Creepy Images: Mystery Machines

Since the industrial age, machines have only grown more intensity and complexity in their joint history with mankind. Inevitably, the strangeness of certain machines has grown as well, to the point where their art-like qualities outweigh any useful function at all. There are scarcely imaginable devices from any category exempt from this fate. The odd looking organ above, for instance, was originally designed as a musical instrument. The large number of inputs and switches surely made it an unwieldy thing to play, but it still stands with us as a curious reminder of our most offbeat sound conjuring ambitions. Any capable operators of this device must have produced electronic cacophonies worthy of Erich Zann.


This unusual machine is the epitome of artistic value suffocating its designed purpose (if there was actually any). The machine seems so bizarre to casual viewers that its original intent is difficult to guess. A child's toy? A psychological prop of some sort? An experiment in facial robotics? The staring face peeking out above a buffet of unknown knobs is enough to prompt admiration for the mind who first envisioned this, and repulsion at the eeriness of the thing itself.


This machine is less mysterious than the above, but probably even more remarkable. It's purportedly the world's largest device made to date. Treading across Europe, this metal leviathan is a drill designed for mining work. More photos of this impressive beast can be viewed here. Somehow, the sheer scale and sharpness of the thing must summon awe at this artificial god for the rare individuals to see it with their own eyes.

-Grim Blogger