People Are Sharing Disturbing Photos That Look Normal Until You Find Out What’s Really Going On (30 Pics)
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Seemingly innocent photos might be far more disturbing than you realize. And it goes to show just how important context is and that we should never judge a book (well, in this case, a photo) by its cover. There are secrets hidden behind sweet smiles and plenty of skeletons in happy-looking people’s closets. And don’t forget that even villains laugh and have fun.
Redditor KermitTheFraud92 started up a fascinating thread on r/AskReddit about the hidden sides of ‘normal’ photos. They asked people to share images that have incredibly disturbing backstories, and these are so vividly dark, they might keep you up at night.
Before you start scrolling down and upvoting the stories that drew you in the most, a small note of warning: make sure there’s plenty of light and people around you. We wouldn’t want to spook you too much, dear Pandas. I had a chat with the author of the thread, redditor KermitTheFraud92 from Australia. Be sure to read on for Bored Panda's full interview with them below.
A small note of warning: some of these stories might be too much for some of you Pandas. Read at your own risk.
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This Photo May Not Look Like Much At First
Now, have a look at the guy in the background, top left. Have a look what's in the background, top right.
That's the Tank Man from the Tiananmen Square massacre. Thought to be student Wang Weilin, this photo was snapped minutes before the famous one was taken.
Nobody knows what happened to Weilin. He may have been executed, he may still be in prison, he may have fled to another country.
Camp Staff Taking A Day Off
These photos of Auschwitz staff enjoying pleasant days off always stick with me. They look like camp counselors, but their job is killing people in horrible ways, and they enjoyed it. Most probably took lives not shortly before or after the photos were taken.
Totally reminds me of isreali soldiers as they celebrate murdering and maiming innocent Palestinian kids and civilians. Just shows that some people are truly evil.
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I'd be interested to see how many of the people calling these people monsters would have managed to go against the flow in Nazi Germany. The chilling thing about these photos is that people who do terrible things might be just like you or I. These things start slowly: how many countries today have detention centers for people who have committed no crime?
Tom-the overwhelming majority of camp staff and the SS were volunteers. They read what Hitler wrote, heard what he said and decided that they wanted that more than anything else. There were also camp guards who were removed from their posts because they refused to be monsters. These people in the photo were smiling because they enjoyed their work.
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Read this BBC article (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55661782) for a bit more insight into female SS prison guards - many were never charged or convicted for the role they played. Also, years after the war many claimed they were forced into it by the Nazis when in fact it most roles were voluntary positions and they clearly enjoyed what they did. Sickening
Yes agreed. Most were initially seduced by getting to join the "elite" SS and better pay and conditions than some dreary factory-plus all the handsome soldiers. However once at the camps they quickly descended in to brutality, cruelty, sadism and murder. There are one or two exceptions but regrettably most of them enjoyed it. Simon Wiesenthal was scathing but dismissive of them saying "Germany is full of people like this" he wasn't excusing them by any stretch, merely pointing out there were so many that prosecution was impractical. He preferred to chase down the senior Nazis instead.
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Ah…. so good looking people can’t be monsters. If you say so.
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"Das weiße Band" or "The white ribbon" shows how life was for people and especially children shortly before WWI. It explains a bit how it could come to everything that happened since then. The children of that time would then become the Nazis. It is no excuse of course, but it gives insight in my opinion. And it shows how damaging mistreating children can be for them.
This is just terrible. You'd think they would look bitter and worn at least, not smiley and round-faced.
But they enjoyed their job. They were doing what they wanyed to do - getting rid of jews. This was their holiday from that. Remember, these weren't normal people who would balk at the idea of putting innocent people in to gas chambers. These people were evil.
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Exactly this. But the whole world, atleast those in power, turn a blind eye.
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Who said they enjoyed it? They were brainwashed to believe it was what had to be done. It was their normal. In order to do this, they had to put on scary mental masks because the alternative was scrutiny of the people they loved. Don't ever think that in the right (wrong) dynamic you can be that person doing horrible things. If you think you are better, think again.
