Creepy Photos

[manufan10]

I was reading up on the Lizzie Borden case when I came across these pictures.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/postmortem2.jpg

http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/child.jpg

http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/brothers.jpg

http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/brother.jpg

http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/grave.jpg

http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/newspaper.jpg


http://static.environmentalgraffiti.com/sites/default/files/images/12_3.jpg


http://static.environmentalgraffiti.com/sites/default/files/images/9_9.jpg



Apparently, people liked to pose and take pictures with their dead loved ones.

[krispinwah]

:lmao

The second to last one, the baby looks like it passed out from too much booze.

[SpurinDallas]

That is creepy stuff

[SpurinDallas]

Racist pics. Why is the 3rd photo the only one thats colored? HMMM

[manufan10]

http://ostrobogulation.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/dead_people_19.jpg?w=500&h=380

http://ostrobogulation.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/dead_people_11.jpg?w=500&h=700

http://ostrobogulation.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/cdv_civil-war.jpg?w=240&h=300

[SpurinDallas]

Geez! Times surely have changed. I hate seeing casket pics or going to funerals, but these are freaking morbid as hell!

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Yeah. My grandfather had a few of these types of pics from when he was growing up. I guess it's a generational thing.

[cantthinkofanything]

I think a long time ago, it wasn't creepy to them. Probably has to do with the times maybe.

[CosmicCowboy]

My dad had 13 brothers and sisters and countless cousins. When I was a kid it seemed like every other weekend we were loading up in the '59 Oldsmobile and driving to east Texas for another fucking open casket, Baptist funeral. Fuck. That was creepy shit...standing in line, women sobbing, etc. to look at dead people I didn't even know...then we get there and you have to STAND there for the appropriate minute or so reflecting on all the memories I didn't have of them...*shudder*...I could barely see over the lid so I was like leaning over the edge face to face with these dead blue people.

I STILL FUCKING HATE FUNERALS AND AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS.

I'm not even having one.

My instructions are to wait about a month and then have a party.

[redzero]

:lmao

The second to last one, the baby looks like it passed out from too much booze.

Was the username "Chris Benoit" rejected?

[Ryan Fitzpatrick]

http://ostrobogulation.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/dead_people_19.jpg?w=500&h=380

Freakiest one.

I have a morbid fascination with all things turn of the century (c. 1900) for some reason...especially photos and films.

[Frenzy]

No one smiles n shit..

[CuckingFunt]

It's not that unusual, really. At several points throughout history and in a number of different cultures it was pretty common when someone died to make a death mask as a record of the deceased body. Photography just provided a new way of recording that same information.

It makes more sense when you consider the use of photography at its start. It was understood as a scientific medium, rather than an artistic one, and was favored for its ability to record and reproduce a faithful, factual version of a particular scene. Portraits were therefore not seen as an artistic representation, like a painted portrait would have been, and were not created as objects of aesthetic beauty. Photography was used for death images, and the like, because it was believed to be the most scientifically accurate to record someone's likeness or to have a lasting image of a loved one.

[baseline bum]

They're from the era when people had funerals in their living rooms instead of being gouged by the funeral homes.

[2Blonde]

AS for the not smiling in older pics... The exposure time on the cameras was very long, which meant you had to stay perfectly still the entire time. So people stood very still and somber in order not to ruin the picture.

[mrsmaalox]

I encountered several of those while going thru my late in-laws' house. Didn't seem creepy to me, just came across as historical record keeping.

[manufan10]

Some of y'all are showing your age. :p:

:lol

[CuckingFunt]

AS for the not smiling in older pics... The exposure time on the cameras was very long, which meant you had to stay perfectly still the entire time. So people stood very still and somber in order not to ruin the picture.

They often sat in special chairs that held their heads upright.

[manufan10]

It's not that unusual, really. At several points throughout history and in a number of different cultures it was pretty common when someone died to make a death mask as a record of the deceased body. Photography just provided a new way of recording that same information.

It makes more sense when you consider the use of photography at its start. It was understood as a scientific medium, rather than an artistic one, and was favored for its ability to record and reproduce a faithful, factual version of a particular scene. Portraits were therefore not seen as an artistic representation, like a painted portrait would have been, and were not created as objects of aesthetic beauty. Photography was used for death images, and the like, because it was believed to be the most scientifically accurate to record someone's likeness or to have a lasting image of a loved one.

Yeah, I read up on it when I first stumbled upon them. Just got a creepy vibe when I first saw them. Some of them still do. :wow

[Creepn]

I first saw these types of things when I saw that movie The Others. That was the freakiest part of the movie for me. Never knew they existed as a pastime.

[2Blonde]

They often sat in special chairs that held their heads upright.
Interesting. I have never heard about that before. :toast

[BlackSwordsMan]

photos without color very creepy

[BlackSwordsMan]

I first saw these types of things when I saw that movie The Others. That was the freakiest part of the movie for me. Never knew they existed as a pastime.

it wasn't a past time you just took photos with your dead ones back then if you had the money to show you were wealthy

[SpurinDallas]

BTW, all I could think of were these damn photos while I was locking up and turning off the lights last night. Thanks

[cantthinkofanything]

BTW, all I could think of were these damn photos while I was locking up and turning off the lights last night. Thanks

says the person with a ghost in their house

[SpurinDallas]

says the person with a ghost in their house

I can deal with the ghosts, have been for 6 years, but not creepy black and white turn of the century death pics.

