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Many people keep a bowl of candy by the door during Halloween for the many trick-or-treaters that come calling on October 31st. But if anybody turns up on your doorstep dressed like anyone in the pictures below, it's not candy you're going to need. No, it's a crucifix and a bottle of holy water. Because as you can see from this list compiled by Bored Panda, these vintage Halloween costumes are absolutely terrifying.

It's insanely easy to photoshop aliens and ghosts into pictures these days. Here are some creepy pictures that I actually think are still bizarre despite the photoshop.

Check out these 18 terrifying vintage Halloween costumes to get you into the scary spirit of the season.

These are the bizarre photographs from a 19th century freak show where members of the public in the US would pay to witness people with physical deformities.

Warning: This post is all trick and no treat.

We've worked long and hard here at Cracked to make it clear that the past was badass. All you have to do is sift through old-timey photos, and you quickly realize that people back then possessed neither sanity nor a sense of self-preservation.

Picture ThisThe Strange • The Old • The Terrifying. Creepy vintage photos to enjoy before bedtime.

The Victorian era gave us many great inventions that we still use today - bicycles, Morse code, ice cream as we know it, and even the telephone. The era of Queen Victoria's reign, though, had some pretty bizarre happenings too. Such as ladies getting stuck in doorways because of their extra big dress skirts and constantly fainting as a result of very tight corsets. Also, the London fog did exist, and it comprised of nothing else than heavy pollution from coal mines and the city being in…

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