History textbooks are filled with tales of who stabbed whom, which city was burned to the ground, and which kings married their cousins. So imagine what details from these stories pundits preferred to omit. Or better yet, we will tell you about them in this article. Continuing our educational quest, we will tell you about the things that your teachers decided to hide from you, and we will reveal some scary and little known facts about the most famous historical moments.

1. Syphilitic "zombies" on the streets of Renaissance Italy

When thinking about the Renaissance, most imagine prim Italians in aristocratic garb admiring the work of Da Vinci, Michelangelo and other masters. What people don't understand is this:

Yes, Renaissance Florence could be perfect place for various kinds of arts (and parkour, according to Assassin’s Creed II), but at the same time, the Italians had their own, so to speak, “zombie apocalypse”, which happened during the first major outbreak of syphilis in 1494. Yes, even before the advent of antibiotics, this venereal disease was by no means a "shameful secret", but a disease (in those days it was called by the supposed nationality origin - "German", "French", etc.), in literally eating a person. According to one description, because of the disease, "the skin fell off the face of people, and after a few months death occurred." To be more precise, the outbreak caused "complete destruction of the lips, nose and other parts of the body, including the genitals."
Due to the outbreak, victims of the "Gallic disease" roaming the streets without "arms, legs, eyes and noses" were a common sight. So if the Renaissance fairs being held today in Europe and America were true, then half of the people would look like extras from The Walking Dead.
But no matter how nightmarish the idea of ​​living in a decaying body, the immediate horror lurks in the phrase "a few months later." In other words, the sick somehow managed to live in this state for months, probably languishing in hellish pain, while their flesh was "eaten away, in some cases right down to the bones."
In general, during short period during the era of the great masters of the Renaissance, on the streets you could often see the townspeople - not to mention the whole army of the French - with decomposing and bare faces, who walked around the city until they fell dead. And why wasn't this in Assassin's Creed II?

2 The man who tried to save Lincoln shared the fate of Dilbert Grady

You have probably already seen this illustration, but can you name the people in it?
On the right is obviously John Wilkes Booth, followed by Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary T. However, unless you are an avid historian, you probably do not recognize the remaining two Union Major Henry Rathbone and his wife, Clara Harris, daughter of a prominent senator USA. Rathbone is better known for his attempt to stop Booth than for the grim Kubrick murder story that befell him a few years later.

During the assassination attempt, Rathbone was seriously wounded, but although he physically managed to survive the attack, his mind could not recover from the tragedy. The officer blamed himself for not interfering with Booth, and although he married Clara two years later, life in marriage only aggravated his condition.
In the end, the man's psyche deteriorated so much that on December 23, 1883, he decided to paint the walls of his house with family blood. While serving in Hanover as an American consul, Rathbone attempted to kill three of his children. When his wife prevented him, he shot and stabbed her with a knife, after which he killed himself.
The police found Rathbone all covered in blood and out of his mind. According to an oft-repeated but unconfirmed version, he claimed that people were hiding behind the paintings in his house.
Rathbone spent the rest of his life in a psychiatric hospital, where he complained about machines hidden in the walls that released gas into his room, because of which he was tormented by a strong headache. The man died in 1911, becoming the last victim of Lincoln's assassination attempt, almost half a century after the tragedy.

3. Heads literally exploded during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

The Italian volcano Vesuvius is infamous for its violent eruption, which left the Roman city of Pompeii (and all its erotic sculptures, since the city was the sexual capital of the Empire) buried in ashes for the next thousand and a half years. But what you probably didn't know is that the gods actually treated Pompeii generously compared to the horror that befell the small city of Herculaneum, which was even closer to Vesuvius, when it began to spit magma.

