The world is not divided into two parts - the world is one. We all live on the same planet, but we rarely know what is happening or happened at one time or another on the other side of the Earth, although, while making this selection, I was convinced that everything - both good and bad - was in abundance. Of course, there are more negative events on our planet - murders, famines, wars... the list can be endless. And what’s strange is that photographs of such terrible phenomena are recognized as the best in the world. But photos with positive events, such as the birth of a child, love between a man and a woman, sunset and sunrise, are, alas, of no interest to almost anyone.
This coincidence of circumstances is easy to explain, because the main task of journalism is to pay attention to the problems, suffering and sad moments of other people, so that those who live in their little worlds think at least a little...
Today I offer for viewing a photo selection of the most memorable photographs taken mainly in the 20th century, where each frame is a symbol. A symbol of an era or a symbol of a separate event.
I’ll warn you right away that it’s better not to look at these photographs for the faint of heart and pregnant women.
1. This photo is truly shocking. It reveals the truth of the suffering of children in Sudan during the 1993 famine. The photo, which shows a tiny, exhausted girl crawling towards a humanitarian aid camp with all her remaining strength, was taken by photographer Kevin Carter. Carter received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for this photograph, but it cost him a lot. The photographer had to specifically wait for the hungry vulture, which was calmly walking in circles waiting for the baby to die, just so that the shot would be the most epic. After 20 minutes, Carter finally took a photo and drove the bird away from the child. After receiving an award for this photo and a wave of criticism against him, Kevin Carter committed suicide. This happened in 1994.
2. On August 6, 1945, a photograph was taken of an atomic mushroom over Hiroshima. The sight is truly terrifying.
3. On November 25, 1963, John Kennedy's family said goodbye to him. The murdered president was buried with full honors 3 days after his death from two bullets fired at him by Lee Harvey Oswald (who was not officially listed as the killer, but was the main suspect). By the way, two days later Oswald himself was also shot at the police station. It is not known for certain what motives prompted the book depository worker to kill the president.
4. This photograph, taken by photographer Robert Capa on September 5, 1936, for a long time was a real symbol of the bloody and ruthless Spanish civil war. The photo shows an armed militiaman who has just received a fatal bullet. The picture, of course, is very emotional and tragic, BUT it turns out it’s just a successful production. Experts came to this conclusion after carefully studying all the details (the location of the fighting and the location of the man’s dead body).
5. Photographer Dorothea Lange took a photograph in 1936 that brought her worldwide fame. On it you can see Florence Owens Thompson, who has already been nicknamed the symbol of the Great Depression, with her children. The name of the main character of the photo became known only 40 years later, and she was very upset that the photographer published this photo and did not send her a copy. Thus, Dorothea Lange received everything, and Florence received nothing except the grave inscription “Florence Owens Thompson. The Nomadic Mother is a legend of the strength of America's mothers."
6. World Famous Photography Vietnam War, which depicts all the horror and suffering of innocent people, simply amazed society. Small children running from napalm, which is mercilessly spread by the South Vietnamese armed forces on the village, were captured by photographer Nick Ut. As soon as the picture was taken, he picked up the girl in the center (Kim Phuc) and took her to the hospital. The photographer didn't expect the girl to survive, but doctors were able to save her life even though Kim had terrible third-degree burns all over her body. Now Kim is alive and well, she has dedicated her entire life to helping people and medicine. She often talks about those terrible times and photos in interviews:
“Napalm is the worst pain you can imagine. Water boils at 100 degrees, and the temperature of napalm is from 800 to 1200. Forgiveness freed me from hatred. I still have a lot of scars on my body and am in a lot of pain almost constantly, but my heart is clear. Napalm is strong, but faith, forgiveness and love are much stronger. We wouldn't have wars at all if everyone could understand how to live with true love, hope and forgiveness. If that little girl in the photo could do it, ask yourself, can you too?”
