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Postmortem portraits, ghost photographs, and images of disfigured soldiers are just a few examples of photography from the past that might seem unsettling to modern viewers. The grainy and black-and-white aesthetic combined with the open acknowledgment of death and fascination with the supernatural world has produced many photos that now give off an eerie and disturbing feel.
For those who find this intriguing, we have a whole list of pictures from the past that are truly unsettling. Collected by the Old School Creepy subreddit, these images invite you to embark on a darker journey through history.
While you're scrolling through, don't forget to check out a conversation with moderators of this subreddit, nicknamed Seryan_Klythe and TheOddityCollector, who kindly agreed to chat with us more about old and unsettling photos.
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#1
Behind The Scenes Of The Shining (1980)
Brian Droste 9 months ago (edited)
Why is this supposed to be creepy? Just looks like three kids playing or talking.
Matt Blakeley 8 months ago
If you watch the movie, it will be obvious why it's creepy.
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Riley Quinn 9 months ago
Creepy? Yeah, I suppose it is for people who can't differentiate between actors and characters.
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#2
To Appear Headless While Taking A Photo, Known As "Horsemaning", Was A Popular Way To Pose In The 1920's
Remi (He/Him) 9 months ago
Looks way more harmless and interesting than half the tiktok trends I've heard of
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#3
Apache Ghost Dance Ceremony, Taken By Edward Curtis Circa 1906
Joanne Earle 9 months ago
The ghost dance has a very interesting background. It actually led to the m******e at Wounded Knee in 1890. Very sad history.
Alley Cat 9 months ago
Question, is that censored word m a s s a c r e? if so, BP's censoring is getting really out of hand.
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Heir of Durin 9 months ago
Edward Curtis’ work is so underappreciated. If you’re looking for a good read, I recommend Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher.
Lavern Defazio 9 months ago
I've seen these ceremonies before. Intense to see at night when they dance around a bonfire. It was a ceremony for a young woman who goes into adulthood. The " Crowns" atop the head are now larger and more colorful.
G A 9 months ago
Interested to know if the crosses were Christian iconography or coincidental to native mythology?
TiNaBoNiNa 8 months ago
That's what I was wondering. Was the cross symbol already part of the culture or was it incorporated later, as it was incorporated into Christianity earlier?
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JayhawkJoey 8 months ago
I don't mean to be a downer, but this is beautiful and sad. Misunderstood and annihilated culture is definitely "unsettling", but this seems depicted as frightening.
Sophia Pandia de Delphia 8 months ago (edited)
Crosses were symbols for societies centuries before Christianity adopted it as its central symbol. After all, Rome used it for execu+ion before Christ. Cultures that didn't have an association with Christianity adopted the symbol after Christ's execu+ion centuries later. For example, a number of first nations used what would become the N@zi symbol. Some have made a little tweak to make it near the same but not actually it. Some don't bow to pressure because another group for a short time (as in centuries, not a decade) for evil purposes. Why should they be robbed of a symbol that was theirs long before? So we can't just laugh and say, that religion/culture/sociery would never use that symbol.
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The Old School Creepy subreddit has been around since 2014, which means that it has invited people to share disturbing vintage pictures for more than a decade now! In this time, it managed to gather a community of 81K members—all fans of the creepy and spooky.
Bored Panda was lucky enough to get in touch with its moderators, who kindly agreed to tell us more about it.
"The subreddit was created for people who enjoy the eerie feeling of old photos. Unlike modern horror, old pictures can be creepy in a more subtle way—through strange expressions, outdated fashion, or imperfections in the photo itself," told us moderator TheOddityCollector.
#4
Glazed Earthenware Rookwood Vase Featuring An Image Of A Skeleton, American, 1891
#5
Martin Laurello, The Only Man Who Could Rotate His Head A Full 180 Degrees, 1930s
Uncle Panda 9 months ago
He just lost a game of 'bet a drink I can't face the door without moving my shoulders."
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WindySwede 9 months ago
The answer to this?: "I think there is someone possessed by an owl in the office"
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Andy Frobig 9 months ago
I'm picturing this guy saying "NIAGARA FALLS?!?!? Slowly I turned..."
