What's the creepiest object you own?

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

Asking this question after talking about my aunt's vintage mannequin.

The creepiest items I own - or better, my wife owns in her collection - are a shrunken head (which I believe to be fake) that she bought in some shop; and a jawless human skull, which I believe to be true because I saw where she found it. Plus assorted animal bones and a few embalmed ones.

What about you?

[ShiftingMonke]

I've got a Mosin Nagant M91/30 rifle, chambered in 7.62x54R.

What's peculiar about this rifle is the markings on it- the armory that manufactured it, the year it was made, and the theatre stamp on the stock- I can confirm that this weapon was present during the battle of Stalingrad.

I'm of the strong belief that at one point in time, this rifle was not only deployed but actively took at least one person's life. It's a sobering thought, 80 years ago this rifle was pointed at someone else. The person holding it was young, cold, and probably terrified. Angry. Did they pull the trigger out of hatred? Was it personal? What it survival, him thinking that letting this other cold, scared, hungry man live meant that he could die in the next minute? If not him, maybe the man next to him? In the end it didn't matter. The trigger was squeezed, the bolt was cycled, and life moved on for all but one.

Was the original soldier then killed later on, and this rifle picked up by another? How many cycles has it seen, it's new owner taking a life, only to have his taken in return? How much blood has been spilled on the bayonet, to be wiped away with a dirty cloth. How much blood has soaked into this old wood, drying and fading as generations of hands hold it and take it apart and put it back together, their life buffing away those which lost theirs.

How many hands has it passed through, how much life has it taken? To be a veteran of at least one war but likely others, putting food on the table or settling disputes, traded and sold and bought, making its way across countries and nations, illegal border crossings and vague manifest declarations, to end up in my hands here in the Midwest of America. It now sits in the corner of my safe, resting in the dark. Retired, it's targets are paper and cardboard, and I clean it with respect and diligence as many did before.

If it could talk, I am sure there is much I could learn from it.

[Exterminatore]

I have one also, don’t know if it was at Stalingrad though. All I can see is the Soviet hammer and sickle on top of the receiver.

[ShiftingMonke]

@Exterminatore ah that's an Izhevesk rifle. Izzys have the best actions. Do the serial numbers match? And to check its theatre, you'll need the year that's under the hammer and sickle, plus see if there's a stamp on the right side of the stock about halfway between the grip and the buttplate. Look for a square about half an inch wide, with a diagonal line running from one corner to the other.

[Exterminatore]

It’s a Mossin. I’ll check it. Now you got me curious. Thanks for the info.

[ShiftingMonke]

@Exterminatore no problem bro!

[Sixgunsound]

Now I want one. I do t have any milsurp guns yet. I was going to start with a Garand from the CMP but now I want a Russian front gun.

[ShiftingMonke]

@Sixgunsound 15 years ago, the were $50. Now you'll have trouble finding one under $250, and as far as WW2 rifles, they're about the cheapest you can get.

[Sixgunsound]

I've had my eye on an SKS for a bit now but you can't by a semi-auto in my state without a pistol permit endorsement now. I'd also be in the market for a new safe, so the price of the rifle is not the problem😅

[Exterminatore]

@sixgun

You live in NY?

[Sixgunsound]

@Exterminatore unfortunately. Not much longer if I can help it. I'm almost finished needing in state tuition rates, at which point remaining in state is necessary only until I find a job and housing elsewhere.

[Exterminatore]

I’m stuck behind the Iron Curtain with you. Sick of the politics in this state. We’re being taxed to death.

[Exterminatore]

@six

I also cannot believe we now have to have a license just to have any kind of automatic rifle. That is beyond outrageous. Hopefully that will be challenged in the state Supreme Court and stuck down.

[ShiftingMonke]

@Exterminatore you mean semiautomatic?

[Exterminatore]

Yeah, but you can use the terms interchangeably as opposed to full auto.

[Exterminatore]

Probably a German Stalhiem (WW 2 standard issue German helmet) that was taken from Stalingrad.

[AmandaYVR]

I don't own anything creepy. I hate creepy.

I got rid of a rug (which I now regret doing) because when I was seriously depressed, it reminded me of what I had lost (my home) and the abstract shapes in it with bits of red suddenly looked like something evil with red eyes. (And my grey Persian was leaving hair all over it and I was tired of vacuuming it. But mostly the other two things.) That's how much I don't like creepy. (Big mistake, though. I am stupid for getting rid of it. It did remind me of my house, but I still want it anyway.)

