Read short horror stories from real life. Mystical stories from real life

We present to your attention photos that, at first glance, may seem quite ordinary and harmless. But what made them famous was the fact that terrible events were hidden behind each of them. It’s unlikely that any of us think that this or that photograph could be the last in our lives or precede a tragedy. For example, not long ago, newlyweds on vacation were photographed a second before the accident. And if it is impossible to capture death itself, then in each of the photographs presented below it is definitely invisibly present.

Survivors. At first glance, there is nothing unusual in this photo. Until you notice a gnawed human spine in the lower right corner.

The subjects of the photo are the players of the Uruguayan rugby team "Old Cristians" from Montevideo, who survived the plane crash on October 13, 1972: the plane crashed in the Andes. Of the 40 passengers and 5 crew members, 12 died in the disaster or shortly after it; then 5 more died the next morning..

Search operations stopped on the eighth day, and the survivors had to fight for life for more than two months. Since food supplies quickly ran out, they had to eat the frozen corpses of their friends.

Without receiving help, some of the victims made a dangerous and long journey through the mountains, which turned out to be successful. 16 men were rescued.

In 2012 star of Mexican music Jenni Rivera died in a plane crash. The selfie on the plane was taken a few minutes before the tragedy.

No one survived the plane crash

Thunderstorm games. In August 1975, a girl from the United States, Mary McQuilken, photographed her two brothers: Michael and Sean, with whom she spent time on the top of one of the cliffs in California. national park redwoods.

A second after the photo was taken, all three were struck by lightning. Only 18-year-old Michael managed to survive. In this photo is the boys' sister Mary.

It is worth noting that the atmospheric discharge was so powerful and close that the young people’s hair literally stood on end. Survivor Michael works as a computer engineer and still receives emails asking questions about what happened that day.

Regina Walters. A 14-year-old girl was photographed by a serial killer named Robert Ben Rhodes a few seconds before he was killed... The maniac took Regina into an abandoned barn, cut her hair and forced her to wear a black dress and shoes.

Rhodes traveled around the United States in a huge trailer, which he equipped as a torture chamber. At least three people a month became his victims.

Walters was one of those who fell into the trap of a maniac. Her body was found in a barn that was to be burned.

"Fire!"In April 1999, high school students from the American Columbine School posed for a group photo. Behind the general gaiety, two guys pretending to point a rifle and a pistol at the camera hardly attracted attention.

But in vain. A few days later, these guys, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, showed up at Columbine with weapons and homemade explosives: their victims were 13 fellow students and 23 people were injured.

The crime was carefully planned, which led to such a number of victims.

The culprits were not detained, because in the end they shot themselves. It later became known that the teenagers had been outsiders at school for many years, and the incident became a cruel act of revenge.

Girl with black eyes. You might think that this is a scene from a horror movie, but, unfortunately, this is real photo. In November 1985, the Ruiz volcano erupted in Colombia, as a result of which the province of Armero was covered with mudflows.

13-year-old Omayra Sanchez became a victim of the tragedy: her body got stuck in the rubble of a building, as a result, the girl stood up to her neck in mud for three days. Her face was swollen, her hands were almost white, and her eyes were bloodshot.

Rescuers tried to rescue the girl different ways, but in vain.

Three days later, Omaira fell into agony, stopped responding to people and eventually died.

Family photo. It would seem that in the photo Victorian era, which depicts a father, mother and daughter, there is nothing strange. The only peculiarity: the girl came out very clearly in the photo, but her parents were blurry. Can you guess why? Before us is one of the popular ones in those days post-mortem photographs, and the girl depicted on it died shortly before of typhus.

The corpse remained motionless in front of the lens, which is why it appeared clearly: photographs in those days were taken with long exposures, which is why it took a very, very long time to pose. Perhaps this is why “post-mortem” photos (i.e. “after death”) have become incredibly fashionable. Oddly enough, the heroine of this photo is also already dead.

The woman in this photo died in childbirth. They even installed it in photo salons special devices to fix the corpses, and the eyes of the dead were opened and a special agent was instilled into them so that the mucous membrane did not dry out and the eyes did not become cloudy.

Fatal dive. It would seem that there is nothing strange in this photo of divers. However, why does one of them lie at the very bottom?

