These Creepy Photos From History Will Send Chills Through You

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what kind of words would you be able to say when you see an image you simply cannot explain? Throughout history, we’ve been riddled with photographs that are hauntingly shocking or just downright hard to explain.

Dining is supposed to be a pleasurable experience for everyone, but would you still have the appetite to eat a delicious meal when there’s a noose hanging just above where you’re seated?  

Although we’re alone most of the time, some people cannot help but feel like someone’s always standing right behind them, just watching their every move. This photo of Gloria Vanderbilt might just be the perfect description of how these people feel. 

Sometimes, photos capture not just reality, but also the supernatural. We may not like it at times, but some energies are just too strong that their presence bleeds into our world. In the case of this couple, a ghostly face can be seen inside their vehicle as their photo was being taken. 

While other ghostly photos are fake, some turn out to be as real as it gets. This man was being photographed as he was driving on his way to visit the grave of his wife's mother. When they saw the photograph, they were stunned to find another person with him in the car. 

Being sick with a grave illness is already depressing as it is, but it can be even more depressing when you have to be isolated from everyone else to prevent them from getting infected. This is the case for people who were suffering from smallpox in 1983. 

The technology wasn’t so advanced in the past, so photos with spiritual entities in them are easy to believe. This photo, again taken by William Hope, has the face of a ghostly being in between two people who were mourning for a deceased man. 

Some animals, such as wolves or sheep, are more associated with the devil than others, especially if they're black in color. Naturally, we can't help but feel spooked out upon seeing a photo of a black sheep sitting in a rather human-like form among human beings. 

In many countries, people bury their deceased loved ones below the ground or cremate them and take their ashes at home or scatter them in different places. For some Chinese communities though, they place their dearly departed in “ghost hotels.” 

There are moments when your eye tricks your mind into seeing things that could send you running miles away, such as this photograph. At first glance, you might end up screaming thinking that two people have been hanging lifeless on this clothesline. 

Nowadays, we cannot deny the fact that kids who go trick or treating are simply adorable. With their cute costumes and cheerful laughter, they turn Halloween into a season to be happy about instead of a season to fear. 

There are times when actors are so in character that viewers end up believing their act. One such dedicated actor is Juliette Gréco. In 1965, she starred as the phantom Belphégor in the French television miniseries of the same name. 

We can all agree that there’s nothing scarier than being all alone in a graveyard. But what’s scarier is being all alone in a graveyard where the caskets are not buried and have no bodies inside. 

There’s a reason why we bury the dearly departed below the ground. It’s because seeing the body of a deceased person is just too difficult to bear. However, the Capuchin monks might disagree with you. 

Like graveyards, wreckages are equally terrifying, perhaps even scarier due to the negative events that occurred there. There have been countless stories of people seeing ghosts in sites where there have been accidents, and the wreck of Tithorea is not an exception. 

There are plenty of photos on the Internet with spirits in them, and many of them turn out to be real. One of the scariest ghosts caught on camera is The Specter of Newby Church. Now, churches are religious places, but it’s really not surprising to see a paranormal entity there since it’s also a place where the deceased are blessed before being laid to their final resting place. 

Like we said, just because something is holy doesn’t mean it’s not scary. Thanks to some horror films, we’ve automatically associated holy places with demons and evil spirits. There’s really just something unsettling about religious icons, such as this supposedly angelic statue of an angel (or perhaps a young Jesus Christ). 

When you first see this photo, you’d immediately think it’s a classy portrait of a family in the Victorian era. Upon knowing the story behind this image though, you’ll learn it’s much darker than that. In reality, this image is called a “memento mori,” which literally means "remember you must die." 

We don’t know about you, but the longer we stare into this photo, the scarier it gets. In this image, you can see three women with pale white faces staring into the camera as if ready to attack at any moment. 

It really is scary looking at a deceased person face to face, but don’t be fooled because this photo is not even an image of a person who has passed away. It’s actually a picture of the actor Boris Karloff in the 1932 motion picture The Mummy. 

Imagine having to walk all alone on the road at night with a bunch of gravestones on the side. People who lived during the 1960s at King Street in London wouldn’t have to imagine that scenario since they got to experience it first-hand. 

