Creepy Christmas Ornaments

Email this| Posted Dec 2nd 2008 10:00AM by Martha Edwards

Demonic Elf

Christmas decorations are the kind of thing that are passed down through the generations. Maybe it's because they have sentimental value, or maybe it's because we're a nation of cheap thrifty decorators. But whatever the reason, Christmas ornaments rarely get thrown out, and let's face it: sometimes they should. This is one example. Known as 'The Elf Who Killed Santa and Ruined Christmas' notice the demonic, beady, glowing red eyes and the unmistakable fact that he is holding a hat even though he has one on his head ...

Martha Edwards

Firefighter Merman

There are just so many questions. Why does this firefighter have a tail? Is this a mermaid or a merman? Why would they even need a firefighter under the sea? And what in Sam Hill does this have to do with Christmas? Kind of leaves you speechless, huh? Amazingly, this ornament is one of a series of several -- It's called the December Diamonds Collection and it's available from Kitschcity.com

Kitschcity.com

Christmas Skull

Ok, this one is kind of cute but it's still totally weird and totally morbid to adorn your Christmas tree with skulls, don't you think? It's supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year.

EverySpoon on Flickr

German Pickle

Apparently, pickles are very commonly depicted in Christmas Ornament form -- who knew? Green is the official color of Christmas, yes, but that doesn't mean everything green is appropriate for Christmas. Just imagine some delightful dill pickle chunks in your fruitcake. Mmmm ...

David Dumas on Flickr

Princess Leia

In her gold bikini, she's been the subject of many a male fantasy ... which is why it's a bit disturbing to have Princess Leia's half naked figure hanging from the tree, in the middle of the family room, above the presents. Plus, how does this related to Christmas, besides the fact that millions of ex-nerdy teenagers wish they could unwrap the real thing?

Cracker and Cheese on Flickr

Ruby Slippered Fish

This wacky water creature appears to be a combination of a fish, a princess, a clown and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. It's creative, but it's also more appropriate for, say, the circus.

Mooste on Flickr

Christmas Dracula

Red is the color of Christmas and blood. So why not combine the two and celebrate Christmas with your favorite vampire? We're not sure about this particular ornament though -- The caption may say Dracula but the eyebrows say Confucius and the 'hat' is Shrine Circus all the way.

DP Munger on Flickr

Christmas Spock

Hey -- nothing says 'Christmas Spirit' more than a fictitious pointy-earred alien from the planet Vulcan. What would Spock think of Christmas? We're guessing not much.

Left on Flickr

Strange Doll

Forget visions of sugar plums on the night before Christmas -- Half gollum, half demonic jack rabbit, this is the stuff that nightmares are made of. This beauty of an ornament can be yours for the bargain basement price of $70 plus shipping and handling from StrangeDolls.net (We'll say!)

Strangedolls.net

Elf

Maybe it's just down to the angle this photo is shot from, but regardless, this guy gives us the heebeejeebies. Look out Santa -- that smirk is pure evil.

Skronk on Flickr

mommabearerin 12-02-2008 @ 4:28PM

LOL, I actually have that Mr. Spock ornament hanging on my tree! It's one of my fav's

starsandskulls81 12-02-2008 @ 4:45PM

i actually have the pickle one

someone please tell me where to find the fireman mermaid

tlt11 12-02-2008 @ 4:46PM

The pickle is a German tradtion. Something about first to find the pickle on the tree... Don't know what it symbolizes, but that is why it is a somewhat popular ornament this time of year. Or so my German grandmother told me...

Lilz 12-02-2008 @ 6:14PM

tlt11-- yes, the pickle is a German tradition... I think part of it stems from many germans pickle... EVERYTHING.... my family made contributions to a german cookbook years ago, and when we got our copy there were many many many different pickeling recipes and so on, including for watermellons!!!

ANyways, these folks are pretty cruel with their words on the ornaments;

The pig, have they never cracked open a pepermint pig on new years for wealth and prosperity into the new year?

And the last picture? "Sad santa"-- OMG get your facts straight, that's not even santa. It's like a nut cracker without the jaws! soldier like shoulder details and cap.... that someons' s little one painted with glitter.

God forbid one of these editors' children brings them home an ornament handmade from school or they'll stick it up on this list, next!!!

Vonda 12-02-2008 @ 7:12PM

The Christmas pickle ornament is used very often for good luck...not creepy at all.

