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.
1. Vintage Halloween costume snapshot
2. Nurse feeds a patient while Jesus watches. Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, c.1920s.
3. Creepy doll sitting alone in a child's chair, April 20, 1930
4. Creepy woman climbs the stairs, c.1930s
5. Bear terrifies small child
6. Two girls in Halloween masks on a porch
7. Little boy sits in a wagon. "Mark Connelly", 1968.
8. Farmers in homemade Halloween costumes
9. A group of ghostly people
10. Moldy baby picture
11. Blackface Halloween costume
12. Startled woman on Christmas night
13. Ghostly mother and baby
14. Ghostly mother and baby
15. Grungy school girl portrait
16. Grandma and grandpa pose with a light leak
17. Tiny old woman sits on her rocking chair on the porch
18. Four ghostly women posing in front of a house
19. Woman in plaid dress stares at the camera
20. Tin type portrait of an intense young boy
21. Tin type portrait of an intense young girl
22. Sad little girl holds her doll
23. Eyeless woman and child wearing a hat
24. Screaming woman tied to a tree
25. Ghostly house double exposure
26. Sitting man holds an axe
27. Dead-eyed girl portrait
28. Baby with hidden father (mother)
29. Two girls pose with a creepy Santa
30. Creepy long-haired girl
31. Two terrified little girls on the road
32. Creepy little boy holds his cat in front of a mirror, 1910
33. Woman poses with a creepy doll
34. Woman in a dress hunches over in her bedroom
35. Creepy family singing in the parlor
36. Sad little girl holds hands with her scratched-out sister, Lincoln, Illinois
37. Large group of cross-dressing party-goers
38. Woman lying in bed with smallpox
39. Creepy girl with long hair
40. Creepy little boy wearing a gas mask
41. Blurry-faced girl with her doll and stuffed bear
42. Man stands next to another person wearing a creepy mask
43. Little girl reading a book in a burned-out forest
44. Blurly people standing in front of a car
45. Creepy Halloween party with Ouija Board
46. Little girl examining a large doll on Christmas
47. Little girl pushing a stroller in a foggy forest
48. Creepy woman crawling off the couch
49. Doll stands by itself on a chair in the sunlight, 1934
50. Santa Claus visiting a woman, Dec. 24 1958
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.
1. Vintage Halloween costume snapshot
2. Nurse feeds a patient while Jesus watches. Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, c.1920s.
3. Creepy doll sitting alone in a child's chair, April 20, 1930
4. Creepy woman climbs the stairs, c.1930s
5. Bear terrifies small child
6. Two girls in Halloween masks on a porch
7. Little boy sits in a wagon. "Mark Connelly", 1968.
8. Farmers in homemade Halloween costumes
9. A group of ghostly people
10. Moldy baby picture
11. Blackface Halloween costume
12. Startled woman on Christmas night
13. Ghostly mother and baby
14. Ghostly mother and baby
15. Grungy school girl portrait
16. Grandma and grandpa pose with a light leak
17. Tiny old woman sits on her rocking chair on the porch
18. Four ghostly women posing in front of a house
19. Woman in plaid dress stares at the camera
20. Tin type portrait of an intense young boy
21. Tin type portrait of an intense young girl
22. Sad little girl holds her doll
23. Eyeless woman and child wearing a hat
24. Screaming woman tied to a tree
25. Ghostly house double exposure
26. Sitting man holds an axe
27. Dead-eyed girl portrait
28. Baby with hidden father (mother)
29. Two girls pose with a creepy Santa
30. Creepy long-haired girl
31. Two terrified little girls on the road
32. Creepy little boy holds his cat in front of a mirror, 1910
33. Woman poses with a creepy doll
34. Woman in a dress hunches over in her bedroom
35. Creepy family singing in the parlor
36. Sad little girl holds hands with her scratched-out sister, Lincoln, Illinois
37. Large group of cross-dressing party-goers
38. Woman lying in bed with smallpox
39. Creepy girl with long hair
40. Creepy little boy wearing a gas mask
41. Blurry-faced girl with her doll and stuffed bear
42. Man stands next to another person wearing a creepy mask
43. Little girl reading a book in a burned-out forest
44. Blurly people standing in front of a car
45. Creepy Halloween party with Ouija Board
46. Little girl examining a large doll on Christmas
47. Little girl pushing a stroller in a foggy forest
48. Creepy woman crawling off the couch
49. Doll stands by itself on a chair in the sunlight, 1934
50. Santa Claus visiting a woman, Dec. 24 1958
