For no good reason, here are a bunch of baffling black-and-white pictures I’ve collected. Feel free to offer explanations, or to talk amongst yourselves about whatever.
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6 baffling black-and-white pictures to confuse you with
These make more sense than Mras and Antifeminists memes.
That fifth one looks sort of like an early incarnation of Burning Man.
#3 reminds me of Waren Ellis’s old Edison Hate Future webcomics…
Black and white pictures always remind me of spooky unexplained mysteries. They usually have a rational explanation though. Anyone heard of the Solway Firth Spaceman photo?
No 1 just shows that the Ponygirl fetish is older than we thought.
I love the Wicker Man picture. Appeals to my pagan sensibilities. And of course May is when it all kicks off for us. We’ve just had Flora Day and now it’s pretty much an event every weekend until the end of October and ‘the dark half’ (as no-one actually calls it) begins.
The balloon on is really creepy to me.
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Yup. Rather disappointingly when it’s reproduced with the correct colour balance it’s clearly just the girls’s mum in the background.
One, dammit!
This reminds me of the book series Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
The author used old, creepy and weird photographs and wrote a story around them. The people in the photos became characters in the book. : D
Those books are wonderful!
That birthday party does not look fun.
I think #4 is some sort of Donald Duck choir.
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Yeah. And it turns out that the Falling Body photo is just a modern-day Photoshop creation. An impressive one though.
That last one seems creepy to me for some reason. The children almost seem frightened by something. I almost expect slender man to be hiding out in there somewhere. 😛
Yes! The kids look like they’re waiting to be attacked by something. Maybe what’s inside the balloons isn’t air but monsters?
I thought the balloon party was creepy because all of those children have exceptionally red cheeks. In my horror fiction head cannon,ctheyre all vampire children who are trying to hypnotize the camera person, so they can feed.
It makes you think there must be some sort of ghostly presence in the space in the middle of that photo. The boy looks like he’s feeling a cold chill on the back of his neck, or a hand on his shoulder when he knows there is no-one behind him.
I’m in the mood for some spooky stories now. Off to r/paranormal I go!
#1. The women lost their horse so they travel on foot can’t miss that sale.
#2. I think it’s some sort of celebration for Bulls?
#3. The iPod in early development.
#4. Mickey Mouse has a fan club so can’t Donald have one too?
#5. The father of what? I can’t read that and the face of that thing looks like Cornelius from rudolf the red nosed reindeer movie.
#6. Paul Elam is the one who is taking the picture that’s why the children look so scared.
That last picture with the balloons…for some reason, it reminds me of the two little girl-ghosts in 1979s “The Shining”.
It looks like “the father of glaciers”. I’m sure the MRAs would all be going on about how the mother of glaciers is cold and icy.
Everything with Victorian Era children makes me think of the girls from The Shining, so I’m not too surprised.
Those carriage ladies…oh my. Not only pulling a buggy, but in corsets and bustles, too! Can’t have gone very far.
Also, The Father of the Glaciers reminds me totally of The Wicker Man. Is there a policeman inside it, about to be burnt?
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