For as long as anyone can remember, a war has been going on in Rwanda, specifically between the Tutsi and Hutu tribes. The war in Rwanda has taken the lives of countless people, and it has left remnants that will last for many years to come. 

Some people really just love the adrenaline rush they get from listening to scary stories or even visiting haunted places, which is why these youngsters decided to just throw a house party in a haunted house in the hopes of seeing a presence from the other side. 

We really wouldn’t know what would happen to us once we cross over to the afterlife. Some people have theories but none of us can really be sure unless we’re already there. Many people claim that spirits wander off thinking they’re still alive during the first few moments they’re gone, but some say they can linger on for a long time. 

Many people who have escaped the clutches of death have claimed that they saw a bright light at the end of a long tunnel. This image, perhaps, could give us a sneak peek of whatever it is they saw when they briefly crossed over to the afterlife. 

There are certain parts of our world that remain unexplored. Many of these are inhabited by tribes who have no notion of religion and technology. For one, a lot of these tribes managed to preserve their old ways due to the fact that they don’t want anyone to change them. 

This is another proof of how damaging the war in Rwanda has been. This photo of a human skull that lay scattered among benches inside the church in Nyamata, Rwanda, where 25,000 Tutsis were massacred. 

There’s nothing scarier than looking at an image and wondering what’s going on. This photo, titled fear, taken by Henry Peach Robinson in 1860 depicts a young girl seemingly startled and awaken from a deep sleep by an unknown presence in her room. 

In many movies, we’ve seen people being experimented on all in the name of science. But in each of these scenarios, the person being subjected to the experiment always turns out to be tortured in some kind of way. Now, what we’re talking about happens in the movies but can you imagine what it would be like if it happens in real life? 

We think it’s safe to say that many people are familiar with animal sacrifices, often for a sinister cause. That is why seeing this type of photo containing the skeletal remains of animals can be quite unsettling, even if it turns out to be taken for aesthetic purposes. 

There are times when you don’t even need paranormal entities to feel scared. This unsettling photo of a mannequin family being used as test subjects for an atomic bomb blast shows just how macabre war and science can get. 

For the longest time, seances have been done by people who still want to communicate with their dearly departed loved ones who have left them unexpectedly. Whether they are real or not, many people believe them out of pure desperation and superstition. 

Although there are no ghosts or spirits in this photo, it passes off as one of the creepiest pictures in history due to the oddities of the subjects captured in the image. Not only do they all look alike and have a blank expression on their faces, but they also have strangely long hair growing out of their heads. 

It’s terrifying enough to find out that there are murderers out there just waiting to make a move on their next victim, but it’s even scarier to think that the said fugitive is confident that the authorities won’t be able to catch them. 

We bet many people around the world are afraid of dolls. Although it’s meant to be the perfect toy for young girls all over the world, we can’t help but feel scared of dolls since they’re almost always the subject of many horror movies. 

There really are just some photos that can send chills down your spine without even having a scary element in it. This photo of a girl bobbing for apples on Halloween can easily give any person the heebie-jeebies thanks to its lighting and the weird grin on the girl’s face. 

Another seemingly innocent photo, this picture of a family hanging out in the middle of a dark cornfield can make anyone run in terror. Maybe we’re just overanalyzing it, but it feels as if they have a sinister agenda judging by the look on their faces. 

Sometimes, people find comfort in being alone, but we feel like no one would feel any type of comfort once they walk alone in a park as creepy as this one. 

Another spooky combination that horror movies have exploited for many years is dolls and children. In a typical horror film, the doll would be the vessel that the evil spirit would use to lure in the human child in an attempt to claim their innocent soul and the soul of their loved ones. 

One of the most popular questions that have been asked to us is “if you could meet someone famous who is already gone, who would it be?” Abraham Lincoln would probably be one of the top results. If you were around in the 1870s, then you might have just had the chance to take a photograph with him, with the help of William Mumler. 

Sculptures are one of the most beautiful works of art aside from paintings. Then again, some of them have such sinister themes that they end up looking scary instead of beautiful. This wall sculpture at the Pere Lachaise cemetery is just one example of a sculpture that ended up looking scary. 

