Chills run down your spine, the little hairs standing up as if to applaud a wonderful performance, all the while a beating drum plays in your ears, your heart picking up the pace. You stare unblinkingly, eyes wide, forehead scrunched up in flustered unknowing. Should you run? Should you hide? Should their smile be as wide?
A sense of the creeps is both unsettling and intriguing. It brings forth a sense of morbid curiosity, leading into a dark hole that is difficult to escape from. And so, dear readers, Bored Panda’s back to bring you more of the creepiest pictures from the recent past, as shared by the Reddit community called Creepy Old Pics.
They’re joyful, they’re satisfying, and they make you question the reality you live in. What could be better? Make sure to upvote your favorites as you’re scrolling through this list. What’s the creepiest thing you’ve ever seen? Let us know in the comments below! But now, grab your teddy bear, turn off the lights, and let’s get into it!
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#1 Found This Old Photo Inside The Wall In The Attic
Image source: Kosmosaik
#2 Penny Auction At Foreclosed Michigan Farm (1936). At Penny Auctions Farmers Would Conspire To Offer Low Bids, Resulting In A Low Return To The Creditor. The Final Buyer Would Then Return The Property To The Destitute Farmer Hangman Nooses Served As A Warning To Squirrely Bidders
Image source: carmensax
#3 This Isn’t How It Looked In My Memory-1980s
Image source: LoneShark81
#4 Santa Got Ahold Of The Good Snow This Year
Image source: PleasantChaos0_0
#5 Colorized Photo Of Rasputin With Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna, Her Children And Their Nurse, 1908
Image source: Star_Ship_55
#6 My Wife Grew Up Staring At This Picture. No One Can Remember If There Was A Person Behind The Kids, Or A Trick Of The Light
Image source: Kombucha_drunk
#7 Patient Brutally Restrained In A Mental Institution, France Circa 1900
Image source: Runoco
#8 A Suffragette Is Force-Fed In Hm Prison Holloway In The UK During Hunger Strikes For Women’s Suffrage, Circa 1911
Image source: Scaulbylausis
#9 Jacob Miller (1829-1917), Shot In The Head At Chickamauga In 1863 And Walked It Off
Image source: Star_Ship_55
#10 A Baby Found During The Clean Up Of The Chernobyl Accident Is Pushed In A Carriage By A Liquidator, 1986
Image source: keeperofthecan
#11 On The Feast Of St. Nicholas In The Town Of Bad Mitterndorf, Austria. St Nicholas Parades Through The Village On A White Horse Followed By The Krampus, Who Warn The Kids To Be Good, Or Else
Image source: JankCranky
#12 Violet “Queen Of Sinking Ships” Jessop Who Was On The Olympic When It Crashed, Titanic When It Hit An Iceberg, And The Britannic When A Mine Sank It, All Within The Span Of 5 Years. Coincidence?
Image source: chomskyhonk69
#13 1930’s Baby Rattle
Image source: carmensax
#14 The Twins That Inspired The Twins Of Tim Burton’s Miss Pergerine’s Home For Peculiar Children, C. 1900s
Image source: MissNightTerrors
#15 Cleaning Day At A Church In Leipzig, Germany (1920)
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#16 Denken Sie An Die Kinder
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#17 Disney Sends This Guy Out Everytime Some Kid Talks About Bruno
Image source: PleasantChaos0_0
#18 Vibration Therapy, A Treatment For Headaches In The 1890s
Image source: Torquemada1970
#19 New Year In A Psychiatric Hospital, Moscow, 1988. Photographer: Pavel Krivtsov
Image source: Star_Ship_55
#20 Not Sure What Was Going On Here
Image source: jasonvoorhees2582
#21 Old Photo Of (Twins? Sisters?) With One Scratched Out. Cant Help But Wonder At The Context – Likely Late 1800’s Early 1900’s
Image source: gwynsbooty
#22 The Catholic Church With The Nazi Third Reich
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#23 Ted Bundy With Carol Bartholomew As He Helped With The Dishes After A Birthday Party, 1975
Image source: JankCranky
#24 The Mask Worn By Edward Paisnel, The Notorious ‘Beast Of Jersey’ When Attacking His Victims, C 1957
Image source: MissNightTerrors
#25 Still From British Movie “First Men On The Moon” From 1919. Now A Lost Film
Image source: Feiruzz
#26 She Waits For The Second Coming
Image source: PleasantChaos0_0
#27 Bizarre Old School Disney Cosumes
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#28 My Grandpa And His Sister 1946
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#29 Three French Circus Performers From Around 1900-1930
Image source: Star_Ship_55
#30 Austro-Hungarian Sailors Wearing Anti-Flash Protection Gear, Designed To Protect The Wearer From Short-Duration Flame Exposure And Heat, 1916
Image source: Star_Ship_55
#31 The Original Cast Of J.b. Priestley’s 1939 Play “Johnson Over Jordan”. It Is About A Dead Man Looking Over His Life From Limbo, And Requires The Cast To Wear Elaborate Masks
Image source: Star_Ship_55
#32 Go To Sleep….if You Can
Image source: Pleasant-Medicine739
#33 Mole People?
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#34 Reminds Me Of The Shining… 1910s
Image source: MissNightTerrors
#35 “Man Shrouded In A Cloak Standing On A Tiled Floor” From The Clonbrock Collection Circa 1890
Image source: Hermitically
#36 Dressed As The Michelin Man, Pre -1920s
Image source: MissNightTerrors
#37 A Trio Of Contortionists, London 1894
Image source: Star_Ship_55
#38 Old Halloween Photo
Image source: gghostwiththemost
#39 “Peregrinación” By Graciela Iturbide. Chalma, 1984
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#40 Department Store Mannequins Wearing Disney Character Costumes, 1937
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