Creepy shadow appears at noon
Creepy photo captured by George Johnston (see original post) Obviously, this is just a strange trick of the light combined with...
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- Sep 30, 2015
- 2 min
Mark Twains final work dictated by Ouija board?
Title page of Jap Herron It’s 1917 and there is a deal of controversy about a new book called Jap Herron. Why the controversy? The...
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- Sep 28, 2015
- 2 min
Weird world of spirit photos
One of our Museum guests poses with Emily, the haunted skeleton. Alas! No ghosties. When someone in the Museum seems to have an...
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- Sep 25, 2015
- 2 min
Dollhouses of death
Lee works on another of her macabre dollhouse scenes This kindly grandmother was a master of creating intricate dollhouse scenes…with...
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- Sep 1, 2015
- 2 min
Underground wonder park
Photo by Ana Maria Catalina (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons The building, standing alone in...
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- Jul 31, 2015
- 1 min
Music of the trees
People talk about harmony in nature. Artist and engineer, Bartholomaus Traubeck, took this quite literally with his unusual creation that...
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- Jul 30, 2015
- 1 min
Artist creates bizarre crocheted skeletal remains
We have some bizarre art for sale at the Lucky Lizard. But we also have to tip our hats to people who create amazingly bizarre works....
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- Jul 23, 2015
- 2 min
Ouija does it…
Three talking boards await clearing by Doc Saul Ravencraft. As I give tours to visitors at the Museum of the Weird I tell them about my...
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- Jul 3, 2015
- 1 min
Monuments of bone
Humans have a fascination with the remains of our ancestors. There are many examples in the Museum of ways that artifacts have been...
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- Jun 29, 2015
- 2 min
The Copenhagen Nose Memorial
The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen features a number of Greek and Roman portrait busts and statues. These are very fragile...
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- Jun 25, 2015
- 1 min
Don’t know what this says about the marriage
Forget the controversy about whether or not to wear white to a wedding. These people are deciding between quilted an extra-absorbent....
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- May 26, 2015
- 1 min
Munstrous Mansion in Texas
They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and that goes for fandom as well. In 2002, Sandra McKee and her husband Charles created a big...
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- Dec 22, 2014
- 3 min
The Bigfoot Gift Guide for the Cryptid-Hunter Who Has It All
Still having trouble what to get for that cryptid-hunter in your life? There does seem to be a bit of a cap on Bigfoot accessories...
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- Dec 8, 2014
- 2 min
Chocolate Skulls and Anatomy Cakes
Looking for some stocking stuffers for that Museum of the Weird avid blog fan on your ‘nice’ list this year? Traditionally (in my family,...
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- Oct 20, 2014
- 2 min
The Women Who Lead the Charge in Rogue Taxidermy
The field of Taxidermy has been the domain of more than just the family from “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and your weird, creepy uncle....
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