If you’re squeamish or get scared easily, this probably isn’t the gallery for you! There are a lot of darker parts of the world that we don’t see every day. From horrifying memories of the Holocaust to freaky ghost sightings, this will leave you wondering what else is out there…
Baby Gas Masks
Obviously, these aren’t quite made for babies, but they worked good enough. This was taken back in 1940 in an English hospital.
An Epidemic
The famous iron lungs from the polio epidemic. The worst of the illness was in the 1940s and 1950s.
Too Realistic Hornet’s Nest
Who would have thought that hornets were artists? This nest actually formed around a mask, which became the mold for the gigantic nest. Looks pretty terrifying!
Caught on Camera
The poster of this photo wrote, “Got a notification from my smart home app in the middle of the night saying ‘Your doorbell detected a visitor.’ Yes, this was real. Basically, I kept getting notifications on my app that my doorbell detected a visitor, yet when I checked the first few times nothing appeared and figured it was maybe a stray dog or someone on the sidewalk being detected by the sensor. Several notifications later I checked again and this is what appeared. Yes, I am alive.”
Caught on Camera Continued
These are the notifications from the Reddit users phone. In a horrifying twist, it seems that this creepy intruder visited six times over two nights…
They Had No Idea What Was To Come…
This is not normal during a storm. Michael and Sean Mcquilken were traveling up Moro Rock in Sequoia National Park in 1975. Their hair was standing up straight as a storm was coming in. Soon after, Sean was struck by lightning.
Eerie Last Photo
Jolee Callan was shot twice in the head by ex-boyfriend Loren Bunner hours after this photo was taken on the same hiking trail.
Final Moments
Regina Kay Walters, pictured, was murdered by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades moments after this photo was taken.
The Falling Man
This chilling photo was on the front of newspapers after the 9/11 attacks in NYC. Many people reported witnessing victims falling from the towers to escape the heat.
Doomed Himself
This was a space capsule doomed for disaster. Vladimir Komarov knew that it was faulty but still went in the capsule so that his friend, Yuri Gagarin, didn’t have to. When it malfunctioned and fell from orbit, he was heard on the radio, “cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship.”
Eerie Chernobyl Aftermath
The Elephant’s Foot is the name of the melted reactor core in Chernobyl. There are extremely high amounts of radiation. The grain in the photo is not from the camera but the actual radiation affecting it.
Losing It
The soldier in the photo is the true definition of shell-shocked. War is violent and scary, and many soldiers who made it out alive still felt like they were dead…
Nuclear Shadows
Shadow-imprints from the atomic bomb that the U.S. in Hiroshima. This was a common sight to see on many of the buildings that were still standing.
The Ruins of Dresden, Germany
Dresden, Germany after Allied bombings during WWII. It destroyed the entire city and killed many civilians.
Windmill Fire
A windmill caught fire with two workers on top of it. There was no way out for them.
The Jonestown Massacre
The photos and story of the Jonestown Massacre will forever live on through survivors stories and photos taken during that time. 909 members of Jim Jones cult orchestrated a mass suicide.
The Hillsborough Disaster
During the Hillsborough Disaster, 96 people were trampled to death due to stadium overcrowding. The stadium oversold the tickets, and due to the nature of sporting events, things got out of hand.
Notorious Photo
This notorious photo had won Pulitzer prizes, but that wasn’t without controversy. The boy in the photo was Kong Nyong. He survived after the photo was taken and recovered from the famine with no help of the photographer, Kevin Carter. Carter ended up committing suicide a few years after the photo was taken. Kong passed away in 2007 due to illness.
Victim of Spontaneous Human Combustion
Mary Reeser is one of the very few cases of spontaneous human combustion. Of course, there has never been a “confirmed” case of SHC since it’s so hard to prove… But, really, this is a close contender.
The Lost Hikers
Two girls disappeared during a hike in Panama. It was 10 weeks before their remains were found… But, it was just bone fragments and some equipment, including a camera with some images on it. There were a couple of images taken on the day they went missing, and then nothing for 10 days. Then, 90 more images were taken. They were mostly dark, maybe some branches in the shot… Then, you see a few photos of their hair and some blood. This is still a mystery.
The Odessa Catacombs
Many people don’t realize this, but there is an even larger network of catacombs in Ukraine. The Odessa Catacombs have a long history of death. The most famous instance was a young woman named Masha, who took a wrong turn in 2005 and got lost. Her body was retrieved two years later.
The Paris Catacombs
The Paris Catacombs are infamous. It’s a 2km network of tunnels with around 6 million actual skeletons. This was supposed to be a solution to overflowing cemeteries in the late 1700s.
Creepy Body Chute
The infamous Waverly Hills Sanatorium used to be a tuberculosis treatment center. It was in business in 1926 through 1961. This place was truly evil, and the poor patients inside were subject to dismal and depressing lives. The ones that perished were dragged through this chute to the crematorium in a separate building.
