Mike
Old photographs have a unique ability to send chills down your spine, especially when they’re just eerie enough to make you question what was really going on behind those faded smiles.
Today’s collection features creepy pictures from the past that leave you with that deeply unsettling feeling you can’t quite shake.
From strange, shadowy figures to hauntingly blank stares, these vintage images are guaranteed to linger in your thoughts long after you’ve scrolled past them.
Proceed if you dare.
1. Behind The Scenes Of The Shining (1980)
2. To Appear Headless While Taking A Photo, Known As “Horsemaning”, Was A Popular Way To Pose In The 1920’s
3. Apache Ghost Dance Ceremony, Taken By Edward Curtis Circa 1906
4. Behind The Scenes Of Max Reinhardt’s 1935 Adaptation Of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
5. My Mother In Law And Her Twin Sometime In The 60’s
6. Stills From The Very Druggish Children’s Show “H.r. Puffnstuff” From 1969
7. Glazed Earthenware Rookwood Vase Featuring An Image Of A Skeleton, American, 1891
8. Martin Laurello, The Only Man Who Could Rotate His Head A Full 180 Degrees, 1930s
9. A Circus Performer In Germany C.1930, By Kurt Triest
10. A Boy Named Rich Bundy In A Family Photo With His Brother, Ted, Before That Infamous Older Brother Was Caught
11. Actor Reggie Nadler Who Played The Vampire Kurt Barlow In Salem’s Lot, With Effects Mask From The Movie
12. Parrot Costume
13. Children Going To A 12-Hour Night Shift In The United States, 1908
14. Photographed In 1880, Myrtle Corbin Was Born A ‘Dipygus’, Having Two Separately Functioning Pelvises And Four Legs. She Married And Had Five Children
15. Ventriloquist’s Family Portrait, 1950s
16. Art And Camera Magazine, 1952
17. With Father Christmas, 1920
18. The “Double Exposure Girl”… A Haunting Photo Of A Girl Shot In Double Exposure [date Unknown]
19. Edna Tichenor As ‘Arachnida, The Human Spider’ In Tod Browning’s 1927 Silent Film The Show
20. The Cabaret Of Hell , Paris, 1920s
21. A Colorized Photo Of Grigori Rasputin With The Last Empress Of Russia And Her Five Children In 1908
22. Written On The Back: “Excuse Our Backs, Our Faces Are Dirty” (C.1899)
23. Dogon Stilt Dancers In Bandiagara, Mali, 70s, By James Morris
24. The “Lunatic Chair” Given To Patients Who Had Poor Behavior Or Wild Outbursts. Dutch Mental Hospital, 1938
25. “The Temptation Of St Anthony.” Oil Painting By Joos Van Craesbeeck, C. 1650
26. My God, These Halloween Masks From The 1920s Are Scaring The Crap Out Of Me!
27. At 4:31 Am, An Unauthorized Photo Taken Of Stalin Inside Of The Kremlin Shows The Very Moment He Was Informed That Germany Had Began Their Invasion Of The Soviet Union
28. Children’s Toy From The Early 1900s
29. A Boy On Krampus Shoulders During A Parade, Mitterndorf, Austria, 6th Of Dec 1949
30. 9-Year-Old Child Bride Eunice Winstead Johns And Her Husband, 22-Year-Old Charlie Johns, Sneedville, Tennessee, United States. 1937
