Top 3 photos with DISTURBING backstories | Part 2

today i'm going to tell you three progressively more horrifying stories that at the end of each of them i'm going to show you the picture or pictures that are famously associated with that particular story but before we get into today's stories if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format then you've come to the right channel because that's all i do and i upload three four even five times every week if that's of interest to you then please move into the top floor of a high-rise apartment building that does not have a working elevator and then ask the like button to help you move also please subscribe to this channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of my weekly uploads alright let's get into today's stories on march 20th 1980 significant volcanic activity began to occur all over mount saint helens in washington state the north face of the mountain had begun to visibly shake and then by march 27th there was steam coming out of the craters and vents all over the north side of the mountain that april scientists began to notice that there was this massive bulge that was growing on the north side of this mountain that was about a mile in diameter and every day it was growing about six feet farther and farther up the mountain and it was basically this massive undercurrent of magma that was going towards the top of the mountain getting ready to explode initially there was some speculation that perhaps this magma bulge is not nearly as big of a deal as people are making it out to be that really at worst it could be a small eruption and it would have no impact on the surrounding areas but authorities became skittish and were worried that they could just be caught with their pants down and this turned into a full-blown volcanic eruption so they began evacuating the area and for the most part everybody evacuated with the exception of a few scientists and some photographers and some really hardcore people that did not want to leave their homes one of those people who had stayed behind was robert landsberg was a photographer and on may 18 1980 he was out hiking about seven miles away from the summit of mount st helens and he was making his way up to try to find a good viewpoint of that north face he wanted to look at that magma surge that was making its way up on the north side of the mountain and so finally he makes his way up and he gets to a great spot and he starts taking pictures of that north face while robert is taking pictures of that side of the mountain a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck the area causing that entire north face of mount st helens to be sheared off and begin falling down the side of the mountain it's this massive landslide it's one of the biggest that's ever been recorded in that area but what it really did is all of a sudden that entire magma surge that had been building up underneath on the north side making its way up suddenly is uncovered and it causes this massive volcanic explosion shooting 15 miles straight up into the air along with this massive vertical blast there was a simultaneous lateral blast basically pointed directly at robert and it sent these molten debris surging down the mountainside at 100 miles an hour or faster robert knew he had no hope of escaping this wall of magma and ash coming straight at him so he decides instead of trying to save myself i'm going to take as many pictures as i can of this volcanic eruption and then i'm going to try to protect the film and so robert took as many pictures as he could of this massive volcanic wall of death coming towards him until the very last second when he puts his camera into his bag he puts that into his backpack and then he holds it against his chest and lays down on the ground using his body as the last protective measure to try to save this film for posterity 17 days later they find robert landsberg's body and sure enough he was able to protect his film by laying on top of it and so they developed the pictures that he took and they're incredible here are the final pictures that robert landsberg took before he was killed by the volcano on september 21st 2014 darsh patel who was a 22 year old college student was out hiking in a new jersey state park along with five of his college buddies as they were about to head down a particular trail that they had actually gone to this park to go down a man and woman come charging up the path towards them and so darsh and his friends stop and they're looking at these two people who look totally distraught and scared and the man and woman immediately say hey don't go down this path we were just down there and for the past 10 minutes a black bear has been stalking us in the tree line we don't know where it went but we got up here we turned around and it was gone but we would not suggest going down this path it's just not worth it darsh and his friends tell the couple you know thank you for giving us the heads up we were actually going to go down that path and so i guess now we won't and so the couple they quickly leave and darsh and his friends are sitting there thinking well now what do we do because this was the trail we were gonna go down this is why we're here as they're standing there they start talking about well maybe we just go down anyways you know there's there's six of us i highly doubt that a bear is gonna come out of the woods and attack six people especially a black bear that is not known to attack people why don't we just walk down a ways and if we see the bear then we just turn around and leave and if we see the bear might make some good pictures let's just go down there and and see what happens and they start walking and sure enough about 10 minutes into their trip down this trail they see this massive bear parked right in the center of the trail about 250 meters away from where they were the bear did not appear to be doing anything it was just sitting there but it was clearly looking at the group of them so darsh and his friends are just standing there not really sure what to do so they start taking pictures and videos they're not moving any closer but they just start documenting what they're seeing because this bear was apparently stalking this couple it was pretty interesting and they figured hey make some good pictures so they start taking pictures and taking some videos of this animal and the animal starts walking towards them now it's 250 meters away they recognize that this is a dangerous animal and we don't want to get too