Pompey's experience can be compared to a classic disaster movie: huge clouds of smoke, people fleeing in panic, ashes, and, possibly, a subplot about Tara Reid reuniting with her ex-husband. Herculaneum, on the other hand, got a real supernatural horror movie, as this town was exposed to "superheated pyroclastic fumes of stone, mud and gas", or to put it more simply, the following began to happen to people:

Seriously. The human skull is filled with different liquids, and if you heat it up very quickly, then the same thing will happen to it as with a hamster in the microwave. And, in fact, this is exactly what happened in Herculaneum, when all the inhabitants of the city fell into a cloud of gas, the temperature of which was approaching 500 ° C. In less than a couple of tenths of a second, "people's skin evaporated<…>the brain boiled and the skull exploded. Without any bullets and buckshot. By itself. From within.
Let us hope that the same fate does not befall the people of Naples, who persevere in the same place where Herculaneum once stood and where Vesuvius patiently waits for the right opportunity to give them all a good thrashing.

The pamphlet specifically stated that if people cannot send their pets out of town, then “their destruction will the best way out(The choice of words in this case suggests that this document was written by an early prototype Dalek.) And how did the British population react? Protests across the country, you decide. But no. In fact, 750,000 pets were "destroyed" in just one week.
At the same time, we emphasize that this action took place in the summer of 1939, that is, before the German invasion of Poland, when British government could have done much more harm to Hitler's Germany if, instead of massacring animals, it had attacked the former Nazi world lair.

5. First Documented Serial killer in history he lived clover in the era of Pax Romana

Pax Romana, or "Peace of August", is one of the most peaceful periods in history. Deciding that their Empire was already large, the Romans forgot about the bloodshed for a while and focused on more productive things, such as regulating the laws that we still use. And how did Rome manage to live so long without daily garbage collection and laws designed specifically to keep serial killers off the streets and honest people?
However, the latter can be deleted. The first documented serial killer in history lived, as they say, royally during the era of Pax Romana.
Her name was Locusta, and her story begins in the middle of the 1st century BC. AD, when a woman was arrested for poisoning. However, luck smiled at Locusta when Agrippina turned to her for help, deciding to poison the emperor Claudius. Later, for her help, the criminal received a pardon.

And what did she do next? A year later, in AD 55, Locusta again fell into the hands of justice, and again for poisoning. Luckily for her, her help was needed by Emperor Nero, who asked the woman to prepare a lethal cocktail for her 13-year-old half-brother Britannicus. For her service, Locusta received a pardon and a pretty villa, along with apprentices whom she could teach her craft.
Be that as it may, Locusta's luck ended when Nero committed suicide, leaving her with only a couple of allies, and a reputation as a witch. In 69 AD the woman was arrested and immediately executed on the orders of Emperor Galba. How did she die? An "ironic" death, you decide after tasting your own potion. But no. She was publicly raped to death by "a wild animal [some sources say it was a giraffe], trained specifically for this kind of punishment."
Oh, those Roman laws.

6. Joan of Arc fought shoulder to shoulder with one of the worst child killers.

Let's not lie to you: we adore Jeanne. She was real. She was a hero. And she didn't let anyone push her around.
However, although most of the glory for helping France in the fight against England in the XV century. and goes to Jeanne, she would never have been able to do what she did without the help of people like Gilles de Rais, who was her "passionate companion" and one of the bravest knights of the French army. He was even featured in a big-budget film starring Milla Jovovich, in which Vincent Cassel played him.

So why don't people name churches after him, you ask. Perhaps because at night de Rais played a role scary killer who preyed on children between the ages of 6 and 18.
Don't forget that we are now talking about one of the few people in the French army who helped Joan of Arc build her career and ultimately secured her place among the saints... and yet, as incredible as it sounds, he was also sadistic monster. The records of his trial and his personal confession cause chills on the skin and make the soul freeze with horror: in addition to murders and physical torture, de Rais liked to torture his victims psychologically, convincing them that what was happening to them was just a game, after which he did something more perverted. This guy would have been kicked out of Arkham Asylum in no time for scaring the Joker.
Depending on the source, de Rais's victim count ranges from 80 to 800 children, making him one of the most "prolific" serial killers in history. Like his girlfriend, de Rais was burned at the stake, unless in his case it was well deserved.

