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Museums Are Competing Over Who Has The Creepiest Exhibit, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Ones
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Since its closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Yorkshire Museum in England has launched a weekly #curatorbattle on social media to challenge others to showcase their objects related to a particular theme. A couple of days ago, the museum posted a picture of a hair bun from the burial of a Roman woman in the third or fourth century, kicking off a new competition. This time, curators from all over were asked to share their most sinister possessions. And they delivered.
From a chilling plague mask and haunting dolls to a painted whale eardrum and beyond, museums have been responding to the #CuratorBattle with their #CreepiestObject and it's what horror movies are made about. Continue scrolling and get your share of nightmare fuel!
Image credits: YorkshireMuseum
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Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
Historically, merpeople were not what we think of in modern terms... they were nightmarish, like the Sirens and Harpies in Greek and Roman myths.
Tisha M. Scott 5 years ago
it's like the mermaids from Harry Potter, its just missing the long stringy hair.
ChinaPandas122 5 years ago
that was what i thought harry potter mermaids and aggresive
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"The curator battle has been gradually building as more and more museums and the general public look at our Twitter feed every Friday to see what theme we're going to pitch," Millicent Carroll, digital engagement officer for the York Museums Trust, told Bored Panda in a statement.
"Last week's 'Best Egg' had replies from the Hermitage in Russia and the American Museum of National History, but the creepiest object has taken it to another level!"
Replies have come from the German History Museum, Oshawa Museum in Ontario, Canada, the New York Historical Society, and America's first museum - the Charleston Museum. It has also been popular in the UK, with museums such as the Imperial War Museum, Bank of England Museum, curators from the National History Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, and many Yorkshire museums getting involved.
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Insert a Hepa- filter and it will be perfectly fine today, with the added bonus that people will keep more than two meters away.
Ana Jovanovic 5 years ago
You should start selling these, it will go out like hot cakes pretty soon!
Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
Drs would insert herbs into the 'beak' often to prevent spread to the dr but more often to prevent the smell of death and the dying.
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Eulalie Grace 5 years ago
If I had the Plague and saw that coming at me, I'd be finished for sure.
Carroll said it is great for museums to be able to still share their collections with the public when their doors are closed.
The pandemic hasn't been kind to these establishments. For example, the York Museum Trust, a charity which runs several of York's museums, including the Yorkshire Museum, was forced to close all of them due to the coronavirus. "We have lost 70% of our income, as most of it comes from visitor admissions," Lee Clark, communications manager for the trust, added.
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Titas Burinskas 5 years ago
His last words were "Tell me, after my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures." Trust me, he was creepier when he was alive.
Renny 5 years ago
Unfortunately, I decided to verify this and learned much more about him then I would ever want to know.
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Puji Widiasih 5 years ago
Can't help not to Wiki this person... speechless...."To relieve his sexual urges, Kürten resorted to acts of b********y with the sheep, pigs and goats in local stables, but later claimed he obtained his greatest sense of elation if he actually stabbed these animals just before his achieving orgasm.[18] Thus, he began stabbing and slashing animals with increasing frequency to achieve orgasm, although he was adamant this behaviour ended when he was observed stabbing a pig."
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
Okay... this one is definitely in the running for the winning entry.
Aileen Cann 5 years ago
Why Is his head cut in half. I have heard of Drawn and Quartered, but this takes it to the next level.
Stewart Peirce 5 years ago
His brain was dissected, no abnormalities were found.
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Penny Swinbourne 5 years ago
I just love the word noggin!! Sorry if I'm supposed to be scared or afraid but I can't with the word noggin in there!!
"Social media is one of the few ways we can still engage with audiences so we have been working really hard to come up with innovative and interesting ideas to get people talking and learning about objects in our care," Clark explained.
And it looks like the staff is doing one heck of a good job. Their creepy object tweet has had nearly 10K likes and 4K retweets, gaining the Yorkshire Museum 2.6K followers over the weekend alone.
