Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

Friederick Fleet, 1911

Frederick Fleet, 24, was the lookout on the Titanic who first spotted the iceberg that sank the ship in 1912, shouting, "Iceberg, right ahead!" In 1965, aged 77, after the death of his wife and being evicted from his house, Fleet hanged himself.

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