A Tragic Jump & The Psychological Horror of Power

A tragic leap and a psychological nightmare.

On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale jumped from the Empire State Building, landing atop a limousine in a hauntingly serene pose. Dubbed the ‘most beautiful suicide’, her story remains one of history’s greatest mysteries.

Meanwhile, in August 1971, Stanford University conducted a psychological experiment that went horribly wrong. The Stanford Prison Experiment turned ordinary students into abusers and victims, exposing the terrifying effects of unchecked power.

Two chilling stories, frozen in time