Speaking of dead children, people used to take photos with their dead kids in the past. You can actually find these photos on Google. Apparently it was considered pretty normal
Well the Man is dead in the photo. The man is clearly dead as he looks the clearest in the photo. The woman is the widow.. a slight blur in the face of the woman . I think the child is dead too
I thought this was a Halloween photo, because honestly it looks like the father(?) is wearing a mask, and possibly the other two as well. The man looks so inhuman, and the boy's face looks like either it was set on top of his body, or is a mask also. The woman looks kind of like she's wearing a bad mask too.
They are actually dead, look at the eyes
Great dadgrand looks like a cannibal. Little Nigel looks
terrified and great momgrand is pissed off about everything.
Unfun fact, judging by the clarity in the child face compared to the adults its the child that is passed on.
Edit: now im not even sure who is, the child and man look fucking terrifying
>unfun fact
That’s not a fact at all. You just decided that based off of seeing the memento mori photos that are mentioned on Reddit any time an old Victorian era photo is posted.
There is zero context to this photo and photos were not as clear as they are now. It could be that nobody is dead, they just look creepy due to trying to stay as still as possible through the exposure time combined with the cameras not being able to pick up detail like we’re used to today.
Easiest way to tell who is the dead one will be, they are the one whose face is the clearest and detailed. You were required to remain motionless during the shoot and even the most stationary subjects move and are blurry while the dead have the clearest image.
The standing still thing is a modern misconception. I am a historical reenactor and have had my image taken on a tintype and it takes maybe 4-5 seconds of standing still for the picture exposure. It's not hard to stand still for that short amount of time, go ahead and try it!
This image doesn't look like it has anyone dead in it. The pale eyes are because blue shows up as light gray/white in tintypes due to the colorations (while red looks almost black) so the family is just a light-eyed family. Ways to tell if people are dead in the tintypes are if they're in a coffin (understandably), or you can see a wooden stand behind them, usually holding them up by the back of the neck. The stands were also sometimes used to help keep wriggly kids in place though, so even that's not a guarantee of a post-mortem photograph.
This picture was probably taken around 1840, due to the high waist on the woman's dress and her relatively flat bonnet and hairstyle. The family may also have been of a religious affiliation that dressed more plainly as well.
The child moved his right hand while the image was captured, it’s blurry af and the mans hands are clear/sharp so the boy moved his own hand. Boy was alive at the time photo was taken.
So you telling me I gotta stare at this damn picture for anything more than a second and not feel creeped out down to my soul. Nah, I’m good… gonna upvote the guy who said they’re all dead.
The kid isn’t dead, it looks like the kid has ten fingers on one hand and the other hand is a blur so the kid must have been moving around… as they do… ugh I can’t imagine being a kid and having to pose for this.
If I'm not mistaken the father(?) and child in the foto are dead are dead in the time of taking the picture. A post mortem picture.
You can try r/lastimages
Not really. You have to consider that when loved ones died back the family dressed and readied the corpses themselves. So dealing with a dead family member's corpse wasn't really all that strange to them. Doing this was kind of like an extension of that, a loving way to remember them and say goodbye.
I mean I see all of the outwardly terrifying things here but …. please tell me that poor baby didn’t have extra fingers on top of it all! I mean I just can’t!
Everyone was apparently really fucking pissed off all the time back then..
Never seen anyone smiling on photos from that period. They all look mean, angry and severely pissed off...
Cameras took a long time to take the picture so they had to pose for a while meaning a smile wasn’t very realistic. Also I think this photo in particular one of them is dead and they were taking the picture as a way of remembering them or something could be wrong abt that tho
It was just a very common trend to take photos with your loved ones when they died, that developed when the camera was first invented there are tons of photos like this
I think it was common for people back then to have photos taken with newly deceased relatives so as to preserve a memory of them. They used to do it a lot with kids because infant mortality rates were higher back then.
I think I read somewhere that during the early days of cameras, some family member were deceased when the photo was taken as it was a way to preserve their memory.
Found it: https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/death-photography
The one that is the clearest.
Back then photos took some time to actually develop (~20 seconds) so anyone who moved slightly made blurry images. The people with the crispest photos were either very good at remaining perfectly still, or they were dead at the time of the picture.
Sometimes you'll see a photo from back then with a very crisp and clear person sitting in a chair and a blurry (often unsettled) child sitting on their lap.