#6
My Mother In Law And Her Twin Sometime In The 60’s
Brian Droste 9 months ago
Is this where Stephen King got the idea for the twins in The Shining?
Its other moderator, nicknamed Seryan_Klythe, said that what fascinates them about disturbing vintage images the most is the fact that they were taken in the time of pre-technological standards and bare-bones inventions. "The world was different and saw things differently too. The fascination is part of understanding what was creepy to someone then was simplistic and played more with their blunt fascination to take things at face value or without the use of high-sophistication gimmickry."
#7
A Boy On Krampus Shoulders During A Parade, Mitterndorf, Austria, 6th Of Dec 1949
glowworm2 9 months ago (edited)
Honestly, this is pretty cute regardless of the fact that Krampus is the one who tortures naughty children. Look how happy that kid is! Krampus is clearly someone the kid is comfortable being around like his father or a relative.
Isabella K 9 months ago (edited)
When i was young parents could "book" nikolaus and krampus. They could choose if they wanted a wild krampus or the nice one entering our house. Maybe the krampus in the picture was a nice one. Nowadays Nikolaus is driving around alone i think. Parents don't want to scare their young children anymore. Krampusse are still there at "Krampuslauf" - a party on the streets for teens and young adults...
Load More Replies... Caro 9 months ago
Probably Dad under the mask. Or another close relative. My eldest son has a krampus costume too ( it's called Perchtenlauf here and my son is member of a Perchten club) and his siblings love this tradition and the costumes , as they are used to it, while neighbor kids use to run away screaming when they see him fully dressed in his costume.
PunchinelloTX 9 months ago
Say what you will about Krampus, but he’s always known to be the life of the party.
#8
Behind The Scenes Of Max Reinhardt's 1935 Adaptation Of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Cole Earnhart 8 months ago (edited)
Of course this predates Batman by 4 years
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#9
Stills From The Very Druggish Children’s Show “H.r. Puffnstuff” From 1969
K- THULU 9 months ago
Oh, remember watching that .... Sunday morning double feature of H.R. Puff n stuff and The Banana Splits.... probably says a lot about how I turned out as an adult....
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
My mum loved this show as a kid. She borrowed a video of it from the library for us to watch one, but I thought it was just weird. I think the costumes are in the National Film and Sound Archive in Australia which I visited when I went to Canberra for a school camp.
Tiny Dancer 9 months ago
Hey, now! Don't be dissin' my H.R. Pufnstuf! Us '70s kids had the good stuff, baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDTxeszDuac
Tiny Dancer 9 months ago
I do miss the days when the theme song explained the whole concept of the show in one minute or less, lol.
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Joanne Earle 9 months ago
This one and Lidsville with the giant hats. 'Lidsville' indeed. I met Sid Krofft last year at a Comicon, got an autograph and thanked him for my childhood.
Java Addict 9 months ago
This, The Bugaloos, Sigmund the Sea Monster, Great Space Coaster, Far Out Space Nuts
Billo66 9 months ago
HR Puffnstuff, he couldn't do a little and he couldn't do enough. lol that was the theme song. After that Liddsville came on, where that kid fell into the giant hat and such. An ounce was called a Lid then. Don't get me started on Puff the Magic Dragon and little Jackie Paper lol. My mom was clueless. I miss those days.
Billo66 9 months ago (edited)
Man you really opened a chunk of core memories with that one. Now I'm thinkin about Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot, Ultraman, Speed Racer, Johnny Quest. Good Grief. Glad we still have Rocky and Bullwinkle though. Rocky sells electric cars and still hangs out with Bullwinkle. He was a reality show host for a bit, oddly turned kind of orange. I see them on news conferences sometimes. Very entertaining.
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Indeed, when people were taking postmortem photos with their loved ones, they weren't thinking that they were doing something morbid—they were just trying to capture a simple photo they could remember them by in the future.
When postmortem photography was popular, deaths were a frequent occurrence, which meant that many people, especially children, didn't have a photo taken of them while they were alive. So their relatives would usually take one after their passing.
