A young woman writing a thank you note to her boyfriend in the Navy for the skull of a Japanese soldier that he sent, 19443mo ⋅ HelloSlowly ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
9-year-old Child Bride Eunice Winstead Johns and her husband, 22-year-old Charlie Johns, Sneedville, Tennessee, United States. 1937.9mo ⋅ TheOddityCollector ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
My mom and I on Halloween in 1989. Note the fact that she has a cigarette and is also pregnant with my brother3yr ⋅ creepy_robot ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The first picture of a person dying in the electric chair. Her name was Ruth Snyder.7mo ⋅ silvercatbob ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Katharina Detzel, a mental patient who built her own man out of the straw in her bed, 1910. she was murdered by the Nazi euthanasia program in 1941.3yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Photo of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer at high school with a fellow student.3mo ⋅ silvercatbob ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Melted wax figures rescued from the 1925 fire at Madam Tussaud's London museum3yr ⋅ BunnyLovr ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Meditation room with stuffed animals and dried human heads, Tibet, 1920.2yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A baby found during the clean up of the Chernobyl accident is pushed in a carriage by a liquidator, 19861yr ⋅ keeperofthecan ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A drunken man in top hat and tails clings to a lamp-post, London, 1934. Photo by Bill Brandt.3yr ⋅ Sleeeepy_Hollow ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A full-faced swimming mask designed to protect women's skin from the sun in the 1920s3yr ⋅ Forrest724 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Vintage Victorian toy butcher shop features tiny little cuts of meat for grisly little Victorian boys and girls.3yr ⋅ TommyAdagio ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
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)4yr ⋅ WeeHootieMctoo ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
To appear headless while taking a photo, known as horsemaning, was a popular way to pose in the 1920's.11mo ⋅ silvercatbob ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
17th century metal mask that was used to restrain individuals who were considered to be insane.3yr ⋅ Sleeeepy_Hollow ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A train shredded after a boiler explosion - there's something about this image I find weirdly unsettling1yr ⋅ Odd_Direction_7382 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Patient brutally restrained in a mental institution, France circa 19002yr ⋅ Runoco ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Recently found this random photo of Jerry Sandusky at my parents house1yr ⋅ NurseThirst ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
My wife grew up staring at this picture. No one can remember if there was a person behind the kids, or a trick of the light1yr ⋅ Kombucha_drunk ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Still from British movie First men on the moon from 1919. now a lost film.2yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Saturn Devouring His Son, part of Francisco Goyas black paintings (1819-1823), additional bit of creepiness comes from the fact that he never wanted anyone to see it3yr ⋅ Alexander_the_odd ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space. 19674yr ⋅ Mosso3232 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating on himself to remove his appendix in Antarctica, May 19611yr ⋅ ProperlyEnhanced ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Only photo I have of my grandpa that died in vietnam. My dad was 3 when he passed.3yr ⋅ Death_Mark_Is_OP ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
New Year in a psychiatric hospital, Moscow, 1988. Photographer: Pavel Krivtsov2yr ⋅ Star_Ship_55 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The great grandfather of a Redditor's friend used to make these masks out of white tailed deer butts. [x-post from /r/wtf]3yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Colorized photo of Rasputin with Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna, her children and their nurse, 19081yr ⋅ Star_Ship_55 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Australian soldiers after being liberated from Japanese concentration camp, 1945.3yr ⋅ boywhospy ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
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.3yr ⋅ digital_dysthymia ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
An Iron Age bog mummy found in 1871 called Rendswuhren Man, image circa 1873.2yr ⋅ JankCranky ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Jacob Miller (1829-1917), shot in the head at Chickamauga in 1863 and walked it off1yr ⋅ Star_Ship_55 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Playboy publishing a 9-page fully nude 10 year old in 1976... need I say more?3yr ⋅ rubdub56 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Image taken from a Purdue University publication titled Debris3yr ⋅ digital_dysthymia ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The real Dracula's Castle in Transylvania, Romania. Photo taken in 1920s.11mo ⋅ silvercatbob ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Conrad Veidt in his role as Gwynplaine in the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs1yr ⋅ Famous-Cold-1846 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Police in 1929 removing papier-mache gods from the basement of Benny Evangelista, a Detroit-based self-proclaimed prophet, after he and his family were murdered via axe. The murder was never solved. More pics in comments.3yr ⋅ Seed_Eater ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
