Gold pig charms that hide a tiny erotic photo viewed by peering into the pig’s butt hole
Categories: Curiosities, Strange Photographs, Unsettling Things • Tags: animals in art, curiosities, erotic, humor, jewelry, photography, victorian era
The creepy doll girlfriend made for artist Oskar Kokoschka in 1919
Categories: Curiosities, Historical Art, Unsettling Things • Tags: art, artist, creepy, doll, erotic
A terrifying example of a traditional Irish jack-o’-lantern carved from a turnip around 1850
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A 19th century hat belonging to an itinerant London street dentist, covered with 88 decayed teeth from his former patients
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Vintage Krampus gloves from a small town in Austria
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A creepy 19th century automaton of a monkey dressed as a pastry chef, serving a severed cat head in a pastry pie
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Share your best theories about this strange 19th century photograph of a grown man feeding a doll
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I love this 1962 photograph by Chinese photographer Wang Shuangquan 王双全 (1920-1978). It depicts the beautiful and bizarre eyeball signs that surround the entrance to an ophthalmology clinic in Tainan City, Taiwan. Isn’t there something weirdly flirty about those hand-painted eyes trying to lure in new customers? I think the jumble of eyes also makes the building look a bit monstrous, like a creature staring off in different directions. Can you imagine walking by this shop everyday and feeling all […]
Categories: Curiosities, Strange Photographs, Unsettling Things • Tags: advertisements, eye, photography
A series of creepy 1920s photographs of goblin creatures snatching a little girl out of her bed
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