Folk art carving of an exorcism
Folk art carving of the exorcism of a small child
Categories: Curiosities, Historical Art • Tags: curiosities, demons, exorcism, outsider art, sculpture
Author Archives: Chelsea Nichols
Magic hat covered in decayed teeth
A 19th century hat belonging to an itinerant London street dentist, covered with 88 decayed teeth from his former patients
Categories: Curiosities, Museums, Unsettling Things • Tags: curiosities, fashion, history, magic, medicine, teeth
Imposter family portraits
The family portraits in Hans Eijkelboom’s ‘With My Family’ series contain an unsettling secret.
Categories: Contemporary Art, Strange Photographs • Tags: art, family, photography, true crime, unsettling
Witch cakes and UTIs
What is the magical connection between Witch Cakes and urinary tract infections?
Categories: Curiosities • Tags: folklore, magic, pitt rivers, witch
Grotesque Martinware crab
A Martinware crab with a grotesque human face
Categories: Curiosities, Historical Art • Tags: animals in art, grotesque, humor, victorian era
Coyote teeth dentures
A pair of homemade dentures made from coyote teeth and melted toothbrushes
Categories: Curiosities, Museums • Tags: curiosities, teeth, unsettling
The nun’s back side
This 1731 painting of a nun contains a saucy hidden secret.
Categories: Curiosities, Historical Art • Tags: erotic, nuns, paintings
Marie Antoinette lost her shoe and then her head
The shoe that Marie Antoinette lost on her way to the guillotine.
Categories: Curiosities, history, Museums • Tags: fashion, guillotine, history, shoe
Scary vintage Krampus claws
Vintage Krampus gloves from a small town in Austria
Categories: Curiosities, Unsettling Things • Tags: creepy, fashion, krampus, vintage
The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things 