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* There are a number of appropriately awful accounts from the Submarine world, notably the brief log kept by the survivors of [[wikipedia:Russian submarine Kursk explosion|''Kursk'']] after her sinking. And, even worse, the audio recording from [[wikipedia:USS Thresher (SSN-593)|''USS Thresher'']]'s underwater telephone. The captain kept up a narrative as the submarine sank, totally out of control, and passed crush depth. Utterly horrifying.
* And so forth. Real life examples aren't going to detail an apocalyptic horror, or anything, but will definitely qualify in the "desperation and insanity grow from entry to entry" sense.
** And even in cases where the witnesses weren't part of those who died, records of traumatic events still capture moments in history with terrifying clarity: the [[Zapruder film]] of JFK being shot, the radio dispatch of the Hindenberg crash, the morning of 9/11/2001...
* ''Any'' detailed, candid diary writing by a person in the grips of depression or similar can read like one of these. Things are going great, then one starts going downhill...
** For example, the last words Kenneth Williams wrote in his diary before his apparent suicide were, [[Tear Jerker|"What's the bloody point?"]]
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