From people just seconds away from death to the lighter side of Nazis, we look at 9 Innocent
Photos with Chilling Backstories
9.
Static Electricity • This photo of what looks like two kids
playing around with a grade school science experiment is actually something much creepier.
• Taken in 1975, the picture shows brothers Sean and Michael McQuilken as they reached
the summit of California’s Moro Rock.
Noticing that their hair was standing on end, their sister Mary took a photo.
What they didn’t realize was that this was telltale sign of an imminent lightning strike.
• After just starting to make their way down, a bolt of electricity hit Sean directly,
stunning his brother and sister as well.
But luckily Sean survived with only third degree burns.
So lesson to learn, next time your hair stands on end, run like hell.
8.
Travis Alexander • Sure this one just looks like a guy taking
a shower but the truth is much sinister.
• Pictured is Travis Alexander, a 30 year old marketing salesman from Arizona…and
it’s the last picture of him alive.
His Ex-Girlfriend Jodi Arias would soon stab Travis in the chest, slice open his throat
and shoot him in the head.
The body would be found a days later by Travis’ workmates, still slumped in the shower.
• The camera was found in the washing machine along with some bloody clothes.
The evidence soon pointed to Jodi who came up with several stories before saying it was
in self-defense.
The jury didn’t see it that way though.
7.
The Omagh Bombing • Look at this lovely snap, nice day, people
about doing their thing…too bad it’s all about to take a devastating turn.
• It’s August 15th 1988 and that red car in the right corner is packed with 300 pounds
of explosive.
It’s about to be detonated very shortly after this photo is taken, killing 29 people
and injuring over 300.
• This photo was found inside a camera, underneath rubble of a nearby building which
tells you what happened to the photographer.
The man and child in the picture are Spanish tourists who both survived but at least 6
other kids were killed that day.
6.
Tyler Hadley • Take a look at this harmless party self-…Ah
you already know where this going…
• So what makes this selfie so terrible?
Well the guy on the right just murdered his parents.
Tyler Hadley brutally murdered his mother and father, bashing them to death with a hammer.
After tidying up some of the mess he then decided to throw a house party because no
parents, no rules right?
• The other guy in the photo is Tyler’s best friend Michael, who had just been shown
the dead bodies by Tyler.
Michael took a selfie with Tyler knowing it would their last one, then left the party
and called the cops.
5.
Osama Bin Judo • Martial arts can bring people together
from all backgrounds and beliefs…even terrorists.
• Well future terrorists…This snap of none other than Osama Bin Laden in his youth
with Taiwanese judo coach Jimmy Wu.
It obviously wasn’t until after 9/11 that Jimmy realized he had taught the world’s
most wanted man how to do a judo flip.
• But that was way back in 1984 before his student would help found Al-Qaeda and orchestrate
plans to mass murder civilians.
In fact Jimmy turned Osama down, telling him he was too tall and skinny for judo.
Hopefully that’s the only mass murderer in Jimmy’s photo album
4.
Yukio Araki • War pictures are normally pretty horrific
so this picture of Japanese pilots having fun with a puppy doesn’t seem that traumatic.
• The guy holding the puppy is Yukio Araki, a kamikaze pilot who just one day later would
crash into the USS Braine.
The attack would claim 66 of the ship’s crew and obviously Yukio as well.
Yukio was only 17, knowing that he’d be going to his death the next day.
• The photo has become an iconic symbol of the tragedy of war in Japan.
Regardless of the rights and wrongs in war, this image is a reminder that everyone who
fights is a human being.
3.
John Lennon and Mark David Chapman • What looks like John Lennon signing off
an autograph to a random fan is actually much, much more.
• See this photo was taken on the night John Lennon was shot dead by crazed fan Mark
David Chapman… that’s the guy getting the autograph.
A few hours later Chapman would shoot Lennon 5 times in the back.
• Chapman had a long running history with mental illness and used to see tiny men in
his walls who he was god over.
But sometime after found Jesus and turned his adoration for Lennon to hate after his
comments about the Beatles being bigger than Jesus.
This spurred a long obsession with killing him.
2.
Joseph Goebbels • Look at this smiley guy, seems like he’d
be a real fun time at the bar…too bad he’s a Nazi.
• This photo of Joseph Goebbels being cheery and fun during a 1933 League of Nations meeting
is quickly takes a turn when you see the next photo that was taken of him.
What happened?
Well in between shots he found out the photographer was Jewish.
• The shift from cheer to hatred almost leaps out at you, keep in mind this would
be the guy who would mastermind propaganda to convince a whole nation that Jews were
Satan incarnate.
So remember even monsters can smile.
1.
James Bulger • This blurry bit of security camera footage
actually pictures one of the most disturbing abductions in recent history.
• Pictured is two year old James Bulger being led away by ten year old Robert Thompson,
abducting him from the New Strand Shopping Centre.
Robert along with another 10 year old boy then took James over 4 kms away and tortured
him to death.
• The body was found near an abandoned rail road station with James suffering 10 skull
fractures and 42 injuries.
The list of torture included throwing a can of paint at his head, putting batteries in
his mouth, kicking and stomping him and lastly dropping a 10kg railway fishplate on his head.
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