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

Vintage photographs always fascinate us; they depict how people lived before, how they suffered, how they fought, how they survived, and how they scared others. Here we at Bygonely have collected some spooky old photographs blended with an unimaginable creepy feeling of uneasiness. Vote your favorites or scariest, and don’t forget to share.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#24 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Former Bouquet seller now making a go with blogging and graphic designing. I love creating & composing history articles and lists.

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