After the invention of photography in the mid-1800s and continuing through to today, the chronicles of modern history are brimming with genuinely scary photographs that are more horrifying than what’s seen in even the most unsettling horror films.
The most terrifying images captured span a wide array, from formidable animals encountered in the wild to the final moments of victims in natural disasters.
Dennis Rader (BTK) walks his daughter down the aisle at her wedding in 2003
In 1931, two psychologists, Winthrop and Luella Kellogg, began an experiment to see if a chimpanzee could learn human behavior by raising it with their own baby. The idea was to see if the chimp, named Gua, would learn to walk upright, speak, and engage in other human-like activities.
1800s family photo
“Charlie No-Face”
Lon Chaney as a clown, 1928.
The tools of Ted Bundy
Jail cell used during the Salem Witch Trials
The start of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
The last moments off a man who jumped in a tiger enclosure, 2014.
