For the Austrian stamp, I believe it wasn't only to help bring general awareness, but most importantly, a direct attempt to help those women who were experiencing domestic violence. Often they're too scared to speak out or too scared to leave the relationship and home for fear of reprisals. Even if someone was forbidden to leave the house, they probably would still have received letters and cards from relatives to the home. Seeing that stamp on an envelope would surely be a major wake-up call to the danger they were in, and could perhaps be enough to drive them to make that decision to get out. And if that stamp helped even one person of any gender to get out of that type of situation, it was worth putting that image on the stamp. I have thankfully never been a victim of domestic violence, but I have close relatives who have. The same applies to the Austrian stamp highlighting the effects of drug use. Thank you for this video on the spooky stamps. The Equitorial Guinea stamp was a worthy winner! :)
I was wondering about that! The use of stamps to encourage victims to speak up, perhaps even more likely to encourage friends and family to speak up and take action… the imagery definitely makes you stop and think, I hope that the campaign had at least 1 success story!
Thanks Karen! If I recall correctly, you have a few stamps from this list already, the dead cosmonauts and reign of death I think 🤔. You should TOTALLY build that collection up and gather some more creepy stamps 💀 😊
Thanks Graham, that was an interesting topic. I hadn't realised there were so many creepy and unusual stamps out there. And I am sure there's plenty more to go. Keep up the great work on your channel. Denis.
I seem to have missed this episode before... that meant I still had a great episode to watch. Some of these creepy stamps are actually really cool and I knew only two of them, including the stamp portraying the three deceased cosmonauts. Thanks again Graham, for the great content, really enjoyed watching it and learned something again!
I did't know that the winning stamp really depicts dead people but always assumed its just a bad artwork. 😅Thanks for dicovering this story for all of us! 😀
Thank you for including the Canadian Haunted Canada stamps. I agree that none are creepy enough to make the top 10 so I appreciate their inclusion on the honourable mention list. It was fun going through and voting on the stamps and getting to see the final winners. Thanks for doing this Graham!
Thank you for voting and being a part of this top 10 experience. It was the most fun that I've had crowd sourcing information for a stamp video. Glad you enjoyed it!! 😊💀
Great list! I think I was one of the viewers who submitted the Equatorial Guinea for consideration for the list when you first asked for nominees. Ironically, I do not own the stamp but saw it once on Twitter a few years ago. Some genuinely creepy stamps on this list!
Always entertaining!! This was great, Graham. Well done to the community for building such an interesting list, I didnt know about any of these stamps.
Thank you for this very nice presentation! Two additions here: 1. The 2016 Agatha Christie stamps of the UK, which reveal hidden clues upon interaction - cute creepy; 2. Romania issued three philatelic products for the 1971 Soviet cosmonauts: - the stamp you presented - a perforated sheet - an imperforated sheet. This later is still the most sought after and least available stamp of Romania since the 1960s, and originally it was not sold in the country except to a few subscription-holders. It was sold only abroad for hard currency.
I’m learning that as well 😆, some folks hate spiders, others don’t see how they could be creepy. And that is true for several of these like Pinocchio. Glad you enjoyed it Kelvi, thanks for watching!
Thanks for this video Graham I loved seeing how the votes turned out and also hearing your reactions to the stamps 😂. I got the Pinocchio one in a pack and yes exclaimed something like 'what the heck is this scary stamp !??' when I saw it.
Great Video. I actually have the #1 stamp in my space topical collection. Didn’t know the story about the stamp. It’s really interesting there is so much history about a little piece of art. Hope you had a great trip over the pond. Best to you and the other half. Happy Collecting and have a wonderful weekend.
A very interesting and unusual top 10 creepy postage stamps. For me personally, the 1946 Polish postage stamp was very creepy. It depicts a concentration camp, above it is an image of an SS soldier in the form of death, who is holding poison gas in her hands. This image is creepy not only because of its appearance, but also the meaning, since so many people were tortured and killed there.
That is such a creepy stamp! I was SO SURPRISED that it didn’t get voted anywhere close to the top 10. I even purchased the stamp prior to opening the poll because I was convinced it would be an easy 3rd place (at least). Thanks so much for watching 😊
Thanks Lawrence!! Yeah I agree there are a lot of other stamps out there that can be argued as a top creepy stamp. It’s an engaging topic that folks seem to find really interesting. Thanks for watching!
Great video! I don't have any of these creepy stamps but kind of like the cartoonish style art of the car crash stamp from Turkey. Whomever drew it has a cool style.