Most horror stories are like nonsense and clearly border on insanity. No matter how: some of them are more than just real. We will tell about them.

Core

On March 16, 1995, Briton Terry Cottle shot himself in the bathroom of his apartment. Suicide with the words "help me, I'm dying" died right in the arms of his wife Cheryl.

A healthy and well-developed Cottle shot himself in the head, but his body remained unharmed. In order not to waste such good, the doctors decided to donate the organs of the deceased. The widow agreed.

Cottle's 33-year-old heart was transplanted into 57-year-old Sonny Graham. The patient recovered and wrote a letter of thanks to Cheryl. In 1996, they met and Graham felt an incredible attraction to the widow. In 2001 sweet couple began to live together, and in 2004 they got married.

But in 2008, the poor heart stopped beating forever: Sonny, for unknown reasons, also shot himself.

earnings

How to make money like a man? Someone becomes a businessman, others go to a factory, the rest turn into clerks, bums or journalists. But Mao Sujiyama surpassed everyone: the Japanese artist cut off his manhood and made a savory dish out of it. Moreover, there were even six crazy people who paid $250 each to eat this nightmare in the presence of 70 witnesses.

Source: worldofwonder.net

reincarnation

In 1976, hospital orderly Allen Schowery from Chicago, without permission, entered the apartment of colleague Teresita Basa. Probably, the guy wanted to rob the young lady's home, but when he saw the mistress of the house, Allen had to stab and burn her so that the woman would not tell anything.

A year later, Remy Chua (another medical colleague) began to see Teresita's corpse wandering the corridors of the hospital. It would be half the trouble if this ghost just staggered. So it moved into poor Remy, began to control her like a puppet, speak in the voice of Teresita and told the cops about everything that had happened.

The police, relatives of the deceased and Remy's family were shocked by what was happening. But the killer was still split. And they put him behind bars.

Source: cinema.fanpage.it

Three-legged guest

In Enfield (Illinois) it is better not to call. There lives a three-legged one and a half meter slippery and hairy monster with short arms. On the evening of April 25, 1973, it attacked little Greg Garrett (however, it took away only his sneakers), then knocked on Henry McDaniel's house. The man was shocked by the sight. Therefore, out of fear, he drove three bullets into an unexpected guest. The monster overcame 25 meters of McDaniel's yard in three jumps and disappeared.

The sheriff's deputies also met the Enfield monster several times. But no one has been able to solve it. Some kind of mystic.

Chernoglazki

Brian Bethel is a respected journalist who has long built successful career. Therefore, he does not descend to the level of urban legends. But in the 1990s, the master of the pen started a blog in which he published a strange story.

One evening, Brian was sitting in a car parked in the parking lot of a movie theater. Several 10-12-year-old children approached him. The journalist lowered the window, began to look for a dollar for the kids and even exchanged a few words with them. The children complained that they could not enter the cinema without being invited, that they were cold and that he could not invite them into the car. And then Brian saw: in the eyes of the interlocutors, there was no white at all, only a mob.

The poor fellow, in fright, instantly closed the window and pressed the gas pedal all the way. His story is far from the only story about strange black-eyed people. Have you already seen such aliens in your area?

green mysticism

Doris Biter is not the most pleasant resident of Culver City (California). She constantly drinks and insults her sons. She also knows how to summon spirits. In the late 1970s, several researchers decided to see for themselves the authenticity of her stories. It all ended with the fact that the young lady with spells at home really called the green silhouette of a man who scared everyone half to death. And one daredevil even lost consciousness.

In 1982, based on the stories of Biter, the horror film The Entity was made.

4 scariest horror stories of our childhood. You will turn gray as for the first time!