7. This photo was taken on February 1, 1968, when Viet Cong Nguyen Van Lem was executed by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. Photographer Eddie Adams, who took this landmark photograph, immediately became famous and began to be criticized. So he had to apologize to the general for causing irreparable harm to his honor. This is what the photographer said after that: “The general killed the Viet Cong, I killed the general with my camera. Photographs are still the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs lie, even without such intentions. They are only half true. The photo didn't say, "What would you have done if you were that general at that time and place on that hot day when you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew up one, two, or three Americans?"
8. September 11, 2001. World Trade Center Tower in New York. Many photographs were taken that day, but it was this photograph, nicknamed “the falling man,” that became the most powerful image of human despair of the 21st century. This photo was taken by photographer Richard Drew before the fall of the Twin Towers, because the man in the photo chose to die by hitting the ground rather than suffocating from smoke in the walls of the skyscraper.
9. 1956 East Germany. A little girl meets her father, a German prisoner of World War II, who was released by the USSR.
10. On June 4, 1962, a very symbolic photograph was taken at the Puerto Cabello naval base. A soldier mortally wounded by a sniper asks for forgiveness for his sins while holding on to priest Luis Padillo.
11. On June 11, 1963, in southern Vietnam, a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc committed self-immolation to protest religious persecution by the Vietnamese government.
12. September 1965. A mother and her children cross a deep river without anyone's help to escape air strikes by American troops.
13. A few months later, on February 24, 1966, in South Vietnam, such a bestial attitude on the part of the American military towards a South Vietnamese rebel was recorded on camera.
14. 1974 Nigerian drought and a little girl who experienced the unbearability of life without water herself.
15. On July 22, 1975, a large fire started in a Boston building. A woman and a girl who were unable to get out of the house at the very beginning were forced to jump from the windows.
16. SOUTH AFRICA. August 1977. The police decided not to hesitate and spray tear gas during riots in the illegal settlement of Modderdam. By the way, those people were just trying to protest against the destruction of their own homes.
17. In the Cambodian Uganda area in April 1980, things were simply unbearable. There was not enough food or water. This is proven by this photograph, which captures the hand of a small, emaciated boy and a missionary who came to help all those suffering in Uganda.
18. The merciless massacre took place on September 18, 1982 in Beirut, Lebanon. In the photo you can see the dead Palestinians who were slaughtered by Christian Phalangists in Sabra and the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon.
19. The devastating earthquake in Koinoren claimed the lives of many people. The photo, taken on October 30, 1983, shows mother of five Kezban Ozer who found her sons dead. Maternal grief is scary...
20. 12-year-old girl Omaira Sanchez was trapped in the ruins of the Nevado del Ruz volcano in Colombia. The photo was taken on November 16, 1985, almost 60 hours after Omaira was trapped. They couldn’t get the girl out, so after a while she lost consciousness and died.
21. December 18, 1987. Kuro, South Korea. A disconsolate mother is begging police to release her son, who was arrested at a demonstration. The woman's son accused the government of fraud, for which he was sent to prison. The police do not pay attention to the mother's grief.
22. Horrible famine in November 1992 in Somalia. Mother lifts the body own child to take it to the prepared grave.
23. It is very important which side you are on. A photograph of a Hutu man taken in June 1994 confirms this. Police mutilated young man, as soon as suspicions arose that he sympathized with the rebels of the Tutsi ethnic group.
24. 1996 Quito. The victims of the landmine in Kuito, Angola could not have been happy in those days, because during the civil war many of their relatives were killed and they were traumatized for the rest of their lives.
25. August 1, 2005. A Nigerian woman and her child wait for free food to be served.
26. John Lennon and his killer Mark Chapman. This last photo a popular rock musician, which was taken while John gives his killer an autograph, not yet suspecting that he will put a bullet in his forehead.
Let's try to move on to something more pleasant. Here are photographs that will forever remain in history as one of the most beautiful and unforgettable.
