Hello everybody, it's Shrouded Hand here.
Today, I'm looking at three photos taken before the person died in mysterious or eerie circumstances.
These snapshots often give us small clues as to what happened to them in their final moments.
A sinister hint at their ultimate fate, often bringing up more questions than answers.
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This is the last known photograph of Abigail Williams.
The picture was taken in 2017 by her friend Liberty German
as they crossed the Monon Bridge over Deer Creek in Delphi, Indiana.
The girls, aged 13 and 14, were walking a well-known trail through remote woodland.
They had been dropped off by Libby's sister at the start of the trail.
The plan was for them to walk the trail and be picked up by Libby's father two hours later at the other end.
When they failed to turn up on time, they were reported as missing and police searched the area.
Around noon the following day their bodies were found.
The two girls had been murdered and left at the side of the creek, about half a mile from Monon Bridge.
The only clues as to what happened to them were on Libby's phone.
She had taken two photos on the bridge and posted them to Snapchat
but there was another recording on the phone.
Just as they reached the other side of the bridge
something made her take out her phone and start recording a video.
From the angle of the recording it seems she was holding her phone down by her side
as if to conceal the fact that she was filming.
The man walking towards them has still never been identified.
Monon Bridge itself can be a nerve-wracking thing to cross.
It's an old railway track that crosses high above the creek.
The wooden slats are far apart and rotting in places.
This photo was taken when they were about halfway across the bridge
and as you can see, there's no one else behind them.
It seems that whoever caught up with them knew the bridge well enough to cross it quickly
and was hurrying to catch up with them.
The police only released a small portion of what Libby recorded that day.
One part shows the man walking towards them
but another is an audio recording where his voice can be heard saying:
"down the hill"
MAN: "guys... down the hill"
Most people have concluded that the man caught up with them
and then ordered them down the hill onto a more secluded private road.
The murder remains unsolved to this day.
This last photo of Abbey has been analyzed by a lot of people
but apart from providing a time stamp and location, it offers very little clues.
Some have said that a man can be seen at the end of the bridge, but this turns out just to be posts in the ground.
Others think that they can see someone hiding near this tree, but that turned out to be a fallen branch.
More poignantly though, it offers a glimpse into the lives of two friends out enjoying themselves
completely unaware of the tragedy that's about to befall them.
These are some of the last photographs of Princess Diana and her entourage alive.
On the 31st of August 1997 she was getting ready to leave the Ritz Hotel in Paris.
The hotel was surrounded by paparazzi.
A decoy, black Mercedes-Benz was driven from the front entrance to distract the photographers
whilst Diana left in a similar car from the rear entrance of the hotel.
In the back seats were Diana and her partner Dodi Fayed.
In the front passenger seat was royal bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones
and the driver was Henri Paul, deputy head of security at the Ritz Hotel.
The distraction wasn't enough to stop a large group of paparazzi on motorbikes
mobbing Diana's car as they drove along the road.
These pictures were taken sometime between them leaving the Ritz and entering the Place d'Alma tunnel
In order to escape the swarm of photographers
Henri Paul sped up to over a hundred kilometres per hour and raced into the tunnel.
He then lost control of the vehicle and smashed headlong into a concrete pillar.
Henri Paul and Dodi Fayed were killed instantly.
Trevor Rees-Jones survived when his airbag deployed and Diana did initially survive
but her injuries were extremely severe and she died in hospital a few hours later.
I'm not sure what sequence these pictures go in, so I don't know which is actually the final photo
but I think this one tells us most about the panic of the situation.
Diana looking backwards at the pursuing motorbikes.
Trevor half blinded by the camera flashes
and Henri Paul with this manic look on his face.
Apparently he was more than two times over the drink-driving limit at the time
and he was on prescription medication that could have interacted badly with the alcohol.
Now I can't talk about this incident without mentioning some of the conspiracy theories.
To do these theories service it would take an entire video in itself
so I'm gonna give you a very quick overview, but bear in mind, I'm leaving a lot of details out.
Many people believe that Diana was deliberately killed.
The royal family didn't approve of Diana's relationship with Dodi Fayed
and so they instructed MI6 agents to have her killed and make it look like an accident.
You can go even deeper into this conspiracy.
Some people even believe that the death was sacrificial.
The Illuminati had killed the princess who was pregnant at the time.
They'd done it at that exact time, at that exact place as a sacrifice to Horus.
