7 Adorable Childhood Photos of History’s Worst Monsters

6. Ted Kaczynski – The Unabomber as a Bright-Eyed Boy

Born in 1942, young Ted Kaczynski was actually a child prodigy—skipping two grades and admitted to Harvard at just 16. This childhood photo captures a boy with intense eyes and a serious expression, but nothing suggests the man who would mail bombs to academics and kill three people while injuring 23 others. His transformation from gifted mathematician to recluse living in a Montana shack, waging war on technology, remains one of history’s most disturbing intellectual tragedies.