89 Terrifying Photos And Stories That Are As Fascinating As They Are Scary

The logs found reference a brutal storm that lasted days, even though a neighboring island that had view of the Lighthouse reported calm weather

These three cages, that were used to hold the dismembered remains of opposing religious leaders in the region in 1536, still hang on St. Lambert’s Cathedral in Münster, Germany.

Javed Iqbal a Pakistani serial k**ler who sodomized and m******d 100 young boys, strangling them, dismembering the corpses, and dissolving them in acid, was sentenced to death in the same manner: being strangled, cut into 100 pieces in front of the parents of the victims, and being dissolved in acid.

He suffered Cardiac Arrest after being inverted for 28hrs and died with his body is still trapped upsidedown. The Caves have been shut with concrete now

Manar Maged was born with a parasitic twin that never fully developed, but was using her blood supply. The conjoined head had no body, but could blink and smile. This condition is called craniopagus parasiticus, and less than a dozen cases have ever been recorded.

His only novel is about 4 shipwrecked men who run out of food and eat the cabin boy, Richard Parker. 46 years after it published, a yacht sank in real life and 3 of the 4 survivors also decided to eat the cabin boy… named Richard Parker

The Euthanasia Coaster is a concept for a steel roller coaster designed to k**l its passengers. In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives “with elegance and euphoria.” It is a ride to the death. The seven loops or “inversions” put the human body under such stress that it causes the brain to be starved of oxygen, as the heart simply cannot push blood against the enormous g-forces. Even if it k**ls you, it is designed to still be a fun death. An honourable thought, if rather macabre.

In 2008, a woman who had been missing for 24 years was discovered to be locked up against her will in her father’s basement for all those years. In a prison interview, the father said: “Just look into the cellars of other people, you might find other families and other girls down there.”

The Burari deaths were a ritual mass s******e of eleven-family members of the Chundawat family from Burari, Delhi, India, in 2018. Ten people were found hanged, while the oldest family member, the grandmother, was strangled. The bodies were found on 1 July 2018; in the early morning after the death.

The top map shows mysterious cases of people vanishing without a trace. The bottom map shows America’s largest cave systems.

The Utica Crib, as shown in this illustration, was a crib like structure used in mental asylums and institutes from the 19th to 20th centuries, it was used to restrain patients from lashing out.

Christina Watson who was k**led by her husband when the couple went for a scuba diving on the great barrier reef, just 11 days after their wedding

Her ex-bf received some creepy phone calls from her. She sounded tired and gave strange answers to questions. Like she answered the question where she is by repeating the word „Mama“ several times. She was found decayed 5 month later

The satellite images revealed guy’s car submerged in shallows of lake. The skeletal remains were of William Mold who disappeared in 1997 after leaving a nightclub

He was supposed to check out the day prior. Instead, they found the decomposing body of a woman and this photo of her and an unknown man. The woman has never been identified

8 months later, Bobby was found & reunited him with his family. Almost 100 years later, DNA evidence proved that child who they found wasn’t actually Bobby. No one knows what happened to the real Bobby Dunbar

When I saw a cross shaped thing with huge rusty nails sticking out of it with red marker scribbles to resemble “blood” on the backside. When I flipped it I discovered this?? LMAO WHAT

By Her Fiancé After He Attacked Her With A Stun Gun Then Bound & Gagged Her With Tape Because He Was “Bored” With Her & Wanted Custody Of Their Son. She Used Her Engagement Ring To Cut Herself Free & Pull The Box Apart Before Flagging Down Help

Once densely populated with 5,000 residents on 0.072 km2, the island town was mainly a coal mine operation until 1974 when operations ceased. Typhoons have caused structures to slowly deteriorate, further emphasizing the atmosphere of abandonment

Torii gates are typically found at the entrance of Shinto shrines. They mark the transition from the mundane to the sacred, signifying the boundary between the human world and the realm of the kami (spirits or deities)

There is a mysterious monument in Georgia which gives instructions in 8 languages on how to rebuild society after an unknown apocalyptic event, whilst also functioning as a compass, calendar, and clock.

