25 OLD 𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 "POST-MORTEM" PHOTOS and their DISTURBING STORIES 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 them 😨💀 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗿𝗮 

Back in the 50's, my grandma had a "blue baby". I have her photos, forever asleep in her eternal cradle. She was a beautiful baby with a head full of loose black ringlets and probably would've been a stunning child.They took photos because grandma was so sick with eclampsia she could not leave hospital to attend the funeral and was not allowed to see the baby. Only weeks later was she given the photos, and she fell into a deep depression. She went on to have more children but she never did recover emotionally. I am the only person who has photos of this baby now. Every child born to family was christened in her baptismal blanket up until 2018. (None born since.) Rest in peace Miss Laurie Hoffman - someday we will meet.

Thank God for modern medicine. I cannot imagine what it was like back in the day to see your child die right in front of you before their second birthday. That is so heartbreaking. May God bless all these little babies who have gone to their final resting place. May the angels continue to watch over these babies

Finally pictures of the dead with a story. It makes the pictures even more interesting. Thank you! May they all rest in peace👼💝🙏

This is heartwrenching. Why am I watching this.

It amazes me how composed the family members look while holding their babies. The grief they must feel, yet don't want to show in the photographs. Strength.

We forget how many babies never made it to their 2nd birthday back then. Thank God for modern medicine. The heartache must have been unbearable.

Very touching. So touching. I lived in my family family in France we had such photos,one was of 3 young boys: 2 18 years old and 1 of 20, taken in the main hall of the house, all 3 died after a hunting party having contracting thyphoid which was running havoc across Europe in the 1800 ies, they were seating,one photo you could just make out the stand to hold the head/neck up, beautifully dressed, in their shiny boots. 2 brothers and a cousin barely within 48 hours. We had plaster casts of deceased relatives, locks of hair in lockets. Death nadks and stuff pets, one parrott and a lovely little dog. They story told of my ancestor crying for months over her dog when she never attended her husband's funeral nor cried for him. He had been a judge, a womaniser and wife batterer. 😮

Aren’t we so very lucky, to have had the discovery of even penicillin during our lifetime, which would probably have saved many of these children’s lives back then? I’ve lost an adult son in the past four years, and the pain I have still will always be there, despite how fortunate I am to have several up to date coloured photographs of him. Sometimes I think how these people had to wait days before a photographer could reach them ( notice how black the deceased lips often look, or their finger nails, ) and they had to try and keep the bodies cool and presentable for when they got there. If this was the very last memory of your child you will be able to continue looking at, wouldn’t you want one? Despite how costly they must have been back then. I think I was touched most by the young girl lying on a couch whose hair had been styled, she DID look asleep to me. Thankyou for sharing…it’s sad, but also interesting to see how things had to be done in the past, and pulls us upright to realise how precious life and our children are.

It was also common for people of this period (and before) to display their deceased family member in their homes instead of funeral homes. The "parlor" in home had many different functions, mostly to receive visitors but also to be set up for wakes/funerals. The were often on of the larger rooms that could seat all of those wishing to pay their final respects. The corpse would often be on display for several days depending on things like heat and humidity.

Yes, we forget how high infant mortality was years ago. My mother lost her brother, sister, mother and father within a 5 year period. They had just come to America from Italy. So very sad.

THis is why we celebrate birthdays. People were lucky to live another year so it was a time of clebration.

I have always found this subject matter fascinating. More so from this era than others. But not in a morbid way. At least I don't think so. 😄 These were pretty enthralling to watch. Thanks for sharing! 🙂

My dad had 4 siblings pass away as infants and we have the photo of one brother who is laid out on a pillow wearing a white nightgown at about 6 months of age. He died from a childhood illness which we now have inoculation’s for, could be measles, mumps, rubella or diphtheria, I can’t quite remember. Hi siblings all passed away under the age of 1 year & 2 were twins. Life was hard back then without the vaccines that we give to our kids at 6 months of age and older.

This was the norm for the not so well off Victorians. Photographs were cheaper than painted portraits. This may be the only photograph they ever had taken of their loved one. While incredibly sad, they are also quite beautiful and may reflect a serenity that loved one may not have had in life, if for instance they were in pain or ill.

Quite sure these people died of something that today could have saved their lives. Rest in peace

A lot of babies born before early or mid 1900s didn't survive into adulthood. So sad.

I feel the grief of these families. My sister died in 1956 and I have no pictures of her.

In 1940 my grandfather passed and, because his second oldest son wasn't sure if he would make it back to Minnesota from Texas, my father took pictures of Grandpa in his casket. 20 years later, same situation with my grandmother so I have photos of her also.

