The Darker Side Of Life

Some of the darkest, creepiest, and saddest moments in people's lives.

By Mr_Incognito

Published 10 years ago in People & Lifestyle

A collection of some of the darkest, creepiest, and saddest moments in people's lives and their stories.

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In 1901, in France, a woman was found in weak health after having been confined in a room during 24 years by her mother. This is a picture of when they freed her.

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This photograph is of a woman moments before she hits the ground after jumping from the ledge of the Genesee Hotel in 1942.

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A post-mass-suicide photo from the Heaven's Gate group in 1997. They thought by committing mass suicide, they could get aboard an alien spaceship following the Hale-Bopp comet. They're all wearing the same thing, including a specific model of Nike athletic shoes.
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This picture shows a bunch of friends and I. Halfway through the night we decided to take a group picture. Let it be known that everyone at this party knew each others full names and it was at a low-key type place. Anyways, if you look closely, in the far right of the picture, shows a head peeping in. No one knows who this person is and no one can recall seeing him from the night before. We figured this out once it was uploaded to FB and got a better look at the picture. It still does give me the chills.

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A Muslim man begging for his life during the Gujarat, India riots on March 1, 2002.
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This is the photo of Travis Alexander right before Jodi Arias murdered him. She showed up, they fooled around, hopped in the shower where she took a bunch of photos of him. She snapped this photo and then killed him right after. It's unsettling to see someones last moment captured.
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On May Day, just after leaving her fiance, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. "He is much better off without me I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody." She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination, she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale's death, Wiles got this picture of death's violence and its composure. The serenity of McHale's body amidst the crumpled wreckage it caused is astounding.

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Omayra Sanchez Garzon was a Colombian girl killed in Armero, department of Tolima, by the 1985 eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, when she was 13 years old. Volcanic debris mixed with ice to form massive lahars, volcanically induced mudslides, landslides, and debris flows, that rushed into the river valleys below the mountain, killing nearly 25,000 people and destroying Armero and 13 other villages. After a lahar demolished her home, Sanchez became pinned beneath the debris of her house. She remained trapped in water for three days. Her plight was documented as she descended from calmness into agony. Her courage and dignity touched journalists and relief workers, who put great efforts into comforting her. After 55 hours of struggling, she died, likely as a result of either gangrene or hypothermia. Her death highlighted the failure of officials to respond promptly to the threat of the volcano, contrasted with the efforts of volunteer rescue workers to reach and treat trapped victims, despite a dearth of supplies and equipment.
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This photo of a starving child in Sudan, next to a vulture getting ready to eat him, earned the photographer a Pulitzer Prize. The photographer took his own life just 3 months later.
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R Budd Dwyer seconds before he shot himself on TV at a press conference. 1987

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A photographer in China in 2013 accidentally captured the moment of a person jumping from a bridge to his death.
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A girl who grew up in a concentration camp draws a picture of "Home" while living in a residence for disturbed children. Poland. 1948
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In 1989 at a Liverpool v. Nottingham Forest football game, there was an influx of Liverpool spectators due to traffic build-up. Thousands arrived late to the kick-off and began rushing into a small tunnel that led to the seating. Police organization played a crucial role in controlling the crowd. As people flooded the seating, they were unaware that there were already too many fans and pressure began building up, creating a crush in the front rows against a fence erected to keep fans off the pitch. It was virtually impossible to move or breath at one point, and 96 fans were killed by asphyxiation or being trampled, as well as an additional 700 plus injuries.

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Columbine High School class of 1999. Check the top left.
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The last known photo of Chris Benoit, taken on a cell phone by a fan at Dr. Phil Astin's office on June 22nd, 2007. It was later determined that his wife was already dead by the time this photo was taken.
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Two engineers died when the windmill they were working on caught fire. This happened on 29 of October in the Netherlands, "in Ooltgensplaat to be more precise". A crew of four was conducting routine maintenance to the 67 meter high turbine. They were in a gondola next to the turbine when a fire broke out. The fire quickly engulfed the only escape route the stairs in the shaft, trapping two of the maintenance crew on top of the turbine. One of them jumped down and was found in a field next to the turbine. The other victim was found by a special firefighter team that ascended the turbine when the fire died down a bit. The cause of the fire is unknown, but is believed to be a short circuit. Firefighters are fairly powerless to do anything to fight fires on wind turbines, and due to high costs maintenance crews have limited means and training to escape an emergency situation.

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After Hiroshima, there were shadow outlines of people who had been alive, but had died and disintegrated instantly in the blast.
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The "Elephants foot". This is a photograph of Chrenobyl's reactor after the meltdown. Many people died to get this picture taken. Today it lives on as a real life medusa having killed all who saw it in person.
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This photo of John Lennon giving Mark David Chapman an autograph as Lennon leaves his apartment. Hours later Chapman would shoot and kill Lennon as he returned to this same building, supposedly motivated by Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

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The toddler in the photo is James Bulger. He is being lead away from his mother by one of the two 10 year old boys who abducted and would later murder him. At the trial it was established that at this location, one of the boys threw blue Humbrol modelling paint, which they had shoplifted earlier, into Bulger's left eye. They kicked and stomped on him, and threw bricks and stones at him. Batteries were placed in Bulger's mouth. Police believed some batteries may have been inserted into his anus, although none were found there. Finally, a 22-pound, "10.0 kg" iron bar, described in court as a railway fishplate, was dropped on him. Bulger suffered ten skull fractures as a result of the iron bar striking his head. Dr. Alan Williams, the case's pathologist, stated that Bulger suffered so many injuries42 in totalthat none could be isolated as the fatal blow.
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This Polaroid photo found by a woman in a supermarket parking lot in 1989 is supposedly of Tara Calico, a girl who was kidnapped and never found.
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Hair standing on end is a tell tale sign of an electrical storm nearby. It was taken at Sequoia National Park in California during the summer of 1975. Both brother were struck by lighting. One of them suffered severe burns and committed suicide later.

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The red car beside them was a car bomb that went off shortly after this picture was taken. The photographer died but the main subjects of the photo survived. A total of 29 people died in the blast.
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The picture Tyler Hadley had his best friend take right after telling him that he killed his parents to have a party. Tyler's parents were dead in their bedroom while the party was going on.
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This picture of 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters was taken by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who toured the country in an 18-wheeler equipped with a torture chamber in the back. This photo was taken in an abandoned Illinois barn, where Rhoades killed Walters after cutting off her hair and making her wear a black dress and heels.

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As the Cooper's move into their new home in Texas, they take a photograph of the family sitting together, but as the photo is taken, a body falls from the ceiling. The OP said he wasnt sure if it was real, but he thought it was real creepy.
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Solway Firth Astronaut Jim Templeton was in a marsh taking photos of his young daughter and after getting them developed there appeared to have been a Spaceman in full astronaut gear standing behind her. Except there wasn't anyone else around while they were there. Even Kodak verified that it was not tampered with.
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This photo was taken by a Filipino politician, of his family, and, unbeknownst to him, his own assassin.