Disturbing Historical Photos That Get Darker Once You Know The Truth!

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This photo shows one of the survivors with two women who were assaulted. Over 2,000 women and 600 men were raped across Italian villages. Not one soldier was ever punished. The last photo before murder. Regina Kay Walters photographed by serial killer Robert Ben Rhodes moments before he killed her.

 He drove her to this abandoned barn, made her cut her hair, forced her into that black dress,  and took this picture. He called runaways the invisible people and her body was found in September 1990. He’s serving life without parole. Kidnapped, renamed, given away, never found her family. Zyda Sus in 1942  Poland, one of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped by the Nazi regime.

 After being deemed racially desirable, she received a new identity and was given to a German family for adoption.  After the war, she was taken to an orphanage but never found her real family. Her entire  life was stolen. Holiday photos while his daughter rotted in his cellar. Josef Fritzl  enjoying himself on vacation while his daughter remained trapped in the basement prison  he’d built.

 He kept her there for 24 years fathering seven children with her while his wife claimed she had no idea even when babies kept appearing on the doorstep and her husband spent hours in a locked cellar every day. Two divers smiling while their friend dies in the background. On the Great Barrier Reef, these divers posed for the camera  while another diver lays limp on the seabed in the background.

That’s Tina Watson  already dying after witnesses said her husband bear hugged her before she sank, likely disconnecting  her breathing apparatus. He was convicted of manslaughter and served 4 years. 30 days at sea vanished  30 miles from the finish. Andrew McAuley kayaked 1,000 miles across the Tasman Sea in 2007.

An experienced adventurer with a wife and kid waiting at home. Day 30, New Zealand visible on the horizon, just 30 miles to  go. He texted his wife, “See you Sunday.” And hours later sent a distress call, “My kayak is sinking.” His kayak was found the next day with the emergency beacon still attached to the boat, not to him. Fatal mistake.

 His body was never found.  Moments before the bomb detonated, this photo was taken seconds  before an IRA car bombing in Warrington in 1993. And the charge was inside that red car behind  them. The man and child in the photo survived, but the photographer Jonathan Ball did  not. He was killed instantly when the bomb exploded along with 3-year-old Jonathan Ball and 12-year-old Tim Parry.

 He told a group of armed Marines to try and kill him with bayonets. And then disarmed every single one of them. Colonel Anthony Biddle was a millionaire who spent his life teaching hand-to-hand combat to the Marine Corps and  the FBI across two World Wars. He did this well into his late 60s.

 Of the hundreds who tried to beat him, barely one ever succeeded. She personally selected women and children for the gas chamber. And she was 22 years old. Jenny Wanda Barkman volunteered as a guard at Stutthof concentration camp in 1944. The prisoners nicknamed her the beautiful specter because of how she  looked while beating them to death.

At her sentencing, she smiled and said,  “Life is indeed a pleasure, and pleasures are usually short.” Former Stutthof prisoners volunteered to be her executioners.  The x-ray said everything.  Albert Fish, serial killer, cannibal, child murderer, had pushed  29 needles deep into his own pelvis for pleasure.

Some went in so far he couldn’t get them back out. He killed and ate at least three children in 1920s New York. He also wrote a letter to one victim’s mother describing  exactly how he cooked and ate her daughter over 9 days. He seemed like a quiet, harmless old man.  These Poles were executed minutes after this photo was taken.

 No trial, no charges, just a firing squad in the street. In 1939, Nazi Germany’s policy in occupied Poland was simple. Anyone even suspected of resistance  gets shot. Tens of thousands were killed this way in the first months of the occupation alone. That wooden post was used to whip prisoners in public.  Not in the 1800s.

 In Delaware, this was perfectly legal all the way until 1972. Inmates were stripped, tied to the post, and lashed in front of witnesses. It was written into the state’s criminal code as an acceptable punishment. Delaware was the last US  state to ban it. William Kemmler became the first  person ever executed by electric chair on August 6th, 1890, and it went horribly wrong.

 The first charge ran for 17 seconds  and didn’t kill him. The second ran for over 2 minutes.  Witnesses smelled burning flesh and watched smoke rise from his body. One doctor called it an awful spectacle,  far worse than hanging. The chair was supposed to be more humane. Exhibited in the monkey cage at the Bronx Zoo.

