The scariest things aren’t always the ones that jump out at you. They don’t announce themselves with warning signs or eerie music in the background. Instead, they sit there, unnoticed, hiding in plain sight.

That’s what makes these photographs so chilling. At first, they look like any other picture—normal, unremarkable, even forgettable. But once you learn the truth behind them, they become something entirely different.

Scroll down to find out why—though you might end up wishing you hadn’t.

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#1

See this little girl scribbling on a chalkboard? Aaaw-

Actually, this is a c****************p survivor, when asked to draw “home”.

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#2

Raw footage from the 2004 tsunami is incredibly eerie. seeing people just watching as the tide comes in and having no idea what’s about to hit them… Really terrifying.

© Photo: anon

#3

This is one that always stuck with me, just the way you have this bustling city in one frame, and the same city scythed clean with nuclear fire in the next. It’s hard to imagine that level of devastation, a blast that burned civilians into the pavement and left shadows that would still be there decades later.

Hiroshima – Before And After Bombing

© Photo: Madrojian

#4

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 m****r him.

Here’s a paragraph from Wikipedia; 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 a**s, 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 injuries—42 in total—that none could be isolated as the fatal blow.

© Photo: Almost_a_TANK

#5

Here’s a shadow permanently cast of someone caused by the nuclear blast at Hiroshima.

© Photo: User

#6

This photo, taken at 7 PM, May 18th, 1980 in the forests of Washington state.

In the photo is David A. Johnston, star vulcanologist for the United States Geological Survey, camped at his trailer at his field post.

Less than 24 hours later, Johnston, the trailer, and everything else within ~30 miles would be obliterated by a lateral blast from Mount St. Helens’s eruption, making Johnston the first US Government Vulcanologist to be k****d in the line of duty.

His last words were a radio call to the USGS station in Vancouver WA, which you can find recordings of online:

“Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!”

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#7

The car in that picture contained a b**b that blew up just moments after this picture was taken. The people in the picture survived, but they guy who took it did not.

© Photo: Guinness2702

#8

Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers managed to document getting lost in the jungle in Panama. They kept going past the marked easy trail instead of turning around went down the other side of the mountain, they wound up lost with no real hiking/camping supplies in dense, sparsely populated wilderness. At least one of them survived for a week. That photo is one of the last touristy ones, but they’re probably already lost in it without realizing.

© Photo: User

#9

A charming photo of some women, mostly clerks and secretaries, eating bowls of blueberries while being entertained by a man on the accordion.

And a group of men drinking and laughing at a picnic table.

The kicker? All of these photos are of guards and staff at Auschwitz during their days off. The atrocities of the camp were taking place less than a mile away.

The entirety of the album is called [Laughing at Auschwitz]. If it weren’t for the photos of some of the men in uniform, you would think it was a f*****g summer camp.

© Photo: PyrrhuraMolinae

#10

Looks like an ordinary school photo. Top left are the kids who shot up the Columbine school (yes they’re pretending to “shoot” at the camera).

© Photo: Coltraine89

#11

A photo of a cute girl, right? this is Genie (not her real name, but that’s what she is called in the public sphere. real name was kept secret.) from the time she was an infant, around 20 months old, her father kept her in a single room, strapped down to a potty chair facing the wall. she had no human interaction beyond her parents until the age of 13, when she was rescued.

© Photo: User

#12

The my lai villagers picture. might not fit exactly since the picture shows the terrorized villagers right before they were gunned down, so not exactly seemingly normal. but, one often overlooked aspect is the young woman buttoning her shirt, which is interpreted as evidence that she was r***d right before the photo.

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#13

Moments before getting struck.

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#14

This home video of Jeffrey Dahmer, casually saying to his dad that he should eat at home more often. However, at the time this video was filmed, Jeffrey already k****d 7 men (and ate some of their body parts).

© Photo: Kimidei

#15

This picture of Elizabeth Smart (far left) taken while she being was held captive by her kidnapper (pictured far right).

