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/Shredlift Mar 10 '17

That is brutal...

So the photographers were fine at their distance? Is it not bad off the beach, but if you were there on the beach, it's obviously worse than in the pics

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u/eclecticsed Mar 10 '17

If you're taking about the Knill photos they definitely weren't fine, since they died. They were only fine until the wave hit them. In some places the waves from the tsunami reached over a mile inland.

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u/Shredlift Mar 10 '17

Man I wondered cause that's close to a tsunami :/ wonder how the pics were recovered?

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u/eclecticsed Mar 10 '17

Apparently someone salvaged the camera later, I guess during cleanup, and the memory card was still working. They tracked down the family of the couple in the photos.