Thanks Buzza Wuzza! The Turkey stamp really is an interesting one, I see the cool cartoonish style. I went looking but I wasn’t able to get one, I got most of the others though, most are super cheap but hard to find. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Rick 😊 Yeah of course, you would def know about the dead cosmonaut stamp with your impressive space collection. I look forward to working on the whatcha got episode now 🚀
Thanks Rick 😊 Yeah of course, you would def know about the dead cosmonaut stamp with your impressive space collection. I look forward to working on the whatcha got episode now 🚀
an extensive, well-presented list. Had fun and a great start to my weekend with the same. Trust you can endeavour to do an extreme philately episode or two on the given theme.
Always looking forward to your SPLENDID and ENTERTAINING show. However, I missed the mentioning of yet a 3rd creepy Austrian stamp. It was part of a set issued shortly after ww2, that sought to distance the country from Nazi war crimes. It depicted a skull, emerging from behind a mask of a certain Mr. Adolf, and was eventually censored and thus not released. It is depicted ln many catalogues, and i believe that some stamps have indeed survived. A whole category of stamps that i also missed from the list are the anti-smoking campaigns, which are often pretty gore in their imagery. A perennial theme ln my native Scandinavian art, literature and films is the notion of the calm surface of the lake, accompanied by its dark, deep and terrifying bottom. We may appear friendly and easy-going on the surface, but deep in our souls, gloomy daemons are lurking. Thus, its not a surprise for me to see so many stamps from the Nordics, and the Germanics, included. In my home country of DK, however, I can only think of one possible candidate, which is a safety-in-traffic issue from the late 70s. Keep on your great work, and all the best regards to the bi-lingual, swearing parrot who turned out - to my naiive disappointment - not to be a parrot after all.
I love stamps and whilst researching other topics I came back to stamps and found your channel. I even started a stamp cancellation book. You also had me thinking, Could you use national park cancellation stamps for postage cancellation? I mean it would be like a fancy cancel but not quite..
I like the one from Greenland. May be a polar bear created this with the description: Success, diner time, baby. The first place is original, I didnt know that the set exists. But definitive worth looking for it. Ok, it was a tragedy for the three, but creating such a stamp? Number 1 is well earned.
The Angry Boy was one of the first stamps I had in my collection. As I took up collecting in the early 2000's and I didn't have the Internet I thought this stamp was about children's rights or a sort of an anti-war poster. So you can imagine how surprised I was having found out that this crying child is a sculpture
U.S. “Phantom of the Opera” Stamp (along with three other “Classic” Universal Studios “Horror” characters); U.S. “Headless Horseman” (Legend of Sleepy Hollow-Walt Whitman) Stamp; several North Vietnamese graphic “War Stamps” (i.e., bayonet killing, mid-flight destruction of U.S. B-52 bomber) ; uncertain about the next topic but surely there is a stamp that depicts France’s “National Barber”-the Guillotine!
Correction! “Washington Irving” NOT “Walt Whitman” is the author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”-“O, Captain, my Captain” must have experienced “a Senior moment!”
A quick google search reveals a Jersey (Great Britain) Stamp with a guillotine and prospective candidate… Another block of four depicts Dr. Guillotine amidst the French Revolution!
This episode was so wonderful, as for the different seal, the Doctor Who one I loved, when I saw the seal on the bear I thought he was putting the human to sleep 😴 now I know better 🙈 I was scared of the seals on war bodies, like me I believe a lot in energy, I wouldn't have this type of stamp in my collection, you mentioned that you didn't know the story of the princess and the frog, in short: the princess promised to kiss the frog if he gave her back his ball, he gave it back and she didn't kiss him, A The story of the princess and the frog teaches children and adults the importance of always keeping the promises we make, no matter how much it costs us. In this case, a promise that the princess had struggled to keep provided her with an unexpected reward. This classic tale was written and made popular by the Brothers Grimm. Graham as always congratulations🎉
The Weeping Angel never got to me from Dr Who. Yeah, thought it was creepy, but they just don't otherwise bother me. Yeah, it's sad they separate you from your loved ones, but then you are sure to have a long life after. Sad start, but not all that bad of an ending. The ones that made me wet myself worried I will see coming out of the fog at me: Those children with the gas masks for faces! That whole "Are you my Mummy?" gave me nightmares.
Interesting! I don’t know much (or really anything) about the Dr Who world, so seeing the weeping angels was quite frightening for me. 😆😅. Thanks so much for watching!!
2:39 Sweet! I've actually been working for quite some time on guiding AI to create some remarkable images with you specifically in mind. I'm hoping to get a small parcel out to you in time for Christmas 2023!