Smart was missing for 9 months. the picture was taken some time in the middle of that period, at a party the kidnapper crashed with Smart. She was made to wear the veil in order to keep from being recognized in public.

© Photo: bflstar

#16

Chernobyl Elephant’s Foot, a formerly molten mass of corium from the reactor core meltdown. It still emits radiation today that can k**l you if you hang around it too long, but not as much as back in 1986. They had to use a set of mirrors in order to get photographs of the mass.

© Photo: Mushyshoes

#17

Demon Core. This is a recreation photo of an accident that occurred with the infamous “demon core”. Physicist Louis Slotin was conducting an experiment to verify the exact point at which a subcritical mass of fissile material could be made critical by the positioning of neutron reflectors. Basically, the two half spheres would be adjusted around the core and the core activity would be measured.

The risk was that if the spheres were allowed to close, the core would instantaneously form a critical mass. To keep them from closing, he pried the top core up with a screw driver. Unfortunately the screw driver slipped, a critical mass formed, and (near) instantly gave him a lethal dose of radiation. He shielded the other people in the room and was the only fatality.

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#18

A famous picture of John Lennon signing an autograph for Chapman just hours before the latter m******d the former.

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#19

2004 Tsunami nears John & Jackie Knill.
John and Jackie Knill were k****d in the 2004 Tsunami. Their bodies were never found but their passports and camera were discovered and returned to their children. There are more pictures that show that something terrible is about to occur. But this one is nearly tranquil.

EDIT: Their bodies apparently were found.

© Photo: CamaroNurse

#20

Not a photograph but the diagram of the cave diver who got stuck in Nutty Putty Cave and died.

And another picture of a cave diver maneuvering through a part of the same cave.

Edit: To make things worse. When they were trying to rescue him, they used a pully and had him mostly out of the part he was stuck in but the rope broke and he fell back in.

© Photo: StockAL3Xj

#21

The picture of John Wayne Gacy dressed as ‘Pogo the Clown’.

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#22

This is the last picture taken of thirteen-year-old Abby Williams. She was hiking in Delphi, Indiana in February 2017 with her friend Libby German, who took the picture. They were both m******d shortly after the photo was taken.

They still haven’t identified the k****r.

© Photo: User

#23

This is just a bunch of astronauts hanging out at the pool and generally being awesome, right? Nope. That’s the crew of Apollo 1. See the hatch on the capsule that opens inward? They died in that capsule, unable to escape the fire.

© Photo: M1ghtypen

#24

This is John du Pont and Dave Schultz.

John (The man on the bottom) hosted a massive wrestling team where all of the athletes lived on the grounds. Schultz was hired to coach the team.

As time went on John started to act stranger than normal (He was already very odd). He started to think his friend Schultz was spying on him. He believed that Schultz was hiding in his walls spying and plotting to k**l him. It seems to me like John was a paranoid schizophrenic.

Eventually John snapped. He drove up to Schultz’s home and shot him in front of his family. Schultz died moments later.

Edit: The documentary is called *Team Foxcatcher*.

© Photo: User

#25

Surprised this hasn’t been posted yet.

Basically Dean Corll and Elmer Wayne Henley k****d a bunch of people but were caught. This picture was found amongst Henley’s things of an unidentified boy that is a likely victim of Corll.

© Photo: derek_downey

#26

Serial k****r Rodney Alcala was on The Dating Game in between m*****s. So that in itself is creepy, seeing this serial k****r charm a young woman on national television. You have to think, “Is he imagining all the vile things he wants to do to her? Is he planning this woman’s m****r on camera right now?”

There’s a lot of seemingly normal innocent pictures relating to him as he was a photographer and loved taking photos of potential victims. Whether they can still be found on the internet I’m not entirely sure. He also took and kept earrings from the girls and women he tortured and k****d.

