To find blacking out eyes in newspaper creepy?

[Famallama]

My mother in law was housesitting for us today while we were waiting for a delivery.

Before I left, I bought her a packet of biscuits she likes and a copy of the Daily Mirror as she likes doing the puzzles.

When I came home, I saw she'd left the paper behind and so I picked it up to have a flick through. And this is where it's strange - she'd used a black biro to draw circles/cross out the eyes of people in pretty much all the photos!

Am I being unreasonable to think this is a bit odd? Should I mention it to her/my husband?

Unless she's also attacked your family photos with a biro I'd just assume it was harmless doodling in the newspaper.

... hopefully she doesn't have previous for making voodoo dolls, practising black magic and human sacrifice???????

Not odd if it’s just on one or two pages, especially if she was dpimg puzzles. I sometimes doodle whilst
I’m thinking about a crossword answer for example and add moustaches or bad hair dos to photos.

If she’s literally gone through the whole newspaper that is strange. But probably not strange enough that I’d mention it to her or your husband.

It was a "thing" in 60s, 70s, 80s and - possibly - 90s.
As was drawing on a moustache and eyebrows.
Yes, all subjects were made to look sinister. May or may not be "a whole other thing". Likely to be a boredom habit

Ha ha, no then family photos are fine! And yes probably harmless doodling, but she was very thorough!

No previous with the dark arts as far as I'm aware, and she's a very sweet woman so this seems very out of character!

Probably just doodling absent mindedly. I wouldn’t be concerned as such, I’d probably mention it jokingly.

As far as I can tell it's pretty much everyone in the newspaper, apart from a photo of Madeleine McCann.

Oh God, my husband just picked up the paper and saw all the blacked out eyes and asked why I'd done it. I should have said it was his mum, but didn't think quickly enough and said I just thought it was funny.

He looked a bit confused!

She’s just doodling out of boredom. Eyes are an easy thing to fill in, that’s all.

It was, wasn’t it! I remember people doing this when I was a kid in the 80s. Weird.

I can imagine this as a horror story premise... Where you're a bit freaked out, you say something, she claims it wasn't her, starts acting odd, being investigated for dementia.... But actually there's a dark spirit afoot

That's just another layer for the horror movie really

I would find this really creepy and weird. Why on earth didn’t you tell your husband is was his mother? His reaction suggests that this must be a recent behavior on her part.

Nothing unusual in blacking the eyes out or drawing a Hitler 'tache on photos in the newspaper. Defacing the Daily Mirror is probably the best thing you can do with it, in all truth.

I'm not sure! I should have just thrown it away. I think I didn't want him to say to her that I'd 'told' him if that makes sense!