Comments on: Only the Creepiest Photos Ever Taken

By: Chrystani

Chrystani — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:35:20 +0000

It took me a while to read this article… About 3 months from when I originally seen it.

Because the first time I opened it up, all I seen were those eyes glaring at me… I couldn’t sleep for a week.

Now Im glad I read the whole article. I feel better. Strangely.

BTW the men dressed in black holding the casket open. Creepy.

By: Bubba

Bubba — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:56:15 +0000

I’m only 58, but I remember in my rural Alabama childhood and youth seeing a corpse laid out for visitation in the parlor at home and folks taking photos of the dead in their coffins. Those were still considered normal practices for the reasons discussed above. Going back as a young adult, I found it cathartic at my grandfather’s burial when we pallbearers, after struggling to haul the coffin through the rough country cemetery, were called upon to fill in the grave. We all picked up shovels and worked up a sweat on a cool, crisp, sunny December day as we filled filled my grandfather’s grave with dirt.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:46:24 +0000

2 things – The first is my brother-in-law told me his co-worker had a miscarraige and she and her boyfriend posed with the dead, purple, not-human-looking-fetus. He said they were smiling in the photo. Utterly creepy.

Also all the people on here talking about how death is so inevitable, check out TED.com and find the talk Aubrey de Grey gives about the genetic work being done that could lengthen human lives by 100 to 1000 years in the next few decades. Stay healthy!

By: Tim Driver

Tim Driver — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:35:37 +0000

Saw a program featuring this on TV the other week – the ways some of the dead were posed for pictures in victorian times was quite amazing – interestingly they all had a very peaceful look on their faces

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:10:07 +0000

People deal with death in their own ways. Different cultures and regions do different things. My family always take pictures of the dead at their funerals—and we are not black OR low-class. (Low class? Really?) It’s just another life passage that we record, just like a birth, a wedding, or a graduation. It was sort of trendy during the Victorian era to pose the dead; it’s not trendy any more. But I and my family will continue to take pictures at funerals, and they will go in the album with the other pictures—it’s life, and it’s death, and it is not creepy or wrong. It’s just what we do. It’s not like we are taking pics of crime scenes and violence, just memorializing a loved one.

By: anders raalway

anders raalway — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:26:24 +0000

In Germany, the Nazis would routinely photograph captured Resistance Fightervictims at all stages of torture and eventual execution.
The Gestapo would then use the most horrible pictures to show to suspected Resistance Fighters. Their reaction nearly always gave them away and they in turn became the next set of tortured photos.
This technique was so successfull that Hitler ordered special EinsatzCommando to be set up just for the purpose of capturing foreign politicians – their torture photos were then to be sent to all members of foreign governments as a warning if they didnt give in.
The project was stopped when Rudolf Hess flew to England, told the British, and security was increased by ten fold.

By: Bella

Bella — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:27:26 +0000

There is nothing creepy about it at all! When my father died (just two years ago) I was alone with him when he died and my gentle care of him didn’t stop. I continued to talk to him and hold his hand long after I knew he had passed away.

Later at the funeral home I took a last photo of him as he lay there. It was lovely to see him at ‘peace’ after he had died a harrowing and painful death. The photo helps me remember how peaceful he looked instead of remembering how pained he had looked before.

These are beautiful photos and show a touching blend of both grief and love. Thank you for sharing.

By: Aleia

Aleia — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:31:12 +0000

And does anyone else feel the compulsion to refer to the last guy as Rasputin, or is that just me?

By: Aleia

Aleia — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:27:15 +0000

I don’t have an issue with death, going to funerals or graveyards don’t creep me out. But I can’t why anyone would want to take post-mortem pictures in this day and age. We have regular access to cameras, it’s not terribly expensive. I want to remember my loved ones alive, not dead. I don’t want to remember someone’ funeral. Even with stillborn babies, isn’t it better to remember the wonder of pregnancy not the grief? It just seems morbid to me.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:44:33 +0000

Very interesting read and picks. ever since I saw the others I have been fascinated by this strange custom.