Top 30 Normal Looking Pictures with Disturbing Backstories 

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I think that the dog one is kind of sweet, yes it’s sad the dogs owner died, but that dog was able to hear his owners voice even after his death, and it shows how much dogs love us.

"Fat Man" was NOT an H-bomb, it was an A-bomb. HUGE difference.

The little boy being killed is one of the worst crimes ever ! It boils my blood every time I see that image. I couldn't have let that go if I was his parents, I'm sure I would be in prison doing life. 💔 My goodness !!!

I remember hearing a story years ago about a serial killer who took a picture of a young woman he had kidnapped along with her boyfriend. He killed the boyfriend first then tortured her for weeks afterwards. The last image of her is of her holding up her hands and looking terrified. The photo was used at his trial and he was subsequently executed.

the dog one is touching. My mom passed away a little over 6 months ago. Both of my dogs still go crazy when we play a video of her voice. They def love her 💜

James Bulger and his family lived quite close to where I live: the horror felt and voiced by the community at the time was palpable. His killers have been given new names and a 'fresh' start, but the elder of the two has revealed his true identity on multiple occasions and returned to custody due to further crimes against children. I will not utter his name, as I am sure he is only interested in the infamy it has brought him: he deserves no remembrance.

What’s even more wild is how Jodi Arias is posing in that photo with Travis. It just comes to show how much of a psycho she really was. Rest easy, Travis.

The Delphi photos always make me overwhelmingly sad. RIP girls❤❤

That's super messed up, a father marrying their adult daughter. That's super twisted.

The saddest part about The Challenger to me was it that that woman, Christa McAuliffe was *not a trained astronaut* in the traditional sense. She was a teacher picked to go up and be the first civilian and teach us about the stars from space.

WMojo, for 28, you forgot to include that she and her friend had been hiking and got lost and were still lost when darkness fell. In trying to still move through the area in the dark, the girl fell down the boulders she was found at the bottom of. Her friend went to her, having not fallen himself, and after seeing she was alive but badly injured, he left to try and search for help, but sadly, in doing so, in the dark, he stumbled off a 40ft high cliff and did not survive. I understand that this is a harrowing incident that others will find distressing, but I feel that it is greatly disrespectful to not even mention her friend or his sacrifice or not even tell the full account of what happened. Trying to fit into a timed segment doesn't excuse not, at the least, mentioning him.

4:41 "Justice was swiftly served" ???? DO MORE RESEARCH WATCHMOJO!!! Ask Denise Bulger is she think's justice has been served.

The one with the one with the dog and the owner’s voice is so sad!!! 😭 💔💔

Top 10 times watchmojo re-use old videos

I just watched the Top 20 of the same video with the same title. I'm impressed that Watchmojo does "Top 30" videos now. At least, if ever, I get to see new additions to reused old mentions. Yay!

23:02 That picture of Travis Alexander is so haunting 😱, he knew she was in his house and he knew he was going to die.

Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! 2:00 I had no idea about that story until today. I thought that was only a logo all along. Wow, that's sad..

People. Suck.

In the atomic bomb sequence, Harold is not carrying an H-Bomb core. That is a core from an atomic bomb That is 1000x less magnitude than the following hydrogen bombs. It is a fission core, not a fusion core.

Hoooboy... Isn't that Travis and the woman who brutally murderd him in his shower, Jodi Arias? 😱 The water in the photo is a terrible harbinger of how he met his fate...

Few suggestions: “Top 10 youngest child killers.” “Top 10 evil teenagers in USA.” “Top 20 young people turned murderers.”

All of these are very mindblowing

Great list

I’m old enough to remember many of these. I think the saddest one was James Bulger.

This was really amazing to watch / listen to

Me and my philosophy class have studied the James bulger case and it is gruesome They led him to a train track Threw rocks sticks and beat him Sexually assaulted a BABY and killed him

I Actually find this Video Morbidly Fascinating that those Unassuming Pictures have Dark'n'Disturbing Backgrounds and Stories, it kinda feels like it's Straight out of a Thriller.

I really enjoy videos like this by Watch Mojo. These are important for society and serve as good lessons from those pictures. It made for a great topic to learn about the stories behind them and also covered history!

The dog one "His Master's Voice" has been the logo of the store HMV in the UK. HMV stands for the same thing as the image.

The pics and videos of the warehouse explosion in Beirut. Especially the wedding pics and video.

Great interesting content

I remember watching The Challenger disaster live on TV at school in the library the moment it blew up they instantly turn the TV off and then shuffle this back to the classroom and we didn't really know why until afterwards

The abigail williams clip with a photo of her walking on a wooden bridge, to me it looks like someone is in the distance standing there

Boston marathon bombers had there pictures taken literally minutes before the 2 explosions.

