43 Reasons Why The Past Is Creepy, As Shared By This Online Group

Stephanie IV 4 years ago

Where does racism come from? Is it the fear of „other - might - be - a - threat“? Is it instilled into us? What is it? And there’s no place on earth without it. Unsettling.

11points

CatWoman312 4 years ago

Using a cross to express their hatred for someone simply because they’re born a different skin tone. How Christian of them! Wait until they find out Jesus wasn’t white

43points

karl briggs 4 years ago

I often forget how recent things like this were, makes me very sad!

19points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

This wasn't that long ago. Lots of people today were alive when this was regularly happening.

17points

Mazer 4 years ago (edited)

MISSISSIPPI CLARION LEDGER | 1:22 pm EDT September 11, 2019 HATTIESBURG, Miss. – A man who pleaded guilty to burning a cross outside the home of a black family in Mississippi was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years in federal prison. Add to that - Domestic terrorism has never stopped being an issue in the USA, it has just taken different forms and is called different things

14points

jevais 4 years ago

Trump has set back the USA 70 years. It seems there are more racist than before he was elected! Afro-Americans who were brought to the states as slaves have been so maltreated and it continues with their descendents. Land of the braves, land of the free, all men are equal, what a big joke!!!

12points

AndersM 4 years ago

And these days Asians are getting killed because idiot-mask-hating-racists think they are responsible for the covid epidemic...

11points

Patricia Kasprowski 4 years ago

It's sad. Was a little white girl of 12 at the time. Marched in the 60s for Civil Rights and the end the Vietnam war. We were so idealistic, thought we could cure all the ills and hate in this world within 10 years. 71 years later we still hope, but without the same certainty we had in those so driven days. We are still out there, trying to keep the faith, but we're getting old, easily exhausted and less mobile -- need the younger generation to pick up the torch and carry on. Go in peace.

6points

peruchipac 4 years ago

This photo should be #1 for disturbing. So sad then and that now, it's still happening.

3points

Josy Bannon 4 years ago

How do you explain this to your kid. Heartbreaking

2points

With so many photos being shared across the internet every day, it’s easy to take photography for granted and harder to remember just how far the technique has come. Each new smartphone boasts another million pixels and multiple lenses to capture life in stunning detail. Being able to fit all this technology in your pocket makes a stark difference from the clunky contraptions of old.

Not to mention, images are captured almost instantaneously now. Whilst Polaroid cameras first became famous due to their ability to print an image and develop it in under a minute, this is nothing compared to the split second that it takes a microprocessor to do the same digitally.

#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)

Final score:

368points

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Ozacoter 4 years ago

We are a horrible species

622points

Chich 4 years ago

We also wiped out giant sloths, possibly mastodons and other large mammals when we first came to the americas, really anywhere we've spread to. It is a sad and long tradition.

57points

DKS 001 4 years ago

we even try to make ourselves extinct in many different ways

21points

Stephanie Keith 4 years ago

Humanity is doomed. Because we refuse to value the life of other's. It's an all about me and mine kind of attitude. We're supposed to care about other people's welfare. That's literally what humanity is about. But no amount of out crying and trying to get people to see and do the right thing. Will ever change anything because there's just evil people here. Stubborn, selfish, evil people. It's heartbreaking and I truly cannot take it anymore. I'm far from suicidal, but I truly don't want to be here anymore. With the way things are and how some people are. I just want to be away from it.

14points

Kusuo saiki 4 years ago

All aboard the sad train one way ticket to mars i managed to make a colony so now I’m bringing the people who no longer believe in our species to mars

10points

iblowsheep 4 years ago

i strongly believe our biggest atrocities are yet to come.

9points

Porch Santa 4 years ago

We are A plague or virus

8points

Cindy M 4 years ago

White men killed all of these in order to kill off the Native Americans.

6points

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Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago

We are proof that there is no god.

6points

Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago

Yes, we are.

6points

Autumn 4 years ago

Indeed

6points

Sean Harrison 4 years ago

These things weren't done because mankind is horrible, they were done because the main motive of our species is profit. We venerate money above all else.

5points

Tee Witt 4 years ago

They were intentionally wiped out so the Native Americans would have no food. The gained their freedom from Britain to do this and many other horrid things to the NA's

4points

Janet C 4 years ago

We really are. Nature would do well to just wipe us off the planet.

3points

Caro Caro 4 years ago

I agree. We are wasteful, hateful, greedy buggers. Thank God not all of us are that bad but jeees, I'm sometimes ashamed of being a human being.

3points

Lauren Lee 4 years ago

Mankind has mismanaged everything they’ve touched on earth

2points

Judy Watson 4 years ago

I couldn't agree more.. we are a deadly virus to the earth and all other creatures.:(

1point

Debbra W 4 years ago

At least on this planet...

1point

Jesus Christ 4 years ago

i wish a giant comet hadn't hit the earth and killed the dinos and instead all animals evolved happily without our stupid species(humans)

1point

stoopid panda 4 years ago

to be specific it's white people who also killed native americans like this

1point

Janet C 3 years ago

Yes, we are. Nature would do well to wipe us entirely off the planet.

0points

BabyBooby 4 years ago

And to think God actually made a HUMAN in His image...the animals must shake their heads

0points

jevais 4 years ago

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Jubum 4 years ago

disgusting is a far too harmless word for it.

33points

CatWoman312 4 years ago

Trophy hunters are psychopaths

21points

Rob Woodman 4 years ago

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Brandy Grote 4 years ago

Wiping out bison was key to eradicating Indians, because we couldn't "afford" to keep the treaties.

21points

Raven Sheridan 4 years ago

They did it in an effort to wipe out the Native American tribes. Humans suck!

21points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

Not necessarily. The main reasons were that bisons interfered with the train construction, they competed with cows and mostly the leather was really liked for its strenght.

7points

StrawberryParfait 4 years ago

We deserve to go extinct. Mother Nature is doing a great job of ridding herself of our parasitic human species, and I suspect she has a few more tricks up her sleeve.

19points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

Its cruel and i dont want my friends and family to die. But we deserve a much more lethal pandemic.

2points

Katinka Min 4 years ago

I always laugh when people bemoan the 'good old times'. We've always been sick savages. Occasionally some great and decent people come along, but as a whole we are selfish and destructive scum.

15points

Vorknkx 4 years ago

Humanity has always struggled with the concept of finite resources.

13points

Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago

A similar thing was done in Canada so they could starve indigenous groups into signing away their land so the government could build their railway across the country. They knew they were finite, they just wanted to make them more finite.

9points

urszulat 4 years ago

Tragic.

8points

Jo Choto 4 years ago

Humanity - the species that destroys every part of nature it touches.

5points

Of course, technology is built on the imagination and creativity of previous generations. Without their innovation, we’d never be able to enjoy all the fun that photography brings us today. And whilst the digital format is now most common, we owe everything to analog photography and film.

With only improvements in the lenses, film, and capturing process, the methods behind it remained unchanged for a few generations. It’s what makes the vintage photos of the past look so vivid and real, even if “vintage” has become associated with aesthetic qualities nowadays.

#3

Children After Working In The Mine

Final score:

353points

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Chich 4 years ago

And politicians fought against child labour laws. Claimed it would ruin the economy. Fat bastards.

376points

CatWoman312 4 years ago

They’d bring slavery back if they could. We are all slaves to the dollar as it is

71points

Sky Render 4 years ago

No matter the era, rich old men are a problem. We can only break the cycle by refusing to grant them any power, but to do that we have to stop letting money talk.

25points

Roxy Eastland 4 years ago

I'm old enough (in the UK) to remember when a minimum wage was going to ruin the economy and even when equal pay for equal work for men and women was going to ruin the economy. Strange how none of these came to pass, eh.

24points

GoddessOdd 4 years ago

Much as conservatives fight tooth and nail to avoid raising the minimum wage... because it will ruin the economy.

13points

Nikki Sevven 4 years ago

Just like they're fighting now against increasing the minimum wage. Every problem the human race has had boils down to things being treated like people and people being treated like things.

4points

Heather March 4 years ago

They say the same about a livable minimum wage

3points

Tee Witt 4 years ago

Not all mine owners were bad. The history of the Fitzwilliam Family, Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire, is really interesting. Their miners were happy, did not wish to strike, if they were killed in the mine the widows received a small pension, were not left to starve. The Coal Board managed to end their mines and the family in the end.

2points

Stephanie IV 4 years ago

They’re still doing that.

1point

Judith Lowe 3 years ago

I'm guessing this is from the Soviet Union.

0points

Florence Hastings 4 years ago

That is always their reason for any change that affects their profits negativly.

0points

Cydney Golden 4 years ago

Now they are content to let children get covid for "freedom."

0points

DEvelyn twocents Henderson 4 years ago

nothing new under the sun sadly

0points

Kelli Lindsay 4 years ago

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Wilf 4 years ago

Child labour laws: opposed by Conservatives.... 5 day working week: Opposed by Conservatives.... Statutory paid holiday: opposed by conservatives... Statutory unemployment insurance: opposed by conservatives.... National Health Service: opposed by Conservatives... Statutory minimum wage: opposed by Conservatives.... Spot a pattern there?

49points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Yes, it's them bloody democrats that are constantly putting our economy at risk. /Sarcasm: off.

11points

Vorknkx 4 years ago

Modern-day conservatives would probably say that not leting children work in coal mines is "communism".

17points

Karin Jansen 4 years ago

"The state is trying to dictate I can't force my kids to work in the mines. I thought this was a free county? God damn commies!"

16points

CP 4 years ago

They would then add that kids today are weak because of child labor laws.

1point

GoddessOdd 4 years ago

No commie socialist is going to tell me what I can and can't do with my own damn kids! This is a free country!

0points

Zena Marsh 4 years ago

My own great grandfather was a miner at 12, in Wales.

17points

Starlee87 4 years ago

How did he pass away??

0points

Midge biscuit 4 years ago

Sadly it still happens in India with children being used to mine for mica. Absolutely horrible.

15points

Rob Woodman 4 years ago

And the Congo, and China, etc etc...but hey, cheap iPhones and fancy lithium ion batteries!

8points

Lenka Smetanová 4 years ago

the author of this photo is most likely Lewis Hine. He actually traveled across the US and take photos of children at factories. The factories was afraid of him taking those photos and try to block him to enter, which is why he masked himself as someone else and made hiden acameras in his clothes to be still able to take those photos. Mainly because of his hard work the change of child labor change and those children was reelased from this hard work at factories and mines.

8points

Rob Woodman 4 years ago

Yes. It’s a crop of a larger image from a PA mine. https://www.loc.gov/resource/nclc.01131/

2points

Daniel R. 4 years ago

Robbed of their childhoods.

5points

Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago

and their health

3points

HardTruths 4 years ago

Debt and material wants are the new invisible chains of modern slavery. And so many fellow human beings enslaved in thought, yet think they are free. Truly, these must be the genius of the modern slave masters

3points

Isabela Ivan 4 years ago

God...the natural light striking their faces...

2points

Sherry Harvey 4 years ago

Probably every one of them died young of lung disease.