Frankie 12-02-2008 @ 8:04PM

Yeah, this was a pretty dumb article. I was expecting to see really weird ornaments, but I thought some of them weren't that creepy or weird. Not every ornament on the tree has to do with Christmas, and if they don't, that doesn't make them super weird. And I don't partake in the tradition of hiding a pickle in the Christmas tree but I still knew about that, I hope the author of this article feels a little dumb that they have knocked a Christmas tradition, there is even a section on the Wikipedia page about ornaments about the Christmas Pickle.

Darley35 12-02-2008 @ 8:25PM

We have Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo from South Park.on our tree every year.LOL

Laura Boo 12-02-2008 @ 8:27PM

That's Al Sharpton, NOT Dracula! Silly!

Laura 12-02-2008 @ 8:44PM

I made much creepier ornaments for our family tree as a kid.

Lassie 12-02-2008 @ 9:15PM

All I can say is - I want every one of those ornaments! LOVE the merman firefighter! (Go into a Hallmark store and take a gander at the overpriced things they expect you to hang on your tree/ treasure forever and ever and ever - there are a lot worse things than these selections!) I went into a Christmas Shoppe selling small rubber "athletes in action" ornaments for that special jock in your life - football player, ice skater, tennis player....and little rubber athletes representing the swim team. Little men in red speedoes, bent over, preparing to dive off the board....if you paired them up in interesting positions, well, you could really have quite a Christmas tree conversation piece there!

Heather 12-02-2008 @ 11:02PM

A purely innocent gift gone haywire.....A few years ago, my mother who apparently never had her mind in the gutter, gave us girls one of the pickles for Christmas. It's a game called "Hide the Pickle". You hide it in your tree and whoever finds it has good luck. Of course it gets a laugh every year and I swear my mom still blushes when its brought up.

Damomma 12-03-2008 @ 12:00AM

The elves! We have these!! They are actually small doll-like characters that were placed on the mantle, or in the tree for good luck. They are actually not so bad. They come in green outfits too. Now the fish with legs & arms, in a suit, that's a whole nuther story!

pyewakat 12-03-2008 @ 3:10AM

omg.... I have the elf and hide it in the tree... freaks everybody out... just love it.. also have some smaller elves from when I was young that mom got at Kmart...

TC 12-03-2008 @ 8:23AM

The GERMAN people created the green pickle, you IDIOT (remember us, the people who built nearly EVERYTHING humankind still uses?) Now if we Germans were to say something about your Kwanzaa peanut-butter (the only thing y'all ever invented), we would be called racists, right?

Rhonda 12-03-2008 @ 8:58AM

While I may not put these decorations on my tree I can see where some would. I put up theme trees in my house and that's probably where most of these come in. I live in Texas so my big tree is a cowboys and Indians theme complete with silver 6 shooters and Texas flags. I have another that I call the kids tree even though my kids are grown but it has all the ornaments that my girls made in grade school then cute ornaments that I have bought over the years. I would actually like to have the fish wearing shoes ornament. I thought it was pretty cute.
If you want to see some horrendous stuff go to www.cakewrecks.com There are some terrible looking cakes...much worse than these ornaments.

denwes11 12-07-2008 @ 4:36PM

Get real people every year I stick a tree limp up my angels ass, it is what it is

Jord 12-07-2008 @ 5:52PM

The German tradition of the pickle on the tree is as this: whichever child can find the pickle hidden in the tree first, get's to open the first gift. It's not creepy...why the Germans chose a pickle....I can't imagine. It's a fun tradition and I swear by it.

Bob 12-07-2008 @ 6:52PM

Dracula? Not even close. Try Japanese. And his "shriner" hat? LMAO That's where the metal cap for the hanger goes. It has to have a metal cap... the ornament made of freakin' GLASS and if it didn't have the metal top for the hanger, it would BREAK. Some people have no freakin' clue about things.

Dd 12-07-2008 @ 7:30PM

As usual, the common American (the posters here) have knowledge and sense that exceeds our media's columnists. Clearly, the person who put this article together did not do any research to determine the origin of many of these ornaments. Some date back many centuries, like the Gerrman pickle. But how interesting that the columnist is offended by pickles, but fails to mention the red and green chili peppers that are common now in the southwest. The merman seems to hearken back to the Philistines (known as Dagon), and is also common to the Inuits and Aboriginie. My bet is that this columnist doesn't even know the origin of the Christmas tree........it wasn't created to put presents under. Another failure of our continually declining MSM.