Gravestone monument for Maria Magdalena Langhans, who died during childbirth at age 28 in 1751. It was commissioned by her husband and sculpted by Johann August Nahl, a famous artist who knew the couple personally.1yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Open heart surgery showing the removal of a HUGE blade chest. It's so close it's pierced the pericardium (I think? I'm not a doctor) but miraculously didn't cause any serious damage. Calls do not get much closer than this folks.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Photo of the grand staircase of the Titanic before she sank contrasted with a photo of the staircase from the same angle 100+ years later4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
Message found by a redditor who cleaned out vacant homes in 20174yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Diego Frazao Torquato, 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence through music. Sadly Diego died a few years after this was taken due to leukemia.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Execution by cannon, Shiraz, Iran. 1890s. This method of tying the condemned to a cannon for execution was known as blowing by gun. The spray of blood, bone, and grapeshot often injured spectators and attracted scavenging animals. The method was eventually abandoned after about 300 years of use.1yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Cheerful Chinese students just before being slaughtered in the Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989 (please no victim blaming and no denialist comments)4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
When the Australian bushfires get too close to you, the RFS send an emergency message explaining that it's too late to leave4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
A husband grieves for his wife, dead at age 95 after 69 years of marriage4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Letter from coal miner Jacob L. Vowell shortly before he died from suffocation in the 1902 Fraterville, Tennessee mine disaster4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Osama bin Laden (second from right) and his family during a visit to Sweden in 1971.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
The man in this Holocaust photo has been only recently identified as Rabbi Moshe Hegerman, the Rabbi of Olkusz in Poland. Brought to the town square for execution he asked to let him say first Kaddish for his slain brethren. The soldiers laughed while watching him.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/morbidlybeautiful
The results of what the Chinese government REALLY did during the Tiananmen Massacre (graphic).4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
A letter from schizophrenic patient Emmy Hauck to her husband. It consists only of the phrase “Herzensschatzi komm” (darling please come) and “komm komm komm” (come, come, come ) repeated over and over.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Post-mortem photography of a young girl. The photo side-by-side also served as an advertisement of the photographer's skill. The open eyes were drawn onto the negative to give a life-like appearance1yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
As I got a bit of pushback on yesterday's post showing William Furr lying dead on the ground after police shot him in the back during the Newark riots, I thought I'd post the photo of the 12 y.o. child who barely survived being hit with the other half of the pellets from that same fatal shot.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Young boy performing the doll test, 1947. When asked to pick the nice/good doll the vast majority of both black and white kids chose a white one. When asked to pick the bad doll they chose the one with brown skin. This was especially the case in children in segregated schools (info in comments)4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Two men creating a death mask circa 1908. The corpse is propped up so that the skin hangs naturally, as it did in life. This positioning yielded more life-like results than casts taken from recumbent bodies.1yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
On September 11th 2001 there was one American in space. This is a photo he (Culbertson) took of the disaster from the international space station5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
The man in this Holocaust photo has been only recently identified as Rabbi Moshe Hegerman, the Rabbi of Olkusz in Poland. Brought to the town square for execution he asked to let him say first Kaddish for his slain brethren. The soldiers laughed while watching him4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
The eye of an electrician that was accidentally shocked by 14,000 volts of electricity on the job4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Facial degloving due to car accident and subsequent reconstruction4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
A woman mourns after the US Navy downs an Iranian passenger jet on 3 July 1988, carrying 290 civilians including 66 children4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
A German soldier, held in a POW camp for years, returns to his Frankfurt home after the war only to find his family gone and his home reduced to rubble. Photographer- Tony Vaccaro4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, 1914/19154yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Catholic Priest giving last rites to a British soldier who was stripped naked and shot by the IRA. Belfast, 1988.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Mental patient undergoing forced standing at an asylum circa 19004yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Colorized photo of the last known victim of Jack The Ripper, Marry Jane Kelly. She was mutilated so horribly that her femur bone was completely exposed4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
6 year old child Diamond shouts at his father as the police arrest him for domestic violence. Photo by Donna Ferrato, Minneapolis, 198610mo ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Pope Saint John Paul II meets with Mehmet Agca, the man who attempted to assassinate him in order to tell him that he had forgiven him. While he was hit 4 times and suffered near fatal blood loss, the pope ultimately survived (1983)4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Drained hospital blood bag looks like a beautiful mountainscape5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
‘Charles plans to kill me’. Letter sent by Princess Diana to her butler Paul Burrell in October 1993. Shown at her inquest in 2007 (Text in comments)4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Mercury embolism- The results of a suicide attempt where the patient injected 10ml/135g of elemental mercury. Source in comments4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/morbidlybeautiful
