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Pictures don’t only speak a thousand words; they also elicit strong emotions. They can move you to tears, bring an ear-to-ear grin on your face, or send frightening chills down your spine.
These images are about the latter. Seeing them at first glance likely won’t induce the instant creeps, but reading about their backstories may do that. Some were taken moments before disaster, while others were just downright disturbing.
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#1
A group of thirteen years old girls went camping in America in July 1945. They swam at a river in Ruidoso, New Mexico. The girl in front of the picture is called Barbara Kent. What the girls did not know is that nearby, the Manhattan Project detonated a nuclear bomb as a test…
In an article, Kent described what happened that day:
“We were all just shocked … and then, all of a sudden, there was this big cloud overhead, and lights in the sky,” Kent recalls. “It even hurt our eyes when we looked up. The whole sky turned strange. It was as if the sun came out tremendous.” A few hours later, she says, white flakes began to fall from above. Excited, the girls put on their bathing suits and, amid the flurries, began playing in the river. “We were grabbing all of this white, which we thought was snow, and we were putting it all over our faces,” Kent says. “But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot. And we all thought, ‘Well, the reason it’s hot is because it’s summer.’ We were just 13 years old.”[1]
The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot steel tower 40 miles away at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, in Jornada del Muerto valley. The site had been selected in part for its supposed isolation. In reality, thousands of people were within a 40-mile radius, some as close as 12 miles away. Yet those living near the bomb site weren't warned of the test. Nor were they evacuated beforehand or afterward, even as radioactive fallout continued to drop for days…
Barbara Kent and all her friends developed cancer. Every single one of the girls you see in that photo, died before the age of thirty. The only one who lived longer was Kent. And she, too, developed and survived several bouts of cancer. People often forget of the heavy price paid not only by those the atomic bombs were dropped on in Japan, but even by those who lived nearby as they were first developed.
Rachel Pelz 8 months ago
...or those whose homes were permanently contiminated, like the former inhabitant of the Bikini atoll, Muroroa and other place in the Pacific Ocean.
dollh h 8 months ago (edited)
The homes in New Mexico were and are permanently contaminated as well. Also in Utah, Nevada and a few other places.
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Kiki Likes Sweets 8 months ago
When the british tested nuclear weapons at Maralinga in Australia, there is the likelihood that some indigenous Australians saw mushroom clouds before they'd even seen white people.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
There was a tv series I watched recently called Last Days oof the Space Age and they talked about that. Despite being an Australian I had never heard about this! Our history education is pretty lacking, especially when it comes to Aboriginal history.
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dollh h 8 months ago
Getting this administration to even expand the RECA Act is next to impossible. So many people still affected to this day.
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Rick Murray 8 months ago
Of course they weren't warned or evacuated. The military wanted to know about the secondary effects and had a useful supply of guinea pigs.
BrunoVI 8 months ago
Can you imagine the extinction of fear for the homeland, when 13-year-olds witness the most terrifying thing ever witnessed (albeit not knowing why it's so terrifying), their eyes burn from looking at it, and the sky rains down mysterious chaff... and the children place the chaff all over their bodies? That huge smile you see is someone who has just seen the entire sky transformed by a nuclear blast!
Max Fox 8 months ago
It was the first atomic explosion ever, and nobody even knew what would happen. That being said, the physicians on the Manhattan project warned that the civilians in the 100 km radius should be evacuated, but the military refused because they wanted to bomb tested and they wanted the test to be secret. Not as bad as the later nuclear tests which were done with full knowledge of the number of civilians who would be harmed.
Rosecrucian Roeth 8 months ago
Governments, and none are exempt, do horrific things to their citizens. Both in the name of security and progress, when in reality it has more to do with testosterone and ego!
Upstaged75 8 months ago
It was a dance camp - they weren't just camping outside. They went outside of their cabins when they heard an explosion in the middle of the night.
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#2
This picture seems pretty innocuous, but if you look a bit closely, you can begin to see the terror that is deep within; at first, it just looks like several people of a different culture sitting around on a porch. However, when you look closely, it appears that a human foot and hand sit in front of the man.
The man was a rubber worker in Congo, who, unfortunately, did not meet his quota for the day. As punishment, his young daughter was k**led and all that was left was her foot and hand given to the man as a reminder of what would happen when you don’t perform well at work. Even when that wasn’t enough, the other part of his daughter was cannibalized.
This is truly a horrifying image.
Emma London 8 months ago
These are the pics that should be printed in history books. We need a memory of what has happend to not repeat it.
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago (edited)
... and not have words used to describe what was actually done CENSORED!
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Rachel Pelz 8 months ago
BTW not a lot of news coverage, but parts of Congo are still hell for people to live in. The curse of having natural ressources the whole world needs for their electronic devices, paired with civil war and your neighbor stealing and waging their war (Rwanda; no, Kagame is anything but a model democrat).
XenoMurph 8 months ago
In all fairness most of post-colonial Africa is horrific. Our 24/7 news would be filled with stories from that continent, without a single repeat all day. It never got the chance to "evolve" stable governments like most nations. Imperial dictatorships to military dictatorship to "democratically elcted" dictator.
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Rafael 8 months ago
Bored Panda, you censor out words like kïlled, drügs and even hïgh, and post THIS? What the actual fück? I know that these "X many pictures that seem normal" tend to get dark here on BP, but kid t*****e and dismemberment is not what I was expecting to see during my afternoon bathroom break. I'm no prude, but come on, this is a humour site, not Reddit's r/gore. And looks at the description: "If you’re a fan of the occasional jolt from slightly unsettling content, you may find this list enjoyable." Where on hëll is this "slightly disturbing"? Anyway, if anyone wants more context, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsala_of_Wala_in_the_Nsongo_District
Jenni 8 months ago
"While others were downright disturbing" is right there in the opening. If you don't want to be disturbed, maybe don't read the article on photos with terrifying backstories? You absolutely did this to yourself
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Rich Black 8 months ago
there is no need to post this king of picture. and then censor the word "k**led"
#3
Baby dolphin dies after swimmers pass it around.
And there wasn't even one nice human being to say how WRONG this is.
Makes me really sad every time I see it on social media.
B 8 months ago
As a species we've wiped out more animals than any other species. Humans don't deserve this planet, not even a little bit.
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Vinnie 8 months ago (edited)
A lot of marine and aquatic animals have a layer of fat. It protects them from the cold in water, but it causes them to overheat quickly in hot air Here's a group of people that did things right: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/crying-beached-orca-freed-to-cheers-after-dramatic-9-hour-rescue-in-northern-b-c
G A 8 months ago
Where the hell was this? That looks like a River Dolphin so somewhere in South America?
#4
Wedding rings retrieved from the Jewish victims of the H*******t…
M H 8 months ago
6 Milliom dead. I am German, both my grandparents were Nazis, and as a teen and young adult I could not understand how a whole people could support something like this. I thought I had bad genes. Now, looking at the US, I slowly get it. They were uneducated, poor and afraid of others. And nothing learned from history apparently
Sunny Day 8 months ago
BP - i am offended that you censored H*******t. It's like you are denying it happened, or trying to hide it.
liam newton-harding 8 months ago
BP, why are you censoring H*******t? It is a thing that happened. It is historical fact. By censoring it you make it easier for people to forget, and deny. You, BP, are making it easier for it to happen again.
liam newton-harding 8 months ago
H-o-l-o-c-a-u-s-t. Holo-caust. Ho-lo-ca-it’s. At the is point BP, you are just coming across as Nazzzi sympathizers.
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Hill Branda 8 months ago
The fact that you censored the word h o l o c a u s t, when that is a factual event from human history, is disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Awkward lady 8 months ago
H*******t, BP, it was the H*******t. DON'T censor that, it needs to be shown.
#5
This photo of what looks like a few people in jumpsuits walking out of a building.
In actuality it’s the last moment the crew of Challenger was photographed, a few hours before their launch. Their shuttle exploded just a minute after launch, but they didn’t die then- evidence indicates they died a few minutes later when the capsule hit the ocean.
WindySwede 8 months ago
only recent I heard this fact, I always thought they went out with the initial explosion 😕
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Scott Rackley 8 months ago
And history only really records one of their names. Their names were Smith, Scobee, McNair, Onizuka, McAuliffe, Jarvis, Resnik
LNB87 8 months ago
..... then how did you find the other names? Their names have ALWAYS been readily available
Load More Replies... BrownEyedPanda 8 months ago
I remember that day. Dan Rather looked like he aged 10 years overnight. Then they showed what happened. It was horrific.
Tiny Dancer 8 months ago
I was on my way to work that day, ticked that I couldn't watch the launch live (always been a space geek), when I took a tumble on some black ice (I'm in Canada) and landed on my tailbone. Excruciating! Hobbled back home, turned on the TV and experienced a much more historical moment than I'd ever hoped for. Seeing the faces in the stands was awful enough. I couldn't help thinking of kids across America watching in their classrooms. Horrifying.
