Ivory memento showing a gradually decaying face of a dead person in three stages, c. 1500-1550.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Dancers in Bali, Indonesia dressed as the demon queen Rangda, 19376yr ⋅ The_Upsetter ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Sumerian votive statues from the Temple of Eshnunna [x post r/ArtefactPorn]3yr ⋅ halfacat4545 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
June 15,1904 the General Slocum,a steamboat caught fire and sank in NYC killing an estimated 1,021 people on board.5yr ⋅ Carp69 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Lizzie Borden, a woman who supposedly murdered her father and stepmother in 1892. She was the main suspect, and only other person home at the time of the murders, but for some reason acquitted. This is her later in life, looking all creepy5yr ⋅ GearbusterX ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Redditor found this antique man-with-pig bank in an antique store. [x-post from /r/wtfgaragesale]5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
In 1945 a B-25 lost in fog collided with the Empire State Building, killing all 3 persons in the aircraft and 11 people in the building.5yr ⋅ Carp69 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Ultraviolet radiation of sick children at the Institute for Radiation Therapy, London, 1934.6yr ⋅ FNaXQ ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Ancient Roman floor mosaic showing skull with wheel of fortune found buried at Pompeii. [x-post /r/artefactporn]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Painted clay-covered human skull with cowrie shell eyes and human hair from Papua New Guinea, c. 1800-1900. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship.5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Ten members of Shackleton’s group were stranded when the Aurora blue out to sea. Three men died before they were rescued. Photo taken during the expedition (1916).5yr ⋅ tiggerclaw ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn minutes to hours.5yr ⋅ Carp69 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Selknam people(Southern Chile) wearing their traditional costumes for their sacred ceremony Hain6yr ⋅ frankenchokis ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Photo that conveys the inner self of George Peter Metesky, better known as the Mad Bomber. He was an American electrician and mechanic who terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices. C. 1957.4yr ⋅ jessicamshannon ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Momma never told me there'd be nights like this, APF Electronics 'Imagination Machine', 1980s4yr ⋅ itsacalamity ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A steel executioner's mask believed to be Portuguese, c. 1500-1800.5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Framed death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte presented to E.T. Gast by George deMenil, c. 1821-1850.5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Creepy ventriloquist and his equally creepy dummy, circa 1920's6yr ⋅ The_Upsetter ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
My great granfather with his family. This photo was taken shortly after his wife commited suicide when she accidentally killed her newborn baby. My grandpa is the one on the far left. Spain, circa 1920s5yr ⋅ Genitalicus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Figures salvaged from a fire at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London, 19256yr ⋅ The_Upsetter ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
1960, my Dad getting his photo taken with a man in a bear costume.6yr ⋅ ThatsGottaBeKane ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The original Ma and Pa Ingalls, the little house on the prairie, on their wedding day in 1860. The eyes of Pa Ingalls....5yr ⋅ curlysass ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Members of a secret society at the University of Illinois. [x-post /r/whatisthisthing]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
May 9, 1980 M/V Summit Venture struck the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Florida causing sections of the bridge to fall into the ocean killing 35 people.5yr ⋅ Carp69 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
OJ Simpson sandwiched between a blonde and a redhead (my mom). She said the murders took place shortly after this night.6yr ⋅ cookiethump ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The robot from The Phantom Creeps (with bonus Bela Lugosi)5yr ⋅ InevitableBohemian ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Halloween-from an old silent home movie that belonged to my great uncle6yr ⋅ FatsyCline12 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
On Dec 16, 1960 a midair collision caused 2 aircraft to fall to the ground in New York killing 134 people.5yr ⋅ Carp69 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
TIM CURRY (Pennywise The Clown) taking a break during filming Stephen Kings IT (1990)7yr ⋅ jimmy_2shoes ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Charlie Starkweather being transported after killing 11 people in Nebraska and Wyoming between Dec '57 and Jan '58, he was executed June 25 1959,5yr ⋅ Carp69 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Great Grandmother celebrating Mardi Gras with her friends in 1917. Galveston Island, TX6yr ⋅ col_clipspringer ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Mental patient Katharina Detzel, who built her own man out of mattress ticking and the straw in her bed, 1914.6yr ⋅ wineddinedand69ed ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Costume designed by German avant garde artist Oskar Schlemmer for his Triadic Ballet, 19226yr ⋅ The_Upsetter ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
My grandmother and great aunt in 1953 in homemade Halloween costumes.7yr ⋅ couchpotatoskins ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
This card from the 1920s. Handed out in intimating fashion to brand pedestrians as intruders to the roadways.6yr ⋅ BlueMeanie03 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Carved wooden jester’s head used as an advertisement for an apothecary shop, European, c. 1750-1850.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
2/28/58 a KY school bus ran off the road into a river, 26 students and the driver drowned.5yr ⋅ Carp69 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Der Struwwelpeter, a children's book published in Germany in 18456yr ⋅ The_Upsetter ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A young woman writing a thank you note to her boyfriend in the Navy for the skull of a Japanese soldier that he sent, May 22, 19445yr ⋅ swaggyquaggy ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A photograph of Tesla lit by one of his phosphorescent bulbs. January, 18947yr ⋅ cosmicmoods ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Michael Jackson preparing for the Thriller music video, around 1982.7yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Katharina Detzel, a mental patient who built her own man out of the straw in her bed, 1910.6yr ⋅ curlysass ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
«Mirrors of the Soulless Void» - John Doe, Brooklyn, NY, 1932 [OC]5yr ⋅ sourcreamking ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Found this photo in my grandmother’s loft. No one has been able to identify the old women.6yr ⋅ michaelwadlow999 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Cadaver - John Doe - three months apart, Brooklyn, NY 1922/23 [OC]5yr ⋅ sourcreamking ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Engraving of the preserved head of a woman who died of syphilis in 1796.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Feb 25 1919 Simplicissimus Aus einem Zyklus: Der Krieg, wie ich ihn sah From a Cycle: The War, as I saw it5yr ⋅ crazydarklord ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
1915 - Great grandmother and her twin looking like they came straight out of Children of the Corn.. Bonus bear rug6yr ⋅ aver ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
An ancient Native American mummy discovered in Utah before and after being restored with caustic potash in the early 1900s.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov performed an appendectomy on himself during an expedition to the Antarctic in 1961.5yr ⋅ HoneyBear_Xx ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The Submarine-hun and the Red Cross. Coloured chalk drawing by Louis Raemaekers, 1918.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
This photo of the staff of a German dairy from 1868 has one extremely unsettling guy in it7yr ⋅ seltsame ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Chinchorro mummy (Northern Chile , Southern Peru) , oldest mummified human remains.6yr ⋅ frankenchokis ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Robert L. Ripley holding a mummified Peruvian fetus he nicknamed Atta-Boy.6yr ⋅ Ilshan ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Picture of my ancestors mourning a death. Think it's from the 1800's.7yr ⋅ Addicted21ove ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
On September 6, 1949 in Camden NJ,Howard Unruh shot and killed 13 people during a 12 minute walk through his neighborhood.5yr ⋅ Carp69 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Photo of Regina Kay Walters taken by her murderer, serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades aka the truck stop murderer.7yr ⋅ casher78 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The last photograph of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin before his death, 1923 [375x440]6yr ⋅ ibkeepr ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