Oh and just a heads up, my PO box is closing at the end of December and not being renewed in case you try to send anything in January. I will do one last mail day in Jan or Feb.
I think I prefer my own ‘take’ on stamp collecting: I collect stamps because they are made by countries putting their best forward with the help of the greatest artists and engravers of their history and times. I should also say my cutoff is some time in the mid seventies. “Julie land? Yeah … I live here.”
great list for HALLOWEEN...As a fan of DOCTOR WHO yes it was a creepy WEEPING ANGEL...I've seen the story...I haven't seen any stamps that feature halloween from Bewitched or i dream of jeannie.
At first I thought the 2023 Chinese year of rabbit would make it to the list, but after learning other creepy stamps I started to think it's not that creepy, even kind of cute
Hi Graham first Bora Bora Girl is here, yes very interesting subject, I have got so many stamps there must be some creepy ones among them. found one recently a czech stamp in memorial of the reprisal massacre of Lidice after the assination of Reinhard Heydrich knowing the story well the stamp well it has its own page in honour of the victim's, the subject matter horrifys me Kevin how do i vote in your top ten?
Oh wow I’ll need to look that stamp up. If I do another top ten, I announce it on a video and on social media with a link to vote or nominate. So glad to see the Bora Bora girl arrived! 😃
Ghee, some creepy and horrifying stamps. I didn't know any of them, and was amazed that such stamps even exist. Even though death should be normal and acceptable, the #1 Guinea Equatorial dead cosmonauts stamp conjured up for me sadness and the horrible way they died and unexpected fear for death and dead bodies. Indeed creepy. I can just not imagine what those Bangladesh stamps must look like! Dead and scary babies are my ultimate fear, and that baby monster that comes up due to dead and nameless babies and who might run towards you was the ultimate scary stamp for me. Creepy is indeed in the eye of the beholder, in the original list I remember the wheta stamp, which I could not understand could get on a creepy list. The spider though, which one should also admire as part of the wonderful diversity of nature, will unfortunately bring up my arachnophobia, and I am sure would at first glance caused me to throw the envelope as quickly as possible as far away as possible on instinct. The ice bear killing the human I really appreciated and liked, not finding it creepy at all - fitting punishment for human race causing the death and untimely extinction of such a large part of nature which cannot defend itself. Thanks Graham, a scary, but another original and magnificent video.
Yeah I saw his drawings, but what is the reason for having a smiley face on the hand and finger tips? Is it just because it is his style, maybe its well known and connects with the people in France? I tried looking for more info and didn't find anything 🤔
FANTASTIC VIDEO AGAIN...I AM FROM ISTANBUL TURKEY...HERE IS THE TRUE STORY ABOUT THE WEIRD AND EXTRAORDINARY STAMP AT 14.37... BOTH 1976 AND 1977 ARE THE YEARS THAT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS...THOUSANDS OF THEM ARE ALSO WOUNDED...BOTH WERE REALLY DISASTROUS YEARS... BECAUSE OF THIS THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO WARN THE TURKISH CITIZENS RELEASING SUCH POSTAGE STAMPS... HOWEVER, THIS PARTICULAR ONE IS NOT THE ONLY ONE ...IN FACT, IT IS A SIX PIECE SET OF STAMPS , INCLUDING THE BASIC TRAFFIC WARNINGS AS : DO NOT SPEED UP ! ALWAYS WATCH THE SPEED LIMITS IN YOUR AREA... DO NOT OVERLOAD ! ( REGARDING ABOUT THE BIG VEHICLES LIKE TRACTORS FULL OF VILLAGE PEOPLE , MOSTLY KIDS AND WOMEN GOING TO THE LOCAL WEDDING CEREMONIES ) NEVER DRIVE TOO CLOSE TO THE LEADING VEHICLE ! ALWAYS LEAVE ENOUGH SPACE... DRIVE SLOWLY...SLOW DOWN WHEN YOURE CLOSE TO THE PEDESTRIEAN ZONES...AND SOME LIKELY OTHERS... THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR EFFORTS...KEEP UP WITH GOOD WORK...BYE...
I think the Circus stamp issued by the U.S. is the creepiest one ever issued by the U,S, It just reminds me of the killer clowns. In my opinion it should have never been issued, as it would deter me from going to any circus. I must wonder how many children got nightmares from it. Great video this week. How about one of the best stamps bring mental retardation to the public? I know the U.S. has one really good one.
Nice! The Austrian ones are definitely creepy, there was another one from Austria raising cancer awareness that didn’t make the list, also SUPER creepy. Thanks for watching.
