5 Disturbing Photos From the Past and Their Secrets Explained | Real or Fake?
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5 Disturbing Photos From the Past and Their Secrets Explained | Real or Fake?

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Best watched with the lights off... Delving into the secrets behind some of the creepiest of vintage photographs, the Paranormal Scholar presents spirit photography, gruesome Victorian art and the disturbing pastime of medical students. These unbelievable old photos, with their horrifying and creepy backstories, will keep you up at night.

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As the internet and Youtube reaches more of us across the globe, the number of people uploading and watching paranormal videos and encountering supernatural photographs will increase. Many of us share an interest in demonic possessions, exorcisms, ghosts and other scary happenings caught on camera. However, such abundance leaves the internet and its users vulnerable to hoaxes and frauds.

The Paranormal Scholar presents ‘Real or Fake’, a series which presents the backstories behind some of these supposedly supernatural videos and photos. We provide the raw footage and the facts, and translations where we are able. We also offer our own critical analysis and pose questions to help you form your own judgement.

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Transcript:

Mickey Mouse Gas Masks:
If the anticipation of chemical attacks from Germany was not terrifying enough during World War Two, then these uncanny family-friendly gasmasks were sure to keep everyone in 1940s America perpetually terrified. Concerned that children would find ordinary gas masks too scary, the government thoughtfully commissioned Disney to design a mask featuring Mickey Mouse...

Uninvited Guest:
The origin of this photo is unknown. The ghostly body falling through the ceiling during this family’s tea party could suggest that their home has a dark history. Seemingly materializing as the photograph is being taken, the dark figure could be there to show that the house was not always full of smiles and happy children…

Decapitated Heads… Victorian Art?:
What may appear as a psychopath’s hunting trophies are in fact Victorian art. In the days before Photoshop, budding photographers would have to get creative if they wanted to make a picture that would scare the bejesus out of their audience. So, put some holes through a thin brick wall; drip some syrup down the front of it; tell some suitably cherub-faced victims to put their head through and play dead; then pin up their hair to make it look as though they are hanging. Voila – art!

Spirit Photography:
When this spectral woman appeared in William Mumler’s photo as he was developing it in 1861, everyone told him that it looked exactly like his dead cousin. The spiritualist community immediately proclaimed it to be the first photograph of a spirit ever taken. And, the photo certainly had a sinister quality, having such a profound effect on Mumler’s life that it would lead him to his doom… Eight years later, he was arrested by New York police for running a lucrative fraudulent “spirit photography” operation, fabricating images for those who wanted to have their photo taken with the ghost of a dead loved one beside them.

A Twisted Gag:
At first glance, this gruesome photograph could pass for an old Hollywood trick. However, the fleshy bodies are real corpses, sinisterly surrounding an actual person lying down on the table. Once human dissection was legalized in the 1880s, cadavers were in abundant supply. Thus, medical students became quite nonchalant towards death. This was in fact a common image captured by morbid students and commemorated on their desks as a twisted gag to say “what if the tables were turned.” All of this has to make you wonder what modern-day medical students do with their abundance of cadavers today.

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"This House" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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