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Originally Posted by vagabond ↗

^ That one of the Rabbit-head dragging that girl- looks like she's missing her legs? These pics make my flesh crawl...

I find some black and whites, and sepia toned photos and movies creepier with the play of the lighting and shadows.

Scary clowns, Halloween costumes and as you said, bunnies then, too!

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Originally Posted by LadyCPlum ↗

Is this guy some ancestor of Old Greg?

The guy is a severely mentally ill woman from the banned for a long time, movie, "Freaks," by Tod Browning, which I highly recommend.

We find out who the real freak is and what people can do being born with a variety of deformities and mental issues.

You will also find out where The Ramones got some of the lyrics for their song, "Pinhead."

"Koo Koo the Bird Girl," was born Minnie Woolsey, in Rabun County, Georgia in 1880. She suffered from a rare congenital skeletal disorder called Virchow-Sechel or Harper's syndrome, also known as bird-headed dwarfism or nanocephaly).

This syndrome is very rare and is characterized by various physical shortcomings, such as a small head, stunted growth, a beak-like nose, receding jaw as well as mental limitations. In addition, it left Minnie toothless and almost completely bald and blind. She was 4' 6" tall.

The story goes that she was rescued from a dismal life in a Georgia insane asylum by an enterprising showman, who thought her strange looks would be enough to cash in on. She began her showbiz career as, "Minnie Ha-Ha," an obvious play on North Carolina's Minnihaha Falls.

In her act, she would appear in a phony Native American costume and would dance and shake excitedly, speaking gibberish to the sideshow audience. Minnie was initially reluctant and shy, but, soon she came to love the attention she received.

There is frequent confusion about the name, "Koo Koo the Bird Girl" in sideshow circles. The first "Koo Koo" was Elizabeth "Betty" Green, (also known as, "The Stork Woman"); Woolsey actually took the name at a later date.

Although they both appeared in the film "Freaks," (1932), it is Minnie who is credited as, "The Bird Girl," and Elizabeth by her real name. She had no lines in, "Freaks," but Minnie made a lasting impression on moviegoers when she dressed in a feathery costume, (complete with a tiny plumed cap and chicken-like feet), and shimmied on the table during the wedding feast of Cleopatra the trapeze artist and Hans the dwarf.

In later years, Minnie worked at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, as, "Koo Koo, the Blind Girl from Mars".

By that time, age or perhaps boredom had replaced her dancing, and she would primarily stand or sit in a near comatose state, confounding spectators by failing to respond to any visual stimuli.

It's unknown exactly how long Minnie performed with the circus, but some accounts show that she was still living, (and almost run over by a car), in the 1960s, when she would have been in her 80s.

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A little tease for you from, "Freaks," set to other music.

[cheekymarls]

creepy potraits

[vagabond]

^ Whew!

[Daley]

Originally Posted by cheekymarls ↗

Henry Holmes
man Webster Mudgett – better known under the name of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers.

In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World’s Fair, Holmes opened a very strange hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind.

The hotel became the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed, his actual body count could be as high as 200.

He took an unknown number of his victims from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, which was less than two miles away, to his “World’s Fair” hotel.

Some victims were locked in soundproof bedrooms fitted with gas lines that let him asphyxiate them at any time. Other victims were locked in a huge soundproof bank vault near his office, where they were left to suffocate.



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The victims’ bodies were dropped by secret chute to the basement, where some were meticulously dissected, stripped of flesh, crafted into skeleton models, and then sold to medical schools. Holmes also cremated some of the bodies or placed them in lime pits for destruction. Holmes had two giant furnaces as well as pits of acid, bottles of various poisons, and even a stretching rack.

Through the connections he had gained in medical school, he sold skeletons and organs with little difficulty.

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First time I've seen him mentioned here. Excellent. Seen some info on him in a documentary plus read "The Devil in the White City", great read.

[Daley]

American Horror Story written all over this

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Originally Posted by cheekymarls ↗

creepy potraits

Some seem to be affected with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Sardonica

[cheekymarls]

I dont think these are vintage but are black and white from a Serbian psychiatric hospital.. dont know why these put a tear in my eye

[vagabond]

Those are sad