Cult of Weird Holiday Gift Guide 2021
The season of giving is here and our weird gift ideas are sure to make that special someone on your shopping list squirm with delight (or dysentery) this Christmas.
Cabinets of Curiosities, or wunderkammer, began as rooms full of weird and wondrous artifacts representing ancient and natural history. They were filled with skulls and bones, taxidermy, historical relics, occult artifacts, art, fossils and more. Today, they’re intertwined with oddities collecting and vulture culture.
Explore the stories of weird antiques, quack medical devices, funeral ephemera, creepy museum collections, haunted objects and oddities collectors.
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Haunted Cauldron
Was this cauldron used by Ed Gein to hold human remains? The object that now rests on display at Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum in Las Vegas has a dark and weird history.
Fingerprints from Purgatory
The Purgatory Museum exhibits relics like this book that the church claims are proof of the existence of purgatory.
Guillotine Earrings
During France’s Reign of Terror, these guillotine earrings celebrating the beheading of King Louis XVI in 1793 were all the rage.
Weird Couture
After eating the meat from the day’s catch, frog hunter Fabiana LaFluer decided to make her own taxidermy frog bikini.
