37 Reasons Why The Past Is Creepy, As Shared By This Online Group
Article created by: Austėja Akavickaitė
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
#3
Department Store Wax Mannequins Melting During A Heatwave In 1929
#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
#5
A Train Shredded After A Boiler Explosion – There’s Something About This Image I Find Weirdly Unsettling
#9
A Full-Faced Swimming Mask Designed To Protect Women’s Skin From The Sun In The 1920s
#13
A Drunken Man In Top Hat And Tails Clings To A Lamp-Post, London, 1934. Photo By Bill Brandt
#17
Human Teeth Found In The Wall Of A Building Formerly Used By A Dentist In The Early 1900s
#18
1952 U.S. Advertisement For Van Camp’s Pork & Beans
#19
A Woman In The Wild West Wearing A Bonnet And A Mask Designed To Protect Skin From Sun Damage
#21
17th Century Metal Mask That Was Used To Restrain Individuals Who Were Considered To Be Insane
#26
The Moon From The French 1902 Movie “A Trip To The Moon”
#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
#34
Children Salute The American Flag In Front Of The Morgan Hill School (California), 1930s
#35
Three Girls In Masked Costumes At Halloween Festivities In College Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio In 1929
