Whether it's sad, scary, or tells us something we never would have imagined, one of the great things about life is that everybody has a story that can hold us in rapt attention.
Even if most of the stories you hear from someone are boring, it just takes one spark of curiosity to ask the right question and reveal something about them that they somehow didn't think was worth mentioning.
And while that's very true of people, it can also apply to a whole lot of the thousands of pictures that people upload to the internet every day.
Some of the images we're about to see have clear backstories and some are a lot more mysterious, but it's still clear that they all have something going on behind the scenes.