September 25, 1978
Just minutes before Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 crashed. It killed 144 passengers, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in California history.
The Ghost Ship
Seven years after the ship half-sunk, the captain was found inside of it.
Jack the Ripper’s Note
This letter is somewhat believed to be from the infamous Jack the Ripper. Others believe that it’s a hoax and was written by journalists to try and get more interest in the story, which would get more demand for their newspaper.
Old School Freckle Removal
This is obviously a procedure that isn’t quite common anymore. Doctors would ‘freeze’ freckles off of a patient using carbon dioxide.
The Bone House
The Church of Saint Michael in Austria has over 700 human skulls that were painted in the basement. It’s now known as the “House of Bones.”
What Bone Cancer Looks Like
This bone cancer patient succumbed to the disease and donated their body for scientific research. This is a real skull.
Don’t Worry, They’re Wax
At first glance, this is pretty creepy! These are actually wax figures from Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum that were salvaged from the 1925 fire.
The Tulip Staircase Ghost
Is this a real ghost sighting? This was taken in the Queen’s House section of the National Maritime Museum in England back in 1966. People believe this is a true sighting of one of the many ghosts that aunt the manor.
Holocaust Rings
Nazi’s would take the wedding rings of Jewish Holocaust victims to be salvaged.
With Her Kidnapper
For those unfamiliar with the case, Colleen Stan was kidnapped, held captive and tortured for seven years by Cameron Hooker. This photo was taken during her imprisonment in the late 70s. Looks like a case of Stockholm Syndrome.
His Last Photo
John Lennon is signing an autograph for a fan… Mark David Chapman. The murder happened later that evening.
Remembering the Fallen
Dublin’s famine of 1845 killed about one million peop0le. This statue is in place to remember the victims.
Space is Crazy
The Hourglass Nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
If you’re squeamish or get scared easily, this probably isn’t the gallery for you! There are a lot of darker parts of the world that we don’t see every day. From horrifying memories of the Holocaust to freaky ghost sightings, this will leave you wondering what else is out there…
Abandoned Chernobyl Gas Masks
Chernobyl was one of the most catastrophic events in recent history. These gas masks still remain on the floor of a school.
Martin Laurello is known as The Human Owl. Born in Nuremberg, Germany, he trained himself to turn his head 180 degrees. He was a popular sight to see at the circus.
Cannibals
Cannibalism was pretty common in the Volga region of Russia back in 1921. The winter was extremely harsh and the peasants needed to resort to cannibalism in order to survive. Some feasted on those who perished in the harsh cold, others resorted to killing for their food.
Gas Masks Are Mandatory Here
Even though this looks like a shot from My Chemical Romance’s “Welcome To The Black Parade” music video, it’s actually a real photo of a volcanic island in the Izu archipelago in the Phillippine Sea. Gas masks were a must!
Who Is That
Hunter’s use night cameras to track deer activity in certain areas. This hunter was not expecting to see a lonely little girl at 4 am…
Weird Will
Jeremy Bentham wanted to be taxidermied after he died. Apparently, a regular burial or cremation was just too ordinary. His head didn’t turn out right, so it was replaced with a wax replica while the real head sat in between his legs.
Is Anyone There?
A wedding photographer was testing his camera settings at an old farm and ended up capturing this image. The farmer claimed to have seen the child before when he was shown the photo…
You’ve Got An Audience
At a High School located in Pearl Harbor, a parent caught a photograph of what seems to be three sailors watching up in the stands. No one knows what caused this.
Churchgoers
A husband took a photo of his wife praying at their church. When they developed the photos, they noticed that she wasn’t alone…
Gotta Go!
These handprints are all the more terrifying when you learn that this window is on the third floor of a home…
Auschwitz Gas Chamber
This is the inside of one of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
An Abandoned Building
Although this was definitely written by someone who was just trying to be creepy, it’s still unsettling to see in an ancient old building…
Mental Hospital
Terrifying markings from inside of an abandoned insane asylum.
Malaysia Airlines MH17
This was a Facebook post written by a passenger right before he boarded Malaysia Airlines MH17. It reads “If it disappears, this is what it looks like.
The Munich Massacre
This photo captures a terrorist during the Munich Massacre in 1972. The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, in which the Palestinian terrorist group Black September took eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage and killed them along with a German police officer.
Are You Good
This image was captured by a concerned parent of her child on the baby monitor. The child is standing upright gazing eerily at something on the wall. I wouldn’t be too thrilled if this was my kid…
Before the Tooth Fairy
This creepy jaw photo is of a child before his baby teeth had fallen out. Hey, we all look like this at some point!
Abandoned Church
This image of an abandoned church is quite frightening. What on earth are those covered figures?
Scarecrow
This scarecrow is the stuff of horror films, and maybe it’s just us, but it looks like this one was actually made from a human body.