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.
Check out Bored Panda’s picks from the page, if you dare…
#1 Martin Luther King Jr. With His Son, Pulling Up A Burnt Cross From The Front Lawn Of His Atlanta Home, April 1960
Image source: Xoloj
#2 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 source: WeeHootieMctoo
#3 Children After Working In The Mine
Image source: makesyousayilost
#4 Department Store Wax Mannequins Melting During A Heatwave In 1929
Image source: timpytimpoo
#5 So My Aunt Casually Tells Me Today That She Once Found A Ton Of Skeletons In Her Garden
Image source: jewbo23
#6 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 source: froggysaysno
#7 A Train Shredded After A Boiler Explosion – There’s Something About This Image I Find Weirdly Unsettling
Image source: MellotronSymphony
#8 Anti-Electricity Propaganda From 1900
Image source: froggysaysno
#9 Halloween Costumes From The 1930s
Image source: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#10 Oldest Surviving Diving Suit, 18th Century
Image source: thedodoqueen
#11 Tim Curry On The Set Of ‘It’ (1990)
Image source: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#12 A Full-Faced Swimming Mask Designed To Protect Women’s Skin From The Sun In The 1920s
Image source: Forrest724
#13 It Drinks
Image source: cacatuca
#14 Melted Wax Figures Rescued From The 1925 Fire At Madam Tussaud’s London Museum
Image source: BunnyLovr
#15 Washing A Crucifix, 1938
Image source: spiceprincesszen
#16 A 16th Century Plague Doctors Mask
Image source: Cj_stricklen111
#17 A Drunken Man In Top Hat And Tails Clings To A Lamp-Post, London, 1934. Photo By Bill Brandt
Image source: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#18 Photo Of Two Women With Super Long Hair
Image source: digital_dysthymia
#19 Linda Blair’s Makeup Tests For “The Exorcist” (1973)
Image source: BrendaSugarbaker
#20 Some Paper Mache Heads From The First World War
Image source: WeeHootieMctoo
#21 Old Doll Factory
Image source: onepersononeidea
#22 Human Teeth Found In The Wall Of A Building Formerly Used By A Dentist In The Early 1900s
Image source: chubachus
#23 1952 U.S. Advertisement For Van Camp’s Pork & Beans
Image source: Whey-Men
#24 A Woman In The Wild West Wearing A Bonnet And A Mask Designed To Protect Skin From Sun Damage
Image source: JankCranky
#25 Meeting Of The Mickey Mouse Club In The 1930’s
Image source: wineddinedand69ed
#26 17th Century Metal Mask That Was Used To Restrain Individuals Who Were Considered To Be Insane
Image source: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#27 ‘Hells Cafe’ In Paris 1920s
Image source: onepersononeidea
#28 Humpty Dumpty 1939
Image source: onepersononeidea
#29 Photograph Of A Victorian Baby Held By Their Mother
Image source: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#30 The Original Ronald Mcdonald, 1963
Image source: Forrest724
#31 A Clean-Cut Charles Manson On His Wedding Day In 1955
Image source: Dia-fukin-rrhea
#32 The Moon From The French 1902 Movie “A Trip To The Moon”
Image source: Guy1404
#33 A Happy Clown From The Early 1900s
Image source: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#34 Goldilocks And The Three Bears, 1908
Image source: wineddinedand69ed
#35 Freezing Off Freckles Procedure In 1930s
Image source: onepersononeidea
#36 Glurpo, The World’s Only Underwater Clown
Image source: TommyAdagio
#37 My Grandfather And His Sister
Image source: WatchTheFireworks
#38 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 source: digital_dysthymia
#39 Behind-The-Scenes Of Teletubbies’ In The Late-90s
Image source: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#40 Children Salute The American Flag In Front Of The Morgan Hill School (California), 1930s
Image source: Trashcoelector
#41 Three Girls In Masked Costumes At Halloween Festivities In College Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio In 1929
Image source: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#42 He’s Probably A Good Boy But Sure Looks Odd
Image source: Nosferatatouille
#43 1938 – Trays Of Artificial Eyes
Image source: mistermajik2000
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