The numbers 13 and it's mirror 31 were particularly significant
which is why it took place on the 31st of August.
Henri Paul had been brainwashed by MKULTRA to drive the car into the 13th pillar at the tunnel at high speed.
Like I say, this is all deep-dive stuff.
I've heard some pretty solid debunks of a lot of the conspiracy theories surrounding Diana's death
but I'm not here to tell people what to believe
I just wanted to mention their conspiracy theories because they're kind of tied up with this case.
The look on Henri Paul's face is creepy though
If you were to tell me that those were the eyes of a man who was being mind-controlled
I'd probably believe it.
It could be the antipsychotic medication in his system mixing badly with the alcohol, though.
Either way he looks completely crazy and that's probably the thing I find creepiest about this photograph
Knowing that it was his driving that caused their deaths
and this was the expression on his face before he did so.
There's something extremely sinister about that.
This last one I'd not heard much about.
It was actually suggested to me by a patron called Rejected Driftwood, so thanks a lot for the suggestion.
The last known photograph of Kris Kremers is nothing but a close-up of the hair on her head
and that's all part of the mystery of this story, because nobody quite knows why these pictures exist.
Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon had recently graduated from university.
They had saved up enough money to travel to Panama.
Their plan was to visit the area for six weeks
during which time they would explore the sites and volunteer to teach local children Spanish.
Traveling from Amsterdam to Costa Rica, then east into Panama
they ended up in a small town called Boquete on the 29th of March 2014.
This is a small mountain town, which is surrounded by thick jungles.
They were staying with a family who lived in the town.
On the 1st of April the two girls decided to go for a walk along the Pianista Trail.
It's a well marked path that leads through the heavy forests around the outskirts of the town.
They took the family's dog along with them for the walk
but later that night their dog came back to the house all alone.
The girls were nowhere to be seen.
The whole trip, Kris and Lisanne had been regularly messaging their family and posting Facebook updates
but on the night of their disappearance all messages completely stopped.
By the 3rd of April a full-scale search was underway for the missing girls.
By the 6th of April, the girls still missing
the parents arrived in Boquete to aid in their search.
It wouldn't be until ten weeks later when the first clue was found.
A woman handed in a blue backpack to the police, saying that she found it in a rice paddy field.
The paddy field was about eight hours walk from Boquete
and it was through extremely dense and difficult terrain.
The backpack was completely dry and the contents were in good condition
which was weird because there had been heavy rain in the last few weeks.
Even stranger, the woman who found the bag said that she walked past that place every day
and she was sure the bag wasn't there the day before.
Whoever had placed the bag there had kept it safe and dry for more than two months.
Inside the bag was Lisanne's passport, a water bottle, sunglasses, a couple of bras
and it was all neatly packed away
More importantly there was the girl's phones and a Canon Powershot digital camera belonging to Lisanne.
These items contained eerie clues as to what might have happened to the girls.
Both of their phones had made several attempts to contact emergency services
a few hours after they first headed off on their walk
but they must have been in deep jungle
because they were unable to get a signal from wherever they were at the time.
Lisanne's phone had ran out of battery by the third day and after that it seems that Kris switched off her phone
and it was only switched back on every couple of days to check for a better signal.
It seems they were trying to conserve the battery.
Strangely enough, after the sixth day whoever was using the phone was unable to unlock the screen.
The phone logs show seventy-seven attempts to unlock the phone to make a call.
Whoever was using the phone at this point, it doesn't seem like it was Kris.
The story got even stranger when they checked the digital camera.
The first set of pictures are what you might expect.
It shows the girls on the trail, posing at a scenic spot before heading deeper into the jungle.
Shortly after this, the photographs stopped and the emergency calls began.
There are no other photos taken until early hours of the eighth day.
Starting at 1:00 a.m. the camera takes a series of ninety photographs over the course of three hours.
Almost all the images show nothing, but an empty jungle in complete darkness.
The pictures seem frantic and desperate.
Bear in mind that by this time they had been lost in the forest for over a week
wearing nothing but shorts and t-shirts
with whatever scant rations they'd packed for a day trip.
Almost all the pictures seemed to have been shot upwards into the tree canopy above them.
A few were shot down into a canyon.
One shows a tree branch with some red plastic wrapped bizarrely around it.
Maybe they were trying to use the camera flash to signal somebody in the dark
or maybe just attempting to light their way.
