Totally Frightening Pictures That You Should Only Look At During the Daytime

Postmortem Photography

In the Victorian era, it was common to take photographs of the recently deceased, as mementos for the living to keep. One of the creepiest aspects of this macabre custom was to pose the dead as if they were alive. In this photo of a dead young boy, his eyelids have been painted with pupils in order to make it look like they were open.