All of us grew up being told urban legends or tall tales, which many people claim to be true
Some of them have an other-worldly or supernatural theme to them, such as the house at the end of the road being haunted or neighbors not being exactly who they appear to be.
Or they might be stories of daredevils attempting the impossible and meeting an unfortunate fate.
Despite people's claims, most of these stories simply seem too far-fetched to possibly be true, and they usually are, indeed, a complete fabrication.
But every now and then, there is evidence to prove that these spine tingling stories did, indeed happen, all thanks to a camera.
Redditor Dan_The_PaniniMan was eager to hear all the scream inducing tales people have heard with evidence to prove their validity, leading them to ask:
"What’s the scariest story you know of with actual photographic proof?"
Not The Footage He Was Hoping For
"There is the Japanese man that livestreamed his own death when he climbed Mt Fuji off-season."
"His last words were 'This is very dangerous'."
"In Japanese, of course."- Pattoe89
Ghost Flight
"Helios flight 522 also called 'ghost flight'."
"Because of a wrongly turned switch there was no pressurization."
"The pilots couldn’t identify the problem and because of hypoxia everyone on the plane except one died."
"The disturbing thing is that the plane was on autopilot and simply flew to it’s destination only stayed at 30000 feet."
"Figtherjets were scrambled and took a picture."
"They reported seeing everyone livelessly but after two hours saw 1 person entering the cockpit which was a crew member."
"He tried getting the plane to descend but after 3 minutes after he entered the cockpit the left engine spun out because of fuel starvation."
"7 minutes after that the right engine."
"Flight data recorded a yoke pull, pitching the plane up, of the maximum amount a human could deliver seconds before impact."
"The picture taken by the fighter pilots still give the chills."- Supperdjdodo
A Gesture Gone Terribly Wrong
"That one underwater proposal where the guy’s girlfriend was in an underwater hotel room and the guy swam outside of it to propose."
"You could see him struggling, couldn’t hold his breath any longer and swam up but never made it to the surface."
"One of the happiest moments in their lives only to end in tragedy."- I_ama_Borat
Trapped On A Ferry
"The Seoul ferry tragedy, where the students recorded their final moments stuck in the sinking ship, their final reactions."- BaiganGamer
Kidnapped In Plain Sight
"Josef Fritzl.'
"The pictures of the basement where he kept his daughter."- Round-Improvement-22
Capturing Impending Doom
"This is a series of photos recovered from the camera of a Canadian couple who died during the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami."
"It shows the water level flowing out from the shore before surging back in."
"The very idea of a wall of water crashing towards you, completely unstoppable, and you have no where to run, no where that is safe is perhaps one of the most terrifying things that could happen to you."
"By the time one could take these photos, all you can do is watch death march inexorably towards you."- badcgi
One Last Embrace
"Two engineers died when the windmill they were working on caught fire."
"This is the last picture of them alive hugging."- Old_Touch
Lethal Natural Disaster
"The Lake Nyos Disaster."
"There was an earthquake/eruption that released an unbelievable amount of carbon dioxide from a volcanic lake, and CO2 being heavier than air it settled over the nearby village."
"Over 1,700 people asphyxiated to death in a clear blue sky having no clue what was happening and almost no chance of surviving if they had."
"I remember horrifying photos of dead livestock covering a field in a high school science textbook."- Amish_Cyberbully
Parasites In The Worst Places
"Sadly this happened to me."
"I was swimming in a pool in Cancun and I suddenly felt the pain of an icepick entering my penis and being jammed through my anus."
"I went to the bathroom where I peed arterial blood."
"I was of course insanely frightened."
"Believe me or not but this is the truth, I chose not to go to an emergency room, preferring to drink a gallon or distilled water almost immediately."
"My pee went from a dark burgundy color, to red, to finally pink in the early morning, and finally to crystal clear."
"This took all night."
"In the morning, I urinated out the first of two worms."
"The first one I peed onto the porcelain side of the toilet."
"The second one hit the water."
"When I saw a urologist she watched the above video and literally screamed in horror."
"I asked why and she said, 'Andy, it's swimming!'"
"Apparently that's extremely dangerous."
"She then inserted a camera up my urethra and into my bladder looking for eggs or scarring."
"She found neither."
"This story has a happy ending as all this happened years ago and I am healthy, but it was terrifying."- iamtherealandy
Always Be Mindful Of What You Put In Your Mouth
"This 24 year old marine who was chewing on a blasting cap in 1986 which then exploded in his face."- forkdot
In Need Of A Better Camera
"Me and my friends were hanging out every night in this small village where my parents were living."
"One night I came home, not drunk not high or anything, I looked up the sky."
"Like there was something floating in the same place for 5 or 6 days and the light from the 'object' would constantly go on or off."
"Every night, this would continue until that disappeared."
"I tried to capture it from my phone but it was too far so i don't have any footage."
"My friends wouldn't believe me , but my parents and my sister also saw it."- dzolee
Doomed Protestors
"Tlatelolco Massacre ."
"Imagine Tiananmen Square Massacre but made by Mexico."
"On October 2, 1968 in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City, the Mexican Armed Forces opened fire on a group of unarmed civilians in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas who were protesting the upcoming 1968 Summer Olympics."
"400 people died."- AlbertoGS1
Reality TV At It's worst
"I'm sure many of you know, but there was this tv show in Japan back in the day where a man named Tomoaki Hamatsu, or "Nasubi" (eggplant) was put under pretty much psychological torture, including being naked and forced to work his way up from absolutely nothing that was airing weekly."- K_nightmareTV
Only They Know What Really Happened
"Unsolved mystery involving two girls that went hiking and were most likely murdered and the only thing they have for proof is snacks they had, missing boots and bones."
"No body whatsoever."
"The girls did document the whole trip and if I remember correctly, the murderer took their camera and took images of the little-proofed aftermath."- emseemilk
A Hero's Death
"The death of the pilot of a firefighting plane near where I live."
"He survived the fall of the plane, but with severe fractures in both legs, so he could not get out of there."
"The fire surrounded the crash area as he tried to crawl to get away, but the flames caught him."
"His own colleagues found the charred corpse ten meters from the remains of the plane, and removed it almost immediately, without extinguishing the fire, to avoid curious people."- MrKnightMoon
Ill Advised Daredevil
"The death of diver Yuri Lipski in the Blue Arch in Egypt as he allegedly attempted a bounce dive that went catastrophically wrong."
"There’s a detailed explanation, from someone who knows much more about diving than me, of what specifically went wrong with his dive a couple of comments down in the YouTube comment section."- asolarwhale
Much Scarier Than Fiction
"Hadden Clark case on block island."- goofyahhnerd
Murdered In Plain Sight
"If you Google Lee Rigby murder, lots of photos taken at the scene appear, mainly the murderers holding bloody cleavers."
"Iirc, there's no published pictures of Lee, but plenty taken by the people who intervened and tried so hard to get the attention off the victim."
"It was all done in broad daylight on a busy road."
"It's so sad."- Atmosphere_Melodic
Disturbing, disgusting, and utterly terrifying.
And thanks to someone having the initiative, or misfortune, of taking pictures, all are 100% true.
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