This is a valid point. My husband when he was a young man, worked at a factory where there was a man who simply served in the German army during WWII. He wasn't in the SS, but he hated Jews. He was raised to believe they were "rats". My husband was, of course, taken aback, and asked why he thought that. The man was startled that my husband didn't think the same thing, as if that was the norm.
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Humans can justify almost anything once convinced it isn't their responsibility. But seriously, f**k these people.
You wonder how you can be someone like this. It boggles the mind but doctors say it's easy to warp someone's mind and anybody could become this kind of terrible. I still can't fathom it not even a tiny bit.
There's a really good book by Scott Peck called People of the Lie that explains the psychology of evil and how normal people can end up doing this kind of things. It really helps to understand these processes.
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Polish soldier and spy, Jan Karski, informed Great Britain and America about the extermination of Jews in death camps already in 1942. The West remained indifferent. So when the Red Army freed the camps, they didn’t “discover” them. America, Great Britain, France, the governments knew.
What’s your point? Do you think that the Allies could drop what they were doing and make the concentration camps a priority, because they whole world knows that was what they were doing , sitting on their asses twiddling their thumbs.
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I always find it strange and rather chilling how true horror hides it's face. No one could conceive what this happy bunch would turn their hand to in morning
How could you laugh at such a place? That is just monstrous considering the how horrible the sites, sounds, and smells of torture and death must have been just a short distance away. In picture I count 9 women and 4 men. The Nazi's really made everyone participate in those atrocities.
Another book/ movie you might find interesting: "The wave". It is about an experimental social movement created by California high school history teacher in 1967. Look it up for more detail if you want. Short version: he did things in a small scale akin to Hitler and the Nazis and his students actually followed him! - read it or watch it and maybe you'll understand how this can/ could happen anywhere!
Actually, the camps had huge recruiting problems. They even went recruiting in jails, only to find that the inmates rarely accepted swapping prison time for work in the camps, whose reputation was beginning to leak.
Read the book “Into That Darkness” by Gitta Sereny. It’s about Franz Stangl, who was the only man to be in command of 2 death camps, Sobibor and Auschwitz. He was captured in Brazil and imprisoned in Spandau. She was able to interview him extensively. Fascinating and horrifying.
Not all the individuals "working" had a choice, read the Tattooist of Auschwitz. Many of the women also suffered horrific sexual abuse at the hands of their comrades. But yes some also did just purely enjoy it, sickos.
”Wohoo! Saturday night of after hard week at work. Let’s have some fun before going back to work tomorrow” They look like any young person in their twenties. That’s what makes this the most harrowing images of the holocaust.
If I had been forced to work there, although I know these evil bastards weren't, I'd be drunk all the time.
I've read tens of books related to WWII & concentration camps and knowing these topics quite well I think this photo... still very disturbing, to say it "softly"...
Makes me so sick and disgusted. I wish I could knock those nasty smiles right off their faces. I hope every one of them got what they truly deserved and are rotting in hell.
I didn't even need to read the explanation for this one, I've seen it a load of times before on documentaries about WWII, plus the SS uniform is always recognisable. But, even though I have seen it a lot that doesn't mean it's any less disturbing! And it shouldn't be, it should ALWAYS chill us to the bone! No, my favourite bit of footage from the camps is when they are being liberated and the tables get turned on the guards! That's bad, feeling like that and saying that, I know, but I do! It's those bloody female guards that bother me the most 🤬
Thankfully those days are long gone and will never be repeated. At least by Germans. My brother in law is German and he and every other German that I have met are so incredibly ashamed by this part of their past. They HATE it. In Germany ANY kind of Nazism is punished heavily. Even giving the Nazi salute leads to a prison sentence. They even read Ann Frank's diary in schools as a way to teach children how terrible it was and to a German a Nazi is considered racist and a terrible insult.
