After the invention of photography in the mid-1800s and continuing through to today‚ the chronicles of modern history are brimming with genuinely scary photographs that are more horrifying than what’s seen in even the most unsettling horror films. The most terrifying images captured span a wide array‚ from formidable animals encountered in the wild to the final moments of victims in natural disasters.” Note from the Lipstick Killer‚ 1945. Parents pose with their deceased daughter. Genie Wiley‚ The “Feral Child” Blanche Monnier after being locked away by her parents for 25 years. Recreating one of John Wayne Gacy’s unidentified victims. A man is laid to rest with his doll 1800s family photo “Charlie No-Face” French neurologist Guillaume-Benjamine conducts an experiment. Lon Chaney as a clown‚ 1928. The tools of Ted Bundy The last photo Of Jolee Callan before her ex-boyfriend shot her and dumped her off the cliff. Jail cell used during the Salem Witch Trials One of BTK’s bondage photos The start of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Dr. Vladimir Demikhov with his two-headed dog. The Spontaneous Combustion Of Mary Reeser Unit 731 conducts a human experiment. Ed Gein’s human skin gloves The last moments off a man who jumped in a tiger enclosure‚ 2014. The mummified body of Carl Tanzler’s lover The nuclear shadows of Hiroshima An early version of Ronald McDonald Evelyn McHale after jumping from the Empire State Building Vintage Halloween Costume John Wayne Gacy as a child Photo of Tara Calico found after her disappearance. John Lennon pictured with his killer‚ Mark David Chapman The last moments of Keith Sapsford Beck Weathers‚ a frozen man on Mt. Everest Omayra Sanchez shortly before passing. The Hilo Tsunami‚ 1946 The Amityville Horror House Shell-shocked soldier during WWI. The Mummies of Venzone Edward Paisnel‚ “The Beast Of Jersey” The final moments of two men on top of a turbine Unsettling vintage Halloween costume Victim of the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run Mount Sakurajima erupts in 1914. The last photo taken by Daylenn Pua before he disappeared. The last victim of the Glamour Girl Slayer Children tied to a radiator at a Lebanese asylum. A USS Indianapolis survivor A selfie from James Holmes The last photo of The Dyatlov Pass Victims The post 38 of the creepiest photos ever taken first appeared on History Defined.