1point

#4

Department Store Wax Mannequins Melting During A Heatwave In 1929

Final score:

330points

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Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago

more unattainable beauty standards.

340points

whalebox 4 years ago

You say "unattainable", but when I slouch and forget to correct my posture I am a spitting image of the one of the right, lol

34points

Linus Nilsson 4 years ago

Not so unattainable, the one on the right looks a bit like a poster I saw a couple of years back, warning about the hazards of office-work.

6points

Loretta David 3 years ago

Ha!

0points

Daria B 4 years ago

Mood

7points

Starlee87 4 years ago

Those mannequins look so realistic compared to the ones we have now

3points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Stylin'! /s

3points

Steve Fischer 4 years ago

Make-up by WaxFactor

2points

Xottel 4 years ago

I sense medieval paintings here

1point

Mama Penguin 4 years ago

Nightmare inducing mannequins. Yay...

1point

JaZzna 4 years ago

Regular Friday night

1point

Sam rice 4 years ago

That's haunting

1point

Stephen Salvoni 3 years ago

Guess which one ate the shrooms.

0points

Whilst we can make high-quality images at the touch of a button, there’s nothing quite like the intangible quality that analog brings. Maybe digital is just too clean and realistic, and that’s why almost all camera apps will have a number of filters to bring a little character to our shots.

There are even apps dedicated to replicating analog cameras of the past, with Huji Cam being a popular one in recent years. It’s strange to think that even with all the photo capabilities we have, the style of photos from a cheap, disposable camera is still something we lust for.

#5

So My Aunt Casually Tells Me Today That She Once Found A Ton Of Skeletons In Her Garden

Final score:

319points

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Ozacoter 4 years ago (edited)

My grandma found a medieval arabian cementery in her orange field. It was very cool but at fist very scary for her

165points

Tapio Magnussen 4 years ago

What about taste of those oranges?

27points

Night Owl 4 years ago

Were those blood oranges?

19points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

It definitely sounds like a thing that could happen in Spain.

4points

We_Are_Watching_You 3 years ago

fist?

0points

Nadja Lambacher 4 years ago

From OP : "Yeah it was a plague pit. In a small village in Norfolk England. They took one and left all the others there."

58points

JessG 4 years ago

Thank you. I wish I could give you all the votes

10points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Please tell me your aunt called the authorities!

17points

Starlee87 4 years ago

Itd be nice if they could respond back on here so we would know.

2points

CD Mills 4 years ago

How strange and unsettling. I wonder if there was an old cemetery there or if it was a murder scene?

6points

Elizabeth Molloy 4 years ago

There are lots of plague pits all over the UK.

4points

Evil Little Thing 4 years ago

And she dug them up and did what with them? Because they're probably evidence of crimes.

4points

Rob Woodman 4 years ago

Why assume crimes?

2points

Hey Ho neighbours 4 years ago

Because of the huge amount of dead bodies all in one place, not in any coffins, with no stones or markings, all found in someone's back garden, perhaps??! I mean that's not a normal thing to do....

2points

Judy Steelman 4 years ago

Oh my God

3points

RandomX123 4 years ago

Reminds me of a poem, "After Blenheim", I once read

3points

Sasha Kuleshov 4 years ago

Context?

2points

Suzy the observer 4 years ago

#Kathy Reich to the rescue!

2points

#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

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

Final score:

318points

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Monty Is Fiennes 4 years ago

So sad...

265points

Bobby Stahr 4 years ago

indeed

6points

Aidan Pite 4 years ago

My GF has schizophrenia. It's hard to live with. She almost didn't survive it. She'd be completely screwed if she'd been born before the invention of clozapine.

3points

Tee Witt 4 years ago

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Brandy Grote 4 years ago

You understand why when you learn about women in insane asylums.

47points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

It doesn't take a genius to guess what's going on.

13points

Silre 4 years ago

I heard about this on a podcast. Her husband just dropped her off there and left her.

29points

Suzy the observer 4 years ago

Men had life or death power over their wives and daughters. Some still do not accept our freedom.

31points

space_cat 4 years ago

that’s so heartbreaking 💔

29points

Rue Dragon 4 years ago

Poor lady, this breaks my heart!

13points

Judy Steelman 4 years ago

Very very disturbing. Sad

10points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

Poor lady...

7points

Draga Millani 4 years ago

And she was kept locked up in that asylum for almost 15 years until she passed :-'''(

6points

CV Vir 4 years ago

One of my kids has early-onset schizophrenia; used to write this sort of thing (endlessly writing one phrase) before we had a useful diagnosis and meds.

4points

Happiness is Hippo 4 years ago

That’s such a shame, I’m so sorry.

1point

Jo Choto 4 years ago

Can't imagine her agony.

4points

When photography was first created in the early-19th century, the pioneers behind it could never have imagined that people would want their pictures to look slightly worse. It was difficult enough to even take clear photos in the beginning with cameras requiring to be mounted on a frame and subjects having to remain perfectly still.

The results were far from perfect. Not to mention, the equipment needed to do it was expensive and temperamental to use — best left in the hands of professionals.

#7

A Train Shredded After A Boiler Explosion - There's Something About This Image I Find Weirdly Unsettling

Final score:

317points

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Ozacoter 4 years ago

Cthulhu train

291points

Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

Cthulhu knows how to travel in style!

20points

Sam Chilton 4 years ago

Cthulchoo-choo

8points

Sky Render 4 years ago

Looks like it needs a good suplex.

5points

Virgil Blue 4 years ago

Chtonic the Chtankengine.

3points

Nancy Higginson 4 years ago

Get out of my brain!

2points

Bad Alchemy 4 years ago

Yes! That's exactly what I thought.

2points

Norah Reilly Premium 4 years ago

Designed by H.P. Lovecraft, no doubt.

1point

Ashlee King 4 years ago

Took the words right out of my mouth lol

1point

Hugo Hackenbush 4 years ago

That's not shredded. Those are the pipes in the boilers that converted water to steam.

29points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

"Weirdly Unsettling?" Naw. It would be weird if you weren't unsettled.

10points

Rob Woodman 4 years ago

Why? It’s fascinating. I just spent half an hour reading about what happens and how/why...

2points

NsG 4 years ago

It's the fact that Cthulu was hiding on the boiler plate...

7points

J.Allan 4 years ago

Not shedded. These are the boiler tubes that have been blown out when it exploded

4points

Rebecca Trinkner 4 years ago

It's terrible and I hope no one got hurt or died, but it is a cool picture.

2points

Queen Mab 4 years ago

I've seen this photo before and it's really creepy.

2points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

It looks like it has a head full of tentacles.

2points

A. Jones 4 years ago

All aboard the demon train!

2points

Demongrrrrl Premium 4 years ago

Woo hoo hoo!

1point

NOLAHusker 4 years ago

Those are boiler tubes. Not shredded metal.

1point

#8

Anti-Electricity Propaganda From 1900

Final score:

311points

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Andy Acceber 4 years ago

The horror! I feel like this kind of nonsense is what I hear about 5G and vaccines today.

476points

Sky Render 4 years ago

It absolutely is. Fear and ignorance has been weaponized since the birth of society itself.

61points

Bob Belcher 4 years ago

Well to put it in some better context, the original lines Edison had installed were DC line and not SC lines. Several people were killed just walking down the sidewalks when a DC current from a line underground would kill them. So I understand why this was made. Thank Tesla for AC.

13points

Chris Wade 4 years ago

YES

11points

Rissie 4 years ago

Electricity used to be delivered within the home in wires without insulation. We learned quickly. People were right to fear it to some extent.

8points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

Bill Gates will use electricity to control our minds with the microchips in vaccines through 5G!!!! /s

2points

Bhaskar Reddy Devarapalli 4 years ago

Or the nonsense on everything else like that electric cars, wind turbines etc. people are f*****g scared of change and people who get benefit from sticking with old ways find it easy to scare these idiots.

1point

Mazer 4 years ago

Except there is a good reason for all the concern regarding electricity back then snd 5G now… People are injured or killed by electricity every year. Statistics tell us that there are over 400 electrocutions and over 4000 non-fatal injuries every year in the United States. That is more than one death each day of the week across the country. Regarding 5G - here is a good, well written article by scientist on the matter (5G is not benign https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820018/

1point

MSYBK 4 years ago

@Andy Acceber, we didn't evolve much, you know that...

0points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

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Firkin Dirkin 4 years ago

This header is misleading. This was actually PRO-SAFETY propaganda about the electricity suppliers habot of stringing thousands of bare live wires above city streets. There were no regulations or safety laws and many people were injured and killed. Fires and explosions were commonplace. Look at any old photo and see the wires. One worker got killed stringing wires and his body hung there for days because no one could figure who owned which wires to cut off the power.

11points

Jamma 4 years ago

It is a bit more complicated than that. The worker's death was used by one company to try to demonize electricity to benefit their own bottom line. The book "The Last Days of Night" is very informative. So, this is not just an innocent "pro-safety" illustration - it is propaganda.

2points

CatWoman312 4 years ago

Imagine if those people time traveled to our time!

9points

Manndy Fisher 4 years ago

Yeah, bad electricity, BAD!!! ;D

6points

Madzdad the bard 4 years ago

Edison actually electrocuted and elephant to demonstrate the supposed dangers of AC current as he was an advocate of DC.

5points

Jamma 4 years ago

They electrocuted horses and dogs, too, in front of live audiences. Just to (falsely) show that their competitor's current was extremely dangerous and keep all of the business for his own company.

4points

Harry Lui 4 years ago

DC is actually more dangerous.

0points

Nia Loves Art 4 years ago

Edison’s involvement/knowledge of that is exaggerated. His company did film it, but he didn’t have a personal role in it.

-2points

Sam Chilton 4 years ago

Things are changing and we don't like it because we don't understand!

4points

VulcansAreSexy 4 years ago

I want to know the story behind how that guy got tangled in those wires

1point

John Otruba 4 years ago

Is this pro Edison or pro Tesla?

1point

Jo87 4 years ago

Why did they have to get the horse involved 😭

1point

Helenium 4 years ago

From the men that thought trains would worry cattle and cause women to miscarry.

1point

#9

Halloween Costumes From The 1930s

Final score:

302points

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Andy Acceber 4 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?

62points

Ivana 4 years ago

They are made out of paper mache. Could have had a local who made all of them or may be it was a way to advertise them. they actually are not that hard to make. I have made them before. Pretty cheap to do. Some of them are really impressive but some of them would be pretty easy to do yourself. I made my first one in Sunday School where some older ladies at the church helped us make different animal heads. There is a chance they made them themselves.

47points

LazyPanda 4 years ago

Impoverished people do still find ways to have fun...and are often brilliantly resourceful

45points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

It looks like they just used papier-mâché to do it themselves.

12points

Tiana Randazzo 4 years ago

I agree, but even though most of the world was impoverished the rich still existed. They always have a good time. When you google "1930s Halloween costumes" this image comes up a lot. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/gallery/halloween-costumes-1930s-pictures-vintage-11381083

10points

Charlie 4 years ago

Beside the other comments, Halloween costumes could be inherited by other children. They didn't buy new, or make new things every year. Sewing was a rather basic skill at that time.

