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Things That Scare Us: Our Favorite Spooky Collection Items

Take a tour of some of our favorite spooky collection items. While you’re in the mood, the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery exhibited the appropriately creepy Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death that featured exquisitely detailed miniature crime scenes used to train homicide investigators. Visit Sidedoor to hear the podcast backstory of this highly unusual woman.


Soft Bathtub (Model) - Ghost Version

Death the Strangler

The Haunted House

Seated Magus Observing Skulls, and Other Figures, plate 5 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Untitled (Skeleton)

The Spider Monster In The Cave

The Antikamnia Calendar, May and June, 1897: The First Tooth

Boris Karloff in "Frankenstein"

Skull and crossbones handstamp

lantern; decoration, holiday


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