[manufan10]

BTW, all I could think of were these damn photos while I was locking up and turning off the lights last night. Thanks

:lol You're welcome.

[SpurinDallas]

:lol You're welcome.

:nutkick:

[cantthinkofanything]

I can deal with the ghosts, have been for 6 years, but not creepy black and white turn of the century death pics.

they're all Photoshopped anyway

[JamStone]

Don't find it too creepy when you consider some of the things CF mentioned. A lot of the pictures appear from a time when photography was probably a relatively new thing, as opposed to photos being a sentimental thing and something people share with each other. I look at is as families making a historical record of the death, and not much more. Even now, I wouldn't find it too odd if families just wanted to take photos for their own personal family records. Now if they're putting it up on facebook and handing out copies to friends and families, that's creepy. Otherwise, I kind of get it.

The creepiest parts of some of the pictures for me is when the deceased still has his/her eyes open.

[SpurinDallas]

Don't find it too creepy when you consider some of the things CF mentioned. A lot of the pictures appear from a time when photography was probably a relatively new thing, as opposed to photos being a sentimental thing and something people share with each other. I look at is as families making a historical record of the death, and not much more. Even now, I wouldn't find it too odd if families just wanted to take photos for their own personal family records. Now if they're putting it up on facebook and handing out copies to friends and families, that's creepy. Otherwise, I kind of get it.

The creepiest parts of some of the pictures for me is when the deceased still has his/her eyes open.

No kidding! This does it for me.

[JMarkJohns]

Creepy, indeed....

I've always thought Ester Ralston was about as beautiful/perfect as it got.

http://silentladies.com/RalstonE/RalstonE09.jpg

[manufan10]

Don't find it too creepy when you consider some of the things CF mentioned. A lot of the pictures appear from a time when photography was probably a relatively new thing, as opposed to photos being a sentimental thing and something people share with each other. I look at is as families making a historical record of the death, and not much more. Even now, I wouldn't find it too odd if families just wanted to take photos for their own personal family records. Now if they're putting it up on facebook and handing out copies to friends and families, that's creepy. Otherwise, I kind of get it.

The creepiest parts of some of the pictures for me is when the deceased still has his/her eyes open.

That's probably what is creepy for me, and then to go along with the family members mourning, and then the black and white, just has a creepy vibe.

[Cyrano]

It's not unheard of,, even today.
Recently, a funeral home in Puerto Rico propped the deceased up in a corner for three days while friends and family visited.

http://a57.foxnews.com/images/419819/350/450/1_21_081908_corpse_wake.jpg

[Frenzy]

Wtf.. did they just safety pin him to the wall..

[Cyrano]

Dunno...maybe he died from a viagra overdose?

[easjer]

There are people who find it creepy and morbid that we took pictures of our son when he was born (he passed away about half an hour after birth due to prematurity). He is dead in all of those pictures, and it is evident in the final two we took just before we let the staff take him away to the morgue. We shared them with close friends and family who wished to see him. That would really freak some people out, but it was the only means we had of remembering what he looked like.

These photos seem atmospherically creepy because of the older apparel, the stiff/strange poses and things like the open, staring eyes. At least imo.

[SpurinDallas]

There are people who find it creepy and morbid that we took pictures of our son when he was born (he passed away about half an hour after birth due to prematurity). He is dead in all of those pictures, and it is evident in the final two we took just before we let the staff take him away to the morgue. We shared them with close friends and family who wished to see him. That would really freak some people out, but it was the only means we had of remembering what he looked like.

These photos seem atmospherically creepy because of the older apparel, the stiff/strange poses and things like the open, staring eyes. At least imo.

We lost a daughter as well, and we have pictures for the same reasons you do. They don't seem morbid at all to us because she looks like she is sleeping, but I agree about these turn of the century photos. *shudders*

[Slydragon]

It's not unheard of,, even today.
Recently, a funeral home in Puerto Rico propped the deceased up in a corner for three days while friends and family visited.

http://a57.foxnews.com/images/419819/350/450/1_21_081908_corpse_wake.jpg

I raise you, man posed on a motorcycle (video)

http://www.nowpublic.com/strange/dead-man-motorcycle-david-morales-colons-goodbye-2612209.html

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[Cyrano]

Does a picture of a dead career count?

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110917224021/seinfeld/images/3/38/Michael-richards-apology.jpg

[mrsmaalox]

Wtf.. did they just safety pin him to the wall..

Velcro

[manufan10]

Velcro

Duct tape.

[marini martini]

Duct tape.

superglue


same thing they keep the eyelids shut with.

[mouse]

you want creepy, go to the classics forum and check out the gtg photos.