York Museums Trust has also created Museums From Home, a page on their website dedicated to ways people can get involved with its collections, buildings and stories while they're closed.Also, if you want to support the organization and all the wonderful things they're doing, consider donating through their website.
Also, if you want to support the organization and all the wonderful things they're doing, consider donating through their website.
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Mishte Tine 5 years ago
His bookshelves, tho... I’m so aware of bookshelves now. Haha!
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LM Jones 5 years ago
I would've been quite disappointed if I didn't see this in the comments.
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Seabeast 5 years ago
Handy hint: when you find something buried inside a wall, it's usually a good idea to leave it there.
Eulalie Grace 5 years ago (edited)
Could be. But an elderly neighbor of mine gave me a very creepy vintage Micky Mouse for my niece. The thing looks like a Baby Micky and crawls. Only when she showed it to me, it moved without batteries. I said "no thanks". She asked me to PLEASE take it away. It sits in the garage, gathering dust. I do not want it in the house. NO hoax.
Load More Replies... Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
I'm picturing t rolling down the stairs like that creepy wheelchair in Changeling.
Eulalie Grace 5 years ago (edited)
That's one really scary movie that's hardy ever played. No blood and stuff, just damn creepy.
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Robin Battiste 5 years ago
Dude! This is in PEI?!?! I can go there...when the pandemics over. But yeah. It's not too far, so cheap vacation to see cursed object is getting checked off my bucket list.
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glowworm2 5 years ago (edited)
These are (or rather were) the fingers of Major Michael "Bronco" Lane. He is actually still alive. He climbed Mount Everest in 1976--at one point he had to remove a glove in order to open his oxygen bottle--which is how he lost his fingers to frostbite--all of his toes were removed too. In 2000, when the NAM (National Army Museum) asked if he wanted to donate any of his items to commemorate his climb in 1976--he gave them his severed digits--and an ice ax. According to Lane "I don't think it was quite what they were expecting...but I haven't got any use for them any more and I thought it would be nice to see them exhibited." Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on who is reading this), the toes were not in good enough condition to be displayed.
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
I thought they were minions, maybe a failed minion pastry or so!
Andrew Gibb 5 years ago
There is a bar that wants these: https://www.theguardian.com/food/shortcuts/2019/jun/13/is-it-safe-to-drink-a-cocktail-with-a-frostbitten-toe-in-it 4886-5ea03...6c005e.jpg 
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Someone had a whole lot of fun putting this one together. I wonder how old it is and why it was made. To prove the existence of mermaids or to frighten the wits out of the kids after dinner?
Jon S. 5 years ago (edited)
They were frequent circus exhibits. Made to seduce the curious with promise of the proof of a mermaid.
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glowworm2 5 years ago
This is clearly a "Fiji Mermaid" in which the body of a monkey is attached to that of a fish and then shown in sideshows to people.
Jon S. 5 years ago
Some were definitely made with monkeys, but others were just papier mache. I have a friend who still makes and sells them on ebay.
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Tom Hardeveld 5 years ago (edited)
"Welcome to the Mystery Shack, my name is Stanford Pines..."
MysticSailora 5 years ago
Wait I'm confused, did someone in the past make these for people in the future to find, like this?
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Tor Rolf Strøm 5 years ago
Whoah.. I wonder how many people died or got seriously injured using this monstrosity..
Daniel H 5 years ago
This costume is for Patrick Star. Look how well they work! download-5...5cad1.jpeg 
Noel Bovae 5 years ago
You need to find yourself some fresher fruit, Emma.
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
If you just Google "creepy pictures" which is one of my favorite things to do, you will find kids Halloween costumes from way back. Creepy Mickey mouse and a bunch of crazy weird home made costumes.
Michele Davis 5 years ago
That’s what I thought, once I regained consciousness. The Little Rascals dresses up as A rat gang for Halloween.
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Michelle C 5 years ago
Before I read the description I instantly thought...Picture of 1st ever Furries Party circa 1869
Binxyminxem 5 years ago
I feel like this picture could be in one of Ransom Riggs' peculiar children books
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Museum of fear and wonder. Sounds like my idea of a perfect heaven.