Ernesto Che Guevara
Albert Einstein
Winston Churchill
Afghan Girl (in 1984 and 17 years later)
Earthrise
Lunch on top of a skyscraper
Kiss in Times Square
Yuri Gagarin
Charlie Chaplin
Marilyn Monroe
Salvador Dali
The Beatles
Tennis player
Flag over the Reichstag, 1941
Buzz Aldrin at Tranquility Base
Incredible facts
The Internet is flooded photographs various contents.
Some of them are turned into real horror films with the help of Photoshop.
From time to time we actually see scary pictures , from which the blood runs cold.
But even more striking is the realization that they are genuine. And the true backstory behind these pictures is simply shocking.
The following photographs captured creepy moments of infamous murders, deaths and crimes. And, despite the fact that viewing them gives you goosebumps, these pictures will forever remain in history.
Scary photos with a creepy story
1. Traders and... goods
When viewing this photo any normal person horror will instantly seize you. What is this, footage from a horror movie about cannibals?
Two adults are selling... fragments of the human body.
According to him, the people in the photo are selling the remains of their own children in order to buy food for themselves with the proceeds. To completely shock us, the story goes that parents could kill their children with their own hands.
However, such a terrible detail can neither be refuted nor confirmed. Perhaps, after all, the children died of their own death, either from hunger or from disease.
If you believe another source, the photo shows Akulina Chugunova and Andrey Semykin. The first killed her own six-year-old daughter in order to eat her. The second, for the same purpose, hacked to death a lodger who died of typhus. Both horrific incidents occurred in the Volga region during the famine.
Psychologists say people are capable of doing unimaginable cruelty when they are hungry.
According to some information that has reached us, in those days such barbaric stories were far from uncommon. Food and resources were so low that people did not hesitate to consume human meat, to survive.
2. Wax copy of a woman
The woman in the photo on the left is a young and attractive person. Her name Maria Elena Milagros de Hoyos(Maria Elena Milagros de Hoya).
The photo on the right is still the same woman, but... after death.
The story of her life and death is simply shocking.
Beauty Maria was only 21 years old when she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She went to Dr. Karl Tanzler for treatment.
The doctor did everything possible to cure the young patient. On top of everything else, he fell madly in love with her.
Unfortunately, medicine was powerless, and Maria died. Then Dr. Tanzler paid all the expenses associated with the funeral and even built a mausoleum for her.
But here the worst thing begins.
For exactly two years, the inconsolable doctor visited the grave of his deceased beloved. After one of these visits, he decided that he wanted to take her with him!
Karl spent seven years With a decomposing corpse, from time to time “repairing” parts of the deceased’s body.
He secured the crumbling bones with wire, replaced the damaged parts of the body and made a wax mask to replace the girl's face. The dancer turned the corpse into a real mummy.
The distraught doctor allegedly lived with the remains of Maria like with a real living woman.
Eventually, Dr. Chancellor was charged with abuse of a corpse.
However, he was still released due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. He died a few years later, his body was discovered in the arms of wax copy of Mary.
3. Knight Assassin
At first glance, you won’t see anything unusual, much less scary, in the photographs. If you don’t know the story, you might think that this is a joke dressing up as a knight.
The picture shows an ordinary Swedish resident dressed as Darth Vader. Next to him are two men, whom he will kill in a couple of minutes with this very saber.
It was an ordinary weekday when a man decided to come to the local school in this slightly militant outfit without any particular reason.
Many people thought this a strange, but completely harmless decision.
Therefore, the guys who saw the man in the knight costume asked him to take a photo together as a joke.
Moments after this photo was taken, he hacked the boys to death. Deciding to use his sword as a real weapon, the man moved further along the floors, spreading death.
The madman managed to kill and wound several people before being captured by the police.
4. Children for sale
The story behind this photo is not as tragic as the first one. only because the kids were not killed by their own parents.
