Karymsky Lake is a crater lake located in the Karymsky volcano in Russia. With a radius of 5 km it was once one of the world’s largest fresh water lakes, but as a result of a recent eruption toxic gases turned this into one of the largest acid water lakes.
The above picture you see is off the elephant’s foot, a radioactive mass. It’s from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.Â
These are the effects:
After just 30 seconds of exposure, dizziness and fatigue will find you a week later. Two minutes of exposure and your cells will begin to hemorrhage (ruptured blood vessels); four minutes: vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. 300 seconds and you have two days to live.Â
The coolest thing about this photo is definitely the radiation damage. Look at the bright squiggles, and the way the man seems to be in two places at once. This is because even as the photo is being taken, the radiation is causing severe damage to the camera.
According to another source, the man in the photograph and the cameraman are now dead. Apparently, the radiation would have been too high for them to live more than a few years after this, even if they had just run in, snapped the photo, and ran out again. If they spent more than a few seconds here, it’s possible they could have died even quicker.
“I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of soilex for each one, put in the upper portion of the body and boiled that for about two hours and then the lower portion for another two hours. The soilex removes all the flesh, turns it into a jelly-like substance and it just rinses off. Then I laid the clean bones in a light bleach solution,left them there for a day and spread them out on either newspaper or cloth and let them dry out for about a week in the bedroom.”
“I took the knife and the scalp part off and peeled the flesh off the bone and kept the skull and the scalp… If I could have kept him longer, all of him, I would have.”
— Jeffrey Dahmer on the murder of Ernest Miller.
WARNING: material you are about to see contains upsetting content and images of said bodies. They are not gorey so don’t worry. But if you do not wish to be exposed to this scroll down really fast right now. This is your chance. GO GO GO
Did you know that there’s a certain height (26K ft) up, where climbers have to decide whether they should rest or continue on.Â
Those that chose to go up must go up there and back fast enough, because at that high of altitude necrosis sets in (cell injury) and there body is literally DYING.Â
So they gotta get back fast enough before their body shuts down.
Here are some of the bodies:
The body of David Sharp still sits in a cave at the top of Mount Everest. Â
David attempted the climb in 2005 and near the top, stopped in this cave to rest. His body eventually froze in place rendering him unable to move. Â
Over 30 climbers passed by him as he sat freezing to death. Â Some heard faint moans and realized he was still alive. Â They stopped and spoke with him. Â He was able to identify himself but was unable to move. Â
Brave climbers moved him into the Sun in an attempt to thaw him but eventually, realizing David would be unable to move, were forced to leave him to die. Â His body still sits in the cave and is used as a guide point for other climbers nearing the summit.
The body of “Green Boots” (an Indian climber who died in 1996) lies near a cave that all climbers pass on their way to the peak. Â
Green Boots became separated from his party in 1996 and sought this mountain overhang (really a small, open mouthed cave) to use as protection from the elements. Â He sat there shivering in the cold until he died. Â The wind has since blown his body over.
Francys Arseniev, an American women who fell while descending with a group (that included her husband), pleaded with passerby’s to save her. Â
While climbing down the side of a steep section of the mountain, her husband noticed she was missing. Â Knowing that he did not have enough oxygen to reach her and return to base camp, he chose to turn back to find his wife anyway. Â
He fell to his death in the attempt to climb down and reach his dying wife. Â Two other climbers did successfully reach her but knew carrying her off of Mount Everest was not an option. Â They comforted her for a while before leaving her to die. Â
Feeling great remorse, they returned eight years later vowing to find the body and enshrine it in an American flag (they succeeded).  After details of the disastrous climb became known, it was realized that Francys Arseniev had become the first woman from the United States to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of bottled oxygen.
These are just 3 of the many bodies out there.
