17 photos that hide inhumanly creepy stories

At first glance, these photos may seem ordinary and harmless, but each of them hides terrible events - from accidents to particularly brutal murders and cannibalism.

1. There is nothing unusual in this photo 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, who survived the plane crash on October 13, 1972: their plane crashed in the Andes. Of the 40 passengers and five crew members, 12 died in or shortly after the crash; five more died the next morning.

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

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

2. In 2012, Mexican music star Jenny Rivera died in a plane crash. A selfie with friends on the plane was taken a few minutes before the tragedy.

3. In August 1975, American Mary McQuilken photographed two brothers in severe bad weather: Michael and Sean. They were on top of a cliff in California's Sequoia National Park.

A second after the picture was taken, lightning struck all three of them. Only 18-year-old Michael managed to survive. This photo shows the boys' sister Mary.

The atmospheric discharge was so powerful and close that the young people's hair literally stood on end. The survivor Michael works as a computer engineer and still receives emails asking what happened that day.

4. This picture of 14-year-old Regina Walters was taken by serial killer Robert Ben Rhodes a few seconds before he killed her. 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 in a huge trailer equipped with a torture chamber. His victims were at least three people a month.

5. In April 1999, high school students from the American Columbine School posed for a general picture.

For the general gaiety, hardly anyone paid attention to two guys pretending to point a rifle and a pistol at the camera.

A few days later, these guys, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, showed up at Columbine with guns and homemade explosives. Their victims were 13 students, and 23 people were injured.

The crime was carefully planned. The perpetrators were not detained because they shot themselves. Later it became known that the teenagers were outsiders at school, and what happened was a cruel act of revenge.

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

Rescuers tried to rescue the girl in various ways, but in vain.

Three days later, Omaira fell into agony, stopped reacting to people and eventually died.

7. It would seem that there is nothing strange in a picture of the Victorian era, which depicts a father and mother with a daughter. However, the girl turned out very clearly in the picture, and her parents - blurry. Here is one of the most popular posthumous photographs at that time: the girl depicted on it had died of typhus shortly before.

The corpse remained motionless in front of the lens, which is why it appeared clearly: photos in those days were taken with a long exposure, and it took a long time to pose. Perhaps that's why "post-mortem" photos, that is, posthumous ones, have become incredibly fashionable. The heroine of this picture is also already dead.

8. The woman in this photo died in childbirth. In photo salons, special devices were installed to fix corpses, as well as the eyes of the deceased were opened and a special remedy was buried in them so that the mucosa did not dry out and the eyes did not become cloudy.

26-year-old Tina Watson died during her honeymoon, on October 22, 2003, and divers accidentally discovered her corpse. After the wedding, the girl and her husband Gabe went to Australia, where they decided to go diving.

According to the photographer accompanying the couple, the man turned off his young wife's oxygen tank underwater and held her at the bottom until she suffocated. When it became clear that Watson's wife had taken out a new life insurance policy shortly before the tragedy and Gabe would have received a considerable sum in the event of her death, everyone began to suspect him of premeditated murder. After serving a year and a half in prison, he returned to Alabama and was again put on trial, but the case was closed due to lack of evidence. Watson later remarried.

10. Looking closely, you can see that in front of this thoughtful African are severed children's feet and a brush. The photo was taken in 1904.

The photo shows a Congolese rubber plantation worker who could not work out a norm. As punishment, the overseers ate his five-year-old daughter, giving him the remains of the child as a warning. This was practiced quite often.

For non-compliance with the norms, execution was expected. To prove that the cartridge was used for its intended purpose, and was not sold, it was required to provide a severed hand of the executed, and for each execution the punishers received a reward. The desire to rise in the service led to the fact that the brushes were cut off from everyone, including children. Those who pretended to be dead at the same time could stay alive.

11. At first glance, it looks like a picture from Halloween. Two Swedish schoolchildren thought the same thing on October 22, 2015, when 21-year-old Anton Lundin Peterson came to their school in Trollhattan in this form: they took what was happening as a joke and happily took pictures with a stranger in a strange outfit.

Peterson stabbed these young men and went after the next victims. As a result, he killed one teacher and four children. The police opened fire on him, and he died of his wounds in the hospital. The incident was the deadliest armed attack on an educational institution in the history of Sweden.

12. Americans Sailor Gilliams and Brendan Vega went hiking together in the vicinity of Santa Barbara, but due to inexperience they got lost. There was no connection, and because of the heat and lack of water, the girl was completely exhausted. Going for help, Brendan fell off a cliff and crashed.

And these photos were taken by a group of experienced tourists. Having already returned home, they were horrified to notice a red-haired girl lying unconscious on the ground in the background. Rescuers by helicopter went to the scene of the tragedy, and Sailor survived.

13. It would seem that there is nothing unusual in the fact that an older boy leads a younger one by the hand, but a terrible tragedy is hidden behind this picture.

10-year-olds John Venables and Robert Thompson took two-year-old James Bulger, whom his mother briefly left unattended, from the mall, brutally beat him, covered his face with paint and left him to die on the railroad tracks to disguise the murder as an accident from a train.

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

In 2010, it became known that John Venables was returned to prison due to a violation of the conditions of early release.

Venables was later charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. The police found 57 relevant images on his computer. Hoping to get other child pornography, Venables posed online as a 35-year-old married woman who boasted of abusing her eight-year-old daughter.

14. It seems that this is an ordinary New Year's family photo— until you take a closer look at the background.

The picture was taken by Philippine councilor Reinaldo Dagsa. The killer decided to take revenge on him for facilitating his arrest for stealing a car.

15. A Chinese reporter captured fog on the Yangtze River and only after a detailed study of the photo found a man falling from a bridge on it. As it turned out later, his girlfriend jumped after him a few seconds later.

16. The camera with this picture was found in the washing machine of 27-year-old Travis Alexander. He was killed in the shower by inflicting 25 stab wounds, including in the neck, and shot in the head.

His girlfriend Jodi Arias was blamed for the incident, with whom he was going to break up, but she pursued him and literally did not give him a pass. After two years of investigation, Arias confessed to what she had done.

Other photos found at the crime scene showed the couple in sexual poses, and the image of Travis in the shower was taken at 17:29 on the day of the murder. In the photos taken just minutes later, Alexander was already lying in blood on the floor.

17. The father and daughter posing for a photo do not know that there is an explosive in the red Vauxhall Cavalier car behind them, which will detonate in a few seconds.

This terrorist attack in August 1998 was carried out by an illegal organization, the Genuine Irish Republican Army. 29 people were killed, more than 220 were injured. The camera with the first picture was found under the rubble, and his heroes miraculously survived.