The Jodi arias and travis Alexander photos are crazy the way she did him was Beyond dirty..I seen those photos like so long ago

Every photo tells a story; good or bad. 🎉

18:54 Virgil Grissom is namesake of my middle school Grissom middle school in Michigan. He appeared in our yearbook too

One of the most depressing RU-vid videos ever. I knew about most of these cases. I was just about to graduate from university when the Jamie burger story hit and it was such a downer. I hated his perpetrators even though they were only kids themselves.

Is this a re-upload? I’m getting serious Deja vu vibes.

If you lived in the UK during the time Bulger was abducted then killed, it was truly shocking. To now find out both them murderers are in witness protection, one is now gay, his life not mine, and the other was done for child porn. They were well looked after in prison being taking out on taxpayers money.

I feel like I've seen this before.

Feel like ive seen this video 100 times already..still watching again lol

I remember my grandmother talking about the mount st Helen's eruption

That one high school yearbook photo that featured the Columbine school shooters.

Most that go over Niagara Falls did so intentionally, sadly. Only a few a year actually fall over. All horrid.

TBH, that picture of Fat Man looks kind of cool.

Richard Allen will be found guilty

Okay. I'm sorry. The Happy Creepy Killer picture is not a smile I would consider innocent. That smile is terrifying!

I am LOVING these longer videos

Wow the Menendez bros. Didn’t know about this pic.

I was at the Grand Canyon and people were climbing over the rails with their kids and looking into the Canyon. I complained to the park rangers but they told me there was nothing they could do. They assured me, "Only 7 or 8 people die a year." I was shocked. It was warm outside but it was still winter and there were lots of snow and ice. I'm deathly afraid of heights but I climbed over the rail and tied myself to a tree. I was going to make sure that if anyone slipped. I would be able to grab them. Thank God nobody slipped while I was there.

On the night of July 1st, 2022, I was at the Battle Creek Field of Flight Air Show. I volunteer every year. I had already finished my shift and was enjoying the night time pyrotechnics, excited to see my favorite act, the jet truck. I took a ton of video and dozens of pictures, not knowing it would be one of his final performances. Later that night, I got a chill as I looked through the pictures. In one, the smoke had formed a shape that, to me, looked eerily like a skull. I had shown it to a few people the next afternoon. They agreed that it was creepy and then brushed it off as a coincidence and went back to our duties of answering phones in the air show information hotline office. The air show had started for the day and people were calling to inquire about the lineup. We started to hear the engines rev up and knew the jet truck was next. Normally, I would step outside to watch, but I stayed inside to answer phones, as I had seen the amazing performance the night before. Through the window, everything looked and sounded normal, like the dozens of other times I had seen this routine. But, it was different this time. In addition to a bank of phones, the office was also the hub for walkie talkies. The mayday calls started coming in. The jet truck was on fire. I went out to clear gawkers out of the way for the ambulance, but it was pretty evident that it was a formality. The fire burned so hot, there was no body, and I’ll never forget watching the charred jet truck, that I had posed for selfies with the year prior, get packed up into its trailer. I still volunteer every year. I know things like this will always be a possibility…. but I pray I never again witness it firsthand.

When will we have Rebecca doing 20 most evil kids in history??

@3:20 technically that case was solved. They found the killer and sentenced him to prison for the murders. Abigail and Libby can finally rest in peace. 🕊️🕊️🕊️

fun fact : the "Master voice" is a logo for HMV , old music store in the 90's

The dog one ❤❤❤❤

"Turn on notifications" -- who in their right mind needs to be notified 6 times daily y'all just posted a new video. I bet no one on earth wants that... there's no RU-vid channel that is THAT interesting to need to stop what I'm doing 6 times a day to watch.

What about the last photo of Tupac Shakur on the night of September 7th, 1996, the date he was murdered? The picture shows Tupac and Deathrow Records CEO Suge Knight in Knight's 96 black BMW.

Growing up in the UK we had a record store called HMV ( his masters voice) and it used that picture of the dog as its signage

13:35 another haunting last photo from the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption was Robert Landsberg who was present at Mt. St. Helens on the May 18th eruption who spent his final moments taking photos of the lateral bast before he rolled his film back up, out the case and camera back in his bag and before being overtaken by the pyroclastic flow, threw himself onto his bag.

Oh Jodi What a wacky girl😂

Christoph Waltz with Weird Al hair?? What are you talking about Watch MoJo? How do you figure that,he looks nothing like Christoph Waltz🙄

Lmao I'm so sorry but I laughed so hard at the bomb being named "fat man".😂😂 It was mentioned once and i cackled but then it was brought up again and i just lost it.😂

There was a picture of me taken at Taco Bell moments before I killed my toilet

Wasn't this recently uploaded, like less than 2 weeks ago?