And remember, most Nazis got away with it. Very few were actually punished.
On the contrary - most did not take their lives. Plenty faced no punishment at all.
Those terrible deeds must've stuck in their heads for all eternity. I hope it ruined their lives.......
Rudolph Höss at the centre of photo. Watch "Zone of Interest" for more info.
At least the Germans knew what they were doing was wrong, why they tried to destroy the concentration camps and hide the bodies as the war was ending. Hamas was proud of their atrocities, filming, broadcasting and boasting!
I once read that the women guards were the worst because the male SS had guns to kill .the female guards only had truncheons so for them to kill they had to get much more close and personal.
They remind me of israeli settlers and soliders, they behave exactly the same way
Im so so sorry for that, but all of you need to understand and thinks wise about this earth and you want it to continue, how you want it to be for your children. Do you want it to be all radical muslim? where your wives would were those ridiculous Hijabs that hide beautiful faces and doesn't give them any rights? Do you want your gay friends or children to hide, not being able to show their love? many people of Gaza moved to Tel Aviv only because they were gays and their families would have killed them immediately. But we won't ever do that. Our women are strong and having rights! You have to fight for what you want and for love, and for freedom and for good! If you won't help us and fight with us today, your cities/ countries are going to be the next ones. Radical muslins says that all citizens on earth should be muslim. Look at England, they already lost control. Don't wait for a disaster like we had. These are not humans you are dealing with, but monsters like old nazis
At first I was afraid to read the comments. I was afraid im gonna get hurt, pissed and frustrated. But I can see here more great smart people than I thought, so Thank you for that! Israeli soldiers die everyday to protect us. We are not bad and we will never try to kill on purpose,. If it wasn't for what happened on October we would never ever do that! But Hamas isn't good for them either. Citizens in Gaza also suffer like us, they want to be free of them, they want their money that Hamas took. They want to live and be happy and in peace. Don't blame all the people in Israel just because All! governments in the world are evil, corrupted and having their own interests. While most of us in Israel hate that psychopath Bibi, we are held captivated by him, we are willing to have peace but not a one with monsters who also btw, kill their own citizens. In October not only Jews were killed but also Arabs who lived in Gaza and moved to Israel because they know it's better.
this fills me with so much anger, it makes me ill.....how does this happen to people? are we so removed from our souls that we can do these horrendous acts of , of, oh God, there are no words. THEN LAUGH
War works by dehumanising your enemy. It’s terrible what happened in Auschwitz as Germany dehumanised the Jewish people. Unfortunately it can be seen in the world right at this minute.
It's important to remember that the death camps were never actually about logistics or efficiency. The goal was genocide and the death camps were a very long-winded and convoluted way of doing it. They went with the death camps so that the majority of the killing of innocent non-combatants could be allocated to a trusted few. A few that didn't mind doing it. A lot of the regular German military didn't like the holocaust. Lots did defect, freed Jews, avoided the executions, hid away, made excuses, some even organized mutinies. The Nazi war machine was very well run though unfortunately. When it comes to regular Joes the Japanese and Russians were a hell of a lot worse. Russian doctrine on capturing a village was that every female between 7 and 70 needs to be raped, doesn't matter who does it, but they all need to be raped. Just because.
It is frightening what atrocities seemingly normal people will commit. Look at those around you. What kind of monsters could they turn into given the right circumstances?
not all enjoyed and they were forced they would have been killed as well but what the one who willing did need to burn in hell
Those were the days, my friend, We thought they'd never end ... ( Actually, Nazis greet red army with traditional Russian drinking songs. )
How do you upvote a picture like this when you know who the monsters are?
An they never for even a moment thought they were doing something very wrong?
The title refers to pictures that look normal until.... Pictures with nazis in them, even one in them are not normal. Please don't put something like this picture in a thread that talks about pictures that look normal. This is a picture of pure evil.
