Creepy Knowledge

Bizarre newspaper advert for a Vietnamese wife.

An early version of Ronald McDonald photographed alongside a crying baby.

This photo, taken in 1937 by Russian photographer Viktor Bulla, depicts a Soviet youth group wearing gas masks during a war preparation exercise.

Xylaria Polymorpha, a saprobic fungus, is commonly referred to as “dead man’s fingers.”

A Portland man discovered his tires had been slashed and found this note left on his car.

An untouched 1800s cemetery preserved beneath the basement of a tall building constructed on top of it.

In 1980, when a group of loggers were cutting off the top of a chestnut oat tree, they noticed the mummified remains of a hunting dog. Experts believe that it chased its prey up the tree in the 1960s, only to get stuck and eventually die. He was posthumously named Stuckie.

An x-ray of a 7-year-old boy in India who had 526 pearl-like teeth removed.

The terrifying telescopic fish.

A huge Typhoon class submarine passing off the coast of a Russian beach.

Archaeologists dine in the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses XI, 1923.

In 2020, a resident in the Philippines entered his garage only to find a huge Flying Fox bat hanging there...

Cast of a dog that was found at Pompeii. The dog died after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

The incredible grand staircase of Titanic before and after the ship sank.

One of the gargoyles of Notre-Dame, 1920. Photo by Pierre Yves-Petit.

A statue of St. Bartholomew where he’s wearing his own skin.

This is a popular dish in Taiwan known as “Godzilla Ramen”. The meal comes served with a crocodile’s leg.

The creepy Le Passe-muraille (Passer-Through-Walls) sculpture in the Paris catacombs.

Glasses given to visitors at a zoo so they don’t make direct eye contact with the gorillas.

Strange two faced fish.