20 Photos From The Past That Are Quite Horrifying

History is full of amazing events and stories that are interesting, inspiring, and fun. However, there are lots of disturbing and horrifying things too that happened throughout the past.

#1 My Wife Grew Up Staring At This Picture. No One Can Remember If There Was A Person Behind The Kids, Or A Trick Of The Light

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#2 On The Feast Of St. Nicholas In The Town Of Bad Mitterndorf, Austria. St Nicholas Parades Through The Village On A White Horse Followed By The Krampus, Who Warn The Kids To Be Good, Or Else

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#3 Jacob Miller (1829-1917), Shot In The Head At Chickamauga In 1863 And Walked It Off

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#4 A Suffragette Is Force-Fed In Hm Prison Holloway In The UK During Hunger Strikes For Women’s Suffrage, Circa 1911

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#5 Found This Old Photo Inside The Wall In The Attic

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#6 Penny Auction At Foreclosed Michigan Farm (1936). At Penny Auctions Farmers Would Conspire To Offer Low Bids, Resulting In A Low Return To The Creditor. The Final Buyer Would Then Return The Property To The Destitute Farmer Hangman Nooses Served As A Warning To Squirrely Bidders

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#7 A Baby Found During The Clean Up Of The Chernobyl Accident Is Pushed In A Carriage By A Liquidator, 1986

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#8 This Isn’t How It Looked In My Memory-1980s

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#9 Colorized Photo Of Rasputin With Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna, Her Children And Their Nurse, 1908

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#10 Old Halloween Photo

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#11 A Trio Of Contortionists, London 1894

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#12 Department Store Mannequins Wearing Disney Character Costumes, 1937

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#13 “Peregrinación” By Graciela Iturbide. Chalma, 1984

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#14 Santa Got Ahold Of The Good Snow This Year

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#15 Patient Brutally Restrained In A Mental Institution, France Circa 1900

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#16 She Waits For The Second Coming

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#17 The Mask Worn By Edward Paisnel, The Notorious ‘Beast Of Jersey’ When Attacking His Victims, C 1957

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#18 Bizarre Old School Disney Cosumes

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#19 Still From British Movie “First Men On The Moon” From 1919. Now A Lost Film

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#20 Violet “Queen Of Sinking Ships” Jessop Who Was On The Olympic When It Crashed, Titanic When It Hit An Iceberg, And The Britannic When A Mine Sank It, All Within The Span Of 5 Years. Coincidence?

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