5points

John Otruba 4 years ago

Probably from wealthy side of town. Besides the costumes the price of the picture being taken! Poor kids seldom, if ever, tasted candy.

3points

Andrea Careless 4 years ago

Papier-mâché

3points

sharron lynn parsons 4 years ago

Perhaps this was done, to lift their spirits !!!

1point

Vivian Orr 4 years ago (edited)

Nope. It’s costumes. I’ve seen lots of these old pic from both my parents youths. Some were pretty creepy looking. And then there’s ol’ Mickey Mouse. Saw one of those masks in a Disney museum.

1point

Agatha Morley 3 years ago

They didn't spend money. These were papier-mache halloween masks they made at home

0points

Lea S. 3 years ago

Do you have anything to support this? I've read a lot about the history of Halloween and this is exactly what the books say about the 30s.

0points

Jade Dazy 4 years ago

They look like Paper Mache which would be pretty cheap.

0points

Jon S. 4 years ago

There was a small boom in the late 30s. Most of the world got out of the depression just in time for the 2nd world war.

0points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Yep, I get that the heads are paper maché. Look at the costume of the kid in the center though. That definitely isn't usual day-to-day wear.

-1point

Amina Hays 4 years ago

Well, I didn't need to sleep tonight.

11points

alwaysMispelled 4 years ago

This is what nightmares are made of

6points

Chich 4 years ago

Freaky but well done

5points

Night Owl 4 years ago

Creepy

4points

Rebecca Trinkner 4 years ago

HEY! I've totally had this pic as my FB cover photo before! Love this pic.

3points

Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 4 years ago

AHS Cult!

2points

and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago

KILL IT NOW KILL IT QUICK KILL IT

1point

Hannah Edwards 4 years ago

My favourite is the moustachioed gentleman on the far right.

1point

Hilary Mol 4 years ago

And on the far right is the Pringles man trying to blend in.

1point

However, as the technology to capture photos improved and became more readily available, the costs went down accordingly. People could afford to sit for their portrait in front of a camera rather than a painter. This might explain why people posing for their pictures look so stiff and unsmiling in the earliest portrait photography. Although, there’s another reason why this could be, and it’s a bit more horrifying.

#10

Oldest Surviving Diving Suit, 18th Century

Final score:

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Eric Felton 4 years ago

Patrick from Spongebob..

146points

IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago

On meths.

18points

~hUmMuS vIbEs~ 4 years ago

Damn Patrick's seen some s**t.

10points

Sarah Tate 4 years ago

After he was washed up on the beach and died from dehydration!

3points

Jazzy Mc. Jaz 4 years ago

he sat in the sun too long. 😂

2points

Triv 4 years ago

I'm thinking Leatherface's next psychotic break.

1point

Vicky Stardust 4 years ago

Can be found in a museum in Northern Finland. Very weird looking though.

14points

Lillukka79 3 years ago

In Raahe. There's also a hilarious film there of them building a replica and testing it in the sea.

0points

My O My 4 years ago

Just imagine how much courage it takes to go divin in this

12points

mcborge1 4 years ago

So this is what Mr Blobby got up to on the weekends, lol. Mr-blobby-...87c6d2.jpg

11points

Seán Baron Premium 4 years ago

Looks like Mr Blobby's S&M suit.

10points

Louise B 4 years ago

It's still not as creepy as regular Mr Blobby tbh.

2points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

They recovered him from the wreck of the USS Dickerson like this. He was still angry and wanted to kill Barney.

2points

Dan Buczynski 4 years ago

It's a no for me, dawg

8points

Jo Choto 4 years ago

You WILL have a thigh gap.

6points

Susan Mercurio 4 years ago

You would have to be extremely brave to go down in one of those.

5points

Cecilia Cahill 4 years ago

Is it just me or does this look like dr nefario from despicable me?

4points

Riley Quinn 4 years ago

Oh, yeah. That sure looks safe.

3points

Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 4 years ago

Suicide suit

2points

#11

Tim Curry On The Set Of 'It' (1990)

Final score:

290points

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Inga Paškevičiūtė 4 years ago

Mood

144points

RandomX123 4 years ago

"It" probably did for someone with Bovinophobia

8points

Jennie-Lind Normand 4 years ago

Tim Curry is terrified of clowns and refused to see himself in full costume (I'm guessing he also never saw the movie)

21points

Helen Davies 4 years ago

Creep master... I just rewatched Rocky Horror Picture Show. He's an amazing actor.

14points

GoddessOdd 4 years ago

It's hard to imagine that he'd still be recognizable as Tim Curry under the make up, but in this photo, he is.

11points

Riley Quinn 4 years ago

Reminds me of Krusty the Clown on his way to get his unemployment check.

9points

Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

Tim Curry can be menacing without makeup. He has such great expressions.

8points

Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago

So that's why he hid in the sewers! But there it is wet also...???

5points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

My favorite Pennywise

4points

Jessica Rabbit 4 years ago

The exact reason why i am terrified of clowns! Tim Curry is amazing <3

2points

Amanda Jade Mossman 4 years ago

love it

2points

#12

A Full-Faced Swimming Mask Designed To Protect Women's Skin From The Sun In The 1920s

Final score:

285points

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Chich 4 years ago

Still see people wearing these in Asia.

82points

Human #1,232,867 4 years ago

It's called facekini and there are plenty to buy in 2021, Just givet a try to this link: mzn.to/3E2S7lQ

12points

Otter 4 years ago

Except the modern ones have eye holes a person can see out of.

7points

CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago

Which part of Asia?

5points

Marie 4 years ago

Places they do that are for jellyfish sting protection on very specific beaches.

3points

Charu Verma 3 years ago

When you say Asia...specify the country....Asia is far more diverse than you can imagine.

1point

$copper-fractions avatar$

Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago

No we don't.

-1point

mcborge1 4 years ago

Never order your spidergirl mask from Wish.com. :D :D

20points

HardTruths 4 years ago

Why bother to have a smiling mouth cutout when the rest of the mask is just pure horror?!

13points

Manndy Fisher 4 years ago

Cover the face, f**k skin on other body parts.

10points

Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago

I guess the beauty standard was pale and oxygen deprived.

9points

Brandy Grote 4 years ago

Need these!

3points

Night Owl 4 years ago

You can get some from Asia

4points

DKS 001 4 years ago

"kiss me"

3points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

Can't you... Like... Use indoor pools?

2points

AndersM 4 years ago

And that's how S/M and bondage started.

2points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

Only the women's skin needed protection? Why do i have a feeling this was not for protection?

1point

In a strange trend throughout the 19th century, people wanted to capture the likeness of their loved ones no matter whether they were alive or not. After all, a photo will remain for long after they do (or rather, did). Known today as post-mortem photography, it was a new take on mourning portraits that were painted of the deceased in pre-photography times. It was also surprisingly popular.

#13

It Drinks

Final score:

285points

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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

I love old automatons, but they tend to be hella creepy

130points

Jane Alexander 4 years ago

There's a very early film of 'Teddy Bear s Picnic' that gets real dark real quick. -or did someone add that music later?

4points

Donna Beach 4 years ago

Probably because they eat souls of the innocent...or drink as the case is here.

1point

Caro Caro 4 years ago

This would give a kid nightmares.

1point

N G 4 years ago (edited)

Grab another beer panda bear, it looks like you've seen some s**t

30points

Jubum 4 years ago

Additional function: knows 20 different insults and vomit on your feet.

25points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

Additional additional functions: Can do stupid bets, wakes up in the morning in a stranger's bed with a thumping headache.

10points

Night Owl 4 years ago

It drinks...the pain away

15points

StrawberryParfait 4 years ago

Hard liquor, by the looks of it.

13points

Sage Gusano 4 years ago

Me too, bear...me too.

9points

Woltax 4 years ago

For many animals on this planet it‘s the only solution.😢

6points

Monty Is Fiennes 4 years ago

My Mum had one like this ... he was a pepsi cola monkey.... don't know what ever happened to him... if she had him now he would probs be worth a fortune...

6points

Ellie Rosser 4 years ago

That bear has seen some things.

4points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

Alcoholic depressed bear... The best toy ever !

3points

#14

Melted Wax Figures Rescued From The 1925 Fire At Madam Tussaud's London Museum

Final score:

284points

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Woltax 4 years ago

The headless guy on the right is po**ing zombie heads.🙊🙈 I apologise!🙏

220points

Francis 4 years ago

the other article on BP today "people are adding misleading titles to these pics, completly changing what our brain sees" :D

14points

~Canapé Kitten~ 4 years ago

Uh, pooping?

4points

TimesNewLogan 4 years ago

"Oh man, the things WE'VE seen!" "Seriously! Who the hell eats this much corn?!"

3points

Joshua HJN 4 years ago (edited)

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA HOW COULD I NOT THINK OF THAT?!!!! XD XD XDDDD

2points

vogonpoet 4 years ago

Don't apologise. That's what I saw too.

2points

Hilary Mol 4 years ago

One of the heads appears to be his, since there's a clear void above his shoulders...

1point

Kinslee the witches apprentice 4 years ago

Why did they censor pooping

1point

Melissa TO 4 years ago

That's a real talent.

1point

Markus Weiler 3 years ago

simply overeaten

0points

Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 4 years ago

no apology necessary, i thought the same thing lol

0points

Vivian Orr 4 years ago

😂😂😂

0points

Jazzy Mc. Jaz 4 years ago

no need to apologize.

0points

DKS 001 4 years ago

that would make one whacked out Halloween yard decoration

14points

N G 4 years ago

*Read the word WAX - before looking at the picture

8points

Rebecca Trinkner 4 years ago

Love that one head staring up looking very worried at the other mannequin's butt.

5points

mcborge1 4 years ago

The Doctor once again defeats the Nestene conciousness and it's army of mannequins.

4points

CatWoman312 4 years ago

Looks like a scene from a horror movie

4points

AndersM 4 years ago

Just wondering. We're they supposed to be lookalikes for those days famous people? Or just "people"?

3points

Auntriarch 4 years ago

Famous people 100 years ago. Probably would recognise them with their clothes on.

1point

R Carson 4 years ago

Creepy

3points

beastmachine. 4 years ago

Terror.

2points

Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago

No but for a second I thought this was real-

1point

#15

Washing A Crucifix, 1938

Final score:

279points

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NsG 4 years ago

Casually waterboarding Jesus. Not the strangest item in today's submissions

381points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

*Wineboarding.

27points

Anthony Nizza 4 years ago

And the woman on the right is smiling

13points

Dan Buczynski 4 years ago

hahahahaha i had the exact same reaction

6points

Jesus Christ 4 years ago

We all need a bath at one point :)

3points

Charlotte Leaver 4 years ago

TY! Laughed so hard at this.

2points

Lady Cadaver 4 years ago

Wahahahahaha! XD

0points

Elizabeth Mcdermott 4 years ago

Ha ha thanks for the giggle...I shall burn in hell. 😆

0points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

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Moxxidude 4 years ago

Waitress after The Last Supper giving Jesus “what for” when he had a party of 13 and didn’t tip.