#10
The Cabaret Of Hell , Paris, 1920s
Paulina 9 months ago
Guy on the front right seems to be resigned to the upcoming eternity of hell
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Peacemaker Wolf 9 months ago
The nervous looking fellow on the right looks a lot like Mike Myers! 😂
glowworm2 9 months ago (edited)
There was also a corresponding cabaret nearby known as the Cabaret of Heaven and a third one known as the Cabaret of Nothingness.
Tiny Dancer 9 months ago
Man, they knew how to party back then! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_du_Ciel
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#11
Actor Reggie Nadler Who Played The Vampire Kurt Barlow In Salem’s Lot, With Effects Mask From The Movie
rullyman 8 months ago (edited)
Dracula appears as a "sparkling mist" in the book. He also appears during the day.
Load More Replies... Lavern Defazio 9 months ago
I watched this when I was tripping on acid many years ago.good times.
Wang Zhuang 9 months ago (edited)
Salem's lot was a really good book. The most recent film adaptation, not so much
Beak Hookage 9 months ago (edited)
Or were inspired by it, maybe. (My original smart alec comment about how they used a time machine failed when I remembered uh, yeah, duh, there was a Nosferatu movie that did not come out in 2025. Alas).
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Enlee Jones 8 months ago
Barlow's sinister presence is felt throughout the movie yet he's onscreen for only 90 seconds.
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
Looks normal without make-up. reggie-nal...7af774.jpg 
#12
A Boy Named Rich Bundy In A Family Photo With His Brother, Ted, Before That Infamous Older Brother Was Caught
Jessica Shookhoff 9 months ago
Lmao, that made me laugh so hard & then I felt bad for laughing...
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BeKind&Rewind 9 months ago
I cannot imagine what his family thought when they found out who he was...
Touhou Youyoumu 9 months ago
Seen Rich Bundy, interviewed on his older brother. On a murder documentary. It showed him as a drifter and a pariah. Really f**ked his life up "must have known" c**p or sure your just like Ted, really sad.
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Marlene Ricker 8 months ago
That poor boy. What a legacy to have to live his life with - the brother of one of the most infamous serial killers of all time!
Having a trinket of a deceased loved one definitely wasn't a new thing by then. People would cut locks of hair from the dead and put them into lockets and rings or create death masks from wax. However, attitudes towards them and post-mortem photography have changed as our view of death has evolved.
Our comfort with corpses decreased as the funeral industry appeared, the government removed post-mortem care from family members, and hygiene and modern medicine helped people live longer.
#13
Children Going To A 12-Hour Night Shift In The United States, 1908
Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 9 months ago
And Florida, now wants to bring this back. Because they have a laborer shortage.
Two Cat Studio 9 months ago
Yes, and now Florida wants to lower all their child laws to 14-years of age with up to 10-hour shifts and no dinner breaks.
Marlene Ricker 8 months ago
These pictures of children going off to work in factories or mines never cease to upset me.
#14
Photographed In 1880, Myrtle Corbin Was Born A 'Dipygus', Having Two Separately Functioning Pelvises And Four Legs. She Married And Had Five Children
MagicJacket 9 months ago
"We appear to have a breech birth, I can see the feet." "Actually doctor, those are mine."
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LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
Everyone else is talking about the births, but I'm over here thinking, "Two functioning uteri? Double the monthly flow, double the cramps, double the bloating," at a time when all women had were rags to stuff their bloomers with. 😬
Marilyn Holt 8 months ago
some sources say she had 8 children, Her legs were paired as one long one short--so side by side. And yes, she apparently had two complete reproductive systems.
Susan Teter 9 months ago
Well if she had 5 kids, she needed the 2 extra legs to chase them around.
Irene Bucior 8 months ago
Did she havee the kids all at once or two pregnancies at different times?
#15
A Circus Performer In Germany C.1930, By Kurt Triest
R. W. 8 months ago
She caught me undressing her with my eyes...so she undressed me with hers first.
What fascinates moderator Oddity Collector the most about old unsettling pictures is that they are able to show us a world that’s familiar but different. "The way people dressed, the way photos were taken, and the way time has changed them all add to the mystery. Some images weren’t meant to be scary, but they feel that way now, which makes them even more interesting."
