25 Old School Halloween Costumes That Still Creep You Out

Leona Martinez

Halloween is a fun festival for everyone, regardless of age. At that time, we can carve pumpkins, satiate sugar cravings, and watch horror movies. But the most interesting thing is that we can dress up in all manner of costumes to scare our neighborhood trick-or-treaters. These old school Halloween costumes are scary. 
We always come up with one-of-a-kind spooky costumes inspired by the characters in horror movies, or superheroes, but sometimes, we feel those are so boring. If you share this sentiment, you could prefer a costume that is a bit more... traditional: such as a witch, a vampire, a ghost, a skeleton, or even a clown. Believe us. Such costumes are always in style and supremely creepy. Below are 25 old-school Halloween costumes, ranging from doll masks to bags over heads to outfits that can't even be described with words. Scroll down to take a look at these old school Halloween costumes and get inspired for your spooky attire.

#1. Vintage Halloween costume from a farm in Camp Dix, New Jersey in 1917

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#2. Vintage Halloween costumes

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#3. Pure nightmare fuel

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#4. My uncle (left) and my dad (right). Halloween circa 1962. Like seriously, wtf?!

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#5. Children on a school bus dressed for Halloween

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#6. Apparently, they used to be a youth group called a klu Klux kiddies

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#7. My sister’s hobo clown costume. Halloween ‘81

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#8. My dad’s Halloween costume in 1968

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#9. An old photo of my sister and I with my late grandfather. I’m guessing this was around 1975 Halloween? I do not remember anything about this

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#10. Halloween in the early 1900's

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#11. Halloween costumes in the 1930s

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#12. Halloween Costumes, estimated early 1900s

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#13. 80s Halloween costumes

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#14. Halloween, 1930s

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#15. My mums family halloween photo from the 70s

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#16. Two Halloween costumes from 1959

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#17. Halloween 1910s lovely

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#18. My dad in the back with my aunts in the mid 70’s for Halloween

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#19. Odd sibling pic

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#20. Old school Halloween costumes just hit different

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#21. Oddly terrifying

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#22. Nice costume!

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#23. I just found this on my history still creeps me out

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#24. 1910. Woman wearing Halloween costume

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#25. Halloween 1967 - Ontario, Canada

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