17points

Kimberley McMillan 4 years ago

"Tell us where the grail is... " "Never!! wargleblarglewargleblarglewarrrrrgllleeeblarggggle"

13points

Khavrinen 4 years ago

"We haf ways of making you talk, Herr Jesus..."

8points

BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago

Is the runoff considered holy water?

12points

Caffeinated Hedgehog 4 years ago

No, because it turned into wine.

5points

Al Christensen 4 years ago

Let us spray.

7points

Steve Fischer 4 years ago

Nobody likes a dirty Jesus

7points

Joe Bloe 4 years ago

It's take a lot more than that to wash the crimes and blood away from Christianity (or the false practice of it).

3points

Riley Quinn 4 years ago

Sure, just toss it on the ground and hose it like car tires.

3points

Eppe 4 years ago

Hasn't that poor man been through enough? What with the crucifixion and two millenia of misinterpreting his words and all.

3points

Joshua HJN 4 years ago

Why can't they wash it properly????? And this scared me so much, I thought that was a real person until I searched up what was a crucifix

1point

Trying to capture someone’s best side is a challenge for all photographers, especially if your subject is dead. There were a few techniques used to make the deceased look less lifeless. One was making them appear as if they were sleeping, which is a better way to think of someone that has passed. They’d be carefully tucked into bed or laid against the armrest of a chair, as children often fall asleep.

#16

A 16th Century Plague Doctors Mask

Final score:

277points

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Ozacoter 4 years ago

Platypus

96points

RandomX123 4 years ago

*Proceeds to pick up a fedora lying below and put it on top of it*

21points

Caro Caro 4 years ago

Don't insult the platypus. btw I was camping with my parents and brothers in Aussie and we saw a platypus in the river, we saw it many times. Magical.

4points

Lindsey Judd-Bruder 4 years ago

Excuse me, that's DOCTOR Platypus to you.

2points

Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago

Plaguetypus

1point

Dog Fanatic 3 years ago

He's a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action

0points

Taibhse Sealgair 4 years ago

Meanwhile in 2021 we still can't get some people to wear a simple cloth mask over their noses.

23points

Jeremy Dao 4 years ago

Someone call a ducktor?

22points

CD Mills 4 years ago

They were trying at least.

8points

Mazer 4 years ago

In 17th-century Europe, the physicians who tended to plague victims wore a costume that has since taken on sinister overtones: they covered themselves head to toe and wore a mask with a long bird-like beak. The reason behind the beaked plague masks was a misconception about the very nature of the dangerous disease.

6points

BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago

IIRC, the mask's beak was filled with fragrant or medicinal herbs, to protect the doctor. I might be wrong about that, though.

12points

Soap 4 years ago

It reminds me of those pipe cleaner worms

6points

Tobias the Tiger 4 years ago

Worm on a string! I own a few of them.

2points

Riley Quinn 4 years ago

Even people in the 16th C knew to wear masks, albeit not quite N-95s, but still an attempt.

5points

Mystery Egg 4 years ago

This is where the term 'quack' came from. Although it has migrated to more of a slur against someone who is an bad doctor or a psychiatrist

5points

Jon S. 4 years ago

Quack comes from the dutch 'quacksalver' meaning "hawker of salve"

12points

F. H. 4 years ago (edited)

Don't spread such misinformation. Jon is right, though the word is kwakszalver.

7points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

Quack is an official term for essential oils salespeople.

5points

Draga Millani 4 years ago

and people complain about today's masks-

4points

imontape 4 years ago

Old School big bird from sesame street

3points

Ginny can draw 4 years ago

undrrated comment

0points

#17

A Drunken Man In Top Hat And Tails Clings To A Lamp-Post, London, 1934. Photo By Bill Brandt

Final score:

272points

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Beast 4 years ago

ok so not a dead body?

91points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

I'm just as disappointed as you.

14points

Firkin Dirkin 4 years ago

Note the thick smog... a killer mix of sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, car exhaust fumes, soot particles from coal burning.. the lamp is out so this was taken in daylight!

11points

Otter 4 years ago

Dr. Jeckyl's had a few too many....

11points

McSydney 4 years ago

He looks more like Mr. Hyde

4points

HelloHolaBonjourNiHao 4 years ago

It wasn't fog, it was smog when coal and wood combined with humidity. In three weeks killed about 1,00 people. Happened again in the 1950s

10points

urszulat 4 years ago

Drunk, or struggling to breathe because of the thick smog?

8points

January Tempis 4 years ago

Drunks dressed so much better back then!

6points

Sky Render 4 years ago

Reminds me of an old quote about how most people use statistics the way a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, not illumination.

5points

BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago

This is the first time I've seen an actual picture of this scenario, not drawn as a cartoon or done up as a skeevy ceramic piece.

3points

TimesNewLogan 4 years ago

"Wait a minute... you're not my wife! *HIC* But you're certainly 's slim 's her... *HIC*"

2points

Manndy Fisher 4 years ago

Nosferatu this you?;)

2points

#18

Photo Of Two Women With Super Long Hair

Final score:

262points

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Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Long hair, long dresses, long plant, long window shutters -- I'm sensing a theme here.

148points

Amy Dodds 4 years ago

It was also a long time ago

65points

von Funnyname 4 years ago

Plot twist: Last name "Short"

25points

Bobert Robertson 4 years ago

not to mention the long faces

13points

Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago

Long ppl

5points

Julia Jules Whitelegg 4 years ago

Long Island?

3points

Nandina 4 years ago

long faces

3points

Lauri Ceriani 4 years ago

Long faces...

1point

Judy Meade 4 years ago

Long faces...

1point

RandomHumanBean 4 years ago

short?

0points

Otter 4 years ago

Why do these women have extra hair and no arms???

20points

Janned 4 years ago

Maybe they have extremely long hair cause they don't have arms to cut it?

14points

Woltax 4 years ago

They look so sad.😢

17points

mcborge1 4 years ago

The one on the left looks like Neil from the Young ones. :D neil-6138b...b800df.gif

15points

Jamma 4 years ago

Neil, the bathroom's free! Unlike the country under Thatcher's regime!

3points

Jubum 4 years ago

looks like a part from a 90s grunge band music video.

8points

Sarcastic Cow 4 years ago

There are hairbrush and comb too! This is picture of proud long haired women :)

8points

Ellie Rosser 4 years ago

Long hair is creepy??

7points

Gwyndall 4 years ago

It may be the lack of visible arms that pushes it over into creepy.

1point

Jamma 4 years ago

Yeah, I feel like including this picture as creepy is a bit misogynistic and witch-hunty.

0points

Miranda Prince 4 years ago

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Mazer 4 years ago

Notable note - As a child, Gayle's mother kept her hair short. She was inspired to grow her hair to her knees after seeing a woman with similar hair in Nashville. When her hair increased in length by the late 1970s, Gayle's fan club also significantly increased. By the early 1990s, her hair had reached floor's length.

3points

Vicky Zar 4 years ago

The second ones hair is not that long. My hair is that long. And my Mother had hair like the left girl, when she was young.

3points

V Martinez 4 years ago

For years, I had hair down to just below my knees when I was a kid. Mom would not let me cut it. I hated it and it was hard for me to take care of. I took care of it myself more than her. I was finally like 15 when she gave in and let me get it cut. Long hair can be nice, but it's not for everyone.

6points

DKS 001 4 years ago

cousin It's sisters

3points

However, others preferred to see their beloved as they were before and attempted to mask the fact that they were no longer with them. This resulted in macabre photos of the living posing with the dead.

With varying degrees of success, the telltale signs were the lack of life in the eyes (which were jarringly pinned open) and the slouched posture of the subjects (if they weren’t frozen stiff by rigor-mortis). Other bizarre techniques included painting eyes onto the closed lids of the deceased or drawing them onto the film before it was processed.

#19

Linda Blair's Makeup Tests For "The Exorcist" (1973)

Final score:

258points

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Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago

They really put her through a lot, almost broke her spine in one of the thrashing around scenes.

96points

Rebecca Joan 4 years ago

The woman who played her mom actually broke her spine when she was yanked away from Her during a scene

7points

InfectedVoice 4 years ago

Her and Ellen Burstyn, who played her mum, got serious back injuries.

3points

Aldert Nagel 4 years ago

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Full Name 4 years ago (edited)

To this day I'm still haunted by that scene of her crab walking backwards down the staircase. You know that movie is creepy AF when almost 50yrs later it's still regarded as one of the scariest movies ever.

21points

Glynna Bowood 4 years ago

The book was totally scary as well- I had to put it down and walk away a few time, when reading it, just to get my nerve back!

1point

sylvanticx 4 years ago

Now she runs a shelter for dogs! I got my dog from her shelter. She's pretty nice.

18points

Frankie 4 years ago

I've met her! She was super nice

4points

Riley Quinn 4 years ago

Despite prolific acting work afterwards, she never broke free of this role.

2points

Joshua HJN 4 years ago

How did hey change her eyes tho?????

1point

Jesse 1 year ago

It's probably lighting

0points

Stephen Salvoni 3 years ago

Woman undergoing humorectomy after marriage

0points

Berkowitz Clöótíæ Decavalcante 3 years ago

Stick yer...... well, you know how it goes...lol

0points

Quinn Carrigan 4 years ago

creepy

0points

okpkpkp 4 years ago

she scared me

0points

#20

Some Paper Mache Heads From The First World War

Final score:

252points

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Robert T 4 years ago (edited)

This is only the tip of the iceberg. There were cardboard cutout tanks and all kinds used to create the illusion of a larger force presence than was actually there in both WWI and WWII.

156points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

Thats fascinating

25points

GoddessOdd 4 years ago

Civil War too... cannons that were really just logs, and marching the same small regiments around in a big circle to make it appear that hundreds of men were moving into position.

8points

Mazer 4 years ago

And some ruses were super effective

5points

Aileen 4 years ago

The Ghost Army is a good example. Inflatable tanks, sandbag soldiers, etc.

3points

Russell Bowman 4 years ago

The U.S. has an inflatable M1 tank that even has a heat signature to attract attention away from main battle placements. Still used in present day maneuvers.

3points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

You know... I think the 9th Airborne Division is a bit full of hot air.

1point

Lori Everard 3 years ago

No no, the tanks were "blow-up" mock tanks. Blow-up as in you blow-up floaties for a swimming pool.

0points

Patricia Kasprowski 4 years ago

This is true. God only knows how many lives this subterfuge actually saved. Brilliant strategy!

0points

Meg Needler 4 years ago

Yes. And have you heard of the Ghost Army in WWII? It’s true and it’s incredible!

-1point

ADHORTATOR 4 years ago

They were supposed to attract snipers

13points

R Carson 4 years ago

Pretty realistic.

8points

Hugh Willie Mungous 4 years ago

Check out Operation Fortitude. They did, indeed, having a cunning plan for deceiving the Germans - and it worked!

8points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Hey, if it worked, it worked.

8points

Clarf 4 years ago

These are impressive. They look really realistic.

5points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

"Capitaine ! Les germans keep le rising again ! What do je do ? -Juste continue le shooting, they will get tired before nous !"

