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Decades ago, if you mentioned a cursed image, you could have been seen as a bit of a nut.
It would have been seen as a type of niche superstitious belief in witchcraft or black
magic.
Now, if you Google “cursed images” you’ll get a variety of totally absurd photos that
incite all types of questions.
“Where did this happen?”, “Who is that?”, “Why are they doing that?” among others.
They look like photos that have been doctored in some way but you can’t figure out how,
though they’re apparently real.
So, seeing as we couldn’t hold curiosity at bay, we put together the Top 10 Strange
Images That Will Keep You Up At Night for you to stare at for a really long time.
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10.
Clown Funeral?
Our first cursed image is already disturbing.
It has not one, not two, not three, but eight clowns in it.
They’re all holding a casket which, we could assume, holds another clown.
But, oh wait, there is another random man in a regular suit standing in front of them.
He seems to be leading them towards where they’ll be placing the casket.
No one else is there, we don’t know who took this picture, and there’s more greenery
in the photo than anything else, so, really we know nothing.
If I had to guess, I’d say the guy in the suit lost his clown brother and had a funeral
for him in the Midwest, where they grew up, and all his clown friends attended, and they
tried to get a colorful casket but his brother said “absolutely not!” and…well, you
get it.
There’s no explanation unless you make one up.
What's your theory?
9.
Should we call the electric company?
What do you do when there’s something strange on the telephone pole?
Say, a rare owl or a large cat?
I’m sure you’d perhaps call Animal Protection, some sort of experienced agency.
What if, instead of an animal, it was actually something taken out of an Edvard Munch painting
and expanded to look even more ghastly?
This is probably what the cameraman taking this cursed image was thinking as he snapped
this terrifying sight.
Even more interesting, is the fact that the pole is situated right by a “dead end”
sign.
Whether it’s real or not doesn’t much matter when it comes to cursed images.
These are, in their own way, a type of ice-breaker.
They push the viewer to ask questions.
They may come with underworldly hypotheses but they’re conversation-starters nonetheless!
8.
Who did this?
If you scrolled past this image quickly you might not think much of it.
You’d think, “oh I just scrolled past a strange picture of Bert and Ernie.
A really strange...wait a minute” Scrolling back you’d find that this image was not
one of Bert and Ernie at all.
But, how would you describe it?
Are they both men?
Maybe.
All the normal “cursed image” questions come up at this time.
For me, it’s: why does one have 3D eyes while the other has cut-outs?
Is this at a party?
Did either of them like how this picture ended up?
Perhaps we should have kept scrolling past this one because I can’t rationally come
up with a story here.
7.
The House on Nightmare Street In any good fiction novel where there are
children, you’ll find some house in the neighborhood that all the kids are trying
to get a look at but no one is brave enough to approach.
This is that house, without a doubt.
Imagine your smaller self back in your childhood neighborhood, biking past a house like this.
Do you stop?
Do you approach?
Who lives there?
This type of image, with all the stories that can come out of it, is clearly the type of
thing you can use as a prompt for a creative writing or a conversation class.
An incredible number of what if’s emerge from just wondering where all these stuffed
animals came from.
Whose are they?
Why are they displayed outside the house as if enticing children to come closer?
Who lives in this house?
Do they even have any kids?
Just don’t look at it at night, I tried and you’ll get all sorts of nightmares.
6.
Grandma is a UFOlogist Our next cursed image is almost meme-worthy.
The image is of two elderly women, in their regular attire, wearing glasses, standing
over, apparently, an alien corpse.
One of the women looks a little nervous, the other is holding a large knife as if about
to strike.
They’re in some sort of lab, it seems, behind them on the shelves we see jars holding strange
tissue, what looks to be a skull in one corner and other tools.
You could take this image and interpret it in all kinds of ways.
If set up, the costume person was not on their best game.
If casual, who even took this picture?
As usual, after describing the image, we run into a lot of brick walls, and a lot of unanswered
questions that we can only fantasize about.
5.
Say Cheese This one may poke special sensitivities if
you’re not super keen on clowns.
Hey, I get it, clowns are creepy on their own, now imagine if you put a weapon in their
hand - that infinitely smiling face gets that much scarier.
See, if you took the clown away from this cursed image, we’d certainly have no problem
with it.
Without it, it’s just an interesting photo that seems almost taken on purpose.
Everyone, except the man in the left corner, is facing the camera as if ready to be photographed.
Everyone except the little girl is looking towards the camera.
Just a mom, a dad and his beer, and their two kids.
Their attire, the decoration, and the general image look a bit 70s, but not much more to
be noted.
Until you add the clown, that is.
He’s a large man in clown costume walking down the stairs behind them holding an ax
low to the ground, not menacingly.
No one looks alarmed by him or even distracted.
Now, all of a sudden, everything takes on new meaning.
Why is no one else dressed up?
Why are they so relaxed?
As always, who took this picture?
4.
Stock photo gone wrong?
With some better quality and without the huge orange blob person to the side of this image,
this could have easily been a “man thinking” stock photo.
He’s all pensive and bald on a bench, super relatable to the average man.
Again, it just can’t be that simple with cursed images so we had to have some ridiculous
mascot figure approaching him with a bucket of… what?
My evil side wants to say it’s a bucket of paint he’s about to pour on the pensive
man but it doesn’t quite look like that.
That’s the crazy thing about cursed pictures, they’re just stuck in this position forever
with no before and no after.
3.
This isn’t the bathroom?
Number five on our cursed images looks like a scene you walked into thinking it was the
door to the bathroom.
There are two people dressed up as furry animals, sometimes known as “Furries”.
One seems to be some sort of mouse or raccoon, the other is a cat.
They’re both wearing party hats and kneeling over a small birthday cake on the floor.
Above them, a “happy birthday” sign hangs awkwardly.
It looks like they’ve been caught off guard in the middle of something sinister because
their furry fake faces have that “busted!” look.
They also seem displeased with whoever just walked in on them.
2.
Just a Man on a Swing I’m really glad that our next image was
taken during the day.
If I had walked by this at night or ran by it on a trail in the early morning, I would
have had a stroke.
The picture is of a person on a swing.
That sounds pretty normal, right?
Who doesn’t like to pop over to the swing set and give it a whirl for a couple of minutes?
Sure, when you’re at a children’s playground with no children it can be creepy, but what
if you’re a grown person wearing a robe and a bird mask?
That’s no big deal right?
Maybe that’s what this guy thought.
Maybe this isn’t even a swing set, maybe he brought his own swing and put it on a pole
somewhere.
We don’t know!
1.
Who is real here?
Finally, the mother of strange photos.
At first glance, this photo could be of a young toddler sitting on the floor with her
back to us and her legs crossed.
Crawling towards her, we see another baby, but this one looks a lot more doll-like.
Its hands and arms are stiff and, oh yeah, it has Michael Jackson’s face as its face!
Off to the edge of the photo, we see part of what could be someone’s thighs in jeans
and in the back, some paintings on the walls.
Though this is the strangest picture on our list, I’m pretty sure that this is an art
exhibit.
Still, it hardly matters, because I still have no idea of the why, what, who, or anything
else, so I’ll just stare at it for a few more days.