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
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#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
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#5 A Train Shredded After A Boiler Explosion - There's Something About This Image I Find Weirdly Unsettling
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#9 A Full-Faced Swimming Mask Designed To Protect Women's Skin From The Sun In The 1920s
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#11 A Drunken Man In Top Hat And Tails Clings To A Lamp-Post, London, 1934. Photo By Bill Brandt
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#14 Human Teeth Found In The Wall Of A Building Formerly Used By A Dentist In The Early 1900s
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#16 A Woman In The Wild West Wearing A Bonnet And A Mask Designed To Protect Skin From Sun Damage
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