Creepy pictures from the past that will definitely give you goosebumps (19 photos)
Members of a Reddit community called “Creepy Old Pics” collect creepy photos from the recent past. 
Found this old photo inside a wall in the attic during a renovation. 
The feeling that comes from viewing photos in the community is both disturbing and intriguing. They evoke a feeling of morbid curiosity, leading into a dark abyss from which it is difficult to get out until you look at all the pictures.
Michigan Farm Auction. Hangman's nooses serve as a warning to scammers and unwary debtors, 1963 
I have selected for you 15 photos that gave me the most goosebumps personally and translated the captions to give you more context. Read to the end and write in the comments which photo scared you the most!
Halloween at an American school, 1980s 
Have you behaved well this year? 
“Creepy” is not the same as “scary,” although they belong to the same family of feelings. What actually determines the sensations we experience when we look at these photographs? To answer this question, we need to turn to textbooks.
Colorized photograph of Rasputin with Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, her children and nanny, 1908. 
My wife grew up looking at this photo. No one can remember whether there was a person behind the children or whether it was a trick of light and shadow 
The first use of the term "goosebumps" is attributed to Charles Dickens in the 1849 novel David Copperfield. The term meant an unpleasant, tingling chill running down the back. The formulation quickly took root in society, and psychologists and thinkers of that time began to try to understand the essence of this feeling.
Jacob Miller (1829-1917). Was shot in the head in 1863, and then just got up and left 
A suffragette is force-fed during a hunger strike for women's suffrage, Holloway Prison, UK, circa 1911. 
Ernst Jentsch outlined the concept of "uncanny", which was later developed by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay "Das Unheimliche". This work explores the “creepy feelings” that overly realistic dolls and wax figures evoke. According to Freud, this feeling occurs when a person discovers strangeness in the ordinary.
A child found during the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. A liquidator removes a stroller from a contaminated area, 1986. 
Feast of St. Nicholas in Bad Mitterndorf, Austria. Saint Nicholas rides through the city on a white horse. He is accompanied by Krampus, who warn the children to behave 
"Queen of Sinking Ships" - Violet Jessop. She was on the Titanic when it hit an iceberg, on the Olympic when it sank, and on the Britannic when it hit a German mine. All events occurred within 5 years. Coincidence? 
One of the latest studies was conducted by Frank McAndrew, a professor of psychology at Knox College in Illinois. He decided to explore the boundaries of this very familiar feeling by conducting a preliminary survey in which more than 1,300 people were asked, “What is creepy?” Surprisingly, the answers were quite simple.
Baby rattle, 1930s. 
The twins who inspired Tim Burton's twin characters in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 1900. 
Cleaning a church, Leipzig, Germany, 1920. 
Subjects felt more fearful when a person was unable to follow social norms and cues, with the biggest factor in whether someone or something was considered creepy being unpredictability. “A lot of what is creepy comes from wanting to be able to predict what will happen. That's why creepy people scare us - they're unpredictable,” McAndrew explained.
Don't think about the children 
New Year in a psychiatric hospital, Moscow, 1988. Photographer: Pavel Krivtsov 
It's about the uncertainty of the threat. You feel uneasy because you think there might be something to worry about, but the signals aren't clear enough to start doing something desperate and life-saving.
Frank McAndrew
Vibration therapy - a treatment for headaches in the 1890s 
The author does not know the history of the origin of the photograph 