Ota Benga, a Congolese Mbuti pygmy, forced to smile and show his sharpened teeth to thousands of zoo visitors in 1906. He was put on display in the monkey cage at the Bronx  Zoo as a human exhibit. They treated him like an animal for entertainment.  Standing on her victim’s grave with her dog,  Myra Hindley on Saddleworth Moors with her dog Poppet looking down at the grave of John Kilbride, one of the children she and Ian Brady murdered.

They took photos hinting at grave  sites and when their crimes were discovered, these pictures helped find the bodies of their child victims.  He carried a kid through freezing snow to save him. Steven Stayner giving Timmy White a piggyback ride after Steven was kidnapped at seven and abused for seven years by Kenneth Parnell.

  When Parnell grabbed five-year-old Timmy, Steven couldn’t let another kid suffer what he’d endured, so he  escaped with Timmy on his back and walked through freezing snow to police. Both boys reunited with their families. Steven died in a motorcycle accident at 24. Normal family photos hiding starvation and abuse.

The Turpin family at Disney and Vegas  with 13 kids in matching outfits, all gaunt and pale, clinging to each other with forced  smiles while their parents beam with pride. Behind closed doors, the children were chained to beds, starved, beaten, and tortured for years.

 The 17-year-old who escaped didn’t know what a police officer was, and didn’t understand what medication meant when she called 911. Seconds before lightning struck. Two brothers, Michael and Sean McQuilken, posing as their hair stands on end from static electricity on August 20th, 1975 in Sequoia National Park. Seconds later, lightning struck  them and both survived, but Sean took his own life in 1989.

His  killer is in the background. Reynaldo Dagsa on New Year’s Day taking a family photo when you can see the man in the background aiming a gun. Seconds after this photo, Dagsa was shot and killed,  and the photo captured his murderer’s face leading to his arrest. Acid couldn’t break her  spirit.

Marzieh Ebrahimi lost an eye in a 2014 acid attack in Iran, but continued leading protests and standing up to the regime. When hostages fell in love with their captors. A 1973 Stockholm bank robbery lasted 131 hours, and afterward the hostages organized a fund to pay for their captors’ legal defense.

  This gave birth to the term Stockholm syndrome. Right before the massacre. My Lai villagers moments before American soldiers gunned them down in Vietnam in 1968.  The young woman buttoning her shirt had just been raped,  and over 500 unarmed civilians were murdered that day, including children and elderly.

The man in the background might be watching him. Daylen Pua’s last selfie before vanishing on Hawaii’s illegal Haiku Stairs hike in February 2015.  He sent his grandmother multiple photos during the climb and this one appears to show a man hiding in the vegetation, possibly  following him. Two days later, he disappeared and his remains have never been found.

She smiled at the Nazi photographer. A woman in Kutno, Poland in 1939, photographed by Hugo Jaeger right after Germany invaded.  She had no idea what was coming when the casual chat and photo request seemed so normal. She didn’t know the horror that would be forced upon her people. Four survivors out of 524.

Photo taken on board Japan Airlines before it crashed into a mountainside in 1985. The tail fin was missing, likely  weakened from frequent landings and takeoffs. Of the 524 people on board,  only four survived. This is what they saw before impact. She was in the background the whole time. These hikers took photos while climbing and later discovered a woman lying in the background  who’d fallen the day before and couldn’t get up.

 Both her legs were broken with compound fractures and her friend was dead 100 yards away. She’d been face down in mud for 20 hours with no phone, no food, no water.  The helicopter found her because of this photo. The strangest  hijacking photo ever taken. Turkish Airlines flight hijacking in 1980, captured by war correspondent Coşkun Aral, who convinced the hijackers  to let him photograph inside the cockpit.

 A militant points a gun at the pilot’s neck and everyone is smiling and laughing. The pilot joked, “Don’t press it against my neck. I might get tickled and crash the plane. The tension was unbearable,  so their minds reached for absurd humor to survive. The hijackers smuggled the gun inside an Arabic dictionary because hiding it in a Quran would have been sacrilege.

  All passengers were safely released and the hijackers were arrested. Kidnapped and hidden in plain sight.  Elizabeth Smart on the far left at a party held captive by her kidnapper on the far right. She was missing for 9 months and her captor made her wear a veil to avoid recognition in public. He’s now  in a special prison program where sex offenders discuss methods of luring children playing it like a game.

