Haunting images frozen in time... Join us as we explore infamous photographs captured just moments before tragedy struck. These chilling snapshots reveal the final seconds before lives were forever changed, documenting both personal tragedies and historic catastrophes. Which of these haunting images left the biggest impression on you?
01:57In 2011, teenagers, Essa Ricker, Kelsey Webster, and her younger sister, Savannah Webster, went to the train tracks in Spanish Fork Canyon, Utah.
02:06Savannah posted on Facebook about her excitement at standing near trains as they rode by.
02:10Two sisters and their best friend taking selfies on the tracks.
02:15However, the trio took the risk too far as they stood on the tracks to take a selfie.
02:20In the background, the lights from the Union Pacific train can be seen.
02:23Despite the workers on board the locomotive sounding the horn and applying the emergency brakes, the girls didn't notice the danger as they were struck.
02:31Trains are very large, so people think that they're very loud, but the truth is they're relatively quiet.
02:35Essa and Kelsey had already passed away as Savannah was rushed to the hospital.
02:39However, she sadly didn't recover and was taken off life support days later.
02:43This is absolutely a preventable phenomenon and loss.
02:48My girls did not have to lose their life.
02:51Darsh Patel's Bear Encounter
02:52In 2014, Patel, a student at Rutgers University, went with four friends to hike in the Apshawa Preserve in West Milford, New Jersey.
03:00Bear sightings are actually fairly common in this area.
03:03West Milford is known as bear country.
03:06What is extremely rare is to have a bear actually go and attack a human being.
03:11However, during the nature walk, they soon realized an American black bear was following them.
03:16Patel got out his cell phone and took several photos of the animal, which progressively got closer to them with each image.
03:21The group then turned away from the bear, which caused it to attack.
03:25Everyone ran in different directions.
03:27However, the bear followed Patel.
03:29After the friends had lost sight of where he'd gone, the police were called.
03:32They sadly discovered Patel's remains.
03:34There was bite marks and claw marks on the body.
03:37A bear was located nearby, which the cops fatally shot, and found evidence that it had consumed a human recently.
03:43Investigators don't believe the hikers provoked the attack, and say the reason the bear pounced may never be determined.
03:49Accidentally photographing own assassination.
03:52On New Year's Day in 2011, Reynaldo Dagza was with his family as they celebrated in Calucan, Philippines, where he served as a councilman in the area.
04:00While outside his house, Dagza went to take a photo of his relatives next to a car.
04:04However, in the background, he unknowingly caught his assassin aiming a firearm at him.
04:09Shortly after taking the photo, Dagza was shot dead.
04:12Look at the photographs and see the moment after he snapped the photo, he snaps the photo of the gunman.
04:17The assassin was soon identified as Arnel Buenaflor, who was later arrested alongside a couple of accomplices.
04:24Have they caught him?
04:25They have. They've caught him and the other guy in the photograph too.
04:27The police believe Dagza was targeted due to his work as a peacekeeper in the area, as his assassin was a part of a gang.
04:33Buenaflor was later charged with murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
04:37And there's a suggestion that some of what he did in supporting the police ended up putting this guy in jail.
04:42For something else, and it was a revenge sort of thing.
04:44Princess Diana's tragic crash.
04:45It isn't unknown for the paparazzi, who specialize in photographing famous people to overstep boundaries to get a photo.
04:52However, none have resulted in as much tragedy as this.
04:55We have reports from Paris that Diana, Princess of Wales, has been killed in a car accident.
05:01In 1997, despite no longer being married to Charles, the future monarch of the UK, Diana, the Princess of Wales, was still an obsession of the press.
05:10As she was being driven in a car in Paris, France, the paparazzi followed, taking pictures of her and other passengers.
05:17The last thing I remember, we got in a vehicle, we pulled off, and the couple of paparazzi vehicles that were at the back of the hotel started to follow us.
05:27One image of the back of Diana's head would be one of her last.
05:31This press pursuit, mixed with the driver being intoxicated, caused Diana's car to crash.
05:36She, her partner Dodi Fayyad, and driver Henry Paul perished, leaving bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones alive, but seriously injured.
05:44To think that this is what she's being remembered for, I just think is the ultimate tragedy for Diana.