Beatrice Multhaupt 5 years ago
You are too young to remember dolls made of natural rubber. I left mine in a windowsill and returned to find her looking just like the picture. Wailed hysterically while Mum told me that good girls never cry. I was three.
Michele Davis 5 years ago
And that’s why you now find “creepiest things“ wildly erotic and entertaining?
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Lilian Della Rose 5 years ago
I looked it up, his nipples were not actually cut off, but they were mutilated. The most popular theory for this was that the man was a king, and the mutilation represented him being a rejected ruler
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Harley Osborne 5 years ago
Glad I'm not the only one who instantly thought of that!
Load More Replies... Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
Mummified bog body... commonly found in the peat lands of western Europe.
Mishte Tine 5 years ago
The ones that involve human remains/body parts are the creepiest by default (for me anyway). *shudder*
Lorraine R 5 years ago
Because you don't just throw away human remains. Also, like Otzi the Ice Man, he can teach us a lot about how people lived when he did, even if he's 'not all there.'
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Myrtille rat 5 years ago
not creepy at all it's kinda cute to me, a piece of surealist art nothing else
MyrkurRaven 5 years ago
Still have some crab claws laying around that i found on the beach, i know what i'm gonna make haha
Olivia Masterson 5 years ago
Well, there was no internet back then. Amusement has to come from somewhere.
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Can you imagine tripping over that thing on a dark and stormy night? I'd go 0 to 100 km/h faster than a Ferrari.
Tom Hardeveld 5 years ago (edited)
some ask how long it is... about a foot. some ask how much it costs... an arm and a leg
Nevi Løvfelt 5 years ago
I think I saw one of those last night. It had a strange creepy smell.Lol
Robyn Wilson 5 years ago
Wondered "What the hell " as I saw a weird eye and protruding teeth and four feet. Then read the description and saw the "Foot."
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Orionpax75 5 years ago
The "Real" Annabelle... I'd throw this thing deep in an abyss somewhere and never look back!
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Someone did. That's why the skull is cracked ... but ... she is back!
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Tori Duffek Flores 5 years ago
that's not the real annabelle dis is the real annabelle download-5...b9b5d.jpeg 
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Looks like her head and butt are facing same direction. Could be the shape of the dress. I love everything creepy.
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
Sorry, this one's not creepy, just played with to death. The lissing bits, as well as the head, were made of porcelan.
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Deer dipper is so cute uwu 4 years ago
Hi there nightmare fuel what brings you to this ship? Oh your the new recruit
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Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
Scold's bridle... see this https://www.hevercastle.co.uk/news/castle-objects-month-february-scolds-bridles/
Phunny Philosopher 5 years ago
Wow, that is really something. Unbelievable.It's scary what history shows us sometimes. Then again, you can't have the women getting opinions. Then society would go down the toilet and they would lose their source of unpaid labor. /sarcasm
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Michele Davis 5 years ago
If it’s an executioner’s mask, there is probably some seriously bad juju attached to that thing!
DYspLay ARt 5 years ago
I like the smirk...with it it's not really creepy. Then again, it takes a lot to creep me out.
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Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago (edited)
It appears to be a memento mori object... little grotesque figures made of ivory very popular with the Renaissance elite to remind them of their mortality.
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ChaiDai 5 years ago
So that's where the song comes from "The worms go in, the worms go out..."
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
The craftsmanship is exquisite, but why and what for? Is it a memento mori ('remember that you must die')? Christian imagery, I suppose.
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weatherwitch 5 years ago
The original folklore for a hand of glory was for it to be cut off the body of a hanged man as he hung still from the gibbet. It was used by criminals to put a household to sleep so they could creep around and steal undisturbed. It's found still in modern stories including Harry Potter 😊 I've seen this one at the Whitby Museum, creepy but flipping awesome too 😊
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logical fallacy 5 years ago
Yes, but the use in HP was slightly different. In the books the hand is used to light the way only to the owner and used after Draco's thrown Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder in the corridors of the school, so everyone's blind except himself and his accomplanying Death Eaters. Historically however, the hand of glory holds a candle made of the fat of the deceased person it came from, and will render everyone in a household immobile, allowing the thief to take whatever they want. Some also said it could unlock all locks. If you google it, I'm sure you can find even a recipe or something. In general, JK Rowling tweaked existing myths and legends for her stories, that's why it's so cool to explore her world.
