10 Creepy Vintage Videos (scary footage)

From a weird massive pig to the most scary house ever, there has been creepy footage since the very dawn of the development of video technology.

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[purpledawn]

If by "creepy and scary" you mean "creative as hell", then yes.

[MASSEFFECTfan]

The fact they were able to create an articulated pig costume way back in 1907 is actually amazing.

[linaleia]

Body: Go to sleep.
Brain: Stay up and watch creepy vintage videos

[Qyizx]

Seeing footage from the late 1800s and early 1900s amazes me

[lloyddragon]

these are creepy, but they are also beautiful pieces of art. the amount of effort and imagination put into these almost puts some modern video art to shame.

[blupyxi]

The pig costume is actually very well made.

[citrus_core]

These films weren't all that "creepy" to begin with, and become even less so when you realize they were probably accompanied by goofy ragtime piano music.

[thatfanboiinthecorner]

I actually love the electric hotel one. It’s part of the creative beginning of stop motion animation, which is hard to do today, and even harder to do back then and make it look good. Such good imagination of what they could do to show of their skills!

[TomIdelson]

Most this video are not creepy at all!
In fact, most of them are true masterpieces and show the early experimental movies of the founding fathers of today's cinema!
Just imagine the audience back then must have been completely mesmerized when seeing these truly magical creations!

[demetrisgavrielides]

The creepiest video I've ever seen was sweatshirt

[karenarias]

💀Stop saying that it's creepy that all the people in these videos are dead, like are they supposed to stay alive forever??

[jessicarose]

These are creepy, but there absolute works of art, the imagination and though put into them is incredible

[Sclasspsycho]

I'm amazed my the effects they could do at the time! It makes our current CGI look like crap.

[anananaschallenges]

Well they do give you a cool hair tutorial at 5:22

[kel]

Considering the time these short films were made, they are absolutely incredible. They are very creative and I can imagine how difficult it would have been to make costumes with eyes that move etc with the little amount of resources they had back then. It's amazing.

[GothGuy]

these were probably terrifying in the 1900's but in 2019, I just found them Amusing and sometimes funny
but they had some pretty clever and imaginative special effects tho, I'll give them that. . .

[PokeDude]

Whats even more creepy is the fact that most of these people are actual ghosts now.

[dammit]

1908, what a great time to have an imagination!

[reesemalo]

I just want to know how they made these effects

[j.r.]

We need more of these. I was wondering is there a collection out there? Maybe on dvd or Blu-ray? These amazingly strange pieces of art need to be preserved. Where did you find these?