#16
A Colorized Photo Of Grigori Rasputin With The Last Empress Of Russia And Her Five Children In 1908
superfluous 9 months ago
Five children and their governess, so she doesn't have a name and doesn't need to be mentioned?
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Matt Upchuck 9 months ago
They were a desperate family, with serious medial issues, in a very desperate position of trying to preserve their rule, power, wealth and influence against a huge number of very poor and very angry people. The Revolution was a surprise to nobody. They had to place their hope in something... anything...
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#17
With Father Christmas, 1920
Sue Knerl 9 months ago
something severely wrong with that donkeys' feet. needs a trim big time.
Fraxinus excelsior 9 months ago
All I hear is Roy Wood and Wizzard singing "I wish it could be Christmas everyday"
#18
Parrot Costume
When asked what makes these pictures creepy in particular, moderators mention a mix of things: its focus, the subject, the color/mood, the original intent, strange expressions, and outdated medical or funeral practices. "Some photos have mistakes, like double exposures, that make them look ghostly without meaning to," said TheOddityCollector.
#19
Ventriloquist’s Family Portrait, 1950s
Samantha H 9 months ago
I dated a Ventriloquist back in the 1970s, He had a house full of Vent dolls, even had them hanging up in his hallway, very creepy indeed.
Jessica Shookhoff 9 months ago
I both want to know more but also don't want to know more, lol
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liam newton-harding 9 months ago
Come in…meet the children…they’re so very, very eager to meet you…
Inigo Montoya 9 months ago
Oh dear...it seems Chucky doesn't like you very much.
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#20
Dogon Stilt Dancers In Bandiagara, Mali, 70s, By James Morris
Joanne Earle 9 months ago
I wonder how they stand after attaching them to their legs and feet.
KM 9 months ago
They start from a high point to begin with) when I saw the Dogon dancers 2 years ago they've put the stilts while sitting on a wall)
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The “Lunatic Chair” Given To Patients Who Had Poor Behavior Or Wild Outbursts. Dutch Mental Hospital, 1938
Billo66 9 months ago
Maybe. He may be a guy that just owes fines, or he might be the one that put a curling iron in his daughter and turned it on. I have personally met both.
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Max Fox 8 months ago
Yes, it would help. It would help keep them from harming themselves and others. As others have written - before antipsychotics, this was really the only way that they had.
Load More Replies... Forrest McCanless 9 months ago
We just let them wander the streets and destroy themselves - far better, right?
Marnie 9 months ago
Perhaps it is better to let them wander than to t*****e them, as long as they are not hurting others. First of all, if you put a sane person in those old places, they go crazy. So, obviously it's inhumane treatment and ineffective. Secondly, better to live a shorter, happier life than to lead a long, miserable life.
Load More Replies... Marnie 9 months ago
A lot of the times, they weren't even mentally ill. Suffering from trauma, autistic, maltreated, sexually promiscuous (or thought to be), or disliked by their family could land them in a mental institution. So, they treat them in a way that actually would cause a sane person to go crazy. I don't know about this particular person. If they are actually dangerous, then you have to do SOMETHING, but given that she looks to weigh 92 pounds, this does seem excessive.
Max Fox 8 months ago
If they are dangerous, this is the only way. Many were there for the wrong reasons, but a person who is going through a psychotic episodes are sometimes unbelievably strong.
Load More Replies... MagicJacket 9 months ago
No, not the bees! Agghh! The bees! The bees are stinging me!!! bees-67e19...a0-png.jpg 
81K people were drawn to the subreddit thanks to these unsettling and disturbing photos, so naturally we were curious to know what the moderators thought was the reason. "I think people are drawn to a life that existed without Photoshop, film effects and blunt macabre," said Seryan_Klythe.
"People love a good mystery, and these photos make us ask questions. Who are these people? What happened to them? Why does this image feel so unsettling? It’s a mix of history, curiosity, and a little bit of fear that keeps people coming back," concluded Oddity Collector.