Divers accidentally discovered the body of 26-year-old Tina Watson, who died on October 22, 2003, during her honeymoon. The girl and her husband named Gabe went to Honeymoon to Australia, where they decided to go diving.

Underwater, the lover turned off the young wife’s oxygen tank and held her at the bottom until she suffocated. Later, the criminal, who received a life sentence, said that his goal was to obtain insurance.

Sad father. At a quick glance, there is nothing unusual in this photo of a pensive African man, but upon closer inspection, you will notice that a severed child’s foot and hand lie in front of the man.

The photo shows a Congolese rubber plantation worker who was unable to work out the quota. As punishment, the overseers ate his five-year-old daughter, giving the remains for edification... This was practiced quite often, as can be seen from other photographs.

At the same time, white officers and overseers presented it as evidence that they had destroyed a local cannibal right hand. The desire to rise in the ranks led to the fact that everyone's hands were cut off, including children, and those who pretended to be dead could remain alive...

Assassin with a sword. It would seem like a Halloween photo, wouldn't it? 21-year-old Swede, Anton Lundin Peterson, came to one of the Trollhatten schools dressed like this on October 22, 2015. Two schoolchildren decided that what was happening was a joke and joyfully took pictures with a stranger in a strange outfit.

After that, Peterson stabbed these young men and went for the next victims. He ended up killing one teacher and four children. The police opened fire on him and he died from his wounds in the hospital.

Dying tourist. Americans Sailor Gilliams and Brenden Vega went hiking in the vicinity of Santa Barbara, but due to inexperience they got lost. There was no connection, and due to the heat and lack of water, the girl was left completely exhausted. Brendan went for help, but fell to his death after falling off a cliff.

And these photos were taken by the group experienced tourists, who returned home with horror and noticed a red-haired girl lying unconscious on the ground. Rescuers went by helicopter to the scene of the tragedy, Sailor survived.

Kidnapping two-year-old James Bulger. It would seem that what is strange is that an older boy leads a younger one by the hand? But behind this photo lies a terrible tragedy...

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were taken from shopping center two-year-old James Bulger was brutally beaten, had his face covered in paint, and left to die on railroad tracks.

The 10-year-old killers were found thanks to surveillance video. The criminals received the maximum sentence for their age - 10 years, which extremely outraged the public and the victim's mother. Moreover, in 2001 they were released and received documents under new names.

In 2010, it was revealed that Jon Venables had been returned to prison for an unspecified parole violation.

Real life is not only bright and pleasant, it is also scary and creepy, mysterious and unpredictable...

“Was it or not?” - real life story

I would never have believed in something like that if I hadn’t encountered this “similar” thing myself...

I was returning from the kitchen and heard my mother screaming loudly in her sleep. So loud that we calmed her down with our whole family. In the morning they asked me to tell him about the dream - my mother said that she was not ready.

We waited for some time to pass. I returned to the conversation. This time mommy didn’t “resist.”

From her I heard this: “I was lying on the sofa. Dad was sleeping next to me. He suddenly woke up and said that he was very cold. I went to your room to ask you to close the window (you have a habit of keeping it wide open). I opened the door and saw that the closet was completely covered in thick cobwebs. I screamed and turned around to go back... And I felt that I was flying. Only then did I realize that it was a dream. When I flew into the room, I became even more scared. Your grandmother was sitting on the edge of the sofa, next to your dad. Although she died many years ago, she appeared young before me. I always dreamed that I would dream about her. But at that moment I was not happy about our meeting. Grandmother sat and was silent. And I screamed that I didn’t want to die yet. She flew up to dad on the other side and lay down. When I woke up, for a long time I could not understand whether it was a dream at all. Dad confirmed that he was cold! For a long time I was afraid to fall asleep. And at night I don’t go into my room until I wash myself with holy water.”

I still get goosebumps all over my body when I remember this mother’s story. Maybe grandma is bored and wants us to visit her at the cemetery?.. Oh, if it weren’t for the thousands of kilometers that separate us, I would go to see her every week!

“Don’t go for a walk through the cemetery at night!”