The boy nobody could identify.  This photo was taken by serial killer Dean Corll, the Candy Man, showing a struggling boy he presumably raped and murdered. Nobody has ever identified him or found his body, so he exists only in this frozen moment. I should eat at home more often.  Jeffrey Dahmer casually joking with his dad on home video.

 And at the time this was filmed, Dahmer had already killed seven men and eaten parts of their bodies. His dad had no idea. He sold poison to Nazis knowing exactly how it would be used. Bruno Tesch on the  left going on trial in Hamburg, 1946. Tesch was a chemist  and co-inventor of Zyklon B pesticide. He sold his invention to the Nazis  fully aware it would be used in gas chambers to murder millions of people.

He got rich  while people died. He was convicted and executed. Aiming imaginary guns at the camera. Columbine class of 1999 photo with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold  in the top left corner pretending to shoot at the camera. Weeks later, they’d murder 13 people at their high school. Without the shooting, this pose would have been just another yearbook joke.

 Happy athletes who’d be dead within a week. Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Olympics opening ceremony. Carefree and excited. Within days, 11 of them would be taken hostage by Black September terrorists  and a botched rescue attempt resulted in all 11 being murdered. The screwdriver that killed him.

Recreation photo of the Demon Core accident where physicist  Louis Slotin used a screwdriver to keep two plutonium hemispheres from closing. The screwdriver slipped, a critical mass formed instantly,  giving him a lethal radiation dose, and he died days later from radiation poisoning while shielding others in the room with  his body.

Hours before he was shot. John Lennon signing an autograph for Mark David Chapman on December  8th, 1980. Chapman was incensed by Lennon saying the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, and he waited outside Lennon’s apartment and shot him in the back four times that night. This photo was taken hours before the murder.

Hours before he drowned at 30. Musician Jeff Buckley on the right on May 29th, 1997. Later that night, he went swimming in the Wolf River fully clothed and a passing  boat’s wake pulled him under. His body was found days later and he was singing  Led Zeppelin as he drowned. She was wedged  at the foot of her bed the whole time.

4-year-old Paulette Gebara Farah’s bedroom the morning she was reported missing, and that bulge in the duvet is her body. She’d rolled into a gap between her mattress and bed frame  and suffocated. Police searched for 9 days before discovering her decomposing body in her own bed, and the smell was overwhelming.

15 years old, arms cut off, left for dead,  walked 3 miles for help. Mary Vincent in 1978 after surviving Lawrence Singleton’s attack. He picked her up hitchhiking, raped her, then cut off both her arms with an axe to prevent identification. He threw her down a 30-ft cliff  and left her to die.

 Mary packed the stumps with mud to stop the bleeding, climbed back up the cliff, and walked 3 miles naked searching  for help. She was found on the highway holding her arms up to minimize blood loss. Singleton served only 8 years in prison and later murdered another woman. Mary testified against him again, and he got the  death penalty.

 She’s now an artist and victims’ advocate. Dragging prisoners in chains through Algeria. A French colonial soldier pulling two Algerian men in chains documenting the brutal oppression under colonial rule. Faking levitation in total  darkness. Spiritualist Colin Evans in 1930 pretending to levitate  by jumping up and down in complete darkness while filming himself with an infrared camera.

 He convinced people he could float. He was just a con artist with a camera. The millionaire who refused the lifeboat. Benjamin Guggenheim photographed in 1910 before boarding the Titanic. He refused rescue telling a steward  to inform his family he played the game straight and that no woman was left aboard because he was a coward. He went down with the ship.

Otto Frank returns to where his family hid and died. Anne Frank’s father  standing at the attic entrance in Amsterdam in 1960. The bookshelf that concealed their hiding place for 2 years before betrayal.  He alone survived. The Bible edited to keep slaves obedient.

 A Bible written specifically for Caribbean slaves with all references to freedom removed. The only message left was obedience. Servants, be obedient to your masters. They didn’t want slaves knowing about liberation or escape, so they rewrote God’s word to keep them in chains.  One theory suggests this photo depicts 19th century Victorian scream therapy.

This pseudo-scientific method aimed to cure tension and hysteria through sensory deprivation and collective  screaming. Students of a boarding school were reportedly blindfolded and forced to scream until they lost their voices, hoping to achieve a cleansing  of the soul. In reality, however, no date or location has survived.