"Everyone did it because they had to". Yeah, right, cause Hitler had super powers. So even if all million people said "NO" he would have killed them. 🙄
How can so many evil humans exist together I thought opposites attract may be if this were true more people would have survived these Nazi bastards
I can imagine that everyone was scared. I believe very few people had fun killing people. But at that time every German only had the choice of either being on the side of the Nazis - or automatically becoming an enemy. I think they only laugh for the photo so no one can see that they are actually just afraid of ending up on the other side. But of course that doesn't change anything about their cruel deeds. Nevertheless, they took the blame on themselves.
I didn't realise there were that many women "working" there. You hear a lot about the trials of the men afterwards, but I have never heard of women being prosecuted.
Please provide citation for this image and the information attached.
I hope they one day realised their crimes and that shame filled their hearts and they tried to atone.
I didn't know they had women on staff at those "camps". Don't think that was mentioned in the history classes I took.
The world was in a war, all of these people had also suffered and lost their own loved ones, working on Auschwitz might have been the only way for them or their families to keep their own life. Also they were raised in certain propaganda for all of their lives. In a way they were victims too, most of them probably traumatised for life.
Not saying that what they did was right, they took a part in a horrible crime. But also they were only children of their times, with a narrow selection of choises.
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There were lots of women working at auschwitz. Some of them were the most evil of the Nazis and the SS.
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I see a bunch of german soldiers and friends having fun, but were they really from Auschwitz camp ??
To be clear, this is taken on vacation, and no matter what a person does for a living, they are likely to try to enjoy their days off. In addition, they were having a picture taken and who hasn't put on a "smile" for the camera? It is unrealistic to believe they, while on vacation, knowingly having their picture taken as a group, would be frowning or showing any sense of displeasure. It is not much of a vacation if on your day off, you are thinking of the work you do. Not excusing the people who worked at Auschwitz, just stating it is unreasonable to expect to see doom and gloom in their faces in this picture.
?? How so? I'm conservative and a lovely person. Explain yourself to me.
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Why? So people won't feel "uncomfortable"? We should never forget.
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Jewish Children Holding Hands As They Unknowingly Walk To Their Deaths In The Gas Chambers At Auschwitz
Redditor KermitTheFraud92 was very open that they "can't really take credit" for the question that they posted on r/AskReddit. They were inspired by other similar questions, asked by other site users before. "I have seen similar questions posted on the sub in the past and they have always gained good results. It’s always interesting to ask it again every couple of years because you may get different results and even new ones," they told Bored Panda.
In the redditor's opinion, the thread appealed to people because of how interesting the topic was. "I'm pretty overwhelmed by the responses and am still yet to get through them all myself," they said that they got lots of feedback from other redditors.
This Is A Pic Of The 1970's-Era Gameshow, The Dating Game
The circled man is serial killer Rodney Alcala. By the time of that appearance on the show, he had raped several women and murdered at least one.
He won the game, but the woman never went on the date with him. You can imagine how relieved she is.
Yeah I remember the woman stating in an interview how she felt uncomfortable with him and there's just something about him that's off. Made me realize how I should always listen to my gut feeling.
This Photo Always Gets To Me Somehow
Just a couple of astronauts posing in zero gravity happy to have such an incredible opportunity, like astronauts often do. Meanwhile they have no idea that their space shuttle is irreparably damaged, and in fact will be dead in a few days during reentry (which was considered “safe” until then).
It’s the crew for Columbia for those who don’t know, whose tiles were damaged during the launch of the shuttle into space by foam. No one knew how bad the damage was until it disintegrated.
Father And Daughter In Omagh, Northern Ireland
This happy photo of the father and daughter was taken moments before the Omagh car bombing in 1998.
The bomb placed by a group known as the Real IRA was in this red car and killed 29 people, including the photographer who took this photo. Both the father and daughter survived.
We watched the movie about Omagh in high school. I excused myself to puke ten minutes in. So brutal.