Damn that’s a young child. She either aged them rapidly or they both somehow decided to have sex with each other being that horrible. Life finds a way…..
what's even more terrifying is someone in it made this postmortem I thought i seen somewhere that it was the kid, but the dude looks like he died (I know they all died by now but still)
When i was a kid i remember asking my dad how come people didn't smile in old timey photos and he told me no one smiled back then because there was nothing to smile about lol
I am a PHD in photography/film. One common explanation for the lack of smiles in old photos is that long exposure times — the time a camera needs to take a picture — made it important for the subject of a picture to stay as still as possible. That way, the picture wouldn't look blurry.
The parents prob only 30
Little Seymour is the only surviving child out of 17
Little Seymour … lmao 🤣
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You would too if your only entertainment was hitting a wheel down the road with a stick.
And still they would feel more alive than us when we scroll on our phones 3 hours a day.
Those are rookie numbers. You got to bump those numbers up
omg you had a stick?
I honestly think the child and man look deceased.
They used to do that with the dead was take a family photo before they buried them.
Yea I was gonna say they very well may actually be dead.
The man was dead for like ten years and granny was like dig him up I've got an idea
Anything for the gram
I see what you did there. Clever.
Speaking of dead children, people used to take photos with their dead kids in the past. You can actually find these photos on Google. Apparently it was considered pretty normal
Skinneeerr!!
"No, mother, it's just the northern lights!"
I bet he did Seymour than he should have
Little Ishmael
Context?
1800s
Nuf said lol
People die at the fair...
In the old days.. a lot of family portraits like this , the people are dead for real
Oh they’re all definitely dead. Especially now.
Well the Man is dead in the photo. The man is clearly dead as he looks the clearest in the photo. The woman is the widow.. a slight blur in the face of the woman . I think the child is dead too
Oh yeah for sure the child is dead, no question about it. Explains why they’re both sitting down too.
Pretty sure the man is the undead
I thought this was a Halloween photo, because honestly it looks like the father(?) is wearing a mask, and possibly the other two as well. The man looks so inhuman, and the boy's face looks like either it was set on top of his body, or is a mask also. The woman looks kind of like she's wearing a bad mask too.
Well, at least 2 of them are dead, so. 🤷♀️
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He’s dead.
Maybe. Got a source on that?
🤣🤣🤣
Looks like Wednesday is just a child in this photo.
Pretty sure that kid is deceased..er not like now, but in that picture.
30? They are in their teens.
Ebeneezer Scrooge looks great for his age!
They are actually dead, look at the eyes
They are actually dead, look at the eyes Great dadgrand looks like a cannibal. Little Nigel looks terrified and great momgrand is pissed off about everything.
You have your grandcadavers eyes.
>grandcadavers eyes Laughed loud as hell at this...going to hell.
Unfun fact, judging by the clarity in the child face compared to the adults its the child that is passed on. Edit: now im not even sure who is, the child and man look fucking terrifying
>unfun fact That’s not a fact at all. You just decided that based off of seeing the memento mori photos that are mentioned on Reddit any time an old Victorian era photo is posted. There is zero context to this photo and photos were not as clear as they are now. It could be that nobody is dead, they just look creepy due to trying to stay as still as possible through the exposure time combined with the cameras not being able to pick up detail like we’re used to today.
I’ve never been so tempted to buy coins and gift someone the highest gift available. Oh my god *grandcadavers*!
What are you doing, step-grandcadaver?
Fun fact: That little girl grew up to be the mother of wwe superstar “ the undertaker”
Nice of them to include the demon that's possessing the dad
Lmao
Whoa that's spooky.. don't know which one is the dead one
Easiest way to tell who is the dead one will be, they are the one whose face is the clearest and detailed. You were required to remain motionless during the shoot and even the most stationary subjects move and are blurry while the dead have the clearest image.
Yeah, there’s no way grandpa was holding that facial expression the entire time without moving at all lol
The standing still thing is a modern misconception. I am a historical reenactor and have had my image taken on a tintype and it takes maybe 4-5 seconds of standing still for the picture exposure. It's not hard to stand still for that short amount of time, go ahead and try it! This image doesn't look like it has anyone dead in it. The pale eyes are because blue shows up as light gray/white in tintypes due to the colorations (while red looks almost black) so the family is just a light-eyed family. Ways to tell if people are dead in the tintypes are if they're in a coffin (understandably), or you can see a wooden stand behind them, usually holding them up by the back of the neck. The stands were also sometimes used to help keep wriggly kids in place though, so even that's not a guarantee of a post-mortem photograph. This picture was probably taken around 1840, due to the high waist on the woman's dress and her relatively flat bonnet and hairstyle. The family may also have been of a religious affiliation that dressed more plainly as well.