This photo shows a woman who advertised the sale of her four children. On the poster near the porch it is written in huge letters: Selling four children.
It is unclear whether she is crying or covering her face in shame.
The children's father left her alone, pregnant with her fifth child.
She decided to sell the children and use the money to begin new life with my new boyfriend. Apparently, there was no place for children in this life.
Perhaps someone will say that it is better to live in someone else's family than with such a terrible mother. However, the tragedy of history is that the kids fell into even worse hands.
Children purchased local farmers who used children as slaves.
Only decades later were the children able to reunite and tell their story. sad story, but the tragedy they experienced was remembered by them until the end of their days.
Photos with scary stories
5. The killer's apartment
At first sight, in front of us incomprehensible chaotic picture.
White powder and bomb-like objects are scattered on the floor. What is this? Terrorist's home?
No, this is the apartment of James Holmes, the madman who opened fire on innocent people at the infamous Aurora movie theater at a movie premiere. "The Dark Knight. Rise of a Legend."
During interrogation, the killer admitted that his apartment is mined. This photo captures the moment before the bombs were destroyed.
The sappers who arrived at the scene, indeed, saw many hazardous substances, which could explode if anyone entered the apartment.
The specialists managed to solve the problem, and the police were able to enter the killer’s home without risking life.
6. Crying mother
This photo also captures the tragedy.
The background of the photo is as follows: the sobbing woman is the mother of two children, Patricia and Raymond.
A few days earlier, the Thomas family had a picnic on the river bank. The children disappeared literally immediately after the picnic began.
A search and rescue team searched for their bodies for several hours. They eventually found Patricia's lifeless body.
The photo shows exactly the moment when the heartbroken the mother weeps upon seeing her daughter's corpse. The man in the picture is one of the rescuers who is trying to calm her down.
In a few minutes divers will pull the body of the second child out of the water...
7. Fatal mistake
To understand It's terrible, you need to look twice at this photo.
At first it seems that the pictures are simply people of a different culture. One of them sits thoughtfully on the porch.
But if you look closely, you can see remains of human bodies. Fragments of a leg and arm are horrifying.
The background of the photo is simply shocking: this man is one of the hired workers in the Congo, who, unfortunately, did not fulfill his quota of work, which is required of an employee.
As punishment his youngest the daughter was killed and eaten by overseers from the plantation. Only fragments of her body were given to her father as a reminder of what can happen if you perform your duties poorly at work.
Photos with horror stories
8. The Last Jew
This photograph captured perhaps one of the most shameful pages of the war, when a person’s life was worth nothing.
Name photo - Last Jew of Vinnitsa.
This man really the last of Vinnitsa's 28,000 Jewish residents. The fascists in the photo are ready to shoot him and throw his body into a ditch, which already contains thousands of corpses of people who were killed as innocently as he was.
The look of someone standing on the edge of the abyss speaks for itself. In it and despair, and the horror of what is happening, and resignation in the face of the inevitable.
His executioners, on the contrary, are full of determination and desire to make history, breaking human destinies…
Since the invention of the camera, photography has brought joy to many people and provided insight into the world from many different angles. Photographs have a powerful impact on people, whether they are shocking images or pictures filled with kindness. However, some photos are so shocking that they are considered too scary or disgusting for wide distribution. But thanks social networks managed to collect the most mysterious, sinister and creepy photos in the Internet.
At first glance, there's nothing wrong with this photo: a few divers enjoying snorkeling. But the diver in the background lies on the bottom separately from the others. Little does anyone realize that in the background is actually the body of a murder victim, thrown into the ocean a few days before the other two divers decided to dive in the area. The photo itself doesn’t look scary, but only if you don’t know what story is behind it.
Many people don't like spiders anyway, but these trees in Pakistan are truly terrifying. In 2010, the country experienced severe flooding and many areas were inundated, including parts of Sindh province. The spiders, which could no longer hide on the ground, climbed into the trees and remained there. They ended up making nests in the leaves. In general, Sindh is not the place where people suffering from arachnophobia should go.
