# Is this the creepiest photograph in the history of the world? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 23, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905 "2012-12-23T06:56:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/1 "2012-12-23T06:56:17Z")
Y’all… I’m still in shock. I honestly think that this has to be one of the creepiest pictures of anything I have ever seen. But I don’t know if I’m right or wrong. Is this subject just plain intrinsically creepy? Are there some photos of it that might not be so creepy? Am I imagining it all? I scanned it in and posted it [right here.](http://www.deathtrainthenovel.com/?p=608) Don’t be afraid to take a look. Totally safe for work, and G-rated, actually… so is it just me?? ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/2 "2012-12-23T07:04:49Z")
…cold dead eyes…look right through you, laughing at your feeble attempts to understand why… ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/3 "2012-12-23T07:09:57Z")
Why did I just see Kirsten Stewart’s face a dudes body? Otherwise I get nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/4 "2012-12-23T07:10:27Z")
Thanks for your link to a post on [http://www.deathtrainthenovel.com](http://www.deathtrainthenovel.com). I will be sure to check out more posts on [http://www.deathtrainthenovel.com](http://www.deathtrainthenovel.com). I understand that there is a novel coming out soon called death train, which I can get on kindle! Just being silly 😛 No opinion on your poster (the above is just my way of saying that it is totaly unremarkable and looked like a transaprent attempt to get people to visit your website) - but I do love your dogs - heck at first when I saw the caption about puppies I thought the mum was one! But the little 'uns are unberable cute. Which makes me glad I clicked on the link to [http://www.deathtrainthenovel.com](http://www.deathtrainthenovel.com) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/5 "2012-12-23T07:10:31Z")
Not to be a spoilsport, but no, not at all. I’ve seen some creepy looking dolls before, but that ain’t one of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/6 "2012-12-23T07:12:27Z")
Lame. You should even more ashamed for posting that link than whoever posted the picture in the first place should be. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/7 "2012-12-23T07:40:56Z")
There’s a picture out there taken by a serial killer as he approaches his knowing victim in an abandoned barn. Real photo, real creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/8 "2012-12-23T07:51:29Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > There’s a picture out there taken by a serial killer as he approaches his knowing victim in an abandoned barn. Real photo, real creepy. Why did I look for that?! Why did I? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/9 "2012-12-23T09:17:21Z")
That doll looks like a young Lady Elaine Fairchild. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/10 "2012-12-23T12:50:41Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Lame. You should even more ashamed for posting that link than whoever posted the picture in the first place should be. Yep. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/11 "2012-12-23T13:44:46Z")
…I prepared with a valium for THAT…!?? Yeah, **Anise** ; it’s just you. FFS don’t EVER look at Bambi pictures. It’s a haunting remindeer of Disney’s darkest era. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/12 "2012-12-23T13:51:39Z")
Yeah, I used to work at a seasonal store that sold tacky porcelain dolls. That doll would rank maybe in the 30th percentile of creepy. There was one I wouldn’t have been too surprised if it came alive and stabbed me. She was unreasonably big, wearing a frilly Pepto-Bismol colored dress, and held a giant sucker that could have been sharpened into a shiv. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/13 "2012-12-23T14:07:04Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > There’s a picture out there taken by a serial killer as he approaches his knowing victim in an abandoned barn. Real photo, real creepy. [This one](http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/blog/files/2012/09/regina-kay-walters-e1348080678148.jpg)? Really if you’d have sent it to me without context I’d have thought it was a lame stock photo. I’ll admit it does get a lot creepier the longer you concentrate on her body language, though. > [@voltaire](#): > > Not to be a spoilsport, but no, not at all. I’ve seen some creepy looking dolls before, but that ain’t one of 'em. Yeah, I’m seriously wigged out by a lot of porcelain dolls and such and I found that one completely fine. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/14 "2012-12-23T14:10:22Z")
That was the biggest letdown I’ve experienced since I learned Jimmy Dean’s pork sausage was not made by the Rebel without a Cause. mmm ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/15 "2012-12-23T14:35:26Z")
Not even in the top ten. Hell, not even in the top 10,000. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/16 "2012-12-23T14:44:37Z")
I have creepier pics in my family Christmas album. Perhaps it is because I do not share the fear of dolls. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/17 "2012-12-23T14:51:18Z")
> [@Anise](#): > > Y’all… I’m still in shock…Don’t be afraid to take a look. Totally safe for work, and G-rated, actually… so is it just me?? It’s just you. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/18 "2012-12-23T14:56:11Z")
“I’ve coughed up scarier stuff than that!!” - Grandpa Simpson ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/19 "2012-12-23T14:57:41Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > There’s a picture out there taken by a serial killer as he approaches his knowing victim in an abandoned barn. Real photo, real creepy. That is _exactly_ the photo I thought of when I read the title of this thread. In fact, I thought the OP was going to be about that picture. I’ve seen a lot of creepy stuff, but that one takes the cake. The doll one doesn’t even come close. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905/20 "2012-12-23T15:23:51Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > [This one](http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/blog/files/2012/09/regina-kay-walters-e1348080678148.jpg)? Really if you’d have sent it to me without context I’d have thought it was a lame stock photo. I’ll admit it does get a lot creepier the longer you concentrate on her body language, though. Just looked up info on Regina Kay Walters. WITH the context, it really disturbs me. That poor girl was only 14 (not that anyone deserves that kind of fate, but it seems even sadder when someone never even had a chance in life). Then I found [this really disturbing article from a girl who may have escaped the killer](http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201211/truck-stop-killer-gq-november-2012). I hate dolls more than most people do, but the photo in the OP is nothing compared to that photo if you think about what it represents. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-creepiest-photograph-in-the-history-of-the-world/644905.md?page=2)