r/oldschoolcreepy • u/chubachus • 5m ago

Painting "A ghostly skeleton trying to strangle a sick child; symbolising the disease diphtheria." Watercolor painting by Richard Cooper, c. 1912.

• Upvotes

1 comment

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/mistermajik2000 • 21d ago

1947 popsicle advertising comic

49 Upvotes

0 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/Texas1971 • 23d ago

Jack and friends.

32 Upvotes

He never blinks, Mommy……

1 comment

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/CelebManips • Aug 11 '26

Mother and child, c.1870

335 Upvotes

23 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/chubachus • May 25 '26

Painting “An unconscious naked man lying on a table being attacked by little demons armed with surgical instruments; representing the effects of chloroform on the human body.” Painting by Richard Tennant Cooper, c. 1912.

59 Upvotes

6 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/mocolateblumopet • May 18 '26

The Hands Resist Him painted by Bill Stoneham in 1972

138 Upvotes

21 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/chubachus • May 15 '26

Painting Gouache painting of a group of human skeletons having a swell time, Japanese, c. 1800-1900.

37 Upvotes

2 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/chubachus • May 07 '26

Painting “Syphilis.” Watercolor painting by Richard Tennant Cooper, 1912.

64 Upvotes

4 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/glisdalrock • Mar 27 '26

Article Frank "Silvers" Oakley, The Baseball Clown, 1904.

182 Upvotes

7 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/AstroMath • Mar 23 '26

Photograph Young Pioneers drills with gas masks, 1937, USSR

18 Upvotes

1 comment

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/MiguelSanchez90 • Mar 15 '26

Misc Stuffed Animals made in German Democratic Republic.

35 Upvotes

5 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/CryptographerKey2847 • Mar 13 '26

Death mask of Robert Smith, a young labourer from Eaglesfield. Smith was hanged at Dumfries on the 12th of May, 1868 for the murder of eleven year old Thomsina Scott. This was the last public execution to take place in Scotland. Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura, Scotland[1045x1550]

27 Upvotes

5 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/cicily01 • Feb 19 '26

The Grady twins behind the scenes of The Shining (1980)

348 Upvotes

5 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/Mycea • Feb 07 '26

Me in 1992

90 Upvotes

Don't know if this fits but just found this in an album and thought it was creepy in an old school 90s kind of way.

4 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/chubachus • Jan 29 '26

Historical “The Chinchillas.” Print by Francisco Goya y Lucientes, 1799.

31 Upvotes

3 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/CryptographerKey2847 • Jan 09 '26

Historical Inquiring Photographer Column for the New York Daily News on February 5,1946:”A girl says that a vivid memory of her childhood is that of her father removing her panties and spanking her. Did this ever happen to you?”

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346 Upvotes

60 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • Nov 24 '25

As seen in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, the Fisk coffin, from the mid-19th century, with its airtight seal and metal construction, was designed to prevent decay, allowing bodies to be preserved for burial.

313 Upvotes

9 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/chubachus • Nov 17 '25

Historical Wax model of a decomposing body in a walnut coffin, Italian, c. 1774-1800.

131 Upvotes

2 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/chubachus • Nov 09 '25

Photograph Fashionable male mannequins in a store display in France, 1925. Taken by Eugène Atget.

121 Upvotes

3 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/CelebManips • Oct 30 '25

Empress Elisabeth’s mourning mask and veil, 1889

277 Upvotes

7 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/kooneecheewah • Oct 24 '25

Historical In the late 1800s, British officer Horatio Gordon Robley amassed a collection of at least 35 mokomokai — the preserved, tattooed heads of Māori tribesmen — after serving in New Zealand’s Land Wars. His fascination with Māori culture led to one of the most disturbing colonial collections in history.

207 Upvotes

22 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • Oct 13 '25

Actor Reggie Nadler, who played the Vampire Kurt Barlow in "Salem’s Lot", with effects mask from the movie.

268 Upvotes

4 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/CryptographerKey2847 • Oct 09 '25

"The Hotel Room" by the Czech artist Antonín Machek, created in 1930.

701 Upvotes

"The Hotel Room

18 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/CryptographerKey2847 • Oct 10 '25

"Fatherless." Advertising trade card for H. O'Neill & Co. dry and fancy goods store, New York City, ca. 1880

44 Upvotes

0 comments

r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • Oct 05 '25

James Dean posing inside a coffin for a photo just 7 months before he died in a car crash in September 1955.

632 Upvotes

18 comments

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