With the first photographs being produced over a century ago, the world captured in them looked very different from now. We can feel slightly disconnected from it and imagine we’re looking into a strange reflection of the past instead.
r/OldSchoolCreepy is perhaps a portal into it. People can share their vintage photography on anything from the primitive Halloween costumes of yesteryear, to Victorian-era portraits where something doesn’t feel quite right. Maybe it’s the grainy, black and white prints that provide a certain ghostly quality and make us so uneasy. There’s plenty of strange contraptions and gruesome horror imagery too.
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#1 Martin Luther King Jr. With His Son, Pulling Up A Burnt Cross From The Front Lawn Of His Atlanta Home, April 1960
Image credits: Xoloj
#2 Children After Working In The Mine
Image credits: makesyousayilost
#3 If You Ever Wondered How The American Buffalo Could Go From 30,000,000 To 300 In 50 Years, Pictures Like This May Give Some Idea (Buffalo Skulls)
Image credits: WeeHootieMctoo
#4 Department Store Wax Mannequins Melting During A Heatwave In 1929
Image credits: timpytimpoo
#5 A Letter From Schizophrenic Patient Emmy Hauck To Her Husband. It Consists Only Phrase “Herzensschatzi Komm” (Darling Please Come) And “Komm Komm Komm” (Come, Come, Come ) Repeated Over And Over
Image credits: froggysaysno
#6 Anti-Electricity Propaganda From 1900
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#7 It Drinks
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#8 So My Aunt Casually Tells Me Today That She Once Found A Ton Of Skeletons In Her Garden
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#9 Tim Curry On The Set Of ‘It’ (1990)
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#10 A Train Shredded After A Boiler Explosion – There’s Something About This Image I Find Weirdly Unsettling
Image credits: MellotronSymphony
#11 Photo Of Two Women With Super Long Hair
Image credits: digital_dysthymia
#12 Melted Wax Figures Rescued From The 1925 Fire At Madam Tussaud’s London Museum
Image credits: BunnyLovr
#13 A Full-Faced Swimming Mask Designed To Protect Women’s Skin From The Sun In The 1920s
Image credits: Forrest724
#14 Oldest Surviving Diving Suit, 18th Century
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#15 Halloween Costumes From The 1930s
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#16 Human Teeth Found In The Wall Of A Building Formerly Used By A Dentist In The Early 1900s
Image credits: chubachus
#17 Linda Blair’s Makeup Tests For “The Exorcist” (1973)
Image credits: BrendaSugarbaker
#18 Some Paper Mache Heads From The First World War
Image credits: WeeHootieMctoo
#19 A 16th Century Plague Doctors Mask
Image credits: Cj_stricklen111
#20 Old Doll Factory
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#21 Humpty Dumpty 1939
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#22 A Drunken Man In Top Hat And Tails Clings To A Lamp-Post, London, 1934. Photo By Bill Brandt
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#23 1952 U.S. Advertisement For Van Camp’s Pork & Beans
Image credits: Whey-Men
#24 17th Century Metal Mask That Was Used To Restrain Individuals Who Were Considered To Be Insane
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#25 The Original Ronald Mcdonald, 1963
Image credits: Forrest724
#26 A Happy Clown From The Early 1900s
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#27 A Clean-Cut Charles Manson On His Wedding Day In 1955
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#28 Photograph Of A Victorian Baby Held By Their Mother
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#29 Meeting Of The Mickey Mouse Club In The 1930’s
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#30 A Woman In The Wild West Wearing A Bonnet And A Mask Designed To Protect Skin From Sun Damage
Image credits: JankCranky
#31 ‘Hells Cafe’ In Paris 1920s
Image credits: onepersononeidea
#32 Glurpo, The World’s Only Underwater Clown
Image credits: TommyAdagio
#33 The Moon From The French 1902 Movie “A Trip To The Moon”
Image credits: Guy1404
#34 Goldilocks And The Three Bears, 1908
Image credits: wineddinedand69ed
#35 Washing A Crucifix, 1938
Image credits: spiceprincesszen
#36 Found This Weird Photo Online. The Title Said That It’s From “Page 896 Of The American Florist, A Weekly Journal For The Trade (1885)”. Please Make Special Note Of His Feet
Image credits: digital_dysthymia
#37 Children Salute The American Flag In Front Of The Morgan Hill School (California), 1930s
Image credits: Trashcoelector
#38 Behind-The-Scenes Of Teletubbies’ In The Late-90s
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#39 My Grandfather And His Sister
Image credits: WatchTheFireworks
#40 Freezing Off Freckles Procedure In 1930s
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#41 1938 – Trays Of Artificial Eyes
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#42 He’s Probably A Good Boy But Sure Looks Odd
Image credits: Nosferatatouille
#43 Three Girls In Masked Costumes At Halloween Festivities In College Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio In 1929
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
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