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25 Oddly Disturbing Pictures From History

creepy stuff from the history vault

By Nathan Johnson

Published 7 years ago in Creepy

creepy stuff from the history vault

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US sailors showing how to turn a bed matress into a life vest if needed in 1917.

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Paduag women from Burma showing their extended necks while resting during a visit to London, England in 1935.

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Experimental camouflage in England in 1917.

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A French soldier known only as The Human Serpent showing off his flexibility to other soldiers on the Front during WWI in France in 1915.

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Men wearing special outfits for the Kukeri celebration in Bulgaria in 1992.

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Performers pose for a promo picture for a production in Moscow, Russia in 1913.

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An entrance to a circus show in France in 1920.

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A man shows off a bear costume for Carnival in Bielsa in Pyrenees, Spain sometime in the early 1900s.

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A nurse shows how they used special gas masks for newborn babies in London, England in 1940.

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A women creates a trick call where it appears her headless body powers light bulbs in Australia in 1920.

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An invention for people to get some sun without going outside in the US in 1925.

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Men wait to be publicly executed by the Japanese somewhere in China in the late 1930s.

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2 Women wear outfits for the Day of the Dead festivities in Mexico in 1984.

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Danny Ongais hits the wall in the third turn on the 64th lap of the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the US in 1981. He survived, but took a year to recover.

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A toothbrush that looks like teeth in the US in 1941.

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A man wears a Juju suit in Namibia in 1912.

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The Brewster Body Shield which could stop machine gun bullets made by the British in England in 1916.

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Asara tribal warriors in their ceremonial masks in Papa New Guinea in 1970.

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Nope, not a class picture but in fact all the mill workers in Fayettesville, Tennessee, US in 1910. The young girl in the front apparently had trouble remembering her own name.

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A horse being lifted out of a mine in the US in 1896.

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A Kwakiutl man looks at a smoked corpse used in rituals in Washington State, US in 1910.

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A man in a Donald Duck costume in Russia in 1957.

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Patient Katharina Detzel showing of the man she built from her own bedding in a mental hospital in Ohio, US in 1910.

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Women getting their hair done in a beauty shop in London, England in 1926.

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A special wedding headdress worn by a bride in Bulgaria in 1911.

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