Reading a note written by a sailor, in the dark, by feel, estimating his changes to be 10%, certainly felt haunting to me.

I found the story and photos entirely haunting. Those sailers had no chance.

Chomsky wrote that Western media publishes only what is "useful" for certain ends, usually political. So you think the article is useful, don't you?

Found it pretty haunting myself. You could pick a different descriptive word but haunting fits.

I found several photos haunting.

Being able to look at a full actual likeness of a person who is dead is incomprehensibly novel to human experience. It has never stopped giving me chills.