In KermitTheFraud92's opinion, we "definitely" can't determine what a person's truly like, based on their photos alone. A photo "may give you hints and whatnot, but you can never truly tell what a person is like just from a photo." The redditor pointed out that the truth can be incredibly disturbing when you learn it: "Some of those photos show people smiling at the camera when they just murdered a loved one a few minutes ago."
Redditor Kermit’s thread went viral almost immediately. The question got more than 57.2k upvotes and got so many awards, it was declared to be a ‘Top Awarded’ post. The thread had nearly 17k comments at the time of writing. And it’s no surprise because the topic is absolutely fascinating. It draws you in and doesn’t want to let you go. Just like the abyss.
This Photo Creeps Me Out
John Lennon signed an autograph for his killer, Mark Chapman, just a few hours before the murder and then asked him "Is that all?". Chapman even had a gun on him at the time.
To think that just one single idiot is enough to eliminate the creative power even of the most prolific genius...scary world.
The Hartley Violin
This is the Hartley Violin, owned by Wallace Hartley, the bandmaster and lead violinist on the Titanic. It was the one he carried with him and played on the night the ship sank. Survivors reported seeing Hartley and his band on the deck of the ship during the sinking, playing to calm passengers as they boarded the insufficient lifeboats. Hartley and every member of the band died in the sinking. We have his violin because at some unknown point before his death, Hartley tucked the violin back into its monogrammed case for safekeeping. That's how it was found, floating in the debris field, by one of the ships sent to recover bodies from the wreck. They were able to identify it as Hartley's because of an engraved brass plate, and it was returned to his fiancé, who kept it until her death. Her family authenticated it and sold it for $1.6M to an organization that collects Titanic artifacts."
Genie Standing For A Photo
Genie was a 'feral' child. She was tied to a chair in a room her whole childhood and punished when she made noise.
She was found, rescued, and they tried to teach her to speak, and she actually managed to learn to communicate a bit. By all we know now, she was curious, intelligent, and eager to learn. Her brain had just literally missed the window to learn language.
As far as we know, she's been in an assisted living facility somewhere.
Kermit’s thread touches upon the dark side of humanity and proves that we wouldn’t always be able to recognize complete monsters. Because they look and act just like us. Because they seem completely normal. And it’s only after you learn that you’re looking at photos of killers and kidnappers that you begin to search for any indication that beneath those innocent exteriors and friendly facades lie hearts and souls filled with malice and pure evil.
Despite the fact that some psychopaths blend into society like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, there are some subtle signs that you should keep an eye for. Keep in mind though that not everyone who’s evil is a psychopath and not every psychopath is necessarily evil. However, psychopaths do veer towards manipulating and hurting others, lacking empathy for their fellow human beings.
American Physicist Harold Agnew
This is physicist Harold Agnew holding the nuclear core of the Fat Man atomic bomb, which was dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.
The bomb ended up killing about 80,000 people, many of whom died from the long-term effects the bomb caused, like radiation illness and leukemia.
So, interesting how these reactions (edit: how the first reactions were) are so different from the Auswitz photo of the camp leaders having a day of
Franklin Delano Floyd And Suzanne Marie Sevakis
This is the leading image on Franklin Delano Floyd. In actuality, the little girl is Floyd's stepdaughter, Suzanne Marie Sevakis, who he'd kidnapped around 1974, when Suzanne was under 10 years old.
He would go on to raise her as his daughter, putting her through high school under several pseudonyms, have a son with her in 1988, and marry her in 1989, under the name Tonya Hughes.
By 1990, Suzanne had decided to leave Floyd and take her son, Michael, with her. In April of that year, she was found beaten and bruised on the side of a highway, and she subsequently died in the hospital. Michael went into foster care and was adopted, only to be kidnapped by Floyd in 1994 and to never be seen again.
If You're British, And Of A Certain Age, You'll Probably Be As Haunted By This Grainy Image As I Am
I still distinctly remember the first time I saw it. At the time, James Bulger was only missing, and it was regarded as a cause for optimism that he was last seen with other children. The truth was far worse than anyone imagined, and still inspires a visceral reaction unlike any other crime in my lifetime.
