Creepy things in a museum? Never!
October 31, 2013 12:45 PM Subscribe
Including the wind-up friar automaton repeatedly claiming his faults and not one but two creeping baby dolls, the Smithsonian lists the 11 collection objects giving them the creeps this Halloween.
And there's a creepy doll... that always follows you...
posted by Faint of Butt at 12:47 PM on October 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Faint of Butt at 12:47 PM on October 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
That vulture-pelican cane handle/pipe--Might that be used for "sucking on his...cane?"
posted by Fichereader at 1:00 PM on October 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Fichereader at 1:00 PM on October 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
Weird Records from the Depths of the National Archives
posted by brundlefly at 1:14 PM on October 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by brundlefly at 1:14 PM on October 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
My exes mother had a creepy doll whose head was bald and cracked in all sorts of manners, the thing scared the bejesus out of me. They saw nothing wrong. *shudder* creepy old dolls.
and for the ultimate creepy doll experience: The Island of Dolls.
posted by symbioid at 1:37 PM on October 31, 2013
and for the ultimate creepy doll experience: The Island of Dolls.
posted by symbioid at 1:37 PM on October 31, 2013
I wonder why the first creeping doll has that flat shelf on its back. Maybe you could set drinks or snacks on it and use it to send them across the room to guests.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 2:14 PM on October 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 2:14 PM on October 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
On a related note, I posted some Halloween-appropriate materials to the Houghton Library Tumblr today.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 2:36 PM on October 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Horace Rumpole at 2:36 PM on October 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
The carte de visite is a (particularly bad or degraded) print of Blossom and Decay. I spent a good few minutes trying to track that down and as it turns out pretty much every artist has had a go at it, it would seem.
posted by mcrandello at 3:02 PM on October 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by mcrandello at 3:02 PM on October 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
I'm pretty sure that wind-up friar escaped from a Quay Brothers film.
posted by MrBadExample at 5:11 PM on October 31, 2013
posted by MrBadExample at 5:11 PM on October 31, 2013
There's also a great Musée des Automates underneath the Marquis de Sade's house in Paris.
posted by pinothefrog at 5:12 AM on November 1, 2013
posted by pinothefrog at 5:12 AM on November 1, 2013
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