With all the special effects, makeup, and technology we have today, it’s easy to create an unsettling photo.

But somehow, modern images rarely feel as chilling as the ones from the past. There’s something about the grainy black-and-white film, the stiff poses, and the haunted expressions that makes these old photographs feel darker and more mysterious.

It almost feels like you’ve stumbled onto something you shouldn’t see. But you can’t help yourself.

So don’t—below, you’ll find a glimpse into that past, one that might make you want to keep the lights on while you scroll. Enjoy the spine tingles.

#1 Glasgow School Of Art Student Performance – Early 1900s

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#2 Ruth Snyder’s Mid-Execution Photo Taken By Tom Howard And Published The Next Day In The New York Daily News

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#3 A Young Boy Gets His Teeth Examined At London’s Friern Hospital 1890/1910

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#4 Blind Pioneer, Photo By Antanas Sutkus, Kaunas, Lithuania, 1962

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#5 Two Wax Department Store Mannequins Melt During A Heat Wave In London, 1929, Allegedly. They Also Live In Your Closet And Spy On You When You’re Asleep

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#6 Gas Mask Parade, Tokyo, 1930s

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#7 A Girl Brushes Her Hair In 1920s

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#8 British Soldiers After Their Release From Japanese Captivity In Singapore, 1945

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#9 The Marriage Of 22-Year-Old Charlie Johns And 9-Year-Old Eunice Winstead Was A Child Marriage That Took Place In The State Of Tennessee, United States, In January 1937

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#10 Jewish Children Walking Towards The Gas Chambers

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#11 Nurses Carry Babies During A Gas Drill In A London Hospital In 1940

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#12 With Her Brother On Her Back A War Weary Korean Girl Tiredly Trudges By A Stalled M-26 Tank, Korea, 1951

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#13 Disturbing Photo From Grandmother’s Photo Album. Early 1900s. Context Unknown

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#14 Couple At A Fair In Mexico 1940

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#15 Josephine Myrtle Corbin, The Four Legged Woman (1890’s)

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#16 Everyone Keeps Smiling And Most Ignore What Happens After Miss New Zealand Passed Out During The Photo Shoot Before The Miss Universe And Miss USA Pageants In Long Beach, Ca, Us In 1954

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#17 Disney Technicians Repairing An Animatronic Figure

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#18 Ella Harper, Known As The “Camel Girl”, Was Born With A Very Rare Orthopedic Condition That Caused Her Knees To Bend Backwards, Called Congenital Genu Recurvatum

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#19 The Michelein Men In The 1920’s

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#20 Misses Fannie Mills Aka “The Ohio Big Foot Girl”

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#21 Coal Miners Returning From The Depths After A Days Work, Belgium, Circa 1900

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#22 1934 Max Factor Demonstrates His Scientific Device” The Beauty Micrometer Which Detects Defects In Feminine Beauty

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#23 Blanche Monnier Was Secretly Kept Locked In A Small Room By Her Aristocratic Mother And Brother For 25 Years. Monnier Had Not Seen Any Sunlight For Her Entire Captivity

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#24 Portrait Of German Architect Carl Weber And His Wife, Emily Of Stratford In 1850, Just Hours After She Died

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#25 If You Ever Wondered How The American Buffalo Could Go From 30,000,000 To 300 In 50 Years, Pictures Like This May Give Some Idea (Buffalo Skulls)

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#26 Twins In Homemade Costumes In 1930

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#27 A Creepy Costume

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#28 A Whale’s Remains In Alaska, 1910

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#29 Photographs Of An Unwrapped Mummy Illustrating The Processes Of Mummification, 1941

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#30 A Us Navy L-8 Blimp That Continued To Fly After Its Crew Allegedly Disappeared, 1942

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#31 Melted And Damaged Mannequins After A Fire At Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum In London, 1925

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#32 Full Face Swimming Mask From 1928

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#33 “Hells Cafe” In Paris 1920s

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#34 Operation Doorstep Was A Civil Defense Test. In Operation Doorstep, Blast And Thermal Effects Were Evaluated On Mannequins

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#35 Runaway Slave Peter, Exposing His Severely Whipped Back

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#36 Patient Brutally Restrained In A Mental Institution, France Circa 1900

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#37 A Chinese Woman Whose Feet Were Bound From Childhood, 1911

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#38 Horrifying (And Nearly Fatal) Facial Injuries To A German Soldier In World War I (1914-1918)

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#39 Old Picture Hanging In The Basement Hallway Of A Hospital

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#40 Old Clown Picture I Found Among Old Family Photos

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#41 Clown On Stilts, The Way They Used To Bring It

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#42 Newly Formed Doll Heads Drying At A Doll Factory 1947

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#43 Art And Camera Magazine, 1952

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#44 A Young Girl Stands Near Live Alligators On An Alligator Farm In Florida, Us In 1948

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#45 Treatment For Headaches In 1895

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#46 Conrad Veidt In His Role As Gwynplaine In The 1928 Film “The Man Who Laughs”

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#47 Young Child Born As A Result Of Human-Ape Mating Experiments (1950)

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#48 Les Diableries, A Series Of Stereoscopic Photographs Published In Paris During The 1860s

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#49 Vintage Photo Of A Ventriloquist And His Dummy, 1929

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#50 Wrapped Medical Cadavers At University Of Pennsylvania Circa 1915

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#51 Stephan Bibrowski (1890–1932), Better Known As Lionel The Lion-Faced Man, Was A Famous Sideshow Performer. His Whole Body Was Covered With Long Hair That Gave Him The Appearance Of A Lion

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#52 Shadow Of A Noose Against A Brick Tower During War Crimes Trials. Nuremberg, Germany

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#53 A Trapper Boy, One Mile Inside A Mine In West Virginia, 1908

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#54 To Appear Headless While Taking A Photo, Known As “Horsemaning”, Was A Popular Way To Pose In The 1920’s

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#55 Devil’s Mask Representing Leprosy, 14th Century

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#56 A British Merchant Being Carried By A Sikkimese Lady On Her Back. West Bengal Circa 1903

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#57 This Is Francesco Lentini, The 3 Legged Man. He Spent His Years Working For The Circus And Lived Until The Age Of 77

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#58 Injuries Suffered From The 1892 Princeton Freshmen/Sophomore Snowball Fight

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#59 From British Movie “First Men On The Moon” In 1919

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#60 Group Of Creepy Cat Ladies

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#61 This Is The Last Known Picture Of RMS Titanic Prior To Sinking, 1912

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