30 Chilling Photos With Terrifying Backstories That Will Keep You Awake At Night

James Brock, the manager of the motel, pouring muriatic acid into the pool to get the protesters out in 1964.

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In this April 22, 2000, photo, Donato Dalrymple holds 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez as federal agents recover the boy from a home in Miami. Dalrymple was one of the men who rescued Elian on Thanksgiving 1999 after he survived a shipwreck that killed his mother. (Alan Diaz/AP)

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Tony Kiritsis holding Richard O. Hall hostage with a sawed off shotgun during a live television broadcast in Indianapolis, 1977.

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Father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old, severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota in Belgian Congo, 1904.

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Using a traditional Japanese blade, 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi assassinates socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo, Japan, on October 12th, 1960.

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A ghastly rubber mask used by Edward Paisnel during his assaults.

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A ghastly rubber mask used by Edward Paisnel during his assaults.

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Adam Walsh’s face imprint off his killer’s floorboard.

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A man moments before he was fatally struck by a New York subway train.

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Serial killer Michael Garguilo with an unidentified female.

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Tyler Hadley and his best friend Michael Mandell pose for a selfie picture at Hadley’s Florida home during the party he threw just hours after allegedly battering his parents to death with a claw hammer.

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Silke Bischoff, a hostage taken by two bank robbers in West Germany shortly before getting killed by the police in 1988.

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Dead bodies lie around the compound of the People’s Temple cult November 18, 1978 after the over 900 members of the cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; they were victims of the largest mass suicide in modern history. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)

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The body of 23-year-old Evelyn McHale rests atop a crumpled limousine minutes after she jumped to her death from the Empire State Building, May 1, 1947.

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A pile of ashes and severed leg of Dr. John Irving Bentley, who allegedly died as a result of spontaneous human combustion in 1966.

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The permanent shadows formed during the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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The aftermath of the Heaven’s Gate mass suicide.

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A shocking photo of the wrongfully accused politician Robert Budd Dwyer moments before committing suicide at a news conference he called.

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A shocking photo capturing the last moments of Mary Miller’s life. Miller took her own life by jumping out of an eighth-story window at the Genesee Hotel on May 7, 1942. The photographer Russell Sorgi recalls the woman hesitated before jumping to her death.

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CCTV footage of James Bulger being abducted by two ten-year-olds, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables.

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Russian serial killer Alexander Pichushkin caught on CCTV with one of his victims.

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A shocking picture of Blanche Monnier, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her mother for 25 years.

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A photographer taking pictures of air pollution from a Chinese bridge has captured the tragic moment a person chose to leap from the railings.

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A local councilman in the the Philippines, Reynaldo Dagsa, took this photo of his family at the same moment that his suspected killer, seen in the background on the left, took aim with a pistol. (DAGSA FAMILY)

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A rare photo of Regina Kay Walters, taken by her killer Robert Ben Rhoades.

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A photo snapped inside the infamous Amityville Horror house.

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A mother and her daughter falling from a fire escape in 1975. Known as the Fire Escape Collapse, the black-and-white photograph by Stanley Forman received the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1976.

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President Ronald Reagan is shoved into an armored limousine by Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr (right of Reagan) during an assassination attempt. At far right, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy turns to shield the president. (The Associated Press)

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Lee Harvey Oswald, suspected assassin of President John F. Kennedy, grimaces as he is shot to death at point-blank range by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. (BOB JACKSON/AP)