Creepy Photos

[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

You're welcome.

[SpurinDallas]

You're welcome.

[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.

[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.

[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.

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

http://www.nowpublic.com/strange/dea...e-2612209.html

[Cyrano]

Does a picture of a dead career count?

[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.