 The photo was found in an anonymous archive, and no one knows for certain what is truly happening in it. Chess with a nude opponent. Marcel Duchamp playing chess against naked 20-year-old Eve Babitz at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1963. She staged it for attention after the curator snubbed her. Duchamp considered chess his real art, while Babitz crashed into the 1960s art world.

Dogs brought to the shelter were beaten to death.  Berlin in 1926 raised dog taxes so high that families couldn’t afford to keep their  pets and brought them to the municipal shelter hoping they’d find new homes. Instead, the overwhelmed city beat them to death because it was cheaper than caring for them.

Shooting portraits of dictators in a war  zone. An Australian soldier in 1950 firing a submachine gun at portraits of Kim Il Sung and  Stalin. Sometimes you shoot back at propaganda. 60 million buffalo reduced to  under a thousand. These buffalo bones waiting for railway transport in Alberta,  Canada tell the story of near extinction.

 At European settlement, nearly 60 million buffalo roamed North America in herds  that could reach 200,000 animals. By 1900, fewer than a thousand survived. Today, around 120,000 exist. Coming home to hatred. A Japanese-American family in 1945 returning from internment camp to find their house vandalized with racial slurs after being imprisoned for years simply for being Japanese.

Forced to watch what her country did. A British soldier scolding a German civilian for laughing during a screening of concentration camp footage. She was ordered to rewatch and confront  the atrocities. 45,000 killed in one day celebrating liberation.  On May 8th, 1945, peaceful Algerians celebrating the end of World War II and demanding  freedom were met with French gunfire, aerial bombings, and mass arrests.

The massacre killed any hope  for peace and triggered the 1954 liberation war. He believed his friend was hiding in the walls. John du Pont on the bottom with Dave Schultz, who du Pont hosted on his wrestling estate, where Schultz coached.  du Pont started believing Schultz was spying on him, hiding in walls, and plotting to kill him.

Paranoid schizophrenia took over, and eventually he snapped, drove to Schultz’s home, and shot him in front of his family. They believed a spaceship  was coming. Heaven’s Gate cult members in 1997, when leader Marshall Applewhite  convinced 39 people to commit suicide, so their souls could board an alien spacecraft traveling behind the Hale-Bopp comet.

They believed Earth was about to be wiped out, and this was their only escape. The figure in the background nobody noticed. A man posing at a cliff edge, goofing off with a fishing pose, and when the film was developed, they discovered a young man in the background. Nobody saw him while taking the photo, and multiple theories exist  about what was happening.

The most sinister  wink in history. LBJ being sworn in on Air Force One immediately after JFK’s assassination, with Jackie Kennedy  standing in the foreground covered in her husband’s blood, visibly grieving. LBJ turns to his friend Albert Thomas, who gives him a syrup tissue and  wink and smile.

The photographer called it innocent or sinister, leaning towards the latter. She solved Apollo 13 while giving birth to Jack Black. Judith Love Cohen went into labor in 1969,  and brought a work problem to the hospital. She was an aerospace engineer who helped create the abort guidance system for NASA.  Between contractions, she finished solving the problem on a computer printout, called her boss with the solution, then gave birth to Jack Black.

Months later, when Apollo 13 exploded in space,  her system brought the astronauts home alive. When the world’s greatest physicist stood  with black students in 1946, Albert Einstein visited Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in May 1946,  the first degree-granting black college in America during Jim Crow segregation.

 Einstein had fled Nazi Germany and saw the parallels between oppression of Jews in Europe and African Americans in the US.  He lectured on relativity, accepted an honorary degree, and called racism a disease  of white people saying Americans’ sense of equality is mainly limited to men of white skins.

  He blew up a plane to kill his mother, and 43 others  died. Jack Gilbert Graham in 1955 planted a bomb in his mother’s luggage on United Airlines flight 629. His target was only her, but the explosion killed all 44 people on board. He wanted her life insurance money. Graham was executed in the gas  chamber in 1957 and showed no remorse.

 Her grandfather watched her die after a helicopter decapitated her. The grandfather of 6-year-old actress  Renee Shin-Yi Chen in profound grief during her funeral. Renee was killed during filming of The Twilight Zone the movie when she was struck by a helicopter rotor blade and decapitated.