Remember, we told each other in the camps about the red hand and black curtains? And there was always such a master of storytelling, in which a familiar story took on the outlines of a long and exciting thriller no worse than King's.

We recalled four such stories. Don't read them in the dark!

black curtains

One girl's grandmother died. When she was dying, she called the girl's mother to her and said:

Do what you want with my room, but do not hang black curtains there.

They hung white curtains in the room, and now the girl began to live there. And everything was fine.

But one day she went with the bad guys to burn tires. They decided to burn the tires in the cemetery, right on one old grave that had collapsed. They began to argue about who would set it on fire, they drew lots with matches, and it fell out to set fire to the girl. So she set fire to the tire, and from there the smoke will go right into her eyes. Painfully! She screamed, the guys got scared for her and dragged her to the hospital by the hands. But she doesn't see anything.

At the hospital, she was told that it was a miracle that her eyes had not been burned out, and they prescribed a regimen - to stay at home with eyes closed and that the room was always dark and dark. And don't go to school. And no fire can be seen until he recovers!

Then mother began to look for dark curtains in the girl's room. I searched and searched, but there are no dark ones, only white, yellow, green light ones. And black ones. There is nothing to do, she bought black curtains and hung the girl in the room.

The next day my mother hung them up and went to work. And the girl sat down homework write at the table. She sits and feels something touch her elbow. She shook, looked, but there was nothing but curtains next to her elbow. And so several times.

The next day, she feels that something is touching her shoulders. He jumps up, but there is nothing around, only the curtains hang nearby.

On the third day, she immediately moved the chair to the far end of the table. Sitting, writing lessons, and something touches her neck! The girl jumped up and ran to the kitchen, and did not enter the room.

Mom came, the lessons were not written, she began to scold the girl. And the girl began to cry and ask her mother not to leave her in that room.

Mom says:

You can't be such a coward! Look, I will sit at your table all night while you sleep, so that you know that there is nothing to worry about.

In the morning the girl wakes up, calls her mother, but her mother is silent. The girl began to cry loudly from fear, the neighbors came running, and her mother was sitting dead at the table. They took her to the morgue.

Then the girl went to the kitchen, took the matches, returned to the bedroom and set fire to the black curtains. They were burned, but her eyes bled out.

Sister

One girl's father died, and her mother was very poor, did not work and did not know how, and they had to sell the apartment. They went to the old grandmother's house in the village, the grandmother had died two years ago, and no one lived there. But it was decent there, because a neighbor cleaned up there for money. And the girl and her mother began to live there. The girl was far from going to school, and she was given such a certificate that she studies at home, and only goes to school in the regional center by the end of the quarter, so she and her mother sat at home all day, only sometimes they went to the store, also in the district center. And my mother was pregnant, and her belly was growing.

He grew for a long, long time, and grew twice as much as usual, for such a long time the child was not born. Then my mother apparently went to the store in the winter, and she was gone for almost a week, the girl was exhausted: she was scared at home alone, it was black in the windows, the electricity was intermittent, there were snowdrifts up to the very windows. The food was running out, but her neighbor fed her. And then late in the evening, or at night, there was a knock on the door and the mother's voice called out to the girl. The girl opened the door and her mother came in. She was all pale, blue circles around the eyes, thin and tired. She gave birth to a child and held him in her arms, wrapped in some kind of shabby skin, maybe even a dog. The girl quickly closed the door, put the child on the table, began to undress her mother - she was very cold, she was all icy. In the iron stove, the girl made a fire, near this stove they warmed themselves in the evenings, and seated her mother in an old armchair, and then went to see the child.

I unfolded it slowly, and there was such a child that it was immediately clear that this was not a newborn or even a baby. There's another girl three years or four, the face is small and angry, and there are no arms or legs.

Oh mom, who is this? - the girl asked, and the mother says:

All babies are ugly at first. When your sister grows up, everything will be all right. Give it to me.

