– – It’s hard to find a good petrified cat; most are dried out and decayed, and don’t smell very good. There are aesthetics to be considered when buying a petrified cat, or for that matter, a mummified squirrel; not just any one will do!
Enter the bizarre world of macabre memorabilia as presented through the Science Channel and the Discovery Channel documentary/reality show Oddities, which details the operations of Obscura Antiques & Oddities as they go about procuring oddball items like deformed skeletons, skulls, child-sized straitjackets, and archaic medical items for eager clients. –Remember that one man’s trash is another’s treasure, and that there’s a market for almost everything in this world!
The show debuted in 2010, and is now in it’s fourth season. Operating out of the East Village in New York City (–where else?), the business has been overwhelmed by people trying to sell petrified cats and mummified squirrels that they found in their attics, and as a result is no longer in the market for them. It’s hardly your grandmother’s antique shop…this is far more interesting!
– – If you are an arachnophobe, this tale is not for you! It seems that a woman went to China’s Changsa Central Hospital complaining of itching in the left side of her face.–Well, it turned out that the source of her irritation was a spider which had been residing inside the woman’s ear canal for five days! It had probably set up housekeeping. The picture shows the actual spider before its removal…
–It’s an old wives’ tale not to eat a peach pit or certain seeds, lest they grow into a tree inside you. –Well, a five-centimeter fir tree was reportedly found in the lung of a Russian man who complained that he had a strong pain in his chest and was coughing up blood. This is seldom good…
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