History is more than just innovations and triumphs. In truth‚ much of it involves numerous instances of brutality‚ warfare‚ genocide‚ and other unsettling‚ regrettable realities. Take a look below at some of the most haunting moments from history. A starving Sudanese child crawls towards a United Nations feeding center while a vulture patiently waits for its next meal. This photo won a Pulitzer Prize‚ but the photographer‚ Kevin Carter‚ took his own life three months later. The two siblings shown here are experiencing the thrill of an electrical storm at Sequoia National Park in California around 1975. Shortly after this picture was taken‚ they were struck by lightning. Both survived. A councilman in the Philippines took this photo of his family on New Year’s Day in 2011‚ inadvertently capturing the image of his assassin. The councilman later succumbed to a gunshot wound to the head. A photographer accidentally captures the moment a person jumped off a bridge in China. American free diver Nicholas Mevoli moments before he passed away after a botched dive. Joseph Goebbels glares at Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt‚ 1933. Man falling from the top of the WTC on 9/11 While on a hike in Cheaha State Park‚ Alabama‚ on August 30‚ 2015‚ Loren Bunner captured this photo of Jolee. He shared it on social media. Shortly after‚ he fatally shot her and threw her body 40 feet from the cliff’s edge where she was standing. Starving children during 1921–1922 Russian famine. A man watches over his family during the Madras famine of 1877‚ British Raj‚ India. The wedding rings of holocaust victims before they were executed Anne Frank’s father Otto‚ revists the attic where he and his family hid. Che Guevara moments before he is executed. Bolivia‚ 9 October 1967.  A slave named Peter‚ exposed the damage to his back Replica dog tags of every soldier who never made it back from Vietnam. People on display at the Coney Island Human Zoo in 1904. Motel Manager James Brock pours Muriatic Acid in the Monson Motor Lodge Pool to evict black swimmers‚ 1964. A woman undergoes treatment for mental illness during the 19th century A father looks for his two missing sons during the Kosovo war in 1999. He would later find them. Prisoners at the Ebensee Concentration Camp A Jewish child shows her friends a dandelion she found while waiting outside the gas chambers The survivors the 1972 Andes plane crash. British POWs after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore‚ 1945  A starving child and a missionary in Uganda‚ 1980 The last photo ever of Nikola Tesla‚ 1st Jan 1943 Children found by Soviet forces in Auschwitz‚ 1945. Segregationists harass 6 year old Ruby Bridges with a doll in a coffin. Windows on the World‚ the restaurant on top of the WTC North Center‚ 1976. Shells from an Allied bombardment all fired in a single day on German lines in 1916 Women and girls using Radium paint‚ not knowing the health issues that would soon follow. 1922. Captured Chinese soldiers beg for their lives during the Korean War. The Gadget‚ the first atomic bomb‚ 1945 Temporary NYPD headquarters at a Burger King‚ September 11‚ 2001. Chinese guerrilla fighter Cheng Benhua smiling moment the Japanese executed her. An Australian POW being executed by the Japanese during WWII‚ c. 1943 Students dance in Tiananmen Square shortly before the arrival of the Chinese military‚ June 4th 1989The post 32 of the most haunting photos from history first appeared on History Defined.