close to it but they felt relatively safe even if it started moving towards them initially they still felt safe but the animal starts jogging towards them at this point the boys put their phones away turn around and they start hightailing it the other way and somebody looks back and notices the bear is now sprinting at them this causes the group to completely panic they start sprinting back towards where their cars were parked absolute full panic back up the trail no one's paying attention to anybody else they're just running for their lives and as they're turning their heads to look the bear is gaining on them and gaining on them finally after about 10 minutes of just running for their lives they make it to the parking lot and they turn around there's no bear but they're short one hiker darsh patel is still in the forest somewhere the group starts screaming for darsh they know there was this aggressive baron there chasing them so they're obviously worried about him potentially getting attacked and so they immediately called 9-1-1 the police show up and park rangers show up and they go into the forest to try to find this bear and to find darsh and very quickly they come across this bear in a clearing this 300 pound bear all by itself aggressively pacing around this lump in the middle of this clearing that had sticks and branches on it it wasn't clear what it was and this bear is just pacing in a circle around this thing and as these two park rangers get closer they're armed the bear looks at them and makes a move like it's going to charge and they elect to shoot and kill this bear later the bear's remains would be taken to a laboratory and inside of the bear's stomach was darsh patel he had been killed and eaten by this bear and that lump that was on the ground that the bear was circling was whatever was left of darsh that had not been consumed yet when they recovered darsh patel's phone they went into his images and they found he had taken one final picture before he was attacked here it is the bear was not malnourished it was not diseased it just decided it wanted to stalk kill and eat a human vladimir komarov was a soviet astronaut who in 1967 was scheduled to orbit the earth in the first manned flight of a particular soviet spacecraft called the soyuz komarov would be flying this mission solo and so he needed a backup in case for some reason he couldn't go and his backup was yuri gagarin who was actually komarov's best friend this mission was very important to the soviet union more from a political standpoint but nonetheless the pressure was on komarov to successfully complete this mission and so he along with his backup yuri had to train extra hard and make sure they did not screw this up but it turns out the fail point for this mission was almost certainly not going to be komarov or gagarin if he ended up going instead of komarov it was going to be the spaceship itself gagarin along with a host of engineers did a full-blown inspection of the soyuz and found 203 significant structural problems and they all recommended postponement of this mission but their recommendation was ignored because again this mission was so politically important to the soviet union that they were effectively ready to risk their astronauts to make it happen when komarov found out about all these structural issues and the fact that the powers that be were not even listening and we're basically saying we don't care you're doing this mission anyways he was crushed and he told a kgb agent that he was certain he was going to die and this kgb agent would later say that he asked comrade well then why don't you refuse the mission and komarov said if i refuse the mission they're going to make my best friend go and he'll die up there so i have to go gagarin pleaded with komarov to relinquish the role let gagarin go instead of him but komarov was staunch he said i've been given this mission i'm going to go you're going to stay here but what komarov did which is so legendary is he made sure his funeral if he were to die in the course of this mission would be open casket because he knew if he came back to earth it was probably going to be because this spaceship has crashed and he wanted the soviet leadership to see what they had done so sure enough komarov gets in the soyuz on launch day he takes off and the problems began almost immediately they had very little power they had limited communications with the ground and the craft itself was spinning uncontrollably seeing how badly it was going already soviet leadership on the ground instructed komarov to nix the mission and just try to come back to earth for five hours komarov circled earth and attempted to re-enter earth's atmosphere but his ship because of all of those structural problems didn't work and so 18 times he attempts to re-enter earth's atmosphere but each time it fails and it was around this time that american intelligence recorded a conversation between a high-ranking soviet leader on the ground and komarov and the leader on the ground is basically crying and saying they're so sorry to calm her off and that he's going to be a hero they got his wife to come on and his wife is talking to komarov and komarov's telling her you know what to do with the kids what to do with his estate he's perfectly fine and healthy but the craft is doomed and everybody knows it then that call ends and komarov on his 19th attempt is able to re-enter earth's atmosphere which everyone was pretty surprised he could even do that but his parachutes failed as komarov is plunging to his death over the radio he's cursing the soviet leadership that doomed him by putting him in a botched spaceship and so sure enough on april 24th around 7 am komarov's craft smashes into the ground killing komarov and when they open it up it's clear what happened to him he didn't die on impact he basically burned alive inside of this capsule as it was careening down towards the earth and so all that's left of him is this charred pile but because kamarov explicitly stated that they had to have an open casket funeral specifically because he wanted the soviet leadership to see what they had done to him they had to hold an open casket funeral with just these charred remains and here is the famous picture of kamarov's funeral where the actual soviet leaders that put him in that spaceship that was doomed here they are viewing his open casket funeral so 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Length: 13min 10sec (790 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 01 2020