25 Oddly Disturbing Pictures From History

Nathan Johnson Published 06/11/2018 in wtf

creepy stuff from the history vault

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A magic trick showing a "headless" woman in NYC, US in 1945.
2.
A couple at a fair in Mexico in 1940.
3.
A Halloween part in the US in the 1950s.
4.
A scene from the film Le Cochon danseur de in 1907.
5.
A life sized hand made doll in Venezuela in 1993.
6.
A child with roots for hands as part of a picture set of "Childrens Dreams" in the US by Arthur Tress in 1965.
7.
Another picture of "Childrens Dreams" by Arthur Tress in the US in 1965.
8.
A lone scientist descending into the radioactive darkness of Chernobyl in 1986
9.
Serial Killer Rodney Alcala after being chosen as the winning bachelor on the show "The Dating Game" in 1978. He is suspected of up to 130 murders, many never identified or found, and was in the middle of his killing spree when he appeared on the show.
10.
A performer holds herself up with her teeth in the US in 1933.
11.
Meat packing factory in Berlin, Germany in 1906.
12.
A black child picks the white doll after being asked which doll he prefers during the "Doll Test" given by married Doctors Kenneth and Mamie Clark in the 1940s to test the effects of segregation on children in the US. The same child also picked the white doll when asked to pick “the doll that you like to play with,” “the doll that is a nice doll,” and “the doll that is a nice color”.
13.
A child posing with a version of Krampus in Vienna, Austria in 1909.
14.
A woman wears a beauty mask in the US in 1940.
15.
The female hockey team known as the Edmonton Swastikas in Canada in 1916.
16.
A picture of a B-17 bomber after losing a wing in battle over France in 1944.
17.
A party in Paris, France in 1923.
18.
A butcher shop selling possums in NYC, US in 1916.
19.
2 Men posed by the Japanese before their execution during the Nanking Massacre in China in 1937.
20.
A mechanical robot child from France built in the 1890s, the picture is around 1920.
21.
Black children looking in on a whites-only playground in Mobile, Alabama, US in 1956.
22.
A woman works on a doll for a movie in France in 1953.
23.
A Nazi soldier burned alive during the firebombing of Dresden, Germany in 1945.
24.
George P. Metesky, aka The Mad Bomber, after being captured in NYC, US in 1957. He planted 33 bombs, which 22 exploded, wounding 15 people, but no deaths. He was declared insane and did not stand trial.
25.
A women pretends to be a doll for a picture in France in 1865.

1.
A magic trick showing a "headless" woman in NYC, US in 1945.
2.
A couple at a fair in Mexico in 1940.
3.
A Halloween part in the US in the 1950s.
4.
A scene from the film Le Cochon danseur de in 1907.
5.
A life sized hand made doll in Venezuela in 1993.
6.
A child with roots for hands as part of a picture set of "Childrens Dreams" in the US by Arthur Tress in 1965.
7.
Another picture of "Childrens Dreams" by Arthur Tress in the US in 1965.
8.
A lone scientist descending into the radioactive darkness of Chernobyl in 1986
9.
Serial Killer Rodney Alcala after being chosen as the winning bachelor on the show "The Dating Game" in 1978. He is suspected of up to 130 murders, many never identified or found, and was in the middle of his killing spree when he appeared on the show.
10.
A performer holds herself up with her teeth in the US in 1933.
11.
Meat packing factory in Berlin, Germany in 1906.
12.
A black child picks the white doll after being asked which doll he prefers during the "Doll Test" given by married Doctors Kenneth and Mamie Clark in the 1940s to test the effects of segregation on children in the US. The same child also picked the white doll when asked to pick “the doll that you like to play with,” “the doll that is a nice doll,” and “the doll that is a nice color”.
13.
A child posing with a version of Krampus in Vienna, Austria in 1909.
14.
A woman wears a beauty mask in the US in 1940.
15.
The female hockey team known as the Edmonton Swastikas in Canada in 1916.
16.
A picture of a B-17 bomber after losing a wing in battle over France in 1944.
17.
A party in Paris, France in 1923.
18.
A butcher shop selling possums in NYC, US in 1916.
19.
2 Men posed by the Japanese before their execution during the Nanking Massacre in China in 1937.
20.
A mechanical robot child from France built in the 1890s, the picture is around 1920.
21.
Black children looking in on a whites-only playground in Mobile, Alabama, US in 1956.
22.
A woman works on a doll for a movie in France in 1953.
23.
A Nazi soldier burned alive during the firebombing of Dresden, Germany in 1945.
24.
George P. Metesky, aka The Mad Bomber, after being captured in NYC, US in 1957. He planted 33 bombs, which 22 exploded, wounding 15 people, but no deaths. He was declared insane and did not stand trial.
25.
A women pretends to be a doll for a picture in France in 1865.