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Have you ever looked around and had to do a double take?
Like, “did I just see what I think I saw?”
Those moments can be a bit scary, but thrilling at the same time.
That’s why today, we’re bringing you another 10 stop-your-heart moments with pictures that
are full of crazy and frightful backstories that you would have never imagined.
From family photos to pictures taken just before a tragedy and many more, you’ll be
shocked to hear about why, when, and how these pictures were taken.
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10.
Castle Figure This picture, at first glance, is of a couple
of kids posing in front of some antique structure, probably the grounds of a castle of sorts.
The kids look happy enough, considering they’re just visiting some old thing with their parents,
but the story goes much deeper.
In the back of this photo, you can see a type of female-looking figure creeping out of the
structure behind them.
While at first, they figured it might be another tourist walking the area, everyone agreed
that no one else had been around when the picture was taken.
The castle housed Henry VIII and was used for hundreds of beheadings, so you can bet
it’s probably pretty haunted.
9.
Man in the woods This photo is the last known image of this
man who ventured into the woods of Alaska to camp.
Apparently, though he looks like quite the boy scout, it didn’t end up so well for
him because he didn’t tell anyone where he was going and eventually starved to death.
The camper who found him later said he looked extremely thin and had a wild look on his
face.
The image went viral and was sadly an example of how prone we are to die in the wild, no
matter how experienced we are, or how many seasons of Survivor I’ve watched.
8.
Joyful Man or Creepy Killer?
This happy-go-lucky young man seems like he’s in the prime of his life!
Life is all Hakuna Matata and no responsibilities at this age, isn’t it?
Well, maybe not for this guy because this picture was taken while he was in the back
of a squad car.
Why did he get arrested?
Oh, that’s the really creepy part because he didn’t drink and drive, he didn’t do
anything teenagers often get arrested for, he murdered his parents.
During the attack, he used both a hatchet and a sledgehammer to kill his mom and dad
and severely hurt three of his siblings.
Does the smile still remind you of The Lion King?
I’ll answer that for you: no, no it does not.
7.
Jonestown Suicide This image is hardly innocent at first glance.
If someone showed you this, you might think that it was taken during war, perhaps after
a bombing or a mass shooting or a fatal attack during a battle between two regions.
The reality is much different.
This is an American religious organization located in Guyana.
They lived in a place they called “Jonestown” after their leader “Jim Jones”.
Jonestown was pretty much unknown until 1978, when close to one thousand people died in
one day.
Of the 909, 907 died from Cyanide poisoning.
Though they’ve called it a “revolutionary suicide” it’s said that many of the deaths
were the result of forced cyanide injections, some of the victims were minors, and it added
up to the largest incident of American civilian death until 9/11.
6.
Omayra Sanchez The case of Omayra Sanchez is well-known in
Colombia.
This image comes from the video footage taken by several news networks in Colombia who talked
and waited with her during the last days of her life.
The young girl was caught in the debris of her house after a volcano eruption had led
to a fatal mudslide that tore down her house and left her trapped in water and concrete.
During the interview, she says that her grandmother was caught in the debris and the body is lying
in the water underneath her.
She stays shockingly calm, knowing all the while that she will die.
5.
Suicide From Genesee Hotel in 1942 This Photo was taken by a photographer for
The Buffalo Courier Express.
First, it looks like a coffee shop, a normal street corner, and a strange statue of a woman
on the building.
When you look again, you can see that the woman is actually falling toward the sidewalk.
A figure is seen entering the hotel, which some sources say is a police officer attempting
to save the woman from jumping.
She had jumped from the eighth-floor window.
The young woman was named Mary Miller and had checked into this hotel with the specific
purpose of killing herself after telling her sister that she was traveling to see other
relatives.
The reporter who took the photo had followed police cars that sped past him and managed
to catch a few shots of the woman hesitating as well as this shocking image.
4.
Children with gas masks This photo looks like something you’d find
in an attic.
It pictures several children walking together and looks entirely normal except for the fact
that they’re all wearing gas masks.
It was taken in Liverpool, England in the early 1940s.
It would probably have been very normal for the children to have and wear masks without
obvious proof of discomfort because every UK citizen was issued one.
This was after the persistent German Air Force bomb attacked the region during WWII.
The fear of a gas attack led many to wear their masks often, schools to run drills,
and thus this photo comes about.
The kids are in school learning how to put it on, and what to do in case of an emergency.
At my school, we just played with blocks, and occasionally had non-war related fire
drills, so I will count myself lucky.
3.
Death by Sword Assassination Our next photo was taken in Tokyo in 1960.
The picture is of an impact during the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, who was then leading the
Socialist Party in the country.
The attacker is Otoya Yamaguchi.
The attack looks pretty simple in the picture but what we don’t see is that Yamaguchi
is sword-deep into Asanuma’s stomach.
Only the Japanese will epically assassinate someone in public, on camera with a sword.
After the murder, Yamaguchi wrote on a mirror in his detention center “Seven lives for
my country.
Long live his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!” and hung himself.
2.
The Last Picture of Mother and Son Pictures on planes are always a little scary.
For some reason, maybe I’ve seen too many Final Destination movies, I always think that
you’re just foreshadowing something sinister.
Lots of airport tragedies have stories like this.
For instance, the Brazilian Chapecoense soccer team almost all died when flying to a match
in Colombia.
The photos and videos of the players boarding the plane are shockingly sinister.
It’s similar here, where we see a mother and son together on a plane, excited to see
whatever destination they’re off to, in this case, Kuala Lumpur.
However, the flight was shot down by a Russian missile while flying over Ukraine.
Everyone on board died.
1.
The Amityville Photo This family photo looks like a normal 70s
portrait.
Everyone looks happy and together, it’s full of family comfort and can even evoke
some nostalgia.
The photo was taken in 1976 on 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville.
That’s right, this is the Amityville house.
The family consisted of John, Allison, and Marc in the back row of the photo and Dawn,
and Ronald “Butch” Jr.
The parents aren’t in the photo, but Butch is the only survivor.
Every member of the family was shot in their bed, to no surprise, by Butch.
Suddenly, the photo of the family doesn’t look so happy.