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This is a street taken on a foggy morning. Nothing special right?
This photo was taken on March 19th, 2020 shortly after the Coronavirus was declared a pandemic and everyone was told to stay home to help slow the spread. I was an essential worker so I still had to go into the office.
This is usually a very busy area and to see it completely empty like this was surreal. Being foggy and gloomy outside only added to the feeling of the kind of situation the world was in. I’ve never seen usually busy streets empty like that before.

49 Photos That Captured Chilling Things Only Seen After The Picture Was Taken
I guess this could be scary for some people but my husband and I were on a group expedition in california, we were in the middle of the desert, it was honestly pitch black except for flash lights that we had. We all were sitting in chairs in a circle and we decided to shut off all lights and just sit back and enjoy the darkness.
While this was happening i decided to turn off my flash on my phone camera and snap a few pics. What showed up surprised me. In only one picture(of about 20 i took rapidly back to back) a huge redish orange fire orb showed up. It literally took up almost the whole picture. It was the only thing in the pic, and the rest was pitch black. I never saw it with my naked eye. We tried to debunk it but we had nothing in our possession that could make that sort of light. It was pretty cool.

49 Photos That Captured Chilling Things Only Seen After The Picture Was Taken
So I took a picture with an old digital camera that I got when I was younger but I was supposed to be in bed. So it’s about midnight and I tried to take a picture of myself to see if I could get it on a good angle. After looking at it I saw glowing yellow eyes in a small crack in my closet. I freaked out but it ended up being my cat who knew how to open my closet and liked sleeping in there but apparently woke up when I was moving around and was watching me!

49 Photos That Captured Chilling Things Only Seen After The Picture Was Taken
I guess this could be scary for some people but my husband and I were on a group expedition in california, we were in the middle of the desert, it was honestly pitch black except for flash lights that we had. We all were sitting in chairs in a circle and we decided to shut off all lights and just sit back and enjoy the darkness.
While this was happening i decided to turn off my flash on my phone camera and snap a few pics. What showed up surprised me. In only one picture(of about 20 i took rapidly back to back) a huge redish orange fire orb showed up. It literally took up almost the whole picture. It was the only thing in the pic, and the rest was pitch black. I never saw it with my naked eye. We tried to debunk it but we had nothing in our possession that could make that sort of light. It was pretty cool.

49 Photos That Captured Chilling Things Only Seen After The Picture Was Taken
So I took a picture with an old digital camera that I got when I was younger but I was supposed to be in bed. So it’s about midnight and I tried to take a picture of myself to see if I could get it on a good angle. After looking at it I saw glowing yellow eyes in a small crack in my closet. I freaked out but it ended up being my cat who knew how to open my closet and liked sleeping in there but apparently woke up when I was moving around and was watching me!

49 Photos That Captured Chilling Things Only Seen After The Picture Was Taken
I had a project for my high school photography class and, like everyone else, I thought a cemetery would be a great place to shoot in black and white. I went right after a storm and caught some great shots of mist rising from the ponds and streams, overflow racing through debris stuck in storm drains, wet mausoleums, all the hits. I developed and submitted four prints to my teacher who immediately picked out the last photo I took, saying the figures in the background added a lot of atmosphere and drama.
I had no idea what he was talking about. When he pointed out the two people, something immediately seemed off. It looked like a man just starting to turn and run, while grabbing an older child or young teenager by the arm so violently that they were flying sideways off of a bicycle. They were framed in the center background between two headstones, facing away from the camera. To the left and almost out of frame was a fuzzy black car. I hadn't even seen them in person while taking the shot. I showed my parents that night and they flipped out. On the day I took the photos, a week before, there was an attempted abduction of a girl taking a shortcut home by riding her bike through the cemetery. The abductor dropped her and fled when he saw a car approaching and was later arrested after the drivers called 911.
Apart from accidentally capturing an attempted child abduction on film, the fact that this stuff happens in plain sight was probably scarier.