OK let me be the lone contrarian in saying the Australian red-backed spider stamp has no place on a list most creepy stamps, let alone a #2 ranking. What I think is really at play here is fear per se not creepiness. I'd venture to guess the folks who voted for it were mostly confirmed acracnophobes of the only-good-spider-is-a-dead-spider school of thought, so the outcome isn't that surprising. Highlighting venomous spiders like the red-backed or the black widow on a US stamp awhile ago seems to me more informative than creepy, but that's just me.
For the Austrian stamp, I believe it wasn't only to help bring general awareness, but most importantly, a direct attempt to help those women who were experiencing domestic violence. Often they're too scared to speak out or too scared to leave the relationship and home for fear of reprisals. Even if someone was forbidden to leave the house, they probably would still have received letters and cards from relatives to the home. Seeing that stamp on an envelope would surely be a major wake-up call to the danger they were in, and could perhaps be enough to drive them to make that decision to get out. And if that stamp helped even one person of any gender to get out of that type of situation, it was worth putting that image on the stamp. I have thankfully never been a victim of domestic violence, but I have close relatives who have. The same applies to the Austrian stamp highlighting the effects of drug use. Thank you for this video on the spooky stamps. The Equitorial Guinea stamp was a worthy winner! :)
I was wondering about that! The use of stamps to encourage victims to speak up, perhaps even more likely to encourage friends and family to speak up and take action… the imagery definitely makes you stop and think, I hope that the campaign had at least 1 success story!
💀 I am so used to flowers and flags on my stamps, that when I voted in your poll I was completely shocked. what a list!
Right?!? Some of these stamps really surprised me. Thanks so much Erica!
Fantastic list! I've very tempted to start a collection of creepy stamps
Thanks Karen! If I recall correctly, you have a few stamps from this list already, the dead cosmonauts and reign of death I think 🤔. You should TOTALLY build that collection up and gather some more creepy stamps 💀 😊
Yes your right, I know also want the other stamps your mentioned (expect for the spider, far too scary for me)@@ExploringStamps
@@byronsbraindo it Karen! I haven’t heard of any ‘creepy stamp’ collection, this could be a unique space that you pioneer 👻😃
Some great stamps, I feel sorry for the postal workers that had to deal with that spider stamp. #2 was definitely the worst in my opinion, great vid
Number 2 was no surprise when it got so high up in the list. yikes!. Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching 😊
Whoa, number 1 is the creepiest, but there were some others that were close to it! Thanks Graham! Another great program.
💀 😆 Thanks Nyle, glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Graham, that was an interesting topic. I hadn't realised there were so many creepy and unusual stamps out there. And I am sure there's plenty more to go. Keep up the great work on your channel. Denis.
Thank you Denis. So glad you enjoyed it 😊
Thanks Graham for a 'fun' and entertaining video especially during the season of Halloween!
You are very welcome Gary. Thanks so much for watching!! 😊 💀👻
My fav made the list! Polar bear at #10. Overall a great assortment of disturbing stamps. Thanks for another great video!
🐻❄️ that might be my favorite as well 😅
Thanks so much for watching and participating!!
I seem to have missed this episode before... that meant I still had a great episode to watch. Some of these creepy stamps are actually really cool and I knew only two of them, including the stamp portraying the three deceased cosmonauts. Thanks again Graham, for the great content, really enjoyed watching it and learned something again!
I agree! Some of these ‘creepy’ stamps are really really cool items 😊 thanks so much for watching!
I did't know that the winning stamp really depicts dead people but always assumed its just a bad artwork. 😅Thanks for dicovering this story for all of us! 😀
Crazy right?! At first, i also thought the same thing, until I realized it was part of a real mission...wow. Thanks so much for watching!! :)
Thank you for including the Canadian Haunted Canada stamps. I agree that none are creepy enough to make the top 10 so I appreciate their inclusion on the honourable mention list. It was fun going through and voting on the stamps and getting to see the final winners. Thanks for doing this Graham!
Thank you for voting and being a part of this top 10 experience. It was the most fun that I've had crowd sourcing information for a stamp video. Glad you enjoyed it!! 😊💀
Great list! I think I was one of the viewers who submitted the Equatorial Guinea for consideration for the list when you first asked for nominees. Ironically, I do not own the stamp but saw it once on Twitter a few years ago. Some genuinely creepy stamps on this list!
Always entertaining!! This was great, Graham. Well done to the community for building such an interesting list, I didnt know about any of these stamps.
Thanks Pete 😊 I didn’t know about quite a few of them either, thanks for watching!