Many people know famous horror movie characters such as Jason or Michael Myers, but the most famous and terrible is Freddy Krueger. In this old photograph, which may already seem sinister because of this, is just three children looking at the camera. However, in the background you can see a man frozen in a strange position and grinning creepily. And he looks suspiciously like Freddy Krueger.
Imagine that you are walking around the city and suddenly come across an advertisement. A small piece of white paper with handwritten text stuck to it with an oddly shaped piece of clay. The ad reads: “As you read this, there is a man standing in one of the windows high above you and he is filming you. Then he will make a little doll out of you, put you with others like him and play strange games with them.” When you finish reading the note, these words will probably be stuck in your mind. After all, you will never know if there was someone there who would then play something terrible with your doll.
This was drawn by a little girl who wanted to tell her that she had an imaginary friend. In the drawing the girl wrote: “This is Lisa. She's my friend. My mom and dad can't see her, so they said she's an imaginary friend. Lisa - good friend" However, looking at Lisa, one cannot say that she is such a pleasant friend: her mouth, hands, eyes and chest are bloody.
Little is known about this photograph. A girl is watching movies in a vending machine, and her head hangs unnaturally back. Some believe that the surveillance camera captured the girl possessed by demons. The true origin of the photo, as well as the circumstances under which it was taken, have never been revealed. One thing is clear: you cannot turn your head like that without serious injury.
In family photos, people usually laugh or smile. Unfortunately, sometimes the situation takes a dramatic turn in the other direction. For the family in this photo, everything changed in one second. The moment the photographer pulled the trigger, the corpse, which had been lying under the ceiling for some time, fell next to the family. It is not difficult to imagine how terrified these people were.
There are a lot of events that mark the beginning of something important in life, and a wedding is one of the main ones. However, as this photo shows, weddings don't always go as planned. Bye happy couple got engaged in front of the house, behind them stood a group of strangely dressed people who looked like followers of some kind of cult. They all turned and watched the unsuspecting guests and newlyweds.
Among the vast collection of creepy objects is a pair of gloves made of human skin. Ed Gean, who became famous for other terrible acts, made them out of his victims. It’s one thing to hear about maniacs, and another to see the fruits of their deeds. The worst thing is that these gloves show the texture of the skin of your hands.
Surely there is nothing worse than realizing that you are about to die. This is exactly what was on the minds of many Auschwitz victims. When they were brought to these cells, people thought it was for something else. In fact they were gas chambers, and once someone was there, there was no going back. The photograph shows scratches from the nails of victims who realized that they would not get out and were already dying from the gas.
This is a photograph of a shell-shocked soldier on the battlefield. At first glance, this is just a man smiling from ear to ear, but the sparkle in his eyes and wide smile are terrifying and repulsive. It looks like the soldier is really going crazy.
It’s unlikely that any of the readers know what it means to face one’s death face to face. Unfortunately, some people have no choice. In this photo from the burning wind turbine a couple of people can be seen standing above and realizing the horror of their situation. Nothing could be done, the only way out was on fire, and both died.
One quick glance at this photo is enough to understand that something is wrong here. The girl seems to be afraid of the photographer and backs away from him in fear. The photo was taken by Robert Ben Rhodes, the serial killer who kidnapped the girl in the photo. This is 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters, she was also killed. But first Robert cut her hair and forced her to wear heels and black dress. He is believed to have tortured, raped and murdered more than 50 women between 1989 and 1990, although only three have been confirmed.
Even at first glance this photo is creepy. The child behind the stairs seems to be trying to get into the frame, but not remain too noticeable. The creepiest thing about this famous footage is that it was taken at the famous Amityville haunted house. There were no children in the house at the time of shooting, and the photographer did not see anyone behind the stairs. It is believed that this photo is a fake, however, given the location and time, it can be assumed that this photo is an eternal mystery.
