Last Pictures
This is the last photograph ever taken of the Titanicas it set sail for New York in 1912. At the time of its launch, it was the largest passenger ship ever built, but unfortunately that didn’t mean it was necessarily the safest.
James Dean is seen here getting gas for his Porsche 550 Spyder not long before he crashed it and was killed. Legend has it that the car is cursed, as it was involved in several more accidental deaths before disappearing in the’60s.
This photograph was recovered from Japan Airlines Flight 123 after it crashed, taking the lives of everyone on board. Notice that the emergency oxygen masks had already dropped, meaning this was taken right before the plane actually wrecked.
A man took this photo while on a hike in New Jersey, moments before the bear attacked and killed him. Just remember: it’s never worth it to put your life at risk for photograph, no matter how good it might turn out.
These fish became stuck in a fence during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. It ended up being one of the most destructive and expensive hurricanes in recent memory, with displaced fish being among the least of the damage done.
William “Dave” Sanders, a coach at Columbine High School, was caught on the school security cameras guiding more than 100 students out of the cafeteria just before being killed in the shooting.
This picture captures the start of an eruption of Mt. Etna in Sicily, Italy back in 2013. The volcano is one of the world’s most active, with various volcanic events occurring multiple times per year.
The band Great White plays a show at Rhode Island’s Station Nightclub, just before their pyrotechnics caused a fire that killed more than 100 people. In this eerie photo see you can see the destructive fireworks on display, but nobody is alarmed yet…
The horror can be seen here: have to download the file to watch unfortunately.
This comparison photo shows the iconic Bhimsen Tower, a major tourist attraction, in Kathmandu, Nepal before and after its destruction by a devastating earthquake back in April of 2015.
A chair became lodged in a Joplin, Missouri building wall after a devastating hurricane back in 2011. It was obviously very destructive, but it’s still hard to imagine winds powerful enough to do this!
Is this the luckiest person in the world? We’d say possibly so. You never really realize how destructive thunderstorms can be until you see the damage that they cause (or very nearly cause)!
Paul Walker is shown here climbing into the car that eventually crashed, taking his and the driver’s lives back in 2013. Many people were quick to point out the tragic irony of The Fast and the Furious star dying in sucha way…
Some of us are quick to call any snowfall over a few inches a “blizzard,” but it’s photos like this that remind us of our hyperbole. This is a regular winter snowfall in the remote region of Nunavut, Canada!
Robert Overcracker drove a jet ski over Niagara Falls to raise awareness for the homeless back in 1995. This photo was snapped just as his parachute failed to deploy, sending him plummeting to his death.
In 2005, a powerful tornado wiped out a little over one percent of Sweden’s forests. It doesn’t seem like a lot until you realize just how much excess timber the country was left with!
George Mallory and Sandy Irvine are depicted just before they began their ascent of Mt. Everest in 1924. Tragically, neither of these pioneering explorers made it to the summit—or back down—again.
This photo shows Joy Division lead singer and post-punk trailblazer, Ian Curtis, posing with his young daughter only a few days before his tragic suicide by hanging in 1980.
This photo of a family was taken on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 back on July 17, 2014 shortly before it was shot down over Ukraine by pro-Russian separatists, killing everybody on board.
This picture of the Kelly family was taken at a New York Yankees game on September 10, 2001. Father Joe Kelly was killed the next day in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
In 1978, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 tragically crashed into a small private Cessna 172 plane and fell from the sky. This picture captures the plane just before it hit the ground in North Park, San Diego.
In 1961, the U.S. figure skating team boarded a flight to the World Championships in Belgium. Unfortunately, their plane crashed after being forced to abort its landing in Brussels.
22. This is a rare photo of renowned actor Patrick Swayze just days before he lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. Cancer of the pancreas is one of the deadliest forms of the disease, with a five-year survival rate of just seven percent.
This photo shows Jim Morrison hanging out in Paris in 1971 with his girlfriend Pamela Courson. He would die in the city of a heroin overdose within days of this picture being taken.
This picture taken in Bay Head, New Jersey is yet another example of the destructive effects of Hurricane Sandy. Built on a cliff, this house couldn’t remain standing once flood waters swept away much of the ground on which it stood.
We’ve all seen pictures of flooding before, but rarely do you witness a deluge of this magnitude. The amount of water necessary to pick up and float a car down the highway is mind-blowing!
In 2012, a hot air balloon collided with power lines in New Zealand, killing all 11 tourists on board. Though there’s no way to know for sure, the accident has been attributed to negligence on the part of the balloon’s pilot.
27. Johnny Cash’s last public performance was a surprise show at Carter’s Fold in Hilton, Virginia in 2003. The venue was named in honor of Cash’s wife June Carter’s musical family.
This photo shows the then-mayor of St. Louis, William D. Becker, with a number of other politicians on a military test flight in 1943. Unfortunately, the flight crashed; all 10 people aboard lost their lives.
Mayinga N’seka, a nurse, is depicted here during an ebola outbreak in 1976. Her dedication meant that she eventually contracted the disease herself and passed away not long after.
This photo shows noted parkour enthusiast Pavel Kashin performing the trick that would lead to his death. He’s pictured attempting to back-flip to the wall, but he would soon lose his balance and fall to ground below.
©Tom Carlson