Thank you for this very nice presentation! Two additions here:
1. The 2016 Agatha Christie stamps of the UK, which reveal hidden clues upon interaction - cute creepy;
2. Romania issued three philatelic products for the 1971 Soviet cosmonauts:
- the stamp you presented
- a perforated sheet
- an imperforated sheet. This later is still the most sought after and least available stamp of Romania since the 1960s, and originally it was not sold in the country except to a few subscription-holders. It was sold only abroad for hard currency.
Only 4 of the stamps I voted for made the list, I guess we all have different tastes for 'creepy' LOL. This was great, I really enjoyed it!
I’m learning that as well 😆, some folks hate spiders, others don’t see how they could be creepy. And that is true for several of these like Pinocchio. Glad you enjoyed it Kelvi, thanks for watching!
I am so happy that i found this channel ❤
😊 I’m happy you found it. Thanks for watching!!
Nice to see the result on the creepy stamps you asked for.
Well put together and the ranking makes sense to me.
Thanks Eric! 😊 the ranking came out pretty well, thanks for watching!
Wait! That Pinocchio image went from his nose piercing his collar to suddenly NOT piercing his collar. Spooky.
👀🫣 yup!!
Thanks for this video Graham I loved seeing how the votes turned out and also hearing your reactions to the stamps 😂. I got the Pinocchio one in a pack and yes exclaimed something like 'what the heck is this scary stamp !??' when I saw it.
😊Thanks so much Lisa, for contributing to the nominations and votes and for watching the episode. Glad you enjoyed it!
Great Video. I actually have the #1 stamp in my space topical collection. Didn’t know the story about the stamp. It’s really interesting there is so much history about a little piece of art. Hope you had a great trip over the pond. Best to you and the other half. Happy Collecting and have a wonderful weekend.
Been patiently waiting for your video and it was great! Thank you for tackling this uncomfortable topic! Just wow!
A very interesting and unusual top 10 creepy postage stamps. For me personally, the 1946 Polish postage stamp was very creepy. It depicts a concentration camp, above it is an image of an SS soldier in the form of death, who is holding poison gas in her hands. This image is creepy not only because of its appearance, but also the meaning, since so many people were tortured and killed there.
That is such a creepy stamp! I was SO SURPRISED that it didn’t get voted anywhere close to the top 10. I even purchased the stamp prior to opening the poll because I was convinced it would be an easy 3rd place (at least). Thanks so much for watching 😊
I have this stamp as well, and remain surprised that it didn't make the list.
I loved the episode. Excellent work. Of course I have far more creepier stamps, but that is my opinion and I am unanimous in that.
Thanks Lawrence!! Yeah I agree there are a lot of other stamps out there that can be argued as a top creepy stamp. It’s an engaging topic that folks seem to find really interesting. Thanks for watching!
Great video! I don't have any of these creepy stamps but kind of like the cartoonish style art of the car crash stamp from Turkey. Whomever drew it has a cool style.
Thanks Buzza Wuzza! The Turkey stamp really is an interesting one, I see the cool cartoonish style. I went looking but I wasn’t able to get one, I got most of the others though, most are super cheap but hard to find. Thanks for watching!
Great stuff, as usual, Graham...I knew about the dead cosmonauts. As you know I have a great Space collection. 🖖
Thanks Rick 😊 Yeah of course, you would def know about the dead cosmonaut stamp with your impressive space collection. I look forward to working on the whatcha got episode now 🚀
Thanks Rick 😊 Yeah of course, you would def know about the dead cosmonaut stamp with your impressive space collection. I look forward to working on the whatcha got episode now 🚀
an extensive, well-presented list. Had fun and a great start to my weekend with the same. Trust you can endeavour to do an extreme philately episode or two on the given theme.
😆 thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it Basil!
Creepy selection. Thanks for the video, quite entertaining
Glad you enjoyed it 😊 thanks so much for watching!
I'm into gloom and doom and things that creep into a dark room (made a rhyme!) This list was awesome to watch!
😆 💀 glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
👏👏👏 informational stuff! nicely done once again!
Thank you 😊
Love this channel
Thank you 😊
Always looking forward to your SPLENDID and ENTERTAINING show. However, I missed the mentioning of yet a 3rd creepy Austrian stamp. It was part of a set issued shortly after ww2, that sought to distance the country from Nazi war crimes. It depicted a skull, emerging from behind a mask of a certain Mr. Adolf, and was eventually censored and thus not released. It is depicted ln many catalogues, and i believe that some stamps have indeed survived. A whole category of stamps that i also missed from the list are the anti-smoking campaigns, which are often pretty gore in their imagery. A perennial theme ln my native Scandinavian art, literature and films is the notion of the calm surface of the lake, accompanied by its dark, deep and terrifying bottom. We may appear friendly and easy-going on the surface, but deep in our souls, gloomy daemons are lurking. Thus, its not a surprise for me to see so many stamps from the Nordics, and the Germanics, included. In my home country of DK, however, I can only think of one possible candidate, which is a safety-in-traffic issue from the late 70s. Keep on your great work, and all the best regards to the bi-lingual, swearing parrot who turned out - to my naiive disappointment - not to be a parrot after all.