49 Photos That Captured Chilling Things Only Seen After The Picture Was Taken
Not me but my aunt. TLDR at the end.
She was scuba diving in Mexico somewhere with a new gear. She is super trained and has decades of experience in diving.
She was diving with a video camera too.
Into this dive with her new gear she got caught in a current and was separated from her dive partner. Because of this she decided it was safer to go to the surface. As she was ascending from around 180 feet she saw a dolphin.
She loves dolphins and swam up to it and did the whole holding on to the dorsal fin thing. She swam with it for about 5 minutes before continuing her ascent. Gets to the surface and she says something felt wrong during the ascent.
Well she had done her mixtures wrong on her tank ratios. Around 160ft of depth right after she was separated she later realized that she had had nitrogen narcosis. Pretty benign case of it but still. She had it. Thankfully the effects go away at the surface.
Once she got home and was looking at the videos she took of her trip and during her dives she realized, that was not a dolphin. It was a shark.
She had been telling anyone who would listen about how she had this beautiful encounter with a dolphin.
She's done shark dives before. So have I. They're my favorite dives but you go into them with a different mindset. More safety and planning and avoid unnecessary encounters if the situation isn't ideal.
TLDR: Aunt got high underwater. Filmed herself with a dolphin. Later realized that she was swimming with a shark when she watched the video at home.

49 Photos That Captured Chilling Things Only Seen After The Picture Was Taken
I guess this could be scary for some people but my husband and I were on a group expedition in california, we were in the middle of the desert, it was honestly pitch black except for flash lights that we had. We all were sitting in chairs in a circle and we decided to shut off all lights and just sit back and enjoy the darkness.
While this was happening i decided to turn off my flash on my phone camera and snap a few pics. What showed up surprised me. In only one picture(of about 20 i took rapidly back to back) a huge redish orange fire orb showed up. It literally took up almost the whole picture. It was the only thing in the pic, and the rest was pitch black. I never saw it with my naked eye. We tried to debunk it but we had nothing in our possession that could make that sort of light. It was pretty cool.

49 Photos That Captured Chilling Things Only Seen After The Picture Was Taken
I had a project for my high school photography class and, like everyone else, I thought a cemetery would be a great place to shoot in black and white. I went right after a storm and caught some great shots of mist rising from the ponds and streams, overflow racing through debris stuck in storm drains, wet mausoleums, all the hits. I developed and submitted four prints to my teacher who immediately picked out the last photo I took, saying the figures in the background added a lot of atmosphere and drama.
I had no idea what he was talking about. When he pointed out the two people, something immediately seemed off. It looked like a man just starting to turn and run, while grabbing an older child or young teenager by the arm so violently that they were flying sideways off of a bicycle. They were framed in the center background between two headstones, facing away from the camera. To the left and almost out of frame was a fuzzy black car. I hadn't even seen them in person while taking the shot. I showed my parents that night and they flipped out. On the day I took the photos, a week before, there was an attempted abduction of a girl taking a shortcut home by riding her bike through the cemetery. The abductor dropped her and fled when he saw a car approaching and was later arrested after the drivers called 911.
Apart from accidentally capturing an attempted child abduction on film, the fact that this stuff happens in plain sight was probably scarier.

49 Photos That Captured Chilling Things Only Seen After The Picture Was Taken
So I took a picture with an old digital camera that I got when I was younger but I was supposed to be in bed. So it’s about midnight and I tried to take a picture of myself to see if I could get it on a good angle. After looking at it I saw glowing yellow eyes in a small crack in my closet. I freaked out but it ended up being my cat who knew how to open my closet and liked sleeping in there but apparently woke up when I was moving around and was watching me!

49 Photos That Captured Chilling Things Only Seen After The Picture Was Taken
Not me but my aunt. TLDR at the end.
She was scuba diving in Mexico somewhere with a new gear. She is super trained and has decades of experience in diving.
She was diving with a video camera too.
Into this dive with her new gear she got caught in a current and was separated from her dive partner. Because of this she decided it was safer to go to the surface. As she was ascending from around 180 feet she saw a dolphin.
She loves dolphins and swam up to it and did the whole holding on to the dorsal fin thing. She swam with it for about 5 minutes before continuing her ascent. Gets to the surface and she says something felt wrong during the ascent.
Well she had done her mixtures wrong on her tank ratios. Around 160ft of depth right after she was separated she later realized that she had had nitrogen narcosis. Pretty benign case of it but still. She had it. Thankfully the effects go away at the surface.
Once she got home and was looking at the videos she took of her trip and during her dives she realized, that was not a dolphin. It was a shark.
She had been telling anyone who would listen about how she had this beautiful encounter with a dolphin.
She's done shark dives before. So have I. They're my favorite dives but you go into them with a different mindset. More safety and planning and avoid unnecessary encounters if the situation isn't ideal.
TLDR: Aunt got high underwater. Filmed herself with a dolphin. Later realized that she was swimming with a shark when she watched the video at home.



