Creepy Historical Photos That Will Send Shivers Down Your Spine

Survival Town, Nevada

U.S. Department of Defense / CC

These residents of Survival Town in Nevada are not long for this world. Soon after this photo was taken, the entire area was decimated by a nuclear explosion as part of Operation Teapot, as the United Stated government experimented with blowing things up using atomic weaponry.

As a test to see how well American infrastructure would survive such explosions, false towns were built in the desert and made to look as realistic as possible – right down to the inclusion of mannequins to simulate people.

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