On the Feast of St. Nicholas in the town of Bad Mitterndorf, Austria. St Nicholas parades through the village on a white horse followed by the Krampus, who warn the kids to be good, or else...2yr ⋅ JankCranky ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The former German name and design of a danish treat, it translates to N-word kiss (name and design was like this from 1900 to 2005)2yr ⋅ Stoopid_Noah ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A Navajo man performing a Night Chant ceremony while dressed up as the Navajo God Nayenezgani, 1904.2yr ⋅ JankCranky ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The other kids were scared of him and he cried when he looked in the mirror3yr ⋅ MadeEntirelyOfBeans ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Children salute the American flag in front of the Morgan Hill school (California), 1930s3yr ⋅ Trashcoelector ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A woman in the Wild West wearing a bonnet and a mask designed to protect skin from sun damage.2yr ⋅ JankCranky ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Old photo of (twins? sisters?) with one scratched out. Cant help but wonder at the context - likely late 1800's early 1900's1yr ⋅ gwynsbooty ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A little different, but this is by far the most disturbing valentine I’ve found in family scrapbooks (1963)2yr ⋅ RuthBaderKnope ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Austro-Hungarian sailors wearing anti-flash protection gear, designed to protect the wearer from short-duration flame exposure and heat, 19161yr ⋅ Star_Ship_55 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Saddam Hussein flirting with his cousin and future wife, 1980s.1yr ⋅ Inner-Expression8728 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Audrey Hepburn Photographed by Richard Avedon in New York, 19672yr ⋅ MissNightTerrors ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Bought my first house and found this picture hidden away... any idea the time period?3yr ⋅ chrisaze ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Mujahideen fighters wearing Soviet Gas masks, Soviet war in Afghanistan, March 1981.3yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
1/24/89 Ted Bundy is executed via electric chair at the Florida state prison2yr ⋅ AgentJGomez ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Violet Queen of Sinking Ships Jessop who was on the Olympic when it crashed, Titanic when it hit an iceberg, and the Britannic when a mine sank it, all within the span of 5 years. Coincidence?2yr ⋅ chomskyhonk69 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
As photography became more common, an odd tradition emerged - medical students taking pictures with their cadavers as sort of a first portrait into the medical field. A common trope at the time was that of the Student's Dream - where the medical student was being dissected by his cadavers.5yr ⋅ bluehairedchild ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Younger Lady, has been identified by DNA as Tutankhamun's mother. The injury to her face is ante-mortem (what killed her). Her date of birth could be around 1316 BCE. (Very common during that dynasty for men and women to shave to prevent insects infestations)2yr ⋅ TN_Egyptologist ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A US soldier poses with a giant jungle centipede during the Vietnam War, (1967)3yr ⋅ froggysaysno ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A Classic-Elephant's Foot, one of the most radioactive things on earth, lump of Black Corium, can give a lethal dose in about 5 minutes, can be damaged by AKM rounds(never change Russia) this man is far too close. Don't go see it.4yr ⋅ WeeHootieMctoo ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Charles Cunningham arrested for Indecent exposure, North Shields Police Station, England [February 9, 1903]3yr ⋅ FNaXQ ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Portrait Of German Architect Carl Weber And His Wife, Emily Of Stratford In 1850, Just Hours After She Died2yr ⋅ Ganymedei ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The Kamloops Indian Residential School ran by the Catholic Church (1937)2yr ⋅ suckontits ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
1890 - woman forced into a crucifixion pose facing a wall in a mental institution, undergoing treatment for her condition.5yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Sgt. Leonard Siffleet, captured in New Guinea, about to be beheaded by a Japanese officer with a gunto, 194310mo ⋅ silvercatbob ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
May 22, 1944 Life Magazine Picture of the Week, Arizona war worker writes her Navy boyfriend a thank-you-note for the Jap skull he sent her3yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A member of Russia's anti-sexual Skoptsy sect, whose traditions included removing male cultists' genitals and female cultists' breasts. This man was castrated as a child, causing his limbs to grow unusually long as a side effect.4yr ⋅ PablomentFanquedelic ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
George Moore (The Living Skeleton) vs. Fred Howe (The Fat Man), two circus performers, 1897.10mo ⋅ silvercatbob ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Diane Arbus: 'Child with a Hand Grenade, Central Park', 19621yr ⋅ MissNightTerrors ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
So my aunt casually tells me today that she once found a ton of skeletons in her garden.7yr ⋅ jewbo23 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Eyewitness sketch of Ethel Rosenberg's execution in the electric chair from the New York Daily News June 19, 19533yr ⋅ -AberdeenBumbledorf- ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
An early meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club at a theater in Ocean Park, California, early 1930s.2yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
My grandmother was once hunted by Ed Gein. A bit of the story inside:1yr ⋅ Proximity ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
This is the bomb that killed more than 70 thousand people in Nagasaki (1945)4yr ⋅ froggysaysno ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The residents of Survival Town, Nevada awaiting an atomic bomb blast as part of Operation Teapot4yr ⋅ WeeHootieMctoo ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Conrad Veidt in his role as Gwynplaine in the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
