5 Oldest and Most Haunting Photos Ever Taken

Does this perfectly timed photo show the first humans ever photographed?
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Dark5 presents 5 of the oldest photos ever taken... including what may be first person ever photographed, the first photos ever captured of a tornado, the first underwater photo and underwater portrait ever made, and two claims of the first photo to ever depict lightning.

[@dark5tv]

My favorite is the first ever photograph of a tornado. I had nightmares about that tornado as a kid -- giant, dark and completely silent on the horizon...

[@ivynn7669]

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[@jinzoslegions]

It's super creepy.

[@nabah08]

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[@LuisHernandez-df3ih]

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[@verossimioespagnado2579]

Can you tell the name of the song please? Actually, could you start doing it in every video? I always love the songs you use, but I never know the name lol

[@Bmwsmith1213]

How do you manage to get the creepiest music possible

[@nismojdm5950]

I think you meant (annoying)

[@jacobnorton21able]

Nismo Jdm I think he meant the coolest music ever

[@nismojdm5950]

you might want to getyour ears checked.

[@jacobnorton21able]

Nismo Jdm Nah

[@nismojdm5950]

I find his music to be overwhelming and often too loud and out of context, you are clearly entitled to your own opinion so I won't waste further of my time. I hate the music in every single video he post but I like the content let's leave it at that shall we ?

[@theuberserge]

wow, I trip out on photographs. it's like freezing time and space. and it can haunt someone with powerful nostalgia.

[@AwsomePicklez]

you cant get nostalgia from a time period tou did not live

[@blackglasses356]

dill pickledz yes you can, because it can remaind you of something that happened to you

[@isakk_renhlom]

Black Glasses How can the 19 century remind you of anything that happend maybe 10 years ago

[@blackglasses356]

FļašhiňgÐuð3 it can remaind you, its obviously not gonna be the same, but it can be similar

[@leannemo7382]

Exactly! I can't imagine that duck-lip selfies will create powerful nostalgia one day, but they might for certain people. :)

[@The80sCryptid]

I think the music scared me more then the photographs featured in the video.

[@khwanthepwisutthirangsan7503]

For me both

[@PassionJo777]

Yeah hey

[@AlltimeConspiracies]

These photos are incredible! Thank you so much for providing such interesting background info regarding these. So fascinating.

[@spooqighost9103]

Just a ghost passing through the comments

[@spooqighost9103]

mayonnaise I'm not a shopping liiiisst, I'm a ghosssst! Also question: Are you an instrument?

[@anxietydookie6246]

OOHHH MY GOSH

[@skeene_6824]

Thanks I needed MILK EGGS CHEESE

[@ravenwinchester4628]

Seank C1tikal5000 he needs sum milk

[@whitetiger2048]

Izzy Winchester nice 2015 shitty meme

[@lucassilvas1]

10 feet is definitely not 9m

[@dunemetal67]

Thank you

[@abdullahmallah8985]

It is 3m

[@abdullahmallah8985]

Samuel Stenfelt No7c oh wait you already said

[@EskoMorko_]

3,05 meters.

[@user-wg4hz3bk4f]

It was in the 19th Century, please educate yourself.

[@billythekid6418]

The background music is terrifying. So is that damn tornado.

[@JaskSkull1991]

Name of the music: Language of the Night by Starpilot.

[@atomic_salt]

Joshua Mendieta do you know the song for the video called: strangest photos of WW2 part 2?

[@sillypinkewe]

Thank you.

[@insomniacowl1140]

Wondering what the music for the nuclear explosions video is

[@metalshadowthehedgehog3006]

The pictures from the 1800s and just the 1800s in general holds my interest and always will. So many animals wiped extinct, so many collosal projects and buildings, so many unknowns that will never be known, so much change, such a bloody and gruesome time in american hstory that I hope will never be forgotten. If i had to choose to be born in the past it wouldve undoubtedly been in those days. R.I.P. to All that lived then for they have all passed (except for a few clams who can live to be 400 years old).