Oh, that was a long time ago! I have just - just entered the university... The guy called me and asked if I wanted to go for a walk? Of course, I answered that I wanted to! But the question became about something else: where to go for a walk if you’re tired of all the places? We went through and listed everything we could. And then I joked: “Shall we go and wander around the cemetery?!” I laughed, and in response I heard a serious voice that agreed. It was impossible to refuse, because I did not want to show my cowardice.

Mishka picked me up at eight in the evening. We drank coffee, watched a movie and took a shower together. When it was time to get ready, Misha told me to dress in something black or dark blue. To be honest, I didn’t care what I was wearing. The main thing is to experience a “romantic walk”. It seemed to me that I would definitely not survive it!

We've gathered. We left the house. Misha got behind the wheel, even though I had a license for a long time. Fifteen minutes later we were there. I hesitated for a long time and did not leave the car. My beloved helped me! He offered his hand like a gentleman. If it weren’t for his gentlemanly gesture, I would have stayed in the salon.

Came out. He took my hand. There was a chill everywhere. The cold “came” from his hand. My heart trembled as if from cold. My intuition told me (very persistently) that we should not go anywhere. But my “other half” did not believe in intuition and its existence.

We walked somewhere, past the graves, and were silent. When I felt really creepy, I suggested returning. But there was no answer. I looked towards Mishka. And I saw that he was all transparent, like Casper from the famous old movie. The light of the moon seemed to completely pierce his body. I wanted to scream, but I couldn’t. The lump in my throat did not allow me to do this. I pulled my hand out of his hand. But I saw that everything was fine with his body, that he had become the same. But I couldn’t imagine it! I clearly saw that my beloved’s body was covered with “transparency.”

I can’t say exactly how much time passed, but we headed home. I was just happy that the car started right away. I just know what happens in films and TV series of the “creepy” genre!

I was so cold that I asked Mikhail to turn on the stove. In the summer, can you imagine?! I myself can’t imagine... We drove off. And when the cemetery ended... I again saw how for one moment Misha became invisible and transparent!

After a few seconds, he became normal and familiar again. He turned to me (I was sitting in the back seat) and said that we would take a different road. I was surprised. After all, there were very few cars in the city! One or two, probably! But I didn’t try to persuade him to go along the same route. I was glad that our walk was over. My heart was beating somehow restlessly. I chalked it all up to emotions. We drove faster and faster. I asked to slow down, but Mishka said that he really wanted to go home. At the last turn, a truck drove into us.

I woke up in the hospital. I don't know how long I lay there. The worst thing is that Mishenka died! And my intuition warned me! She was giving me a sign! But what could I do with such a stubborn person like Misha?!

He was buried in that same cemetery... I did not go to the funeral, as my condition left much to be desired.

I haven't dated anyone since then. It seems to me that I am cursed by someone and my curse is spreading.

Continuation of scary stories

"Terrible Secrets of the Little House"

Three hundred kilometers from home... It was there that the inheritance stood and awaited me in the form small house. I've been meaning to look at him for a long time. Yes, there was no time. And so I found some time and arrived at the place. It so happened that I arrived in the evening. She opened the door. The lock jammed as if it didn’t want to let me into the house. But I still managed to handle the castle. I walked in to the sound of creaking. It was scary, but I managed to cope with it. Five hundred times I regretted that I went alone.

I didn’t like the setting, because everything was covered in dust, dirt and cobwebs. It’s good that water was brought into the house. I quickly found a rag and began to put things in careful order.

Ten minutes into my stay in the house, I heard some noise (very similar to a groan). She turned her head to the window and saw the curtains swaying. The moonlight burned through my eyes. I saw the curtains “flash” again. A mouse ran across the floor. She scared me too. I was scared, but I continued cleaning. Under the table I found a yellowed note. It said this: “get out of here! This is not your territory, but the territory of the dead!” I sold this house and never went anywhere near it again. I don't want to remember all this horror.

History textbooks are filled with stories about who stabbed whom, which city was burned to the ground, and which kings married their cousins. Therefore, imagine what details from these stories the learned men chose to omit. Or better yet, we will tell you about them ourselves in this article. Continuing our educational quest, we will tell you about the things that your teachers decided to hide from you, and we will reveal some terrible and little known facts about the most famous historical moments.

