“The Complaint (or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality)” by Edward Young, 17656yr ⋅ closecaxton ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Was looking through a bunch of family photos and came across this...7yr ⋅ _KingPuck_ ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Anti-war trading card from 1938, depicting the last moments of Emil Fey.7yr ⋅ mandaloredash ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
First ever picture taken of a tornado. Sends shivers down my spine.7yr ⋅ TheRealTayler ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A Student's Dream. Medical students' initiation rite of posing for a photo with their dissection cadavers often in humorous circumstances, 1906.9yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Think you guys might enjoy this: My mom at a PR event she organized for sonic (1991)7yr ⋅ mflmani ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Battle of Frenzella 1917. Italian front, abandoned dead on the battlefield7yr ⋅ 10nicos ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A collection of shrunken heads and skulls on display at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in London photographed in 1928.7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A creepy woman, probably in either the late 19th century or early 20th century.5yr ⋅ Souhondron ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Those little moments when you have unwanted/unexpected visitors who crave your flesh7yr ⋅ cosmicmoods ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
“Man's Usefulness Ends Not in Death, 1901. Four medical students posing with a cadaver.9yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
LIFE magazine: Arizona war worker writes her Navy boyfriend a thank you note for the skull9yr ⋅ _MarieAntoinette_ ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
One of many Russian prisoners who contracted syphilis, AIDS, or tetanus while being tattooed in the 1970s Soviet penal system.9yr ⋅ tighttummies ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Vladimir Komarov's remains after cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship 19679yr ⋅ _MarieAntoinette_ ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Colleen Stan with her kidnapper, Cameron Hooker (c. late 1970's)6yr ⋅ PrimateAndStuff ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
An Old Sign from an Old Clinic. ( The Clinic and Sign is around the 1950's Philippines)6yr ⋅ ColorBlindJournalist ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Native American smoke curing a human corpse, which then would be eaten (x-post /r/WTF)9yr ⋅ PM_ME_STH_KAWAII ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Photos of several of the victims in the Khmer Rouge's Tuol Sleng Prison. They were murdered by the Khmer Rouge shortly after the Khmer Rouge took their photos.6yr ⋅ Souhondron ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Family members gather at the site of a deadly wreck in 1938. Bottom photo shows the deceased's brother holding the headlight that caused it all. (Also have the obituary if anyone wants to read it.)4yr ⋅ NeedsMoreTuba ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
American Troops sheltering in Church in the Philippine -American War, 1899, easily explained, But still creepy.7yr ⋅ pubwithnobeer ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A photo of the headquarters of Mussolini's Italian Fascist Party in 1934.6yr ⋅ Souhondron ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A mother and child wear gas masks in the French countryside, 1918.9yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Masks used by the murderous Stratton Brothers in the early 1900s9yr ⋅ tighttummies ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A collection of horror freaks, clockwise from the left, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, and Basil Rathbone in The Comedy of Terrors (1963)9yr ⋅ JustBlue ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Ghost? Check. Little girl with doll? Check. Freaky woman with umbrella? Check. Other sorts of creep? Check. [OC] More details in comments. (X-post r/creepy)10yr ⋅ strangedaisy ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Not Sure How I Would Feel About These Two Knocking On My Door Looking For Treats8yr ⋅ egoneminem ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
From Saul Steinberg's Mask series, photo by Inge Morath, ca. 19609yr ⋅ notbob1959 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
With Dead Head British artist Damien Hirst poses with a severed head in a morgue in 1981.9yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A bronze ancient Roman memento mori skeleton with its right leg replaced by its left arm.7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
I colorized this pic of the people of the Izu Islands in Japan. Let the nightmares ensue.10yr ⋅ wtstephens ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
One of Morton Bartlett's lifelike dolls found after his death6yr ⋅ twenty_seven_owls ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The Man from Mars bandit outfit of Forest Ray Colson, San Gabriel, California, 19519yr ⋅ notbob1959 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Horatio Gordon Robley posing with his collection of mokomokai, the preserved heads of Maori with facial tattoos, 1895.9yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
One of the earliest known photographs of a Ku Klux Klansman in costume, c. 1869.9yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The body of a dead soldier who was flung into a tree by an explosion in Avocourt, France, during World War 1.9yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Messing around with somebody else's pics again. Pray For Rosemary's Baby.9yr ⋅ emilhoff ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Inside The Eagle's Hotel California album cover: Above the crowd, a figure looms in the window. Rumored to be Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan. 1976.7yr ⋅ cosmicmoods ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
An American soldier making the skull and crossbones symbol with human bones in an unidentified mass grave or ossuary in France, c. 1918.9yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Daguerreotype portrait of Dr. Jonathan Letterman at the bedside of a dead or dying patient, 1849.9yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Storybook Gardens, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, July, 1956 [xpost r/thewaywewere]7yr ⋅ bgroins ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
1900's family in Halloween costumes creepier than anything you can buy today!5yr ⋅ Elephino78 ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The mummified head of 1600's French statesman Cardinal Richelieu photographed during an exhumation of his body in Sorbonne, Paris, 1895.9yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
