Updated at 09:24 p.m. on March 10, 2024
There is more to history than inventions and victories. In actuality, a large portion of it consists of multiple incidents of violence, combat, and other unpleasant, tragic truths.
Check out some of the most eerie historical moments below.
A hungry Sudanese youngster crawls toward a food center run by the UN, while a vulture waits eagerly for its next meal. Although the photographer, Kevin Carter, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for this image, three months later he committed suicide.
The pair of siblings depicted in this image are feeling the excitement of an electrical storm in Sequoia National Park, California, circa 1975. Not long after this photo was captured, they were hit by lightning. Miraculously, they both lived through the ordeal.
A photographer unintentionally captures the instance when an individual leaps from a bridge in China.
In 1933, Joseph Goebbels stares disapprovingly at Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Otto Frank, the father of Anne Frank, revisits the attic where he and his family sought refuge.
The last moments of Che Guevara, Bolivia, October 9, 1967.
A slave named Peter revealed the injuries on his back.