Madame Tussauds Waxworks in different countries are visited by many tourists all year round thanks to its lifelike wax replicas of famous personalities. However, we don’t think you’d enjoy seeing wax models being made. 

Photographs have always been around to freeze a moment in time, but plaster casts also do a similar job, especially if one wants to achieve a more three-dimensional effect. 

This may look like a usual house or may even look like a house you'd want to live in, but not if you find out that it's one of the most haunted houses in New Zealand. The house at Glenfield has been haunting all who have lived there for many years, including Maree Cash and her family. 

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK, has been the object of fear of many people, particularly the Black community, for many years now. This white supremacist hate group has used violence as a means to get their message across, so being the target of this group can be pretty scary. 

Back in the day, one of the scariest things that could happen to anyone is getting gassed. At the height of the war, gas bombs are the common weapons used to attack enemies, Unfortunately, it also affects innocent civilians who get caught in the crossroad. 

We’re pretty sure that many people all over the world would say that insects are their biggest fear. If you’re one of those people, then you’ll surely feel terrified just by looking at this photo of a mayfly invasion. Mayflies begin as eggs burrowing in lake sediment, and after a year or two, they swim to the surface, emerging fully winged. 

If you’ve watched movies such as IT or the Joker, then you’ll know exactly how scary clowns are. We don’t know how or when the killer clown phenomena started, but fear of clowns is a real thing. 

In marriage, couples vow never to separate "til death do us part." This group of people though seemed to have never heard of this saying since they refuse to part ways even if one of them has already passed away. 

Imagine having to walk all alone in this empty street at night. Would you take the risk? Although there are plenty of lights on this path, the thought of walking alone can be quite unsettling for many people, especially since the street looks too quiet for anyone to pass by. 

To this day, the image of The Falling Man remains to be one of the creepiest photos all over the Internet. The photo shows a man seemingly freefalling from a building. The building turns out to be one of the Twin Towers and the photo was taken on the day of the 9-11 attacks. 

Once you see priests sprinkling Holy Water in every corner of a house, then you'll instantly know that there's definitely something evil in their presence. Sadly, such is the case of the Lahore family and their haunted farm. 

Works of art, whether they be paintings, sculptures, music, or poetry often depict a significant event as its subject. In this case, this group of statues seemingly show five life-sized figures of humans dressed in rags, clutching onto their belongings and children. 

Out of all the bizarre images that you might find online, none of them would be weirder than this photo of a sleeping man surrounded by a bunch of skeletons. Not much is said about the photo, but we suspect this is an attempt to translate what nightmares feel like using photographs. 

What's scarier than seeing the cold and lifeless bodies of people is knowing that their passing sparked an even bigger event that would take the lives of countless people. This photo shows the wake of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand beside his beloved wife Sophie, the Duchess of Hohenburg in open coffins. 

Back in the day, there were many people who became casualties of the war, which explains why there were a lot of skeletal remains anywhere you go. These World War I soldiers must have stumbled upon a few human skulls and decided to do a morbid joke of French infantrymen in Craonne. 

It's as if this photo is an image taken out of an old horror film, these kids wearing creepy masks gather around a brightly lit Jack-O-Lantern during Halloween. We don't know about you, but these masks play a huge role in invoking fear for us. 

If there’s a hospital where dolls are given new life, there’s also an island where dolls are given as a tribute to the spirit of a drowned girl. The "Island of Dolls" along the canals of Xochimilco in Mexico is full of hundreds of abandoned dolls. 

One of the most famous haunted photos online is this group photo taken in 1919 of Sir Victor Goddard's Royal Air Force squadron. This group of men, who have served during World War I, is said to contain a chilling secret among the men in its ranks. 

There are some spirits that refuse to leave the world of the living which we often refer to as ghosts. These ghosts often appear to us like an apparition that makes the hair at the back of our necks stand. In Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England, a ghost often referred to as the "Brown Lady of Raynham Hall" walks the corridors and gives people a good scare. 

Your parents may be strict but we're pretty sure they are not as strict as Blanche Monnier's mother. You see, the French young lady was planning to tie the knot with a man that her mom did not approve of. When she suddenly disappeared one day, everyone assumed that she just ran off with him. However, that wasn't what really happened. 