#22
Written On The Back: "Excuse Our Backs, Our Faces Are Dirty" (C.1899)
#23
Edna Tichenor As 'Arachnida, The Human Spider' In Tod Browning's 1927 Silent Film The Show
Tiny Dancer 9 months ago
Nice. If you've never encountered Tod Browning's remarkable work, this is a perfect intro (FREAKS is probably his best-known work, it's still unsettling nearly 100 years later!), a short trailer for an unproduced doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1VQxbSoQP0
Rick Murray 9 months ago
That reminds me, I downloaded an old film called Spider Baby. I should go watch it.
#24
The "Double Exposure Girl"... A Haunting Photo Of A Girl Shot In Double Exposure [date Unknown]
#25
Art And Camera Magazine, 1952
#26
"The Temptation Of St Anthony." Oil Painting By Joos Van Craesbeeck, C. 1650
ManuelQue 9 months ago
You beat me to it. Regarding its title I don't see anything tempting in that pic at all!
Load More Replies... bodhisayumi 9 months ago
Anthony is the man sitting under the tree. The lady beside him is there to tempt him. (She's lowering her blouse and has alcohol for him). The snakes and crabs are coming out of the eggs, indicating the torment from the devil and the lack of food. The big head represents Anthony's younger self and all the things he has given up. (painting, farming, and items deemed as luxuries. The head looks shocked as demons enter his mouth and work their sinful ways into his thoughts. A clever personification of the memories of sin and temptation.
Two Cat Studio 9 months ago
Is St. Anthony the elder man with a white beard by the tree with a book in his lap?
Joots (shants/jorts) 8 months ago
Someone up above stated that it is him under the tree.
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Pamela Hutchison 7 months ago
So this is who people pray to to find lost things .. am I right? I wonder where all the single socks are and pens and keys? Or I guess it's not St Anthony who takes them, he just knows where they are and helps us find them...I don't know why st Anthony was chosen for this portrait, but I don't know much about st. Anthony except he can help find lost things and when you lose something, he's the guy to pray to.
#27
At 4:31 Am, An Unauthorized Photo Taken Of Stalin Inside Of The Kremlin Shows The Very Moment He Was Informed That Germany Had Began Their Invasion Of The Soviet Union
Carl Roberts 9 months ago (edited)
The moment one genocidal dictator realizes another genocidal dictator has invaded
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
I am altering the deal - pray I don't alter it any further.
Load More Replies... Heir of Durin 9 months ago
I wonder what the punishment would have been for taking this photo.
Beak Hookage 9 months ago (edited)
The gvlag, probably. He sent his own doctor there just for telling him to get more rest. (Apparently the word for the death camps Soviet Russia sent people to is now forbidden. Come on).
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Major Harris 9 months ago
he retreated to a luxurious cabin in the woods for a few days after this. when the high command came for him, he honestly thought they were there to arrest him and then k**l him because of incompetence of leadership due to trusting hitler. his grand daughter lives in portland oregon btw. she is covered in tattoos and piercings and owns an antique store.
Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 9 months ago
Hopefully Stalin and Hitler are both roasting in some form of Hell.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 8 months ago
I will not accept that someone who ordered the exec ution of thousands of Polish officers, teachers, policemen, government-workers, lawyers and judges can look anything but inhuman. He and Hitler made a pact to divide Poland among themselves - just like that! One half goes to Russia, the other to N**i-Germany. Vile creatures, both of them!
#28
9-Year-Old Child Bride Eunice Winstead Johns And Her Husband, 22-Year-Old Charlie Johns, Sneedville, Tennessee, United States. 1937
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
Title correction: nine year old child poses with the p.a.edophile who groomed her.
BrunoVI 9 months ago
This was a case that necessitated a law. Previously, judges only had to sign off on marriages. In this case, the judge was tricked into thinking the girl was much, much older. But the fact that the deception was uncovered didn't nullify the marriage.
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Pelle Lövet 9 months ago
Yeah. I went ahead and read it. I shouldn’t have done that..
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Billo66 9 months ago
Today you just pay the parents to give you guardianship so you can take the child with you across state lines. Ask Steven Tyler. Theres a trend of celebrities marrying children and it's awful.
BrunoVI 9 months ago
Very misleading. There are four states where it's up to a judge to decide if someone is too young to get married. In three of them, there have been no "child brides" in ages. The exception is California, where there have been recent cases of judges respecting "foreign customs" to permit child brides.
