32 Vintage Photos That Are Just Plain Creepy
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03/21/2015
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Photos from the past that will send chills down your spine.
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1. Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum in London.
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2. Patrons at Hell's Cafe in Paris, which shut down some time in the mid-20th century.
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3. The contestants at a beauty pageant that didn't want to judge them on their looks.
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4. A terrifying vintage Halloween costume.
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5. A Mickey Mouse gas mask, which was used to make the devices more appealing to children.
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6. Myrtle Corbin, who was born in 1868 with an extra pelvis. Myrtle spent her early years in a circus sideshow.
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7. An early example of "horsemanning", the 1920's version of "planking."
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8. A woman undergoes anti-freckle treatment.
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9. Two engineers fix a Disney animatronic.
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10. Two parents posed with their dead daughter in the middle.
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11. Two women wearing bird headdresses have a chat.
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12. An early family photo gone creepily-wrong.
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13. A girl who grew up in a concentration camp draws a picture of “home” while living in a "residence for disturbed children."
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14. American troops in Brewster body armor.
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15. Mental patient Katharina Detzel, who built her own man out of the straw in her bed.
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16. Two clowns and Santa visit a girl in hospital.
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17. Children on Halloween
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18. Santa wasn't always cheerful.
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19. Contestants at a "Miss Lovely Eyes" pageant in Florida. They wore masks so that judges only scored them on their eyes.
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20. A nurse and a new born baby pose in their gas masks.
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21. Neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne electrocuting a man's face in order to study facial muscles. France.
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22. A meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club.
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23. The poor man's Halloween costume.
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24. Two patrons at the Rothschild "Illuminati" party.
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25. Ella Harper, who suffered from a disorder that weakens the ligaments in the knees, was known as Camel Girl.
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26. A Navajo man dressed up as a Nayenezgani spirit.
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27. Ventriloquist Jules Vernon with his horrifying family of puppets.
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28. An Iron Lung ward used for treating children with polio.
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29. Boys returning from their initiation into the Poro, a secret society in parts of Africa.
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30. Max Schreck sitting in between takes of the silent movie Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
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31. The isolater, a hood that shut out all sound.
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32. A shell shocked soldier gives a thousand yard stare.
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Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum in London.
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