32 Vintage Photos That Are Just Plain Creepy
fartknocker
Published
03/21/2015
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Photos from the past that will send chills down your spine.
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Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum in London. -
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Patrons at Hell's Cafe in Paris, which shut down some time in the mid-20th century. -
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The contestants at a beauty pageant that didn't want to judge them on their looks. -
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A terrifying vintage Halloween costume. -
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A Mickey Mouse gas mask, which was used to make the devices more appealing to children. -
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Myrtle Corbin, who was born in 1868 with an extra pelvis. Myrtle spent her early years in a circus sideshow. -
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An early example of "horsemanning", the 1920's version of "planking." -
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A woman undergoes anti-freckle treatment. -
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Two engineers fix a Disney animatronic. -
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Two parents posed with their dead daughter in the middle. -
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Two women wearing bird headdresses have a chat. -
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An early family photo gone creepily-wrong. -
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A girl who grew up in a concentration camp draws a picture of “home” while living in a "residence for disturbed children." -
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American troops in Brewster body armor. -
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Mental patient Katharina Detzel, who built her own man out of the straw in her bed. -
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Two clowns and Santa visit a girl in hospital. -
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Children on Halloween -
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Santa wasn't always cheerful. -
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Contestants at a "Miss Lovely Eyes" pageant in Florida. They wore masks so that judges only scored them on their eyes. -
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A nurse and a new born baby pose in their gas masks. -
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Neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne electrocuting a man's face in order to study facial muscles. France. -
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A meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club. -
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The poor man's Halloween costume. -
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Two patrons at the Rothschild "Illuminati" party. -
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Ella Harper, who suffered from a disorder that weakens the ligaments in the knees, was known as Camel Girl. -
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A Navajo man dressed up as a Nayenezgani spirit. -
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Ventriloquist Jules Vernon with his horrifying family of puppets. -
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An Iron Lung ward used for treating children with polio. -
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Boys returning from their initiation into the Poro, a secret society in parts of Africa. -
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Max Schreck sitting in between takes of the silent movie Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror -
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The isolater, a hood that shut out all sound. -
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A shell shocked soldier gives a thousand yard stare.
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