[@carlharrison3637]

Long exposure on the shoe shiner is because he stayed relatively still for a few minutes. These photos are absolute rubbish (they're good photos) but nothing creepy about them at all.

[@ShadowLinkxMaster]

You're right, it's not exactly the most _haunting_ photo, it is one of the most oldest, and the thing about the man in it, is we don't know who he is, his name, his age, or what he did during this time, but he had the distinct honor of being the first person to ever be on a photograph. An honor we can never actually properly give credit to.

[@michaelpaiva9924]

He also could of been the first pedophile ever caught on camera..i dont beleive that crap about about 5mph walking horses being too fast too film they would of at least been a bunch of blurs in the street but nope that perv knew what he was doing he had no idea a guy was taking a pic from a block away..only god knows what really happens to those Frenxh shoe shine boys smh...

[@djnoneofyourbusiness525]

michael paiva Wow.. I feel 5 IQ points slower after reading that.

[@quinnkillen7731]

3:46 There is a big difference between 10 feet and 9 meters

[@jaddy540]

He was referring to Human feet,and Gas Meters

[@jeffersonsteelflex3056]

The man in the photo at 1:15 was a shoe shiner who was standing still while everyone else around him was moving. That's why he appeared in the photo and no one else.

[@jeffersonsteelflex3056]

Have none of you seen my legendary comment?! I expected this to be at the very top of the comment section by now with at least 200 likes. Like the comment!

[@jaddy540]

Yes,3 FKG times. FK off.

[@FrosteeWusky]

I like the photos of the tornado and lightning more. Not only because I'm a huge weather nerd, but also because the pics with humans in it are more eerie than mesmerizing.

[@HuffDaddyYT]

the music was the creepiest thing really

[@carriemaxwell4695]

I love old photography. the moments captured in that day and time are fascinating.

[@guywithoutmustache4956]

THE MOST HAUNTING MUSIC EVER IS JAKE PAUL'S EVERYDAY BRO

[@juicyjamepr]

Squidward Tentacles England is my city Bruh!!!!! 😂😂😂

[@FiretrUCkClub]

Squidward Tentacles always start the song with a good "ya"

[@revenant_hunter]

Squidward Tentacles Can't stop that Disney flow.

[@jirenthegay4808]

Squidward Tentacles and it's selling like a god church

[@cactusjack-sama2716]

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[@stevieleigh265]

this is by far most definitely my favorite channel on KZbin!!! and fo so many reasons that I couldn't possibly name them all!! so to the person behind DARK5 or the team thanks for the awesome videos that I enjoy so very much!!! please keep up the amazing work, time and detail that you put into these videos, again thank you so much!!!

[@jamiehall-hanlon3104]

This music is dangerously creepy.

[@bigdawg6196]

The first one freaked me out the most!

[@leannemo7382]

They were just two people (boys?) down at the water, but old photography has an eerie quality to it - especially in this day and age of crisp HD color photos. :)

[@chrish483]

ya until that HD photo is of a UFO and then its all grainy and blurry

[@doodn5894]

UFOs are supposed to be shot with the potatocam!

[@zoltancsikos5604]

Big Dawg First one isn't scary at all; it's due to the camera requiring you to stay still whilst the photo is taken, otherwise, the photo will be blurred. The reason the man appears is because he's standing relatively still for his shoes to be shined whilst other people would be walking.

[@biggvshavtivsdickvsii8541]

I’m a ghost photo & video fanatic. I loved the first ones shown. But still amazing to see photos from two* centuries ago with the tornadoes & lightning along with the underwater ones, too.

[@brianartillery]

Consistently great content! I think this has to be one of my favourites so far. Man, that Tornado picture is frightening, even now. I love the music on this, and all your other videos - it's obviously selected with care, as it always helps, not hinders, the visual element: often adding to the atmosphere of the piece, to eerie effect.

[@Jamhatproductions]

OMG! you could not have chosen a more creepier song to put in the background, literal shivers watching this at night

[@randallulrich]

@1:46. I remember seeing this tornado in the book "Hurricanes and Twisters" (1961) by Robert Irving. I learned a lot about weather from that book, but this particular image of a tornado has stayed with me for almost 50 years.

