45 Oddly Horrifying Pictures That Made Us Uncomfortable In New Ways

Not all horror is loud. Sometimes it’s a quiet little tweet with a weird photo and a backstory that stays in your brain way too long.

That’s the magic of Oddly Horrifying, an Instagram account that pairs these images with some creepy context. On the surface, it might be an old photo, a blurry statue, or a random historical fact. But once you read the caption, it crosses the line into deeply unsettling territory.

Here are their most oddly horrifying posts that look weird at first, then get worse once you know what’s actually going on.


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