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#29
My God, These Halloween Masks From The 1920s Are Scaring The C**p Out Of Me!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 9 months ago
Can't say the word "k!ll" or "su!cide" on BP, but you CAN post photos of people in blackface!
Load More Replies... Oskar vanZandt 9 months ago
I'd have locked the door and barred it... Or maybe just moved to a hotel for Halloween. No way I'd be handing out candy to that lot!
BRIANNA YSABEL SUAREZ RUBIN 8 months ago
If those people went to my door on Halloween they would get a fruit punch without the fruit.
TiNaBoNiNa 8 months ago
They're probably made of papier mâché and plaster, so they weren't professionally made.
#30
A Young Woman Writing A Thank You Note To Her Boyfriend In The Navy For The Skull Of A Japanese Soldier That He Sent, 1944
Delta Dawn 9 months ago
Maybe I’m projecting but she doesn’t look too thrilled about the “gift”
Sian E 9 months ago
Wouldn't this be classed as a war trophy? Bringing an enemy flag or piece of equipment home is one thing, but a skull was probably crossing the line with regards to 'spoils of war'...even by WW2 standards (for Allied forces, anyway).
Damned_Cat 9 months ago
My dad fought in the Pacific theater in WWII. He brought back a packet of photos that showed piles of dead Japanese soldiers and one that I remember was of an American soldier holding up the severed head of a Japanese soldier. I asked him why he had these disgusting photos, and he said they were widely distributed to all of the soldiers as some kind of bizarre "morale booster" to show that we were winning the war. I hope he threw them away, because I never saw them again amongst his other souvenirs.
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Jessica Shookhoff 9 months ago
You can just see her thinking 'wtf am I supposed to do with this? Mother says it's rude to refuse a gift but did Father ever gift her a skull???'
#31
Wakefield, Massachusetts. Young Members Of The Payro Family Being “Photographed” By Their Cat, 1909. Photo By Joseph C. Payro
Brian Droste 9 months ago
Who is taking the photos of the cat taking the family photo? Is it the mother because I don't see the mother in the family photo.
#32
Abandoned Artists House
#33
Abandoned Mansion In The Forest
Rick Murray 9 months ago
Please let it be haunted. My goth heart wants some friends.
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#34
Carved Ivory Memento Mori Sculpture Featuring The Face And Skull Of A Monk, C. 1525-1550
#35
The Original Ronald Mcdonald 1963
kirtis hickey 9 months ago
It's actually Willard Scott who was NBC's Today show's weather man who passed away in 2021 - he was replaced by Al Roker. Funny thing is he originally was one of the Bozo the clowns for the network before being hired as Ronald from 1963-1967. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Scott
Kabuki Kitsune 9 months ago
That's Willard Scott from the Today show, and the original Ronald was his idea.
Dee Rutherford 9 months ago
Poor guy. No matter the pay, I’d die of mortification if I had to wear that.
#36
A "Two-Faced" Doll, C.1920
#37
‘Fatso And Thin Man’— A Circus Act From Around The 1890s
Owen 9 months ago (edited)
Which ones's Fatso? Edit: D**n, beaten to it. 😋
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#38
My Father, Halloween, 1940s
Savannah Newman 9 months ago
Hey it was the 30s..oh 40s I guess but my grandpa grew up on OK during the depression and he said since they got one pair of shoes they would only wear them when it was cold or absolutely necessary.
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' Natural Creeping Baby Doll' Created By George Pemberton Clarke, 1871
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
Why does it have a board on its back? Is it for carrying around your severed head afterwards?
#40
Mr Noseybonk From UK Children's TV Show Jigsaw Shown In The Early 80s
Savannah Newman 9 months ago
Wait, is this where the jigsaw doll from the Saw movies got inspiration? Or the people that created it, you know what I mean. It certainly looks like this doll got another shot at stardom in the Saw franchise. Got a little work done, some rebranding haha.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
There was a children's show in Australia in the 90s that apparently creeped people out because there was a doll without features on it's face. I didn't find it creepy. It was called EC (Every Child) because every child should be able to see themselves in it.