1. Syphilitic “zombies” on the streets of Renaissance Italy

When most people think of the Renaissance, they imagine prim Italians in aristocratic clothes admiring the works of Da Vinci, Michelangelo and other masters. What people don't realize is this:

Yes, Renaissance Florence could be an ideal place for various types of arts (and parkour, according to Assassin's Creed II), but at the same time, the Italians had to experience their own, so to speak, “zombie apocalypse”, which happened during the first major outbreak of syphilis in 1494. Yes, even before the advent of antibiotics, this venereal disease was by no means a “shameful secret”, but a disease (in those days it was called by its supposed nationality origin - “German”, “French”, etc.), literally eating a person. According to one description, the disease "caused people's skin to fall off their faces and die within a few months." To be more precise, the outbreak caused “the complete destruction of the lips, nose and other parts of the body, including the genitals.”
Due to the outbreak, victims of the "Gallic disease" wandering the streets without "arms, legs, eyes and noses" were a common sight. So if the Renaissance fairs held today in Europe and America were true, then half the people would look like extras from The Walking Dead.
But as nightmarish as the thought of living in a decaying body may be, the immediate horror lies in the phrase “after a few months.” In other words, the patients somehow managed to live in this state for months, probably languishing in hellish pain while their flesh was “eaten away, in some cases right to the bone.”
In general, within short period During the era of the great masters of the Renaissance, on the streets one could often see townspeople - not to mention an entire army of Frenchmen - with their faces decomposing and bare to the skull, walking around the city until they dropped dead. And why wasn't this in Assassin's Creed II?

2. The man who tried to save Lincoln shared the fate of Dilbert Grady

You've probably already seen this illustration, but can you name the people in it?
To the right is obviously John Wilkes Booth, followed by Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary T. However, unless you are an avid historian, you most likely do not recognize the remaining two as Union Major Henry Rathbone and his wife, Clara Harris, daughter of the distinguished senator USA. Rathbone is better known for his attempt to stop Booth than for the grim Kubrickian murder story that would befall him a few years later.

During the assassination attempt, Rathbone was seriously wounded, but although he physically managed to survive the attack, his mind was never able to recover from the tragedy. The officer blamed himself for not stopping Booth, and although two years later he married Clara, married life only worsened his condition.
Eventually, the man's psyche deteriorated so much that on December 23, 1883, he decided to paint the walls of his house with family blood. While serving in Hanover as the American consul, Rathbone attempted to kill three of his children. When his wife interfered with him, he shot her and stabbed her with a knife, after which he killed himself.
Police found Rathbone covered in blood and unconscious. According to an often repeated but unconfirmed version, he claimed that people were hiding behind the paintings in his house.
Rathbone spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital, where he complained of machines hidden in the walls releasing gas into his room, which gave him severe headaches. The man died in 1911, becoming the latest victim Lincoln's assassination attempt, almost half a century after the tragedy occurred.

3. Heads literally exploded during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

The Italian volcano Vesuvius is infamous for its massive eruption, which left the Roman city of Pompeii (and all its erotic sculptures, as the city was the sexual capital of the Empire) buried in ashes for the next thousand and a half years. But what you probably didn't know is that the gods actually treated Pompeii generously compared to the horror that befell the small city of Herculaneum, even closer to Vesuvius, when it began spitting magma.

What Pompeii experienced can be compared to a classic disaster movie: huge clouds of smoke, people running away in panic, ashes and, possibly, side effects. story line about Tara Reid reuniting with her ex-husband. Herculaneum, on the other hand, got a real supernatural horror story, as this town was exposed to “superheated pyroclastic vapors of stone, mud and gas,” or, to put it simply, the following began to happen to people:

Seriously. The human skull is filled with various fluids, and if you heat it up very quickly, the same thing will happen to it as to a hamster in the microwave. And, in fact, this is exactly what happened in Herculaneum, when all the inhabitants of the city were caught in a cloud of gas, the temperature of which was approaching 500°C. In less than a couple of tenths of a second, "people's skin evaporated<…>the brain boiled and the skull exploded.” Without any bullets or buckshot. By itself. From the inside.
Let us hope that the same fate will not befall the inhabitants of Naples, who stubbornly continue to live in the same place where Herculaneum once stood and where Vesuvius is patiently waiting for the right opportunity to give them all a good thrashing.

