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43 Reasons Why The Past Is Creepy, As Shared By This Online Group
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
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#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)
#3
Children After Working In The Mine
#4
Department Store Wax Mannequins Melting During A Heatwave In 1929
#5
So My Aunt Casually Tells Me Today That She Once Found A Ton Of Skeletons In Her Garden
#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
#7
A Train Shredded After A Boiler Explosion - There's Something About This Image I Find Weirdly Unsettling
#8
Anti-Electricity Propaganda From 1900
Andy Acceber 5 years ago
The horror! I feel like this kind of nonsense is what I hear about 5G and vaccines today.
#9
Halloween Costumes From The 1930s
Andy Acceber 5 years ago
I'm not sure what country this is in, but the 30's were an impoverished time for most of the world. Seems weird to spend money on making Halloween costumes. Maybe this was for a play?
#10
Oldest Surviving Diving Suit, 18th Century
#11
Tim Curry On The Set Of 'It' (1990)
#12
A Full-Faced Swimming Mask Designed To Protect Women's Skin From The Sun In The 1920s
#13
It Drinks
#14
Melted Wax Figures Rescued From The 1925 Fire At Madam Tussaud's London Museum
#15
Washing A Crucifix, 1938
#16
A 16th Century Plague Doctors Mask
#17
A Drunken Man In Top Hat And Tails Clings To A Lamp-Post, London, 1934. Photo By Bill Brandt
#18
Photo Of Two Women With Super Long Hair
Andy Acceber 5 years ago
Long hair, long dresses, long plant, long window shutters -- I'm sensing a theme here.
#19
Linda Blair's Makeup Tests For "The Exorcist" (1973)
Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago
They really put her through a lot, almost broke her spine in one of the thrashing around scenes.
#20
Some Paper Mache Heads From The First World War
#21
Old Doll Factory
BetweenTheCracks 5 years ago
Looks like somebody tried. But they failed. They failed.......
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Verena Abt 5 years ago
I try to look at it this way: Dolls make little girls (and boys) happy. So this is not creepy. You need to make them somehow.
Larson Tyrell 2 years ago
There is nothing I wish I could unsee more. And I saw my great grandmother naked as a kid.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
One of the creepiest places I've ever been was the Doll Museum in Bellevue, WA. We had my nieces' 7th birthday party there & I had nightmares for weeks (I was in my 40s)
Carole Reid 5 years ago
Old factory that made new dolls. Now there is "The Old Dolls Home" in The Bob Hope movie, "The Lemon Drop Kid".
#22
Human Teeth Found In The Wall Of A Building Formerly Used By A Dentist In The Early 1900s
#23
1952 U.S. Advertisement For Van Camp's Pork & Beans
#24
A Woman In The Wild West Wearing A Bonnet And A Mask Designed To Protect Skin From Sun Damage
#25
Meeting Of The Mickey Mouse Club In The 1930's
#26
17th Century Metal Mask That Was Used To Restrain Individuals Who Were Considered To Be Insane
#27
‘Hells Cafe’ In Paris 1920s
#28
Humpty Dumpty 1939
#29
Photograph Of A Victorian Baby Held By Their Mother
Andy Acceber 5 years ago
I love these. It was hard for the baby to sit still long enough for a photo to be captured, so lots of these old baby photos have the mothers or nannies in them pretending to be furniture.
#30
The Original Ronald Mcdonald, 1963
#31
A Clean-Cut Charles Manson On His Wedding Day In 1955
#32
The Moon From The French 1902 Movie "A Trip To The Moon"
Manndy Fisher 5 years ago
Ahh so that is inspiration for "Tonight, Tonight" video of Smashing Pumpkins!
#33
A Happy Clown From The Early 1900s
#34
Goldilocks And The Three Bears, 1908
Andy Acceber 5 years ago
I take it the costumer had never seen a bear nor any photos of bears.
#35
Freezing Off Freckles Procedure In 1930s
#36
Glurpo, The World's Only Underwater Clown
#37
My Grandfather And His Sister
#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
#39
Behind-The-Scenes Of Teletubbies' In The Late-90s
#40
Children Salute The American Flag In Front Of The Morgan Hill School (California), 1930s
#41
Three Girls In Masked Costumes At Halloween Festivities In College Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio In 1929
#42
He's Probably A Good Boy But Sure Looks Odd
#43
1938 - Trays Of Artificial Eyes
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s. vitkovitsky 5 years ago
I guess the average age of a BP reader would make the 1990s ' the old days' ...
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago (edited)
When a post is new, sometimes they tweak pictures, captions and post title, and I have seen a couple of times where entries were removed entirely (like here, the display of fake eyes was originally a colour pic). The worst is when they change a pic or title and make your already-posted comment look like you are an absolute drongo who didn't read a dot before commenting, had that happen too lol😅
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𝔓𝔲𝔯𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔓𝔞𝔫𝔡𝔞ℜ𝔞𝔢N 5 years ago
And to think, SOMEDAY (sooner than later) 'we' will find OUR photos being considered "creepy" and "outdated."
Guy MacGregor 5 years ago
None of this explain the thread plot "Why the past is creepy". Sill don't know why.
Rice and beans 🤠 5 years ago
When I went on holiday I found an abandoned hotel, it was called mas de canicatti
Nikole 5 years ago
Or don't click on something that has "creepy" in the title if you're going to be a big baby about it.
Load More Replies... s. vitkovitsky 5 years ago
I guess the average age of a BP reader would make the 1990s ' the old days' ...
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago (edited)
When a post is new, sometimes they tweak pictures, captions and post title, and I have seen a couple of times where entries were removed entirely (like here, the display of fake eyes was originally a colour pic). The worst is when they change a pic or title and make your already-posted comment look like you are an absolute drongo who didn't read a dot before commenting, had that happen too lol😅
Load More Replies... 𝔓𝔲𝔯𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔓𝔞𝔫𝔡𝔞ℜ𝔞𝔢N 5 years ago
And to think, SOMEDAY (sooner than later) 'we' will find OUR photos being considered "creepy" and "outdated."
Guy MacGregor 5 years ago
None of this explain the thread plot "Why the past is creepy". Sill don't know why.
Rice and beans 🤠 5 years ago
When I went on holiday I found an abandoned hotel, it was called mas de canicatti
Nikole 5 years ago
Or don't click on something that has "creepy" in the title if you're going to be a big baby about it.
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