This creepy image was captured by a hospital CCTV camera moments before the patient's death. Something scary and black is standing on the bed, bending over the patient. None of the hospital staff had ever seen anyone like him. It is believed that cameras can record otherworldly phenomena that are not perceived by the human eye. When you see this, it’s hard not to believe in the existence of spirits and demons around us.
It is often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The person you see can look attractive or ugly, it all depends on your criteria of beauty.
But there is famous people people who have obvious problems with their appearance. This may be caused by unsuccessful plastic surgeries or the whim of Mother Nature, who is sometimes very cruel to her children.
This actress was one of the actresses who graced the silver screen in the eighties and early nineties of the 20th century. She played Valeen Ewing in the famous American soap opera Dallas, and then, it seems, she brought her character's glamorous life into reality. The result was frighteningly unhealthy. Now Joan has an unnatural complexion, swollen lips, a drooping nose - and all this is aggravated by heavy and tasteless makeup.
9. Tori Spelling
The daughter of producer Aaron Spelling and star of the teen series Beverly Hills 90210, she made a career in Hollywood thanks to her own talents, as well as the support of her father. However, several plastic surgeries were not in vain for Tori’s appearance (and especially her breasts). Now she looks like a House of Wax character.
8. Elaine Davidson
And this lady covered her body with 7,000 piercings (total weight of 3 kg), becoming the most pierced woman in the world. She is one of Edinburgh's landmarks, owns a scent shop and regularly performs on the Royal Mile. In 2011, she married Douglas Watson, who, surprisingly, does not have piercings.
An interesting fact is that despite her hobby, Elaine has a black belt in judo, does not drink alcohol or use drugs.
7. Melanie Gaydos
This American model has a rare genetic disorder called ectodermal dysplasia. It prevents the development of teeth, nails, cartilage, hair follicles and bones. Because of this, the girl has no hair on her body and almost no teeth (with the exception of three milk teeth). As a child, she had to endure bullying from her peers, and this led to Melanie falling into deep depression at the age of 16.
However, she was able to do what many adults fail to do - look at life positively and achieve her dream. In New York, the girl found photographers interested in collaborating with unusual-looking models. Since then, Gaydos has been a sought-after fashion model and actress, showing that there are many types of beauty beyond the stereotypical ones.
6. Whoopi Goldberg
The world's second African-American woman to win an Oscar for acting is not known for her external beauty. Users joke that Whoopi's hair looks like a tarantula "landed on her head." But her talent is so bright that films with Goldberg are remembered for a long time.
As one of the actress’s fans writes: “She may be ugly, but she is very sweet. Besides, she is a very good actress. People sometimes don't understand that no one can choose their appearance in advance, otherwise the world would be boring.".
5. Julia Gnuse
Yulia was born in 1959 and lived ordinary life until she was thirty-five years old. One day she discovered painful spots on the skin that began to turn into scars that disfigured the body. Doctors found out that Julia had developed porphyria. This is an incredibly rare skin condition that can be inherited from parents or simply develop spontaneously. One of the most uncomfortable symptoms of her condition is her incredibly sensitive skin. Julia couldn’t even go outside, otherwise huge blisters would appear on her body, bursting in the light.
Luckily, one of Gnuse’s friends, a plastic surgeon, suggested tattooing as a way to “cover up” the unsightly scars. However, tattoos do not protect the poor thing from the harmful rays of the sun, and the scars are very painful, and some of them are as serious as third-degree burns.
Currently, over 95% of Julia's body is covered in tattoos - including her face - and she is known as the most tattooed woman in the world or the "Painted Lady". The tattoo cost $80,000 to create.
4. Maria Cristerna
The Mexican, also known as the “vampire woman,” is certainly one of the scariest girls on Earth. Her photo inspires not only fear, but also involuntary respect for a person who spared neither money nor his own body in pursuit of an ideal (albeit incomprehensible to those around him).