2points

Jane W. 4 years ago

I wonder if anyone owns these now.

1point

dev mehta 4 years ago

"Sarge, are you SURE those are not real heads?"

1point

Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago

men who were never there

1point

#21

Old Doll Factory

Final score:

247points

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Soap 4 years ago

No.

179points

Clarf 4 years ago

Double no.

11points

KALSON HARRELL 4 years ago

NO

5points

Jo87 4 years ago

Rather this than the teeth wall ngl

4points

A_fangirling_Demigod_witch 3 years ago

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0points

Elizabeth Roberts 4 years ago

Exactly what I thought

0points

lakitha tolbert 4 years ago

You are correct!

0points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

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Daria B 4 years ago

This would look good as an album cover

15points

A 4 years ago

There is nothing more sinister and hauted than an old doll factory.

6points

Sam Chilton 4 years ago

A concentration camp is top of that list.

6points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

Mmm... Caramel Infants.

6points

• Lemønchu • 4 years ago

...hello... we've been waiting for you...

6points

Cecilia Cahill 4 years ago

This the neighbours bedroom from Toy Story?

5points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

It is awful... I love it !

4points

Starlee87 4 years ago

Lol wow

0points

Judi Michelle 4 years ago

KILL IT WITH FIRE

3points

BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago

Looks like somebody tried. But they failed. They failed.......

10points

Sarah Baldwin 4 years ago

All the nopes that ever noped in nopeland!

2points

Hollysmom 4 years ago

The place of nightmares

2points

Whilst the results of these photos are no doubt creepy to us nowadays, they provided a way for people of the time to process the grief of death. They served as a memorial and a reminder of the people that once were, something to be celebrated rather than spoken of in quiet tones. It also highlights how death was considered in the past.

#22

Human Teeth Found In The Wall Of A Building Formerly Used By A Dentist In The Early 1900s

Final score:

246points

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N G 4 years ago

"dentist fills cavity in wall"

389points

A. Jones 4 years ago

*online highfive*

55points

CD Mills 4 years ago

I groaned, but gave you an upvote.

15points

Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago

*snort laugh*

10points

Rebecca Trinkner 4 years ago

That's the best comment ever.

8points

Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago

I don't know whether to be unsettled by that mental image or laugh at that witty pun.

4points

Robert Bailey 4 years ago

with cavities

4points

Robert T 4 years ago (edited)

Am wondering if there was a disposal thing in the wall like the one used for razor blades that was on another thread on BP. There was no box and no way to empty it, they just filled the wall cavity.

38points

Vicky Zar 4 years ago

That's exactly what I thought!

10points

Zena Marsh 4 years ago

He cheated the Tooth Fairy!

14points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

The most calcium-rich building in town!

11points

Cindy M 4 years ago

This was found in Valdosta, Georgia. The building actually housed multiple dentists over the years and it seemed to be a practice that all of them shared...pull teeth and throw them into the wall.

10points

snipergun 4 years ago

That's actually good excuse for teeth in wall,similar to razor disposing holes in walls. I'd be worried if it was school or church for example.

5points

Gia SDP 4 years ago

I'm skeeved out.

4points

Stella.qirque 4 years ago

I don’t know wether I should upvote this or downvote this

2points

HardTruths 4 years ago

Potential great archaelogical find discovered a thousand years too soon...

2points

Jubum 4 years ago

Wait, the dentist walled his patient's teeth into the wall? Why ?!

2points

#23

1952 U.S. Advertisement For Van Camp's Pork & Beans

Final score:

243points

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J. F. 4 years ago (edited)

Yeah, nothing screams "Buy me!" like a sinister smiling child

233points

Daniel Atkins 4 years ago

He Knows if he eats it all there will be a massive fart and someone will pay oh someone will pay.

38points

BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago

This was a Look for a while, and I shudder to think what society was like that images of demonic children like this actually moved product.

5points

Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago

Wehehehehehe

1point

Monica Siciliano 4 years ago

Maybe he's thinking about the farts 😁

1point

Sandra Nicht 4 years ago

he knew he could clear the room later...

0points

Susan Mercurio 4 years ago

This was the first attempts at advertising/propaganda. Thanks, Edward Bernays!

0points

H.L.Lewis 4 years ago

He's loading up to "gas" his family.

0points

Byron Black 4 years ago

And the illustrator gave him the evil face of an adult man.

0points

Zephyr Anthem 4 years ago

AND he's wearing freddy's shirt, maybe it's not beans...

0points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

"Beans so good that Satan himself will come up and possess your child for a taste!"

25points

StrawberryParfait 4 years ago

A bean for every soul, apparently.

9points

Sage Gusano 4 years ago

Long pork and beans.

7points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago (edited)

(50s commercial voice) "Now with less teeth!"

2points

CD Mills 4 years ago

There is another old Ad I've seen with a little girl with the strangest expression, looking at a sandwich, I think. I can't remember if the Ad was selling bread, peanut butter, or jelly. Between the face/head and the hand holding the can I guess this 'artist' doesn't often draw people and it really shows.

5points

Mel 4 years ago

https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/creepy-kids-in-creepy-vintage-ads.html This one?

3points

Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago

Guess who I killed to get these tasty beans.

4points

Zena Marsh 4 years ago

"Buy these for me mom, or else...!"

4points

Nikki Sevven 4 years ago

Damian?

2points

David Gripon 4 years ago

He has that look, because he knows he's gonna be farting his siblings out if the house. Probably a middle child.

2points

Billy Haake 4 years ago

A young Norman Bates.

1point

#24

A Woman In The Wild West Wearing A Bonnet And A Mask Designed To Protect Skin From Sun Damage

Final score:

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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

She forgot to protect her legs, now they are gone

333points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

She is floating because she is a ghost.

17points

Elizabeth Mcdermott 4 years ago

I needed that laugh...

9points

Triv 4 years ago

Nah. She's just really short, so she has to levitate to stay out of the mud.

3points

Mazer 4 years ago

Touché

3points

sharron lynn parsons 4 years ago

Good one, thanks for the laugh !!!

1point

Charlene Kowalski 4 years ago

Where the hell are her legs?!?

1point

Ozacoter 4 years ago

It reminds me to the Moma. It is a character in a really old chistian parade in Valencia (spain) that represents a bride. But since only men were allowed to participate in medieval times he wore a mask. Its really cool and creepy at the same time. If anybody visits in may-june look for el Corpus (or the museum all year long). I am an atheist but this parade is from the 12th century and some of the figures are very old (the oldest from 1500s).

13points

Hermione 4 years ago

The invisible woman?

3points

Biba Little 4 years ago

Something we never see in old movies about Wild West.

2points

R Carson 4 years ago

She floats.

2points

Tango 4 years ago

Gurl got booty.

1point

ChickyChicky 4 years ago

My face would have burned right off if I lived in the hot, sunny Wild West.

1point

Larson Tyrell 1 year ago

That is the “I just farted” mask. They caught the fart in real time, too!

0points

Stephen Salvoni 3 years ago

What to wear to the Klan ball.

0points

Dog Fanatic 3 years ago

I think she had one too many drinks...

0points

With the lack of medical knowledge to treat or understand illnesses, death was seen often by people in the 19th century. Diseases such as typhoid affected millions during this time, with even the reigning Queen Victoria’s husband succumbing to it. The monarch vowed to wear black for the rest of her life to mourn her lost partner, setting the mood for the latter part of the century.

#25

Meeting Of The Mickey Mouse Club In The 1930's

Final score:

241points

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J. F. 4 years ago

Reminds me a bit of Bioshock

86points

VeryDarkMatter 4 years ago

yep, a bunch of splicer waiting for action

5points

matilda 4 years ago

What is Bioshock?

3points

Starlee87 4 years ago

Yesssss!!!! I miss that game!!!!

0points

DKS 001 4 years ago

"We don't need no education .... We don't need no thought control ... Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!"

28points

Eva the Egg 4 years ago

Wasnt this a cult?

18points

Jane Doe 4 years ago

still is!

5points

Anthony Nizza 4 years ago

Yeah that's not disturbing

15points

Riley Quinn 4 years ago

Back when people voluntarily wore masks and still had a good time.

11points

Kelli Lindsay 4 years ago

Ha!!

2points

Kona Pake 4 years ago

Indoctrination into the cult.

5points

Mazer 4 years ago

This is what happens to a nation when you only have three television channels

5points

Robert Bailey 4 years ago

1930s. less than 3.

0points

Daphne 4 years ago

That's just plain scary!

5points

glowworm2 4 years ago

"Now it's time to say goodbye to all our company..."

5points

Keira Hamilton 4 years ago

No thanks

3points

#26

17th Century Metal Mask That Was Used To Restrain Individuals Who Were Considered To Be Insane

Final score:

236points

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Jonathan 4 years ago

Anti-maskers act as though they are being forced to wear these for 18 hours a day.

425points

Vorknkx 4 years ago

Surgeons wear masks throughout their entire careers and never complain about it, but Karen can't endure the mask for 5 - 10 minutes...

63points

Sky Render 4 years ago

Maybe we should make them wear a scold's bridle instead. That'll shut them up.

15points

snipergun 4 years ago

Maybe they should be. I believe that would solve 95% of the problem.

6points

Mandy Harris 4 years ago

This comment, LMAO

1point

T5n 2 years ago

This gives me an idea. Make death masks of anti maskers and use the caption “A mask could have prevented this mask” or something to the same effect

0points

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Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago

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Lyone Fein 4 years ago

Because this would help make people less insane.

34points

Soggy Crumpet 4 years ago

I think this was meant to be a sort of helmet to protect their head.

4points

Roxy Eastland 4 years ago

I cannot image how horrific it would have been to be strapped into that for someone already experiencing mental trauma

26points

Kim Shannon 4 years ago

If you weren't insane when they put it on you, you would be by the time they took it off you

14points

Mazer 4 years ago

Sad how we treat the mentally ill - in the past and today

7points

DKS 001 4 years ago

the original Cyberman

7points

ƒιѕн 4 years ago

What purpose do the ears serve?

6points

Beeps 4 years ago

To make it look less scary. (Joke!)

4points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

Yeah. Lets put a metal mask on people with mental problems. That will make it much better. I am sorry but I wish that they would have done euthanasia on those poor people instead of torturing them like they used to. (I really wish that we could bring them all now were care is much better but thats a bit more unrealistic)

5points

Manndy Fisher 4 years ago

They were making sure that if someone wasn't insane, they will be after wearing that mask..

18points

New Prometheus 4 years ago

How is this helping??

3points

Jill Hojnacki 4 years ago

And, if they weren’t insane when the authorities strapped it, along with all the other restraints, on, it probably didn’t take much time before they were, thus “proving” their original diagnosis.

2points

#27

‘Hells Cafe’ In Paris 1920s

Final score:

231points

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Jubum 4 years ago

Cabaret de l'Enfer was a famous cabaret in Montmartre that was founded by Antonin Alexander in November 1892 and demolished in 1950 to allow the expansion of a Monoprix supermarket.So Sad!!!

106points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

Let's demolish the Monoprix and replace it with this, then we do a similar thing to the former site of the Singer Building.

