A thread for eerie and creepy - but NOT gory - photos. Should/will be updated semi-regularly. Contributions welcome, but no gore, no horrific injuries etc.
The crew of Space Shuttle Challenger on their way to board the doomed shuttle. 76 seconds after takeoff it exploded, killing all of them....... but not instantly.
Omagh bombing. The red car contains a bomb that killed 29 people and injured 220. The man and the child both survived. The photographer didn't.
14 year old Keith Sapsford hid in the wheel bay of a flight from Sydney to Japan. Amateur photographer John Gilspin was testing his new camera lens, and captured Sapsford falling to his death.
Teacher Dave Sanders evacuating kids from Columbine High School. A few minutes after this photo was taken, he was shot twice in the chest and bled out in a classroom over a couple of hours, while the cops waited outside and didn't enter the school building until more than 3 hours after both killers had committed suicide. Sanders was the only adult killed.
Rugby team on Uruguayan Flight 571, before it crashed in the Andes and the survivors infamously resorted to cannibalism of the dead to survive until being rescued 72 days after the crash.
Dashcam of TransAsia Flight 235 about to crash into the Keelung River in Taiwan. 15 out of 58 people survived the crash.
Gilles Leclerc and Marianne Labanane take a selfie at the Bataclan Theatre as they wait for the Eagles of Death Metal to perform. A few minutes later, four gunmen stormed the venue and killed and mutilated 90 people. Marianne survived, Gilles did not.
Harambe.
Darsh Patel took this photo while hiking. A few minutes later, the bear killed him.
Nicholas Mevoli after his last free dive (no oxygen.) He completed the dive, surfaced, gave the OK signal and tried to speak, but passed out instead. He never regained consciousness, and died the same day from a pulmonary edema.
Family takes a nice picture at Niagara Falls. The random girl in red, 20 year old student Ayano Tokumasu, is seconds away from throwing herself over the railing to her death.
Titanic heading out to sea on its maiden voyage.
Concorde about to crash into a hotel and kill 113 people.
George Mallory and Sandy Irvine in 1924, about to begin their ascent of Mount Everest. Nobody knows if they beat Hillary to the summit by three decades, or if they didn't. Either way, they didn't make it back down.
Great White playing at the Station nightclub, a few minutes/seconds before their pyro effects (which you can see in the photo) caused a fire that killed over 100 people.
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The crew of Space Shuttle Challenger on their way to board the doomed shuttle. 76 seconds after takeoff it exploded, killing all of them....... but not instantly.
Omagh bombing. The red car contains a bomb that killed 29 people and injured 220. The man and the child both survived. The photographer didn't.
14 year old Keith Sapsford hid in the wheel bay of a flight from Sydney to Japan. Amateur photographer John Gilspin was testing his new camera lens, and captured Sapsford falling to his death.
Teacher Dave Sanders evacuating kids from Columbine High School. A few minutes after this photo was taken, he was shot twice in the chest and bled out in a classroom over a couple of hours, while the cops waited outside and didn't enter the school building until more than 3 hours after both killers had committed suicide. Sanders was the only adult killed.
Rugby team on Uruguayan Flight 571, before it crashed in the Andes and the survivors infamously resorted to cannibalism of the dead to survive until being rescued 72 days after the crash.
Dashcam of TransAsia Flight 235 about to crash into the Keelung River in Taiwan. 15 out of 58 people survived the crash.
Gilles Leclerc and Marianne Labanane take a selfie at the Bataclan Theatre as they wait for the Eagles of Death Metal to perform. A few minutes later, four gunmen stormed the venue and killed and mutilated 90 people. Marianne survived, Gilles did not.
Harambe.
Darsh Patel took this photo while hiking. A few minutes later, the bear killed him.
Nicholas Mevoli after his last free dive (no oxygen.) He completed the dive, surfaced, gave the OK signal and tried to speak, but passed out instead. He never regained consciousness, and died the same day from a pulmonary edema.
Family takes a nice picture at Niagara Falls. The random girl in red, 20 year old student Ayano Tokumasu, is seconds away from throwing herself over the railing to her death.
Titanic heading out to sea on its maiden voyage.
Concorde about to crash into a hotel and kill 113 people.
George Mallory and Sandy Irvine in 1924, about to begin their ascent of Mount Everest. Nobody knows if they beat Hillary to the summit by three decades, or if they didn't. Either way, they didn't make it back down.
Great White playing at the Station nightclub, a few minutes/seconds before their pyro effects (which you can see in the photo) caused a fire that killed over 100 people.
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