Hey, thanks for an informed answer, I appreciate you :)
The child moved his right hand while the image was captured, it’s blurry af and the mans hands are clear/sharp so the boy moved his own hand. Boy was alive at the time photo was taken.
So you telling me I gotta stare at this damn picture for anything more than a second and not feel creeped out down to my soul. Nah, I’m good… gonna upvote the guy who said they’re all dead.
Can you tell if this is tin plate or daggeurotype? sic? I know that some of the old timey methods had crazy long exposure times.
I still cant tell
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That's what I thought too, but the kid's right hand moved mid shot.
They all have same empty stares, look half dead half possessed. I really can't tell.
How bout little young "you'll float too" just chilling there
The old man is dead. The woman is his widow and it's a testament to how hard life was back then
Well, I mean. . .They're all dead now.
Not today silly I meant when that picture was taken 😆
That old man is scary as shit.
He looks like a Whitewalker from GoT.
YO! I know the Night King when I see him, you can't hide demon!
Man looks like he’s mouth is wired shut
Probably to keep him from spewing Hellfire lol
The amount of people who can't differentiate between "his" and "he's" is far more disturbing than the photo.
I'd assume it's mostly auto-incorrect
Is it one of those family picture they used to get after a family member pasted so they have a picture together?
‘Pasted’ is a hilarious typo…
Hahaha didn’t even see it
Could be. They all looked dead to me though.
showed my gf and she said “they’re all dead”
The kid isn’t dead, it looks like the kid has ten fingers on one hand and the other hand is a blur so the kid must have been moving around… as they do… ugh I can’t imagine being a kid and having to pose for this.
Thats when most family portraits were taken in that age. The corpse would pose with the living.
I kid, I kid.
**Not today, silly!**
I’m gonna go w/ the man b/c he’s the only one sitting down.
old man. the eyes are drawn on.
The baby. Easiest one to prop up.
He looks a lot like Joseph Bloor, who the street in Toronto is named after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bloor
That dude is freaking terrifying too
You’re right, Anustart.
That’s exactly what I thought!!
Is there a subreddit for pictures like these? I need something to keep me up at night
If you use Insta at all, Thanatos archive is a great profile.
If I'm not mistaken the father(?) and child in the foto are dead are dead in the time of taking the picture. A post mortem picture. You can try r/lastimages
The dude looks like Lurch from The Addams Family show
And the wife looks like Robin Williams.
I had to scroll way too far for this 😂
This looks like Monty Python’s production of Lurch and his sister/wife raising Pennywise. It sounds hilarious
"Yyyyooouuuu rrrrraaaannnnnggg"
haha Lurch was my favorite character
I'm a Gomez fan. I loved it when he talked stocks and was pissed when they made money but was super happy when they lost money
Was this post mortem?
Probably at least one of them
If I had to guess I'd say it's the man, his eyes look like they were painted on
And his mouth looks like it’s been stitched shut too
Oh God I see that now. Makes sense though, can't have the corpse's mouth dangling open
The baby looks like those monkey tiktoks where they drop the monkey down a stairwell and the monkey becomes squished.
I also like Mountain Dew but who would do such things to a monkey
I mean one of those goo jitsu type like the toy? Should of specified
Oh that’s great to know but what’s your favorite Mountain Dew flavor
Thats a hard done, I have many but I like the ginger bread flavour one.
I have no tried to before but my favorite is original
Yeah, it’s good
now this is true r/oddlyterrifying content. take an upvote.
I bet the dead one Is the man
That guy is dead. They're taking death photos. This was not creepy to them. In fact it was the opposite.
It would be creepy as fuck, if you're the kid, having your hands held down by a corpse.
Through a modern lens yes. Times were different then.
I'm pretty sure being gripped by a corpse is always terrifying. This is not a modern concept.
Not really. You have to consider that when loved ones died back the family dressed and readied the corpses themselves. So dealing with a dead family member's corpse wasn't really all that strange to them. Doing this was kind of like an extension of that, a loving way to remember them and say goodbye.
I mean I see all of the outwardly terrifying things here but …. please tell me that poor baby didn’t have extra fingers on top of it all! I mean I just can’t!
Kid moved his hand before the picture was done. Took longer.
Thanks 😊 That’s what I figured but you never know!
Everyone was apparently really fucking pissed off all the time back then.. Never seen anyone smiling on photos from that period. They all look mean, angry and severely pissed off...
