Vaudeville Ventriloquist Dummy Portraits

Ventriloquism creeps me out as it is, but these vaudeville era portraits of ventriloquists with their creepy dummies are, well, creepy. This first one is quite possibly the most unsettling thing I have ever seen. Enjoy the rest, including the random police booking photo of “The Great Lester”.

Footnotes

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Anonymous

Oh hell no.
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Maxi16_05

falta @julyweich con julieto
http://www.facebook.com/people/Claudia-Halley/100001134732688 Claudia Halley

eu tenho muito medo.
Ancientburner

There is a great episode of KING OF THE HILL that involves one of the adult characters having a life long terror of a ventriloquist’s dummy. I won’t tell you how the episode ends, but everyone who was creeped out by these pictures will sleep better after watching it.
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Fourthway2010

Super Creepy!……um, why is that lady grabbing her own breast? I laughed so hard when I saw that one!
The faces are just unnerving! Is it because they build their own and they’re just bad artists, or are they actually trying to creep people out?
(grin)
C. Love
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http://downlode.org/ Hex

In the “Rox” photo – it’s Leatherface! Right down to the tie and apron!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Malcolm-Poynter/1760940983 Malcolm Poynter

Would you marry one of them? The wedding would be a bit wooden!
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Dennis Alwood

I plead guilty for the creation of “Fats”in the film version of Bill Goldman’s novel MAGIC.
More than a few youngsters lost sleep over him. And the commercial was pulled off NBC because of all the negative feed-back from parents.
But more than a few young ladies thought Fats was “hot”, so go figure.
http://www.facebook.com/katielm2 Katie WildChild Martinez

This gives me the creeps
dk

Mrs. Evangelist John Bishop is a man, baby.
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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1123017925 Kelsey Walter Showalter

Well that was sufficiently horrifying.
http://twitter.com/TheOddLuminary The Odd Luminary

These are absolutely fabulous! My Aunt Vespa’s second husband was a
ventriloquist’s dummy. Needless to say the marriage was soon annulled…
Shera57

Damn, aside from the talented Paul Winchell and his dummy side kick, this has to be one of the creepiest photo collections I’ve ever seen. And the 10th picture down is just so, so,..wrong.
Katspaw

the 12th couple is Paul Winchell and his dummy Jerry Mahoney. Paul was no dummy himself.He had the first U.S.patent on an implantable artificial heart. Later he is remembered as the voice of Tigger in the Disney Pooh films.
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http://www.facebook.com/ispaydiman Eman Ariola

So I heard you want a doll this Christmas.
Lexsmagnuson

John Bishops wife looks like a tranny
Kendenny66

Stop calling us “dummies” ! We have feelings too!
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Written By:

Jay B Sauceda

Date

June 21st, 2011

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