Creepy Victorian Santa - Neatorama

Children of the Victorian Era had to be tough, because this Santa Claus would have given me nightmares! This picture is a detail of a larger family portrait from Flickr user stevechasmar. For sheer weirdness, it just might beat out the previous creepy Santa post. See more Victorian Christmas ephemera in his photostream. http://www.flickr.com/photos/opiummuseum/4179068965/in/photostream/ -via Buzzfeed

He looks like a propped up corpse

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The same thought came to mind... It was very popular in the Victorian era to take pictures of dead relatives that way... Christmas is dead!

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Dschinghis Khan?

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Oh crap. I could top that if I thought to take pictures. Our family Christmas involves a suit and mask (think about that last bit) of Santa that dates from the fourties/fifties.

It's like a Texas Chainsaw Christmas. Weirdly it works, because all the kids are just spooked enough not to examine who is wearing the costume too closely.

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Not to worry, that's Bucket Head's great grandfather.

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Rigormortis has clearly kicked in here...

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Church - Like this: http://tinyurl.com/yfaxkbh

I find that much creepier than Victorian Zombie Santa. I've been calling it Twilight Zone Santa.

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Is this legit? Because the traditional image we have of Santa was created by the Coca Cola company in the 50's I think it was.

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Woogie, Thomas Nast created the current view of Santa 1862-1892. Coca Cola refined it in 1930.

http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/heritage/cokelore_santa.html

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Holy carp, Santa's an Auton....

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It's just a mask, people.
Geez...

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Yeah, but WHY there would be a need for a mask is odd.

Does anyone else hear the theme to the movie "Halloween?"

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No but I sure as --hell-- don't hear the "Sesame Street" theme either...

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@smallerdon, very much like that. *shudders*

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Max, it's something for the beard to stick to, and so the kids don't recognize the face. This is pre-Superman, of course, where all he needed to disguise himself was a pair of glasses.

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those plastic shower curtains are very cheap and you can install it easily without sweat *..

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