She took the baby in her arms and began to breastfeed. And that girl sucks her breasts, as if nothing had happened, and looks at the first girl cunningly and viciously.

And their names were Nastya and Olya, Olya is the one without arms and legs.

And this Olya herself ran and jumped very well, that is, she crawled very quickly, on her stomach. And she jumped on it, and she managed, like a caterpillar, to put herself upright and with her teeth, for example, to grab something and pull on herself. There was no rescue from her. She overturned, gnawed, spoiled everything, and her mother ordered Nastya to clean up after her, because Nastya was the eldest, and also because her mother was now all the time ill, she was sick and even slept strangely, with open eyes like she was just in a swoon. Now Nastya cooked for herself, and ate separately from her mother, because her mother had some kind of her own diet for nursing. Life has become absolutely disgusting. If Nastya didn’t eat and didn’t clean up after the dirty trick Olya, then her mother would send her either for firewood or to do her homework, and Nastya spent the whole day and the whole evening solving and solving problems and writing exercises, and she also taught all kinds of physics so as to retell everything, not stuttering over a single word. Mom did almost nothing, she fed Olya all the time or rested between feedings, because the nursing woman gets very tired, and everything was on Nastya, and Olya was washed too, and Olya writhed and laughed disgustingly, it was still a pleasure to wash her from poop. But Nastya endured everything for the sake of her mother.

So a month or two passed, and the winter only became colder, and everything around was covered in snowdrifts, and the light bulbs that hung in the rooms directly without chandeliers were blinking all the time and were very dim.

Suddenly, Nastya began to notice that someone was coming up to her at night and breathing over her face. At first she thought that it was her mother, as before, looking to see if she was sleeping well and if the blanket had slipped, and then she looked through her eyelashes, and this was Olya standing by the bed and looking at her, and smiling so much that her heart was in her heels .

Then Olya noticed that Nastya was looking, and said in a disgusting voice:

Who asked you to watch when you don't have to? Now I will bite off your fingers. Finger per night. And then I'll eat my hands. And so my hands will grow.

And she immediately bit off Nastya's little finger on her hand, and blood poured out from there. Nastya lay as if in a daze, but she jumped up from the pain and screamed! But mom still sleeps, and Olya laughs and jumps.

Okay, - said Nastya. “I still can’t do anything with you.

And lay down as if to sleep. And even fell asleep.

And in the morning Olya crap one's pants again, and mother told Nastya to wash her. It’s good that there was still firewood in the house, because it was already impossible to reach the woodpile because of the snowdrifts, and also to the well, Nastya took water directly from the snow for a bath, scooped up snow with a bucket and warmed it up on the stove. The wound from the bitten off finger was very painful, but Nastya did not say anything to her mother. She took Olya and began to bathe her in a baby bath, which they found in the attic when they moved. Olya, as always, wriggles and giggles, and Nastya began to drown her. Then Olya parted, fought terribly, bit Nastya's hands, but Nastya drowned her anyway, and she stopped breathing, and then Nastya put her on the table and saw that her mother was still looking at the stove and did not notice anything. And then Nastya lost consciousness, because a lot of blood flowed from the bites.

During the night, the house was covered with snow so that the neighbor was frightened and called rescuers. They came and dug up the house, and found inside a girl in a swoon, with bitten hands, a dead mummified woman and a wooden doll without arms and legs.

Nastya was then sent to an orphanage for the deaf and dumb. She was actually mute, she spoke with her mother with her hands.

The girl who played the piano

One girl with mom and dad moved into new apartment, very beautiful, large, with a hall, a kitchen, a bathroom, two bedrooms, and in the hall there was a German piano made of cherry wood. Do you know what polished cherrywood looks like? It is dark red and glistens like blood.

The piano was very necessary, because the girl went to learn to play the piano in the house of culture.
And something strange happened to the girl in the new apartment. She began to play this piano at night, although she did not like it very much before. It played softly, but audibly.

