Old Mysterious Photos that will Haunt Your Dreams

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Looking at old vintage photos out of context is not only a recipe for creepiness, it’s also one of our favorite pastimes. What passed for everyday life 60+ years ago might send you running down the block screaming today. The following photos are downright eerie, anyway you spin it. And since we cannot explain many of them… it only leaves our imaginations running wild with the unspeakable horrors they originated from. Enjoy!

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Holey chicken-skin balls…
Mike Caudill

So these were supposed to be creepy?
- over the moon
  
  You must have an incredible threshold for creepiness.
Savanna Rachel

The eighth photo looks like an old seance photo. The ectoplasm thing?
Chris

The third picture down (with the horses) is from a 2006 movie called “My Winnipeg”, not sure I’d qualify it as old or even that creepy.
- KEBO
  
  The fact that the picture comes from the documentary film My Winnipeg does’nt mean it’s not old.Look at how the couple are clothed,got to be 60/70 years ago .
  - The Ghost Diaries
    
    We agree–it’s definitely creepy and it’s at least portending to be old.
alistaircrane

Lots of evil wizards in these pictures! Creeeeeepppy!!!!!
Melissa

Ugh not creepy in fact one photo made me giggle
- The Ghost Diaries
  
  Your threshold for creepiness is supernatural.
John Foytek

love these pictures totally gonna put some of em on the book.
Marco Eco

hey there, what you collect and call creepy pictures are my big obsession. I am used to finding art and amusment in them. but there’s one picture that have captured my attention: the one of my profile too, the third from the bottom. I’d like to know more about it…for example where did you get it. please answer. see ya
Ant Mark Walton

Great photos! I can explain a couple of these The children with the masks: These are gas masks, produced to make evacuation times a bit more pleasant for children during WW2 in Britain. I remember one of my elderly teachers brought her Mickey Mouse one into school when I was a kid in the 80s. She had a photo similar outside her house with her siblings in similar cartoon character head wear. Though the car in the background doesnt look very authentic to that period, but they are gas masks all the same. Photo 11 with the children and hooded figure: This is the children’s mother. Due to the slow shutter speeds of cameras in the early 1900s, the mother would be covered to prevent distraction as children still have a habit of turning round to look at the mother (a strange but obviously effective method which is evident). The last photo is obviously WW2 Britain, doesnt need much explaining, a school publicity shot raising awareness for the importance of gas masks, an also highlighting the horrific period, as with the “While wait till 1955″ table photo, many people carried their masks with them in case, so they are probably making light of the matter for at a family wedding. The “Students Dream” photo I believe to be from the US and was a class arts project. As the same with photo 5, but a family Halloween snap, but the old style camera and grey scale ad a touch of eeriness. The photo of the children in the rocking chair has a mysterious figure in the background but he appears to not be of that photo but he is, the tree twigs that seem to be through are scratches or most likely cross developing; extremely common of the time which did create some very amazing haunting photos. The photo of the atom bomb explosion looks like a still from a film, due to the interlacing. Photo 9 is a photograph from a silent film set, but I am not aware of it’s title, but seen it several times. Photo 8 of the man in the chair… Not sure whether this is a genuine session analysing a man with mental health, or again some mock project… but again due to the poor exposure of cameras, especially in poor lighting, if the man was vigorously moving his head we get this eerie blur which may suggest an authentic photo of a man possibly being tortured or having some kind of mental episode, so quite possibly the most disturbing photo here! Same with 6, slow shutter blur on these moving children. I hope you don’t find me a killjoy haha! I know some people really enjoy reading the actual stories behind photos just as much as appreciate the haunting qualities Some great photos there nonetheless
Ant Mark Walton

Also, I don’t think I have a definitive explanation for the first photo personally, but from what I have seen in the past it is quite possibly a young girl with a horse riders face mask. To shield her face from dust while in a cab. We often think of our ancestors as having no sense of humour and for only taking serious photos – but in modern times, if your friend looked that ridiculous – wouldnt you want to take a snap for facebook?
AyeAye

Pictures 2 and 9 appear to be from Nazarene processions. They’re supposed to be sad and sombre so if that’s creepy… #4 is clearly meant as a joke, their skirts have school subjects written on them. One clearly says calculus. I’ll join the “not-creepy” club on here… I mean come on, I thought you’d finally prove the chupacabra or something
General Wilhelm Llama

The very last photo taken with the gas masks is actually a 1936 gas attack drill in the Soviet union. If you look closely the man with the cap in the centre is wearing a soviet military uniform w/ pre-1942 rank tabs on the collar. Still a creepy photo though.
candy martin

I wish there were some descriptions of these photos. Many are indeed creepy and haunting.

Old Mysterious Photos that will Haunt Your Dreams

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