44 Seemingly Normal Photos That Hide Shocking Secrets Behind the Scenes
I believe the m**der/s**cide theory is the most likely in this case so it’s possible one or both parents were acting strangely and Madyson was feeling uncomfortable or confused when the photo was taken. But I agree, the photo is mostly eerie because the family ended up dead.
themrsboss:
The body language is a bit odd, but I agree with you. I think she was just at that awkward missing teeth age and it was a weird photo. Sadly, we will probably never know.
The story goes that the picture was taken of the man on the edge goofing off with a fishing pose, but only later when the film was developed, that a boy/young man was shown behind him, unbeknownst to the guy on the edge or the photographer.
Several theories have been made about what the heck was exactly going on, some innocuous, some not, but to me it’s such a creepy picture.
Not exactly “innocuous” but this photo was taken by Dean “Candy Man” Corll. It shows a struggling boy who he presumably r***d and m******d but nobody has been able to either find his body nor give him a name. He just exists in this piece of frozen time.
This photo taken not long before Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were kidnapped and m******d.
I was young when it happened and my parents never hid things from us, but this made my parents not trust us playing out without an adult watching.
Zombeedee:
I was around the same age as these girls when this happened. This, along with other cases during my childhood such as Sarah Payne, James Bulger, Millie Dowler, I honestly feel like was a turning point for British people and the whole freedom in childhood, kids playing in the street thing.
Before these high profile cases I still remember being turned out in the morning every weekend, along with all the other kids in my street, and we’d just wander and play around all day. My parents had no clue where we were. And we were not safe. I’m amazed none of us got hurt, looking back.
But growing up hearing these stories, it honestly feels like blinkers were taken off. Kids were told to be more careful or not allowed out unsupervised at all. And now I’m a mum myself there is no fucking way I let my kids wander about alone.
I really think it changed the nation and made us more wary for the most part.
The caption of the last photo Elisa Lam took.
“Lam’s body was moderately decomposed and bloated. It was mostly greenish, with some marbling evident on the abdomen and skin separation evident. There was no evidence of physical trauma, s*xual assault, or su**ide. Toxicology tests showed traces consistent with prescription medication found among her belongings, plus nonprescription dr*gs such as Sinutab and ibuprofen.”
The picture of the Israeli Olympic Team marching in the opening ceremony of the 1972 Munich Olympics. They seem happy to be there and carefree. A week later, within the Olympic Village, 11 of them would be taken hostage by a terrorist group, Black September. In the end, a botched rescue attempt by the German authorities resulted in them all being m**dered (two had already died in the initial hostage taking).
Smiling woman in Kutno, Poland. It was taken in 1939 by Hugo Jaeger, who was a photographer for the N*zis. More specifically, it was taken after they’d just invaded Poland.
I find photos like this creepy because they believe the underlying misery that is about to be forced upon these people. If she’d known the reality, a casual chat and a request for a photo by him wouldn’t have seemed so natural. You can find plenty more like it of that period.
winterisforhome:
Whenever I see photos of individual Jews or families of them from that time, I just want to burst into tears. We always hear the numbers of the holocaust, how many millions etc, but when you actually start seeing the individual faces of the victims, especially if they’re smiling or just living life, it hits so much harder. To a degree, history class has almost “depersonalized” the holocaust in a way, which is why I love the story of Anne Frank; it reminds us that the victims were people just like us, there was no huge difference between us. Just my mini-rant on my feels:/
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.
