Every day millions of photos are taken all around the world. So it is not a surprise that sometimes people capture something odd that they didn’t mean to capture in photos. We’ve collected some odd photos with creepy backstories to them.
So here are the photos with creepy backstories shared throughout the internet.
1. Photos with creepy backstories – Samurai Ghost
In 2014 a man named Martin Springall went on a vacation in Japan. He was walking around on a cliff with his young daughter and wife. Eventually, they reached an area where they could get a good view of the coast. So Martin decided to take a photo of the scenery with his daughter in the foreground. It was all normal and he and his daughter and wife moved on with their day. However, a little while later Martin noticed something strange in the photo in between his daughters’ legs.
In between her legs is a pair of legs dressed in samurai clothing. A pair of black samurai boots could easily be made out. He assumed a man was standing behind her as the photo was being taken. But he just didn’t remember it. But his daughter and wife confirmed nobody else wasn’t on the cliff that day. And unless the samurai was super short, his body and head should also be behind the girl.
Martin sent it to a friend, who then posted on Reddit and it went viral. After that many people accused Martin of photoshopping it. But an expert said that this photo was unedited. It still remains a mystery. But people are convinced that he was the ghost of a samurai.
2. Photos with creepy backstories – Helping hand
One of the most innocent kinds of photos is family photos. They are usually pretty corny and the only scary thing about them is if they end up on your parents’ Facebook for everyone to see. But this family photo is a little different.
In this photo we see a normal smiling family sitting happily on a swing. Nothing seems ordinary, no legs of a samurai ghost anywhere. But there is something very wrong with this photo that will surely creep you out.
Look at the girl on the far left and you’ll see a mysterious hand around her. You might think that this is one of the family members. But look at everyone’s hands and arms, and they are in sight. The hand appears to belong to another child which is pretty small. But clearly other than the kids in the photo there was no children’s insight.
The family said that they have no idea who this could be. But it was rumored this photo was taken near a haunted house. And some say that this hand belongs to a ghost of a young girl who you think is behind this mysterious hand?
3. Photos with creepy backstories – The unexpected passenger
This is one unsettling photo that seems normal at first sight but the creepy thing about this image was only discovered by the photographer after he took it. This photo was taken by a guy called Roy in Chico California.
He saw an abandoned truck and thought it would make a good photo. Then he snapped it and moved on with his day. But later after the image was developed he saw something bizarre. There was a face in the window of the truck. When the man took the photo nobody was around and he even closely inspected the truck and remembers it being empty.
The man was actually a police officer. So he took it into the station to have it checked out. It was examined and they found it was 100% genuine. The face seems to be of a woman and looks very ghostly. The woman actually looked scared in the image which makes it all the more unsettling.
4. Photos with creepy backstories – Redbox exorcist
We all probably use Netflix on our computers or with an app on our cell phones. But believe it or not, Redbox used to be kind of like Netflix where you rent a movie from a box and mail it back. One woman appears to be doing this and it was caught on a surveillance camera just above the box.
Returning a movie may sound mundane. But in this image, the woman’s eyes have been rolled back and her head is tilted all the way back too. We don’t know what movie she was renting but it was “The Exorcist” that would make a lot of sense. She looks like Regan MacNeil.
We hope there’s nothing wrong with her but the camera was hidden. So she was not doing this to mess around. Maybe she found out that she was getting a late fine and freaked out. What do you think could be behind this woman’s weird photo? Is she really possessed or is there some kind of bizarre explanation for this? We can just imagine the security guy watching this being terrified.
5. Photos with creepy backstories – Coincidence
This photo is creepy. But instead of a ghost hanging around it got a nice explanation. This mysterious photo has actually been explained.
In 1994 Nick Wheeler’s mom took a photo of him playing on a beach in the UK when he was only six years old. The photo was totally normal for 20 years. But in 2014, 20 years after the image was taken it became creepy.
Nick Wheeler married Amiee Maiden when he was 26 and she was 25. They were looking through old photos of their wedding when Nick’s pulled out this image and blew everyone away. The reason for that is because, in the background of the image, there was the woman Nick married, Amiee.
It is crazy to think these guys are playing right next to each other as kids and 20 years later they were getting married. When they found out this, it made the news, and returned to look at the same photo taken out all those years ago.
6. Creepy pictures with backstories – Cow-Boy
This photo is not from the old west. It was actually taken as a promotional campaign for a movie. They wanted to get the mountains of the Arizona desert in the background but they caught something unexpected in the background as well.
If you look to the right of the man you’ll see a boy in the bushes dressed in cowboy gear. The photo was actually taken at an old cemetery for cowboys, which led some to say the figure in the background is a ghost. This kind of makes some sense as he is very bright. But experts say this could be the old camera.
At first, the man who took the photo thought that was a rock. So they returned to the same spot and there was no rock. Many said that this was fake. But experts looked at the image and the film reel and they say that it is totally real. Is this a real ghost or spirit caught on camera or is it something else?
We know that catching a ghost on camera seems unlikely but we can’t really come up with any other explanations for this.
7. Creepy pictures with backstories – The real Annabelle
We know about the seriously creepy haunted doll named Annabelle. She is featured in movies such as the conjuring and Annabelle but did you know the dolls in those movies are based on a real-life dolls.