Jerry Jacques 8 months ago
Always remember what was given for what we have; science, medicine, fight for freedom, and all things people gave all to make your life a little better.
#6
Tsunami before striking Hat Rai Lay Beach in southern Thailand.
M H 8 months ago
There are haunting documentaries on this tragedy on Youtube- Thailand was actually least affected, with just 8000 dead. Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India had the most dead. 1/3 of the dead were children.
Chewie Baron 8 months ago
The Tsunami also reached East Africa, which really shows how powerful it was.
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Bored Sailor 8 months ago
And trust me you do not want to see any of the people's bodies found at sea days later. 23 years in the Navy responded too this and another to provide assistance. Also scary you do not even feel it while at sea so almost no way to give notice. The newer sensors are much better but impossible to be everywhere.
Pyla 8 months ago
You can just see in the background the people are turning and running. Others are still heading out.
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
If you didn't know what it was, the curiosity of seeing an area that would normally be sea floor would be overwhelming.
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Kasper Ring 8 months ago
My brother was a first responder sent from Denmark to help, he got to Indonesia a few days later. He's mentioned how bad it was a couple of times, like 'yeah it was pretty bad', but other then that he completely clams up about it...
Marlene Ricker 8 months ago
Those poor people didn't have a clue about what was happening. Their nice day at the beach turned into their last day. It's painful to look at pictures like this.
Leesa DeAndrea 8 months ago
This event is what finally killed my belief in a loving caring god.
#7
A CCTV footage shows 2-year-old James Bulger, who was abducted by 10-year-old Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. They would later torture and m**der James and leave his body on a railway line.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
1993. I remember it because I was the same age as the two killers at the time.
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Paul C. 8 months ago
One of the detectives believed that the two k!llers Thompson and Venables were inherently evil. He was quoted as saying 'Thompson looked at Venables and smiled. It was a cold smile - an evil smile. I believe the smile said they knew they were responsible . . . and thought they were going to get away with it,'
Rafael 8 months ago
Seriously BP, fück this. You even censor out "mürder" but promotes this as only "slightly disturbing"? Also, friendly reminder to anyone reading this, don't look up this case. It will not add anything of value to your day or your life. RIP this poor boy.
BoredPangolin 8 months ago
I still remember this. To me, it's one of most disturbing murder of all time. The murderers were children. They literally just grabbed a toddler in a mall and left with it. Then beat the little boy to death at a dumpster (I remember the detail of them throwing a TV on him. A 1990's TV). I can't comprehend such complete absence of humanity at a young age. Boys kids went to jail, then got new identities and were released as adults. At least one of them went back to jail repeatedly. It's completely shocking.
KnightOwl 8 months ago
They subjected him to a lot of horrific t*****e before beating him to death on some train tracks.
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Will never forget the horror of this. The 2 boys are still young and very very troubled.
Mike F 8 months ago
FWIW, I absolutely agree. They knew they were raising monsters and with all of the resources available to them to get them diagnosed and treated, they ignored it and they cost that little boy his life. I can't imagine the horror that little boy felt in his last moments.
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Magenta Blu 8 months ago
The worst of all is that those ki77er kids were released from prison with new identities... Free
Marlene Ricker 8 months ago
I still find it hard to believe two ten year olds planned and carried out this horrible crime!
#8
On the morning of 17 January, Muhammad Yusuf Pujwala (the father of Asia Bano (was sitting outside his home in Kathua, Kashmir, when one of his neighbours came sprinting towards him. He told Muhammed Pujwala, they had found his eight-year-old daughter, Asifa Bano. Her body was found in the bushes of a forest.
The 8 year old’s legs were broken. Her fingers were black and blue. Asifa was confined in a local temple for several days and given sedatives that kept her unconscious. The charge sheet alleges that she was "r**ed for days, tortured and then finally m**dered". She was strangled to death and then hit on the head twice with a stone.
The worst thing is, she isn’t the only girl and she won't be the last.
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
Some Indian men do all they can to stop that sort of thing happening.
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Upstaged75 8 months ago (edited)
Full story. And her name is Asifa. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43722714
ghostlyK 8 months ago
funny how yall are so quick to blame the country and not the actual...you know....murderers??? the minute its a predominantly brown country. dont get me wrong, india has a LOT to work on, but i just know if this happened in a white, western country, there would be more on how deeply messed up the actual perpetrators were, and less on how white countries are backward and sickening???????????? the blatant racism is wild??????????
earsludge 8 months ago
this is thanks to Indias disgustingly antiwomen government and policies. Their current president encourages violence and control against women and girls of all ages. If you have a woman in your life that is traveling to India, ask her not to.
Franz 8 months ago
Our current president is a woman and our government policies are supportive of women the real cr@p is the actual men
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#9
Photo of scratch marks on the walls of an Auschwitz gas chamber.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 8 months ago
Heartbreaking. I cannot believe there are people today who claim this never happened...
Joe Reaves 8 months ago
What's really sad is that even at the time Eisenhower understood what people are like - he insisted on documenting everything because he knew people would try to deny it in the future. Sadly, he didn't realise that no amount of documentation works on these a******s.
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TheGreaterDebater 8 months ago
Unfortunately, these are not scratch marks. This is vandalism done by disrespectful tourists at the site, as said by the museum's Facebook page. You can see the post here. https://www.facebook.com/auschwitzmemorial/posts/this-image-published-by-annette-miryam-was-shared-by-over-245000-people-on-faceb/10156008075011097/
Chrissie Anit 8 months ago (edited)
AFAIK, this is NOT a photo taken in an Auschwitz gas chamber. https://www.facebook.com/auschwitzmemorial/posts/this-image-published-by-annette-miryam-was-shared-by-over-245000-people-on-faceb/10156008075011097/
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 8 months ago
I feel as though I need to comment on this, but don't really know what to say that isn't going to sound crass. It's obviously awful. I hope we never forget how dreadful human beings can behave towards others and learn from it, but I'm not too optimistic 😢
Renee Kamphuys 8 months ago
I've visited Auschwitz a few years ago and this was the most haunting sight.
#10
This creepy yet normal seeming photo was the last picture of the 18-year old Jolee Callan before her boyfriend shot her two times in the head and pushed her down the cliff.
KnightOwl 8 months ago
I saw a youtube video about this. She kept trying to break up with him but he threatened s*****e each time and she took him back. She finally broke it off and refused to take him back just before she was due to move away to start college. He reached out a few days before she was due to leave, promising he just wanted them to be friends, he convinced her to go on a final hike before she moved away. After he killed her he was quoted saying 'if I can't have her noone can." (The youtube video was by MrBallen)
JuniorCJ82 8 months ago
And women are the ones who "can't control our emotions"? 🙄
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It is the last known picture of Chester Bennington, leader of the rock band Linkin Park, with his family. Less than 24 hours later, he committed suicide. It reminds me of the overwhelming power that depressive states have on human being, totally annihilating the very soul of this artist, who could not overcome whatever black and silent abyss prevented him to feel the love of his 6 children and the one of tens of thousands fans adoring his concert performances. Che la terra ti sia lieve, Chester, you left great art and a painful void.
Leanne Hailes 5 months ago
Exactly. Fake it till you make it is sadly adulting
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Schnitzel 8 months ago
The morbid fact is that people that are depressed and/or anxious are looking for a way out of this; be it medication, therapy or something else. Once this way out is found, it's not unheard of that real and true happiness takes form because the relief of FINALLY having found help is beyond anything else. I call it Plan B. I am a Borderliner with GAD and I have a Plan B and will utilize it should I deem it necessary.
G A 8 months ago
Must admit, I don't know that band or any of their songs, but can naturally have sympathy for anyone with, or family of those with, depression.
KnightOwl 8 months ago (edited)
I always recommend giving them a listen. I fell in love with this band as soon as I heard their debut single and later their album when I was 14 (2000) the album is called Hybrid Theory and it changed my life, it's been one of my favourite albums ever since. (Their sound is a mix of rock and hip hop with chester doing lead vocals along with rapper mike Shinoda) 'Numb' and 'Crawling in my skin' are probably their best known singles and both are amazing. Chester was a one of a kind talent with a stunningly beautiful voice and a beautiful kind heart. The band recorded a beautiful song called 'one more light' a few months before Chester's death, it was written as a tribute to another friend who committed s*****e but after Chester's death the band released the single alongside a beautiful video celebrating Chester as a tribute to him.
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Mari 8 months ago
If you love your kids and family, you put on a mask. You are suffering on the inside. Remember it is a temporary condition, if you have the desire to die, this urge will become less in a few hours/days. It is a period of intense pain that seems to difficult to endure. The urge can be very sudden en very overpowering. But for all those in that situation: get help and a treatment. We need you: people with feelings, because in these times there are far too many heartless people. Rip Chester.
Maggie Fulton 8 months ago
Not always temporary. Doesn’t always go away in a short time.