Don't mind this lovely elderly couple. They are just getting their photo taken together with a third wheel— Wait, what?! A young woman's face floats about the two subjects. She is draped in a cloak and certainly looks nothing short of scary. The man behind this photo? None other than William Hope again. 

If you only look at the top part of this photo, you won't be noticing what's creepy about it. However, once you divert your eyes to the bottom part, you would get why this image would make the list. It features a woman who apparently wanted to become a doll herself. 

Paris has always been a dream destination, but most especially for expatriates during the 1920s. The city of lights, at the time, was well-known as a party capital. There was never a shortage of nightclubs, which included the Cabaret de L'Enfer, otherwise known as the "The Cabaret of the Inferno.”

What you are seeing right now are two photos that feature the same terrier. Take note though that the adorable creature was still alive in the photograph on the left. Meanwhile, it was just his "spirit" that was believed to appear in the photograph on the right. 

William Hope was not the only well-known photographer and spirit medium during the early 20th century. There was Richard Boursnell also who took this picture of spiritualist William Thomas Stead. If you look closely, you might also spot a specter who was identified as Piet Botha. He was a Boer commandant who lost his life in the South African War.

Ho ho ho, it appears as though Santa Claus needed help before he could lend his hand to others. Photographed in Chicago in 1902, a man wearing a disfigured mask of the Christmas icon asked for money on the streets. At this rate, he might not be able to go down millions of chimneys.

Do you remember praying by your bedside when you were a kid? That experience would have been way different if you were in the shoes of this girl who had a spirit of a woman watching over her. Was it her guardian angel or a ghost of her mom or older sister?

As if seeing one unidentified flying object was not enough, the person who captured this image may have actually seen four! It was 9:35 AM on July 15th, 1952, when they spotted the glowing objects appeared in the sky over a parking lot in Salem, Massachusetts.

Hold on to your seats 'cause this historic photo is quite terrifying. It features the hands of an anthropologist holding shrunken heads of a man and a woman. The chilling remains were found in Ecuador in the early 20th century. 

How we wish we could say that this is a manipulated photo but it is as real as it gets. It features a Union Army soldier who barely survived the Andersonville Prison in Georgia. He was photographed on the day of his release in 1865. 

What's worse than seeing a group of doll heads? Seeing a group of doll heads dripping in an abandoned factory! The spooky image was taken back in 1947 when these giant toys apparently were on demand. This frightening scene was a normal one at the factory since they usually had to wait to dry. 

This is a haunting image that could fill your nightmares if you continue to stare at it. It features the melted and disfigured mannequins that were damaged during a fire in 1925 at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London. Employees tried to rescue some of these wax models. 

Have you heard of Edgar and Josef? This charming duo was composed of ventriloquist Paul Edgar Rieck and his dummy Josef. They were a popular act in the early 20th century, holding entertaining shows in Berlin, Germany, and beyond. 

During an industrial fair in West Berlin, the United States information service exhibited a mechanical device called "Magic Hands." This invention was proposed to be used in atomic laboratories for handling radioactive materials. The Berliners who were in attendance were blown away. 

Here, we have another example of the living taking a photo with the deceased. The subject is Mrs. Thomas Ustick Walter and her child who had already passed away before they were photographed. We understand that this is a creepy practice back then but we also feel for those who have lost their loved ones. 

There is nothing to see here— except for a briefcase full of glass eyes! While we have no problem with having a glass eye (they make us feel comfortable in public!), there is just something unsettling about seeing too many of them at the same time. It's like you are on stage, being watched by a huge crowd. 

At first glance, the table that this group is surrounding look likes it is levitating. That's what photographer William Hope wanted you to believe. In reality, though, the ghostly arm that you see has only been superimposed over the table stand. This was done once again through double exposure. 

Florida has always had its way of standing out as a US State. Take for example their pageants in history. Florida did not only involve the overall beauty but also focused on postures, feet, and even eyes! They actually held a contest called "Miss Lovely Eyes" in 1930. 

If there is a cartoon character that is recognizable among several generations, it would definitely be Minnie Mouse. She has been around since 1928. That's how long people have been trying to dress up like her during Halloween and other costume events. 