[@jahiapw]

I didn't even want to go to sleep today.

[@ravenwinchester4628]

TwistedLeaf26 it's The music and being home alone at 3 am that gets ya

[@SpanishArmadaProd]

too scary for me too

[@jahiapw]

Izzy Winchester You can bet on that

[@rickweatherford8787]

I was taught in photography class that the pic of the man having his shoes shined was the first human photograph. That was in 1976. Don't know where you got your information about the other photo.

[@crawfishpeanutbutter7942]

Do u mean 1876 cause colored cameras where around in the 70s and they where pretty nice looking

[@richardthelionheart8656]

It's weird thinking about that that second picture. That is a world where Napoleon is in living memory, where the United States has only existed for 62 years, and Europe is the centre of the planet. A world that is further away from Adolf Hitler and World War 2 than we are today. It's a place that seems so strange. We all know it must have happened but it's hard to really imagine living back then isn't it? It might as well be fictional when we read about it in books. But looking at that man getting his shoes shined makes it easier to imagine myself there. I can imagine the horses, and what the weather was like on that day. He's acting as a human anchor in a picture that might as well be of another planet - the earliest photo of a human just living his life. he died at some point, never knowing how significant his shoe shining was on that one day in 1838

[@davidgibbs7232]

Whichever came first in each case they are all incredibly creepy in their own way.Distant dark and disturbing.

[@laurametheny1008]

Fantastic vid as always! Kinda reminds me of the Tesla/Edison situation. I learned enough to be very disturbed by Edison and the things we were or weren't taught in school....TY Dark5.😍

[@joesphistalin2800]

Out for less than a minute and there are already 18 comments. That's dedication

[@sweiland75]

and as usual most of them are junk comments which have nothing to do with the actual video

[@witchking008]

MemeLord568 and u have 18 likes.......ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED

[@AnthonyCortes104]

MemeLord568 You're not Biggie Cheese

[@joesphistalin2800]

Biggie Cheese I never claimed to be. I am but a humble servant to him. He is a god. And I a worshiper. I know that you aren't either, as he wouldn't make his own you tube account while he already has his agents. Which, I believe you are one of.

[@AnthonyCortes104]

MemeLord568 Amen

[@ML-iw9zg]

The Daguerre photograph has been recognized as the first photo of a human for at least a hundred years, I believe - certainly long before the internet!

[@assasin616]

Good god that photo of the first documented tornado looks damn intimidating. Like the apocalypse itself coming after you!

[@hh-yq5ip]

This channel is the reason I don't sleep anymore

[@thetriumphofthethrill2457]

As someone fond of old photos this vid is fascinating and informative and one of the page's finest.

[@Hresvelgr107]

The choice of music a lot more interesting than the actual video.

[@ImineResveratrol]

Vlad Spisak No it's not

[@felixash9716]

Arachnofondler Yes it is

[@PrincessHarmonyMoonlight]

your more interesting than the video

[@Hresvelgr107]

Princess Harmony Moonlight You're. ;)

[@PrincessHarmonyMoonlight]

sorry :p

[@a.i.m4242]

Tbh none of them were haunting at all.

[@juicyjamepr]

yup

[@angryferret101]

I'd say they were more mysterious than haunting

[@User31129]

The tornado was pretty scary, come on!

[@keineahnungundso...3589]

+Daniel V No.

[@liberamans4173]

For you.

[@imnotsuperstitiousbutiamal4186]

I thought the very 1st. photo ever taken was Larry King's high school yearbook photo............ I'll be here all week!

[@THEPIRATEKINGGLOW]

actually yeah, that's kinda funny

[@low-keyrighteous9575]

That was almost funny bud ....

[@ryanwakebradtelle8682]

The first image with the ghostly figures is because how long it took for the shutter to get from one side of the camera to the other, this has given rise to a lot of creepy old photos and a trick that allowed a person to be in a photo twice

[@ForestAnon]

Oh no... lightning. And tornados. So spooky. I won't be able to sleep tonight.