My grandmother had pictures of my grandfather 45 in his coffin, and their daughter 4 and son 6 back in the 1930's. It was a different time.

Can anyone tell me about the music in the background? It is very haunting and beautiful at the same time......The cello is my favorite......

The one that got me the most is the little girl 'in a peaceful slumber'.

My daughter took a black and white photo of her holding her dad's hand ( my ex ) just after he passed away. She now has it in a frame, 😢

These photos bring a great sadness upon me. Little ones, for the most part, their lives ended nearly as they began. The grief of the families must have hung heavily on each house. If not for the hope of eternal peace with Christ, I would find it all futile and empty pain!

Often a post mortem pics were the only pics they had of the loved one

I dont find these disturbing at all. Beautiful and dearly loved children, to be forever remembered by their families. I think the photos are beautiful.

I take picture at every family members funeral. I don’t want to offend anyone, so I take pictures of the deceased before anyone arrives. I go in early. I just need to do this for myself.

Great as usual ! Joel

7.23 is the most beautiful pic. She looks as though she is comfortably sleeping. 🌸🌸🌷

it must have been devastating for the families to lose a child and then have to pose them or with them to have a photograph taken as the only way of remembering your child. you usually know a pm picture from the 1880's, early 1900's because the pictures are perfect, but babies and toddlers don't stay that still for the length of time it took to take it. i learnt about these when i was quite young as my gran had quite a few of them. very interesting 40HF, yet another good video, thank you.

Too sad..the kids.

Fascinating and so sad at the same time.

Very beautiful pictures of the kids. ✝️🙏❤️

All them poor little lost souls. Didn't get a chance at life. Made me tear up. At least the older people had some life. Just so unfair. I'm not a reincarnation believer as such, but I do hope the young ones did get another bite at life.

truly heartbreaking

Esto un poco extraño, pero creo demuestra el amor que tenían por sus seres amados . En un acto desesperado y a falta de tiempo recurrían a esto. Muchas gracias por el video, muy conmovedor.

Children especially posed with love.

My Gmom had a picture of her deceased brother. He was gorgeous with his face surrounded by flowers. It was tinted. He died of diarrhea.

I think it’s a lovely thing to keep so personal , no one else need see it if you don’t want them too .

My family still takes photos of our love ones before they are buried and I think to my self what would the world be if all the baby's in this never passed but lived to grow up

So sad to see so many children 😢

The girl at 7:37 looked so angelic and as if she was just asleep.

Some are deceased and some aren’t! I have seen another video that explains some of these photos! But it was a custom to photograph the dead!

There's something very creepy about these post mortem photos

Would anyone have hired a photographer to photograph their child while sleeping? Of course these still children are dead.

The black plague was everywhere back then. Children died most adults too

When i was in 10th grade one of my soccer teamates went in for surgery to remove a bone chip in his shoulder and he died in surgery. It completely devasted everyone (he was going to be a professional soccer player, he was that good..phenomenal). A month or so after his funeral his mother had a birthday party for him. Of course we were all invited and we were in their living room eating cake when his mom passed around a photo album of his funeral. Needless to say we didnt want anymore cake, then she told us all to go into his room and take anything we wanted of shannons...his brother was still laying in shannons bed crying. I took his soccer rain jacket. It was surreal- and bittersweet at the same time. That was over 30 years ago. Well i was reading our local newspaper a few years ago and i saw that shannons dad had passed, and his pallbearers were my soccer friends that also were the pallbearers at shannons funeral. 10th grade wasbtough my my class- we lost a friend everyweek. Every monday morn announcement would come that so and so died. It was heartbreaking

Beautiful memories but are all tragic at the same time.

I wish your captions were larger.

So Sad so Many died so young 😢 but I understand that than they wanted a photo done of there Love ❤️ one

Back in the day I guess it was very common to loss a child due to no medican you got sick the chances of you surviving is low

The captions need to be a little larger,very hard to read

back then everybody did not have a camera like we do now. Some people would die before they were ever photographed, then after they died their family would wish they were photographed while they were alive. A good photographer could pose the corpse so it would look like they were just sleeping.

Perturbador... pero supongo que en su tiempo sería algo entrañable.

Printing too small 2 read 1:40

Photos were very expensive, and this is all these families have left of their loved ones 💔

Print way to small for us old half-blind people! Otherwise, fascinating stuff.😊

I think the Momento Mori photos are just beautiful - very sad - but hauntingly beautiful

Very sad, there are many children 💔😥😥

It's sad that so many young had died. Imagine what they could have done in their lives. How many were going to be someone who might have changed the world 🌎

Can’t help but think in some cases the smell must have been horrible, embalming wasn’t widespread then, and many people either couldn’t afford it or didn’t have easy, local access to it.

