{"id":8813,"date":"2016-10-10T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2016-10-09T21:42:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T01:42:12","slug":"halloween-thing-day-18-haunting-costumes-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/halloween-thing-day-18-haunting-costumes-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A Halloween Thing A Day: 18 Haunting Costumes of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8731\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/a-halloween-thing-a-day-essential-halloween-reads\/hthing_banner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HThing_Banner.jpg?fit=830%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"830,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hthing_banner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HThing_Banner.jpg?fit=830%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8731\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HThing_Banner.jpg?resize=830%2C120&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"hthing_banner\" width=\"830\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HThing_Banner.jpg?w=830&amp;ssl=1 830w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HThing_Banner.jpg?resize=350%2C51&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HThing_Banner.jpg?resize=768%2C111&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People spend a lot of money these days to put together scary Halloween costumes. From deluxe masks to professional-grade makeup to screen-ready clothing, it&#8217;s easy to drop a bundle if you really want to impress the people at your office costume contest or neighborhood block party.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the day, though, costumes were usually homemade, often assembled with little know-how and not much in the way of supplies. And the effect, in many instances, was far scarier than anything you can buy off the rack today.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of all the photos and photo galleries of old costumes floating around the Web, Mental Floss has put together one of the most disturbing: <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/53069\/18-terrifying-old-costumes-you-cant-unsee\" target=\"_blank\">18 Terrifying Old Costumes You Can&#8217;t Unsee<\/a>. Take a look and marvel at the way papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 resembles mummified skin, or how the empty eyes of a crudely-constructed Mickey Mouse knockoff will stare deep into your soul, or how the head of a real pig is just as terrifying in real life as it is in that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k4AR3BgaCdA\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Motel Hell<\/em><\/a> movie. The old, fading black-and-white photography only adds to the uneasiness these photos produce. Go ahead and take a peek&#8212;but understand that Mental Floss is right: what you&#8217;re about to see can&#8217;t be unseen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People spend a lot of money these days to put together scary Halloween costumes. From deluxe masks to professional-grade makeup to screen-ready clothing, it&#8217;s easy to drop a bundle if you really want to impress the people at your office costume contest or neighborhood block party. 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