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Annamarie Dodge 5 years ago
i remember studying about these things many years ago, even read stories written about them....they would put a candle on its palm and it was supposed to have mystical powers
Rowan Jeffus 5 years ago
It provides a light only to the one who holds it. Used by thieves and plunderers. Your son has excellent taste sir.
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2WheelTravlr 5 years ago
The only thing that would make this creepier is if the strings were made of catgut.
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Eulalie Grace 5 years ago
Can't imagine having a mascot and then auctioning them off for someone's dinner.
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Eulalie Grace 5 years ago
Hope you like candy - you're gonna have lots left over!
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Annamarie Dodge 5 years ago
i dont think i would want to come upon this in the middle of the night in the bathroom with the lights off when i am half asleep
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
I actually like this one, for bringing the completely unexpected to something as hopelessly mundane as a pincushion. Anyone up for a pincushion challenge?
WhatsUpKittyCat? (I wuv dogs too) 5 years ago
@Monika You're toast, @Seabeast you're butter, and I'm gonna spread the butter on the toast then EAT IT!!! You r on!!!
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Kai Wendorf 5 years ago
I have Wysteria behind my house and this looks like one of the seed pods. Thankfully, this isn't what is inside them...
Mishte Tine 5 years ago
I wonder if this was a thing - depending on how many kids or grandkids one had... but then again, childhood survival rates historically...
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Max Han 5 years ago
I agree, I makes me feel like it is saying, "You can't run from me!".
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Binxyminxem 5 years ago
Visitor: Oh look a weird fish! Mermaid: "Actually, I think you'll find..."
mntryjoseph 5 years ago
The library in my hometown had one of these. I remember they only took it out to show people on special occasions. It was half fish, and half monkey. Creepy, but then again, all taxidermy animals are creepy.
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Angelica Victor 5 years ago
If this stick was used to bite, how come the bite marks are not horizontal? It doesn't make any sense! Please explain
Jenný Samúelsdóttir Herlufsen 5 years ago
Probably from the molars, bite into it as far back as possible.
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Agnes Jekyll 5 years ago
Aphra Ben had a mastectomy without any anaesthetic (somewhere in the 17th c--I can't remember)
Giovanni SANCHEZ 5 years ago
Imagine a pain that bad for a person to leave that deep of marks on metal...
Jon S. 5 years ago
It looks like a leather outer coating to me. Most likely on wood, not metal.
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There are some other things on display I would like to know more about.
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
And a gentleman's walking stick otherwise. (Although doctors weren't considered gentlemen, no matter what social strata they were born in.)
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Cassie 5 years ago
Looks like it's more for casting evil spells than breaking them! 0.o
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Somehow, I suspect that someone made some money off of a gullible fool with this 'parascientifically proven' piece of quackery.
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
Maybe not. Our ancestors had some truly odd practices. Sheep, due to their importance to mankind, frequently are used in rituals. I refer you, among others, to the Old Testament.
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Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
Apparently much larger clusters of entangled rats have been found... mostly in Germany. The work of the Pied Piper?
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Tread softly on that creaking floorboard, you never know what's underneath it
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
I wonder if it crawled in there itself... cats are known to run off and hide when they are gravely ill.
Robert Thomas 4 years ago
NOOOOOO POOR KITTY IM CRYING CHEETAHS ARE ONE OF MY FAVORITE ALL TIME ANIMALS NOOOOOO
Lorraine R 5 years ago
I read someplace (NatGeo, maybe) that centuries ago builders completing a new house would wall up an animal - a chicken or cat or similar - and some herbs, as a sort of sacrifice or good luck charm. Please don't ask me to explain the logic behind it.