I'm not British but I think I know the story behind this and if it's what I think it is then...
Healthline points out that psychopaths are often deceitful, reckless, and take part in risky behavior. They’re also socially irresponsible, tend to completely disregard the rights and opinions of others, and have a very difficult time distinguishing between what’s right and what’s wrong. In other words, their metaphorical moral compass is either dysfunctional (i.e. they’re acting immorally because they choose to do the wrong thing) or non-existent (they’re being amoral and can’t tell between good and evil).
What’s more, psychopaths also rarely show empathy or remorse for their actions, lie often, manipulate and hurt others, and generally disregard responsibility and safety. As a result, they can often have continuous problems with the law. However, you wouldn’t be able to tell these things just from a picture. Evil smiles, too.
American Volcanologist David A. Johnston
13 hours after the photograph was taken, on May 18, 1980, the volcano erupted and killed 57 people including the volcanologist.
This Photo Of Howard Ashman And Alan Menken, Who Wrote The Lyrics And Music Respectively For The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast And Aladdin. In This Photo They Had Just Won Oscars For The Little Mermaid
That night Ashman told Menken they needed to have a serious talk when they got back to New York, and when they got back a couple days later, Ashman told Menken he had AIDS and was going to die. They had been songwriting partners for over a decade and were in the middle of working on Beauty and the Beast.
So it looks like a happy photo of two men achieving their wildest dream, but it's really a record of the last normal moment they had together. And while Menken is all smiles, if you look closely at Ashman you can tell something's wrong.
His music will live on forever. I’m glad they were honoured before he died.
John Edward Robinson And His Family
This is serial killer John Edward Robinson (yellow sweater) holding baby Tiffany Stasi, whose mother he murdered the day before.
He later gave baby Tiffany to his brother, saying she was adopted. His brother, along with Tiffany, didn’t find out the truth for 15 years.
Only eight of his victims have been identified, and he's been on death row since 2000.
The Final Picture Of The Webster Sisters And Their Friend
Taking a selfie, they all look so carefree and then you see the bright light behind them and just want to yell at them to get out of the way of the train
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
This picture was taken of a group of survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash in the Andes. They were eventually saved but had to resort to cannibalism to survive. They are all smiling in the photo, but it becomes eerie when you see the human spine to the right of them in the picture.
Polish Constitution Day Celebration In Chicago
This is a picture of First Lady Rosalynn Carter in 1978 shaking hands with serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was active in politics at the time. By that time, he had already killed over 20 young men. He's wearing an "S" on his lapel, which was given to him by the Secret Service to indicate that he'd been given security clearance. The picture was even signed, "To John Gacy, best wishes, Rosalynn Carter."
JP Morgan And Lya Graf
This photo of JP Morgan and Lya Graf, a performer for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, caused her to become an overnight sensation, but she couldn't deal with all the attention. So she moved back home to Germany, where she was later arrested and sent to Auschwitz for being Jewish and she was deemed an unfit human.
Not much is known about her, but it's assumed that she and her family did not survive.
Two Trails In The Snow. Only One Is Leading Back To Life
This is the photo Kurt Diemberger took after his companion, the illustrious alpinist Hermann Buhl, fell into the abyss on the Himalayan mountain Chogolisa. Buhl was walking behind Diemberger and momentarily left the trail after which he fell through an overhanging cornice. He remains in the ice.
Roughly 1 in 6 people going up Everest die on the mountain. An excellent example of how all this happens is Jon Krakauer's book "In to thin air" detailing an expedition that killed multiple climbers in just 24 hours. Its a very good book.
A Still Photo From A Video
A man who swam to his girlfriend in their underwater hotel room while on vacation in Tanzania, and proposed to her with a note and a ring. He died before he could resurface from the water.
