Ransom Riggs
Caption this scary found photo
by Ransom Riggs - November 15, 2006 - 1:34 PM

This is an old family photo, recently found in a drawer brimming with thousands of other random pictures of vacations, weddings, holidays and kids’ birthday parties. I went through every one, and found several I thought were unintentionally fascinating; even vaguely frightening. I thought this one was downright Lynchian.

Anyone care to take a stab at a caption for this photo? I’ll post a few more fascinating finds in the next few days, and next week will post them thumbnail-sized with the best captions appended.

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Comments (16)

  1. Written on the back of the photo:

    Norman Bates, Age 3

    posted by Jason! on 11-15-2006 at 1:54 pm

  2. “Hush now Son. You know we won’t have a good crop this year unless we feed the Shadow Man”.

    posted by Sheldon Siegel on 11-15-2006 at 2:06 pm

  3. This here is a quality boy, ’cause at Ernie’s Used Child Lot, “We won’t sell you a lemon!”

    posted by Jason! on 11-15-2006 at 2:15 pm

  4. Harness

    posted by John Ottinger on 11-15-2006 at 2:21 pm

  5. *It’s Beelzebobo time, kids…*

    posted by Sillstaw on 11-15-2006 at 3:10 pm

  6. “Look! Barely a scratch on him – and look what he did to my bumper!! – I hope you have your insurance paid up Lady.”

    posted by Kim on 11-15-2006 at 3:39 pm

  7. “how much is that toddler in the window?”

    posted by Kimmie on 11-15-2006 at 4:31 pm

  8. Now watch how quickly you can retrieve your runaway child using the bunji leash…OK kid…take off…

    posted by Karan on 11-15-2006 at 4:44 pm

  9. “Johnny, the nice lady with the wart on her nose would like to take you to lunch”, or

    “Look Jimmy, you get to ride in a flying saucer”, or

    Lem had never suspected that the organ grinder’s monkey he had teased in his youth would grow and eventually return for his firstborn child

    posted by Tom on 11-15-2006 at 4:49 pm

  10. Who knows? The Shadow knows!

    posted by Jamieson Wolf on 11-15-2006 at 5:28 pm

  11. …so let me get this straight, if I go for the undercoating package, you throw in the kid for free?

    posted by Donovan on 11-15-2006 at 5:42 pm

  12. “You can take him, son! Don’t worry, I got your back.”

    posted by Ed on 11-15-2006 at 8:05 pm

  13. Darth Vader’s first botched attempt to tell Luke about is paternity.

    posted by Sarah on 11-15-2006 at 9:21 pm

  14. Watch where you’re walking Luke, you almost went over to the dark side.

    posted by Doug Mort on 11-16-2006 at 11:07 am

  15. Mr. Smith looked on with horrid fascination at his duplicate while his son Billy could not face the creature, recently sprung forth from a pod fully grown and appearing on the outside to be fully human.

    posted by Phil on 11-16-2006 at 11:16 pm

  16. Doug as is Doug from the bay area, Doug?

    posted by Raina on 9-10-2007 at 3:35 pm

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