A baby found during the clean up of the Chernobyl accident is pushed in a carriage by a liquidator, 19867mo ⋅ keeperofthecan ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
My mom and I on Halloween in 1989. Note the fact that she has a cigarette and is also pregnant with my brother2yr ⋅ creepy_robot ⋅ 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 1941.1yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Melted wax figures rescued from the 1925 fire at Madam Tussaud's London museum2yr ⋅ BunnyLovr ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Meditation room with stuffed animals and dried human heads, Tibet, 1920.1yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A full-faced swimming mask designed to protect women's skin from the sun in the 1920s2yr ⋅ Forrest724 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A drunken man in top hat and tails clings to a lamp-post, London, 1934. Photo by Bill Brandt.2yr ⋅ Sleeeepy_Hollow ⋅ 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)3yr ⋅ WeeHootieMctoo ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
17th century metal mask that was used to restrain individuals who were considered to be insane.2yr ⋅ Sleeeepy_Hollow ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Patient brutally restrained in a mental institution, France circa 19001yr ⋅ Runoco ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Still from British movie First men on the moon from 1919. now a lost film.1yr ⋅ 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 it2yr ⋅ Alexander_the_odd ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
New Year in a psychiatric hospital, Moscow, 1988. Photographer: Pavel Krivtsov11mo ⋅ 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]2yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Only photo I have of my grandpa that died in vietnam. My dad was 3 when he passed.2yr ⋅ Death_Mark_Is_OP ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space. 19672yr ⋅ Mosso3232 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Colorized photo of Rasputin with Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna, her children and their nurse, 19086mo ⋅ Star_Ship_55 ⋅ 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 light5mo ⋅ Kombucha_drunk ⋅ 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.2yr ⋅ digital_dysthymia ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Australian soldiers after being liberated from Japanese concentration camp, 1945.2yr ⋅ boywhospy ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Jacob Miller (1829-1917), shot in the head at Chickamauga in 1863 and walked it off7mo ⋅ Star_Ship_55 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
An Iron Age bog mummy found in 1871 called Rendswuhren Man, image circa 1873.1yr ⋅ JankCranky ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Playboy publishing a 9-page fully nude 10 year old in 1976... need I say more?2yr ⋅ rubdub56 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Image taken from a Purdue University publication titled Debris2yr ⋅ digital_dysthymia ⋅ 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.1yr ⋅ 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...1yr ⋅ 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)1yr ⋅ Stoopid_Noah ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Children salute the American flag in front of the Morgan Hill school (California), 1930s2yr ⋅ Trashcoelector ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A Navajo man performing a Night Chant ceremony while dressed up as the Navajo God Nayenezgani, 1904.1yr ⋅ JankCranky ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The other kids were scared of him and he cried when he looked in the mirror2yr ⋅ MadeEntirelyOfBeans ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Austro-Hungarian sailors wearing anti-flash protection gear, designed to protect the wearer from short-duration flame exposure and heat, 19165mo ⋅ Star_Ship_55 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Old photo of (twins? sisters?) with one scratched out. Cant help but wonder at the context - likely late 1800's early 1900's5mo ⋅ gwynsbooty ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A little different, but this is by far the most disturbing valentine I’ve found in family scrapbooks (1963)1yr ⋅ RuthBaderKnope ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A woman in the Wild West wearing a bonnet and a mask designed to protect skin from sun damage.1yr ⋅ JankCranky ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Bought my first house and found this picture hidden away... any idea the time period?2yr ⋅ chrisaze ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Audrey Hepburn Photographed by Richard Avedon in New York, 19679mo ⋅ MissNightTerrors ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
1/24/89 Ted Bundy is executed via electric chair at the Florida state prison1yr ⋅ AgentJGomez ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Mujahideen fighters wearing Soviet Gas masks, Soviet war in Afghanistan, March 1981.1yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ 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?1yr ⋅ chomskyhonk69 ⋅ 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)1yr ⋅ TN_Egyptologist ⋅ 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.4yr ⋅ bluehairedchild ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A US soldier poses with a giant jungle centipede during the Vietnam War, (1967)2yr ⋅ froggysaysno ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Charles Cunningham arrested for Indecent exposure, North Shields Police Station, England [February 9, 1903]2yr ⋅ FNaXQ ⋅ 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.3yr ⋅ WeeHootieMctoo ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The Kamloops Indian Residential School ran by the Catholic Church (1937)10mo ⋅ suckontits ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Portrait Of German Architect Carl Weber And His Wife, Emily Of Stratford In 1850, Just Hours After She Died1yr ⋅ Ganymedei ⋅ 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 her2yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
1890 - woman forced into a crucifixion pose facing a wall in a mental institution, undergoing treatment for her condition.3yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ 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.3yr ⋅ PablomentFanquedelic ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Diane Arbus: 'Child with a Hand Grenade, Central Park', 19629mo ⋅ MissNightTerrors ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Eyewitness sketch of Ethel Rosenberg's execution in the electric chair from the New York Daily News June 19, 19531yr ⋅ -AberdeenBumbledorf- ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
An early meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club at a theater in Ocean Park, California, early 1930s.1yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
This is the bomb that killed more than 70 thousand people in Nagasaki (1945)2yr ⋅ froggysaysno ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The residents of Survival Town, Nevada awaiting an atomic bomb blast as part of Operation Teapot3yr ⋅ WeeHootieMctoo ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
So my aunt casually tells me today that she once found a ton of skeletons in her garden.6yr ⋅ jewbo23 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Major general Horatio Gordon Robley with his Mokomokai collection. 1895 (preserved heads of Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, where the faces have been decorated by ta moko tattooing)1yr ⋅ Feiruzz ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
My grandmother was once hunted by Ed Gein. A bit of the story inside:6mo ⋅ Proximity ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Conrad Veidt in his role as Gwynplaine in the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs3yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Tutankhamun's head. Harry Burrton Photo published Dec. 1925. @ Griffin Institute/Oxford University.1yr ⋅ TN_Egyptologist ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Shadow of a noose against a brick tower during war crimes trials. Nuremberg, Germany.3yr ⋅ froggysaysno ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
I wouldn't want to find myself driving next to this unholy trinity, caught on film in 19389mo ⋅ MissNightTerrors ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Creepy photo of my great grandma (second from right) with her sisters.1yr ⋅ MaximusWolf97 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Good Old Krampus, making his yearly rounds stealing babies on Christmas [c.1900]3yr ⋅ FNaXQ ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
My grandpa, his parents, and their dog. My great-grandmother later hung the dog for no reason other than being tired of him, and made my grandpa watch when he was around 7 years old. I hardly knew her but from the stories I heard, she was one messed up woman.1yr ⋅ Berenbos ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Dummy of Linda Blair built by make-up artist Dick Smith for the 1973 movie The Exorcist3yr ⋅ froggysaysno ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Ted Bundy with Carol Bartholomew as he helped with the dishes after a birthday party, 1975.1yr ⋅ JankCranky ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