#41
A Newspaper Clipping From Harper's Weekly. Jefferson Davis Is Portrayed With Deathly Eyes, Reaping Plants With Skulls On Them With A Sickle. Underneath Him Is A Snake And Above Him Is A Twisted Bare Tree With A Vulture Perched On It And A Noose Hanging From It. 10-26-1861
#42
Mr. Peanut In Times Square. Diane Arbus. 1956
Rick Murray 9 months ago
Okay, this character plays quite a role in the film "The Electric State". As a Brit - who the hell is Mr. Peanut? And what's with the hat?
Tiny Dancer 9 months ago
He's an advertising icon representing Planters Peanuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Peanut
Load More Replies... Lavern Defazio 9 months ago (edited)
Used to be Mr.P***s everywhere in Times Square could use the word p***s so I'll just say shlong.back in the day.
#43
Frankenstein (1931)
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
"Forsooth, Igor - it lives!" (My dad used to say this whenever someone got up what he considered "late").
#44
"Scenes Of Witchcraft: Morning." Oil Painting By Salvator Rosa, C. 1645-1649
#45
Hedy Pfundmayr With Elektra-Mask, By Rudolf Koppitz, C. 1928
#46
Come Play With Us, Mickey……
Rick Murray 9 months ago (edited)
As is befitting this scenario, one of them is the [edit: makes people cease living in unpleasant ways] and the rest have to work out who it is, and quickly.
#47
Leslie Caron As The Sphinx In Roland Petit’s Ballet “La Rencontre," 1948
Lavern Defazio 9 months ago
Again, I ask, how do they wipe their butts with such long fingernails?
#48
Photo Of Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer At High School With A Fellow Student
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
When the class clown turns out to be a deranged serial killer. (He was also probably drunk when this picture was taken)
Lowrider 56 9 months ago
Seems like an ordinary student. You never know what goes on in people's heads.
#49
Untitled (Carnaval De Huejotzingo, Puebla), 1941, By Kati Horna
#50
Man Carries (Mounted) Head On Wheelbarrow - C. 1910
superfluous 9 months ago
Yeah, I don't know if it's the oversizedness of the head, the realism of it, or the bizarreness of pushing it in the wheelbarrow that is so unsettling
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These Old Toys My Friend Inherited From His Grandfather
Norm Gilmore 9 months ago
Guaranteed that in the middle of the night an eerie tinkling tune will be heard from the shelf these sit on...
#52
March Hares, C.1910
superfluous 9 months ago
They don't look like March hares? Shouldn't there be more mating or something?
#53
An Ostrich Carriage Being Stopped By The Police For Crossing The Speed Limit, Los Angeles, 1930
#54
The Real Dracula's Castle In Transylvania, Romania. Photo Taken In 1920s
Leg less In Minneapolis 9 months ago
This NOT Vlad the Impaler’s castle. He had no ownership or residence the. The real castle is called Poenari, also in Romania. It’s a protected ruin.
#55
This Pork & Beans Set Up Is True Nightmare Fuel
#56
Jimmy Savile Meets The Beatles
#57
Children Like Sanitol - Creepy Ad For Toothpaste [1911]
Mike F 9 months ago
Not "toothpaste" but tooth powder. The old man used to have us use tooth powder to clean coins with.
Zaach 9 months ago
The group Pearls Before Swine had a song called "The Use of Ashes" about someone cleaning coins using ashes
Load More Replies... Kabuki Kitsune 9 months ago
For those curious, the reason the boy's face is displayed like it is, was down to the limits of printing at the time. Since Sanitol wanted to demonstrate that the powder whitened teeth, the only real way to draw attention to that, was to make the teeth brighter than, well anything else in the image. Thus they had to go with a completely black face and a hint of the eyes and nose for it to work.
#58
A Passing Woman Waves To A Baby In Her Cage, 1948. The Portable Baby Cage Was Patented In 1922 And Popular In Us & UK To Hang From Urban Windows Until Dwindling In The Later-1960s
#59
The Last Picture Of Vladimir Lenin Before He Died In Gorki On May 15, 1923. Beside Him Are His Sister And One Of His Doctors
Marko Jovanović 9 months ago
Context: he suffered several strokes before this picture was taken
pfeils wife 9 months ago
I'm just curious why a couple of people here in the comments are trying to come to this mans 'rescue'? WHY?