The pamphlet specifically stated that if people could not send their pets into the countryside, then "their destruction would be the best solution" (the choice of words in this case provokes speculation that this document was written by an early prototype of the Dalek). And how did the British population react? Protests all over the country, you decide. But no. In fact, in just one week, 750,000 pets were “destroyed.”
At the same time, we emphasize that this action took place in the summer of 1939, that is, before the German invasion of Poland, when the British government could have caused much more harm Hitler's Germany, if instead massacre animals, she attacked the former world lair of the Nazis.

5. The first documented serial killer in history lived happily ever after during the Pax Romana era.

The Pax Romana, or "Peace of August", is one of the most peaceful periods in history. Having decided that their Empire was already great, the Romans forgot about the bloodshed for a while and focused on more productive things, such as regulating the laws that we still use today. And how did Rome manage to live for so long without daily garbage collection and laws invented specifically to keep all sorts of people out? serial killers away from the streets and honest people?
However, the latter can be crossed out. The first documented serial killer in history lived, as they say, like a king during the era of the Pax Romana.
Her name was Locusta, and her story begins in the middle of the 1st century. AD, when a woman was arrested for poisoning. However, luck smiled on Locusta when Agrippina turned to her for help, deciding to poison Emperor Claudius. The criminal later received a pardon for her help.

So what did she do next? A year later, in 55 AD, Locusta again fell into the hands of justice, and again for poisoning. Luckily for her, her help was needed by Emperor Nero, who asked the woman to prepare a deadly cocktail for his 13-year-old half-brother Britannicus. For her service, Locusta received a pardon and a nice villa along with students whom she could teach her craft.
Be that as it may, Locusta's luck ran out when Nero committed suicide, leaving her with only a couple of allies and a reputation as a witch. In 69 AD. the woman was arrested and immediately executed by order of Emperor Galba. How did she die? An “ironic” death, you decide, after tasting your own potion. But no. She was publicly raped to death by “a wild animal [some sources say it was a giraffe] trained specifically for this kind of punishment.”
Oh, those Roman laws.

6. Joan of Arc fought side by side with one of the worst child killers

We won't lie to you: we adore Jeanne. She was real. She was a heroine. And she didn't let anyone push her around.
However, although most of the glory was for helping France in the fight against England in the 15th century. and goes to Jeanne, she would never have been able to do what she did without the help of people like Gilles de Rais, who was her “passionate companion” and one of the bravest knights French army. He was even featured in a big-budget film starring Milla Jovovich, in which he was played by Vincent Cassel.

So why don't people name churches after him, you ask. Perhaps because at night de Rais played the role terrible killer, who preyed on children aged between 6 and 18 years.
Don't forget that we are talking about one of the few people in the French army who helped Joan of Arc build her career and ultimately ensured her place among the saints... and yet, as incredible as it may sound, he was also sadistic monster. The records of his trial and his personal confession are chilling and make the soul freeze with horror: in addition to murder and physical torture, de Rais liked to torture his victims psychologically, convincing them that what was happening to them was just a game, after which he committed something more perverted. This guy would be thrown out of Arkham Asylum in a heartbeat for scaring the Joker.
Depending on the source, de Rais' victim count ranges from 80 to 800 children, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Like his girlfriend, de Rais was burned at the stake, except that in his case it was well deserved.

Several years ago in one of hunting farms Perm region I heard an unusual story. About a strange mushroom picker. Impressed by what he heard, he even wrote a short poem about this, “The Lost Mushroom Picker.” Comical. Changing the essence of the story a little. I couldn’t believe its veracity at the time. You never know what people will come up with...

Although the game manager who told about the strange incident did not look like a comedian at all. In all seriousness, he said that for the second year in the local forests, mushroom pickers and hunters met a very strange character.

Back in school, the boys and I noticed a strange trend - each of us had a particularly unlucky part of the body. Which received more than other organs and limbs. For some it turned out to be a hand, for others a leg, for others it was a completely bad head. And some were unlucky in general on the right or, conversely, the left side of the body. Like me, for example.
Over the years, for most, the situation probably evens out, and the “bumps” begin to fall evenly over the entire body. And the number of injuries noticeably decreases with age and the advent of intelligence. But not everyone, unfortunately...

