You Won't Believe The Creepy Things You Can Find In Museums

Museums are where the most treasured possessions from history are kept. However, it also seems to be where some of the strangest things in the world are held.

In a challenge dubbed "Museum 101" a bunch of museums from around the world have started to share the creepiest and most bizarre things they have in their collections. Creepy dolls, awkward taxidermy and freaky photographs have all popped up and are surly going to haunt your nightmares.

Are you brave enough to check out the creepiest possessions from these museums?

This doll fits well into #Museum101 @museum101 , right @CultureThemes !? c. 1820 & her eyes fell out! @Ptbo_Canada pic.twitter.com/hG6rhdZ7Hf
"” PTBOMuseum&Archives (@OntheHill3) February 15, 2017

This model of a priest is impressive - until you realise it's made out of chewed bread! ðŸ¤¢ For this reason, we say: "Get into #Museum101!" pic.twitter.com/DJLhhmySrN
"” English Heritage (@EnglishHeritage) February 15, 2017

One of the scariest objects - POMSTA [revenge]: figurine of wax & stearin, animal hair formed the figure of a woman; pins. #museum101 pic.twitter.com/7Enzf4jedg
"” Muzeum Etnograficzne (@ethnomuseumwars) February 15, 2017

(We usually keep them boxed up. You know...just in case...)#museum101 pic.twitter.com/7WMhNIHylJ
"” MuseumEngRuralLife (@TheMERL) February 15, 2017

We'll see your Leo DiCaprio, @HarpersFerryNPS, and raise you this unsettling doll...Is he looking at me?? #museum101 pic.twitter.com/mj38bCnVTz
"” Jefferson Co. Museum (@jeffcomuseumwv) February 15, 2017

Wax baby doll given by Thomas Westwood to Eliza Westwood in Jan 1884. Childless Eliza went on to have 17 children. #museum101 #fertilitydoll pic.twitter.com/1mY5oN74jU
"” Worthing Museum (@WorthingMuseum) February 15, 2017

Which is creepier, the #Edison #Talkingdoll itself, or the recording meant to be her voice? #museum101 Listen Here: https://t.co/upAdY4EvR5 pic.twitter.com/YkCTUOrNKF
"” Thomas Edison NHP (@ThomasEdisonNHP) February 15, 2017

Is there anything creepier than opening a box and finding half a head staring back at you? A definite candidate for #museum101 pic.twitter.com/6lWxN1KB1r
"” RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) February 15, 2017

We have so many freaky objects. This horse stomach infested with botfly larvae is pretty frightening #museum101 pic.twitter.com/21NIAUBFyg
"” Cole Zoology Museum (@ColeZoology) February 15, 2017

For #museum101 we offer these lovely studies of exhumed corpses, possibly by Jacuqes-Hippolyte Van der Burch @AberUni @AberArtSchool colls pic.twitter.com/V2FuwH4AkR
"” Aber School of Art (@AberArtSchool) February 15, 2017

Which objects in our Collection terrify you? Perhaps Marc Quinn's Self, a self-portrait made from 8 pints of the artist's blood? #Museum101 pic.twitter.com/TA9ImGZZyF
"” Portrait Gallery (@NPGLondon) February 15, 2017

It's #museum101 day, to celebrate the creepy stuff in museums! Obvs we have to start with Fred, our shrunken head. pic.twitter.com/ATXCIYtTIt
"” Wilbur D. May Center (@RenoMayCenter) February 15, 2017

Our #museum101 > Roald Dahl's hip bone and glass of spine shavings in his Writing Hut! pic.twitter.com/OuCVEiGQQR
"” Roald Dahl Museum (@roalddahlmuseum) February 15, 2017

#museum101 @DorsetMuseum - Plaster cast heads of 19th Century convicted criminals that were hung at the County Goal #Dorchester #Dorset pic.twitter.com/zsIQWbHiIA
"” Dorset County Museum (@DorsetMuseum) February 15, 2017

We can only assume that this taxidermy of a five-legged deer at @EHOsborneHouse is the creepy spirit animal of #Museum101 pic.twitter.com/KnuN1bi72H
"” English Heritage (@EnglishHeritage) February 15, 2017

What would you put in #museum101? We've seen some dodgy taxidermy in our time... pic.twitter.com/kkpxwsNYCw
"” Scottish Museums Fed (@ScottishMuseums) February 15, 2017

@ScottishMuseums We'd love them to meet Oliver, though we fear he'd feel under-dressed with only a ribbon to wear. pic.twitter.com/jXAihAIld4
"” Museum of London (@MuseumofLondon) February 15, 2017

Today @CultureThemes is #Museum101 artefacts that we find creepy - I give you Giant Fishing Spider https://t.co/AxVUydtOyOðŸ˜¬ðŸ•·ï¸ pic.twitter.com/juaIF6Tddr
"” Nova Scotia Museum (@NS_Museum) February 15, 2017

@Museum101 How about this stuffed Puffer Fish? #Museum101 pic.twitter.com/RwM0ax2zGm
"” Swansea Museum (@swanseamuseum) February 15, 2017

This frightening painted whale's eardrum is surely worthy of a place in @museum101 #museum101 pic.twitter.com/QKoaAqTsct
"” Discovery Point (@DiscoveryDundee) February 15, 2017

This is one of the creepier items on our database - found concealed inside a wall #museum101 https://t.co/vmulWVRsKE pic.twitter.com/J4sUwgo8Yu
"” Portable Antiquities (@findsorguk) February 15, 2017

We keep these vegetable themed rag dolls locked away in our stores for everyone's sake! #Museum101 pic.twitter.com/fk5EVU2nBi
"” Hull Museums (@Hull_Museums) February 15, 2017

Our #museum101 is a toy fit for the #AdamsFamily. Unless recreating funerals is your idea of family fun.. âš° https://t.co/z4cUcvFXv8 pic.twitter.com/bj6tuf1d0H
"” Nat. Maritime Museum (@NMMGreenwich) February 15, 2017

Doctor Gamla is one of the people we keep hidden away in the photo storage in the archives. @OtterTailMuseum #museum101 pic.twitter.com/FyQr4lHaOS
"” OTC in WWI (@OTCinWWI) February 15, 2017

A few last #Museum101 contributions to make sure you don't get any sleep tonight... Tibetan mask, bat in a jar and wolf head. #sweetdreams pic.twitter.com/j4Af6zZ7TT
"” Horniman Museum (@HornimanMuseum) February 15, 2017

Anatomical Model? Mask? Whatever you call it, front and back are frightening. To the #Museum101 room with you. #thomasedisonnhp #Edison pic.twitter.com/R41qxiQnA6
"” Thomas Edison NHP (@ThomasEdisonNHP) February 15, 2017

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