/r/UnchainedMelancholy
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.
Rules
1. All Posts Require Background Information: If no lengthy background information is available, still a descriptive title is needed. Users should make a note in the comments if they don’t have additional information about the case. If a post doesn't fit the subreddit or doesn't evoke any feelings because it lacks information, it will be removed.
2. Historical Context: Photographs accompanied with heavy historical context require unbiased factual information.
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American GI and Japanese womans orphans abandoned due to stigma (1945)
14:34 UTC
Theatrice Bailey Removes Blood of Martin Luther King, Jr. from Lorraine Hotel Landing, April 4, 1968
13:51 UTC
Tintype of Mary Austin Pitt and her deceased baby, John Pitt. 1860.
01:01 UTC
A woman in Cuddalore, India, mourns a relative who was killed in a tsunami that happened after one of the most powerful earthquakes in years struck the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, in December 2004.
21:34 UTC
‘The Woman in White’ Photographed by Robert Stolarik During 9/11 Still Remains Unidentified to This Day
21:25 UTC
A woman was to be wed to her sweetheart. A week before the wedding, her fiancé died in a terrorist attack. She did not want to keep or sell the dress, so she sent it to the Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia, where it is now on display among various other items relating to heartbreak
21:27 UTC
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.
14:19 UTC
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