La Mataviejitas, Juana Barraza
Here is Juana Barraza, former Luchadora and Mexican serial killer. Her mother sold her to a man for three beers when she was 12 until her stepdad found her at 17. Ended up with four failed marriages and four kids and worked doing odd jobs as a cleaner. She strangled old ladies that reminded her of her mother by pretending to work for the government.
Is it weird that I understand her motives? No way does it mean she was right to kill other people, but makes me think of all the horrible things she had suffered that made her mind break. EDIT: corrected my mistake about which gender the killer was. Should read more carefully next time. The point remains the same though.
Photo Of Serial Killer Christopher Wilder Lurking In The Background During A Seventeen Magazine Fashion Show At The Meadows Mall In Las Vegas On April 1, 1984
Wilder would kidnap and kill 17-year-old Michelle Korfman after meeting her at this fashion show (Standing in the foreground)
Missing Big Island Hiker
A kid went missing while hiking a spot on the Big Island of Hawaii. He texted some pictures of the scenery while he was hiking. After he never showed up at home, his family noticed somebody lurking in bushes in the photos he sent. [If I remember correctly], my family that live in Hawaii said the spot is illegal to hike at, so it’s not like it would have been a heavily populated trail.
Tyler Hadley's Florida House Party
This is a photo of Tyler Hadley, the one holding a cup, at a party at his house.
Just before this party, he murdered his mother and father with a hammer and hid their bodies in the master bedroom.
During the party, Tyler showed his best friend, Michael Mandell, the room where he killed his parents, and he took this photo because he wasn't sure when he'd see Tyler again.
In The "Old Days" It Used To Be Common To Take Pictures With Dead Relatives. The Woman In The Middle Is Already Dead
Thats why she is the only one who is not blurry I guess...she didnt move...
The Menendez Brothers Appeared In The Background Of A Basketball Card With The Photo For The Card Being Taken After They Had Killed Their Parents
Two Guys Going For A Coffe At A Gas Station
That's Salah Abdeslam and his driver on their way back to Belgium. The night before he ordered the 2015 paris attack that killed 131 people
This Photo Of Travis Alexander By Jodi Arias... Moments Before She Killed Him. It's Haunting To Me
The Whitakers At A Graduation Dinner
The kid on the right, Bart Whitaker, had paid two of his buddies to murder his family that night. They would kill the mother and brother, but the father, who took the photo, survived.
Bart was later sentenced to death, but after his father strongly opposed it, Texas Governor Greg Abbott granted him clemency, and he is now serving a life sentence.
Note: this post originally had 33 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
These were very interesting but there wasn't a whole lot of info about the circumstances...If you didn't already know the stories, you might not know the significance of the photos...
The post on Reddit has more info for many of these: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oesza5/serious_what_is_a_seemingly_normal_photo_that_has/
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Since I don't go on Reddit, I don't mind these posts. This one was very interesting.
Precious historical evidences, but I feel so bad upvoting some of these, even if to honor the innocents (depicted or not) - the sheer malignancy of the circumstances is just so dark…
I can't stand anything related to killing and torture, especially children and animals. I wish there was a warning. Those little children, I can't stand internet sometimes, I feel like I have seen too much evil.
There is a warning - Read at your own risk! If you're easy to get triggered why click on a post with the word disturbing in the headline?
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I get what you mean- I read the whole reddit thread the other night. Nightmare material. The one that haunted me was one where a nightclub caught fire- the OP posted a link to the video and you could hear the screams- I turned it off straight away but the screams got to me. I am one of those peopleswho can't stop themselves from looking at the link knowing that I will regret it.
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I looked the james bulgar case up cause i hadnt hearf about that and i highly regret it
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This is Katherine May Knight and her partner John Price.She was a highly skilled meatworker who killed and skinned John putting his skin on display on a meat hook.Police found his head cooking on a stove and steaks made from his buttocks roasted in the oven with vegetables, planned to be served to his children.