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SkippityBoppityBoo 8 months ago
One sign of the possibility of s ui cide? Is a sudden upturn in mood, from depressed to happy, cheerful....... Yes. I tried. I had so much to deal with and none of them good. Newly disabled, having to live with my violent ex STILL living downstairs despite the Non Harrassment Order. Watching me... Harassing me. Him and his little cohort making complaints to the Housing Association about me ever though I'd not actually done anything. The various painkillers I was on didn't help either with my mental state. So I tried. Did it....... Then thought "What the actual f*ck do you think you're doing?". Forced myself to vomit. Phoned for an ambulance. Got help. Obviously survived... But one of the last photos taken of me just before? I have my right hand over my right eye and I appear as though I'm smiling towards the camera sort of" flirting smiling". Except look harder and closer and I'm actually not. That photo has been deleted by myself and my friend who took it. My doctors have it only for
SkippityBoppityBoo 8 months ago (edited)
Their files........ Sorry for the "Trauma Dump". Just?... Watch your friends closely if you suspect they may be "One Step Closer To The Edge". Be there without judgement. Don't guilt trip them with - "Oh but what about us you'd leave behind?" Right now It Is Not About You. ... LISTEN to, HEAR them with open ears. There's a huge difference between Listening and Actually Hearing. There needs to be more Candour and Light surrounding various mental health issues.
Load More Replies... KnightOwl 8 months ago
If anyone has a loved one struggling with mental health issues please look out for signs. One of the biggest signs is a sudden change in mood, if your depressed friend suddenly becomes very happy and cheerful it can be a huge sign that they are planning to end their life. The relief of knowing their pain will soon be over can make people appear happier and more carefree. Sadly many loved ones assume that things are looking up, that they are getting better but they aren't and things will get way worse.
Margaret H 8 months ago
I came here to say this. My husband changed from withdrawn to positively chirpy the night before he died, and I will forever feel guilty because I didn't pick it up.
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SheamusFanFrom1987 8 months ago (edited)
No one can tell me Leave Out All The Rest wasn't his s*u*i*c*i*d*e note 3 years in advance. Rest In Eternal Power, Chester T_T
Lily 8 months ago
I agree. 100%. That was about the time that Chris Cornell died.
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Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Oh, and you're angry, and you should be - it's not fair. Just 'cause you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there. Who cares if one more light goes out in the sky of a million stars? Who cares when someone's time runs out, if a moment is all we are? Who cares if one more light goes out? Well I do.
#12
This photo. Looks innocent enough right? Unless you know the backstory. The man in the middle is Darren Vickers. Vickers abducted, r*ped, m*rdered, and dismembered 8 year old Jamie Lavis. Then a few days later showed up at the Lavis home saying he wanted to help find the missing boy.
He became friends with the grieving parents and even moved in with them. The parents started to trust him over the police. He began grooming Jamie’s 10 year old brother and interfered in the investigation into Jamie’s disappearance. The police knew it was him the whole time but couldn’t prove it.
One day Vickers approached some children and asked them to help him look for Jamie in the woods. The children ran home and told their parents who phoned police. This finally gave the police an area to search for Jamie’s body and they found the clothes he was wearing the day he went missing along with a few bones. The rest had been tossed in the river. They charged him with m*rder and the Lavis family was finally able to bury their boy.
G A 8 months ago
I think the person writing these captions doesn't have much empathy as this photo is grim as fvck. They all look unhappy to be there and sitting there shirtless looking like he's got arms round unwilling people is a sick sort of power move.
Shoopyfloop Roundbird 8 months ago
I think the "person" writing these may be ai
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BrunoVI 8 months ago (edited)
Looks as innocent as any photo that does NOT capture a horrible crime, but if you asked me if the guy in the middle became a school teacher, mayor of a small town, auto mechanic or deranged m******r, I'm going with the last one. If you asked me if this picture was included because the guy was killed by a boiler exploding, hit by a car driven by a celebrity, died rescuing a bus-full or children or became a deranged m******r, I'm going with the last one.
#13
Douglas Spedden was a six-year-old boy when he boarded the RMS Titanic with his parents.
A photograph taken by Roman Catholic Priest Frances Browne shows Douglas Spedden playing the topper on the deck of the “Unsinkable Ship”.
Days later, the vessel would go down.
Spedden would be among the survivors.
However, on August 6, 1915, Spedden was k**led at the age of nine in an automobile accident near his residence in Maine.
This was the first documented case of a fatal motor collision in the state.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 8 months ago
The photo is actually recreated in the 1997 movie, when Jack sneakes in First Class, and he takes the coat that can be seen on the chair.
kansasmagic 8 months ago
I still like watching Titanic, at least the first half or so, because of James Cameron's attention to detail.
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Jerome Lenovo 8 months ago
"" A photograph taken by Roman Catholic Priest Frances Browne "" .... predator watching the little kid prey. Hey maga don't miss the downvote button 3:)
Brandy McNamee 8 months ago
What are you even on about? What does the RCC have to do with MAGA? And while I disagree wholeheartedly with Roman Catholicism, and absolutely do not support the Vatican in any way, shape, or form, not every person within their ranks is a p3dophile. You don't know that man behind the camera, and neither do you have a clue what "MAGA" is all about. So, maybe let's focus on the historical impact of the picture instead of inserting our deranged political hot take. Check your ignorance, man.
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Before the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland. Almost immediately after this photo was taken, a bomb was set off in the red car beside the boy on his dad's shoulders. The father and child survived miraculously, but the photographer and 28 others died, while around 220 were injured.
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
That was the "Real IRA", a splinter group. The best source of balanced information on the subject (that I know of) is here: https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/events/omagh/index.html. Other terrorist murderers were available... 😢
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 8 months ago (edited)
One of the things I hated about the IRA and that whole time growing up during it, starting working in pubs in the NW of the UK during it... It was the... "Normalisation" of it all. The bomb threats. I started work in one pub and along with the usual Health and Safety, Bar training? We also had Bomb Threat training. What to do if someone phones in with a threat, which specialist police number to phone straightaway. Did they give you a code? Are there any suspicious items or packages? We grew up with that as just part of the routine new job training. I was 18 when I experienced the 1996 Manchester IRA bomb. On the outside cordon but close enough that I've still got a now very faint scar on my hairline from the falling glass as windows shattered as the bomb went off. I guess it's... Luckily... Noone died that day. There's that to be thankful for.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I highly recommend the movie Omagh about the bombing, especially if you don't know much about it.
James Twong 8 months ago
The IRA in all it's iterations are not 'freedom fighters'. They are indiscriminate killers of women, children and old men.
KnightOwl 8 months ago
The troubles were a very complex and horrible time, but both sides had a lot of innocent blood on their hands. Placing all the blame the IRA is stupid, they were fighting to free their country from oppression and control from a foreign country, yes they were extreme at times but so was the British army in their treatment of native Irish. If the Irish people can put aside their grievances and move on from those terrible times then surely you can too.
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Into the jaws of death, 1944
US Army 1ID in their beach assault of Omaha sector of the Normandy landings, not a horrific photo for its content, but a horrific photo because we know what followed, an emotional and awe inspiring photograph. Truly, the greatest generation.
Bonnie Blue Bird 8 months ago
The courage of these men to storm this beach. Beyond awe inspiring. Superhero's, every single one of them.
B 8 months ago
It's not courage, believe me - it's fear of disobeying orders. As an ex-army engineer, I know full well the extent of brainwashing and indoctrination by the military on its troops. Every person below general's rank is expendable.
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cerinamroth 8 months ago
My granddad taught a lot of the young British recruits how to swim to provide them with just the tiniest bit of preparation for D-Day. I wonder how many of them returned.
James Twong 8 months ago
What seems to be increasingly forgotten is that British, Canadian (and other nationalities) also took part in D-Day. This is the Saving Private Ryan/U-571/Band of Brothers effect.
Agamemnon O'Neill 8 months ago
The Canadians at Juno Beach, the Brits at Sword and Gold.
Load More Replies... MJisME 8 months ago
My grandfather was on this boat and by the grace of God survived WWII. What he went through haunted him He started his stories "I was on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. We land on Omaha Beach...". He lied and said he was 18 to join to fight for his country. He learned to appreciate life because it's lost so easily. Thank you Tata for ur service.🪖
Mindghost 8 months ago (edited)
When i was in the military we did a few real practice battles with blank cartridges, which triggered infra-red senders when fired and infrared-sensor-vests, which started to beep when you were "hit". There i learned what goes through your head when the sergeant yells your name to "push forward" or defend something while the others retreat, sending you into death. I don't want to know how it feels when it's real.
john doe 8 months ago
MILES gear is a little fun game, you didn't learn what it's like to have a bullet crack past your head or see someone get shot. They stopped using MILES for training in the early 2000s because they found it didn't teach anything useful if you can't be killed or maimed you'll just ignore heavy fire, you won't respond they same to enemy covering fire as if it were real bullets in the air. Scared shi t less is what happened the first time you have incoming rounds cracking all around your position, you won't move more times than not, it takes tons of training and experience to get past that.