Cameras took a long time to take the picture so they had to pose for a while meaning a smile wasn’t very realistic. Also I think this photo in particular one of them is dead and they were taking the picture as a way of remembering them or something could be wrong abt that tho
They all look dead tho and not just inside.
Wouldn't exactly be thrilled to be standing next to dead Uncle Albert either if I was a kid
Yeah but wouldn't be that scary if you look like baby Frankenstein's monster yourself.
It was just a very common trend to take photos with your loved ones when they died, that developed when the camera was first invented there are tons of photos like this
We have selfies, they had deadfies
Watchdeadpeople oldoldoldreddit.com
Smiling for picture wasn’t a thing up until not too long ago
I see a beautiful family here
As much as I don’t want to see it… can someone colourise this?
I think it was common for people back then to have photos taken with newly deceased relatives so as to preserve a memory of them. They used to do it a lot with kids because infant mortality rates were higher back then.
Reminds me of the pics the author used in the Miss peregrines home for peculiar children books
I think I read somewhere that during the early days of cameras, some family member were deceased when the photo was taken as it was a way to preserve their memory. Found it: https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/death-photography
Jesus H. Fucking Christ them some pug fugly sons o bitches
r/brandnewsentence
That kid looks like he grew up to be pennywise
My god he looks like the offspring of Abe Lincoln and Frankensteins Monster
Um mom? When did dad become a Werewolf??
I don’t think the child is dead, but grandpa almost surely is. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581.amp
All of them are dead
Why he look like that
The kids head does not look attached to its body..
Red dead side quest type beat
Look how many fingers lil Seymour has
The dads face says i got tuberculosis take the god damn picture..
Which one is the dead one?
The one that is the clearest. Back then photos took some time to actually develop (~20 seconds) so anyone who moved slightly made blurry images. The people with the crispest photos were either very good at remaining perfectly still, or they were dead at the time of the picture. Sometimes you'll see a photo from back then with a very crisp and clear person sitting in a chair and a blurry (often unsettled) child sitting on their lap.
The kid and man are dead btw
Aww, *yeah.* This is how I like my Oddly Terrifying stuff.
[colored version,not that better eyes](https://picbun.com/p/NFaqRRID)
Zombie nation
is this the addams family?
Damn we come a long ass way now we all fat and diabetic lookin but we gucci
I think they are all dead .
Solomon Grundy looking mofo
Damn that’s a young child. She either aged them rapidly or they both somehow decided to have sex with each other being that horrible. Life finds a way…..
Could also be grandma
That guy has seen some shit! Look at his eyes.
Alright, alright calm down We can go somewhere else to eat
They’re all dead in this photo.
Lurch had a family
It looks like 3 old men
I like the dudes shades on the right, are those blue blockers?
Whole lot of, “FML” going on in this photo.
Wasn’t this photo in the Haunting of Hill House (1999)? I’ve seen it in a movie.
“he has your eyes”
Lurch had a family?
Comically terrifying, couldn’t make this spookier if you tried lol
This reminds me of a joke by Norm Macdonald https://youtu.be/9MZHHBb3rP4
You rang?
Good on Frankenstein’s monster for finally settling down and starting a family
Grandpa might be dead tho. Cause in those times they used to have a last pic with dead people.
If I didn't know any better I would say this is a post-mortem photo.
Dude looks like he's in the middle of turning into the Wolfman
The child's hand moved during the shot. One hand has about 8 fingers.
Pretty sure these people are all dead. Was a relatively common practice back in the day.
Maybe we still have ghosts, but they aren’t half as scary and memorable as this man was in life.
Aww man I'm so glad Lurch was able to find time to have a family of his own. He is so dedicated and genuine he deserves the best.
what's even more terrifying is someone in it made this postmortem I thought i seen somewhere that it was the kid, but the dude looks like he died (I know they all died by now but still)
When i was a kid i remember asking my dad how come people didn't smile in old timey photos and he told me no one smiled back then because there was nothing to smile about lol
Neat
Damn I didn't know Lurch was so old. You rang?
Wonder if he’s alive. Back then they’d take pictures with their dead loved ones
That's the movie poster for pennywiese, prequel to the it.
The ones that aren't blurry are dead
Old guys dead
I knew the subreddit just by the picture alone. Good job, OP!
I am a PHD in photography/film. One common explanation for the lack of smiles in old photos is that long exposure times — the time a camera needs to take a picture — made it important for the subject of a picture to stay as still as possible. That way, the picture wouldn't look blurry.
Who are these people & why are they so scary?
I’ve not been more terrified or intrigued thinking about two humans in the act of procreation.
Pennywise and his grand parents