44 Seemingly Normal Photos That Hide Shocking Secrets Behind the Scenes
Steven’s story is so inspiring to me in a lot of ways, the guts and guile he demonstrated is nothing short of amazing. But I have to warn you all, the story does not have a very happy ending. So if these kinds of cases are emotionally taxing for you, especially the ones that involve ab*sed children, skip this one.
Basically all of the Turpin family photos of all 13 kids on trips to Vegas and Disney. At first they seem like a normal family, then you realize that the kids are gaunt and pale. Add that to the matching outfits and I’m all spooked out.
In one picture of the family, the children are seemingly clinging to each other with forced smiles. All the while Louise and David Turpin are beaming with pride of their family.
It’s sort of terrifying.
shifa_xx:
The ab*se seemingly developed over time – like there was a woman who reported being able to play with the older Turpin kids-now-adults when they were young. The kids were apparently more ‘normal’ kids then who were allowed outside and to have friends visit or go to friends houses, etc. They were described as friendly but also being weird. Weird as in they would smell bad, be unclean and have those fishy seeming parents.
Then by the sounds of it, as more and more kids came along the abuse only developed more. They weren’t allowed out anymore (their neighbour thought they only had 1 or 2 kids) and the weirdness increased. And the weight/type of malnourishment of the older Turpin kidults suggests they were deprived of food for a very long time to. Malnourishment like they have must have started from way before pre-teen years. The parents can’t have just snapped and started ab*sing them one day – the state of those adult Turpins shows that the parents had always been ab*sive, just on different levels over time.
awillis0513:
Also, apparently some of the children didn’t know what a police officer was and the 17 year old didn’t understand what medication was when she called 911. These kids are in for a reality shock. It seems, though, that they are being eased slowly into the world.
Selfie posted by Daylenn Pua on February 24, 2015. Just two days later he vanished while hiking the Haiku Stairs in Hawaii. During the hike, he sent his grandmother numerous photos. One appeared to show a man following him.
This hike was closed to the public, and anyone caught hiking it was trespassing. His grandmother warned him against it, saying he would be locked up if he did.
On February 27, 2015, he caught a bus and ventured forth to the stairway to heaven hike. Daylenn sent texts to his grandmother with photos of the hike. He was never seen again.
After his disappearance, the photos were studied, one showed what appears to be a man in the far background. He seems to be following behind Daylenn.
The family asked for public assistance and for anyone who recognized the man to come forth.
To this day, he or his remains have never been found, and what happened to him and the identity of that strange man in the photo remains a mystery.
This is a recreation photo of an accident that occurred with the infamous “demon core”. Physicist Louis Slotin was conducting an experiment to verify the exact point at which a subcritical mass of fissile material could be made critical by the positioning of neutron reflectors. Basically, the two half spheres would be adjusted around the core and the core activity would be measured.
The risk was that if the spheres were allowed to close, the core would instantaneously form a critical mass. To keep them from closing, he pried the top core up with a screw driver. Unfortunately the screw driver slipped, a critical mass formed, and (near) instantly gave him a lethal dose of radiation. He shielded the other people in the room and was the only fatality.
DaughterEarth:
Stuff like this is why we have safety regulations today. We rarely come up with them before an accident, at least not traditionally. We’re getting better now, and accounting for this kind of potential in a design is drilled in to engineering students heads, but yah, not always like that.
However, yah, I agree, should have been clear even then that showboating is a bad idea.
This brings to mind the relatively recent m**ders of Abigail Williams and Libby German. This case has been discussed numerous times in this subreddit, I know, but it’s one that’s stuck with me. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, you can read up on it here.
This is the final image taken of Abigail Williams, uploaded to Libby German’s Snapchat at approximately 2:07 PM on February 13th, 2017. As depicted in the photo, Abigail is is standing on a bridge, a physical landmark that her body was found in close relation to.
Another image that has been circulated because of this case is an image of the suspect himself. Apologies for the grainy quality, but it was superimposed from a video still. As discovered through this video that retraces the crime, the suspect was only seventy-three feet behind them at this point.
This photo was taken moments before an IRA car b*mbing. The charge was inside that red car. The man and child depicted survived, though the photographer did not.
Anon:
