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Rattan Wheelchair ($500)
This antique wheelchair dates back to the late 1800s and has “nope” written all over it.
“It’s got that horror movie vibe,” says Chris Kmit, owner of Cemetery Pulp. “It would freak everybody out, especially at night.”
Those who’ve seen the 1980 horror film The Changeling will recall the terrifying moment Trish Van De Vere’s character gets chased by a similar wheelchair of a paraplegic ghost boy. That unsettling fear sticks with these creepy contraptions. We wouldn’t want to meet it, or its inhabitant, in a dark hallway.
Wicker Coffin ($1,300)
This Civil War-era transport coffin once served a grim purpose. “This is actually where the term ‘basket case’ comes from. When [soldiers] were so messed up, they’d put ‘em in this coffin and carry’ em around if they [had] amputated legs and things,” Kmit explains. “Then, if they passed away, they’d put a lid on. If you were in this coffin, you had hours to go.”
The coffin also served as a prop for the 1939 Sherlock Holmes film The Hound of the Baskervilles—and it’s pretty haunted. Kmit says paranormal investigators get hits on it regularly. One morning, he even found the coffin cracked open without explanation. His creepy collectible of cursed monkey bones were nearby.
“I think the spirits were talking to each other,” he says. “I always just joke that they’re all having a party here.”
Human Skeleton Torso ($2,200)
This encased human skeleton torso that Kmit bought from England is rare. “You really can’t get bones out of England anymore—not human bones anyway,” he says.
For a body donated for science, it’s remarkably preserved with real cartilage still intact on the rib cage.
Kmit estimates the anonymous subject—a male based on the size of his pelvis—died about 80 years ago. And unlike other freaky finds at Cemetery Pulp, these bones are oddly ... peaceful.
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