The COD
A Curated Daily Digest of Oddities, Curiosities & Unusual Fascinations
CURIOSITY OF THE DAY
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The COD will be off exploring the infinite abyss until October 30th. Please grave rob from our older articles until then. 🎃
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Halloween Candy Buckets
Tote your Halloween treats with the most unique Halloween candy buckets made by independent artists or uncovered in vintage collections.
Haunted Attic: Bazaar of the Odd and Macabre
Haunted Attic Resale: Bazaar of the Odd and Macabre is an oddities and curiosities seller offering preservation services, including wet specimen pet memorials, unique shadow boxes, and curio ephemera to enhance your own personal collection of strange things.
Haunted Dolls
Haunted Dolls have a reputation for being conduits for evil spirits, but not all haunted dolls are plagued by negative entities as portrayed in recent films such as Annabelle.
Human Eye Locket
It’s hard to get more unusual than this creepy one-of-a-kind human eye locket presented by Down a Dark Alley, a UK-based oddities and curiosities shop offering some seriously unique antiquities and other creepy-cool creations.
Vintage Anatomical Animal Educational Models
This rare vintage anatomical model of a grasshopper is a curious reminder of pre-internet learning where our teaching tools were tactile and not merely confined to a computer screen.
Exploded Human Skull
Exploded human skulls are medical teaching tools that are highly collectible vintage medical devices still produced today.
Vintage Tarot Cards
Glimpse into the future through the past with these magically curious vintage tarot cards.
Phrenology Heads
Phrenology heads are fascinating relics left behind by a long-discredited pseudoscience of studying the landscape of the skull, aka skull readings, where it was thought bumps and indentations could reveal personality strengths and weaknesses.
Skeleton Keys
Open a door to the past with these curious antique skeleton keys and modern-made recreations.
Antique Human Hair Art
Crafting human hair into art was a popular tradition in the Victorian era fueled by high infant mortality rates and a “fashion for mourning”.