Fred and George Weasley 5 years ago
its amazing it sill has all of its bones. the egyptians were smart
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Jackson Bowen 5 years ago
"Oh, dum dee dum, what a great day of whale hunting! I wonder what I should do with this earlobe I cut off of it? Oh, I have an idea! Let's paint a super cool, not creepy, face on it!"
Vaida Kuodytė 5 years ago
It's an eardrum. From inside the ear. Whales do not have earlobes :D
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Kai Wendorf 5 years ago
Person: "Hey Elizabeth, what does this look like to you?" Elizabeth: "A half-made face that you can paint on." Person: "GOOD IDEA!!! Golly, I'll make hundreds!!!" (keep in mind this is old and hundreds was probably a lot)
Captain Marvellous ♥️ 5 years ago
I have seen and held an eardrum of a whale. Without paint, they are very beautiful and exquisite. And massive! This one is quite odd.
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Ha! Another one! Was it all the rage to present proof that mermaids are real? A Victorian pastime?
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Jackson Bowen 5 years ago
It took me a minute to figure out what was up and down on that thing
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jo Philbin 5 years ago
It's the lack of detail on the note I like, the museum basically went "I'm just gonna leave this here..."
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
It's supposed to be a good luck charm of some sort. But I can't remember if it was for cards or dice or roulette, for cheating or to guard against cheating, or ust to not be caught in illegal gambling dens.
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Steve Bowman 5 years ago
Maybe during a plague when no one went outside, the people had to do with what was in the house.
Craig Lee 5 years ago
They would probably just go to the local hardware store to buy things like they are now. So they wouldn't be stuck with what they find at home.
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
It is a broken doll in need of some TLC, nothing creepy about that
Merlyn Emrys 5 years ago
right? the doll restorer in me wants to get my hands on this and stick it back together. nice eyes, I wonder if theyre german made
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Mishte Tine 5 years ago
Cause of death:Homocide. Manner of death: sharp object to the forehead region of the skull.
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Deer dipper is so cute uwu 4 years ago
Why was it pretending to be creepy?
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Cape Fear, that is an aptly named place for this thread. I wonder how it got its name.
Emily Hendren 5 years ago
It's wilmington NC! Lots of things there have "cape fear" in the name, I'm not sure how the name came about though. Also known as the port city.
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Mashedpotatoes 5 years ago
My great great grandmother made my great grandfather's first tooth into a necklace......
Mishte Tine 5 years ago
Props for being able to write that without getting confused!
Load More Replies... Juririn 5 years ago
If teething causes inflammation and fever, then maybe
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Deer dipper is so cute uwu 4 years ago
I think dobby was a bad house elf and did drugs
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
So CoCa is the Centre of Ceramic Art, dedicated to British Studio Ceramics, hmm, somehow I did not see these as 'most probably British'. Does drinking too much tea with milk lead to this? Or is it the lukewarm beer?
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Beli Keshini 5 years ago
Who would ever have wanted such unfriendly looking dolls to play with?!
Autumn Walton 5 years ago
Great caption at least. Though dolls though . . . . there's gotta be a story behind them. They actually well made but there was either something very off about them or their creator. If anyone at all knows the story behind them pls share. I'm probably wrong but I'd still like to know.
Agnes Jekyll 5 years ago
Oh No!! I love these grumpy dolls--they are so beautifully made--some kind of flocked fabric instead of china. LOVE the scowls
Mishte Tine 5 years ago (edited)
Their expressions are *priceless*! The “side-eye” series - doll collection. Hahah
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Elaine Everett-Klimas 5 years ago
It's actually a femur not a tibia....still creepy af though!
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Myrtille rat 5 years ago
'sad' fact a crew member offered to send the tricycle to Danny Lloyd after the movie but the kiddo never got it
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Maybe it was not that uncommon to wear a face mask to cover disfiguring scars from leprosy, syphilis, smallpox, or plague back in the 17th century? Modern medicine has changed the game altogether, but that does not extend to the infallible capability of idiocy by some people, anti-vaxxers, homeopaths, and others of comparable ilk.
