History encompasses more than mere achievements and victories. In fact, it often includes many episodes of violence, conflict, and other distressing, lamentable truths.

Below, explore some of the eeriest episodes from the past.

Joseph Goebbels glares at Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1933.

Shells from an Allied bombardment all fired in a single day on German lines in 1916

Pyramid of World War I German helmets in New York, 1919.

Austro-Hungarian trench raiders near Caporetto, 1917

The Imprint of a Mitsubishi kamikaze Zero along the side of H.M.S Sussex. 1945.

The temporary grave of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. in Normandy, July 1944.

Russian concentration camp inmate identifies a cruel camp guard at Buchenwald.

Little John F. Kennedy Jr. waiting for his Dad, President John F. Kennedy to land at Camp David, Maryland in October 1963. 

JFK’s funeral at the capitol. November 1963.

British infantryman in 1941 with a long WWI-style bayonet affixed to his rifle

A young private waits on the beach during the Marine landing at Da Nang, 1965.

Boy standing in front of fallen statue of Lenin, Ethiopia, 1991

The last photo of The Dyatlov Pass Victims