When the crowd gathered in 1939 outside the prison Saint-Pierre in Versailles, they had no idea that they would be witnessing the last-ever public execution by guillotine. That's because it was actually their "hysterical behavior" that made French President Albert Lebrun subsequently ban all future public executions in the first place. 

The jury's still out on whether this photographic postcard of a man holding a giant grasshopper is authentic or not. While some said that North Dakota only teased its tourists with fake photos, others claimed that it truly happened when farmer A. L. Butts developed a special plant food on his apple orchard. 

It's not a bird and it's definitely not a plane. It's a flying saucer, according to the residents of McMinnville, Oregon. One of their own, a farmer named Paul Trent, took the picture of the object flying over his farm in 1950. Unsurprisingly, it became the talk of the town. 

Don't waste your energy looking for a literal foot of an elephant in this picture. This nickname is used to describe the solid mass of corium and other materials formed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. At present, it is located at the heart of the melted-down nuclear power plant.

Do you find it sweet when someone watches over as you sleep? It might be the complete opposite feeling if it happens to be a ghost watching over you. The only consolation that this baby has is they were sleeping so they had no idea what was happening. 

These scratch marks may not mean anything to some but they are everything to those who know what went down in Auschwitz. During World War II, Nazi Germany occupied Poland and established the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps. 

Halloween nights in Germany during the good 'ole days were not for the faint of heart. If you could not handle seeing people in scary costumes on the spookiest night of the year, you had to stay home instead. Otherwise, you would risk running into scary-looking drivers like these ones. 

Apologies to those who are not the biggest fans of clowns. Here's another one as portrayed by Hollywood actor Lon Chaney. He dressed up for his role in the 1924 MGM silent film He Who Gets Slapped.

We can't talk about creepy pictures in history and not include this eerie photo of Horatio Gordon Robley. A soldier, artist, and collector, Robley was fond of collecting preserved Maori tattoed heads, otherwise known as Mokomokai. 

This chilling photo features the preserved body of Jeremy Bentham at the University College London in 1850. Before his death, the English philosopher and founder of utilitarianism had final wishes for his body’s dissection and preservation.

This man right here does not need your further judgment. He was actually a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Yorkshire, England. He suffered from severe mental illness. Unfortunately, the employees did not know how to handle his condition well so they put him in barbaric restraints.

Imagine seeing a baby photo of yourself in gas masks. Babies born in the 1940s in England didn't have to because it was a necessity during World War II. There was always this fear of a gas attack by Germany so they had to be ready at all times. 

This old photo does not get any creepier. It features George Metesky who confessed to being the "Mad Bomber." You see, this unflattering title referred to the criminal who planted a total of 33 bombs in public places for 16 years. Twenty-two of them were detonated, injuring 15 in the process. 

In the tradition of Eastern European nations, Santa Claus focuses on kids who have stayed "nice" all throughout the year, while Krampus goes after the "naughty" ones. This horned, anthropomorphic figure is also known as the Christmas Devil. Now, why would this adorable baby choose to hang out with Krampus?

While some women prefer wearing a headband, feather, or a fascinator, this woman opted to wear a crab as a headpiece. Now before you more goosebumps than you already have, we are happy to report that it is just a hat in the shape of a crab. Still, we also find it a bit unsettling. 

Eat unlimited pasta in Florence, tour Lake Como by boat, trek through Sardinia — there are surely many things to do in Italy! Would you consider meeting mummies in Venzone as well? Back in the '50s, people all over the world traveled in this comune to catch a glimpse of the mummified bodies that trace back from 1348 to 1881.

Many people today would do anything to live in a Victorian home but if it was damaged like this one, they probably would opt to stay in their current apartments. These old houses in San Francisco, California were among the 28,000 homes affected by an earthquake that took place in 1906. 

Even if you offered to give us a million dollars, we wouldn't dare spend the night alone in "The Mad Woman's Room." Located in Norton Yorkshire, England legend has it that the spirit of a mentally unstable lady who was confined in this haunted manor during the18th century remains to this day. 

If we ever find ourselves standing in front of this ominous sight, we would probably still try our chances with running. Kidding aside, the men, women, and children depicted here were members of the Young Pioneers. It was a Soviet youth group that was similar to the Boy Scouts.

