From the chilling photos of people taken mere seconds before their death to some of the
craziest photos taken before absolute disaster!
Here are ten of the most haunting last photos to give you goosebumps!
10: The Last Selfie This tale, like any other story of a person’s
last moments here on earth, will leave you shaking your head with a disturbing feeling
in the pit of your stomach.
A mother of three slipped and fell to her death right in front of her family at a popular
spot in India just moments after taking her final selfie.
The picture that the woman took was of her and her husband, seemingly happy just moments
before she slipped and plummeted 500 feet (120m).
A fall from that height is enough to turn a person into a pile of bones.
As you can imagine, her family was shocked by what happened.
They quickly contacted police and a rescue operation was underway.
The police didn't recover her body for five hours, eventually finding it splattered at
the bottom of the cliff.
To make matters worse, she had allegedly been trying to take yet another selfie when she
got too close to the edge and lost her footing.
Be warned!
Selfies can be dangerous!
Always watch your step, especially when you are near a tall cliff!
9: Waiting for Disaster On December 26, 2004, one of the most devastating
tsunamis in modern history smashed into Thailand.
At the time, the beaches were filled with vacation goers enjoying a sunny Boxing Day.
Among the tourists were 155 Britons who were killed almost immediately.
One of the Britons was Deborah Garlick.
Her final moment alive was captured in a chilling photograph in which she can be seen lounging
on the beach in a bikini, surrounded by other happy beachcombers, none of whom had any idea
of the tragedy that was about to strike.
She smiled, struck a pose, and someone snapped a photo.
The image was actually found after the incident, discovered on the very last roll of film taken
by Deborah.
Minutes after the photo was taken, a tidal wave over 98 feet (30m) tall hit the shore,
killing Deborah, the other 155 British citizens, and 230,000 additional people throughout Southeast
Asia.
The earthquake that caused the tsunami measured 9 on the Richter scale.
It destroyed everything in its path and almost everyone who was on the beach that day.
It does make you wonder though, how did that roll of film survive the destruction of the
tsunami?
Doesn’t that seem totally bizarre?
8: Falling from the Sky It was February of 1970 when Keith Sapsford,
only 14 years old, crawled into the landing gear of an airplane at Kingsford Smith Airport
in Sydney.
The boy apparently had caught the travel bug after a vacation with his family and wanted
to go on a new trip.
Being 14, he thought it was a good idea to climb into the landing gear.
Unfortunately, his exuberance would cost him his life.
Somehow, Keith managed to get onto the tarmac by himself and climb into the landing gear
of an aircraft headed to Tokyo.
He then sat patiently inside the gear for hours, anticipating takeoff.
What the boy didn't know was that the landing gear opens after takeoff so that the wheels
can fold in again.
When this happened, the boy fell from the landing gear and plummeted over 180 feet (55m)
to the ground.
But to be honest, he wouldn't have survived the flight anyway considering he was only
wearing shorts and a t-shirt.
If he hadn't frozen to death, he would have run out of oxygen.
But here's where the story gets nuts.
Amateur photographer John Gilpin was snapping photographs at the airport and never even
saw the boy fall out of the plane.
It wasn't until a week later when he developed his photos that he realized he had captured
the exact moment that the boy fell from the landing gear and tumbled towards the Earth.
He captured the boy’s tragic last moment, the brief few seconds before he hit the ground
in which he probably realized that he had made a deadly mistake.
I would be haunted if I developed a photograph and saw something that disturbing on it.
Wouldn’t you?
7: Paul Walker’s Last Photo The world was shocked when Paul Walker, only
40 years old, crashed while a passenger in his friend’s Porsche Carrera GT.
The car was driven by Roger Rodas, who managed to smash it into a tree.
The car burst into flames and Paul Walker burned up in the wreckage.
And while we all know how tragic the accident was, what a lot of people don't know is that
a famous last photograph was taken of Walker just before he got in the car.
In the picture, Walker leans into the window, apparently putting something in the car before
he hops in himself.
His famous last words right around the time the picture was taken were, “Let’s go
for a drive.”
Today, Walker is survived by his daughter Meadow.
The final picture of him, which was taken at a charity event, is a lasting reminder
of how quick and unexpected our last moments can be, regardless of how famous or wealthy
we are.
6: Walking the Tightrope Karl Wallenda was a tightrope master who lived
between 1905 and 1978.
He founded The Flying Wallendas, who you might know as an old daredevil circus act once famous
throughout the world.
The stunts performed by The Flying Wallendas were so dangerous because they often perform
them without using a safety net.
Karl himself went through his career largely unscathed, even though there were several
tragedies associated with his act.
He continued doing stunts until 73 years old, when he tried to walk across the two towers
of the Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The wire was stretched 121 feet (35m) above the pavement.
Someone managed to snap a picture of Karl as he was about halfway between the buildings.
By the look on his face, he seemed to think everything was OK.
But just seconds after this final photo was taken, Karl fell to his death.
The tragedy was blamed on faulty wiring.
The wires had apparently been set up by amateurs who weren't even affiliated with the Wallenda
family.
Their negligence resulted in a whole lot of horrified spectators when Karl’s body hit
the ground.
Have you ever been with someone right as they became the victim of a tragic accident?
Did you ever watch someone fall off a building, or get struck by lightning, or get into a
car accident?