[@colonelradec5956]

the music in your videos are amazing 😍 also everything about your channel screams quality. and so much ive learned 😄 love it, love it all

[@cowboystormchaser]

Love the weather references! Great job, Dark5!

[@thathippielookingchick]

I love Dark5 videos. My favorite thing is the weird ass music you find for each of them.

[@AnotherRandomPoser]

As a photography major, this video is spectacular

[@RCAvhstape]

I think I've seen most of these photos before and never really thought any of them were creepy, until you put them to that awesome music.

[@ruthwoytsek7750]

You've outdone yourself this time. Remarkable stuff.

[@ashandalsmom]

The photo used with the dude getting his shoes shined has no mystery involved. It is touted as the very 1st photograph of a person, or at least that is my understanding.

[@jordanl5064]

Great channel. Keep it up.

[@lejink]

The music choices always suit the video subject matter so perfectly Love your content, thx for the upload! Cheers

[@isabellas4120]

Missed you, mate. Nice to see more of your stuff again

[@Kyavata]

Why do I keep coming back when I've already seen every video?

[@Takaho31]

The soundtrack/background score is very well done.

[@NickHulse]

Awesome content as always. :)

[@daveogarf]

Excellent spooky music, Dark5!

[@chasegilmond5637]

One of your best videos so far

[@renanmiranda68]

This is not scary, but fascinating. The music though...

[@joellopes1358]

Where do you get your musics from? Do you compose them on your own? Thanks for any answer. Great channel!

[@Imozart0341I]

Damn Dark 5 is not fucking around, this tune is ghastly!

[@az40758]

The portrait of Divile Émile is a masterpiece.

[@borleyboo5613]

Absolutely brilliant! Very interesting, creepy and fabulous music which goes so well with these images. I especially like the tornados and the lightning. Thank you. 👍😃

[@jtj1128]

That 1st one is creepy. 2 black figures and one getting his shoes shined during one of the most deadly epidemics makes it super eerie. The music is scary too.

[@equarg]

How far photography has come today..... But still possesses the ability to amaze and shock us today!

[@lofthouse23]

The first ever photographs taken. It's hard to wrap your head around something that we do all the time now. Everything has to start somewhere I suppose. But I am glad those two photos have been preserved to be admired.

[@djnoneofyourbusiness525]

The music makes the photos that much more eerie.

[@TheHiddenSNOW]

transparent or ghostly shadowed people in older photographs have to do with the exposure time of the camera, you can create some really cool effects using old time methods

[@dragonmaid1360]

'haunting' means as an adjective: poignant; evocative - I think we can agree they are all haunting photos

[@pspboy7]

First tornado pictures taken by the first storm chasers on horseback.

[@dragonmaid1360]

Wow those are very cool thank you for the research.

[@shonawilliamson8920]

A fascinating topic. Thank you for the upload. Best wishes.

[@kendoruslink7017]

These photos are really fascinating. Can't even imagine it took that long just to take a photo lol

[@jmb8872]

If the photo taken in France in 1883 of the man getting his shoes shined took 7 minutes to develop how is possible that anyone could capture lightning, using the equipment of the day, when lightning only lasts seconds if that? Also in the "shoe shine" picture people and other conveyances don't "zip" by. Wouldn't the people and wagons at least register as a blur?

[@escoville1]

The shoeshine picture dates from 1839. And no, you wouldn't even see a blur. As for lightning, of course you don't just take the flash of lightning. You leave your lens open in a thunderstorm until the lightning flashes, then you close the shutter. The lightning is bright enough to give you a picture.

[@sciblastofficial9833]

The scariest photo in my opinion is the start of the 2004 tsunami. The photo depicts a beach, while there are waves in the horizon. The photos look almost tranquil, and it only gets scarier the closer the tsunami gets to the shore...

[@Karbonic]

>two guys go down to a dock to get some water >dark 5: two ghostly figures are sighted retrieving water for unknown purposes

[@Dear-Rhiannon]

I love the music choices you give with the videos so creepy I love it!

