Photos with an eerie backstory (graphic)

[Army of One]

Robert McGee. 1890. Scalped by the Sioux as a child and survived

[Army of One]

The GI standing next to the photographer shot the boy after the photo was taken. This happened during the My Lai massacre in the Vietnam War where between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968 were massacred. It was committed by U.S. Army soldiers from the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated. Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years under house arrest.

[Army of One]

[Army of One]

The Most Beautiful Suicide

On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. ‘He is much better off without me … I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody,’ … Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale’s death Wiles got this picture of death’s violence and its composure. The serenity of McHale’s body amidst the crumpled wreckage it caused is astounding. Years later, Andy Warhol appropriated Wiles’ photography for a print called Suicide (Fallen Body).

[Army of One]

Walter Jackson Freeman II was an American doctor and member of the American Psychiatric Association. Although he is the only one on our list who hasn’t performed a direct criminal practice on his patients, he can be blamed for harming as many as 3,400 people by using a very controversial and primitive medical technique: the lobotomy.

His operations were performed by inserting a metal pick into the corner of each eye socket, moving it back and forth, and thereby severing the connections to the pre-frontal cortex in the frontal lobes of the brain.
This method did not require a neurosurgeon and could be performed outside of an operating room without the use of anesthesia. Freeman actually used his personal van as a surgery room, which he called the “lobotomobile”.

Dr. Freeman was finally banned from performing surgery after the death of some of his patients from brain hemorrhage.

[Moontrane]

Russia sent this astronaut, Vladimir Komarov into space knowing the space shuttle had over 200 structural instabilities. Komarov screamed the entire way down cursing the people who sent him up there. This is what remained of him after the incident

The backstory on this one is something else:

"Russayev asked, Why not refuse? According to the authors, Komarov answered: "If I don't make this flight, they'll send the backup pilot instead." That was Yuri Gagarin. Vladimir Komarov couldn't do that to his friend. "That's Yura," the book quotes him saying, "and he'll die instead of me. We've got to take care of him." Komarov then burst into tears."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage

[TrueGrit]

[wes]

Gentlemen............rear lat spread please! 

[Lustral]

I can't post pic from phone but if you google brody banderas, think that's name, he is a mexican hitman with the jawline of a model. He took a selfie in his vehicle and in background you can see someone with duct tape over mouth. He executed him shortly after. If someone could post it, the dude put such pics on his fb page.

[beakdoctor]

Last seen in the back of the Lobotomobile.

[Earl1972]

Carl Tanzler also known as Count Carl von Cosel (February 8, 1877 – July 23, 1952) was an American radiologist of German decent who became morbidly obsessed with with one of his young patients, Elena Miagro “Helen” de Hoyos (1909 – 1931). At the time Tuberculosis was still a dreaded disease that took the lives of many who suffered it. Tanzler’s job meant that he came into a lot of contact with TB sufferers which is how he met Elena. He fell in love with her – after seeing an apparition of his future love (a dark-headed woman bearing a striking resemblance to his patient).

Despite Tanzler’s hard work, Hoyos died. Tanzler (with no arguments from the Hoyos family) paid for the funeral and the erection of an above-ground tomb for his beloved Elena; a tomb with which he would become very familiar. Every night when he finished work – when most people were at home eating dinner – Tanzler would visit Elena’s tomb; but he didn’t just lay flowers. He had a key and would let himself in and sleep beside her corpse. After six months of practicing this bizarre ritual he decided to go one step further. He stole Elena’s body from the tomb and took her to his home. The details so far are bizarre enough but Hoyos has more indignities to suffer in death.

Tanzler reconstructed Hoyos’ decomposed body by rejoining disjointed bones with piano wire and he stuffed her body with rags. He gave her glass eyes and, as her skin disintegrated, he replaced it with layers of silk soaked in wax. As her hair fell out he made her a wig with hair given to him by her mother after the funeral. He dressed her in finery and sprayed her liberally with perfume – much needed given the strong stench of decay. She spent her days and nights in his bed. He went so far in his madness as to add a tube into her vagina so he could have sex with her.

i remember seeing the story of this on the 90's HBO show called "autopsy"

easily the creepiest tv show ever created, it just proves as shockwave says that monsters are real and among us

great thread btw

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[Rami]

last photo of protein shake before consumed

ohh.. disgusting

[LurkerNoMore]

The toddler is being led away from his mother by one of the 10 year old boys who abducted and would later murder him

I remember reading about this in the paper a long time ago.  The two ten year olds took him to the railroad tracks and basically beat/stoned him to death correct?

PS - Great thread.

[R.A.M.]

I remember reading about this in the paper a long time ago.  The two ten year olds took him to the railroad tracks and basically beat/stoned him to death correct?

PS - Great thread.

Yep that's them.. I believe they are out of jail.

[El Diablo Blanco]

WYHI?

I would.

The Most Beautiful Suicide

On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. ‘He is much better off without me … I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody,’ … Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale’s death Wiles got this picture of death’s violence and its composure. The serenity of McHale’s body amidst the crumpled wreckage it caused is astounding. Years later, Andy Warhol appropriated Wiles’ photography for a print called Suicide (Fallen Body).

[El Diablo Blanco]

Last Photo of Steve Jobs

Must be sad to have your mind still functioning at genius level but your body just completely gone.

[Lustral]

I remember reading about this in the paper a long time ago.  The two ten year olds took him to the railroad tracks and basically beat/stoned him to death correct?

PS - Great thread.

It was jamie bolger. They poured paint in his eyes and tortured him before throwing him in front of a train. Released early one was nailed again on pedo charges (child porn) and a newspaper had current pics think it was john venables but weren't allowed to publish. Some day someone will publish pics and justice of sorts will be done, fucking scumbags.

[hench]

wtf, looked better before!

Walter Yeo, one of the first people to undergo a skin transplant and advanced plastic surgery in 1917

[Nails]

i went to the Museum of Death in Hollywood last year, man they have some weird shit in that place



 http://www.museumofdeath.net/

[hench]

they also stuffed batteries up his arse, how can anyone be so evil let alone at age 10

It was jamie bolger. They poured paint in his eyes and tortured him before throwing him in front of a train. Released early one was nailed again on pedo charges (child porn) and a newspaper had current pics think it was john venables but weren't allowed to publish. Some day someone will publish pics and justice of sorts will be done, fucking scumbags.

[Lustral]

they also stuffed batteries up his arse, how can anyone be so evil let alone at age 10

I think they tried to blame child's play or computer games. I'm sure parents were blameless 

[Darren Avey]

Nicely stolen from check hook boxing!

[Big Chiro Flex]

Great thread

[Wolfox]

Every BBing photo has an eerie backstory.

[Army of One]

Newly wed couple, Christina and Gabe watson, came to Australia (From America) for a honeymoon - the husband was seen giving her a bearhug while she flailed, then left her at the
bottom of the ocean before climbing on board and alerting that she needed help.

It's believed (however he denies) that he turned off her air regulator and held her until she became unconscious. The photo revealed Tina lying on the ocean floor, something that did not come to light until a couple of weeks later when the pictures were developed.


He's since married someone else who apparently looks just like Tina.