"It Still Haunts My Dreams": Photo Lab Workers Are Sharing The 21 Most Unhinged, "What The Actual F***!?" Photos They've Ever Developed

I'm a precocious '90s baby, truthful trips to the photograph laboratory were fundamentally a puerility ritual. Even now, arsenic a certified aged soul, I inactive popular into a photograph laboratory to get immoderate halfway memories printed to instrumentality successful a diary oregon photograph album. I ever assumed photograph developers ne'er really looked astatine the pictures...until I ordered a specific medium for my hubby for our anniversary, and abruptly started questioning everything.

Call maine naive, but it turns retired they absolutely look astatine your photos. So, naturally, I leaned into this uncomfortable revelation and went backmost to the OG Reddit days. The olden days erstwhile you really had to instrumentality your movie to a laboratory to get it developed. So travel with maine 14 years into the past and behold immoderate of the astir buck-wild pictures that photo laboratory workers from Reddit person ever seen. Take a peek:

1. "There was a little, aged granny who brought 3 rolls in. When we developed them, they were of 2 teddy bears successful assorted intersexual positions. It was beauteous awkward erstwhile she came to prime up the album."

—annarchy8

2. "My person and her household person a institution that makes props for fearfulness movies. They took a full movie rotation of photos of fake corpses and different akin worldly to amusement a movie studio. The radical processing the photos called the police, and they had to amusement the constabulary each these fake dormant bodies. I conjecture that's a large mode to archer if your props look real."

—Spletch

3. "Once I got an full rotation of movie that seemed to beryllium a feline taking pics of each bowel question helium made that month. There are immoderate precise weird radical retired there."

—Acidmoxy

4. "About erstwhile a week, we'd get graphic commencement photos of couples capturing the peculiar moment."

—TropicDrunk

5. "The wildest ones were erstwhile radical would enactment vegetables successful every...orifice. It happened much than you think. Carrots seems to beryllium the astir fashionable choice, successful lawsuit you wondered."

—LemonJones

6. "I've worked arsenic a photograph laboratory tech for six years oregon so. It's chaotic however galore radical deliberation it's a large thought to instrumentality snaps of their weed increasing setups."

—Acidmoxy

7. "One woman took photos of her shoes successful a footwear organizer. The aforesaid shoes, the aforesaid organizer, week aft week aft week."

—bootsmcskoots

8. "A person of excavation took nude photos with her fellow and wanted them developed. Since I worked astatine a photograph shop, I was the lone idiosyncratic she trusted to spot them. She had 1 photograph wherever her fellow took photos of her moving bare toward the furniture and jumping onto him. The photograph ended up being her, mid-air, with her (very) ample breasts flopping wildly everywhere. It was beauteous comic and sweet, actually."

—herobotic

9. "My mum ever tells the communicative of however she broke up with her archetypal boyfriend. Her person worked astatine a photograph processing centre, and my mum's fellow came successful to get photos developed. In the photos, determination were pictures of him cheating connected my ma with different girl. The person astatine the photograph centre showed my mum, and she didn't accidental a connection to her boyfriend. Instead, she conscionable started dating his older brother."

—girlwithhair-ribbon8

10. "Our photograph laboratory had to make transgression country photos for a case. It was photos regarding for a serial slayer lawsuit successful my county. One execution was of a miss I utilized to cognize successful precocious school. We had to stroke up the photos to 16x20. I'll ne'er hide it."

—CaffiendCA

11. "My archetypal existent occupation was astatine a photograph lab. We had galore customers who would travel successful astatine slightest doubly a week, truthful the full unit got to cognize them beauteous well. There was 1 feline who was a doc and precise good-looking. Since I was a young teen, I recovered him dreamy and definitely had a crush connected him. We knew the doc was going to Europe for a month-long vacation, truthful erstwhile helium brought backmost his rolls of film, our unit was excited to spot his photos. Right successful the mediate of a ton of scenery shots, determination was a photograph of him, butt-naked connected a beach. No large deal, but I was a young teen with a immense crush, truthful I had a pugnacious clip looking him successful the oculus aft that without blushing."

—annarchy8

12. "I enactment astatine a convenience store with photograph processing. We're located straight adjacent to a KFC, and erstwhile upon a time, a KFC displacement person spent her luncheon interruption astatine our walk-up photograph kiosk making an elaborate collage from close-up shots of her v*****. She spent rather a portion successful the store, with her photos successful afloat nationalist display. Then she had her prints denied due to the fact that our store didn't let nude photos. She was upset, but she inactive came into the store regularly to bargain cigarettes due to the fact that KFC was close adjacent door."

—hatefulhelp

13. "A Christmas paper featuring the household and their dog, which had a Santa chapeau connected and a raging hard-on."

—shutupnetface

14. "When I was successful school, I worked astatine a camera store that developed film. One day, a saccharine older pistillate dropped disconnected a roll. She was a precise emblematic god-fearing, Catholic Irish woman. Most of the photos were mean household shots from Spain: radical pictures, grandkids playing, blessed memories. Then, successful the mediate of the roll, determination were 4 photos of a antheral successful his mid-30s lying nether a seat successful a excavation of his ain blood. We were acrophobic and promptly called the police. Detectives came to reappraisal them, and erstwhile the pistillate returned for her photos, they interviewed her. That's erstwhile we learned the truth. The antheral was her son, a terrible alcoholic. The photos were taken aft a drunken binge erstwhile helium astir killed himself, meant to beryllium shown to him aboriginal during an intervention. But unfortunately, the involution didn't work, and helium died a fewer weeks aft those photos were taken. She had forgotten astir the photos wholly and wholly broke down. I'll ne'er hide it."

—irishliam

15. "A civilian servant-type feline utilized to bring successful rotation aft rotation of movie filled with photos of Pam Anderson — each 1 snapped straight disconnected his TV during Baywatch scenes."

—TropicDrunk

16. "We erstwhile saw photos of a biker's ceremonial wherever each his buddies took turns posing with his unfastened casket, holding bottles of Jack Daniels and beers. It inactive haunts my dreams."

—TropicDrunk

17. "One unusual 1 was a feline lasting bare with a slinky astir his d***."

—Cant_or_Wont

18. "My favourite was a mates who dressed wholly successful achromatic and white...all the time. They evidently thought they were the MOST ATTRACTIVE COUPLE OF ALL TIME due to the fact that they changeable rotation aft rotation aft rotation of themselves dressed up and posing. The 'Thinker' airs for the man, the 'Sex Kitten Unaware of the Camera' for the woman. The funniest 1 was the antheral posing connected a sofa — chin connected fist, profoundly staring into the region — with a 16x20 poster of himself successful the aforesaid pose, successful the aforesaid clothes, connected the partition supra him."

—SharpeTongue

19. "A precise polite, respectable, middle-aged banker would travel successful to make his photos, which were mostly of him wearing costly dresses and wigs."

—Acidmoxy

20. "A radical of swingers utilizing ping pong paddles in...specific ways."

—SharpeTongue

21. And finally: "A lawsuit took photos astatine her husband's funeral, and 1 rotation was exclusively of the coffin and body."

—bootsmcskoots

Now it's your turn! Since photograph labs are fading out, I'm asking everyone, not conscionable workers: what's the wildest photograph you've ever had, oregon seen, developed? Nothing amerciable oregon excessively disturbing — conscionable fun, random, oregon memorable moments to brighten my day. Share your stories successful the comments oregon via the super-secret anonymous signifier below:

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