13points

TimesNewLogan 4 years ago

Freaking supermarkets ruined everything!

3points

KatKaleen 4 years ago

Looks like an awesome place! That would draw so many tourists today...

0points

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 4 years ago

Can you imagine tripping on absinthe in that place?

14points

Preston Algaier 4 years ago

Guy on the right looks like he got stood up

7points

Dog Fanatic 3 years ago

A face that says, "Bring the next drink, I'm gonna need it"

0points

Minnie-me 4 years ago

I would so visit this

5points

Dr. Carlos Dangercat 4 years ago

That looks earlier than the 1920s!

3points

Suzy the observer 4 years ago

Turn of the Century I believe.

1point

Anthony Nizza 4 years ago

And they are sitting there smiling

3points

Nikole 4 years ago

Love it!

2points

Emmy she/her 4 years ago

I need to go now lmao

1point

Larson Tyrell 1 year ago

“Tonight, we dine in hell!”

0points

Dog Fanatic 3 years ago

WHY?!?!

0points

Grief and mourning were met face-on and post-mortem photography was just one part of this process. Even the perception of the term has changed since that era. Nowadays, it might conjure up images of police investigations into suspicious deaths. In movies and television, this is always played to the effect of death being a dark aspect of life and the corpse as something to be afraid of.

#28

Humpty Dumpty 1939

Final score:

226points

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Elizabeth Elliot 4 years ago

Me gusta

113points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

This is where the internet started.

11points

ƒιѕн 4 years ago (edited)

know your meme

3points

Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago

First thought

2points

Destini Mattocks 4 years ago

Bwahahaha! Perfect!

0points

Jenný Samúelsdóttir Herlufsen 4 years ago

The fact you have such few likes, makes me think that many people here are uncultured swines.

0points

Mihran Hovnanian 4 years ago

He's just about to make his big break!

20points

Hermione 4 years ago

I’m pretty sure they won’t be able to put him back together again.

4points

Monday 4 years ago

Whoever decided that Humpty Dumpty was an egg?

12points

glowworm2 4 years ago

I believe it may have been Lewis Carroll, whose version of Humpty Dumpty appears in Through the Looking Glass or What Alice Found There.

11points

Manndy Fisher 4 years ago

Just push him and run girl! No, on the other though, just feckin run!!!

7points

Sue Lynn Chan 4 years ago

I would have punched it out of fear....

5points

T Simmons 4 years ago

I heard it was a canon

5points

Paul Jervis 4 years ago

Correct....during one of the old English wars between the roundheads and the cavaliers

1point

Nikki Sevven 4 years ago

Funny. Nowhere in the children's poem is Humpty Dumpty identified as an egg.

4points

Keira Hamilton 4 years ago

oh god

2points

Julia Jules Whitelegg 4 years ago

Don't get too close, it looks he could bite!!

1point

Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago

Nope.

1point

#29

Photograph Of A Victorian Baby Held By Their Mother

Final score:

223points

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Andy Acceber 4 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.

203points

Sarah Tate 4 years ago

Paula that is the dumbest f*****g thing I've read today. Andy was stating a fact about how these pictures were taken, not saying he likes women as furniture. If that's how you interpreted the comment you're the one who's disturbed. Idiot.

23points

Darlene Melcon 4 years ago

I didn't know that.....thanks.

2points

Myriam Ickx 4 years ago

"Pretending to be furniture": wow, that looks super creepy!

1point

Paula Marowsky 4 years ago

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GoddessOdd 4 years ago

At least the kid in this one is alive. They very often weren't.

25points

Dodo 4 years ago

Yeah I was glad when I saw the blurred hand

10points

R Carson 4 years ago

The did this to photograph the dead also.

16points

Minnie-me 4 years ago

isn't this how they create baby passport photos today?

5points

Mazer 4 years ago

The precursor to green screen

5points

Amina Hays 4 years ago

I can tell you what's scarier; Victorian photographs of dead babies whose eyes have either been drawn on, or pinned open.

3points

ALEXIS CISNEROS 3 years ago

actually this is a woman holding her dead baby, people often took photos with their recently departed loved one back then as a sentimental peice

1point

Dog Fanatic 3 years ago

Photos of deceased loved ones with their families/by themselves were also taken a lot in the Victorian Era.

0points

EJN 4 years ago

Mom looks lovely.

0points

JJM 4 years ago

So where's the Mum?

0points

Janna Gelfand 4 years ago

You can see her arms, on the right and left, sticking out from under the draping fabric.

0points

#30

The Original Ronald Mcdonald, 1963

Final score:

219points

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DE Ray 4 years ago

He actually died just a couple days ago.

132points

Kevin Linkous 4 years ago

Willard Scott — the legendary TODAY weatherman was the original. Died 3 days ago. :(

36points

Starlee87 4 years ago (edited)

Nuh uh are you serious??? I found the information. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/09/willard-scott-today-weather-forecaster-and-first-ronald-mcdonald-has-died

2points

Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago

Wait what? RIP

2points

Janus Sanders 4 years ago

Rest In Peace

2points

Dino_Nuggies 4 years ago

The weatherman?

1point

Dan Buczynski 4 years ago

This is Willard Scott, I believe, who just passed away several days ago.

22points

Grace Dominguez 4 years ago

Isn't that Willard Scott?

16points

R Carson 4 years ago

RIP Willard Scott.

9points

urszulat 4 years ago

That's Willard Scott.

8points

A. Jones 4 years ago

You folks can actually find the commercial on YouTube!

7points

Woltax 4 years ago

As creepy as nowadays.

5points

Becky Samuel 4 years ago

They quietly retired Ronald Mcdonald a few years ago during the clown scare.

18points

Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago

Those fries actually look really well made and tasty

4points

Kelli Lindsay 4 years ago

The beginning of a legend

1point

Antony Aston 4 years ago

Looks like D**k Van Dyke in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

2points

Manndy Fisher 4 years ago

Why does he have a cup on his nose??? Ohhhh.. right. Double advertisement without common sense...

1point

So, whilst our lenses and cameras are the best they’ve ever been, the idea of capturing intimate photos of the deceased is something that’s been left in the past. If it ever makes a reappearance, our attitudes to death will need to change as well. After all, with all this technology available to us, would it be a good way to honor those no longer with us? Who knows, but at least it won’t be as creepy as the black and white photos here.

#31

A Clean-Cut Charles Manson On His Wedding Day In 1955

Final score:

212points

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glowworm2 4 years ago

I think what I find more scary is that he was married. (No, the woman who was engaged to him when he was in jail a few years before his death doesn't count.)

97points

Potato 4 years ago

I think it should count, because that is far more scary to marry a man AFTER he did all those things

46points

glowworm2 4 years ago

Supposedly, the engagement was also broken off because the woman in question wanted to marry him so that she could use his corpse as a tourist attraction when he died. I don’t know how legitimate that story is though. Needless to say, the license did expire.

13points

Brier Random 4 years ago

Why is it scary that he was married? This was 14 years before the murders.

7points

Starlee87 4 years ago

Sorry but that was funny but so true....

2points

Jubum 4 years ago

Evil doesn't just hide behind an ugly face.

13points

Oscar Bravo 4 years ago

Handsome Devil...

12points

CatWoman312 4 years ago

He was really short

11points

Beeps 4 years ago

Yes, he was, that’s how he managed to hide in an under sink kitchen cupboard during the Spahn Ranch raid. The police would have missed him, had it not been for some of his hair sticking out at the top of the cupboard.

37points

BoredHuman 4 years ago

Not a crime to be a 5 ft 6 inch man.

11points

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Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago

What an irrelevant thing to say!

10points

E Menendez 4 years ago (edited)

Umm, great? Outside of Beeps post, not sure of relevance?

4points

Casey B 4 years ago

So?

1point

Carole Reid 4 years ago

In more ways than one.

0points

Quin Mole 4 years ago

I just read about him. What a horrible horrible person he was.

10points

Amina Hays 4 years ago

@Quin Mole - You've only *just* read about him?? Yup, he was utterly mad. Have you read about the connection between the murders and Brian Wilson from The Beach Boys? If not, go go go! It's unbelievable. Truly.

7points

karl briggs 4 years ago

Guessing pre-drugs.

8points

LesAnimaux 4 years ago

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BiLal Asif 4 years ago

I don't even recognize him here

7points

BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago

Yeah, this is my first time seeing this picture. Mind blown!

6points

Zena Marsh 4 years ago

He looks so happy there.

7points

Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago

The eyes. Nothing looks the same now except for the eyes.

5points

hobbitly 4 years ago

Nothing looks the same now? He already died, so I would hope so :P

3points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

The picture itself is not creepy. The things the guy did after were.

4points

#32

The Moon From The French 1902 Movie "A Trip To The Moon"

Final score:

208points

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Manndy Fisher 4 years ago

Ahh so that is inspiration for "Tonight, Tonight" video of Smashing Pumpkins!

111points

Mystery Egg 4 years ago

and the Mighty Boosh no doubt

26points

Sky Render 4 years ago

Very much so! That whole music video was based off of A Trip to the Moon from start to finish, in fact.

15points

Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago

Georges Méliès Awas an innovative and prolific filmmaker active in the late 19th and 20th. He created, popularized or perfected many of the film techniques that have been commonplace for well over a century now. Only 200 of his 500 films survive today.

11points

Terd Fergison 4 years ago

Too bad Billy Corgan turned into a conspiracy nut and appeared on the Alex Jones show. Unforgivable.

4points

C. D. McCullum 4 years ago

Sounds like you have been actively pondering this since the 90's.

2points

Beck(formerly Becca/Gizmo sq) 4 years ago

I love that video

2points

Starlee87 4 years ago

So thats where I saw it

0points

Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago

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engineer_nope.avi 4 years ago

It's still amazing to know that this film came out only 67 years before man achieve true "Trip to the moon". So theoretically, a person born in 1890 would be 12 and be able to see this movie and see it true in action when he/she is 79.

19points

Demongrrrrl Premium 4 years ago

My great-grandmother was born in 1869 and lived to see a man on the moon.

9points

the annoying theatre kid 4 years ago

hugo anyone?

17points

Springy The Non Binary Boi(They/Them) 4 years ago

I've seen it it was a great movie

5points

Ronualdo 4 years ago

This reminds me of the movie Hugo, such a lovely movie and tells about the film maker who made that movie.

12points

Myriam Ickx 4 years ago

The film maker's name is Georges Meliès, who was famous for making movies full of tricks. Actually the inventor of "special effects".

1point

T Simmons 4 years ago

THATS where the Mighty Boosh were inspired from!

12points

Suze Williams 4 years ago

"When you are the moon..." "I saw the sun once... I licked him... all over his yellow suit!"

4points

Mazer 4 years ago (edited)

GREAT MOVIE, also Great movie about the movie 😜 made in 2011 called Hugo. I thought it was very well done

7points

StrawberryParfait 4 years ago

It's an awesome little film, too. Very whimsical.

4points

Riley Quinn 4 years ago

Very famous moon image.

3points

Francis 4 years ago (edited)

i only knew the simpson (itchy&Scratchy) version!