Very nice presentation of a none usuel topic. Merci beaucoup.
Wonderful selection, Graham
Thank you 😊
I love stamps and whilst researching other topics I came back to stamps and found your channel. I even started a stamp cancellation book.
You also had me thinking,
Could you use national park cancellation stamps for postage cancellation?
I mean it would be like a fancy cancel but not quite..
Wow - that was a very creepy set of stamps!
It sure is! Thanks for watching 😊 💀
This video so good had to watch it again!
😆 🙏 awesome!! Thank you!
Great video Graham!
Thank you! 😊💀
Another very interesting subject..liked it a lot
Glad you enjoyed it 💀😊 Thanks for watching!
I like the one from Greenland. May be a polar bear created this with the description: Success, diner time, baby. The first place is original, I didnt know that the set exists. But definitive worth looking for it. Ok, it was a tragedy for the three, but creating such a stamp? Number 1 is well earned.
I can only hear Goonies..."Dead things, Mikey...dead things!" lol
😂💀😆
A very interesting and informative video. I looked with interest
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching 😊
"What were they thinking?" - for a moment I thought I'm watching Angry Video Game Nerd 🤣🤣
Loll :) Just "creeped out philately nerd" here
very good. Always support the channel
Thank you 😊
I had never heard of the dead cosmonauts. Very interesting.
It really is interesting, I didn’t know a lot about it until researching for this video. Thanks for watching!!
The Angry Boy was one of the first stamps I had in my collection. As I took up collecting in the early 2000's and I didn't have the Internet I thought this stamp was about children's rights or a sort of an anti-war poster. So you can imagine how surprised I was having found out that this crying child is a sculpture
Right?!!? I was also thinking along the lines of anti-war, also totally surprised that it was a statue. Thanks so much for watching 😊
U.S. “Phantom of the Opera” Stamp (along with three other “Classic” Universal Studios “Horror” characters); U.S. “Headless Horseman” (Legend of Sleepy Hollow-Walt Whitman) Stamp; several North Vietnamese graphic “War Stamps” (i.e., bayonet killing, mid-flight destruction of U.S. B-52 bomber) ; uncertain about the next topic but surely there is a stamp that depicts France’s “National Barber”-the Guillotine!
Correction! “Washington Irving” NOT “Walt Whitman” is the author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”-“O, Captain, my Captain” must have experienced “a Senior moment!”
A quick google search reveals a Jersey (Great Britain) Stamp with a guillotine and prospective candidate… Another block of four depicts Dr. Guillotine amidst the French Revolution!
This episode was so wonderful, as for the different seal, the Doctor Who one I loved, when I saw the seal on the bear I thought he was putting the human to sleep 😴 now I know better 🙈 I was scared of the seals on war bodies, like me I believe a lot in energy, I wouldn't have this type of stamp in my collection, you mentioned that you didn't know the story of the princess and the frog, in short: the princess promised to kiss the frog if he gave her back his ball, he gave it back and she didn't kiss him, A The story of the princess and the frog teaches children and adults the importance of always keeping the promises we make, no matter how much it costs us. In this case, a promise that the princess had struggled to keep provided her with an unexpected reward. This classic tale was written and made popular by the Brothers Grimm. Graham as always congratulations🎉
The Weeping Angel never got to me from Dr Who. Yeah, thought it was creepy, but they just don't otherwise bother me. Yeah, it's sad they separate you from your loved ones, but then you are sure to have a long life after. Sad start, but not all that bad of an ending.
The ones that made me wet myself worried I will see coming out of the fog at me: Those children with the gas masks for faces! That whole "Are you my Mummy?" gave me nightmares.
Interesting! I don’t know much (or really anything) about the Dr Who world, so seeing the weeping angels was quite frightening for me. 😆😅. Thanks so much for watching!!
Thanks Graham............geez that was kinda creepy!!!
You are very welcome 😊 💀
2:39
Sweet!
I've actually been working for quite some time on guiding AI to create some remarkable images with you specifically in mind.
I'm hoping to get a small parcel out to you in time for Christmas 2023!