You can read more about the others, get more information and know where I got this information from here
I’ve been reading Into Thin Air by Jon Krakaeur and it’s a non ficton memory based novel about his journey on Everest and it really humanized the experience. So many people hear about people climbing Mount Everest and don’t understand the strain of just surviving day by day
White torture is a type of psychological torture that includes extreme sensory deprivation and isolation. Carrying out this type of torture makes the detainee lose personal identity through long periods of isolation.
An Amnesty International report in 2004 documented evidence of “white torture” on Amir Abbas Fakhravar, by the revolutionary guards. According to the report, which called his case the first known example of white torture in Iranclaimed that “his cells had no windows, and the walls and his clothes were white. His meals consisted of white rice on white plates. To use the toilet, he had to put a white piece of paper under the door. He was forbidden to speak, and the guards reportedly wore shoes that muffled sound”.
In a telephone call to the Human Rights Watch in 2004, Iranian journalist Ebrahim Nabavi made the following claim regarding White torture:
“Since I left Evin, I have not been able to sleep without sleeping pills. It is terrible. The loneliness never leaves you, long after you are “free.” Every door that is closed on you … This is why we call it “white torture.” They get what they want without having to hit you. They know enough about you to control the information that you get: they can make you believe that the president has resigned, that they have your wife, that someone you trust has told them lies about you. You begin to break. And once you break, they have control. And then you begin to confess.” (Source)
In Australia there is a tree called the bunya pine that drops watermelon sized pinecones. They weigh about 22 pounds or 10 kg. Yikes, wouldn’t want to anywhere near that tree. (Source)
Throughout Caribbean, Central America, the northern edges of South America, and even in south Florida, there can be found a pleasant-looking beachy sort of tree, often laden with small greenish-yellow fruits that look not unlike apples.
This is the manchineel, known sometimes as the beach apple, or more accurately in Spanish-speaking countries as la manzanilla de la muerte, which translates to “the little apple of death,” or as arbol de la muerte, “tree of death.”
“Warning: all parts of manchineel are extremely poisonous. The content in this document is strictly informational. Interaction with and ingestion of any part of this tree may be lethal,” write Michael G. Andreu and Melissa H. Friedman of the University of Florida in a brief guide to the tree.Â
This is not an exaggeration. The fruits, though described as sweet and tasty, are extraordinarily toxic. Fatalities are not known in modern literature, though it’s certainly possible that people have died from eating the fruit of the manchineel. “Shipwrecked sailors have been reported to have eaten manchineel fruits and, rather than dying a violent death, they had inflammations and blistering around the mouth. Other people have been diagnosed with severe stomach and intestinal issues,” says Roger Hammer, a naturalist and botanist who has written many books about the flora of Florida. (Source)
If you attempt to burn the wood, toxic fumes are released which will inflame the lungs and eyes. Sometimes people go blind from the smoke.
This is probably one of the most brutal form on torture I encountered. This method is called “Saw Torture,” the victim is hung upside down. The torturer saws the victim’s body until the victim is sawed completely in half, vertically. Because the victim is hung upside down, blood will rush to their heads and keep them conscious during the agonizing torture.
This river is known as the Enchanted River in the Philippines and was only discovered recent years. None knows where the water comes from. This remains a mystery. The river has crystal-clear waters, such that you can see the riverbed even at the deepest part.
One of the most unique features of the enchanted river is its unfathomable depth. No one has ever reached the bottom. This is why many tourist swim in the shallow part of the enchanted river area with water’s shade range from aquamarine to blue. The dark blue color in the river simply means the water is very deep. At exactly 12 noon the caretaker rings the bell requesting everyone to get out from the water as is “feeding time”. The “hymn of Hinatuan” is played and a massive school of fish pops out from nowhere. The fishes gather near the mouth of the river as the caretaker feeds them some leftovers of shrimp, rice, and other food scraps. (Source)
Oh that’s so pretty
Fun fact: the fish don’t hunt/feed themselves anymore because of the feeding time. They just wait to get fed
Also you can’t swim in the dark blue part because someone tried to see how far down they could swim and ended up getting stuck and drowning
🔥 There is beauty in destruction🔥 