Load More Replies... Alewa 8 months ago
Can we please stop glorifying wars and soldiers. Yes, what they did was brave and every loss is life was devastating and should be remembered. But let's not forget that such events are almost always caused by an incompetent, megalomaniac, psychopathic people who should never have gained the power that they have. Soldiers (amongst others) are the victims of such people. The people in power do not care about them at all. The soldiers should never have to fight for them, regardless of whether their own motive might be courage, love for the person next to them, or fear.
RabidChild 8 months ago
I hate war and I hate anyone who thinks starting one is ever necessary or a good idea. However, I love, respect and am grateful for all the men and women who have fought to end them.
#16
In 1870, the American bison was hunted wildly by European colonists and nearly extinct. On a flat area, uncountable American bison skulls were piled up.
Alexia 8 months ago
It was actually a strategy of the government to defeat the native tribes and take over their lands. Bison (or buffalo) was tightly connected to the natives: it provided food, clothing, housing (tepees made of bison skins).
Lorraine R 8 months ago
And besides being the source of material necessities, the bison was the basis for the Plains Indians' core religious beliefs, so they were killing not only the animals but the peoples' culture as well. Really, really evil.
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Emma London 8 months ago
They gunned down so many that they couldn't even eat or preserve the meat, but just left it to rot. Th eanimals were gunned down for fun and for the skulls. Disgusting.
G A 8 months ago
They weren't killing them for anything except fun with the pleasing side effect it deprived the Indians of their food source. Scumbags.
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Premislaus de Colo 8 months ago
What is even more disgusting is the fact that they killed them to drive Native Americans away
GhostlySnail (she/her) 8 months ago
How is this an innocent looking photo, even without context??
Max Fox 8 months ago
People think that hunting was the primary reason, but it wasn't. The primary reason was to force indigenous Americans into reservations and off of the lands that the USA wanted to give to White farmers. No army is large enough to chase down a few thousand semi nomadic people across that size of land mass, especially since both the military and the Indians had horses. However, the bison had regular migration routes and didn't scatter into the brush when hunters came. Moreover, the train tracks went right through the Bison grazing lands. So the main purpose was to remove the Indians main source of food, starving them or forcing them to farm, the secondary purpose was to remove the bison, and hunting was only an added benefit. Forcing the Indians to farm forced them into small areas where they could easily be rounded up and either deported or massacred.
Jerome Lenovo 8 months ago
yeah the scumbags of europe created amerikkka, we know that. We can see that too. Don't miss the downvote button maga.
Verena 8 months ago
The bisons were a vital part of the ecosystem called prairie, thusands of years the kept the grass short and prevented bushes and trees growing, creating a habitat for all birds, reptikes, small mammals and insects needing grassland. That "ranger-job" was partially taken over by abandoned horses, over which the US now throw a raging fit, because not native, so aim to k**l off all of them in the most cruel way ... to put non native cattle in these areas, to produce meat for an oversaturated market. But US customers throw a fit if the groceries don't offer stuffed shelves 24/7, so the dumpsters are full with animals, only killed to become waste. In Europe most shops are not open 24/7, and customers know that you cannot expect to have everything available at any given time. Plan your meals, don't waste food and animal lifes, and use your brain to manage habitats properly. In Europe horses are used as rangers, and they are loved and protected.
#17
At first you think she's just a cute old lady cooking outside. Obviously the topic is who is this lady and who was she, what did she have in that cauldron.
Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian serial killer. Better known as The Soapmaker of Correggio, she killed three women in the town of Correggio, Reggio Emilia, between 1939 and 1940, and turned their bodies into soap and pastries using caustic soda or sodium hydroxide.
Joe Reaves 8 months ago
Her story is really sad. She came from an a*****e background and definitely had mental issues stemming from that. And then she was told that she would lose all her children. Most of them did actually died and her surviving son then joined the military to serve in WWI. The soaps and the pastries were meant to be part of a protection spell to keep him alive. None of this excuses what she did obviously, but it's far more interesting than just oh she was a psychopath.
B 8 months ago
"She came from an a******e background..." Thanks BP, yet another interesting and informative comment ruined by your blanket censor-robots. :/
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A. HAM 8 months ago
This is NOT a picture of her. She went to prison around age 52. She died at age 76 while still incarcerated.
Tiny Dancer 8 months ago
She does look similar, but I definitely couldn't find anything like this cauldron shot, just her mugshot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonarda_Cianciulli Leonarda-C...f326f.jpeg 
Brandy McNamee 8 months ago
This isn't her. Cianciulli was only in her 50's when she was arrested, and she remained imprisoned until she died. This woman is obviously not in prison and appears to be south of 60.
#18
Not so scary? Just women and kids sitting and “busy” in their lives while two guys are just smiling for a selfie. But wait! This picture requires some background to know how scary it is.
The pic was taken from Syria and the “smiling guys” are soldiers of Bashar al Assad who have captured all these women and kids from Eastern Ghouta (their men already sent to detention centres) and what happened with those poor women and kids, one never knows; but based on the long history of tortures and systematic use of rape as both a lust of the soldiers and a “weapon” to terrorize other civilians daring to get the freedom from Bashar, whenever I think of this image, it gives me nightmares.
Earonn - 8 months ago
Men always returned from war, playing the big hero, celebrated as heroes, who had done unspeakable things to women and children. And even if it was known, it was downplayed, after all, those were "enemies". Lots of these men got a taste for it and continued. But hey, soldiers, hence we mustn't criticise.
Susie Elle 8 months ago
A photo of a room full of women and kids just sitting there, with two guys taking a selfie, will never be 'not so scary'.
Jerome Lenovo 8 months ago
all religions should be forbidden. Amerikkka looks more and more like iran. Don't miss the downvote button, maga. You can do better, call your friends
Marlene Ricker 8 months ago
The worst part of this picture is the 2 men smiling. They don't look like monsters but obviously they were. These horrible people should look like the monsters they are. They should not just look like everyone else.
veirdbuttrue 8 months ago
I agree, the man on the left doesn't look like a man who is capable of r**e and t*****e. It is hard to reconcile his smiley face and warm eyes with any sort of evil intent. I can't understand it.
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#19
This is a series of photos taken by two Dutch hiking women (Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon) before their disappearance in Panama.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 8 months ago (edited)
Chilling. Panama calls it "El caso de las Chicas Holandesas" (The Dutch Girls case). Some of their belongings were recovered, including a phone. In it there are several pictures of the girls, first seen happy and relaxed, then concerned and finally terrified. In a couple of them, you can see a person hiding in the undergrowth who is apparently following them, and another taken at night, simply showing a dark corner behind a rock. Police believe that this last one may have been the girls trying to take a picture of their attacker.
Upstaged75 8 months ago (edited)
Why is this upvoted so much - it's false. There was no person. They got lost and died due to not being prepared for hiking in a jungle.
Load More Replies... Susie Elle 8 months ago
I believe I saw a documentary about this. They never solved it, but it was considered likely they got lost and died due to a fall, but couldn't rule out murder.
Bored Sailor 8 months ago
Got tired of guessing and the lack of info above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Kris_Kremers_and_Lisanne_Froon
Earonn - 8 months ago
As usual with disappearances of women, one can only hope that they're dead because that would be much more merciful than the usual other explanation.
Alexia 8 months ago
They are dead. Pars of their bodies were discovered later. No clue as of what had happened, and a lot of questions re. alleged involvement of some locals in their deaths.
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Dog Mom to Zoe 8 months ago
They took the owner's dog for a walk of the place they were staying with them. The dog came back, sadly, the girls didn't.
#20
The picture was actually found on the camera of two vacationers who were swept away in the 2004 tsunami, which resulted in over 230 000 deaths.
Bored Sailor 8 months ago
More so look at the water line between the rocks the tide should be much higher the water receding was the first unnoticed sign. The wave would never be noticed or seen in time.
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#21
Remember when it was in the news that a Russian ambassador had been murdered in Turkey?
Here he is moments before his death.
That man anxiously standing behind him?
His assassin.
Catherine North 8 months ago
This occurred in 2016 at an art exhibition. The ambassador was Andrei Karlov. He was killed by an off duty Turkish policeman allegedly over the Russian bombardment of Aleppo.
Rich Black 8 months ago
the assassin was a police officer. he was triggered by russia delivering weapons to syria, to murder opponents of the Bashir regime.
TiNaBoNiNa 8 months ago
The way he's holding his hands shows nervous anticipation.
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#22
This picture was taken just a few minutes before both brothers were struck by lightning in the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1975. Luckily for both Michael and Sean, they survived the lightning strike.
A. HAM 8 months ago
The last time this was on Bored Panda, it said that one of the brothers did not survive.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
You're mistaken. They both survived this but one of them took their own life as an adult.
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Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
I was just thinking that I wouldn’t know what to do so I’d just lie down 🥲 glad to know this is the one time my instinct would be right!