In 1970 a mother purchased a doll for her four kids. Just a few weeks into having the doll it started to act a little strange. First, it began to glow. And then it began moving and appearing in the kids’ dreams. After that, it began moving around the room and grabbing onto the kids’ necks. Sometimes it even grabs their arms and legs and pulls them out of their beds.
The doll was a Raggedy Ann doll and some said that it was haunted. It was taken out of the room after things went too far and a cross was placed above it in a museum. It was also kept behind glass with a sign saying, “warning, positively do not open”. We couldn’t agree with that sign more. But despite this doll being locked away you can still visit it and take some seriously creepy photos of it as many have.
8. Creepy pictures with backstories – Faces
This is one seriously unexplained photo. One girl was taking a regular photo for her myspace profile back in 2007. She got her friend to take the picture quite near to her university campus. Near a bush. But when she tried to upload the photo she noticed something scary behind her.
In the bush, there were two scary smiling faces looking right at the camera. The girl didn’t see them at the time. So she freaked out and called her friend. Her friend who took the photo said she had no memory of seeing anyone in the bush. Not only once but there are two people.
It’s unknown whether these guys are smiling because they are joking around or whether they’re being sinister and spying on the girl. She was determined to know what was going on. So she put the image on Facebook and asked if the guys went to her University. But despite thousands of people seeing the photo the two men still are unidentified. And the photo remains unexplained.
9. Creepy pictures with backstories – Something in the ceiling
This is a very old vintage photo that we guess kind of makes it even creepier and this is a family photo and despite what people think we all know from before, they can be scary. This family back in the 1930s took a family photo. It was of course a grandmother, a mother, and her two sons. They put the camera on a timer and then posed for the photo.
They expected to get a nice image back from the photo developer. But this really wasn’t the case. It appeared that a body was falling from the ceiling in the image. The people in the photo claimed that there was nobody else there. And nothing odd happened at the time. They investigated their home and even took ceiling boards out to check the roof if somebody or something was up there. But there wasn’t and the image still remains unexplained.
Some say it was just a smudge made when the image was being processed. But others say this is the spirit of someone who used to live in the home before the family did.
10. Creepy pictures with backstories – Slender man
We all know the woods can be one of two things. Beautiful or creepy. And one country is known for its creepy woods in Russia. A bunch of students found it the hard way. They went to what is known as the lost forest in Russia. This isn’t because the forest is lost, but many people who go in never find their way out.
Because of this many people use strings to find their way back. Anyway, they were walking around near and exploring when they decided to take a photo. Of themselves in the woods. They put that photo on social media and after a few hours, their friend commented asking, what is that thing in the background?
At first, they were baffled until they looked behind them in the image and saw a tall figure. Some people say this is an oddly shaped tree stump in the forest, but others say this is the real-life version of the slender man. Which is a popular ghost paster. What do you think this mysterious creature could be?
11. Creepy pictures with backstories – Engla Hoglund
This is the last photo ever taken of Engla Hoglund, who went missing on her way back home from football practice. It was April 5th, 2008, in Stjernsund, Sweden. A local resident was out testing his new digital camera, taking random pictures of anything and everything in the area. He is getting a feel for how it worked. While doing so he took this image of Engla. He had no idea that he had just inadvertently taken the last ever photo of her alive.
When she didn’t return after practice that day, her mother called her cell phone. Despite numerous tries, her daughter didn’t answer. That was completely unlike her. So she went out looking for Engla, and in doing so, she made a chilling discovery. She found her bike. The same one she was riding in the last photo. Abandoned in the wood. There was no other trace of her anywhere.
Her mother notified the authorities, immediately. This case got a lot of media attention not only in Sweden but across all of Scandinavia. Search parties were formed to look for Engla. And areas that were even remotely close to where she’d vanished were searched thoroughly. Everybody hoped and prayed that this was just a case of a child going on an adventure and getting lost in the forest and that she’d soon be found safe and well.
But as the hours rolled into days, that hope began to dwindle. When the man who’d been taking photos that fateful day realized that he’d actually taken Engla’s photo just before she’d disappeared. He came for help with his camera.
On it, investigators have found another photo that was of interest. It was a picture of a red Saab 900. It almost appeared to be following the girl. This was the lead that investigators have been looking for. By tracing the license plate, they were able to track down the car’s owner, Anders Eklund. He was a 42 years old truck driver.
When questioned he immediately confessed to killing Engla, and even led the authorities to where he’d hidden her remains. Despite confessing to talking about Engla’s life, and despite the miraculous photos showing him following her as he rode home, Eklund claimed that his actions that day had merely been a coincidence and weren’t premeditated.
He said that he never met the youngster before, and when he stepped out of his car to talk to her, she became frightened and kicked him in the shin. He got angry and continued to advance on her. Then she began screaming. He was worried about what people might think, he strangled Engla in order to silence her and dragged her lifeless body into the woods.
It was all just a “big misunderstanding”, according to him. Eklund’s DNA was tested, and the results are shocking. 8 years prior to this, a 31-year-old woman named Pernilla Hellgren had been strangled until all her life was left out of her, leaving behind vital evidence as a result. The DNA traces at the scene matched Eklund’s DNA perfectly.
When asked about this, he again confessed and insisted that he hadn’t meant to take the life of that woman either. It was also just another misunderstanding. So finally Anders Enlund was sentenced to life in prison for his heinous actions and is currently a suspect in other cases still under investigation.
These are the photos with creepy backstories. What do you think about these? Tell us what you think in the comment section.
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