30 Historical Photographs to Feel Chills

Nathan Johnson Published 09/09/2021 in wtf

There's something about the aesthetic of a vintage photograph that invokes feelings of the occult and the otherworldly. It may be more or less comforting to know that none of the photographs here were of anything but true, unvarnished reality, a moment in time from a world we'll never see again.

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Victorian woman suffering from syphilis.
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Melted Wax Figures Rescued From The 1925 Fire At Madam Tussaud's London Museum
4.
Child miners.
5.
A small mountain of bison skulls.
6.
A 17th century metal mask for those deemed insanel.
7.
Humpty Dumpty 1939
8.
A pile of bones my aunt found in her backyard.
9.
Glurpo, The Underwater Clown
10.
Early 20th century Halloween costumes.
11.
Ronald Mcdonald, 1963
12.
The sheer number of human teeth found in the wall of what once was a dentist's office.
13.
A train torn to shreds by a boiler explosion.
14.
Special effects for the 1902 french film, "Trip to the Moon"
15.
After the Celebration
16.
That's the baby's mom holding her.
17.
Van Camp's Pork & Beans ad.
18.
19.
Just a perfectly normal clown.
20.
Wax mannequins melting in the summer heat.
21.
A vintage doll factory.
22.
The Mickey mouse Club meets in 1930
23.
Linda Blair's makeup for The Exorcist.
24.
Dummy heads from World War One.
25.
The mask for medieval doctors. The beaks are stuffed with herbs and plants and were thought to act as filters against poorly understood pathogens.
26.
My Grandpa and grand-aunt.
27.
Goldilocks And The Three Bears, 1908
28.
The oldest diving suit still intact.
29.
US soldier posing with a giant jungle centipede.
30.
An early-20th century freckle removal procedure.

1.
Victorian woman suffering from syphilis.
2.
3.
Melted Wax Figures Rescued From The 1925 Fire At Madam Tussaud's London Museum
4.
Child miners.
5.
A small mountain of bison skulls.
6.
A 17th century metal mask for those deemed insanel.
7.
Humpty Dumpty 1939
8.
A pile of bones my aunt found in her backyard.
9.
Glurpo, The Underwater Clown
10.
Early 20th century Halloween costumes.
11.
Ronald Mcdonald, 1963
12.
The sheer number of human teeth found in the wall of what once was a dentist's office.
13.
A train torn to shreds by a boiler explosion.
14.
Special effects for the 1902 french film, "Trip to the Moon"
15.
After the Celebration
16.
That's the baby's mom holding her.
17.
Van Camp's Pork & Beans ad.
18.
19.
Just a perfectly normal clown.
20.
Wax mannequins melting in the summer heat.
21.
A vintage doll factory.
22.
The Mickey mouse Club meets in 1930
23.
Linda Blair's makeup for The Exorcist.
24.
Dummy heads from World War One.
25.
The mask for medieval doctors. The beaks are stuffed with herbs and plants and were thought to act as filters against poorly understood pathogens.
26.
My Grandpa and grand-aunt.
27.
Goldilocks And The Three Bears, 1908
28.
The oldest diving suit still intact.
29.
US soldier posing with a giant jungle centipede.
30.
An early-20th century freckle removal procedure.