Load More Replies... Mike F 8 months ago
TBF, they seem a bit young to be physicists or meteorologists, so perhaps they didn't understand that they were about to be STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. It's really easy to see this looking through a rear view mirror, but I can imagine that in the moment they would just think it was wicked cool. Not every 13-16 year old sports a PhD. SMH
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#23
The Thousand Yard Stare
This is 27-year-old Italian Corporal Antonio Metruccio of the 3rd Eagle Company, 66th Regiment aircraft Trieste.
Corporal Metruccio was asked to pose for the camera by a photographer moments after a 72-hour long continuous (three straight days) firefight in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan. In that fleeting moment, he couldn’t muster even a faint smile after a heavy encounter with the enemy, but rather he could only show a very haunting Thousand Yard Stare, which characterizes shell shock.
Bala Murghab is located in Badghis Province of northwestern Afghanistan, near the border of Turkmenistan where gun and drug smuggling in addition to Taliban activities are known to take place.
The Thousand Yard Stare is an acute stress reaction characterized by a limp, blank, unfocused gaze of a battle-weary soldier who has survived some terrible fighting. However, it can also occur to persons who have undergone other types of trauma.
By the looks of it, Corporal Metruccio had seen death at close range determined to claim his life and the life of his comrades. His Thousand Yard Stare shows death is real.
Jac Carr 8 months ago
Not to mention Americans claiming to have won WWII when allies had already been fighting for two years and were exhausted. The whole of Europe was fighting and the US did nothing until they were directly affected.
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Chocolate llama 8 months ago
This AI-generated description just takes away from the picture. Please do better, BP.
KieLeaHar 4 months ago
Unfortunately we can’t blame BP this time. It was someone on Quora that wrote this. It could still be AI though. I don’t blame you for thinking that. I think it’s AI or someone who doesn’t speak English as a first language.
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Svenne O'Lotta 8 months ago
What the héll is this crappy AI garbage text? Have some respect and write a proper text. There's no such thing as shell shock, it's called PTSD. His "thousand yard stare" (also not a thing) shows that he's really tired and has been through a lot. Did anyone think death was fake? What even is that last sentence? Get it together, this is serious.
MadRatter 8 months ago (edited)
Shellshock is what they called it when my great grandfather fought in WW1, when they didn't know better. And none of the veterans got the right treatment. But I agree. It's completely outdated and lacks respect.
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Gunný Petersen 8 months ago
My husband was a legionaire and was in the front lies of the gulf War and he was awake after 72 hours of non stop fighting. Can't imagine how he survived.
Rachel Pelz 8 months ago
Last sentence again, the wording. Whoever said or thought death wasn't real?
#24
When this selfie of three happy teenagers was taken, two of the girls had approximately 10 seconds left to live. The third girl lived for three more days but the injuries were too severe.
They are standing right by the wind and noise from a passing westbound train and can not hear a second train coming in from the opposite direction. At right is the halo from that train and the railroad track.
Life is incomprehensibly fragile.
Alexia 8 months ago
Please, please...be kind. Refrain from comments such as "darwin awards" and "stupidity contest" etc. They're dead. ☹️ Rather, use this for awareness and learning
Auntriarch 8 months ago
And some people don't realise that Darwin Awards rules state it cannot apply to minors
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Bookworm 8 months ago
I never understood why I was always told to stay away from the train tracks in my town. Even though there were rarely any trains and only two sets. I thought there was no way I'd ever miss an oncoming train. Too big and too loud. I'm grateful it was a small town where someone would find out and tell your parents so I never actually tried anything. Nor did any of the other kids. I learned later something similar to what happened to these girls happened in my town before I was born. Thank God for small towns with long memories and a 'everybody mind the children ' mentality.
Kabuki Kitsune 8 months ago
One thing that often confuses people, is the simple fact that the rails do not define the loading gauge of the train. Meaning that the train will overhang the rails by a considerable amount, and though you may be a foot or two away from the rail itself, you're still well within the loading gauge of the train and subject to be struck.
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Apatheist Account2 8 months ago
Life is comprehensively fragile, which is why people shouldn't risk it for the sake of a dangerous selfie. Sorry, Alexia, but it deserves to be called out for stupidity, so that others don't see it as aspirational. Don't muck about on railway lines, simple as.
Mindghost 8 months ago (edited)
R.I.P. :( I never understood why people bring themselves in danger like this. Same for pod-challenge and similiar things
Emilu 8 months ago (edited)
When I was in high school I was about to board a train that hit a girl who was trying to make said train. I just remember the sheet covering her body and her backpack, which had an apple roll out of it and come to rest between the train tracks. Logically we all know “don’t go near train tracks when train is there” but sometimes it goes to the back of your mind. No judgement here; just sadness for the families.
ghostlyK 8 months ago
erm gang. three teenagers are dead. dead, and they will never be back again. so maybe let's not be pricks and stop with the 'ahhaha they might've died super young but LOL THESE PHONE SOCIAL MEDIA SELFIE SELFIE SELFIE INSTA DUMB DUMB STUPID SILLY INCAPABLE OF THOUGHT TEENS HAD IT COMING!!!!'. like god, one of you tell me if you HAVENT dont anything stupid as a teen. once again, theyre dead. it's a tragedy. people are dead and that's sad. simple as.
KieLeaHar 4 months ago (edited)
The poor train driver. Whom now has to live the rest of their life knowing that they hit over three people who is stupid enough to stand on the tracks and take a dámn selfie. Yeah it’s sad. They died but play stupid games win stupid prizes.
Load More Replies... Jerry Jacques 8 months ago
We need more signs to let them know to stay OFF THE TRACKS. I would leave fake body parts in those areas. I'm sure if they see some gore I think they will think a little more.
Definitely a Human 8 months ago
Knowing teenagers, that might entice some of them even more. It's the fact that it's dangerous that makes them want to do it b
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The above seemingly innocent picture is a big clue to a crime scene.
That selfie is taken by Antoine with her friend Brittney Gargol (right), who was later found dead on the side of the road in 2015. What’s more is there was a belt, just near Brittney’s deceased body.
The police could not solve the crime, because they could not find the owner of that belt.
By now, almost everyone reading this would have guessed that Antoine was the owner of that belt. The police noticed the belt in Antoine’s facebook post, and hypothesized that Antoine had used the best as the murder weapon.
Their theory proved to be correct, Antoine pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was convicted. She received seven years in prison.
Thank god for facebook, as well as cameras.
zububonsai 8 months ago (edited)
Seven, what, only?! Brittney's relatives got life (of grief and missing her), and the múrderer only seven? That's unjust.
Robert T 8 months ago (edited)
Manslaughter carries a lesser sentence than múrder, as is implies no preconception by the killer. You'd need to read the full details on the case to see why they chose to go with this rather than a full múrder charge. It could be that the death was accidental, but that she was judged to have been partly responsible.
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Bi.Felicia 8 months ago (edited)
Cont- Antoine has been deemed a high risk to reoffend. She was granted statutory release for the second time when she was ordered to live at a residential d**g treatment centre in Calgary in May 2024. Soon after, staff found syringes and a pill in her room. She tested positive for amphetamine and the centre withdrew support, according to the Parole Board of Canada’s Jan. 8 decision. It states that Antoine left the facility and was unlawfully at large until her arrest on June 2, 2024. She stole cars, caused hit and run accidents, according to the board, she is charged with two counts of robbery and one count each of evading police, resisting arrest and dangerous driving. She clearly needs help and the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) confirmed her sentence concludes on April 18, just a few weeks from today.
Bi.Felicia 8 months ago
I've put together some info from articles online - In 2017 Cheyenne Antoine was charged with 2nd degree murda but she ended up pleading guilty to lesser charges of manslaughter bc she was allegedly drunk and hi. Antoine was denied full parole in October 2023, but had been granted day parole in June 2020. The board said it was revoked four months later after Antoine had overdosed, used a laptop without approval and was generally disrespectful. She was granted day parole again in 2021. After completing her first six-week intensive a*******n program, she went unlawfully at large and was arrested in March 2022. Shortly after, she attacked a correctional officer “with closed fists” after being denied a shower. The board said it was one of 15 “serious institutional charges” and 44 minor charges she incurred for “disobeying institutional rules, being disrespectful, threatening and assaultive to staff and other inmates, refusing urinalysis, possession of contraband, and diverting medication.”
Heather Ball 8 months ago
Only 7 years? That is ridiculous. And Facebook is a scourge on civilization. it could have been a great social tool, but now it is used to support f*****t ideals and suppress democracy, equality, freedom.
Allen Packard 8 months ago
How do you plead down to manslaughter and get 7 years for murdering someone? That is crazy.
Susan Raskin 8 months ago
seven years is a slap in the face to Brittney's life as well as her family.
Rich Black 8 months ago
just seven years? okay - she claimed she didn't recall doing it. the jury bought it.
