It feels like the world is getting scarier, hotter, and more and more cursed by the day. While things definitely aren’t going well you can take solace in the fact that they never were. If you dig through the internet, and find some images from the past, you’ll see our world has always been totally messed up.

Here are some images that really drive that home. Visual proof that humanity was a mistake, and we conjure up nightmarish sights on a regular basis. This gallery has less spooky vintage and more cursed lo-fi internet stuff. Maybe these things won’t scare you like The Ring, but they’ll make you realize some of the weirdest, most wrong happenings went down fairly recently.