18 Creepy Historical Photos To Keep Your Mind In The Present

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A clown poses with a family in the US in 1962.

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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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Looks like fathers have been playing pranks on their kids for decades.

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This picture is often mislabeled as a mental institution in Russia in the 1950s. It is in fact German ballerinas stretching their calve muscles in 1977. There are special holes in the wall to step on.

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A still frame from a 1992 silent horror film titled "Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages".

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People casually go about their business in the much destroyed city of Hue in Vietnam in 1968.

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A man and his dummy in England around 1900.

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Most of the students of a school wearing Mickey Mouse masks in the US in 1930.

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An American patient undergoes a bizarre anti-freckle treatment in 1933.

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A child receiving sun-ray therapy in London, England in 1928.

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An officer walks by one of the entrances to a club in Paris, France in 1926.

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A Soviet chemical warfare drill in Moscow, Russia in 1928.

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A child is confined in a special section for children of an Insane Asylum in Spain in 1922.

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A picture from the Ballad of “Death and the Lady," Vaudeville in England in 1906.

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A promotional picture for the American horror film "Mesa of Lost Women" in 1953.

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A young girl stands dangerously close to live Alligators on an Alligator farm in Florida in 1948.

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Medical students playing cards with a cadaver in the US in 1890.

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Chinese women with their feet bound in 1912.