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.

h/t: vintag.es

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