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Image of a scary goblin creature peeking out from under the bed of a little girl

How to scare children in the 1920s

9 May 2019 by Chelsea Nichols

A series of creepy 1920s photographs of goblin creatures snatching a little girl out of her bed

Categories: Curiosities, Unsettling Things • Tags: children, creepy, goblin, monsters, photography, stereoscope, unsettling

Photograph of model Lily Cole wearing a Victorian lace blouse and a damaged mask of her own face

Wearing her own face

7 May 2019 by Chelsea Nichols

Chelsea Nichols explores just what is creepy about Gillian Wearing’s photograph of Lily Cole wearing a damaged mask of her own face.

Categories: Contemporary Art, Unsettling Things • Tags: doll, gillian wearing, haunting, lily cole, masks, models, photography, psychology, unsettling, victorian era

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For those with a taste for the peculiar, The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things is an imaginary museum that explores the strange place between art and curiosities.

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