What you are looking at right now is a deformed corpse of a piglet. It was stillborn on a farm close to the Chernobyl reactor after the disaster on April 26th,1986. From Pripyat, Ukraine, the mutated animal was transferred to the Chernobyl Museum in Kyiv. 

The Beatles continue to be well-known around the world so you can probably recognize frontman John Lennon here in a heartbeat. However, do you have an idea who the other person is in the photo? That was actually Mark David Chapman, the man who took away his life. 

We don't know about you but headless bodies will always give us the creeps. If you agree with us, then you could have also not stood this grotesque sideshow featuring a woman without a head at the Coney Island Amusement Park in 1945. 

No parent would ever dream of selling their children but this mother from Chicago, Illinois seemingly had no choice back in 1948. She and her husband have tried hard to put food on the table for their family and a roof over their heads for a long time. However, the couple has reached the point where they were jobless and soon-to-be homeless. 

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima, which happened on August 6th, 1945, was one of the most devastating events to happen in human history. It incinerated people in that area in Japan so quickly that some of them only left their "shadows" imprinted on surfaces.

Thanks to fantasy movies and TV shows, we already have an idea of what a dog with more than one head would look like. Still, no one informed us that it had actually existed before in real life. Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov created a two-headed dog back in 1959. 

We wish we could say that this beautiful family was just pointing out random objects at their home in France but it was not the case. Their story was more serious and sinister. The 12-year-old Dominique Perrot and her parents were actually identifying a portal that they witnessed to another dimension in 1976.

No, this is not a still from a horror film that you have yet to see. This was a real scenario back in 1890 in Germany. A patient with a mental illness was undergoing "treatment" by standing in a narrow cell. Her arms were tied to the wall in the manner of a crucifixion pose. 

On November 18th, 1978, there were more than 900 members of the People's Temple cult who lost their lives. Their leader Reverend Jim Jones laced their Kool-Aid with poison during an event in Jonestown, Guyana. The horrifying event shook the country and the rest of the world. 

Does the name Maria de Hoyos ring a bell to you? It should if you have heard of the story of a doctor who became obsessed with his patient. Hoyos was a 21-year-old Cuban-American patient of Carl Tanzler. She passed away due to tuberculosis.

Who would have thought that a lighthearted gag would turn out to be some kind of premonition? When the Apollo 1 crew prayed over a miniature of their command module, they were just trying to joke around. During a test launch on January 27th, 1967, however, Roger Chaffee, Virgil Grissom, and Ed White lost their lives. 

Dr. Walter Freeman is best known as one of the leading lobotomists of his era. Lobotomies were commonly performed on patients with severe schizophrenia, manic depression, and bipolar disorder, among other mental illnesses. 

In 1979, American Airlines Flight 191 went into a steep roll and tragedy struck. It crashed and burst into flames less than a mile away from the runway. This was one of student pilot Michael Laughlin's photos at the time. 

Here we can see a medicine man from the Jivaro tribe and two young members of the community listening to the elder. He is teaching the boys to kill perceived enemies of neighboring tribes in a ritual of vengeance. 

At first glance, you are probably going to wonder what you are looking at. But Carlotta Ikeda knows what she is doing here. The Japanese-born Avante-Garde dancer specializes in Butoh. She is seen here performing with the Ariadone Troupe, the only all-women Butoh troupe. 

It is okay to get creeped out by this. We can see what appears to be a young girl praying beside her bed and a ghost lifting her hand over her. You are not going crazy, okay? We see it, too. This image was taken in the 1860s. 

Whalers from 1925 are seen here cutting up the carcasses that came to shore. If you look closely, some carcasses appear as though they have exploded. This is actually fairly common for beached whales. There is a buildup of gas inside a decomposing whale and this causes it to burst. 

There is just something strange about seeing two men who have committed some of the most evil acts on the planet in one carriage. Two of Europe's most vile and sinister men are seen here smiling and sharing a joke. 

This is still perhaps one of the defining photographs of 1960s Vietnam. Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who protested against the Ngo Dinh Diem government's anti-Buddhist policies. He is best remembered for this atrocious image. 

Don't worry. You are not seeing live animals around Walt Disney and his technician. Because if that was the case, Disney wouldn't have lived very long. Here is a photo of Disney and park engineer and repairman Louie Francuz checking the Animatronic models for realism. 

