"I live in world's spookiest home - with cursed dolls, gravestones and coffins" - video Dailymotion

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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.

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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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"I live in world's spookiest home - with cursed dolls, gravestones and coffins"

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