This is the first time I've ever noticed that James Bulger was killed on the day I was born! 😬

I actually watched the Challenger explosion happen. My teacher brought in the television so we could watch the launch. I still remember not really understanding what happened (at the time) when the shuttle exploded. (Apparently they removed any safety measures, including ejection seats due to "weight and difficulty fitting them into the shuttle" and even after this incident only included safety items that would work during "gliding" rather than in the event of explosion. Eventually that was udpated further, but damn)

"Its a picture of John Edward So-and-so..." Me: "oh, a serial killer." "A con man and serial killer..."

The dog one was sad

I'm still stuck on that photo of the parents... To take the photo was wrong to submit the photo was wrong and to submit it to win awards was wrong but I also feel the same about the photos taken of the few survivors of 9/11 and some of those photos wouldn't words too My stepdad actually took a photo that became very popular It just wasn't of the direct aftermath It's one of the many photos of them putting up the flag on the rubble but I don't think those photos should be used to win awards... They're the most tragic moments of many people's lives and shouldn't be used for someone else's gain. I'll be damned if I found out the photographer for my son's passing tried to use photos of our horrible moment to win any awards. I get there a big deal I get they should be saved and maybe view this history but to run an award for someone else's tragedy just seems wrong

Looks can be deceiving, especially in these pictures!

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Looks like a Mr.Ballen episode !!!

That extreme pan left audio at 9:58 scared the crap out of me. It sounded like it wasn't coming from the computer.

9:03 Romantic? Ot looks like the Mans about to lush his wife into the sea but its horrific for them both that they lost their son

2:46 you sure its a himan? the "thing" in the back looks like a doll to me

I had never seen that Mark Jackson basketball card but my eyes immediately went to the Mendendez Brothers as soon as they came into the shot. How weird. These are all great examples. Jodi Arias might not ever have been convicted if that memory card had not been discovered. How about the infamous video found on Paul Murdaugh’s phone which put his father at the scene of the crime.

*Ok WM, it's time for a newer, revamped list. Most of these pics I've seen a dozen times over.*

So this is like the 5th time you re hash the same topic? Is top 30 a thing now you do with every topic?

Me watching this before bed and thinking they were not going to be disturbing Me not going to sleep and constantly checking behind me

The Challenger mission will forever be ingrained in my memory. It was horrific to watch. 😢

don't think there was anything normal or innocent-looking about Travis Alexander's picture. I think his expression is incredibly haunting, and he looks anything but normal.

Mojo did a very similar video years ago with a different photo of Christopher McCandless. Is there no new material to use.

The shadows, though... dear God. Harrowing indeed...

I was in high school when Challenger happened. Some younger people of my generation watched it on TV. In high school we were not watching live.

He had the option of a gun but did not choose it. He was courageous drawing out all he could of life.

The photos of Rudolf Hoess' villa would also perfectly fit here. Especially those with his children playing in a pool. Lovely at the first glance, but hiding dark truth once you know the story.

The third entry just based on the pic came off as Creepy Af to me, not just as "a smiling man with a grin"

My brother was literally the best dog parent ever! He tragically lost his life very young. His dog heard his voice on a voicemail message and went insane. Sadly, it turned out to be torture to the poor pup.

The 2 monsters who kidnapped poor Jamie Bulgar walked with him for around 3 miles and on that journey several passers by stopped and asked if everything was o.k.? And later their heinous crimes were put down in part to the movie 'Child's Play'!

The Jamie Bulger story. I remember people saying they were suspicious of the boys abducting him, but did nothing. I know 100% I would have as I interfered with some boys bullying one of their 'friends' and took him home.

6:35 I don't see anything good in this photo Just looking in their eyes that aren't even looking directly at us You can see something is wrong here. As I learned growing up that's not the normal look that should be in a little girl's eyes. When you see it you should ask questions

The dog one is beautiful. It goes to show how loyal dogs are. They will never stop loving you!

Ok the HMV one tore me up...

"Vancouver, Vancouver..." the last words utterd by David Johnston, refers to the city of Vancouver, Washington, population 195K. Vancouver, WA (NOT Vancouver BC Canada) was the location for the majority of the Mt. St Helen's warning system & volcanic research. The Johnston Ridge Observatory, named in David's honor, at Mt. St Helens is both beautiful & educational. I highly recommend visiting the site if you ever visit Washington State.

The James Bulger case is one of the most horrifying murders ive ever read about. Those two boys did unthinkable things to that little boy. I will never forget.

I think that even if children are 19 and under should be charged as adults. Why should a 12 year old and 19 year old be in juvie for killing people.

Yes, but I couldn’t be bothered typing it all out!! 🧡🇦🇺

The picture of Harold Agnu looks like my grandfather standing on his front step holding a sixer of miller lite