You can read all about it in the book Beyond Bad: The Life and Crimes of Katherine Knight, Australia's Hannibal.It's a fantastic read! 25305656-0...b601e7.jpg 
Some of these I already knew. But these articles are always interesting despite being disturbing
If you want some examples of the intellectual sidestep you must make to believe there is an all loving, and omnipresent god in charge of everything, then this list provides 33 of them. And this is a VERY short list.
Religious justification is always the same BS. "God gave us free will, this is all our fault"
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A significant botch by BP editors: these are not disturbing photos. They are perfectly ordinary photos with disturbing backstories.
i can tell i'm depressed and medicated, i don't get the visceral reaction to any of these that many people seem to. cerebrally, i can appreciate that this person was awful, that person was evil, but my only real reaction to these was "huh, that's interesting".
The title of this article should be more like "If You Aren't Depressed Enough About Humanity on Your Day Off, Just Read This."
I'd like bored panda to include citations for the information they share on these posts.
Amy and Guinny, speak for yourselves... Some of us don't follow Reddit or Buzzfeed and we find these topics interesting... If it is redundant for you, move on... noone will mind...
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Maybe if you actually *read* the article, you could understand how iconic they really are.
Load More Replies... These were very interesting but there wasn't a whole lot of info about the circumstances...If you didn't already know the stories, you might not know the significance of the photos...
The post on Reddit has more info for many of these: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oesza5/serious_what_is_a_seemingly_normal_photo_that_has/
Load More Replies... Since I don't go on Reddit, I don't mind these posts. This one was very interesting.
Precious historical evidences, but I feel so bad upvoting some of these, even if to honor the innocents (depicted or not) - the sheer malignancy of the circumstances is just so dark…
I can't stand anything related to killing and torture, especially children and animals. I wish there was a warning. Those little children, I can't stand internet sometimes, I feel like I have seen too much evil.
There is a warning - Read at your own risk! If you're easy to get triggered why click on a post with the word disturbing in the headline?
Load More Replies... I get what you mean- I read the whole reddit thread the other night. Nightmare material. The one that haunted me was one where a nightclub caught fire- the OP posted a link to the video and you could hear the screams- I turned it off straight away but the screams got to me. I am one of those peopleswho can't stop themselves from looking at the link knowing that I will regret it.
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Load More Replies... The pictures of murderers perfectly illustrate the banality of evil.
I looked the james bulgar case up cause i hadnt hearf about that and i highly regret it
Load More Replies... This is Katherine May Knight and her partner John Price.She was a highly skilled meatworker who killed and skinned John putting his skin on display on a meat hook.Police found his head cooking on a stove and steaks made from his buttocks roasted in the oven with vegetables, planned to be served to his children.
You can read all about it in the book Beyond Bad: The Life and Crimes of Katherine Knight, Australia's Hannibal.It's a fantastic read! 25305656-0...b601e7.jpg
Some of these I already knew. But these articles are always interesting despite being disturbing
If you want some examples of the intellectual sidestep you must make to believe there is an all loving, and omnipresent god in charge of everything, then this list provides 33 of them. And this is a VERY short list.
Religious justification is always the same BS. "God gave us free will, this is all our fault"
Load More Replies... A significant botch by BP editors: these are not disturbing photos. They are perfectly ordinary photos with disturbing backstories.
i can tell i'm depressed and medicated, i don't get the visceral reaction to any of these that many people seem to. cerebrally, i can appreciate that this person was awful, that person was evil, but my only real reaction to these was "huh, that's interesting".
The title of this article should be more like "If You Aren't Depressed Enough About Humanity on Your Day Off, Just Read This."
I'd like bored panda to include citations for the information they share on these posts.
Amy and Guinny, speak for yourselves... Some of us don't follow Reddit or Buzzfeed and we find these topics interesting... If it is redundant for you, move on... noone will mind...
Load More Replies... Maybe if you actually *read* the article, you could understand how iconic they really are.
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