Whoa! 50 Victorian Era Pics That Make History Look Like A Wild Movie

Victorian times might look all stiff and serious in those old photos, but under those tight corsets and serious faces was a whole lot of weirdness. From deadly fashion to jobs you can’t believe existed, this era had it all. Oh, and sometimes one of the folks in the photo was actually dead but playing along like it was a family reunion!

Yep, seriously creepy but fascinating stuff.

Check this out: families literally took pictures with their dead loved ones. Since photos were rare and pricey, they’d prop up Grandpa or Auntie in lifelike poses for one last family snap. It’s equal parts touching and spine-chilling.

Fashion alert! Victorians went nuts for a bright emerald green called "Scheele’s Green." It looked amazing but guess what? It was loaded with arsenic. Ladies in those dresses sometimes got nasty skin sores, and entire rooms with that wallpaper made folks sick. Fashion victims, literally!

On the streets, weird jobs were a thing. Before alarm clocks, there were ‘knocker-uppers’ - people paid to tap on your window with sticks till you woke up. Imagine a human snooze button that won’t quit!

Then there were the “pure finders.” Nope, not finding pure gold, but dog poop. Yep, dog poop was collected to tan leather. Talk about a crappy job!

Dinner time? More like nightmare time! Bakers mixed chalk into bread to make it look better, milkmen watered down the milk and even stirred in sheep’s brains for creaminess. Yuck! And if you got sick? Doctors handed out morphine and heroin like candy. No wonder folks looked a bit dazed in photos.