Now, when you hear from someone that he is interested in photography, by God it becomes funny. With the development of digital technologies, photography can rightfully be called a hobby by a three-year-old child who has learned to point a finger at a smartphone.

I became interested in photography in the late seventies. Fortunately, there was someone to learn from in practice. And there was a theoretical basis in the form of specialized literature (now many books from those times have become second-hand rarities).

I heard this story from my good friend. Contrary to the prevailing opinion about former prisoners, after his imprisonment he remained normal person and returned to normal civilian life.

Most horror stories are delusional and clearly border on insanity. No matter how it is: some of them are more than just real. We will tell you about them.

Core

On March 16, 1995, Briton Terry Cottle shot himself in the bathroom of his apartment. A suicide bomber with the words “help me, I’m dying” died right in the arms of his wife Cheryl.

Healthy and well-developed, Cottle shot himself in the head, but his body remained unharmed. In order not to waste such goodness, doctors decided to donate the deceased’s organs. The widow agreed.

Cottle's 33-year-old heart was transplanted into 57-year-old Sonny Graham. The patient recovered and wrote a letter of gratitude to Cheryl. In 1996 they met and Graham felt an incredible attraction to the widow. In 2001, the sweet couple began living together, and in 2004 they got married.

But in 2008, the poor heart stopped beating forever: Sonny, for unknown reasons, also shot himself.

Earnings

How to make money like a man? Some become businessmen, others go to work in factories, others turn into clerks, slackers or journalists. But Mao Sujiyama outdid everyone: the Japanese artist cut off his manhood and prepared a savory dish from it. Moreover, there were even six crazy people who paid $250 each to eat this nightmare in the presence of 70 witnesses.

Source: worldofwonder.net

Reincarnation

In 1976, hospital orderly Allen Showery from Chicago entered the apartment of colleague Teresita Basa without permission. Probably, the guy wanted to clean out the young lady’s home, but when he saw the mistress of the house, Allen had to stab her and burn her so that the woman would not tell anything.

A year later, Remy Chua (another medical colleague) began to see Teresita's corpse wandering through the corridors of the hospital. It wouldn't be so bad if this ghost was just wandering around. So it moved into poor Remy, began to control her like a puppet, speak in Teresita’s voice and told the cops about everything that had happened.

The police, the relatives of the deceased and Remy's family were shocked by what was happening. But the killer was still split. And they put him behind bars.

Source: cinema.fanpage.it

Three-legged guest

It's best not to visit Enfield, Illinois. There lives a three-legged, one and a half meter tall, slippery and hairy monster with short arms. On the evening of April 25, 1973, it attacked little Greg Garrett (though it only took his sneakers), then knocked on Henry McDaniel’s house. The man was shocked by the sight. Therefore, out of fear, he fired three bullets into the unexpected guest. The monster covered 25 meters of McDaniel's yard in three leaps and disappeared.

Sheriff's deputies also encountered the Enfield monster several times. But no one managed to solve it. Some kind of mysticism.

Black Eyes

Brian Bethel is a respected journalist who has long built successful career. Therefore, he does not descend to the level of urban legends. But in the 1990s, the master of the pen started a blog in which he published a strange story.

One evening, Brian was sitting in his car parked in a movie theater parking lot. Several 10-12 year old children approached him. The journalist lowered the window, started looking for a dollar for the kids and even exchanged a few words with them. The children complained that they could not enter the cinema without an invitation, that they were cold and could he invite them into the car. And then Brian saw: in the eyes of his interlocutors there was no white at all, only rabble.

The poor guy instantly closed the window in fear and pressed the gas pedal all the way. His story is far from the only story about strange black-eyed people. Have you already seen such aliens in your area?

Green mysticism

Doris Bither is not the nicest resident of Culver City, California. She drinks constantly and abuses her sons. The woman also knows how to summon spirits. In the late 1970s, several researchers decided to verify the authenticity of her stories for themselves. It all ended with the young lady using spells in her home to actually summon a green silhouette of a man who scared everyone half to death. And one daredevil even lost consciousness.

In 1982, based on Biter’s stories, the horror film “The Entity” was made.