With the first photographs being produced over a century ago, the world captured in them looked very different from now. We can feel slightly disconnected from it and imagine we’re looking into a strange reflection of the past instead.
r/OldSchoolCreepy is perhaps a portal into it. People can share their vintage photography on anything from the primitive Halloween costumes of yesteryear, to Victorian-era portraits where something doesn’t feel quite right. Maybe it’s the grainy, black and white prints that provide a certain ghostly quality and make us so uneasy. There's plenty of strange contraptions and gruesome horror imagery too.
Check out Bored Panda’s picks from the page, if you dare...
#1 Martin Luther King Jr. With His Son, Pulling Up A Burnt Cross From The Front Lawn Of His Atlanta Home, April 1960
Image credits: Xoloj
#2 Children After Working In The Mine
Image credits: makesyousayilost
#3 Department Store Wax Mannequins Melting During A Heatwave In 1929
Image credits: timpytimpoo
#4 A Letter From Schizophrenic Patient Emmy Hauck To Her Husband. It Consists Only Phrase “Herzensschatzi Komm” (Darling Please Come) And “Komm Komm Komm” (Come, Come, Come ) Repeated Over And Over
Image credits: froggysaysno
#5 A Train Shredded After A Boiler Explosion - There's Something About This Image I Find Weirdly Unsettling
Image credits: MellotronSymphony
#6 Halloween Costumes From The 1930s
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#7 Oldest Surviving Diving Suit, 18th Century
Image credits: thedodoqueen
#8 Tim Curry On The Set Of 'It' (1990)
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#9 A Full-Faced Swimming Mask Designed To Protect Women's Skin From The Sun In The 1920s
Image credits: Forrest724
#10 It Drinks
Image credits: cacatuca
#11 Washing A Crucifix, 1938
Image credits: spiceprincesszen
#12 A 16th Century Plague Doctors Mask
Image credits: Cj_stricklen111
#13 A Drunken Man In Top Hat And Tails Clings To A Lamp-Post, London, 1934. Photo By Bill Brandt
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#14 Photo Of Two Women With Super Long Hair
Image credits: digital_dysthymia
#15 Some Paper Mache Heads From The First World War
Image credits: WeeHootieMctoo
#16 Old Doll Factory
Image credits: onepersononeidea
#17 Human Teeth Found In The Wall Of A Building Formerly Used By A Dentist In The Early 1900s
Image credits: chubachus
#18 1952 U.S. Advertisement For Van Camp's Pork & Beans
Image credits: Whey-Men
#19 A Woman In The Wild West Wearing A Bonnet And A Mask Designed To Protect Skin From Sun Damage
Image credits: JankCranky
#20 Meeting Of The Mickey Mouse Club In The 1930's
Image credits: wineddinedand69ed
#21 17th Century Metal Mask That Was Used To Restrain Individuals Who Were Considered To Be Insane
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#22 Humpty Dumpty 1939
Image credits: onepersononeidea
#23 Photograph Of A Victorian Baby Held By Their Mother
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#24 The Original Ronald Mcdonald, 1963
Image credits: Forrest724
#25 A Clean-Cut Charles Manson On His Wedding Day In 1955
Image credits: Dia-fukin-rrhea
#26 The Moon From The French 1902 Movie "A Trip To The Moon"
Image credits: Guy1404
#27 A Happy Clown From The Early 1900s
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#28 Goldilocks And The Three Bears, 1908
Image credits: wineddinedand69ed
#29 Freezing Off Freckles Procedure In 1930s
Image credits: onepersononeidea
#30 Glurpo, The World's Only Underwater Clown
Image credits: TommyAdagio
#31 My Grandfather And His Sister
Image credits: WatchTheFireworks
#32 Found This Weird Photo Online. The Title Said That It's From "Page 896 Of The American Florist, A Weekly Journal For The Trade (1885)". Please Make Special Note Of His Feet
Image credits: digital_dysthymia
#33 Behind-The-Scenes Of Teletubbies' In The Late-90s
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#34 Children Salute The American Flag In Front Of The Morgan Hill School (California), 1930s
Image credits: Trashcoelector
#35 Three Girls In Masked Costumes At Halloween Festivities In College Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio In 1929
Image credits: Sleeeepy_Hollow
#36 He's Probably A Good Boy But Sure Looks Odd
Image credits: Nosferatatouille
#37 1938 - Trays Of Artificial Eyes
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Image credits: mistermajik2000