Kabuki Kitsune 9 months ago
By all accounts, he had a kind of "locked in syndrome" near the end. Where he was aware of what was going on around him, but couldn't communicate.
Load More Replies... Lavern Defazio 9 months ago
From the looks of him, either he is thinking " Yep, I did that", or " Oh s**t!! I did that!!"
#60
This Mask At The Field Museum In Chicago
LakotaWolf (she/her) 9 months ago
But Muuuultaaaaa if I wore it, I could hug you with my FACE! C'mon! WITH MY FACE! XD
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#61
Pewter Chamberstick Partly In The Shape Of A Head, German, C. 1905
#62
Plaster Phrenological Bust, English, 1821
#63
Those Poor Children
Ringo Joy (she/her) Singapore 1 month ago
Same. Before clown became nightmare I was fine with it
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"No Substitution." The January/February Page From The Antikamnia Pharmaceutical Company's Calendar From 1900. Lithograph By Louis Crusius
#65
Paul Neagu At The Neolithic Stone Circle Of Calanais, 1975
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 months ago
Been there! Calanish/Calanais stones, Isle of Lewis, Hebrides. Used to live there :)
#66
Recently Found This Random Photo Of Jerry Sandusky At My Parents House
#67
'Halloween', Rosalind Simon, 1977
#68
Abandoned 1990’s Time Capsule Bar
primeline31 9 months ago
THESE are 1900's bars (photos): https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/g41613574/40-vintage-photos-of-bars-through-the-years/
#69
Freckles Removal Treatment From The 1930s
superfluous 9 months ago
Since freckles can't be removed, probably a good choice to not try this!
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Lavern Defazio 9 months ago
Just think, people out there are getting freckles tattooed now a days.
#70
Painted Cast Iron Coin Bank Shaped As A Man Stuck In A Barrel, C. 1890. Coins Are Deposited In The Figure's Mouth
Uncle Panda 9 months ago
The *front* flap, although that's only marginally better.
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 9 months ago
What was with that whole "people wearing barrels" thing anyway? It pops up in so many old cartoons.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 9 months ago
I seem to recall it being either a public "humiliation" style punishment for drunkards (having to wear the barrel while in public) but I also recall cartoons where a character lost their clothing (for whatever reason) and had to "wear" a barrel to hide the fact that they were naked. But I think the true origin was similar to the "stocks" - a public humiliation punishment.
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Came Across This Creepy Clown Painting In A Thrift Store A While Back
Arthur Waite 9 months ago
Not creepy - just sad. Obviously he isn't making much of a living as a clown, but he still has his cat.
Tiny Dancer 9 months ago
Also note the goldfish and flower are both thriving.
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Tiny Dancer 9 months ago
Nice collection of creepiness with many I haven't seen before. Thanks!
Tiny Dancer 8 months ago
Seems to be a timing issue. I never have trouble reading a "fresh" posting but run into the subscription nonsense about 24 hours later. I'm on a PC. Your mileage on a cell phone may differ.
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Bravia Kimyi 8 months ago
Most of these weren’t scary, but the ones that WERE were nightmare fuel 😭
Fabrice Beutler 9 months ago
hello, well done. You should let multiple choice answers to your questions.
Deanna Hnatiw 9 months ago
No wonder why so many men are pedos. They're hardwired for it. GROSS
Tiny Dancer 9 months ago
Nice collection of creepiness with many I haven't seen before. Thanks!
Tiny Dancer 8 months ago
Seems to be a timing issue. I never have trouble reading a "fresh" posting but run into the subscription nonsense about 24 hours later. I'm on a PC. Your mileage on a cell phone may differ.
Load More Replies... Bravia Kimyi 8 months ago
Most of these weren’t scary, but the ones that WERE were nightmare fuel 😭
Fabrice Beutler 9 months ago
hello, well done. You should let multiple choice answers to your questions.
Deanna Hnatiw 9 months ago
No wonder why so many men are pedos. They're hardwired for it. GROSS
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