Agnes Jekyll 5 years ago
This was a very interesting man. His mask was passed down through generations (around 300 years)--for good reason. Wow.
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Mishte Tine 5 years ago
Olduvai has many secrets. Or did. I wanted to go to the Gorge and sift when I was a kid - so much.
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glowworm2 5 years ago
Now if it was actually made from the skin of one of those who were executed, then I'd be more freaked out.
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
I have that one pigeon s******g on my balcony, ruining my plants. Maybe the blasted coo-er could be made useful after all.
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Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
I already disliked dolls... this has done nothing to sway my opinion.
Astrid Nineor 5 years ago
Agree But I assume it is Swedish, in which case it merely means (the) Nordic museum
Load More Replies... Mary McDonald 5 years ago
I bet the skinny one on the left was a real 'looker' as a newly made doll. One of the first Barbies ever made. ;-P
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Mishte Tine 5 years ago (edited)
Beautiful and disturbing-ish. The flashlight, all the writing... is this a children’s book illustration?
Juririn 5 years ago (edited)
Not a children's, rather a wealthy adult person's book. And what looks like a flashlight... it might be something like that, but I suspect it has more to do with composition and color than with an accurate depiction of brightness.
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
The monster looks more frightened than the woman, though. "Eeeew, I got hair in my mouth"
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Mary McDonald 5 years ago
Ha! Notice the skeleton. I didn't know that losing all your skin was part of the aging process.
Beli Keshini 5 years ago
That's The Death with an hourglass in his hand in the middle front but not at the end of the process
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glowworm2 5 years ago
Don't worry, that horse is actually a kelpie--those people are all goners.
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Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
Jocky-sized circus people... they don't appear to be causing the horse any harm.
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Lorraine R 5 years ago
(Britain, dated, informal, thieves' cant) A fellow; a man.
Load More Replies... Mary McDonald 5 years ago
Like a teenager writing a love poem to his crush, using made up or misfit words to make it rhyme, dammit!
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Merlyn Emrys 5 years ago
the obsession with breasts as sexual objects is a recent issue. in the era these were made it wasnt a thing so much. they were nice, but not the focus. a woman's skin or her thighs or her hair were considered much more sexual.
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💥 Bakugou, Katsuki 💥 5 years ago
If he was “assassinated” then where is the blood and or puncture marks in the clothes! If they really did wash out the blood and sew the holes then it makes it less realistic. 💁♀️ Sorry this quarantine has me asking a lot of questions. 🥳
Motherofdogs 5 years ago
(Via google) He was shot in the back, apparently. "...the shot went in at an angle left of the third lumbar vertebrae towards the left hip region"
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
This takes planning for your death to another level. Was it common?
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Merlyn Emrys 5 years ago
Look at the little hands. Dolls wear out where theyre handled a lot. "Betsy" was well loved. How many games of patty cake or tea party did she sit through?
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*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
please find the person whose ancestor did that poor she-wolf so damn dirty and give 'em a slap for me lmao
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
That mosaic layer must've been cheap... maybe a child made it? The she-wolf is not as she should be and completely out of perspective to the suckling Romulus and Remus!
Agnes Jekyll 5 years ago
This is Romulus and Remus--but not done by the most skilled craftsman of his day
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Is this available as a poster? Asking for a friend who wants to decorate the spare bedroom for special occasions. ;-)
thomas the tank engine 5 years ago
it's the fat lady (from Harry Potter) when she was a little girl
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Autumn Walton 5 years ago
Oh these aren't creepy. There common in the U.S.. My science teacher had 2 my friends have one and they sell them in Louisiana. Most are in better shape than this though.