How did that affect you?
It can be a serious and traumatizing experience.
If you do have any stories you want to share, let me know down in the comments below.
5: The Volcanologist When Mount St. Helens erupted on the morning
of May 18, 1980, one of the first people to arrive at the scene was U.S. Geological Survey
team member David Johnston.
He went down to the volcano to monitor it as it erupted.
He had extensive experience with volcanoes in Alaska, he understood the hazards of explosive
volcanism better than most people, and he was an advocate of safe monitoring.
When he arrived at the scene that morning, he thought he was in the safe zone.
He even single-handedly persuaded the authorities to limit access to the area because of a potentially
violent eruption.
His nagging the authorities resulted in only a few deaths instead of what could have been
thousands.
Someone snapped a picture of David Johnston at 7:00 o'clock in the evening.
He smiled at the camera and seemed perfectly content.
It's a shocking image to see now knowing what happened just after the picture was taken.
While manning the observation post six miles (10km) from the volcano, David was literally
erased by the lateral blast.
The volcano exploded with such force that he was pretty much evaporated.
His body was never found, but 13 years later, road workers discovered the remains of his
trailer.
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4: Swept Away Jamie Zimmerman, a doctor who worked at ABC
News, died because of a horrible accident while on vacation in Hawaii.
But before the accident, Jamie took a photograph.
She took a picture of herself, smiling and carefree at the edge of a cliff, with the
ocean crashing against the shore below.
In the photograph, she appears happier than can be.
But almost immediately after the photo was taken, she lost her footing, tumbled into
the Lumahai River, and was swept out to sea.
Lifeguards were called immediately.
They reached Jamie’s body within just a few minutes.
But unfortunately, it was too late.
CPR didn't work and even though she was transported to the hospital very quickly, all attempts
to resuscitate her failed and she passed away.
Now, her final moment is memorialized in this photo, peaceful and relaxed just moments before
an agonizing demise.
3: Caught with the Murder Weapon In Saskatchewan, Canada a murder took place
on March 24, 2015.
The body of Brittney Gargol was discovered lying on the side of the road.
This girl was only 18 years old.
Hours before her death, she posed for a selfie with her friend Cheyenne Antoine.
The selfie was posted to Facebook right before they headed out for the night.
After Brittney’s body was found, police interviewed her friend.
But Cheyenne claimed to not know anything about it.
She told the police that they went drinking and met up with a friend and then she left
to go to her uncle’s house.
However, it soon came to light that Cheyenne was lying.
Her uncle admitted that she had asked him to lie for her and tell the police that two
strange men killed Brittney!
As if that wasn't horrendous enough, police eventually realized that the murder weapon
used to strangle Brittney was actually in the photograph taken of the two before they
went out that night.
Brittney had been strangled with a belt – with Cheyenne’s belt to be exact, and she was
actually wearing the murder weapon in the picture that she uploaded to Facebook with
her murder victim.
Two years after the murder, Cheyenne finally admitted to police that she was guilty.
She has since been charged with second-degree murder.
She also admitted that the only reason she killed her friend was because they were drunk
and got in an argument.
She got so angry that she took off her belt and strangled Brittney with it.
Of course, she is now in prison for her vicious crime.
2: A Bad Date Sydney Loofe was excited after she had a date
with a woman named Audrey whom she met on the Internet.
But she was also nervous.
She had poor experiences in the past meeting other women off the Internet, who often requested
that they involve a male, usually a boyfriend, in their private activities.
Well, Sydney had every right to be nervous.
It turned out that Audrey was not who she said she was.
She was later identified as Bailey Boswell.
And yes, she did have a boyfriend.
On the second date, Sydney was strangled to death – allegedly by accident during a rather
inappropriate game that involved her, Bailey, and Bailey’s boyfriend.
However, whether the strangulation was accidental or not – Bailey Boswell was charged with
first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
She was also charged with improper disposal of human remains because after Bailey and
her boyfriend strangled Sydney to death, they dismembered her and tried to get rid of her
remains!
But here's where the final photograph comes in.
This is potentially the saddest last photo anyone ever took.
Sydney was only 24 years old with her whole life in front of her.
On the night of her second date with the girl who would murder her later that evening, she
posted a smiling selfie on Snapchat with the caption “Ready for my date” and a heart
eyes emoji.
She was so excited to go out with her new friend.
But in the end, she was abused and murdered.
It’s difficult to overstate how tragic this is.
Be careful meeting people on the internet!
1: R. Budd Dwyer In January of 1987, R. Budd Dwyer did something
that shocked the world.
At the time, he was the acting Pennsylvania State Treasurer.
He was also about to be sentenced regarding a bribery charge.
Dwyer maintained his innocence to the bitter end, saying he had nothing to do with any
bribery.
But nobody believed him.
A judge offered him a plea deal, including a small sentence of five years in prison.
So, Dwyer scheduled a press conference.
Everyone assumed he was going to resign and plead guilty to the bribery charges.
That would be the normal thing to have happen.
Instead, he took out a .357 magnum revolver and shot himself in the face.
The entire thing was televised, all the way through to the end.
The moment before he put the gun in his mouth was captured in a shocking photo.
It’s awfully hard to look at when you know what came after.
Which of these last photos gave you the most chills?
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