#26
On April 26, 1865, the Sultana began sailing up the Mississippi River with hundreds of passengers, and upwards of two thousand Union prisoners who had been freed following the end of the American Civil War.
The photograph above — taken as the ship was leaving dock — is the only known image of the Sultana taken in her two-and-a-half years of service.
Within hours of her departure a boiler would explode.
Over a thousand people, and perhaps upwards of sixteen-hundred people would be k**led.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 8 months ago (edited)
Another horrible disaster caused by greed and gross negligence, as the captain of the Sultana knew the ship needed repairs, but postponed them as he was offered about 3 dollars per men. Many were injured POW's that could not move without help, and the water of the Mississippi was too cold. Also, this disaster was largely ignored as a Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated the previous week...
BrunoVI 8 months ago
Designed for 376 passengers, she was carrying far more than 2,000. The steel in the boiler used would later be found to become brittle after heating and cooling, and a decade later banned from use in boilers. The sediment of the Mississippi River was dredged into the boiler because of low water levels. The design of the boilers made them difficult to purge of sediment. And a man from St Louis claimed to have sabotaged the boilers. (Officials doubted his story, told over two decades later.) A 1903 claim that a Tennessee farmer sabotaged the ship by hollowing out a log and filling it with gunpowder couldn't be possibly be true, since it was a coal-burning ship.
Load More Replies... Joe Reaves 8 months ago
The captain knew the boiler wasn't operating correctly, but they got paid per soldier by the US government and he wasn't going to take time out to get it fixed and lose out on a large sum of money.
tresgatos72 8 months ago
Even worse is that many of those poor POWs had managed to survive the hell on earth of the Andersonville prison, only to drown on the Sultana. 😭
Kabuki Kitsune 8 months ago
To this day, no one is quite certain just WHAT caused the sinking of the Sultana. A common theory is the boiler exploded due to lack of repairs, but even then, that one is questionable, as there is documented evidence that the Confederate soldiers had sabotaged coal stages with these kind of 'scuttling' bombs. Basically a small coal chunk shaped metal container, into which black powder was poured and then a plug screwed into the hole. Rub the chunk with coal dust, and then toss it into the coal supply, and wait. The heat of the firebox would cause these charges to explode shortly after being thrown into the fire. The confederacy had done this to locomotive coal, and had wreaked havoc with trains, causing wrecks and all manner of problems. It's believed that some of this sabotaged coal made its way on board the Sultana during one of its refueling stops.
#27
The 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens was the deadliest volcanic event to take place in U.S. history. It caused over $1 billion in damages and k**led around 57 people.
These are pictures taken by Robert Landsburg, who was a photographer from Oregon. He had traveled to Mt St Helens on multiple occasions in 1980 to take pictures of the mountain before the eruption.
Joe Reaves 8 months ago
His last act was to put his camera in his backpack and cover it with his body in the hopes that the photos would be recovered and could be valuable to scientists.
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
And he was successful. The photos survived and have been incredibly impactful. RIP to Mr Lansburg ❤️
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Lex T. (Fiendish) 8 months ago (edited)
He was in his car and knew he couldn't escape in time. So he took pictures and then covered his camera with his body to protect it.
#28
This photo of Travis Alexander was found on a damaged camera, was taken by his girlfriend, Jodi Arias. Couples like to take pictures, what else could it be? This photo was captured just minutes before she stabbed and shot him to death.
NapQueen 8 months ago
I don't know if it's just me, but I can see fear in his eyes. Did he know he was about to be killed?
Joe Reaves 8 months ago
Almost certainly. If you read the details of the attack, he absolutely knew he was in imminent danger.
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Bored Sailor 8 months ago (edited)
He knows, the murder just started it is speculated, she documented most of it. Worth a read, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Travis_Alexander
KnightOwl 8 months ago
She was a clingy stalker who was completely obsessed with him. He broke up with her after his friends staged an intervention after noticing a lot of red flags in her behaviour towards him. She moved to another state (at least that's what he thought at the time) she later broke into his house and killed him. He definetly knew what was going to happen when this picture was taken.
Megalodon Meg 7 months ago
Only ugly people get m******d? Wtf is wrong with you
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This one. It's a wedding reception, people are dancing and celebrating, not a care in the world. In a few seconds, the floor that they're dancing on will collapse and they will fall two stories. Many of them will die.
This is from the wedding hall disaster that occurred in Jerusalem in 2001. I watched this incident when it was first reported on, one time, and it scared me in a way that I've never been scared before. It scared me more than watching 9/11. Watching those faces turn from being joyous to terrified, the sounds go from a locomotive of happy chatter to a chorus of helpless screams, for just a second before they all disappeared, shook me to my core. To this day I cannot bring myself to watch the incident again, my fingers won't dare press play.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 8 months ago
Recently read about it. The Versailles Wedding Hall disaster. Horrible, and result of gross negligence. The owners of the venue knew something was wrong. They changed the usage permits of the building, added another storey to have a ballroom at the top, removed support beams and, when the floor began sagging, they poured cement to fill it up, making things worse. At the end, the owner and three engineers got 4 to 2 year long prison sentences.
Deborah B 8 months ago
How the hell do you get only 2-4 years for causing a building collapse that was entirely forseeable, because you removed the support beams and once the floor was already sagging, added more weight, then opened it to customers? It's 23 counts of negligent homicide.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 8 months ago
Sadly there are many buildings there made the same way and are at risk for collapse.
Ozymandias73 8 months ago
OMG! Those poor people! I never heard of this incident. I looked it up on YouTube and d**n...my God!! I can only imagine the fear and confusion amongst all the party members.
Tyranamar Seuss 8 months ago
Doesn’t it seem like only a 2 story fall shouldn’t k**l you. Break bones, yes. But there was probably all kinds of sharp stuff they landed on.
KieLeaHar 4 months ago
The owners knew the floor was damaged. They had engineers in who added concrete to stop the sagging- and who knows what else!- so you’re absolutely right there could and should’ve been survivors!
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PokemonPengu 8 months ago
Can you not make stuff political for one second? How would you like it if you fell 2 stories and someone just said "Less people killing (Other group that your country is fighting but you have no control over)? Is that how you want to be remembered? Have some empathy dear God. (I am not trying to downplay Palestinians suffering, but let people be remembered by their actions, not someone elses)
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#30
This story is about coworkers and friends. Five men whom at first did not know each other but grew to trust each other and have unwavering faith in each other as was needed in any dive team that worked on oil pipelines.
The photo above seems unassuming…
All 5 men looking at the camera without an idea of what would become of their lives.
This is the Paria diving incident…
The incident claimed the lives of Christopher Boodram’s colleagues; Fyzal Kurban, Yusuf Henry, Kazim Ali Jr and Rishi Nagassar.
These men worked for Land and Marine and Construction Services (LMCS) and were repairing a defective portion of Paria Fuel’s Sealine 36’s riser off the Port of Pointe-a-Pierre on February 25 when the deadly accident happened.
A Delta P event aka a Differential pressure event happened shortly after lunch that day and caused all of these divers to be sucked into the an oil pipeline. The Delta P event happened when the divers removed an inflatable plug, causing a vortex and inevitably led to the deaths of four men with only one surviving (Chris).
Sandra Angulo 8 months ago
I read quite a bit about this incident and it is haunting. It was also a result of “corporate manslaughter”. The man who crawled his way to safety begged them to rescue the men who were still alive. The company said they had planned to but decided it would only put more lives at risk. Which sounded reasonable until an investigation revealed they had no way to determine that bc they didn’t even attempt to plan a rescue. They just knew it would be expensive.
DennyS (denzoren) 8 months ago
The videos of the cross examination are really messed up to watch how certain people try to distance themselves from the responsibility for it.
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DennyS (denzoren) 8 months ago
I'm from Trinidad and to this day people are still calling for justice for this incident.
Bookworm 8 months ago
It's haunting. They suffered for 3 days before the banging they made to draw rescuers to them ended and they were presumed d€ad. Three had been too injured to try escape. Another became paralyzed with fear with the one survivor going for help. Paria detained him after he realized they were preventing any other rescuers from trying to save the other men and tried going back in himself. https://medium.com/@mrodriguez0/the-terrifying-paria-diving-disaster-trapped-in-an-underwater-oilpipe-7001ce9a5179
Marie BellaDonna 8 months ago
Saw this one on a MrBallen video. It still haunts me. This story, Nutty Putty, The Station nightclub fire, and the girl dying in the America Sings carousel at Disney, are the 4 videos I can never watch again.
#31
The happy man in the middle is Kevin O’Higgins. He has just been married to the lovely lady in front of him. On his right is his best man, Rory O’Connor.
This was taken in October 1921, during the Irish War of Independence. O’Higgins, and O’Connor were leading figures in the Irish nationalist cause.
Now flash-forward a year. Much has changed since then. Two and a half years of warfare has finally dragged the British to the negotiating table, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922 essentially made Ireland an independent nation, apart from one crucial point; the King would still be our head of state.
