Weird old photos

An odd collection of black and white photos that will give you the creeps.

Some of what passed for everyday life 75 or 100 years ago would send you running screaming in the other direction today. And when those scenes are captured on grainy old-school film, you get the stuff of nightmares.

Most of these pictures date from the early 1900s before and after the two World Wars, a time when everyone needed just a little bit of laugh...

We've worked long and hard here at Cracked to make it clear that the past was badass. All you have to do is sift through old-timey photos, and you quickly realize that people back then possessed neither sanity nor a sense of self-preservation.

There are those among us who think of the past as the golden years, when everything was better than it is today, and people mostly spent tim...

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Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who was responsible for standardizing the modern mugshot. According...

Sometimes our world might seem all sunshine and rainbows. And while occasionally that’s true, other times, the world can be creepy. We’re talking about scary stuff - from weirdly placed items that make a person feel unsettled to borderline paranormal stuff that cannot be explained using logic.

Picture ThisThe Strange • The Old • The Terrifying. Creepy vintage photos to enjoy before bedtime.

A collection of the most confusing/unexplainable photos from my Tumblr blog, Black & WTF.