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25 Oddly Disturbing Pictures From History

Freak shows and oddities from the vault of history.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 7 years ago in Creepy

Freak shows and oddities from the vault of history.

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2 Italian men walking in Berlin, Germany in 1936.

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3 Women pose for a picture (well 2 pose, 1 hides from it) in Lebanon in 1892.

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A mental patient in Kerala, India in 1901.

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A woman shows off some masks in the US in 1953.

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Women pretend to be dead severed heads for a creepy picture shoot using trick photography in the US in 1908.

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A creepy doll from France in 1964.

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A woman shows off her foot in China in 1911. This deformity is not natural, and was caused by the age old practice of binding girls feet at a young age, which would deform the entire foot and cause many issues for the women later in life.

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School children playing with a large robot in Japan in 1968.

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A man dressed as Santa Claus in the US in 1932.

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A man demonstrates how to practice with a special resuscitation mannequin in Norway in 1970. The mannequin is made by the Norwegian toy maker Åsmund S. Laerdal.

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Adventurer Osa Johnson with local tribal women in Kenya in 1933.

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None other than Judy Garland of The Wizard of Oz fame doing blackface for the film Everybody Sing in 1938. She was 15 years old at the time.

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A fake dinosaur in Cambridge, England in 1932.

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A freak show performer in France in 1911. This performer went on for years touring the world advertising she had absorbed the head of her twin and the twins body protruded out while inside the womb. It took nearly 6 years before it was exposed as a hoax.

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A Russian man wearing a gas mask during WWI in 1916.

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Bob Melvin, who was known as The Man With Two Faces, in his trailer in Fargo, ND, US in 1976.

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A woman crawling off her couch in the US in the 1940s.

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A performer during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, US in 1920.

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The entrance to a club in Paris, France in 1923.

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A circus clown in the US in 1923.

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A young girl getting her hair curled, marketed as a permanent procedure, to look like Shirley Temple in Berlin, Germany in 1938.

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A woman tied to a tree for a bondage role play in the US in 1936.

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Mummified priests in the Palermo Catacombs in Italy in 1930.

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A man from the Amazon in Brazil with shrunken human heads in 1925.

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A kid feeds her pet goats in the US in 1948.

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