re: Ominous/Scary photographs

"Yes, Mr. Officer. We wore this suit and dress to take our kid to play in the ocean."

Samantha Koenig assists Israel Keyes right before the serial killer climbed through the window of her coffee stand and killed her.

Israel Keyes? I believe he killed himself in prison.

May 11th 1985:



An image of a fire in the stands at Bradford City Stadium, UK captured on camera/film. The flames erupted quickly, eventually engulfing the entire grandstand killing 56 and injuring more than 260.



It is believed the cause of the fire was that a spectator dropped a lit cigarette in between the bleachers into a void filled with paper trash.

Now that’s a man I’d hate to fight. She wears underwear with dickholes in ‘em.

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I was actually thinking of adding this one while reading through the thread. The frightening thing about the Valley Parade fire was how quickly it spread.

The game was going along fine, and then a little over 2 minutes later, the stand became an inferno. Fans sitting toward the back of the stand were burned alive when they tried escaping through the turnstile gates behind them and found them locked.

Video of the broadcast as it happened

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While this isn’t him, it’s a picture taken in the same spot just a few minutes before Tate Graves is dragged in and killed by a gator at the Grand Floridian Resort in Disney World. I could definitely be seeing things, but when I zoom in to the kid’s right, about halfway into the grass, I think I see a gator staring at him.

In 1999 I took this picture of the fatal accident of Gonzalo Rodríguez at Laguna Seca. It was Saturday morning practice (the wiki says qualy but it's wrong) and I was the only photographer at the apex at the top of the corkscrew. There were some photographers on the other side of the track where the car landed. This picture was published in magazines around the world, including Racer and Autosport, but it was mostly printed as a small picture. The Italian magazine Autosprint was the only one to print it big, as you can see. Because the car flipped over the wall instead of coming to a dead stop at the wall, I thought the forces were dissipated and it wasn't a big deal. It was only when they flipped the car upright and had a tarp over it to prevent people from seeing the cockpit did I realize that things weren't fine.

It wasn't until about 15 years later that I found out that Dr. Steve Olvey (the CART medical director at the time) had written a book describing some of the worst racing accidents he had attended to, so I read the book and he described this accident in more detail. As you would expect, Gonzalo died of a basilar skull fracture, but the details are gruesome. I just did a search and found the excerpt from the book here:

https://motorsport-in-the-world.blogspot.com/2007/10/the-death-of-gonzalo-rodriguez.html

After you read the last two paragraphs and look at the photo again, it becomes more morbid.



Also, I just found out that a couple of years ago, they made a documentary based on Dr. Olvey's book, Rapid Response, and it's available on Amazon Prime.

Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo and the car’s license plate was: A 111 118

A series that can be read as, Armistice 11 November ‘18.