I hope you're all with your loved ones around the table tonight but if you're not just know we here on the sub are happy to be your internet family. This is what I like to imagine we all look like together.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
A Jewish man shows the corpse of a starved infant in the Warsaw Ghetto, 19414yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Shadow of a noose against a brick tower during war crimes trials. Nuremberg, Germany.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Bonnie’s .38 revolver which was a gift from Clyde. Engraved “To Bonnie, I owe you one. Clyde 2-28-32”.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Black Tuesday Stock Market Crash Suicide Victim - October 22, 19295yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Russian soldiers, trying to find positive experiences however they can in a war torn Europe, playing piano in a demolished living room. (1945)4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
This grave stone found inYork County Maine killed the person it's marking5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Correspondent Hunter Ahmed with Iraqi police fighting ISIS in 2017. An ISIS fighter feigned surrender but detonated his vest when police apporached, leading to the capture of this photo5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Death certificate of an infant born with physical deformity incompatible with life, 1913. Check out the cause of death5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Geronimo and his warriors. Only known photo of Indian combatants still in fid who had not yet surrendered to the US 18865yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Wolf skeleton dressed as a warrior, found with an atlatl, gold disk, and shell necklace. Found in an offering at the Templo Mayor, Mexico City. Aztec. Late 15th century. Not super morbid I guess, but too cool not to share4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Amazing globe created with ashes by cremation artist u/Eschertheowl4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
A 9-year-old boy from Amsterdam during the Dutch famine better known as winter hunger from 1944 to 45. Many children carried spoons with them wherever they went just in case4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Man who abducted, raped, and drowned Katie Collman,10, was sent to the same prison her cousin was in. Her cousin Nels him down and tattooed KATIE'S REVENGE on his forehead. Article in comments5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
A crying Chinese baby amid the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai’s South Railway Station during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 19374yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Child's math notebook with a bullet hole through it. The notebook belonged to Uziyah Garcia, age 10, one of 19 students killed in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas in 2022.9mo ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Plastinated (and yes-real) corpse of a pregnant woman with the 8 month old baby | Art from Gunther von Hagens whose plastination process is top secret5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
El Salvadoran National Police use an ice cream vender as a human shield during a street skirmish with armed demonstrators in San Salvador. 1983.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Piles of eyeglasses taken off the prisoners just as they were sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Victims of madras(india) famine photo by Willoughby Wallace Hooper, a British officer and photographer. Year 18764yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Polish teacher Władysław Bielinski moments before he was executed by the Germans, 19394yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
CT scan of an unrestrained passenger's skull after a road traffic accident4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Italy's fleet of the dead: Military trucks transport scores of coronavirus victims' coffins out of Lombardi to be cremated. There have been so many deaths that there is no more room to bury or cremate them in the region.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Restorer carries a plaster cast of a child who died suring rhe eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Unknown British Airborne Soldier's Grave Buried by German Soldiers. April 15th, 19454yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/morbidlybeautiful
Klara Boratel-Engelsman, murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz on 12 October 1944. She was the oldest Holocaust victim from the Netherlands at 102 years old.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Punkah wallahs in action, British India, early 1900s. A Punkah-wallahs were manual fan operators in India before the electric fan, who worked ceiling fan with a pulley system4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, 1914/19154yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/morbidlybeautiful
John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father’s casket in Washington, 19634yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
1936: A flag hanging outside the headquarters of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) at 69 Fifth Avenue, New York City, bearing the words 'A Man was Lynched Yesterday'.1yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Creepy photo of George Peter Metesky, better known as the Mad Bomber. He was an American electrician and mechanic who terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices. C. 19575yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Snowboarder Marco Siffredi beginning his descent down Everest on a snowboard. This would be the last time he was ever seen.5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
/u/edme took this photo of an annoying sign in Zambia not realizing there was a guy dead or at the very least passed out in a pile of trash (lower right corner)4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Piles of Christmas packages meant for American servicemen who died or went missing before the packages arrived are awaiting Return to sender stamps4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Original caption Arizona war worker writes her Navy boyfriend a thank-you note for the Jap skull he sent her.” This photo, taken by Ralph Crane, was selected as LIFE magazine’s “Picture of the Week,” May 22, 1944.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Serbian soldier holds his brother for one last picture during World War I4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Roman soldier, sword still strapped to his side, killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Conrad Veidt in his role as Gwynplaine in the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Child's arm holding vascular tissue, prepared by Berardus Albinus 17304yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
