50+ Insanely Creepy Vintage Photos That Will Probably Give You Nightmares

#1 No kids are going to see this show

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#2 Burned and melted wax figures after the 1925 fire at Madame Tussauds in London

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#3 Children’s Halloween Costumes in the early 1900s

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#4 A patient undergoing treatment for mental illness in Germany by being forced into a crucifixion pose, 1890

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#5 The stuff of nightmares

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#6 Creepy Santa

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#7 A 19th-century anthropologist showing off his pair of shrunken heads from Ecuador

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#8 A patient undergoing experimental electrical stimulation in 1856

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#9 Lon Chaney as a friendly neighborhood clown, He, in the 1924 MGM silent movie He Who Gets Slapped

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#10 Who’s the guy?

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#11 An anatomy class posing with a cadaver, 1901

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#12 Last picture of 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters taken by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades

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#13 The ornately arranged skeletons of Rome’s Capuchin Crypt, circa 1900

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#14 Creepy Ventriloquist Doll

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#15 It’s not just the crows who are scared

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#16 Seems like a nice family dinner, until you see that

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#17 This portrait of child getting cozy with Krampus, circa 1900

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#18 A ghostly apparition caught on film during a wake, circa 1920

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#19 Two women wearing bird headdresses have a chat

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#20 Andersonville Prison Camp Inmate

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#21 Happy families

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#22 The blushing bride

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#23 The childlike scrawl which reads, “For heavens sake catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself,” written by the Lipstick Killer in 1946

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#24 A lone scientist descending into the radioactive darkness of Chernobyl in 1986

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#25 This macabre scene of a mortician haunted by his day job in 1910

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#26 Two engineers fix a Disney animatronic

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#27 Leg of John Bentley

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#28 Creepy family photo

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#29 Frankenstein’s Monster Jnr

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#30 There’s something behind you

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#31 A dinner table set up for 14 unsuspecting guests in 1946

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#32 A salesman’s collection of glass eyes, circa 1900

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#33 The dripping doll heads of a toy factory, circa 1900

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#34 She’ll catch her death out there

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#35 And this picture of an unannounced visitor to a child’s slumber in 1860

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#36 And this woman who decided she’d prefer to be a doll herself in 1865

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#37 A pair of entertainers unpacking their “dummy” friend in 1925

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#38 This farmer with the brilliant idea of dressing his scarecrow as a skeleton in 1937

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#39 And a bit of casual company, circa 1910

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#40 The original Ronald McDonald, 1963

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#41 Myrtle Corbin, who was born in 1868 as a dipygus, which is a medical term for having an extra pelvis

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#42 Katharina Detzel, a mental patient who built her own man out of the straw in her bed, 1910

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#43 Hell’s Cafe in Paris in the 1920s

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#44 Terrifying Halloween costumes from 1925

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#45 The Mad Bomber’s Hair-Raising Smile

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#46 A girl who grew up in a concentration camp draws a picture of “home” while living in a “residence for disturbed children,” 1948

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#47 Nice masks

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#48 The creepiest fancy dress party ever

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#49 Seem like a nice bunch

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#50 If you see this lot march into your town… run

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#51 Mum and dad are really cool

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#52 This guy isn’t at all weird in any way

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#53 Come on kids, sit on the easter bunny’s knee

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#54 A young girl brought to life by French inventors in the 18th century

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#55 Four unidentified flying objects glowing in the sky at 9:35 a.m. on July 15, 1952, in Salem, Massachusetts

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#56 A baby in a refugee home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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#57 Camel girl

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#58 This is what kids made do with pre-Barbie

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#59 Fright in white

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#60 Bad Santa

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#61 A visit from the angel of death in 1863

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#62 Two-Headed Dog experiment in Russia, 1954

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#63 A portrait of “Lionel the Lion Faced Boy” during the height of his fame in 1907

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#64 The grotesque sight of a headless woman performing in a Coney Island sideshow in 1945

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#65 The medium Eva C. forcing a luminous apparition between her hands on May 17, 1912

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#66 The crime scene on the night of Nov. 11, 1974, that inspired The Amityville Horror

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#67 Parents posed with their dead daughter

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