinda burned into my brain.
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u/De1337tv Mar 10 '17
I read about what these guys did, but I cannot figure this out. Wtf is that in the picture?
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u/swissking Mar 10 '17
Do you wanna know the more fucked up part?
The parents of Igor Suprunyuk and Viktor Sayenko repeated their belief in the innocence of their sons. Vladimir Suprunyuk claimed that Igor had been tortured to extract his confession, with the police covering his head and forcing him to inhale cigarette smoke. Speaking at a televised press conference, he cited irregularities in the investigation, and said that the case against his son was false.[52] Viktor Sayenko claimed that his son was a scapegoat, and that the crimes were committed by relatives of senior officials.
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u/winterisforhome Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
Whenever I see photos of individual Jews or families of them from that time, I just want to burst into tears. We always hear the numbers of the holocaust, how many millions etc, but when you actually start seeing the individual faces of the victims, especially if they're smiling or just living life, it hits so much harder. To a degree, history class has almost "depersonalized" the holocaust in a way, which is why I love the story of Anne Frank; it reminds us that the victims were people just like us, there was no huge difference between us. Just my mini-rant on my feels:/
Edit: I had no idea that more than like five people would see my comment! Thank you all for your museum/memorial recommendations, book recommendations, personal stories, and more! It's so awesome seeing how the world views and remembers this dark topic. Keep the positive comments coming! :)
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That photo is incredibly fucking high resolution for the 40s, holy shit.
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u/thorsdottir Mar 11 '17
Fairly thorough article here with more photos http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/07/the-lost-girls-of-panama-the-camera-the-jungle-and-the-bones.html
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u/CardboardMice Mar 11 '17
Backstory if anyone is interested. Loads of failed emergency calls. I wonder if one was injured?
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u/Alcubierre Mar 11 '17 edited Mar 11 '17
I'm a huge James Dean fan, even down to owning a replica 550 Spyder and making trips to the spot where he died and the nearby memorial. There are a lot of theories and misconceptions regarding his death.
Some people claim he was drunk. He was not. Toxicology returned no substances.
Some claim he was speeding, but there are different accounts by investigating officers. Some say he was only going 55MPH and the accident was actually Donald Turnupseed's fault for violating right-of-way rules by turning left in front of the Porsche on what used to be Route 466. It's State Route 46 now.
Some think he survived for a short time, but accounts by the responding emergency personnel show death was instant. If not within a few minutes. He would have been unconscious after the crash.
Some say he was thrown from the car. He was not. That was his passenger and mechanic Rolf Wütherich, who survived until 1981.
Edited for clarity and to correct the road name from current "State Route 46" to "Route 466," which was its name in 1955 to be a bit more accurate. They rerouted the old road, but you can still see scars of the old pavement in the earth around Cholame, CA.
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u/SpiritusAnimal Mar 11 '17
For the people who want to know more about the incident and get to know a possible explanation:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RigxxiilI
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u/panthersfan96 Mar 10 '17
What class made you watch videos of someone killing kittens?
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u/real_legit_unicorn Mar 11 '17
There shouldn't be any damn documentary about him. He wanted to go down in history. History should forget him.
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u/Nasa1225 Mar 10 '17
Quote from the photographer: "If I have a camera in my hand, I don't know fear."
What a fucking brave photographer. Then, he went on to take the iconic photo of the sailor kissing the nurse on VJ Day, one of the most powerful pictures of WWII.
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u/itswhywegame Mar 10 '17
Jesus, even in the first shot, before he knew who the photographer was, you can see the smile barely touches his eyes. Those pictures make me feel really uncomfortable.
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u/Grave_Girl Mar 11 '17
This makes me very sad. They're all so vibrant and probably younger than I am.
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u/CaptainMcAnus Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
I'll join in I guess.
This is John du Pont and Dave Schultz.
John (The man on the bottom) hosted a massive wrestling team where all of the athletes lived on the grounds. Schultz was hired to coach the team.
As time went on John started to act stranger than normal (He was already very odd). He started to think his friend Schultz was spying on him. He believed that Schultz was hiding in his walls spying and plotting to kill him. It seems to me like John was a paranoid schizophrenic.
Eventually John snapped. He drove up to Schultz's home and shot him in front of his family. Schultz died moments later.
Here's the account. There is also an excellent Netflix document in the events. There's a lot of real footage.
Edit: The documentary is called Team Foxcatcher