Gallery: Weird, Creepy GIFs Take You Into the Twilight Zone

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    'Portrait of a young woman' by Costică Acsinte, circa 1930–1940. Costică Acsinte Archive.
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    'Salon du Prince Imperial a l'Elysée,' photographer unknown, circa 1850–1920. Digital Commonwealth | Boston Public Library | Harper Stereograph Collection.
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    Untitled by T.W. Kilmer, 1919, from "The American Annual of Photography." The Internet Archive Book Images.
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    Billboards near Laurinburg, North Carolina by Marion Post Wolcott, 1938. The Library of Congress.
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    'The pictured rocks. Hole in the wall,' by B. F. Childs, circa 1850-1920. Digital Commonwealth. Full moon stereograph by Prof. Rutherford, circa 1898. The Library of Congress.
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    Mr. Wright, Bolivar Co. Farm Bureau. Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Collection.
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    'Centre,' photographer unknown, circa 1850–1920. Digital Commonwealth | Boston Public Library | Stereograph Collection.
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    Benedykt Jerzy Dorys, circa 1933. The National Library of Poland.
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    Interior view of a Florida East Coast Railway passenger car, photographer unknown, circa 1930s. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.
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    'Femeie' by Costică Acsinte. Costică Acsinte Archive.
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    'Grand Canyon of the Arkansas. Looking east toward the plains' by J. Thurlow, circa 1874. The Library of Congress. 'A man walking up stairs by Eadweard Muybridge, 1887. Wellcome Library.
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    'Portrait of Barbara Larkin,' by Richard Parks, Tallahassee, Florida, 1973. Richard Parks collection | State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.
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