At first, her parents did not scold her, they thought she would play enough and stop, but the girl did not stop.

They enter the hall, she is standing near the piano, she is playing notes on the piano, and she is looking at her parents. They scold her, she is silent.

Then they began to close the piano with a key.

But the girl does not understand how every night she still opened the piano and played it.

They began to shame her, punish her, but she still plays the piano at night.

They began to lock her bedroom. And she does not know how to get out and play again.

Then she was told that she would be sent to a boarding school. She cried and cried, they told her, give me an honest pioneer word that you won’t play anymore, but she is silent again. They sent me to boarding school.

And the next day, someone strangled her mom and dad at night.

They began to look for someone who could strangle them, asked the girl if she knew something. And then she told.
She didn't play the red piano. Every night she was woken up by flying white hands and told to flip notes while they played the piano. And she didn't tell anyone, because she was afraid and because no one would believe anyway.

Then the investigator says to her:

I believe you.

Because in this apartment used to live pianist. He was arrested for wanting to poison the government. When they were arrested, he began to ask that they not beat his hands, because he needed his hands to play the piano. Then one NKVD officer said that he would make sure that the NKVD did not touch his hands, took the shovel from the janitor and chopped off both hands. And from this the pianist died.

And this nkvdsheshnik was the girl's dad.

Wrong girl

In the class, a girl named Katya has a new teacher. He had evil eyes, but everyone praised him very much, because he spoke in a kind voice and because if a student did not obey him for a long time, then the teacher invited him to drink tea, and after tea the student became the most obedient child in the world and spoke only when asked. And already all the students in the girl's class became obedient, only the girl herself was still ordinary.

Once, the mother sent the girl to bring some purchases to the teacher home, which he asked to do. The girl came, the teacher sat her down to drink tea in the kitchen and said:

Sit quietly here and don't go to the basement.

And he took the purchases and went with them to the attic.

The girl drank tea, but the teacher does not come. She began to wander around the rooms, look at the photographs and paintings on the walls. She was walking over the stairs to the basement, and the ring that her grandmother gave her fell off her finger. The girl decided to quickly get off the ring and sit in the kitchen, as if nothing had happened.

She went down to the basement, looks around, and there are basins of blood all around. In some lies the intestines, in others the liver, in the third the brains, in the fourth - the eyes. And looks, after all, human eyes! She was frightened and how she would scream!

Then the teacher entered the basement with big knife. looked and said:

You are a bad, worthless, wrong Katya.

He grabbed Katya's braids and cut them off.

From this hair I will make good, correct Kate's hair. And now I need your skin. I'll put the glass eyes in the right Katya, which your mother bought for me, but I need real skin.

And the knife raised again.

Katya began to run around the basement, and the teacher stands at the stairs and laughs:

There is no other way out of this basement, run and run until you fall, then it will become easier to peel off your skin.

Then the girl calmed down and decided to cheat. Went straight for him. It goes and everything is shaking, and suddenly nothing happens. And he will kill her and put her in basins, and an obedient doll will go home instead of her.

And the teacher laughs and shows the knife.

Then the girl suddenly tore off the beads from her neck, which her grandmother also gave, and how she threw the teacher in the face! Right in the eyes and in the mouth! The teacher recoiled, his eyes were filled with blood and did not see anything. He tried to throw himself at the girl, but the beads had already fallen to the floor, rolled away, he slipped on them and fell. And the girl jumped on his head with both feet, and he lost consciousness. And then she got out of the basement and ran to the police.

The teachers were then shot. In another city where he used to work, he replaced the whole school with walking dolls.

hungry doll

One girl with mom and dad moved into another apartment. And in the room, which is for children, there was a doll nailed to the wall with nails. Dad tried to pull out the nails, but he couldn't. Left it like that.

So the girl went to bed, and suddenly the doll moves its head, opens its eyes, looks at the girl and says in a terrible voice:

Give me some red food!

The girl was frightened, and the doll says it in a bass voice again and again.