Of course, some in the nationalist movement took exception to this. Took so much exception, in fact, that they decided that those who supported this Treaty were traitors, and deserved to be treated as such.
O’Higgins, being the fine and moral man that he was, supported the Treaty. O’Connor, being the fine and moral man that he was, rejected the Treaty.
So one thing led to another, and before you know it, the nationalist movement had split, and the two sides were tearing each other apart in the Irish Civil War. In December 1922, four anti-Treaty leaders who had been captured earlier in the war were executed, in reprisal for the k*****g of a pro-Treaty leader the day before.
The name of one of those men?
Rory O’Connor.
The name of the man who signed their death warrants?
Kevin O’Higgins.
When later accused of personal vindictiveness in carrying out these executions, O’Higgins responded: “Vindictiveness! Great heavens! One of these men was a friend of mine.”
Christopher Walkies 8 months ago
This needs an edit. The man on his RIGHT is Eamon De Valera. O'Connor is on his left.
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago (edited)
What Christopher Walkies said. The man on the right of the photo is Rory O’Connor - if you're the central man Kevin O’Higgins, he's on your left. The chap on the left of the photo was born in the USA and named George de Valero. He changed his name in stages to Éamon de Valera and even I recognised him instantly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89amon_de_Valera. Someone should tell us about the women.
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David 8 months ago
hardliners m******d Michael Collins for supporting the Treaty as he called it, the best option for Ireland to be a independent country.
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
Every trite summary of anything to do with Irish history misses the point. The killing of Michael Collins was part of a war - so straight away, the word "mvrder" can be questioned. It's complicated. A brief introduction to the complexity can be found by following up from this information, if you've a few days to spare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_leader)#Civil_War
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This 17-year-old boy, Tyler Hadley, looks like he must be chilling at a party, right? However this photo was taken just sometime after Tyler m**dered his parents, cleaned the house and called his friends over to party. Their bodies were hidden in the bedroom when this photo was taken.
Bonnie Blue Bird 8 months ago
Because they were trying to send him to rehab. He was given life in prison.
KDS 8 months ago
He told the friend who took the picture what had happened and the friend wanted one last picture before he called the police.
Robert Cosgrove 8 months ago
The one with him is a friend who wanted a selfie. Hadley had told him what he had done but his friend wanted a last picture
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#33
This is Jeremy Worthy. Whilst kayaking in Batemans Bay on the south coast of New South Wales, Worthy was live streaming on Facebook. Only, whilst live streaming, viewers had the unfortunate experience of watching Jeremy plead for his life.
He was struggling to deal with a heavy swell that was pushing him away. Jeremy was found dead (by drowning) after.
Rachel Pelz 8 months ago
Wonder if his stakes of surviving were any different without him.being on the internet? Just curious, not judging.
Bi.Felicia 8 months ago
I don't think him being on the Internet caused a heavy swell in the ocean or made it any more likely to happen. So I personally don't think his stakes would have changed.
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 8 months ago
Rescue helicopters and Marine Rescue volunteers rushed out but it was too late -_-
#34
Ayano Tokumasu, a person in a red sweater in the background, lost her footing while posing for a picture and fell into Niagara Falls.
BrunoVI 8 months ago
Evidently didn't just lost her footing. You can plainly see she has at least partly climbed over the guardrails.
Stannous Flouride 8 months ago
Compare that phot with the one I'm posting. She was about 1m away from the warning sign: 5473972085...95b6af.jpg 
Joanne Earle 8 months ago
We went up there a couple summers ago and I was shocked at how many people were standing on that wall, or holding their children up on it.
Laura Deckers 8 months ago
I've also seen the one where it said she offed herself.
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Gracie Mae 8 months ago (edited)
A couple of postings online stated that she was straddling the guard rail & slipped; another suggested she committed s*****e.
#35
One of the most tragic incidents in history was the Chernobynl powersteam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the environment, with the deposition of radioactive materials in many parts of Europe.This picture show how an old armchair with a doll’s head sits in what was once a kindergarten in the Chernobyl zone.
Alexia 8 months ago
And yet, in 2022, Russian troops invading Ukraine took control of the area (for a short time) and started digging trenches in the radioactive soil 🙄
Skogsrået 8 months ago (edited)
Russian forces have fired missiles against Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant wich started a fire. They took it over but right now i don't know if they still control it. My point being Russia do not care if they start a meltdown.
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Sunny Day 8 months ago
And the people living in Chetnobyl weren't informed of the danger. The Russians played it off as a minor fire. The public wasn't evacuated until 36 hours after the explosion - and STILL were under the impression that they would be returning in a day or two.
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
That’s why Chernobyl/Pripyat are such fascinating places to explore. Everything is still there. Every house still has dishes and furniture, even the schools still have toys and books. It’s like they just disappeared. So sad.
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CartoonCasey 8 months ago
"This picture show how an old armchair with a doll’s head sits in what was once a kindergarten in the Chernobyl zone." What an odd affect of deadly radiation. Rearrangement of the furniture. I did not know that. Now I am concerned. I find myself constantly rearranging the furniture in my apartment. I always thought it was because I am easily bored with a lot of free time on my hands. But now I might be dying of radiation sickness? That's a buzzkill heading into the weekend. Thanks
Lyone Fein 8 months ago
I agree. This is so obviously not a picture from any type of classroom, with the comfy chair and ottoman. Someone has mislabeled the photo.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 8 months ago
the plant operators were conducting a test to see if they could use ordinary nuclear fuel to create weapons grade plutonium when this happened.
#36
This is a photograph of Michael Rockefeller. If you don't recognize his first name, you certainly recognize his last. Michael's great-grandfather was John D. Rockefeller, the world's wealthiest person. Michael's father was Nelson Rockefeller, Vice-President of the United States. His uncle, Winthrop Rockefeller was governor of Arkansas and his first cousin, Jay Rockefeller, was governor of West Virginia.
Greatness was the low bar every Rockefeller had to surpass. For Michael, who had recently graduated from Harvard with honors, greatness was inevitable. But, as it is with most of the aristocracy, there is a quest for adventure before having to confine oneself to the governor's mansion or capital building. Michael decided to study and collect the art of the people in New Guinea, one of the islands near Indonesia.
In his 40-foot canoe (13-meters) and three miles (five kilometers) from shore, Michael's adjoined pontoon capsized. His two guides swam ashore to get help.
After two days of waiting, Michael decided to brave the waters. He jumped out of the canoe he was sharing with a Dutch anthropologist and started swimming.
The picture above may have been Michael's last. He disappeared.
Hundreds of reporters went to New Guinea to find out what happened. Private detectives were hired. Planes, helicopters, ships and thousands of locals scoured the island and the sea hoping to find something…anything. Rumors were spreading like wildfire.
Fifty-seven years later, the most disturbing rumors were confirmed by a National Geographic research team. Two missionaries who had lived with the natives and spoke their language came forward to tell the story, as did several members of the community. Dutch cololonialists had k**led four natives in 1958. Vengeance had to be taken.
Michael had survived the swim. Pulled ashore, his body was pierced with spears. His head was removed and the brains eaten raw. The rest of Michael's body was boiled in a pot before being consumed by the natives, each sharing in the meal. His thigh bones were made into daggers, and the bones from his lower legs were made into fishing spears.
The smiles of the three natives in the picture appear to be in anticipation of Michael's fate.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 8 months ago
Funny who BP censored "k¡lled" but left a quite graphic description of the process in which a man was k¡lled and cannibalized...
Amanda the Panda 8 months ago
How can “the smiles of the three natives in the picture appear to be in anticipation of Michael's fate” if he was slaughtered as soon as hit the shore? Why are his hair and clothes dry and his camera undamaged? And who took the photo if he swam to shore alone?
G A 8 months ago (edited)
Whoever or whatever wrote this, this is such BS. It is suggesting those in the photo cannibalised him when this was clearly not the case. In fact there is no evidence it happened, and some that suggests it was made up as a tall story to impress the journalists
Catherine North 8 months ago
The other prevailing theory, which his twin sister believes, is that he drowned before he ever made it to shore. After waiting days to be rescued, being 10-15 miles from shore, and the possibility there were strong currents it's entirely possible he never made it to land.
Leigh 8 months ago
It's far more likely he drowned. He was exhausted the water was swift and he wasn't near shore. Or a predator could've got him.
Load More Replies... Rachel Pelz 8 months ago
The last sentence...doubtful to me, as is the cannibalism part, which is hearsay after decades.
BrownEyedPanda 8 months ago
There is still a tribe in New Guinea that practices cannibalism as punishment for breaking one of their tribal laws.
Load More Replies... Svenne O'Lotta 8 months ago
Fúck you BP, fúck you and your disrespectful sensationalism. None of this is proven true except for the fact that he died.
