15 Haunting photos taken before disaster struck.

1 The ill fated space shuttle challenger:

This is the final photo of the crew of space shuttle challenger before they perished during take off. On january 28, 1986 just 73 seconds after launch, the space shuttle challenger exploded over the atlantic ocean. All seven astronaunts on board were killed. what's worse, the family of the crew were all in attendance, as was a throng of media, who withnessed the distruction of the shuttlein real time.

2 Hollywood legend james dean

James dean's life was cut short at the teender age of 24. The picture here was taken while dean was fueling up the porshe hours before he was in a fatal accident. Heading to an auto rallyin salinas, california, dean and his passenger mechanic and pilot,Rolf wutherich, were involved in a crash.Dean's porshe hit a turning car at high speed. while the driver of that car and wutherichsurvived,Dean wasn't so lucky. He suffered many horrible injuries that proved fatal, including a broken neck.

3 Moments before eruption:

Freelance photographer Robert Landsberg took some incredible images of mount st.helens the same day it erupted. Unfortunately, these were the last photos he ever took. Lansberg had ben visiting the volcano daily and taking snaps, getting closer and closer each time. An entry in his diary on may 17, 1980, revealed landsberg felt something big was going to happen to the volcano. The next day st.helens erupted, but landsberg was too close to escape. Despite knowing the end was near , he continued to snap away before carefully placing the film from the camera in a case and securing it in his backpack. it's then belived he laid down on his back to protect the film as the volcano erupted. Landsberg's body was later discovered 17 days later . The film he took was intact and the photos were published.

4 A november day in Dallas :

November 22 1963, is a day that will live on in infamy in american history. At around 12:30 pm that day, president john f kennedy qas shot and killed by an unknown assailant. Driving through dallas in an open top convertible with his wife, Jacquline Bouvier Kennedy, the president was fatally woundedby a wounded to the head, The image above is the final photo of Kennedy before disaster struck.

5 Parkour ends in tragedy.

Parkour is an exiting sport where athletes jump from object to object. It is often performed at great height where the risk of falling is high. But this type of adrenalin pumping of danger is what drives the athletes. It also led to the downfall of Pavel

Kashin. In july of 2013, Kashin was attempting a backflip on the rooftop of a 16 storeybuilding. He lost his balance performing the trickand fell to his death. An image taken by his friend captured kashin mid air before things went wrong.