The last few pictures are the most puzzling though
There are two shots that I can find, seeming to show Kris.
One shows what looks like the side of her face in extreme close-up.
The other one is the shot of her hair.
A few people have said that this picture shows that Kris was injured
and there's blood flowing from her temple, but I can't really see it.
There's a bit of the hair where it looks slightly redder than the rest
but that could just be the color of the picture.
Maybe there's a photograph that hasn't been released to the public yet that shows some injury, but I'm not sure.
Maybe people are just reading too much into this photograph.
The final picture of the night shows some papers on a rock.
Many have speculated that this might be an attempt to write an SOS sign on the floor.
After this the camera is switched off and never used again.
These photographs bring up an interesting conundrum:
if Kris Kremers appears in the photos taken on the eighth day
why wasn't she able to unlock her phone since the sixth day?
Examining the camera's files reveals another mystery:
as the camera takes pictures it gives the images a numbered filename
so that they can be displayed in sequence.
For some reason one of the photos seems to be missing.
The photographs are numbered uniformly up till image 505 then it suddenly jumps to 507.
Image 506 is nowhere to be found.
There's been attempts to recover this lost file
but they were entirely unsuccessful, which is very odd
because deleted photos are usually easy to recover.
The camera's memory card wasn't full, so the deleted file can't have been written over.
Even stranger is the fact that image 508 contains a time stamp that shows that it was taken before image 507
something that should be impossible for the camera to do
Perhaps it's just a glitch.
Picture 508 is most likely the missing 506 file
but some have speculated that this shows some sort of file manipulation
and as it seems to be the last pictures on the roll before the girls apparently went missing
and started to call emergency services
it's led many to believe that they captured something on the camera that somebody didn't want others to see.
There was a wide search of the area where the bag was found
and shortly afterwards they found Kris's shorts folded neatly on top of a rock.
It would take another two months before they found the bodies or at least what was left of them.
Strewn along a riverbank there were many of the girls' bones in various stages of decomposition
along with a hiking boot with Lisanne's foot still inside.
Weirdly, Kris's bones were completely stripped of flesh and they were covered in a high level of phosphorus
a substance not naturally found in the soil of the area.
Lisanne's remains were more intact with the flesh still attached.
This has led to speculation that Kris died first
and somebody attempted to get rid of the evidence by covering the body in some kind of chemical.
Whatever did happen to Kris and Lisanne
whether they just got lost and injured or if there was foul play involved
we'll probably never know.
There's many speculations as to why the pictures were taken.
As well as possibly being an attempt to signal for help or to light their path
some have suggested that they were being stalked by an unseen predator, either animal or human
and they were trying to scare it away with the flash or to get a photograph as evidence.
Another creepy theory is that it's neither of the girls taking the pictures.
By this time they could have both been dead or at least kidnapped
and whoever did it could be using the camera to take some trophy shots.
This last theory seems unlikely given the fact that most of the pictures are of complete darkness
but it goes to show how some ambiguous final photographs
can raise a lot more questions than they answer.
Nearly every person in the world will have a last photo.
You never know when you're going to die, so you best hope you weren't doing something stupid in that last photograph of yourself.
It kind of makes me wonder what my own last photograph is going to look like.
So if this video gave you the creeps, I made a very similar one a few years ago that you might like as well.
I'll put a link to it in the endcard if you want to watch it.
I've got two more drawings to show, more strange interpretations of my logo.
This one is by corpseknight.
I like it because they actually added a body.
I always wondered what I look like from the neck down and now I know.
Also, it's terrifying so bonus points for that.
You made me look like I spend my time in a dark cave eating ramen noodles, which is pretty close to the truth.
_seeker99 has gone for a more totemic approach.
This is also terrifying in its own way.
It makes me think of an ancient monolith that comes to life every thousand years
or some mythological creature like the Mothman.
Thanks to both of you for letting me share your drawings.
I'll put links to both of their instagrams in the description below
so go give them a follow and check out their artwork.
Also a huge thanks to everyone supporting me on patreon and PayPal this month.
You really are helping to keep the channel running.
If you'd also like to help out there should be a link on screen now that says something like
"support the channel"
if you click that it will take you to my Patreon page.
Otherwise go and check out the other last photos video.
It's from three years ago, so my voice is even more cringe than it is in this video
but you might still enjoy it, I don't know.
Anyway, thanks for watching and until next time
Goodbye.