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32 Vintage Photos That Are Just Plain Creepy

Photos from the past that will send chills down your spine.

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Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum in London.

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Patrons at Hell's Cafe in Paris, which shut down some time in the mid-20th century.

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The contestants at a beauty pageant that didn't want to judge them on their looks.

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A terrifying vintage Halloween costume.

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A Mickey Mouse gas mask, which was used to make the devices more appealing to children.

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Myrtle Corbin, who was born in 1868 with an extra pelvis. Myrtle spent her early years in a circus sideshow.

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An early example of "horsemanning", the 1920's version of "planking."

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A woman undergoes anti-freckle treatment.

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Two engineers fix a Disney animatronic.

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10.

Two parents posed with their dead daughter in the middle.

11.

Two women wearing bird headdresses have a chat.

12.

An early family photo gone creepily-wrong.

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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Mental patient Katharina Detzel, who built her own man out of the straw in her bed.

16.

Two clowns and Santa visit a girl in hospital.

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17.

Children on Halloween

18.

Santa wasn't always cheerful.

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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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Neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne electrocuting a man's face in order to study facial muscles. France.

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A meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club.

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23.

The poor man's Halloween costume.

24.

Two patrons at the Rothschild "Illuminati" party.

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.

27.

Ventriloquist Jules Vernon with his horrifying family of puppets.

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.

30.

Max Schreck sitting in between takes of the silent movie Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

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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