10-07-2025
24 Rare Things People Caught On Camera
No, your eyes don't deceive you! These 22 photos are rare as heck — so much so, in fact, that the average person likely won't ever see these things IRL. So sit back, relax, and enjoy these 22 fascinating, FOMO-cleansing photos from across the web:
This shot, which I'll let OP describe: "My uncle lit a firework which failed to launch but didn't fail to detonate."
It looks like the portals from Avengers: Endgame.
This person with a genetic condition called Alport Syndrome, whose eyes have been gradually losing color:
This redditor revealed that the syndrome caused this macular hole to form in their eye.
This photo of Galileo's middle finger, which has been preserved since 1737 and is on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy:
These strange, bulbous mammatus storm clouds that were seen over Colorado:
This lava formation around the West Kamokuna Skylight in Hawaii that looks quite literally like a portal to hell, complete with the souls of the damned being dragged down into it:
This delicious-looking ice cream photo that was perfectly timed to catch the very first melty drop:
This ocean "fog" that's actually an underwater lake (AKA a brine pool), which looks like that because the water in the "lake" is saltier and denser than the water around it:
This photo from someone who got up close and personal with a washed-up Lion's Mane Jellyfish — aka one of the largest jellyfish species that we know of — off the Coast of Ireland:
This ballot from the 1938 referendum in Nazi Germany, which had a massive "yes" circle and a much smaller "no" circle" to cast a vote in:
Here's that same ballot after being run through Google Translate, also:
As you could probably tell from the circles, in more ways than one, it wasn't a fair election. Nonetheless, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 95% of eligible voters voted, and 90% approved, giving Hitler absolute power.
This camera-less iPhone that's issued to people who work on nuclear plants (as no cameras are allowed):
This photo a mother took of her son's hair, which is naturally half-curly and half-straight (which, TBH, I never really considered was something that could happen):
This photo snapped by someone who accidentally stabbed their fingernail with a needle, resulting in it growing like this:
This person who snapped a photo of the moment their lightbulb — unscrewed and unattached — was completely lit up:
This shot of the entrance to Furnitureland South — a furniture store in High Point, North Carolina I only learned about five minutes ago and cannot stop thinking about now:
This shot of the inside of a telephone cable, which I bet you've never seen before (because I sure as heck haven't):
This washed-up angler fish, which usually lives deep in the 8,000+ feet deep:
This un-edited photo of an orange gas cloud in the sky, which — according to the BBC — was a result of an "accident" at a nearby industrial plant.
This photo a wife got of a bug landing on her husband and deciding his tee was the perfect spot to lay her eggs:
This photo of a proud-looking Cassowary (a flightless bird native to Australia, New Guinea, and the Moluccas) and it's vibrant green eggs:
This extra extra EXTRA long faucet coming from the ceiling, which is admittedly less exciting than some of the other photos in here, but damn, I bet you've never seen one of these in the flesh, huh?
This photo of the lone row home — abandoned by its counterparts, which were likely bought out by developers — that remains:
And finally, this photo that was unintentionally taken at juuuust the right time to make the fire look like a person:
While some commenters said they saw the screaming Elmo meme, I personally see a woman dancing. What about you? Tell us in the comments! ⬇️
