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Welcome to r/UnchainedMelancholy, home to content that will put you in a melancholy mood.
Welcome to r/UnchainedMelancholy, home to content that will put you in a melancholic mood. This subreddit will primarily present morbid vintage photos but other more modern images will be allowed as well.
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On this day, 6 years ago, Asifa Bano- an 8 year old Muslim girl was drugged and dragged to a Hindu temple where she was brutally raped for 4 continuous days before being choked to death.
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Richard Goodwin, 28, holds a pistol aimed at his wife, Mickey Goodwin, 25, while holding her hostage for several hours. Shortly after, Richard accidentally shot Mickey (Sanford, Maine, 1968).
01:34 UTC
Children killed in the 1943 Volyn massacre
1943 Volyn massacre was a series of ethnic cleansings carried out by UPA (Ukrainian uprising army) with collaboration from local Ukrainian residents. The goal of the massacre was to eradicate all non-ukrainian settlers from the area, mostly poles (estimates put the number around 60 000 killed in a couple months). Even Ukrainians who refused to collaborate in the killings were murderer. It's hard to call those events "murders" as most of them were carried out using farming tools with extreme brutality (rapes, burned alive, decapitated with wood saws), thus it would be better described as a butchering. Sadly it is barely known genocide as WW2 and all It's attrocities have taken the spot light.
01:10 UTC
Three Soviet POWs, one who looks like a civilian, stand in their own grave moments before their execution by German Wehrmacht forces. Eastern Front, 1942.
19:47 UTC
On December 12, 1997, in Amarillo Texas, punker Brian Deneke was run over by Dustin Camp during a fight between the Punks and Jocks. Dustin was charged with manslaughter and sentenced to probation and a $10,000 fine which was, of course, dropped.
17:32 UTC
The final Peanuts comic to be penned by Charles M. Schulz before his death from colon cancer on February 12th, 2000. The comic would be seen on newspapers a day later, ending the 50 year run of one of the most popular comic strips of all time.
20:34 UTC
Jacob Wetterling was 11 years old when he was abducted and murdered by Danny Heinrich on this day in 1989. He was considered missing for 27 years until his remains were found in 2016. R.I.P. Jacob.
19:56 UTC
The grave of an American pilot buried by Imperial Japanese troops. The sign reads "Sleeping here, a brave air-hero who lost youth and happiness for his Mother land. July 25 - Nippon Army". Kiska, Alaska, 25 August 1943.
10:23 UTC
Her birth name was Ott and she was a member of the Gros Ventre tribe at Fort Belknap Agency in Montana. Her Christian name was Nellie. She married in 1884 at the age of fourteen, and was dead of tuberculosis by thirty.
20:59 UTC
Two unidentified Jewish girls awaiting deportation in Munich on Nov. 11, 1942. Their entire transport of nearly 1000 people was shot shortly after arrival in Lithuania.
20:31 UTC
News aired on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Starts from the time the plane hit at 08:46 AM.
01:10 UTC
“Leaves From the Vine”, sung by Uncle Iroh in *Avatar: The Last Airbender*. This would be one of the last performances of Mako, who passed away from cancer in 2006. The episode was dedicated to him.
Makoto Imawatsu, known by his alias Mako, was a Japanese American actor and Academy Award nominee who appeared in films such as Sand Pebbles and The Island at the Top of the World as well as TV shows like Conan the Barbarian, he even received a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway musical Pacific Overtures.
Later in life, Mako would do voice work for animated shows like Samurai Jack and Avatar: The Last Airbender, the latter of which saw him voicing the beloved fan-favorite character Uncle Iroh. The episode Tales of Ba Sing Se from the show’s second season was an anthology episode showing different stories following different characters. The last story about Uncle Iroh ends with him visiting the grave of his son, who was killed in a war. The touching scene with Iroh singing “Leaves from the Vine”, would actually be one of the last performances Mako ever did. Mako passed away from esophagal cancer on July 21st, 2006. The episode aired after Mako’s death and was dedicated to him.
02:01 UTC
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