In the 1800s, taking a photo with a dead body wasn't creepy at all. Back then, it was a way to comfort the living. During the period, people didn't really have any pictures of themselves alive. Thus, post-mortem photography became quite popular. 

Seeing people who are nearly dead from hunger is a tragic sight. But this is not the only reason why this photo is haunting. In this photo from 1945, starved prisoners in Auschwitz pose together in the concentration camp. 

Have you ever thought about how calves were operated on back in the day? Maybe not, but here's a photo of it anyway. In this picture from 1932, seen here are some students from the Royal Veterinary College in London are dissecting a calf tied to the operating table.

Notorious Ukrainian cannibalistic serial killer Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer who was nicknamed "The Butcher of Rostov." He sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated roughly 53 women and children back in the late '70s and throughout the '80s. 

Former Vice President and New York governor Nelson Rockefeller lost his fifth son, Michael, back in 1961. The young man had a passion for traveling to faraway lands, chartering unexplored territory. This led him to go on an adventure to the remote areas of Papua New Guinea. 

We can see a young girl in this photo from 1970. Her name is Genie Wiley. She was known as the "feral child" of California. Wiley endured a lifetime of abuse from her father. He tormented her viciously and kept her in a makeshift straitjacket. 

Anneliese Michel was a devout Catholic living in Germany in the late 1960s. Michel began exhibiting strange behavior. She claimed to be possessed by the devil and was soon subjected to 67 exorcisms. None of these ever improved her condition. 

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Almost anything and anyone within a mile were destroyed. The explosion caused temperatures of 10,000°F degrees. There were about 80,000 people who lost their lives. 

John Wayne Gacy is one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. In the '70s, he sexually assaulted, tortured, and took the lives of roughly 30 teenage boys and young men in Cook County, Illinois. 

German serial killer Joachim Kroll was one of the country's most infamous killers. He took the lives of at least 14 people. Kroll had victims as young as four and as old as 61. It was reported that his preferred method was to strangle his victims to death. 

To this day, the identity of Jack the Ripper has never been discovered. The murderer was often brutal and calculated when it came to choosing his victims. He was also known as the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. 

This is Omayra Sánchez, a 13-year-old from the village of Armero, Colombia. The "Armero Tragedy," as it would soon be called, occurred when a volcanic eruption sent an enormous mudslide towards her area. 

Most of us can't see it at first, but on the left of the photo, you can see the final moments of an unknown person. On April 1, 1946, the man is about to be engulfed by a tsunami that hit over Hilo's Pier 1. 

Horror fans know that the Amityville Horror was inspired by true events. Captured here is a photo of the infamous Amityville house in New York. This was where Ronald DeFeo Jr. slaughtered his parents and four siblings. 

On a New Year's Day back in 2011, Filipino politician Reynaldo Dagsa took a seemingly innocent photo of his family while they were out on the streets of Caloocan in Metro Manila. In the back of a photo, he inadvertently captured the gunman who would soon take his life. 

In 1883, outlaw Pete Spence terrorized Arizona together with the infamous Frank and Tom McLaury. Spece was already a known thief at the time. He became a prime suspect in the 1882 murder of Morgan Earp, the brother of lawman Wyatt Earp. 

Here is a photo of a police officer examining the kitchen of serial Edward Gein's home. It is chilling to think that the authorities actually found human skulls and other parts of the body on this day. During the inspection, the butchered body of Mrs. Bernice Worden hung in a shed near the house. 

The bison was once as American as it gets. It was a symbol somehow for the nation's westward expansion. Before European settlers arrived on the continent, there were about 30 million buffalo roaming the land. Sadly, between 1800 and 1900, those numbers shrunk to a measly 325. 

This is a view of the wreckage rescuers found on February 26th, 1959. It left authorities wondering who or what caused the mess. This would soon be labeled the Dyatlov Pass incident. Nine Soviet hikers had mysteriously passed away while trekking through the Ural Mountains. 

Even before World War II, Japan's infamous Unit 731 already had quite the reputation. They were the country's biological and chemical weapons division. The unit was known to carry out some of the most atrocious experiments in history. 