Very sad.. what angels!

The print is so small that I can't read it.

I liked them all!

Some of these aren't dead at all.

The babies look like sleeping angels. ❤ So many infants lost. 😢

Would be good video, the print is so small with explanation.

My brother died in 1965 at the age of 15, and a friend of the family took a picture of him in his coffin. Dad often said he wished he could see the picture again. They're back together now.

Whoa, I find these pictures creepy, especially with their eyes open. I hope this fad does not resume.

Heute machen Menschen sogar Videos von ihren Sternenkindern. Ich finde ihre gezeigten Bilder von den kleinen und grossen toten Menschen gut. Denn es waren die einzigen Erinnerungen für die Angehörigen. Und es waren so süsse kinder. Es ist immer traurig ,

Makes all the sense in the world. We are so divorced from death. It's pitiful.

It breaks your heart ...

Oh welcome back you take so long to download I miss these photo dead people

Unusual to see black people in Daguerreotypes A couple of the children’s photos weren’t Post Mort

The little girl imagery is 😳

In most cases, even for adults, it would be their first and last image. No picture would mean total oblivion, like they never existed.

I don't see anything macabre or disturbing about this. It is individuals capturing either memories of old friends or new and young members of the family knowing that it is the last they will see of them.

Cry no more my little one

A tiny flower, lent not given, to bud on earth and bloom in heaven ❤

I have one of my mom's brother, born in 1912. He was what was called a blue baby. He died at the age of 6 weeks, and they took a photo of him. He was their first child.

Many children would never had a photo taken up until that point, it was the parent's last chance.

In the catholic rural areas of Bavaria, a lot of people even untill the 1960s or 70s still took photos of their deceased beloved ones while they were shown in their coffins just before the funeral.

So many little children. I'm glad I don't live in those times.

Have you ever noticed,how history repeats itself,these photos aren't weird they might have been weird at the 17th and 18th centurys but it's very much the norm for parents to take photos of their child who was born sleeping ,

These poor families! 😢😢😢😢

I always lay a flower on Memorial Day for my grandpa's sister, Josephine Elizabeth who died in the 1900's only 4 years 7 months old. Scarlet fever, malaria, chicken pox, measles, influenza, anything that produced a fever were dreadful for young children to get. My Dad got a bad fever when he was 5 in the early '50's and my great-grandmother did the trick of shaving an apple very thinly with a paring knife (old school housewives were experts at this) and he said the thin, translucent apple pieces would dissolve in his mouth so he wouldn't waste strength trying to eat. It gave a needed vitamin boost and it was a common sense approach folk dealt with fevers pre-antibiotics.

Use to be so normal and now days if your caught taking a picture of a dead loved one your being disrespectful. I mean don’t get me wrong I’m not saying it’s ok to whip out flash photography at a funeral and post the pics on social media. I’m just pointing out how things have changed.

6:32 creeps me out the most for some reason

😢 so sad to think what they probably have suffered before they died and hiw scared they had to be....😭

It is amazing that some of these people has died 175 years ago.😮

photography was still in its infancy during the 19th century so I imagine people would have been fascinated by it besides it enabled people to have memories of their dead loved ones , seems morbid to us now but not to the victorians then

This is a very nice channel, interesting and informative. But your spokesperson, while beautiful, is so self-conscious and stiff that it gets in the way. I keep wanting to tell her to relax. If she is the creator, she should hire someone more at home on camera.

The photos are interesting but the music is too much.

Most aren’t post-mortem pics, people did this a lot in this era. Holding children still or the handicapped as pics took a long time to take.

I believed that these are authentic photos ,because by not thinking what I viewed, this kids 😭 appeared in my dream all dress in white ,and in my dream they're chasing me ,but the lil girl who was also with them,who arrived ahead told me to hide under the giant leaves of some kind of plant so that they won't catch me,and then I woke up Its exactly at 12 midnight. I don't know why I dream like that ? Is because im an artist and my senses is exploring the other supernatural side? RIP !.

Q lot of the children are actually sleeping photos. They had them sleep because you had to sit still for quite awhile and kids are notorious for not sitting still.

All the pictures seem to be of privileged people' not of the poor in that time in history

We have post mortem photo's of family members from the 1950s and 60's.

OMG, did you really use AI? Rather tasteless imho. Ugh.

These aren't even the disturbing photos. The ones that get me are the photos of the deceased sitting or standing with living family members, and you can't even tell which one is the dead individual. Sometimes photographers would paint the dead person's eyes to make it look like they were still alive. Yikes!

We have these photos of members of my family up until 1940