10 Facts About Living In Victorian England That Will Make Your Skin Crawl

The fog that covered the streets of London was referred to as pea soup. The fog came from smoke and coal fires, and of course moisture in the air. the constant and thick fog led to pretty much everything else being much creepier than it would have been otherwise.

Anyone with no place else to live would end up at one of these poorhouses. They were typically incredibly dirty and very overcrowded. You were also expected to work when living there, and contribute your money to the house.

Queen Victoria was the namesake for the Victorian era, was was herself one of the creepy parts. When her husband died, she went in mourning for the rest of her life, something that impacted all of Britain.

We realize now that freak shows are barbaric, but at the time, they were as normal as going to the movies.

When a loved one would die in Victorian England, the family would often have a photograph taken of the body. Even creepier, the family would usually pose with the body and try to make it look like the person was still alive.

In Victorian England, eating every single part of the animal was custom. That means your dinner probably regularly contained the brains of your favorite meat.

Another weird form of entertainment came in vignettes. You would dress up in weird costumes and literally just pose for one another. That's it.

Gothic novels are now some of our most classic novels, but at the time they were brand new. The time period gave us the most creepy stories such as Dracula and the works of Edgar Allen Poe.

Surgery is a loose term for what happened in Victorian times. One in four patients died following a surgery, and amputations were the answer for many problems.

At least five prostitutes were killed at the hand of "Jack the Ripper" and even years later, it's still unclear who the terrible killer was.