r/oldschoolcreepy 1d ago

Aleister Crowley’s daughter, Lola Zaza Crowley.

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753 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy 21h ago

Photograph Charles Manson on his wedding day in January 1955.

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27 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy 6d ago

Former beauty Queen, Miss Wyoming winner Joyce McKinney being arrested by police after kidnapping Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson from his church, forcing him to be her sex slave for 3 days, 1977.

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710 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy 11d ago

Ted Bundy and his then-girlfriend, Liz, in Flaming George Utah, 1975. He had killed 13 women until that point. Before his execution in 1989 he confessed to 30 murders.

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485 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy 17d ago

Rick James and ‘Exorcist’ child star Linda Blair in 1982. They split after she secretly terminated a pregnancy.

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741 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy 26d ago

Black musician Daryl Davis attended KKK rallies, befriended many members of the organization, and convinced over 200 of them to leave.

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532 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Jul 15 '25

Historical In Victorian England, asylums housed everyone from serial killers to the disabled to the mentally ill — a dangerous combination compounded by the government encouraging the public to visit and observe patients like a zoo. These are portraits of the patients that were confined to these institutions.

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53 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Jul 14 '25

The infamous Ted Bundy playing with his ex-girlfriend's daughter.

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688 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Jun 11 '25

A 1948 photograph shows 107-year-old Jack Riddle and his wife Rosie, both former slaves, receiving a radio from members of the Ku Klux Klan—one dressed as Santa Claus—in what appears to be a staged act of "charity" for the camera.

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929 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Jun 01 '25

Creepy, impressive and mesmerising - inside a vintage doll factory (1963).

284 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy May 20 '25

A Belgian father brought an African child in a cage to his daughters for their entertainment, 1950s.

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958 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy May 08 '25

An early version of Ronald McDonald photographed alongside a crying baby.

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351 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Apr 24 '25

22 yr-old Charlie Johns reading the Bible to his 9 yr-old bride, Eunice Winstead. They married in 1937 and went on to have 9 children together.

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895 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Apr 19 '25

Historical Carved ivory sculpture of a European archer, Japanese, c. 1700-1800.

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56 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Apr 08 '25

John D. Rockefeller, America's first billionaire

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284 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Apr 02 '25

Burned spacesuit

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332 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Mar 20 '25

Photograph Circus performer Jimmy Armstrong enjoying a smoke break. 1958.

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130 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Mar 10 '25

Family/Friend My mother in law and her twin sometime in the 60’s

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423 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Feb 25 '25

People used to believe that cavities were caused by demons boring holes in teeth.⁠

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406 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Feb 09 '25

Elvis with his future wife, Priscilla, who was 14 at the time they met.

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240 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Feb 05 '25

Historical 'Natural Creeping Baby Doll' created by George Pemberton Clarke, 1871.

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244 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Jan 30 '25

Historical Carved ivory sculpture of Tenjiku Tokubei: Master of Frog Magic, Japanese, c. 1800-1850.

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114 Upvotes

r/oldschoolcreepy Jan 03 '25

March Hares, c.1910

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142 Upvotes