27 Disturbing and unsettling photos from the past

The vulture and the little girl

Photo #2

Frank Fournier’s photograph of Omayra Sánchez

This haunting photo is of Omayra Sánchez, a 13 years old girl from Columbia. She was stuck in beneath the debris of her house in Columbia, aftermath of a devastating ‘lahar’ (violent type of mudflows, landslides, and debris flows induced by volcanic activity) in November, 1986. Omayra was trapped for almost 3 days and after struggling for more than 60 hours she died. People tried to help her but failed. One you see the photo, it’ll remain in your memory for long. Read more here in Wikipedia.

Aftermath of Hiroshima attack, a boy was standing with his dead brother on his back to be ceramated

Photo #4

On June 18, 1967, A manager pouring acid in pool to scare away the Civil Rights protestor, who jumped in a white only pool

The photgraph was taken by Horace Cort. Read more about is here, here and here.

Photo #5

This photo was taken just few moments before Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, that killed 29 people including the photographer

The bomb was in the red car and went off just after the photo was taken. Miraculously the father and the child survived. The incident took place in August 15, 1998. Read more about is here, and here

May be the last known photos of Titanic in last fateful voyage

Photo #7

Photo of a beautiful and well dressed dead girls with with her dolls, it was custom to take dead person’s photo

Photo #8

A jewish man, kneeling before a pit filled with bodies, about to be shot by a German soldier

A 1980 photo by Mike Wells, showing a severely malnourished Uganda boy’s hand rests in a Catholic monk’s hand.

Photo #10

A lonely injured baby is cryingat a shattered Shanghai South railway station aftermath of bomb blast in 1937 

Known as Bloody Saturday the photo was taken on 28 August 1937 by H. S. Wong. More info here and here.

An American evacuee punches away a South Vietnamese man who was trying to get in for a place on the last chopper out of the US embassy in 1975

Along with 4 other scared and crying children and few army people, a 9-year old naked girl fleeing from a Vietnam village after a napalm bomb was accidentally dropped, she survived by tearing off her clothes

Photo #13

Could be the last photo of 14 years Regina Kay Walters, the victim of serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, known as ‘Truck Stop Killer”. Photos shows scared Regina Kay Walters in just above knee-height black dress and black, raised hand as if to protect herself

Human skin gloves made by Ed Gein known ‘Butcher of Plainfield’ or Plainfield Ghoul. He was an American convicted murderer and body snatcher

Photo #15

Apollo1 astronaut mocking a prayer for a gag version of a crew portrait showing their concern of the safety of Apllo 1 Spacecraft. Photo shows The crews heads were bowed and hands were clasped in prayer infront of the miniature spacecraft. Later they all died in fire in a routine simulated launch test

Photo #16

A Mongolian woman condemned to die of starvation left locked in a wooden box at a deserted area

Correction: The photo was wrongly labelled as ‘condemned to die of starvation as a punishment for adultery’ by the publisher. But in truth ahe was improsined in the wooden box or it was a prisoner tranporting box. More details here and here.

Photo #17

Man falling to death from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in 2001

A Nazi soldier shooting from a very close range to kill a Jewish mother, who was desperate to save her child by embracing the child

Another example of the Nazi atrocities. More about this heart breaking incidents here.

An 11 years old girl was found floating on a disintegrating float. Her whole family was murdered on a sail boat by their hired captain who left her to drown with the sinking boat

Khmer Rouge Killing Fields, Cambodia

“The Killing Fields (Khmer: វាលពិឃាត, Khmer pronunciation: [ʋiəl pikʰiət]) are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime (the Communist Party of Kampuchea) during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975). The mass killings are widely regarded as part of a broad state-sponsored genocide (the Cambodian genocide)” – Wikipedia

Lifeless bodies on the rickshaw. On March 25, 1971 the Pakistan Army’s premeditated attack on unarmed civilians.

The cowardice act of Pakistani army in 25th march, 1971. Read details here and here.

Photo #22

A circus elephant was killed by hanging from crane for killing its rider in front of many people in 1926, Tennessee

Photo #23

Saigon Execution. A photo taken by Eddie Adams in Vietnam war in 1968 showing a VietCong assassin Nguyen Van Lem was executed by Major General Nguyen Ngoc Loan from a point blank range

This is a classical example of you ‘perception’ changed ones you know the story behind it. Read the story here, you must read it.

The Great Bengal Famine of 1943

Treatment of a mental patient in 1890

In October of 1942, a German military shoots at a Jewish lady after a mass execution in Mizocz, Ukraine

A Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence through music.