05:49Haunting message about Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
05:52In 2014, Dutch national Corpan was boarding Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
06:00Before getting inside, he snapped a photograph of the plane, and posted it on Facebook, with an eerie caption in Dutch, meaning,
06:07If it should disappear, this is what it looks like.
06:10Hours later, while over eastern Ukraine on its way to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, officials lost contact with the plane.
06:16In the early afternoon of July the 17th, 2014, a Boeing 777-200 of Malaysia Airlines departs Amsterdam Airport Schiphol for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
06:27The investigation found it had been shot down with a missile by Russian separatist forces in Ukraine.
06:33Where at the time of the crash, there had been fierce fighting between Ukrainian government forces and separatist militia backed by Moscow.
06:41Nearly 300 people lost their lives in the tragedy.
06:44I personally have no doubts that it was an operation which was planned by Russian special services to bring down Malaysian Airlines civil plane Flight MH17.
06:54Pan wasn't the only one to upload a photo before the disaster.
06:57Teenager Gary Slock took a selfie with his mom, Petra, as they sat in their seats.
07:02The incoming tsunami waves.
07:04On December 26th, 2024, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2 to 9.3 struck in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of northern Indonesia.
07:13Go over the roofs and over the edge and with the fence, tall fence, and then to the trees.
07:21It's just happened just like that.
07:23This caused a tsunami with waves up to 100 feet to crash into land, resulting in devastating damage.
07:29The village was hit by a wall of water with a force so great, it crushed almost everything before it.
07:35Many countries in Asia and Africa were severely affected as more than 200,000 people lost their lives.
07:41I used to look out to the sea and just see it filled of bodies and debris and rubble and horrible things.
07:50Families of those vacationing in the area quickly searched for those they'd lost contact with, including the relatives of Canadians John and Jackie Nill.
07:58Sadly, they didn't survive.
08:00As relief workers searched Thailand, they found a digital camera belonging to the couple.
08:04The couple had managed to take a series of photos of the tsunami striking the country before it swept them away, 16 minutes before everything changed.
08:12At around 8.30 in the morning on September 11th, 2001, David Monderer went to the Manhattan Bridge in New York City to photograph the stunning skyline on a beautiful morning featuring the iconic World Trade Center's twin towers.
08:24As he packed up and was on his way home, at 8.46, the first plane struck the North Tower.
08:29Hughes, we want to go live right now and show you a picture of the World Trade Center.
08:34It's believed his image is one of the last of the towers still standing unharmed.
08:38Monderer returned and took more photos as the towers faced further attacks and collapsed.
08:43Extremists from the group Al-Qaeda had hijacked four commercial airplanes to use as weapons to devastate the U.S. with targeted strikes.
08:51It seemed as if the terrorists had a script to follow and wanted to make sure the world was watching.
08:56Within New York and additional attacks in Virginia and Pennsylvania, nearly 3,000 people lost their lives.
09:02May God bless the victims, their families, and America. Thank you very much.
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09:22Robert Lamberg's Heroics at Mount St. Helens
09:25In 1980, as scientists were awaiting the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington,
09:30Landsberg, a U.S. Navy veteran-turned-photographer, went to the mountain to document the volcano as it changed.
09:36On May 18th, the eruption occurred.
09:38And a tremendous blast shattered the Sunday morning calm.
09:42A blast heard as far away as Vancouver, British Columbia.
09:45However, Landsberg was only a few miles from St. Helens as the pyroclastic flow began to descend upon him.
09:51The key feature of today's eruption is that it gave scientists absolutely no warning it was coming.
09:56With incredible bravery, Landsberg continued taking photos of the mass of hot gas and volcanic matter.
10:02Then he packed away his camera before lying on top of it to protect it as he was engulfed.
10:07Around 60 people lost their lives.
10:09The eruption that followed would be one of the biggest natural disasters in the history of our state and our country.
10:15Over two weeks later, Landsberg's body was found, as were his photos, which had provided scientists with invaluable information on what happened.
10:23Are there any other eerie photos taken before disasters and tragedies that we missed?
10:27Let us know in the comments below.
10:29This eruptive force could go on for 20 years or end in 20 minutes.
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