[@Eviltower101]

Decided to go the extra mile and watch every dark5 video I see today while listening to the Fallout 2 soundtrack

[@28ebdh3udnav]

Video hasnt even started and I already liked it.

[@Th3Soc1al1st]

I'd have to say, the pic that one of the apollo missions snapped, while the lander was on the far side of the moon, that captured the moon, and earth is pretty haunting for me. I mean, that picture minus the one taking it) captured every human who had ever lived. Ever.

[@openshores4288]

when first photographs are better than today's photos of UFO's

[@geoffblankenmeyer7081]

Shutter speeds on eighteenth century photography were so slow that any movement would make an object or person appear to be spectral.

[@xkumanekox]

Remember back in the day when photography was invented, and each and every photographer had beefs with each other claiming who shot what first? Ahh, those were the days...

[@georgekazanakis]

Paris, France, 1838. The reason why we see only this man shining his boots is because he was the only standing still. The avenue was full of people but due to very slow speeds of the shutter (several minutes - maybe 5- 10) the only things that the film could capture was the standing still. Buildings, Trees and apparently this man. Not to haunting photo if you give a thought about it.

[@samsoncrosswood7259]

1:15 and then some old timey Karen called the cops on the man and the shoe shine for being caught out.

[@tattyman4191]

Awesome video! Awesome music! Awesome channel!

[@Drummer_Jacob]

You could drop the whole haunted theme musically and visually and the video would be just as effective since these are just photographs people took a hundred years ago.

[@RustyNail5856]

Great Video. keep up the good work.

[@germanelidor]

You always do a great job with your videos, i love your videos but they has to be readed too fast, it will be nice if you let the narratives a little more time on the screen to have time to watch the images!👍

[@EdgeOfEntropy17]

Saw where the music was the subject of discussion, but never saw an answer to where the music comes from. So, I will ask Dark5, if it is not too much trouble, where do you find the music you put in the videos?

[@-Gunnarsson-]

I think old photos from 1900s is more genuine about ghosts. No editing was really possible.

[@YyYaaj722]

Do u produce all the music to your videos. I notice there was a lot of similarities of the music on ur vids, like the drums and the type of approach of the music

[@GrOuNdZeRo7777]

I do miss the old style of videos with creepy music but I don't mind the narrations either.

[@atomic_salt]

These pictures are so interesting and eerie, my favorite is the underwater one

[@willplays7954]

We are at the mercy of the unknown

[@Chris-uh5zm]

love the vids, notification always on 👍

[@john_doeherty]

i love really old photos from the 1800's

[@Biozeminado]

The daguerreotype for number 5 was freaky AF. Just seeing the dark shadowy figure in front of the empty streets looks like something out of a nightmare. the first image from number 4 looks haunting too.

[@wishtobeamodder4302]

Love this channel, post quite often on interesting things! But hate I have too read

[@CARBONHAWK1]

The pic of the Tornado is just creepy. Creepier than a modern video or pic. The jet black look of the sky, the baron landscape. It's like seeing witnessing a dinosaur.

[@christophermckenna5012]

another great video :) thank you

[@low-keyrighteous9575]

That music can make anything disturbing lol... I like it

[@neilforbes416]

The first photo of the two on the pier were not ghosts. Cameras were primitive instruments way back in the 1880s and to take a photo, one took the lens cap off for about 5 or 10 seconds to allow enough light to get onto the photographic "plate", so the photographer would not want any sudden movement to spoil the shot. The two boys wandered in to get their water, unaware they were ruining someone's photo shoot. The second photo suffers from the same thing, long exposure results in unintentional anomaly due to primitive equipment.

[@eponymous_graphics]

Whoa, 1848 is the first photograph of a human with an exposure time of 7 minutes and later in this collection someone takes a photo of lightning in 1847 ? Even if it was 1888 for the lightning, the pics of gunslingers had an exposure time of several minutes ... me thinks something is anachronistic somewheres abouts.