It is known that Maria began the “transformation” into a vampire tattooed from head to toe with extended fangs after an unsuccessful marriage. Long years she was a victim of domestic violence. Apparently, the steel implants a la horns symbolize "strength" and the tattoos show her "freedom".
3. Donatella Versace
The top 3 scariest women open with a photo of the sister of the late fashion designer Gianni Versace.
Her fashion brand is beloved and popular among the Hollywood elite, but Donatella's appearance does not at all match the beauty of the things she creates. She has disfigured her face with too many plastic surgeries, which, however, does not prevent the art director of the Versace empire from remaining one of the style icons.
2. Jocelyn Wildenstein
Jocelyn was once a pretty, but completely ordinary woman. Now the face of one of the most terrible women on the planet in the photo resembles a lioness who unsuccessfully did plastic surgery. By the way, one of Jocelyn's nicknames is “Catwoman”, and another is “Bride of Wildenstein”, by analogy with the Bride of Frankenstein. Her name often appears in the tabloid press due to numerous cosmetic surgeries, on which the billionaire spent about $3,933,800.
She presumably decided to undergo the first operation in order to regain the attention of her husband, a passionate hunter Alec Wildenstein, who simply adored lions. However, she had no luck with surgeons, and subsequent manipulations with her appearance moved Jocelyn further and further away from the concept of “norm.”
- She has had a face lift, brow lift, and mid face lift with failure due to collagen injections in the past.
- She placed implants in the chin, cheekbones and cheeks (later removed from the chin).
- She raised the corners of her eyelids.
- I had blepharoplasty of the lower and upper eyelids.
- I had injections into my lips many times to make them bigger.
All these efforts only led to the fact that a woman with such an unusual face was often invited to various talk shows. A dubious achievement for such an impressive amount.
The 28-year-old resident of Austin, Texas is perhaps the scariest woman in the world. Lizzie's photo may even frighten you at first, however, having become acquainted with the story of her life, you can only be surprised at the courage and perseverance of this lady.
The writer, blogger and motivational speaker has been diagnosed with the extremely rare Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects her face, muscle tone, brain, heart, eyes and bones, and prevents her body from storing fat, causing Lizzie weighs only 29 kg. There are only three people with this syndrome recorded in the world.
The girl's appearance was constantly the subject of ridicule and insults. In 2006, she discovered a mocking video about herself on YouTube, in which she was called "the scariest girl in the world."
“I was crushed. You can imagine how I felt. I was confused, upset, hurt and angry - but then I read the comments.", Velazquez said in an interview. Some people who watched the video wrote that Lizzie should do the world a favor and put a gun to her head, while others asked why her parents didn't have an abortion. One person even suggested that people would go blind looking at such an ugly woman.
But instead of letting thousands of negative commenters get her down, she turned her haters into motivators. She began publishing responses to offensive remarks online, describing her feelings from what she read and learning the intricacies of public speaking.
“We are all on Earth for a reason. I realized that we all live in this world for a reason. Luckily, I was able to take a positive path and turn my terrible situation into something much more pleasant.", says Velazquez.
She wrote an autobiographical book, “The Story of the Ugliest Woman in the World, Who Became the Happiest,” became a motivational speaker, and regularly participates in conferences where she teaches how to combat social stereotypes.
In addition, the life of this amazing American woman served as the basis for the documentary film “Braveheart: The Story of Lizzie Velazquez.” In it, the girl talks about her illness and encourages people suffering from various diseases not to give up.
It doesn't matter what the most scary women world are physically unattractive. The truth is that appearance doesn't matter when it comes to their talents. Many participants in the rating became famous thanks to their own efforts, and by their example they show all the girls on Earth that appearance is not the main thing in life.
Below are the most scary photos with a terrible story. Not for the faint of heart. 18+.
