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I'm not sure what was wrong with advertisers in the 1950s, but they were fixated with putting terrifyingly creepy demon children in their ads.
So we put together a gallery of some of the creepiest, weirdest and oddest children to appear in vintage magazine ads.
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I don't care what year this was made, you should probably use a different color dye than red to promote your dye company.
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Yeah, Buddy's got a girl alright. She's in pieces under the stairs.
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I bet she's playing those records backwards.
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And I wonder why Stokely's went out of business.
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"Yeah Mommy, spread that jam. Yeaah, spread it all over. Yeaaaaaah."
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Can Pears' Soap do something about zombie bathtub children?
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Did the chocolate give that kid a stroke?
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You know what this ad isn't missing? A terrifying demon-faced girl in the background eating ice cream.
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Kill it with fire.
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His face says, "You're next."
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"What's that ham? Mommy's been bad and she needs to be taught a lesson? Yes, ham. Tell me what else I should do to Mommy, ham."
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This kid looks like he'll get acquitted of all charges due to mental instability. Good for him.
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I'm guessing when this was originally presented someone said, "Can you make the child's eyes more..ya know...dead looking?"
And then they did.
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Oh, please let me buy the product that turns my kid into a terrifying pig-child!
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Terrifying Children in 1950s Ads
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90 % of the kids in these ads are gingers, what's up with that?
January 11 2013 at 2:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMost of these ads aren't from the 1950s. Most are from a much earlier time. From the art style and typefaces used, I'd say that some of these creepy ads go back to the 1920s or even earlier.
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