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Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
Maybe it is a family's collection- it is still common practice for a mother to keep a lock of her child's hair from their first haircut.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
Just imagine the girls these came from. So many stories that will go untold. Just imagine how close of a friendship these girls had with one another; all the deep, bond-building conversations, and all the raging arguments. Who had gotten closer, and who had drifted away as they grew up and went on to start families, and even then, all the days spent before their families got home, sewing, embroidering, and gossiping. And then who died young, and the impact it left, and the last ones left, and all their pain and joy that was released when they died. How much did their passing effect those they left behind? What became of them? So many questions raised by these simple locks of hair, that will remain unanswered forever.
Mary McDonald 5 years ago
Just another trend that swept through the girls' school. In middle school we had craft made booklets where everyone got to put a little rhyme in it. Some just signed their name.
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Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
An example of Polycephaly... ewes most often give birth to twins, so it makes sense that this birth defect might occur.
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Hello Dolly 5 years ago
I wouldn’t be too terrified of hand made children’s play things. I bet quiet a few home made kids projects gone wrong are being made right now that just might make their way into museums not to far off into the future ( Yay not really for pandemic and the need to preserve history).
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PotatoNinja5000 5 years ago
The article doesn't show the whole thing. It's an executioner's cloak, and it is carrying an axe.
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Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
I prefer to think of my dead pets (buried or cremated) as gamboling over the rainbow bridge into Pet Heaven...
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
How many beautiful wild animals had to die before this barbary of museums and other collectors believing it was their duty to have at least one of each like they were trying to mimic Noahs' Ark, but with dead animals, ended?
Merlyn Emrys 5 years ago
Victorians had an obsession with Collecting. If it helps to know we often have valuable information about various species from well preserved specimens, including their dna or color morphology, information that helps preserve living species.
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Beli Keshini 5 years ago
That's not creepy, that is quite pretty! I had a very similar doll to play with (belonged to my mother in the 50ies)
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Spring Fisk 5 years ago
hair victorian art- They did not have cameras back then so they would take loved one's hair and wrap it around a wire to make flowers and other art.
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Jeanne Guérin 5 years ago
It's made out of hair. Popular medium in the Victorian Era.
Load More Replies... Mary McDonald 5 years ago
Yuck no! It'd be just my luck I'd inhale a hair into my throat where it would get stuck! Shudddddder
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Benjamin Kowal 5 years ago
In between the old man and the guy with the beard
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MermaidsAndDragons 5 years ago
We don't know WHAT KIND of meat it is. Could be human >.>
Load More Replies... 💥 Bakugou, Katsuki 💥 5 years ago (edited)
This is what happens when no one likes your meatloaf but you still insist on saving it.
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JessG 5 years ago
I'm surprised there isn't anything from the Mutter museum here, just about EVERYTHING in it is creepy AF
mph seti 5 years ago
My naturally mummified crow. (It's in a shadow box on my wall now.) IMG_0026sm...ab188c.jpg 
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
OK, got lead quite astray here. I was thinking two things at the same time. "How is that a mummified cow" and "A mummified cow in a shadow box on the wall???" and then it hit me. I skipped reading one little letter'r'. LOL
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Jacey Brenda King 5 years ago
I honestly didn't think the hair bun was all that creepy. People have been wearing extensions and the like for ages. A lady's got to look her best! Right?
Seabeast 5 years ago
I suspect that this wasn't a hair extension, but the lady's actual scalp and hair.
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JessG 5 years ago
I'm surprised there isn't anything from the Mutter museum here, just about EVERYTHING in it is creepy AF
mph seti 5 years ago
My naturally mummified crow. (It's in a shadow box on my wall now.) IMG_0026sm...ab188c.jpg
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
OK, got lead quite astray here. I was thinking two things at the same time. "How is that a mummified cow" and "A mummified cow in a shadow box on the wall???" and then it hit me. I skipped reading one little letter'r'. LOL
Load More Replies... Jacey Brenda King 5 years ago
I honestly didn't think the hair bun was all that creepy. People have been wearing extensions and the like for ages. A lady's got to look her best! Right?
Seabeast 5 years ago
I suspect that this wasn't a hair extension, but the lady's actual scalp and hair.
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