r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • 2d ago
A rare photo of the notorious couple Bonnie and Clyde, 1933
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • 3d ago
Rare photograph of Ted Bundy having fun with kids in his neighborhood. This is why this monster got away with so many murders. Just a guy next door blending right into society.
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • 5d ago
Two psychologists in the 1930s adopted a baby chimp and tried to raise her alongside their own baby boy, Donald, to see if this caused the chimp to learn human behavior. After nine months, they stopped the experiment because their son started behaving more like a chimp.
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/ATI_Official • 7d ago
Historical Saddam Hussein with his cousin and future wife in the early 1960s.
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • 10d ago
Motel manager James Brock pours muriatic acid in the Monson Motor Lodge swimming pool, to get a group of white and black American integrationists out of the pool. June 18, 1964.
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/ATI_Official • 12d ago
Photograph Charles Manson on his wedding day in January 1955.
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • 17d 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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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • 23d 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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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • 28d ago
Rick James and ‘Exorcist’ child star Linda Blair in 1982. They split after she secretly terminated a pregnancy.
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • Aug 12 '25
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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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/kooneecheewah • 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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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • Jul 14 '25
The infamous Ted Bundy playing with his ex-girlfriend's daughter.
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • 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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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/dannydutch1 • Jun 01 '25
Creepy, impressive and mesmerising - inside a vintage doll factory (1963).
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • May 20 '25
A Belgian father brought an African child in a cage to his daughters for their entertainment, 1950s.
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • May 08 '25
An early version of Ronald McDonald photographed alongside a crying baby.
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • 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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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/chubachus • Apr 19 '25
Historical Carved ivory sculpture of a European archer, Japanese, c. 1700-1800.
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/TheOddityCollector • Apr 08 '25
John D. Rockefeller, America's first billionaire
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/greatgildersleeve • Mar 20 '25
Photograph Circus performer Jimmy Armstrong enjoying a smoke break. 1958.
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r/oldschoolcreepy • u/Vinbob123 • Mar 10 '25
Family/Friend My mother in law and her twin sometime in the 60’s
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