The Holocaust during World War II brought many truly horrific images. The photograph taken on April 17, 1945 shows the Bergen-Belsen camp. Prisoners of war died in thousands from hunger and hard physical work, and at that time the SS men had everything. The food never ran out.
The photograph shows diary pages written by a little 11-year-old girl, Tanya Savicheva. The recordings were made during the siege of Leningrad in 1941. Every month one of her relatives died. Tanya wrote down the name and date of death of a relative in her diary. Her mother was the last to die. Last entry in the diary: “The Savichevs died.” "Everyone died." “There’s only Tanya left.” Unfortunately, Tanya Savicheva also did not survive and died from severe exhaustion and tuberculosis on July 1, 1944, not a year before the end of the war.
In this photograph, an experiment is being conducted on the girls regarding the influence of spatial disorientation on children. The photo was taken in a psychiatric hospital, which was famous for its terrible experiments over children and was on the outskirts of London in 1957. Inspector John, entering one of the rooms, was petrified with horror. It turned out that the girls were attached to the wall using a special device.
Ed Gein was a serial killer. However, after the murder, he did not like to part with the body of the victim and tried to use it to the maximum. Either as food or in interior items. The photo shows a belt made from the human nipples of Gein's victims.
At the time of shooting, the photographer did not see the child behind the stairs; there were no children in the house at all. The photo was taken at the Amityville House in 1979. Perhaps this is someone’s joke and there is a real ordinary child behind the stairs, but the photo looks quite creepy, especially if you know that the boy’s silhouette vaguely resembles John Defeo, the youngest child in the family. Whose entire family was shot dead in this very house.
The journalist who saw this dog for the first time felt ill. The photo shows a donor dog with a puppy's head attached to it, without a heart or lungs. The head behaved actively, licked itself, and when it saw food, it looked around. Such operations were carried out by Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov, and his goal was to make it possible for a human heart to be transplanted. Today such operations are carried out everywhere. Currently, some surgeons are seriously planning to soon perform a human head transplant operation.
Exists great amount photographs of human mutations. As a rule, such people can only perform in traveling circuses. The photo shows Myrtle Corbin on her wedding day at age 19. The two extra legs belonged to my unformed sister Myrtle. Myrtle lived until she was 60 years old and gave birth to five healthy children.
In the 19th century, child mortality was high and photographers were expensive. The photo shows a boy who is no longer alive. Such post-mortem photographs were taken as a keepsake; often this was the only photograph of the child.
The photo shows a fragment of the magical Akodessewa market located in Africa. This market sells thousands of body fragments from a wide variety of animals. Heads, Tails, limbs, skulls. In order to carry out black rituals, animals are literally skinned.
There are many suicides happening around the world, one of them was accidentally captured by a Chinese correspondent who came to the bridge to take photographs of the abnormal fog that had fallen over the city. As it turned out later, a guy and a girl jumped from this bridge. Their bodies were never found.
Dried Maori heads (the indigenous people of New Zealand) were traded. They were traded for firearms to gain an advantage over another tribal group. The Europeans, in turn, willingly bought Mokomokai (scalps of local residents) and paid generously for them. The photo shows the collection of Horace Gordon.
The photo shows a white mule. His head was just blown off by the photographer himself, Charles Harper Bennett, in 1881. The photo was taken as an experiment. At that time, photographs had exposure times, and Charles wanted to learn how to take instant photographs. As you can see from the photo, he succeeded. A moment ago the mule's head was torn off by dynamite.
This photo was taken near the shore of the Indian city of Varanasi. All Indians strive to get here, since according to legend, the ritual after death performed at this place grants liberation from the eternal circle of birth and death. Someone's corpse is floating in the river, and people are swimming and drinking water nearby. local residents.
A creature reminiscent of the Dementor from the Harry Potter universe was filmed in the Zambian city of Kitwe. A strange cloud hung over shopping center about an hour. Many eyewitnesses, seeing this cloud, fled in horror.