2points

wifeofweasley 4 years ago

I think this picture was featured in the movie Hugo Cabret

1point

#33

A Happy Clown From The Early 1900s

Final score:

205points

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Susie Elle 4 years ago

A happy nightmare you mean

142points

NotMe 4 years ago

Are there happy nightmares?

5points

CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago

Were clowns ever anything but creepy?

15points

Hugh Willie Mungous 4 years ago

Gacy?

15points

Sage Gusano 4 years ago

I'd hate to see the angry clown.

12points

HardTruths 4 years ago

Maybe people back then had fewer dark thoughts, and clowns were truly harmless humour to then.

8points

Mazer 4 years ago

All I can think of is Wayne Gacy

7points

GoddessOdd 4 years ago

And they say clowns are creepy!

4points

matilda 4 years ago

That's not what happy looks like!

4points

Sophia Atkinson 4 years ago

Not happy not happy at all!!!!!

4points

Amina Hays 4 years ago

That's scarier than Tim Curry's Pennywise "the dancing clown!"

3points

#34

Goldilocks And The Three Bears, 1908

Final score:

198points

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Andy Acceber 4 years ago

I take it the costumer had never seen a bear nor any photos of bears.

196points

KatHat 4 years ago (edited)

Faux fur is really hard to make and real fur was expensive back then. The shapes are right, but without the fur they look weird and shiny. They just didn't have anything better.

18points

Bad Alchemy 4 years ago

The costume designer obviously knew what "bears" look like, just like medieval painters knew what "cats" looked like.

8points

Stimpy 4 years ago

Come on, that must be EXACTLY how bears look (if they are shaved)

2points

Earl Grey 4 years ago

And the script writer and set designer apparently forgot that this all takes place in a furnished cabin in a forest, not a chair on a city street.

1point

Lea S. 3 years ago

There are four limbs, two eyes, and a nose. We don't know what color they were going for but it's probably correct - what more do you want? You are supposed to use your imagination for things like this.

0points

sharron lynn parsons 4 years ago

My thought as well !!!

0points

Starlee87 4 years ago

I know right

0points

Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

Goldilocks gets the plague on this version, middles ages style

18points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

More honest title : "Goldilocks and the three bears which lived to close to Chernobyl"

12points

Terilee Bruyere 4 years ago

This looks disturbingly like the suits the nurses/doc/techs wore when my daughter had a really bad case of pneumonia. She looked about the same as well (though younger).

8points

ƒιѕн 4 years ago

This is a very low budget version

6points

Tamra Stiffler 4 years ago

Goldilocks and the three plague doctors.

5points

Casey B 4 years ago

My first thought too

1point

Laura Hunn 4 years ago

The one on the left has ideas...

5points

Dr. Carlos Dangercat 4 years ago

Goldilocks' shoes look extremely uncomfortable.

5points

Riley Quinn 4 years ago

Looks more like hazmat suits than a bear costume.

3points

Mazer 4 years ago

Hey, they had to make due with what they had at the time., The Teddy bear (named for President Roosevelt and an incident involving a bear cub) was first produced only three years before this photo was taken

2points

#35

Freezing Off Freckles Procedure In 1930s

Final score:

194points

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Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Whyyyyyy??? Your freckles are so cute!

166points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

Because of bullies, insecurites and discrimination? Even if you want to accept yourself, people usually treat you so poorly you can't stand it anymore.

45points

Kira Okah 4 years ago (edited)

It was looked down upon and ridiculed, so people tried to hide them to make the abuse stop. Like even nowadays where lots of redheads dye their hair to stop being targetted and abused over it. People are a-holes.

13points

BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago

I caught all kinds of crap in grade school for having freckles. That lessened over time and of course doesn't happen anymore, but back in the day (shortly after freckles were invented), I could barely go a week without being actively tormented for having 'em.

5points

Donna Beach 4 years ago

Afro-American women's natural hair is lovely. Why? There are an overwhelming number of black cats in shelters or just killed. Why? You are starving yourself because of beauty standards. Why? List gets pretty dang long. Can't believe I am agreeing with what Ryan said.

3points

John L 4 years ago

A lot of these you have to remember it was a VERY different world 80 years ago. We take a lot of things for granted.

2points

Emmy she/her 4 years ago

Freckles were considered an “embarrassment” back then so that’s why they had these procedures done

1point

Keira Hamilton 4 years ago

because she has a death wish

1point

Paul Davies 4 years ago

And did it actually work?

0points

Azrael Haraldssen 4 years ago

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Sarah Tate 4 years ago

That's completely incorrect - do some research before you post bullshit. There's this newfangled thing called Google that may help you. Freckles are genetic and not always a result of sun damage. Yes, babies don't have them yet but not every freckle means you're going to get cancer. Otherwise my brother and I would be dead by now....we have them whether or not we have been in the sun. I'm sorry to hear you are at risk - that sucks.

9points

Dr. Carlos Dangercat 4 years ago

Yikes!! Never understood why people dislike freckles, they're so cute!

22points

V33333P 4 years ago

And here I am DYING to have freckles??

19points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

Get fake ones tattooed?

2points

Laura Hunn 4 years ago

A clockwork orange

12points

mcborge1 4 years ago

You beat me to it.

3points

ShadowLand 🇨🇦 4 years ago

Oh hell no! I'll keep my freckles thank you very much!

12points

ƒιѕн 4 years ago

Aint no way you're putting me in that contraption sober...

12points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

It honestly looks like an eyeball removal machine

3points

Ellie Rosser 4 years ago

How is she breathing??

9points

Jubum 4 years ago

Freckles are beautiful!

5points

Mazer 4 years ago

The torture we put our bodies through in the name of fashion. Self acceptance is a good thing no matter what you look like

3points

Rebecca Trinkner 4 years ago

CAN you actually freeze off freckles? I wouldn't think you can.

2points

Kimberly Cline 4 years ago

I'm wondering that too!

0points

#36

Glurpo, The World's Only Underwater Clown

Final score:

192points

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Monday 4 years ago

I have so many question bu the most pressing is WHY??

135points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

To keep his head above the water.

20points

Mazer 4 years ago

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/true-story-glurpo-underwater-clown/amp/

5points

matilda 4 years ago

And how did he breath?

5points

John Dilligaf 4 years ago

the secret to success, he found a niche and filled it

4points

シ *’-BLOODLUST-‘* シ 4 years ago

Cuz kids are lil demons

1point

Shelby Sizemore 4 years ago

My most pressing is how much makeup did he go thu be for gettin the mask?

1point

My O My 4 years ago

Because

1point

COLA 4 years ago

Because the clown was qualified to be underwater clown

0points

Tim Bouchee 4 years ago

To prove his makeup wouldn't be ruined.

0points

Woltax 4 years ago

Whoaa😳 Imagine you are snorkeling and this creepy creature emerges from the deep.😱

15points

Lucy Skinner 4 years ago

There is a REASON there was only one!

9points

Ashley Niebuhr 4 years ago

Jaws didn't make me afraid to go in the water, but this sure would!

9points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Love it! What a skilled performer! I don't have any fear of clowns though.

6points

Robert Bailey 4 years ago

that you know about

2points

Kayla J 4 years ago

oh my gosh! Aquarena Springs! We used to go when I was a child though obv the clown was (thankfully) long gone, but they had "mermaids" and Ralph the swimming pig.

2points

Kelli Lindsay 4 years ago

Omg!! My grandmother used to take me to Aquarena Springs in the early seventies and I'm not sure that he was still performing then, but I imagine there were pics at the Springs, bc I immediately said AQUARENA SPRINGS when I saw Glupo !!

1point

Riley Quinn 4 years ago

Glurpo was an inspiration for David Blaine.

1point

Mark Artingstall 4 years ago

As a career choice it's a bit niche.

1point

#37

My Grandfather And His Sister

Final score:

191points

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Hugh Willie Mungous 4 years ago

So incredibly alike.

74points

s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago

yeah, slack jawed.

2points

E Menendez 4 years ago

They have seen things...

15points

domitype 4 years ago

The history of infant and children's clothing in Western Culture is quite interesting - middle and upper class boys and girls usually wore the same things (dresses or smocks) until around age 5 or 6 until the early 1900s. Much easier to change diapers, I guess.

6points

Aria Whitaker 4 years ago

Also...pink was for boy babies and blue for girls....

4points

Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago

Both in awe of the photographic apparatus.

6points

Aria Whitaker 4 years ago

Those eyes...wow.

5points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

This weird black box is swallowing their souls !

3points

Summer Woodsong 4 years ago

That's probably the result of the flash going off.

2points

Richard McArthur 4 years ago

Someone present bills for birth and upkeep?

1point

TimesNewLogan 4 years ago

Wanna make it less creepy? Imagine the photographer is dangling a candy bar in front of them, and that's why they look so mesmerized.

1point

Keira Hamilton 4 years ago

she lost her legs

1point

#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

Final score:

179points

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Anthony Nizza 4 years ago

Humans are EXTREMELY disturbing

117points

sharron lynn parsons 4 years ago

Yes I agree, I don't get the connection, to Florist ???

3points

Sky Render 4 years ago

Kermit the Frog cosplay gone wrong.

19points

John C 4 years ago

Hey - it's not easy being green.

14points

Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago

I bet one day we can track some sort of s**t posting all the way back to the cavemen.

3points

Auntriarch 4 years ago

It would certainly explain some of the weirder paintings at Altamira

1point

mulk 4 years ago

Another god's costume (The Preacher ; ) )

3points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Dressed as a frog maybe?

3points

Gypsy Rose 4 years ago

Lizard-People Exist

2points

Keira Hamilton 4 years ago

bye

2points

Jazzy Mc. Jaz 4 years ago

dude this are gonna give me nightmares

1point

Casey Burns 4 years ago

Fit as a fiddle. The original Aflack.

1point

LadyAna 3 years ago

Uhhh...

0points

#39

Behind-The-Scenes Of Teletubbies' In The Late-90s

Final score:

163points

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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

They were this big????

114points

Eva the Egg 4 years ago

Yup, they even used Flemish giant rabbits to make the tubbies look smaller... º-º

26points

Pat Bond 4 years ago

That's Simon Shelton whom played Tinky Winky, hugging his character. He died in 2018.

13points

Robert T 4 years ago

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MCathenaE 4 years ago

You should google them without the head. There is a full size person in there up to the shoulders, then they slap a big ol head on it & make it even taller.

1point

Alias Delfs 3 years ago

I always thought they were tall by the the height of the grass but gawd be dammed

0points

Lori Everard 3 years ago

Yep.

0points

Shirley Heyn 4 years ago

Had to be to have a telly in the their tummy. . .

0points

LSR 4 years ago

That is what the wife said...

0points

Rob Williams 4 years ago

What did you think were inside them?

0points

Ivy la Sangrienta 4 years ago

I mean there's a fully grown adult inside the suit so yes.

0points

Mazer 4 years ago

Yep

0points

Milo Maruz 4 years ago

Teletubbies gave me the creeps back then...wait..they still do

5points

Tami 4 years ago

I always though the big pinwheel was creepy with the weird noises it made.