Then the girl went to the kitchen, cut her finger, took a spoonful of blood, came and poured it into the doll's mouth. And the doll calmed down.

On the next night all the same again. And to the next one. So the girl gave her blood to the doll for a week and began to lose weight and turn pale.

And on the seventh day, the doll drank the blood and said in her terrible voice:

Listen, crazy, do you have any jam at home at all?

Stories told by Lilith Mazikina

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It happened in St. Petersburg, at the Novodevichy cemetery in 2003. Then among our hobbies was the occult and the so-called black rituals. We have already called the spirits and I was sure that I was ready for anything. Unfortunately, the phenomena that occurred that night forced me to reconsider my views on life, now I will try to retell everything that I remember. Linda met me at Moskovsky Prospekt. I...

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Our family had a tradition: every summer to go to Vologda region rest with family. And the edges there are swampy, impenetrable forests - in general, a gloomy area. Relatives lived in a village on the edge of the forest (in fact, it was a holiday village). I was 7 years old at that time. We arrived during the day, overcast and raining. While I was laying out things, the adults were already kindling the brazier with might and main ...

We present to your attention photos that, at first glance, may seem quite ordinary and harmless. But what made them famous was the fact that terrible events lurk behind each of them. It is unlikely that any of us thinks that this or that picture can be the last in our life or anticipate a tragedy. For example, not so long ago, newlyweds on vacation were photographed a second before the misfortune. And if death itself cannot be captured, then in each of the photographs below it is definitely invisibly present.

Survivors. In this photo, at first glance, there is nothing unusual. Until you notice a gnawed human spine in the lower right corner.

The heroes of the picture are the players of the Uruguayan rugby team "Old Cristians" from Montevideo, who survived the plane crash on October 13, 1972: the plane crashed in the Andes. Of the 40 passengers and 5 crew members, 12 died in the crash or shortly thereafter; then 5 more died the next morning..

The search operations were stopped on the eighth day, and the survivors had to fight for their lives for more than two months. Since food supplies quickly ran out, they had to eat the frozen corpses of friends.

Without waiting for help, some of the victims made a dangerous and long transition through the mountains, which turned out to be successful. 16 men were rescued.

In 2012 the star of Mexican music Jenny Rivera died in a plane crash. Selfie on the plane was taken a few minutes before the tragedy.

No one survived as a result of the plane crash.

Thunderstorm Games. In August 1975, a girl from the United States, Mary McQuilken, photographed her two brothers, Michael and Sean, with whom she spent time on top of one of the cliffs in California during severe weather. national park sequoias.

A second after the picture was taken, all three were struck by lightning. Only 18-year-old Michael survived. In this photo - the sister of young men Mary.

It is worth noting that the atmospheric discharge was so powerful and close that young people's hair literally stood on end. Survivor Michael works as a computer engineer and still receives emails asking him about what happened that day.

Regina Walters. A 14-year-old girl was photographed by a serial killer named Robert Ben Rhodes a few seconds before being killed ... The maniac took Regina to an abandoned barn, cut her hair and forced her to wear a black dress and shoes.

Rhodes toured the United States on a huge trailer, which he equipped as a torture chamber. At least three people a month became its victims.

Walters was one of those who fell into the trap of a maniac. Her body was found in a barn that was supposed to be burned down.

"Pli!". In April 1999, high school students from the American Columbine School posed for a group picture. For the general cheerfulness, two guys pretending to point a rifle and a pistol at the camera hardly attracted attention.

But in vain. A few days later, these guys, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, showed up at Columbine with weapons and improvised explosives: their victims were 13 fellow students, 23 people were injured.

The crime was carefully planned, which led to such a number of victims.

The culprits were not detained, because in the end they shot themselves. Later it became known that teenagers were outsiders at school for many years, and what happened was a cruel act of revenge.

