These Creepy Vintage Photographs From the Early 20th Century Will Make Your Skin Crawl
Vintage Halloween costume snapshot
In today’s world, it’s easy to forget that everyday life used to be a lot different. People wore different clothes, read encyclopedias, and used rotary phones.
Oh, and everything was creepy as hell, or at least it was according to the contents of these 50 vintage pictures. Maybe it’s all the black and white photography, but there is just something about these old-school photos that makes your skin crawl.
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Nurse feeds a patient while Jesus watches. Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, c.1920s.
Creepy doll sitting alone in a child’s chair, April 20, 1930
Creepy woman climbs the stairs, c.1930s
Bear terrifies small child
Two girls in Halloween masks on a porch
Little boy sits in a wagon. “Mark Connelly”, 1968.
Farmers in homemade Halloween costumes
A group of ghostly people
Moldy baby picture
Blackface Halloween costume
Startled woman on Christmas night
Ghostly mother and baby
Ghostly mother and baby
Grungy school girl portrait
Grandma and grandpa pose with a light leak
Tiny old woman sits on her rocking chair on the porch
Four ghostly women posing in front of a house
Woman in plaid dress stares at the camera
Tin type portrait of an intense young boy
Tin type portrait of an intense young girl
Sad little girl holds her doll
Eyeless woman and child wearing a hat
Screaming woman tied to a tree
Ghostly house double exposure
Sitting man holds an axe
Dead-eyed girl portrait
Baby with hidden father
Two girls pose with a creepy Santa
Creepy long-haired girl
Two terrified little girls on the road
Creepy little boy holds his cat in front of a mirror, 1910
Woman poses with a creepy doll
Woman in a dress hunches over in her bedroom
Creepy family singing in the parlor
Sad little girl holds hands with her scratched-out sister, Lincoln, Illinois
Large group of cross-dressing party-goers
Woman lying in bed with smallpox
Creepy girl with long hair
Creepy little boy wearing a gas mask
Blurry-faced girl with her doll and stuffed bear
Man stands next to another person wearing a creepy mask
Little girl reading a book in a burned-out forest
Blurly people standing in front of a car
Creepy Halloween party with Ouija Board
Little girl examining a large doll on Christmas
Little girl pushing a stroller in a foggy forest
Creepy woman crawling off the couch
Doll stands by itself on a chair in the sunlight, 1934
Santa Claus visiting a woman, Dec. 24 1958
