Santa’s elves have been known for their cleverness with technology. This photograph made was available to the public in the 1924 edition of the Western Morning News.
It shows a sinister Santa perched on a snow-capped roof, using a listening device to eavesdrop on the praying family below. The caption describes how ‘Father Christmas is ascertaining the wishes of children by the latest scientific methods.’
A 1924 edition of the Western Morning News shows a Sinister Santa perched on a snow-capped roof, using a listening device to eavesdrop on the praying family below. The caption describes how ‘Father Christmas is ascertaining the wishes of children by the latest scientific methods’.
The British Newspaper Archive has released a number of chilling images taken from British local papers that depict Father Christmas as at best an eerie ghost and at worst a predatory-looking spy.
There is something rather spectral about St. Nick in this chilling image from a 1937 copy of the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette Titled ‘The letter to Santa Claus’ it depicts two children writing by lamplight while, concealed in the shadows, a hooded figures silently observes.
More archive photos of Santa can be found at the DailyMail.co.uk: