Haunted mirrors: half-silvered glass over creepy pictures

Etsy seller Bionicbuttercup makes "haunted mirrors": "Originally a picture frame, the glass was painted with a special paint that allows it to be part functioning mirror, part gateway to the paranormal (or, rather, you can just see the picture of the creepy kid behind the glass.)"

(via Super Punch)

Halloween Haunted Mirror - Charlotte - The Bionic Buttercup [etsy.com]

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It would be interesting if it showed better under less light. You could have a dim light on, somebody walks in and sees it, turns on a brighter light and can’t see it anymore…
bonjourmiette

These are much nicer than those pictures where the painting changes into a skull based on teh angle you view it, since you could in theory put any picture behind the missor glass and really freak out relatives by putting a portrait of a more recently deceased ancestor in it.
herrnichte

Are all images of little girls regarding you with serious visage “creepy”? What if their brothers are behind them making rabbit ears fingers? This is something that must be studied intensively for misogynistic creepiness factors ..yep
- geekcalif
  
  “Are all images of little girls regarding you with serious visage “creepy”?”
  
  Yes.
- Fart History Major
  
  Only when accompanied by an echo-ey toy piano playing in the background
- Morkl
  
  When they are regarding me from inside a mirror: Yes.
http://twitter.com/Pigeonator King Pigeon

For what it’s worth, the girl used on the site’s advertisement here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/59044720/halloween-haunted-mirror-charlotte-the

is Alfred Stieglitz’s daughter Katherine, photographed in 1905.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stieglitz-Katherine.jpg
Antinous / Moderator

What would be really creepy is to take a picture of a friend, digitally age it, use that for the mirror and then hang it where they’ll look in it.
http://twitter.com/davidcranor David Cranor

You can put retro-reflective material behind the image and use a more opaque mirror to make it so that the image only shows up in flash photographs.

Spooky.