© Photo: Bleumoon_Selene

#27

K2 2008 disaster. It’s just a mountain picture, but with the annotations it reveals an eerie scene. K2 if I remember correctly is regarded as one of the most dangerous mountain in the world. 1 out of every 4 climbers who summit die on that mountain…..

If you are interested check out bbcs documentary here.

© Photo: Lord_vel

#28

Myra Hindley, on the Saddleworth moors with her dog, Poppet. She is looking down at the grave of John Kilbride, one of her’s, and Ian Brady’s, young victims.

Hindley and Brady used to take photos hinting to the gravesites of their child victims, and when their crimes came to light, these pictures were used to help find the bodies.

Also, a little more on the serial k****r theme – a home video taken of Jeffrey Dahmer during Thanksgiving Day 1990. Note the ‘I should really start eating at home more’. Yeah… he was already starting to cannibalise his victims at this point. Lionel Dahmer, his father (and the guy behind the camera), later said that in retrospect, his foot would j**k at every mention of his apartment, what he was doing in his spare time, or what he was eating. You can just make it out in the video.

Edit: A little more info on Dahmer’s situation at the moment this video was taken. He had already k****d 9 men and boys, the latest (David Thomas) was m******d three weeks before Thanksgiving. At this point he was still *relatively* restrained, k*****g every few months and choosing his victims carefully. By February 1991, he had amped up to a m****r a month. By the time he was arrested in July 1991, he had completely lost it; he was missing work, stopped showering and shaving (at times, his tub was filled with up to three bodies) and he was k*****g 2-3 times a week. During the last 6 weeks of his freedom, the only meat he was eating was human flesh.

© Photo: Miss_Musket

#29

This is the last existing photo of wrestler Chris Benoit. Just a few days after this photo was taken he m******d his wife and child. After this he commited s*****e.

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#30

The most sinister wink of all time.
Context: This photo was taken just after LBJ was sworn in on Air Force One, immediately following the m****r of JFK. In the foreground you’ll notice Jackie Kennedy visibly grieving the loss of her husband. LBJ turned towards his longtime friend, Texas congressman Albert Thomas, who gave him a surreptitious wink and a smile. White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, who took the photo, said it could have been “innocent or sinister, and I would have leaned towards the latter.” The man in charge of Air Force One at the time, General Godfrew McHugh later said LBJ’s behavior on the plane was “obscene.”

Edit: Took out a line about blood spatter on Jackie’s coat, since people seemed to be really concerned about it. Though there was blood on her coat at the time the photo was taken, it’s not in the frame.

© Photo: Deerhoof_Fan

#31

Rock climbers taking pictures accidentally captured woman stranded at bottom trying to survive. went through entire thread and didn’t find anyone post it, was really popular on reddit a while back.

© Photo: RickandMortyRules

#32

This picture was taken by a passenger of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 17th 2014. He posted this picture on his Facebook, saying; ‘if it goes missing, this is what it (the plane) looks like.’ Referring to another Malaysian Airlines plane (flight MH370) that went missing on March 8th 2014. Later that day the plane the man boarded was taken down by a missile fired by either Russia or Ukraine.

© Photo: Maddle_R

#33

This picture of Varg Vikernes has reached a sort of Internet meme status. The reason being it just looks like a picture of a happy smiling old man, but in reality Varg’s back story is that he is a musician who makes incredibly abrasive music, as well as a m******r who k****d another musician from Norway’s black metal scene ~~just because~~, and an arsonist who burned down churches in Norway ~~just because~~. This picture of him was taken in prison.

He was released in 2009 and continues making music.

EDIT: Okay so apparently Varg claims to have m******d Euronymous in self-defense, and he burned down the churches because he believes in neo-paganism.

© Photo: User

#34

Someone videotaped a guy playing Dance Dance Revolution. Six months later, he would shoot and k**l 27 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School back in 2012.

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#35

Burst of Joy.

POW returns home to his family, but his wife Dear John-ed him and his kids no longer respected him.

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