:). Thats my first time using AI for a video imagery. It gave me exactly what I wanted 😊
Oh and just a heads up, my PO box is closing at the end of December and not being renewed in case you try to send anything in January. I will do one last mail day in Jan or Feb.
Its always fun to have a little spooky treats with stamp collecting this fall.
Did you give out stamps and candy this year to Trick or Treaters :3
TSUKI!!! I feel like I haven't seen you in a while. 😊 Hope you are well, thanks for watching :)
@@ExploringStampsI've been watching yes 😊 I just been dealing with college so balancing videos and class work.
Awesome, I hope that you are enjoying college, thanks Tsuki 😊
@@ExploringStamps Anytime! 😊
#1 was my pick as well, not just creepy but also distasteful.
I absolutely agree it is distasteful. Thanks so much for watching and voting, Kristiaan 🙏
I think I prefer my own ‘take’ on stamp collecting: I collect stamps because they are made by countries putting their best forward with the help of the greatest artists and engravers of their history and times. I should also say my cutoff is some time in the mid seventies. “Julie land? Yeah … I live here.”
another great vid
😊 thank you!
Gosh some of those are awful. Somewhat morbid. Good job Graham!
💀😅 Thanks Adam!
great list for HALLOWEEN...As a fan of DOCTOR WHO yes it was a creepy WEEPING ANGEL...I've seen the story...I haven't seen any stamps that feature halloween from Bewitched or i dream of jeannie.
Thanks Roger! Hmm according to colnect, Mozambique had bewitched stamps, although they are Stamperija produced 😅. Thanks for watching!
I love the Hammer horror filming studios ones with Karloff and bela Legosis
classics 👏😬
At first I thought the 2023 Chinese year of rabbit would make it to the list, but after learning other creepy stamps I started to think it's not that creepy, even kind of cute
Hi Graham first Bora Bora Girl is here, yes very interesting subject, I have got so many stamps there must be some creepy ones among them. found one recently a czech stamp in memorial of the reprisal massacre of Lidice after the assination of Reinhard Heydrich knowing the story well the stamp well it has its own page in honour of the victim's, the subject matter horrifys me Kevin how do i vote in your top ten?
Oh wow I’ll need to look that stamp up. If I do another top ten, I announce it on a video and on social media with a link to vote or nominate. So glad to see the Bora Bora girl arrived! 😃
Czechoslovakia 25th anniversary issued 1967
Hallo.
Vielen Dank für Interessante Video.
Ein paar von diesen Briefmarken habe ich gesehen, aber viel anderen nicht.
Thank you 😊. Glad you found it interesting, thanks for watching!
Huh, I have that Pinocchio stamp, but I never thought of it as creepy. But seeing it magnified on the screen, those eyes really are horrible.
Ghee, some creepy and horrifying stamps. I didn't know any of them, and was amazed that such stamps even exist. Even though death should be normal and acceptable, the #1 Guinea Equatorial dead cosmonauts stamp conjured up for me sadness and the horrible way they died and unexpected fear for death and dead bodies. Indeed creepy. I can just not imagine what those Bangladesh stamps must look like! Dead and scary babies are my ultimate fear, and that baby monster that comes up due to dead and nameless babies and who might run towards you was the ultimate scary stamp for me. Creepy is indeed in the eye of the beholder, in the original list I remember the wheta stamp, which I could not understand could get on a creepy list. The spider though, which one should also admire as part of the wonderful diversity of nature, will unfortunately bring up my arachnophobia, and I am sure would at first glance caused me to throw the envelope as quickly as possible as far away as possible on instinct. The ice bear killing the human I really appreciated and liked, not finding it creepy at all - fitting punishment for human race causing the death and untimely extinction of such a large part of nature which cannot defend itself. Thanks Graham, a scary, but another original and magnificent video.
I love it.. “can I put this on an envelope? Not to anyone I like!” 😅😅😅
😅 lol. Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much for watching
Some of the stamps a creepy 😨but your presentation is entertaining 😊
😅😬 Thank you Richard! Some of them are indeed really creepy.
Number 10 spot is the most crippy stamp for me!!!
It most certainly is creepy 😅🐻❄️. Thanks for watching.
Some stamps are really creepy and don’t know how they decided to issue them.
Same, several of them had me asking 'what were they thinking?' 😆 Thanks for watching, Sara!
The creepy hand with donated organs is by Hervé Di Rosa. If you Google him, you can see that it’s very typical of his art style!
