Last updated on April 3rd, 2024 at 09:11 pm
History is more than just innovations and triumphs. In truth, much of it involves numerous instances of brutality, warfare, and other unsettling, regrettable realities.
Take a look below at some of the most haunting moments from history.
Joseph Goebbels glares at Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1933.
Che Guevara’s last moments. Bolivia, 9 October 1967.
Windows on the World, the restaurant on top of the WTC North Center, 1976.
Shells from an Allied bombardment all fired in a single day on German lines in 1916
Women and girls using Radium paint, not knowing the health issues that would soon follow. 1922.
Temporary NYPD headquarters at a Burger King, September 11, 2001.
Austro-Hungarian trench raiders near Caporetto, 1917.
Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic from Nirvana at Kurt Cobain’s funeral. Seattle, Washington (1994)
A young private waits on the beach during the Marine landing at Da Nang, 1965.
Little John F. Kennedy Jr. waiting for his Dad, President John F. Kennedy to land at Camp David, Maryland in October 1963.
The lost girl, 1874 Blanche Monnier was a Parisian socialite, known for her beauty. In France, she is referred to as “La Séquestrée de Poitiers” which means “The Confined Woman of Poitiers”.
John List takes a family portrait.
This is a photo of a British veteran of the Napoleonic wars posing with his wife. He can be seen wearing a campaign medal, commemorating the fact that he served in Spain.
Freddie Mercury said to Mary Austin in his will: “If things had been different you would have been my wife, and this would have been yours anyway.” (1984)
The last photo of The Dyatlov Pass Victims
Throughout the USS Triton’s secret mission to circumnavigate the world submerged, the only unauthorized individual to spot the submarine during those sixty days was a Filipino man on his canoe, who noticed its periscope. April 1, 1960.
Kurt Cobain cries after an emotional set.
A photo of Joe Arridy giving his toy train to another inmate before he’s taken to the gas chamber for a crime he never committed.
Taken at the Michigan Carbon Works factory in Rougeville, the pile of bison skulls in this photo was slated to be processed and used in making products like bone glue, fertilizer, bone ash, bone char, and bone charcoal.
This photo of Heath Ledger is from his last film ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,’ a few days before his passing.
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Captured 16-year-old German anti-aircraft soldier during WW2, 1945
1929 – Boarding of British Airship R101 – This would likely be the Airships last voyage as it crashed shortly after in France.
WW1 photo of German friends in a trench bunker. Photos on the wall and one being a photo of a woman.
An American serviceman shares his rations with two Japanese children on the island of Okinawa, 1945
Men waiting in line for the possibility of a job during the Great Depression
6-year old Jewel Walker picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day (1916)
Christmas dinner, 1936. Dinner consisted of potatoes, cabbage, and pie.
General Sherman overlooking Atlanta, 1864.
Lady and her horse on a snowy day in 1899.
Three young girls working as oyster shuckers. Port Royal, South Carolina, USA. 1909. Photograph by Lewis Hine.
A ghostly yet mesmerizing image from 1900.
Frozen Niagara Falls, 1911.
5-year-old Harold Walker picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day, Oklahoma, 1916.
Part of the infamous crime-ridden slum in New York City known as the Five Points. Photo by Jacob Riis, 1872.
A cult-like, early meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club
A tent belonging to the missing campers of the Dyatlov pass
A boy is treated for a bite from a Russell’s viper as his father watches on
Terrifying Santa Claus.
Gas Masks for babies.
Inside a train in the 1800s.
A sharecropper and his wife in Missisipspi, 1937.
Josephine Smith digging a grave at the Drouin Cemetery during World War II
Family in front of their log house 1880’s.
28 students of a one-room school, Missouri, 1939.
A coal miner and his family, West Virginia, 1938.
Welsh woman washing her mine-working husband, 1931.
Two Boys in London, 1902.
Poor mother and children, Finland 1917.
Deadwood, South Dakota, circa. 1877.
The Endurance ship being stuck in the Antarctic ice (forever), 1915.
Two brothers from West Virginia who fought on opposite sides of the American Civil War in 1910
Zen monks at Asakusa Temple, in Tokyo, perform air raid drills with gas masks in 1936
Sharon Tate showing off the baby clothing she had bought in London, UK in 1969.
One of only 2 photographs ever taken of US president Andrew Jackson. 1845
A wedding during the Lebanese Civil War, Beirut, Lebanon, 1986.
A female Afghan communist revolutionary during the Saur Revolution, 1978
Departure of a Red Cross train going to Switzerland, Budapest, Hungary, 1947
The first wave of Marine landing craft head towards the beaches of Iwo Jima. 08:59, 19 February 1945.
Two German Soldiers in 1916
Massive column of thousands of German prisoners of war marching down the Autobahn
Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle in Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, weeps upon his return to Japan in February 1972.
French civilians erected this memorial to an American soldier in Carentan, France, in 1944.
Barricade constructed by revolutionaries of the Paris commune, 1871.