Girl with black eyes. You might think that we have a frame from a horror movie, but, unfortunately, this real photo. In November 1985, the Ruiz volcano erupted in Colombia, as a result of which the province of Armero was covered with mudflows.

13-year-old Omaira Sanchez was the victim of a tragedy: her body was stuck in the rubble of a building, as a result, the girl stood up to her neck in mud for three days. Her face was swollen, her hands were practically white, and her eyes were bloodshot.

Rescuers tried to rescue the girl different ways but in vain.

Three days later, Omaira fell into agony, stopped responding to people, and eventually passed away.

Family photo. It would seem that in the photo Victorian era, which depicts a father and mother with a daughter, there is nothing strange. The only feature: the girl turned out to be very clear in the picture, and her parents are blurry. Guess why? Before us is one of the posthumous photographs popular in those days, and the girl depicted on it died shortly before from typhus.

The corpse remained motionless in front of the lens, and therefore it appeared clearly: photographs in those days were taken with a long exposure, which made it necessary to pose for a very, very long time. Perhaps that is why photos of “post-mortem” (i.e. “after death”) have become incredibly fashionable. Oddly enough, the heroine of this picture is also already dead.

The woman in this photo died in childbirth. In photo salons, they even installed special devices for fixing corpses, and the eyes of the dead were opened and buried in them. special agent so that the mucous membrane does not dry out and the eyes do not become cloudy.

fatal dive. It would seem that there is nothing strange in this photo of divers. However, why does one of them lie at the very bottom?

Divers accidentally discovered the body of 26-year-old Tina Watson, who died on October 22, 2003 during her honeymoon. A girl with her husband named Gabe went on a honeymoon to Australia, where they decided to go diving.

Under water, the beloved turned off the young wife's oxygen cylinder and held it at the bottom until she suffocated. Later, the criminal who received life imprisonment, said that his goal was to obtain insurance.

sad father. At a cursory glance, there is nothing unusual in this picture with a pensive African, but looking closer, you can see that a severed children's foot and hand lie in front of the man.

Pictured is a Congolese rubber plantation worker who failed to meet his quota. As a punishment, the overseers ate his five-year-old daughter, giving the remains for edification ... This was practiced quite often, as can be seen from other pictures.

At the same time, white officers and overseers, as evidence that they had destroyed the local cannibal, presented his right hand. The desire to rise in the service led to the fact that the hands were chopped off from everyone, including children, and those who pretended to be dead at the same time could stay alive ...

Assassin with a sword. It would seem like a picture from Halloween, right? 21-year-old Swede, Anton Lundin Peterson, came in this form to one of the schools in Trollhätten on October 22, 2015. Two schoolchildren decided that what was happening was a joke and happily took pictures with a stranger in a strange outfit.

After that, Peterson slaughtered these youths and went after the next victims. He ended up killing one teacher and four children. The police opened fire on him and he died from his wounds in the hospital.

dying tourist. Americans Sailor Gilliams and Brenden Vega set off on a hike in the vicinity of Santa Barbara, but due to inexperience they got lost. There was no connection, and due to the heat and lack of water, the girl was left completely exhausted. Brendan went to get help, but crashed after falling off a cliff.

And these photos were taken by a group of experienced tourists who, returning home with horror, noticed a red-haired girl lying unconscious on the ground. Rescuers went by helicopter to the scene of the tragedy, Sailor survived.

kidnapping two year old James Bulger. It would seem that it is strange that an older boy leads the younger by the hand? But behind this picture lies a terrible tragedy ...

John Venables and Robert Thompson were taken away from shopping center two-year-old James Bulger, brutally beaten, covered in face paint, and left to die on railroad tracks.

The 10-year-old killers were found thanks to video footage from a surveillance camera. The criminals received the maximum term for their age - 10 years, which greatly outraged the public and the mother of the victim. Moreover, in 2001 they were released and received documents for new names.

In 2010, it was revealed that John Venables was returned to prison for an unmentioned parole violation.