Yeah I saw his drawings, but what is the reason for having a smiley face on the hand and finger tips? Is it just because it is his style, maybe its well known and connects with the people in France? I tried looking for more info and didn't find anything 🤔
When are you making a video on Indian stamps and James bond stamps
I’m waiting for you to first make those videos 👏😉
Angola issuing a stamp against domestic violence is the type of ironic, abusive profiteering that drove me away from modern stamps.
That's life I love them they are very different. Dr Who is a great show. You come up with good shows too.👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺😎
New video. New video. New video ❤
Wooohoo 🙌
Hi mr.Crum! I am one of your sisters students! She is super nice and a great teacher! Ask her! From-Mila
Thank you Mila 😊 She certainly is a great teacher! Thanks for stopping by 👋
FANTASTIC VIDEO AGAIN...I AM FROM ISTANBUL TURKEY...HERE IS THE TRUE STORY ABOUT THE WEIRD AND EXTRAORDINARY STAMP AT 14.37...
BOTH 1976 AND 1977 ARE THE YEARS THAT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS...THOUSANDS OF THEM ARE ALSO WOUNDED...BOTH WERE REALLY DISASTROUS YEARS...
BECAUSE OF THIS THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO WARN THE TURKISH CITIZENS RELEASING SUCH POSTAGE STAMPS...
HOWEVER, THIS PARTICULAR ONE IS NOT THE ONLY ONE ...IN FACT, IT IS A SIX PIECE SET OF STAMPS , INCLUDING THE BASIC TRAFFIC WARNINGS AS :
DO NOT SPEED UP ! ALWAYS WATCH THE SPEED LIMITS IN YOUR AREA...
DO NOT OVERLOAD ! ( REGARDING ABOUT THE BIG VEHICLES LIKE TRACTORS FULL OF VILLAGE PEOPLE , MOSTLY KIDS AND WOMEN GOING TO THE LOCAL WEDDING CEREMONIES )
NEVER DRIVE TOO CLOSE TO THE LEADING VEHICLE ! ALWAYS LEAVE ENOUGH SPACE...
DRIVE SLOWLY...SLOW DOWN WHEN YOURE CLOSE TO THE PEDESTRIEAN ZONES...AND SOME LIKELY OTHERS...
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR EFFORTS...KEEP UP WITH GOOD WORK...BYE...
Oh that’s fascinating!! 😀Thank you so much for adding context and sharing more details about that stamp and why they issued it. 🙏
I think the Circus stamp issued by the U.S. is the creepiest one ever issued by the U,S, It just reminds me of the killer clowns. In my opinion it should have never been issued, as it would deter me from going to any circus. I must wonder how many children got nightmares from it. Great video this week. How about one of the best stamps bring mental retardation to the public? I know the U.S. has one really good one.
Thank you 😊. I don’t do well with clowns, so I would have voted for the clown stamps in the top 10 😅.
I have #5, and I don't find Pinocchio creepy. The two Austrian ones are definitely creepy!
Nice! The Austrian ones are definitely creepy, there was another one from Austria raising cancer awareness that didn’t make the list, also SUPER creepy. Thanks for watching.
Hi Graham what about Hitler with skull mask.
Ah The death mask stamp. I can’t remember the story behind that, was it actually issued or only proposed?
I just found #3 in my collection. Am I getting creepy? bwahaha 👹😈
Oh nice!!! For some reason, that is not the easiest stamp to get, must be popular with collectors 💀😊. Thanks for watching!
Let me guess (I haven’t watched yet). Nr 1 is the dead astronauts.
Let’s see… 👀
38th
Gosh, I lost my streak
What happened?!? Come on, next time reclaim first position 👏
@@ExploringStamps You've inspired me to make a #philately TH-cam channel of my own! Irreverent Postage is coming soon!
👋
Hi Louis 👋
Comic plate rome comic capebottleknighthrone
A.casa Throne note
eine fehlt!
😯 which one?
@@ExploringStamps Futsches Reichsbriefmarke,
1st!😂
Yes you are!! :)
OK let me be the lone contrarian in saying the Australian red-backed spider stamp has no place on a list most creepy stamps, let alone a #2 ranking. What I think is really at play here is fear per se not creepiness. I'd venture to guess the folks who voted for it were mostly confirmed acracnophobes of the only-good-spider-is-a-dead-spider school of thought, so the outcome isn't that surprising. Highlighting venomous spiders like the red-backed or the black widow on a US stamp awhile ago seems to me more informative than creepy, but that's just me.
It doesn’t have a number 2 ranking, just a special mention… it didn’t make the list.
homie didnt watch the video...just scrolled through it.
Oh wow! my bad!@@ExploringStamps