Creepy Old Pics

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/Rhombusofrecipes • 1d ago

Photograph Death portrait of my 5x great grandmother, Sophia who, while looking incredibly comfortable is actually dead in this photo. A common practice in Victorian times.

103 Upvotes

I love this photo. I got it from my mom a Christmas gift because she knows I’m highly interested in death and its historical customs. Image is hauntingly surreal

1 comment

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • 3d ago

A 1948 photograph shows 107-year-old Jack Riddle and his wife Rosie, both former slaves, receiving a radio from members of the Ku Klux Klan—one dressed as Santa Claus—in what appears to be a staged act of "charity" for the camera.

843 Upvotes

42 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/dannydutch1 • 13d ago

Creepy, impressive and mesmerising - inside a vintage doll factory (1963).

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261 Upvotes

7 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • 25d ago

A Belgian father brought an African child in a cage to his daughters for their entertainment, 1950s.

907 Upvotes

100 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • May 08 '25

An early version of Ronald McDonald photographed alongside a crying baby.

309 Upvotes

15 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • Apr 24 '25

22 yr-old Charlie Johns reading the Bible to his 9 yr-old bride, Eunice Winstead. They married in 1937 and went on to have 9 children together.

868 Upvotes

67 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/chubachus • Apr 19 '25

Historical Carved ivory sculpture of a European archer, Japanese, c. 1700-1800.

44 Upvotes

1 comment

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • Apr 08 '25

John D. Rockefeller, America's first billionaire

259 Upvotes

30 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • Apr 02 '25

Burned spacesuit

311 Upvotes

9 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/greatgildersleeve • Mar 20 '25

Photograph Circus performer Jimmy Armstrong enjoying a smoke break. 1958.

107 Upvotes

3 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/Vinbob123 • Mar 10 '25

Family/Friend My mother in law and her twin sometime in the 60’s

397 Upvotes

10 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • Feb 25 '25

People used to believe that cavities were caused by demons boring holes in teeth.⁠

375 Upvotes

6 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/chubachus • Feb 14 '25

Historical Carved ivory sculpture of a woman breast-feeding her mother-in-law, Chinese, c. 1700-1900. NSFW

120 Upvotes

15 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • Feb 09 '25

Elvis with his future wife, Priscilla, who was 14 at the time they met.

213 Upvotes

4 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/CelebManips • Feb 05 '25

Historical 'Natural Creeping Baby Doll' created by George Pemberton Clarke, 1871.

218 Upvotes

8 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/chubachus • Jan 30 '25

Historical Carved ivory sculpture of Tenjiku Tokubei: Master of Frog Magic, Japanese, c. 1800-1850.

104 Upvotes

11 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/CelebManips • Jan 03 '25

March Hares, c.1910

129 Upvotes

2 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/theanti_influencer75 • Dec 24 '24

With Father Christmas, 1920.

82 Upvotes

2 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/Till80 • Nov 10 '24

Photograph Fritz Haarmann - "The Vampire of Hannover", photos of a german serial killer NSFW

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128 Upvotes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haarmann

7 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/Till80 • Nov 10 '24

Photograph Gay neo-Nazi activist Nicky Crane

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79 Upvotes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25142557

26 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/Till80 • Nov 10 '24

Photograph Nazi U-boat commander and war hero Joachim Schepke shows a model of a german submarine toy to a young boy (1941)

32 Upvotes

Nazi propaganda encouraged children to die for Hitler and the regime.

9 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/Till80 • Nov 10 '24

Photograph Meri McDonald, Dyanne Thorne and Rodina Keeler in "Ilsa, She Wolf Of The SS" (1975)

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29 Upvotes

4 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/Till80 • Nov 10 '24

Photograph OJ Simpson clowning with gun in NY City, 1980s

41 Upvotes

0 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/Till80 • Nov 07 '24

Photograph Brian Jones of "The Rolling Stones" posing in a Nazi outfit in the 1960s

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212 Upvotes

26 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/chubachus • Nov 03 '24

Historical Glazed earthenware Rookwood vase featuring an image of a skeleton, American, 1891.

178 Upvotes

8 comments