A woman lives in the 'world's spookiest home' - full of haunted historic artefacts - including 'cursed' dolls, old gravestones and children's coffins.
Beckie-Ann Galentine, 33, grew up living above an antique store to antique dealer parents.
It gave her a taste for historic items but she was drawn to a more "macabre" side of things - including creepy old pictures and coffins.
Over the last 10 years Beckie-Ann has collected hundreds of 'haunted' items which she has used to decorate her entire home.
These include 'cursed' dolls and even a bag of children's TEETH.
Beckie-Ann Galentine, 33, grew up living above an antique store to antique dealer parents.
It gave her a taste for historic items but she was drawn to a more "macabre" side of things - including creepy old pictures and coffins.
Over the last 10 years Beckie-Ann has collected hundreds of 'haunted' items which she has used to decorate her entire home.
These include 'cursed' dolls and even a bag of children's TEETH.
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00:00 Here's a tour of my place as a godless witch that worships Satan, allegedly.
00:04 Allegedly.
00:05 I swear.
00:06 First, you'll see an antique cooling table which is used to repose the deceased and sometimes
00:10 for autopsies and it was made of wood which was a horrible design choice.
00:14 I have some postmortem photos but I don't like to focus too much on those.
00:17 I try to be respectful.
00:19 We have embalming licenses from the 1890s from the first embalming school ever which
00:24 was the Renard Training School.
00:26 Those are signed by August Renard himself.
00:28 Here's some antique fluid crates, we have a ton of these throughout the house.
00:32 Surgical theater photo, wicker coffin, and these are all antique psychiatric items.
00:37 We try to be really respectful of them.
00:39 I do have this book on lobotomies that I gave Josh for Christmas.
00:44 It was written by Walter Freeman who was a terrible person.
00:47 I have an entire family's headstones that were purchased from an antique store legally.
00:52 Legally.
00:53 Don't ask questions.
00:54 This is a wax wreath that would have actually been displayed at someone's funeral in a
00:58 shadow box.
00:59 These are super hard to come by.
01:01 Two for two on wreaths.
01:03 This one is made entirely of human hair.
01:05 I think it's gorgeous.
01:07 That I did buy on eBay.
01:09 These are probably the most cursed dolls in the entire world.
01:12 Ah, his mouth moved.
01:13 His mouth moved.
01:14 Okay, we'll ignore that.
01:16 Hey babe, what are these?
01:18 Those are 100 year old street jackets.
01:20 This is an antique gravity embalming flask and sometimes I drink from it.
01:26 Not.
01:28 This is our antique Ritzy pride ball.
01:31 This is a late 1800s Masonic funeral bell that they would actually ring in the prep room
01:35 with the bodies and at the funeral service.
01:37 And when I ring it, it wakes all the spirits in the house.
01:41 I don't know what eBay is supposed to be for, but here's a bunch of things I somehow managed
01:44 to buy legally on the platform over the past year.
01:47 The first one is a 100 year old frame with a portrait of a little boy, his entire head
01:53 of hair that they cut off and stapled in there, and his teeth in a little bag that is nailed
01:58 to the frame.
01:59 The teeth look especially scary with that.
02:01 This was about $500.
02:03 Then the next thing I bought is a light fixture from the famous tuberculosis sanatorium, Waverly
02:10 Hills that's supposed to be haunted.
02:12 I don't know what I'm going to do with this yet.
02:14 I bought a coffin that for some reason had adult human teeth in it, even though it was
02:19 a baby coffin.
02:21 And then I bought this typewriter from the Danvers State Hospital, which was once known
02:26 as Danvers Lunatic Asylum in Massachusetts.
02:29 An employee had this and brought it home with her and now her grandkids think it's haunted
02:33 and shook an entire table.
02:35 And one of the craziest things I bought from eBay was this chain made of human hair by
02:41 a guy who was in prison for murder.
02:43 And get it, he made it from the wife of the man that he murdered.
02:47 Anyway, thanks eBay.
02:48 If it offends you that I have an infant coffin in my house, don't worry, I don't discriminate.
02:54 I also have a child's coffin, an almost adult coffin from an Odd Fellows lodge that looks
03:01 pretty used, this metal coffin with feet, this wicker cooling casket, a child's cooling
03:07 table as well as an adult's cooling table, and embalming fluid bottles.
03:11 A used coffin that I brought home from work and this antique viewing casket that also
03:17 came from an Odd Fellows lodge.
03:19 I also have this cooling board that went inside a coffin at one point.
03:23 I see these items as examples of craftsmanship from ancestors that came way before us.
03:28 They were made by the same people that made our furniture and they deserve to be treasured.
03:33 It's less about glorifying death and more about preserving history.
03:37 They survived hundreds of years of storage and some rituals and deserve to be preserved
03:41 just a little bit longer.
03:43 And I like talking to ghosts a little bit.
03:45 Okay, thanks.
03:46 Go away now.
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