Lady Dai, a Chinese woman who died in 163 BC, is considered the best-preserved mummy in the world. Upon discovery she still had moist, soft skin, movable limbs, intact organs, and veins that still contained small amounts of type A blood. She was preserved in 21 gallons of an unknown liquid that protected her body for over 2000 years.

She had been stabbed 62 times, but nothing was taken and there were no signs of any sexual motive. The k**ler was believed to be laying flowers on her grave over the years

For the next three years, her k***er, Shanna “Liz” Golyar, impersonated her through thousands of texts and emails to her family and friends before investigators uncovered the truth. Cari Farver was a 37-year-old single mother when she disappeared in November 2012, just weeks after beginning a new relationship in Omaha. For years afterward, friends, family, and her boyfriend received thousands of texts and emails from her accounts — none of which were actually from Cari.

Investigators later discovered that Shanna “Liz” Golyar had m******d Farver and spent three years posing as her to cover up the crime. Golyar even went so far as to burn down her own house and injure herself in an effort to maintain the deception.

In 1783, a boy was born with two heads. The second head was upside down, with the neck pointed straight up. Shockingly, the second head was fully functional. The boy claimed he could hear the other brain telling him things.
A boy with a condition (craniopagus parasiticus) thrown into fire by his mother due to his horrendous appearance. He would go on to be exploited by his parents to be an exhibit for wealthy patrons and many f***k shows across India

There stories were the exact same for 40+ years and they showed real signs of PTSD. They also all passed a lie detector. The men were certain that what they were abducted by unknown beings during that camping trip

A once-thriving colonial settlement abandoned after generations of bizarre misfortunes, deaths, and whispered tales of a curse that stalked the Dudley family and anyone who dared to live among them

Young girl was slaughtered in her own home and the only witness was her own sister. Her sister was prosecuted for the crime but was acquitted. Despite various theories, the case remains unsolved and continues to attract media attention

A small family run crematorium was found to have distributed urns containing a mixture of burned wood chips and dirt, while at least 120 rotting corpses were found piled in sheds surrounding the property

He took his own life shortly after painting it and allegedly the painting is haunted by his spirt.

Robert Ben Rhoades was a trucker who in the late 80’s to early 90’s went on a k**ling spree, picking up female hitchhikers on the road and s*xually torturing them before m*******g them in the back of his truck. Rhoades was really into bondage and S&M and even carried a r*pe kit” consisting of needles, whips and dildos. When he was arrested they found a naked woman chained to his cab along with a journal cataloging all of his victims.

In the following years, sailors and locals claimed to see ghostly lifeboats adrift at sea and even the phantom of the doomed ship itself, eternally replaying its final moments

Following the closure of a Paris cemetery and removal of bodies in 1786, many of the bodies had improperly decayed and only remained as mounds of human fat. This fat, known as “corpse wax”, was subsequently collected and turned into candles and soap.

The Doodler was a serial k**ler who targeted gay men in San Francisco. He would sketch his victims n*de before m*******g them. Though 3 victims survived, and a suspect was identified, none were willing to “out” themselves in open court in order to convict the suspect.

Karina Holmer was last seen on June 21, 1996, she went into a bar with her friends and never came out alive. The top half of her body was discovered two days later in a dumpster. Her m****r has never been solved, and remains one of Boston’s most notorious cold cases. The bottom half of her body was never found…

The Tunguska Event devastated 770 square miles of forest in Siberia near the Tunguska River on June 30th, 1908. The blasts power was estimated to be equal to about thirty megatons of TNT. It knocked down over 80 million trees and created a quake that have 5.0 on the Richter scale. Despite having 1000x the energy of the atomic b**b dropped on Hiroshima, no impact crater was ever found. The true cause of the event remains a mystery.