A black policeman protects a KKK member, as protesters we're closing in on them at a rally in Austin, Texas 19835yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Exhausted German soldiers returning from close quarter combat with Soviet shock troops in Ukraine, 19434yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
An angry mob of kids and adults shouting obscenities and threats at a black family moving into an all white development near Philadelphia, PA, Aug. 30 1963. The family spent their first nights in the cellar in fear. They moved away 2 years later due to continued harassment.10mo ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Dr. Fukushi Masaichi (1878-1956), world's foremost collector of tattooed skin, displaying an irezumi specimen. He removed the tattooed skin post-mortem with the subject's consent. He came to amass over 2000, some of which are displayed at the Medical Museum of Pathology at the University of Tokyo.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Heinrich Himmler and his 12-year-old daughter Gudrun visiting the Dachau concentration camp. Dachau, Germany. July 22, 19414yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Witch's whistle with death skull and rat’s foot c. 1800, said to be able to lure rats with its notes in the case of a rat plague5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Sorry about the many week hiatus. I guess I needed more time to grieve than I anticipated. Sorry if you've sent me a message and I didn't respond. That's to the approvod guest user for submitting some stuff in my absence. I'm back and I'll start posting again in no time!!!4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Burial at sea on USS Intrepid on Nov. 26, 1944 after Japanese bombing in Philippines4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Greek burial jewelry found on the body of a deceased woman c. 100 BCE5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Real blood vessels from a person who donated their body for artistic/scientific display purposes7yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/morbidlybeautiful
Wehrmacht soldier with his arm blown off, somewhere on the Eastern Front.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Blind Pioneer, photo by Antanas Sutkus, Kaunas, Lithuania, 1962. The photo was taken at an orphanage for blind children and “pioneer” is a reference to the organization for children operated by a communist party4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
A skull from Tonala covered with turqoise mosaic, with gold eyes and a jade ornament in the forehead. Aztec, Postclassic period (900-1519 AD), Archeological museum of Soconusco4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Subdural haematoma (which was, in case it's not obvious, the cause of death) in an alcoholic man4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
6 year old girl tossed from the window of the flames at the Daeyeonggak Hotel in Seoul, South Korea 1971. Still the deadliest hotel fire in history4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
The cage of Milazzo, containing the skeleton of British soldier Andrew Leonard, accused of desertion following the battle of Maida in 1806 (more info in comments)4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Photo that conveys the inner self of George Peter Metesky, better known as the Mad Bomber. He was an American electrician and mechanic who terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices. C. 1957.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/HumanPorn
White agitators kick a black man outside Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas during racial desegregation protests in September 19575yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Street car conductor in Seattle not allowing passengers aboard without a mask due to 1918 influenza outbreak. The Spanish Flu killed between 50-100 million people all told. National Archives, 1918.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Altamura Man- 150,000 ago this Neanderthal male fell into a crevasse in the Italian cave system called Altamura. There he likely expired slowly. In the years since, mineral deposits in the moist cave have built up on his skeleton (X-POST from /r/JessicaMshannon)5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A wounded soldier, Ken Kozakiewicz (left), cries after being given the dog tags and learning of the death of a fellow tank crewman, in the body bag to the right, after a friendly fire incident on Feb 28, 1991.5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
The skull of a Roman legionnaire with a spear tip still firmly embedded. Killed during the Gallic wars c. 52 BCE5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
NCO (and the rest of his squad) moments after losing a Private, Eastern Front 19424yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Remains of a woman with a jadeite tooth attached with fiber to the mandible buried at Teotihuacan, 350-450 CE5yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
April 1, 1946- A lone man (far left near the midline) about to be swept away by tsunami waves in Hilo, Hawaii. Triggered by an 8.6 earthquake near the Aleutian islands, the tsunami's waves ranged from 45-130 ft high. It killed 173 people and led to the creation of the tsunami warning system4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/thalassophobia
A German machine-gunner lies dead in a field after being struck in the eye by a bullet, World War II4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Fariba Tajiani Emamqoli just before she was hanged; her hands are bound and she’s blindfolded but the noose isn’t on yet. She was executed in Iran on March 11, 2001. Most hangings in Iran feature little to no drop, so the condemned die by strangulation (which can take up to 15 minutes)4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
An eerie (dare I say spooky?) white, blizzard gecko morph smiling up at you4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/gifs
Scene from a COVID19 drive through testing facility in Washington4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Two prisoners in pillory with another tied to Red Hannah (whipping post) below and a man with whip. New Castle County Courthouse, Delaware, United States4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Another gilded mummy housed at the Louvre. His hair color and style (rows of curls died with henna, a hairstyle worn by ephebes, fashionable in Egypt during the reign of the philhellenic emperor Hadrian) date him to sometime between 117-138 CE. More info in comments [511x600]4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The woman who drew this portrait was later diagnosed with a tumour in her visual cortex4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Most people seem to be freaked out by this sweet leopard gecko gif, but I have a feeling that the fine folks of this sub might feel a bit differently.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/herpetology