KnightOwl 8 months ago (edited)
Ok, Wtf, I swear I've learned at least half of these stories through YouTube videos, especially videos by MrBallen. Either whoever wrote this article just took their stories from his videos or something really fishy is happening here. This story is especially fishy as there has never been any evidence of what happened to this young man, although there were a few reports and even one image apparently depicting a pale skinned white man living amongst the tribe in the years following his disappearance. The fishy thing here is Mr Ballen makes the claim that someone from one of the native tribes told the story of him being cannibalised to an outsider who'd befriended him to gain his trust although all the other tribes people deny the cannibal story never happened. This is most likely a tall tale told to impress and intimidate journalists.
Allen Packard 8 months ago (edited)
Michael? I've never heard that name in my life, how unique. LOL!
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 8 months ago
Downvote purely for the idiotic sensationalist last sentence.
#37
This picture shows an overcrowded graveyard and the skeletons dug up from their graves and became a popular photo-op for tourists, here in the picture, American Soldiers.
Tiny Dancer 8 months ago
"The Colon Cemetery ... founded in 1876 in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba ... named for Christopher Columbus ... single grave in the cemetery cost $10 in rent for five years. At the end of the five years, if the remains were not claimed, the bones were thrown into the boneyard (sometimes known as ‘bone pile’) by the cemetery authorities. In the 1890s, American soldiers often removed skulls and bones and drove through the streets of Havana displaying them. Their commander, General Brooke ordered the practice to stop and gave instructions for the pit to be covered over." SOURCE w/more pics: https://www.vintag.es/2020/10/soldiers-with-skuuls.html
Rebecca Ferguson 8 months ago
Photo op for tourists?? How numb do you have to be as a person to do this?
#38
The photograph above shows nine men from the “Eight-Nation Alliance” taken in 1900, shortly after the suppression of the Qing Dynasty-initiated Boxer Rebellion — United Kingdom, United States, Australia, India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Japan respectively.
Apparently, the intention had been to make the British soldier the tallest in the photograph to demonstrate their genetic superiority, only for the Americans to snuff this mandate by sending a taller man from their country — prompting the British to place a tall hat on their man.
According to some claims, everybody in the above photograph, except the American, would die a violent death, with the British soldier dying during the First Battle of Ypres in 1914, the Indian being hanged for treason in 1915, and the Japanese soldier dying in an air raid in 1944 among other examples.
General Anaesthesia 8 months ago
I suppose that as colonies of Britain, Australia (independent 1901) and India (independent 1947) weren't "nations" of the alliance. Apparently no Russian (member of the alliance) was available for the photograph. I could be wrong, though.
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kansasmagic 8 months ago
The Boxer Rebellion as the halfway point of China's "century of humiliation". Xi Jinping often refers to this period in speeches, calling for "national rejuvenation". It's classic authoritarian and nationalist rhetoric: *they* humiliated you, but *I* will make you great again! (Sound familiar?) The CCP is even (re)writing an "official" history of the Qing Dynasty to align with Xi's dream of Chinese dominance.
#39
The Remains from the Titanic
The Titanic was a famous cruiser that was dubbed “unsinkable” due to its compartment design that were able to keep the ship afloat so long as only five air tight compartments are flooded with water. On the fateful night of April 14, 1912, the Titanic collided with an iceberg and more than five compartments were filled.
The ship sank and took 1496 lives with it. In this image, we see the clothing of someone who sank with the Titanic. Officials believe that they still contain remains of the victims though some argue that the bodies of the victims are gone due to the water pressure.
Alexia 8 months ago
Very unlikely that "officials believe" that human remains were preserved for more than 100 years, under such conditions. The bodies decomposed long ago. However, if remains of the clothes are tested, they will show a high level of calcium carbonate.
General Anaesthesia 8 months ago (edited)
[pedantry] The Titanic was not a "cruiser" but an ocean liner. AI turning Authentic Ignorance into fact will make education futile. "...afloat so long as only five air tight compartments are flooded with water..." - if "five" is correct then "no more than five", not "only five" please. [/end pedantry]
Robyn Hill 8 months ago
Not pedantic at all. Cruisers and ocean liners are two totally different classes of ships. Titanic was an ocean liner. Accuracy is important!
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Rachel Pelz 8 months ago
TIL the water pressure is thought to have destroyed the body of Titanic survivors. Had been wondering about that since 1997- the empty boots in the movie. I suspected fish but was amazed, given the depth.
Lorraine R 8 months ago
Thought I read somewhere that the chemical concentration of the water at that depth would also have a part in actually dissolving not only the bodies, but almost any organic material except for tanned leather, hence the survival of shoes, leather luggage, dolls' bodies made of kid, etc.
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#40
This is one of the most celebrated pictures of the post-war era shot in 1945, celebrating USA victory in the Second World War. While it may seem very romantic and merry, some people claim that this is a picture of a s*xual a*sault. The sailor and the nurse are not actually a couple. It’s the first time they met and the sailor simply spun her and kissed her. The sailors actual future wife, is standing right beside him, out of the frame.
The identity of the nurse hasn’t been identified, and her opinion on this is still unknown. But it’s worth knowing the backstory of this picture.
Catherine North 8 months ago
The nurse was Greta Zimmer Friedman. She said he didn't ask her, it wasn't much of a kiss and that later she recognized it as an act of joy. The conversation surrounding consent is one that should be had. I'm merely relating what her opinion was, not defending his choice to kiss her without permission.
cerinamroth 8 months ago
Thank you for a nuanced response - something most people posting online don't have time for these days.
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M H 8 months ago
Greta Zimmer Friedmann. She did not want the kiss. There are plenty of interviews with her.
David 8 months ago
She is one of 3 people who make the claim, historians find her the least credible of the 3 claimants, but she goes to all the media interviews , which is why she is more publicly known
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MagicJacket 8 months ago
Sexual a*****t? Really? It is a nonconsensual kiss. Not cool, but not sexual a*****t. Let's not overcorrect when labeling things, eh?
General Anaesthesia 8 months ago
"George Mendonsa, identified as ‘kissing sailor’ in WWII victory photo, dies at 95" - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/george-mendonsa-sailor-whose-times-square-kiss-celebrated-end-of-wwii-dies-at-95/2019/02/18/6450196c-3398-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html
slay_potato 7 months ago
The sailors girlfriend can actually be seen in the photo. She is the smiling head just above the sailors back.
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General Anaesthesia 8 months ago (edited)
Too many not-entirely-true historical facts and sometimes atrocious writing. Many of the photographs are interesting, though.
Rafael 8 months ago
Just to repeat what I said on one of the entries above, the intro says "If you’re a fan of the occasional jolt from slightly unsettling content, you may find this list enjoyable." Anyone that finds enjoyment on "here's a picture of when someone killed this guys daughter and dismembered her" should have their head checked.
Bored Sailor 8 months ago
Unfortunately like other things on BP the title was change to "40 Seemingly Normal Photos That Have Terrifying Backstories" that is why the earlier comments to your post. Could change again by the time I finish typing.
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PunchinelloTX 8 months ago
These captions… they are a tad insipid, yes? Not accurate, glib, downplaying suffering and overselling a specious idea for an already oft-repeated list.
ᏕᏂᎥᎥᏁᎧ <3 8 months ago (edited)
Stop the censoring and I'm fine. BP is taking censoring too far. Half the time I don't even know what I'm looking at cuz it's all just ************
Cath Rowe 8 months ago
Regarding your Poll about people “ enjoying “ watching unsettling subjects …. I have spent over a week trying to avoid programs on TV that involve violence and murder …. It is almost impossible Could it be that young people are committing terrible crimes because they have spent their young lives being exposed to violence and grizzly murders ? and actually get a taste for it ?
General Anaesthesia 8 months ago (edited)
Too many not-entirely-true historical facts and sometimes atrocious writing. Many of the photographs are interesting, though.
Rafael 8 months ago
Just to repeat what I said on one of the entries above, the intro says "If you’re a fan of the occasional jolt from slightly unsettling content, you may find this list enjoyable." Anyone that finds enjoyment on "here's a picture of when someone killed this guys daughter and dismembered her" should have their head checked.
Bored Sailor 8 months ago
Unfortunately like other things on BP the title was change to "40 Seemingly Normal Photos That Have Terrifying Backstories" that is why the earlier comments to your post. Could change again by the time I finish typing.
Load More Replies... PunchinelloTX 8 months ago
These captions… they are a tad insipid, yes? Not accurate, glib, downplaying suffering and overselling a specious idea for an already oft-repeated list.
ᏕᏂᎥᎥᏁᎧ <3 8 months ago (edited)
Stop the censoring and I'm fine. BP is taking censoring too far. Half the time I don't even know what I'm looking at cuz it's all just ************
Cath Rowe 8 months ago
Regarding your Poll about people “ enjoying “ watching unsettling subjects …. I have spent over a week trying to avoid programs on TV that involve violence and murder …. It is almost impossible Could it be that young people are committing terrible crimes because they have spent their young lives being exposed to violence and grizzly murders ? and actually get a taste for it ?
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