Many have had the experience of standing on a train platform during a crowded period, and worrying about being pushed and shoved towards the train tracks. But this photo shows everyone’s worst nightmares come true. Ki-Suk Han was pushed in front of a train in the New York City subway, and was unable to get himself back onto the platform in time. The 58 year old father and husband died immediately when the train made impact.

The looks on these astronauts faces says it all. They were delighted and excited to be part of this Space Shuttle program, and confident that if the shuttle had taken off and landed nine times before safely, the tenth would be no different. Unfortunately, just 73 seconds into its tenth mission, it broke apart, and all seven of the people pictured were killed, which included one civilian teacher.

Just one month away from her 18th birthday, and Xenia Ignatyeva decided she wanted to take more than your average selfie. She climbed onto a railway bridge, and posed for this photo as well as others, probably hoping to share it on social media for some likes and comments. The bridge was 300 feet high, and the fall alone may well have killed her, but she was also shocked by 1,500 volts as she grabbed live wires during the fall.

If you want to raise money for a worthy cause, you have to get attention by pushing the limits. Robert Overacker was hoping to raise awareness and money for the homeless, and so, in 1995, he set out to do an incredible feat, Jet Ski over Niagara Falls. We will never know if he might have managed this, as his rocket propelled parachute never opened, and he fell to his death. This photo is taken right beforehand.

A picture is worth a thousand words. That was certainly the case for the murder trial of Reynaldo Dagsa, who actually took this photo of his killer accidentally while his family posed for a new year’s shot. He was assassinated seconds later on New Year’s Day 2011, and this very photo was used to help convict the man who did it. Dagsa was just 35 years old when he was murdered, and this photo shows the wife, daughter, and mother he left behind.

Halloween is the spookiest of nights, but for one British student, it became a real horror story. Meredith Kercher is shown here enjoying a fancy dress party with her friends, but later that same night she was found dead in a scene which had been made to look like a horror movie. 24 year old Rudy Guede was proven to have sexually assaulted and murdered her, and many people agree that her roommate Amanda Knox was also involved in the heinous crime.

Joy Division had its own cult following during the 80’s, and Ian Curtis was the singer and songwriter for the band. Some of their songs included Love Will Tear Us Apart and Atmosphere. Ian clearly was wrestling with his own demons throughout his life, and the photo of him here with his daughter Natalie was taken just days before he ended his own life by suicide. He was just 23, and at the top of his career, a chilling reminder that anyone can be afraid to ask for help.

This image of a happy couple is tragic in how much it hid the truth and the sad end that was to become of Eva Rausing. Her husband, Hans Rausing was heir to the Tetra Pak fortune. They both had a severe drug addiction that was so bad that not only did Eva overdose, her husband hid the body by wrapping it in a bin bag and piling clothes on top of it. When she was discovered, he was found guilty of preventing the burial of a dead body.

Xavier Mertz was one of the original explorers on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition in the early 1900s. He had a glacier named after him as he sadly passed away whilst out on a mission. He and two fellow explorers were heading back to base camp when one fell through a snow shelf, taking with him a sled and a huge proportion of their rations. Whilst Mertz and Mawson, his remaining explorer initially survived, Mertz later passed away from a disease contracted from eating some of their remaining dogs’ livers.

The young lady that you see in this camera footage is a college student by the name of Elisa Lam. She disappeared back in 2013 and after some time her body was eventually found at the top of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles in a water tank. You can see here that she was hiding from someone and talking to herself, but the strange thing is that this last footage of her still cannot explain as to how she ended up in the water tank.