50 Unexplainable Photos

[Marc Chevalier]

What's so creepy about two little kids on a mini couch???? It's creepy that you think it's creepy.

Linc, this is a postmortem photo. The child on the sofa is dead.

Back then, it was not uncommon for grieving survivors to have pictures taken of their recently-deceased loved ones, especially if no other images existed. It helped people to not forget the faces of their dead.

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[V.C. Brunswick]

Linc, this is a postmortem photo. The child on the sofa is dead.

Back then, it was not uncommon for grieving survivors to have pictures taken of their recently-deceased loved ones, especially if no other images existed. It helped people to not forget the faces of their dead.

In fact there were even photographers who specialized in postmortem photography!

Even creepier is sometimes they would have the dearly departed propped up in a sitting or even standing position to appear lifelike. One picture I saw looked, at first glance, like a typical family portrait of the era then I realized the little girl in the picture was dead because on careful examination part of the stand propping up the corpse was visible.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Very odd, and sad at the same time.

 

[Lincsong]

Linc, this is a postmortem photo. The child on the sofa is dead.

Back then, it was not uncommon for grieving survivors to have pictures taken of their recently-deceased loved ones, especially if no other images existed. It helped people to not forget the faces of their dead.

See here: http://www.google.com/search?tbm=is...36l0l7158l22l20l0l0l0l0l371l3366l5.5.5.3l18l0

She's dead???? Whoa!

Well, no different than some people in the present tattooing dead relatives names on their arms, necks, chests etc. or driving around with stickers of dead people's birth and death dates plastered on the backlite of their car. Or my personal creepiest; having a "birthday" party for a dead person. I know of a woman whom she and her husband slept in separate rooms for 25 years, yet on St. Valentine's Day she'd put a balloon on the guy's grave that read; "World's Greatest Lover".

 

[Story]

I'll just leave this here.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

I'll just leave this here.

That's easy. It's a very early animated clockwork doll. Just add clothes and a wig. "Baby Creepy" doll,..err,.."Baby Creeping" doll, I mean.

 

[scottyrocks]

She's dead???? Whoa!

Well, no different than some people in the present tattooing dead relatives names on their arms, necks, chests etc. or driving around with stickers of dead people's birth and death dates plastered on the backlite of their car. Or my personal creepiest; having a "birthday" party for a dead person. I know of a woman whom she and her husband slept in separate rooms for 25 years, yet on St. Valentine's Day she'd put a balloon on the guy's grave that read; "World's Greatest Lover".

I'm sorry, but a photo of a dead person, no, make that a photo of an actual person that is dead in the photo, is in a whole different league.

 

[Chas]

this shop in the Haight-Ashbury in SF had quite a selection of post-mortem photos, as I recall.

 

[Lincsong]

I remember about 30 years ago my friends Uncle died in Oregon and the Uncle's wife sent a picture of him in the casket to my friends Mom and she freaked out.

 

[Warbaby]

I have a small collection of post-mortem photos of children and I've come to see them not as something creepy or bizarre, but rather as poignant and touching. At the time when post-mortem photos were popular, photography was still a relatively new thing and having a likeness of a loved one was pretty amazing and not all that common. If a loved one died, particularly a child, and no photographs had ever been taken, a photographer would often have been quickly called in to take a final photograph as a remembrance.

 

[scottyrocks]

That makes sense.

 

[Simon Collins]

....a bed wetting summer camp?

 

[Treetopflyer]

Accepted or not, it is still creepy.

 

[Warbaby]

Accepted or not, it is still creepy.

But not nearly as creepy as keeping the actual dead relative around as a momento...

 

[Blackjack]

Alright...this one takes the cake.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Not even a crumb left either!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The Catacombs of Palermo in Sicily come to mind.

 

[HadleyH]

The movie "Psycho" also comes to mind! :shocked:

 

[Connery]

Betty looks pooped....:eeek:

 

[lolly_loisides]

She's wearing a lovely white apron. See there's no excuse to be badly dressed, ever.