 Her grandfather was there. Some moments shatter you forever. Three days after this photo, the towers  fell. George W. Bush flying over the ruins of the Twin Towers on September 14th, 2001, 3 days after the attacks that killed  nearly 3,000 people and changed America forever. She murdered her husband with a hacksaw  and burned him in pieces.

 Laura Bell Devlin after her 1947 arrest for murdering her 75-year-old husband. She dismembered him with a hacksaw, threw some body parts in the wood stove, and buried the  rest in their backyard in Newark, Ohio. Just another day in suburban America. Killed by friendly fire for opposing the Iraq war.

 Former NFL player Pat Tillman, who publicly opposed expanding the war on terror to Iraq, died in a suspicious friendly fire incident in Afghanistan  in 2004. Raised as the wrong gender after a  botched circumcision. David Reimer and Brenda Reimer are the same person. After a circumcision accident, doctors advised  his family to castrate him and raise him as a girl.

 At 15 in 1980, he began living as a boy again. He died by suicide at 38. She spent 600 lives  saving stray dogs. Kimberley Kate in England, 1962, surrounded  by the strays she rescued. She never turned a dog away and cared for more than 600 dogs in her lifetime. Just one woman dedicating her  entire existence to animals nobody else wanted.

 The killer clown who murdered over 30 boys. Pogo the clown, better known  as John Wayne Gacy. When he wasn’t performing at children’s birthday parties,  he was sexually assaulting and murdering young males. Over 30 victims in 6 years with most buried in his crawl space. The conservationist  who hunted tigers.

 Prince Philip photographed with a tiger he shot in India in 1961. The brutal irony is he founded WWF, the world’s largest conservation organization.  Everything gone. A German soldier returning to Frankfurt in 1946  finding his house destroyed and his family dead. The war took everything. 4 years  that aged him a decade.

 Abraham Lincoln’s transformation from 1861 to 1865 shows  the visible toll of leading America through Civil War, national division, and unbearable decisions. America’s first supermodel spent her life in an asylum.  Audrey Munson attempted suicide at 30, survived, and lived in a psychiatric institution  until dying at 104 in 1996.

The suicide attempt was in May 1922. 80-ft cross burning, 8,000 clansmen watching. KKK burning an 80-ft cross on August 9th, 1925. Thousands of hooded members standing in formation while hatred burned bright against the night sky. Worthless land made her a millionaire at 10.

 Sarah Rector received 160 acres of barren Oklahoma land in 1913 because whites got the good farmland.  Then oil was discovered and this 10-year-old black girl became one of America’s first black millionaires. Final photo before they were murdered.  Abigail Williams on a bridge uploaded to Snapchat at 2:07 p.m. on February 13th, 2017, and her friend Libby German took this photo.

Both girls were murdered that day near this bridge in Delphi, Indiana. Another photo shows the suspect only 73 ft behind them, and the case remains unsolved.  The only photo of a black Union soldier with his family, taken around 1864, this rare image captures African-American family life during the Civil War.

Minutes before she stabbed him 27 times. Travis Alexander in his bathroom photographed by his girlfriend Jodi Arias, and moments later she attacked him with a knife. He was stabbed 27 times, his throat slit, and shot in the head. These photos were found on a camera that went through the washing machine as Arias tried to destroy the evidence.

The last peaceful moment  before the wave. John and Jackie Niel photographed as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami approaches in the background.  Both were killed, and their bodies were found later. Their camera survived the water and was returned to their children. Over 200,000 people died in that tsunami.

He orchestrated their murders.  Bart Whitaker on the left with his brother, and Bart hired a hit man to kill his mother, father, and brother. He had himself shot too to  avoid suspicion. His mother and brother died, but his father survived and forgave  him, saying he’d be there when Bart took his first breath, and would be there when he took his last.

His parents were dead in the bedroom. Tyler Hadley’s  selfie at the party his parents forbade him to throw. So, he bludgeoned them to death with a hammer, took three pills of ecstasy, then killed his mother from behind as she worked on her computer. His father came running, and Tyler killed him, too, saying,  “Why the [ __ ] not?” He dragged their bodies to the bedroom, spent 3 hours cleaning blood, and threw the party.

Last photo before they were kidnapped and murdered. Hollywell and Jessica Chapman in their Manchester United shirts on August 4th, 2002. Hours later, they were abducted by  school caretaker Ian Huntley, who murdered both 10-year-old girls. This case  changed how British parents viewed child safety forever.

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