The Columbine massacre shocked the nation. Here is a video capture from surveillance of the Columbine High School shooting. Seen here are Columbine high school shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold appearing in the cafeteria of the high school in Littleton, Colorado. 

A happy father and his child are seen here having some fun. Little did they know that they were standing next to a car that was wired with explosives and about to explode. They both passed away moments later. 

When one cult falls, another rises. It wasn't that we didn't learn from Jonestown. Cult leaders like Heaven's Gate Leader Marshall Herff Applewhite just knew how to manipulate followers. Applewhite was the founder of the group. 

The impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima lasted for decades. Hiroshima and Nagasaki effectively took the lives of 129,000 and 226,000 people. Most of the victims were civilians. These still remain as the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. 

Nothing to see here. We just have a random man sitting with some human skeletons. We are not completely sure if this is staged or not. It might be some random social experiment or just a simple game of who can stare the longest without blinking. 

You are not the only one seeing something strange here. We do, too. There seems to be an apparition in this vintage church photo. In 1963, Reverend K.F. Lord is the photographer who captured this eerie image inside the Newby Church in North Yorkshire, England. 

Amateur photographer Sybell Corbet took this image. It is an hour-long exposure of the empty library in Combermere Abbey. While Corbet was taking the shot, Lord Combermere's funeral was taking place just four miles away. 

In Lome, Togo, you can find the perfect place for your witchcraft and dark arts needs. The Akodessewa fetish market sells talismans related to voodoo magic. This market is full of piles of animals' heads, tails, skins, and skulls. 

Ted Bundy is seen here waving to television cameras as his indictment for the January murders is read. The trial took place at the Leon County Jail. Bundy is one of America's most infamous serial killers. The nature of his crimes was appalling. 

If legitimate fear was ever captured in an image, it is this. Taken in 1969, this photo features a Vietnamese civilian with a gun pointed at the side of her head. We don't know much about this picture's backstory. 

Sentenced for bribery, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Budd Dwyer held a press conference to make a statement. However, he had much worse intentions. The politician ended up taking his own life live on television. 

Regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism, British philosopher Jeremy Bentham was one of the leading jurists and statesmen of his time. He had a pretty weird afterlife request though. In a detailed letter attached to his will, he asked that his body be dissected and preserved back in 1832. His disciple, Thomas Southwood Smith, was tasked with fulfilling the request. 

Agent Orange was a herbicide and defoliant chemical for tactical use by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. In other words, it was chemical warfare. The effects of Agent Orange and its active ingredient dioxin is one of the most toxic compounds known to man. 

We have to credit the lady here for being calm and composed amidst such a crazy situation. The woman in the photo is Silke Bischoff and this was taken during the hostage-taking of Gladbeck in West Germany. 

Joseph Goebbels was one of Hitler's most trusted men. He was the Minister of Propaganda for the Third Reich and deeply believed in its anti-semitic ideologies. Here we can see Goebbels staring with a silent rage in his eyes the moment he found out photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt was Jewish. 

Known as "Murderous Mary," the five-ton Asian elephant was once part of the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. Mary was left in the untrained hands of an under keeper named Walter "Red" Elridge. It is widely believed that Elridge abused the circus performer. 

This photograph by Alice Seeley Harris is just painful to see. A Congolese man stares at the severed hand and foot of his daughter. It was meant to be his punishment for not meeting the daily rubber quote. 

Here we have a burnt and injured baby crying in the middle of the debris of Shanghai South Railway Station. This photo was taken after a Japanese air strike back in 1937. The Battle of Shanghai occurred during the Second Sino-Japanese War. 

This just shows you that you should never mess with a man in debt. Captured here is Anthony Kiritsis holding a gun to the head of banker Richard Hall. Kiritsis took out a property loan from Richard Hall. When the payments fell behind, Hall did not show him any leniency. 

This adorable puppy was actually the first animal to ever completely orbit the earth. The mission was considered a success. However, what made it tragic was the fact that Laika never returned home. This photo is one of her last before the trip. 

It is still pretty unbelievable that people actually watched public executions as a pastime. People were very involved in these events, as well. The crowd could book and throw rocks at the criminal. If someone was convicted of murder or rape, the audience would even cheer for the hanging.