50 Scary Pictures That Seem Normal Until You Learn The Truth

A famous picture of John Lennon signing an autograph for Chapman just hours before the latter m******d the former.

2004 Tsunami nears John & Jackie Knill.
John and Jackie Knill were k****d in the 2004 Tsunami. Their bodies were never found but their passports and camera were discovered and returned to their children. There are more pictures that show that something terrible is about to occur. But this one is nearly tranquil.

EDIT: Their bodies apparently were found.

This one's a bit creepy.

Post-mortem photography.

This is a picture from the victorian era of two parents with their dead daughter in the middle. Apparantly, in the ninteenth century, people taking photos of their deceased loved ones was a thing.

Not a photograph but the diagram of the cave diver who got stuck in Nutty Putty Cave and died.

And another picture of a cave diver maneuvering through a part of the same cave.

Edit: To make things worse. When they were trying to rescue him, they used a pully and had him mostly out of the part he was stuck in but the rope broke and he fell back in.

The M****r of Reynaldo Dagsa.

A filipino politician, Dagsa was on vacation spending time with his family.
Looks like a regular family photo at first glance right?
This photo was taken on New Years Day by him moments before he was shot and k****d, and his k****r can be seen in the background behind his family.

The picture of John Wayne Gacy dressed as 'Pogo the Clown'.

How about an entire film?

Errol Morris' documentary Vernon, Florida

Errol Morris is a great documentary maker that can really capture people well. This documentary is a look at a small rural town in Florida. The film doesn't really have a narrative. It's just made up of interviews with some of the colorful and quirky characters in their rather mundane small town.

And just based on that, it's a really neat documentary to watch. It's not the best documentary you'll ever see, but it's quaint, touching, often funny.

But the thing is: that's not the documentary Errol Morris set out to make. In fact, the original name of the documentary was *Nub City*.

You see, the city of Vernon, at the time, had the highest rate of limb amputation in America per capita. People missing fingers, hands, feet, etc. The messed up bit is that they were doing it to themselves, on purpose, in order to collect on insurance money.

While filming the documentary, Errol Morris started receiving death threats from the residents who were scared he was going to expose their secret. Errol took the threats seriously enough that he re-edited the whole film so it never mentions anything about the amputations.

So now it's just a nice documentary, about some colorful and quirky characters in their rather mundane small town.

A picture of a guy looking uncomfortable or upset in the shower (sfw). In reality, that's Travis Alexander, and the pic was taken by Jodi Arias shortly before she m******d him by stabbing him dozens of times and slitting his throat.

This is the last picture taken of thirteen-year-old Abby Williams. She was hiking in Delphi, Indiana in February 2017 with her friend Libby German, who took the picture. They were both m******d shortly after the photo was taken.

They still haven't identified the k****r.

Happiness is...

The man in picture,Robert Giblin post this on Facebook, after few minutes he stabbed his pregnant wife and throwing her over the balcony to her death. He jump off the building after that.

Timothy Treadwell lived his life watching and learning about bears and it eventually led to his disturbing death by a grizzly bear. The most awful thing about his death is that all of it was caught on audio.

To me, it will be this one of the Iroquois Theatre Fire. You can see smoke pouring from inside the glass

When this photo was taken, around 600 people were trapped inside the building in pitch darkness whilst a fire incinerated/smoke asphyxiated them one by one.

The story:

In 1903, a "fireproof" theatre opened in Chicago IL, and proceeded to host a play called Bluebeard. Around 600 people attended, but midway through the performance, it is believed that an old arc light shorted out and caused one of the stage curtains to set alight.

The theatre was not equipped with fire extinguishers, but rather a fire-extinguishing powder which was inadequate. The fire spread to other curtains and an "fireproof" curtain was lowered, but snagged halfway down on a light.

In panic, one of the stage employees opened a back door to the theatre, causing a backdraft of air to enter, turning the fire into a fireball that blasted out into the seating area and incinerated hundreds.

Some people in the upper seating areas had left the play room, however they became trapped in the narrow corridors due to the fact that some of the non-opening windows into the vestibule resembled doors , and some of the proper doors used an Espagnolette "bascule lock", an old french lock that most Americans had no idea how to manipulate. As a result, people began piling up at these doors because the poor people at the front had no idea how to open them. It is likely they were crushed to death.

This is just a bunch of astronauts hanging out at the pool and generally being awesome, right? Nope. That's the crew of Apollo 1. See the hatch on the capsule that opens inward? They died in that capsule, unable to escape the fire.

Two brothers goofing off for a photo. Hours later after arriving home from dinner, the man on the left would have his brother(pictured on the right) and mother (who took the photo) m******d after conspiring with a friend. He attempted to have his father m******d as well but he survived.

This is John du Pont and Dave Schultz.

John (The man on the bottom) hosted a massive wrestling team where all of the athletes lived on the grounds. Schultz was hired to coach the team.

As time went on John started to act stranger than normal (He was already very odd). He started to think his friend Schultz was spying on him. He believed that Schultz was hiding in his walls spying and plotting to k**l him. It seems to me like John was a paranoid schizophrenic.

Eventually John snapped. He drove up to Schultz's home and shot him in front of his family. Schultz died moments later.

Edit: The documentary is called *Team Foxcatcher*.

Last photo before she (Regina Kay Walters) was k****d by Robert Ben Rhoades.

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet.

Basically Dean Corll and Elmer Wayne Henley k****d a bunch of people but were caught. This picture was found amongst Henley's things of an unidentified boy that is a likely victim of Corll.

K2 2008 disaster. It's just a mountain picture, but with the annotations it reveals an eerie scene. K2 if I remember correctly is regarded as one of the most dangerous mountain in the world. 1 out of every 4 climbers who summit die on that mountain.....

If you are interested check out bbcs documentary here.

Serial k****r Rodney Alcala was on The Dating Game in between m*****s. So that in itself is creepy, seeing this serial k****r charm a young woman on national television. You have to think, "Is he imagining all the vile things he wants to do to her? Is he planning this woman's m****r on camera right now?"

There's a lot of seemingly normal innocent pictures relating to him as he was a photographer and loved taking photos of potential victims. Whether they can still be found on the internet I'm not entirely sure. He also took and kept earrings from the girls and women he tortured and k****d.

It's better to read the whole story. Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, police were called to a s*****e of a man who jumped off a building. In his pocket they found a s*****e note, telling them where to find his girlfriend. He had gone crazy, cut her up, and cooked pieces of her body.

Before this, they were somewhat famous. That picture showed a couple in love, weathering the storm together.