The Ant Walkers Of Hiroshima

Many consider those who perished instantly in the initial blast of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to be the lucky ones. Heres why...

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Gustav Sting by Kevin MacLeod

[purplehaze]

Y'know, a lot of survivors reported stepping out into the ruins of Hiroshima and thinking that they hadn't actually survived; but instead, they had died and went to Hell.

[Ghosty]

“I hope you found this video interesting”

I found it profoundly terrifying.

[olyhunt]

Getting ads in the middle of this is fu*ken wild. It’s like “and he ran off into the smoke as the tapping faded. *happy jazz music kicks in* Fiji holidays on sale now and WebJet”

[x_lucid]

the tapping audio in the background of the tap dancer is what gives me chills. it just makes me picture the man, the women and her daughter.

[jamjox]

One of the worst stories I heard was how some of the "survivors" of the bomb felt so hot, and were so thirsty, they threw themeselves into rivers. The rivers were boiling hot, literally. There was no relief anywhere.

[littlemissgwendolen]

The “Tap Dancer”, the skinned horse, the unborn baby in its mother, the woman whose baby hang from her stomach. Horror movies couldn’t make these horrifying scenes up.

[C.Fecteau-AU-MJ]

I don't fear being killed in a nuclear explosion... I fear being one of the survivors in a post nuclear war world.

[brianlanning]

At the bombing memorial museum in Hiroshima, there's a display filled with 100s of clocks of all shapes and sizes, all stopped at 8:15, broken from the shockwave.

[faerierain]

I spoke to a survivor of Hiroshima, Shigeko Sasamori. She was a very soulful and kind woman, looked me in the eyes and said “those are pure eyes, baby eyes. Don’t lose them.” I think about it sometimes.

[MichaelCashVEVO]

After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, hundreds of people fled toward Nagasaki. Of these, 165 survived BOTH atomic bombings.

[galifrey]

There is a reason WWII is called "the darkest time in history".

The closest we got to hell on earth.

[jordanlittle]

The unborn baby moving in its mother’s stomach on the box car was what hit me.

[HotCoco_]

When I was in eighth grade, we had a Hiroshima survivor and a Holocaust survivor present to us for history class. The Hiroshima woman told us that when the bomb detonated, most of her family had been in a root cellar that was separate from the rest of the house. The only person in the house was her youngest brother. They all ran out of the root cellar and up into the front yard and saw that the house had collapsed and was on fire, and the youngest brother was screaming for help. The mother knew there was no way to save his life so she yelled "I'll die with you" and dived into the burning wreckage before the rest of the family could stop her, and she burned to death along with the little brother.

[minimalbstolerance]

The story of Tsutomo Yamaguchi is probably the most incredible one to come out of Hiroshima. The "home" that was mentioned in the video? It was Nagasaki. He arrived back home just in time to have a second nuke dropped on him. Amazingly, he survived the Nagasaki bomb as well, and survived into the early 2000s. Understandably, he spent most of his later life campaigning for nuclear disarmament. My personal favourite quirky little detail of his story is that when the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was allegedly being chewed out by his boss, who didn't believe his "ridiculous story" about Hiroshima and thought he had just been neglecting his duties.

[Menacingnugget-znbm]

You know it’s bad when you realize that death was probably the best way out since you wouldn’t have to live with the trauma or internal damage of surviving though this hell

[The_Republic_of_Ireland]

That Tap Dancer story...i actually had to pause for a minute after hearing the description. The thought of seeing that disturbed me more than any film could ever do

[kapitantutan]

"The lucky ones were turned into dust" saw this comment somewhere gave me chills

[IridescentPigsie]

The one story that always stayed with me was that of a mother whose small children were trapped underneath some rubble injured but alive and she herself was injured, too. There was no way for her to free her children and she knew it was hopeless, and so she spent many many hours talking and trying to comfort her children until they stopped answering

[JuanitoK]

That tap dancer account is literal nightmare fuel. What a tragedy that war was.

[carlasnyman]

The skinless horse walking around following someone almost seeming to beg them to end its misery. That is something one will never forget even to you're dying day. Also the living yet completely burnt unborn child struggling out of its dead mothers womb. I'm so sorry.