1point

Mazer 4 years ago

HR Pufnstuf characters were big and weird too https://krofft.fandom.com/wiki/Category:H.R._Pufnstuf_Characters

1point

Jessica Cifelli 4 years ago

Po's butt in the back.

1point

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

He is dead now.

1point

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

What's Po doing?

1point

Quinn Carrigan 4 years ago

the guy is looking like "Help me"

0points

Elizabeth Roberts 4 years ago

Looks like Po is dead in the background

0points

Mark Melton 4 years ago

Isn't he hugging the gay one?

0points

#40

Children Salute The American Flag In Front Of The Morgan Hill School (California), 1930s

Final score:

161points

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V33333P 4 years ago

As a kiwi, remembering that Americans have to recite allegiance every day at school wigs me the hell out

264points

Sky Render 4 years ago

I think most of us stay silent during that nonsense by about 4th grade. I certainly did. Never bought into the forced nationalism.

58points

Holly Hofmann 4 years ago

As an American, it wigs me the hell out too

37points

Scott 4 years ago

I stopped participating in it shortly after grade school (year 6 I think?). After about a month of refusing to stand for it, I was called into the principal's office and reprimanded for not participating, even though participation was officially voluntary. I despise the idea of mindless patriotism and can't stand the indoctrination that was forced upon me. Now I live in Texas, where the national anthem, by law, must be sung prior to any professional sporting event, so... yee haw I guess?

26points

Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

Hell yea. However we prefer deciding on a new flag, suggesting options including one with a kiwi that has laser eyes, then picking out old flag as the new flag 😅 its the epitome of 'Yeah, nah' lol

15points

Stephanie Keith 4 years ago

Tell me about it. To many people worship things. Placing more value on an object. Thinking it's more important than actual human beings. I see a lot of people take pride and love a piece of cloth more than they do their fellow man. I just find that to be so heartbreaking. But it's true and definitely describes some folks.

9points

Nikki Sevven 4 years ago

Actually, students can't be forced to recite the pledge, because that would violate the First Amendment.

7points

Teresa Taylor 4 years ago (edited)

As an American, it wigs me the hell out, too. But what bothers me more than that is the vitriol facing those that choose not to “honor the flag” at events are facing by “true patriots” that do. “Taking the knee,” or any other type of protest during the national anthem (which took over the pledge) is cause for fighting because it’s “disrespectful to those that fought for that flag.” The fact is, it’s not disrespectful at all. They fought exactly so people could protest. I don’t know what is more “American” than exercising that hard-won First Amendment right. 🤯 Americans are an odd bunch. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

6points

Soap 4 years ago

I just stand there with my hand over my heart but don't say anything

6points

Kelly Hartle 4 years ago

It got even worse when they added, “under God” in the 1950’s.

5points

Janus Sanders 4 years ago

as an american it wigs the hell out of me also

4points

Tee Witt 4 years ago

Looks like "Heil Hitler"

3points

TimesNewLogan 4 years ago

Technically, they don't have to. It's an old tradition that still hangs on for the sake of tradition alone. Most people don't even really pay attention to the words.

2points

Kartik Mistry 3 years ago

As a 🥝 or Kiwi animal? ;)

1point

Mark Melton 4 years ago

If it makes you feel any better, my daughter always refused to say it, she would just stand there and be quiet. I backed her every year that it became an issue. Our military hasn't done anything for us to be proud of since WWII. We murder Brown women and children for Exxon and BP and Halliburton. Not all of us are fooled.

1point

Shawn Barry 4 years ago

I had to do it as a kid, is it still being done in todays schools?

1point

Helen Haley 4 years ago

I didn't do that at any of the schools I grew up in.

1point

sylvanticx 4 years ago

stops after 5th grade. we dont' like it either. i had a religious exemption (i'm Jewish and dont' want to say the "under g-d" part when referring to a flag)

1point

Rebecca Trinkner 4 years ago

We do too. At least most of us I'm sure.

1point

Daniel Ripata 2 years ago

I'm a kiwi too but we also say the national anthem but not everyday like thay do

0points

Morgan Futura 3 years ago

They still do, the poor Lil brain washed fools.

0points

DC 4 years ago

... that's how you wash your brains truly clean, repeat, repeat, repeat, and after that, repeat again, all of it.

0points

Ponyo 4 years ago

I have known people from other countries that were studying in the U.S. and got suspended for not wanting to say the pledge of allegiance in school... most of them were in elementary school

0points

Susan Egan 4 years ago

We were not told what we were doing or why in the beginning. First years of school it was simply "Now we will say the pledge, put your hand on your heart..." It's not until you are old enough to understand the words that it registered that it made little to no sense to me. When I refused to participate, in the 70's I think, it was a huge deal.

0points

JD Lee 4 years ago

Most don’t, and it’s optional.

0points

Todd Hollfelder 4 years ago

Really its an outdated practice that one rarely sees anymore.

0points

Duck with a Top Hat 4 years ago

Actually, most of the time the teachers don’t make us or we just mouth the words

0points

cugel 4 years ago

Also non-American here. "We" know about this very strange practice, but rarely does it poke its head up in mainstream culture. Vegas, 401Ks, middle school (and other odd names for schools), Halloween, Thanksgiving and other opaque matters are repeated over and over, but not a peep from the Pledge.

0points

Hilary Mol 4 years ago

I'm pretty sure it's not the norm in schools anymore. I had to recite it only when I was in elementary school (1979/80 school year through 1985/86 school year); Once I got to 7th grade, we didn't do that anymore, and I think they started to phase it out altogether starting in the late 1990s. I'm sure some school systems still do it, especially private (tuition-based) schools, but it's rarely done country-wide anymore.

0points

Megan The Viking Traveler 4 years ago

I live very close to Morgan Hill and this is pretty accurate.....

0points

Kaori Panda 4 years ago

we don't do it anymore in my school

0points

Katherine Forrestall 4 years ago

Yes, so corny the way they put their hand over their hearts...all too too ! Prefer lower key.

-1point

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Phendrena 4 years ago

Not very heil hitler is it? and this brain-washing/conditioning goes on to this very day....

40points

Stephanie Keith 4 years ago

Yes! But I do find comfort in seeing that other people are starting to realize just how brainwashed this country is. So much to see and so much brainwashing. I just feel really bad for the ones who keep denying it and get very angry about it when you mention it to them. It's easier to fool a man than to convince a man he has been fooled. Sad, very sad stuff.

9points

the annoying theatre kid 4 years ago

this used to be what they did instead of hand on heart, but once the nazis took it, they stopped doing it

23points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Replace the American flag with the swastika and suddenly the picture looks very different.

19points

Mystery Egg 4 years ago

creepy brainwashing. Reminiscent of 1930's Germany

14points

R Carson 4 years ago

Looks more like a Nazi salute.

13points

Kira Okah 4 years ago

Same gesture. It was adopted from the Roman Empire in both cases, dropped to hand on heart in America due to the rise of the Nazis.

8points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

I don't care what other conservatives say : forcing your children to pledge alliegance to your flag IS creepy.

6points

Brian Hingley 4 years ago

Lots of salutes in 1930's with right arm raised, usually accompanied by Sieg Hiel

6points

therarestbanana 4 years ago

Heil* but yes.

0points

Brandy Grote 4 years ago

Yes, the arm raised salute was changed because of..

6points

Dan Buczynski 4 years ago

"Make America Great Again", they say?

6points

#41

Three Girls In Masked Costumes At Halloween Festivities In College Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio In 1929

Final score:

147points

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kjorn 4 years ago

for sure this is scary

37points

An Ambitious Lemon 4 years ago

Not as scary as College Hill Cincinnati

3points

Robert Bailey 4 years ago

Girls, I have some bad news about your parents savings in a couple of weeks.

4points

the they/them mayhem 4 years ago

omg i live there

1point

Donna Beach 4 years ago

Hello fellow Cincinnatian! We still love Halloween.

0points

Mazer 4 years ago

Effective

1point

EJN 4 years ago

Wow! This is near where I grew up! Halloween was still primitive wasn't it?

0points

Melissa J 4 years ago

I'd skip Halloween altogether if I saw this. 😳

0points

SomePeopleCallMeMaurice 4 years ago

I had a great aunt who resembled the one in the middle - Her name was Antoinette! Wasn’t a fan…

0points

Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago

and all home made...

0points

TimesNewLogan 4 years ago

The scariest thing about this, is knowing what was either just about to happen, or if this was Halloween, had just happened two days ago.

0points

Emily Begg 4 years ago

um ew

-2points

#42

He's Probably A Good Boy But Sure Looks Odd

Final score:

140points

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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

Plus his dog moved during the photo ^-^

105points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

What ? But it was about the d... Oh, that was a joke ? Ok... Never mind.

9points

Caro Caro 4 years ago

Haaaahaha, epic response!

1point

Emily Begg 4 years ago

yes

0points

Laura Hunn 4 years ago

The man though. Very handsome.

22points

Gosiaatje 4 years ago

My thought exactly :)

7points

Monty Is Fiennes 4 years ago

Maybe he wouldn't sit still so he was blurry and they had to draw on his face....

14points

karl briggs 4 years ago

Looks like taxidermy.

11points

Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago

Weren't animals in old timey images dead and stuffed?

1point

ApexScavenger 4 years ago

He looks a lot like Charles Chaplin without the moustache

6points

Laurie F. Daut 4 years ago

What's with the front left paw?

6points

Dodo 4 years ago

Not sure if this is totally accurate because I saw it on The Alienist, but didn't they used to draw eyes on photos if there was a problem? Possibly what happened here.

4points

Charlie grace 4 years ago

Is this what an English Bull Terrier is supposed to look like?

4points

Charlie grace 4 years ago

I mean, today they are overbred :(

3points

Lucky 4 years ago

Which one?

2points

Riley Quinn 4 years ago

Can't tell from the photo if he's a good boy, but he sure is strikingly attractive. What? Oh. The dog...

1point

#43

1938 - Trays Of Artificial Eyes

Final score:

139points

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DKS 001 4 years ago

eye see you!

49points

Jessica Aubé 4 years ago

Eye see what you did there

2points

Catpoker88 4 years ago

What an eye catching display!

4points

Mazer 4 years ago

THE MUPPET PUPPET FACTORY!! Whoooot!! Laika (Kubo and the two strings movie) has similar pieces, hundreds of resin faces and expressions

2points

Melissa J 4 years ago

👁 don't know if 👁 like this photo. 🤭

1point

Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago

argh that is what I first thought eye see you..too

1point

Watchman 4 years ago

I have one and yes, this is what you see nowadays if you go to the artificial eye fitter for a replacement.

1point

Lynne Harbison 4 years ago

Look like boobs!

1point

JenMiddleChildSmith 4 years ago

Insert gif of Phoebe screaming, "MY EYES! MY EYES!"

1point

Regina Newlin 3 years ago

The doctor will see you now.

0points

Bex 4 years ago

My Dad has a glass eye and when I was a kid I went w him when he had to get a new one. I got to see how they were made (painted by hand, the "veins" are pieces of super thin red yard/thread places by hand, etc) and I thought it was so cool I ended up doing my 5th grade science project about it.

0points