[Agape93]

For others, the skull on my altar.

[OlderAndWiser]

I don't know of anything I own that is creepy.

[BigWhiteWolf87]

A necklace made of bone. Not just any type of bone, it's made of HUMAN bone. It was something I was gifted by a friend's relative years ago. It's Native. I'm not going to tell anyone which tribe because Native Americans face enough discrimination & harassment in N America what with the stealing of their land, the residential schools, having whites beating on them even police forces dragging them out to the wilds to freeze to death or hospitals ignoring them in the waiting room until they keel over.

[Account]

Hold on let me take some photos. Not sure if these are considered creepy though lol

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

They are actually cool lol.

[Account]

Thank you lol!

[comekitty]

Wow! Those are creepy things! I don't have anything quite as creepy as a head or a skull but I have an elk's tooth that some people may consider to be creepy. My Das likes to hunt and one season he went hunting for elk. He said elk have two teeth that are made of ivory and they're considered to be something that brings luck. He had a jewler make a gold cap for both of his elk's teeth and strung each on a leather strap. He gave one to me and one to my sister for luck. 😊

[DeeDeeDeVour]

I bought an antique wall mirror that used to be hung inside the famed Winchester Mystery house.

Initially, nobody would ever think it looks creepy because it really doesn't look creepy.

However, every-now-and-then, it does give us an uneasy vibe.

An Auctioneer has offered me nearly a million US$ for it.

I'm considering her offer.

[RoastedToast]

Personally I don't have anything creepy myself, but my parents have these. There's a few more busts around the house and when I was a kid the faces always creeped me the fuck out especially when it was dark. As it was an unnerving face staring at you dimly lit. I always felt the eyes were following me as a kid lol. Now when I can't help but chuckle and remember the nostalgia.

[CourtneyJane2]

The creepiest thing I own is a Glock 19 9mm semi-automatic pistol, mainly because it is capable of ending somebody's life. I have a firearms license and I've had the proper training, I'm actually a pretty good shot.

[RoastedToast]

Not exactly creepy though is it 🤷‍♂️

[JohnK123]

and why u have a gloc?

[TrueConfection]

I'd say my children's baby teeth. My daughter found the tooth fairy's collection when she was maybe a young teen. She competely freaked out about finding a cache of human teeth. 👀💀

[exitseven]

Yes, after my mother died I found mine and my brothers baby teeth. I still have them. I do not know which teeth belong to who

[TrueConfection]

@exitseven Was it creepy to find teeth?

[exitseven]

@TrueConfection It was a little creepy until I realized what they were.

[TrueConfection]

@exitseven My daughter screamed and cried. 😲

[exitseven]

@TrueConfection It is hard to find out the Tooth Fairy never really came.

[TrueConfection]

@exitseven Thankfully, she already knew about the tooth fairy.

[JohnK123]

@TrueConfection why did u collect them
And keep them?

[TrueConfection]

@JohnK123 The tooth fairy collected them. I had a little tooth box to put them in (baby's first molar, etc.) but never did. They were just in a little organza bag.

[exitseven]

my mother had a jewelry box and they were in a compartment in the box.

[JohnK123]

@TrueConfection oh so u just forgot lmao

[Kori1236]

I mean I don’t think it’s creepy. But I have a shark in formaldehyde. Several fossilized shark teeth. Various bones from dead animals. My best friend has a horse skull

[Sixgunsound]

Soviet cold war submarine insignia. Those were on somebody playing blind man's bluff hundreds of feet underwater with total nuclear annihilation of the human race hanging in the balance.

[D_Bone_Steak]

Probably my fleshlight. I have to cut up every sex toy I try to hump because they make these things for people with midget dicks.

[Paul_in_Indy]

I have at least three cans of this

[MORPHEUS_12]

I used to have a Victorian coffin mirror and one night around 2 AM the mirror fell to the floor and shattered.

[sage2021]

My wedding rings from my first husband whom I divorced back in the 70's.

[SaoirseS]

Two authentic tsantsas (shrunken heads), Fred and Barney.

[OfDeath]

I have a book of only HP Lovecraft stories and they're the unmolested versions. Racism etc intact.

The concepts of some of the scariest horror movies orginate from that book.

[AviatorTom]

Does a fossilized shrunken head from a pygmy tribe in Africa count as creepy?

[exitseven]

I still have my wisdom teeth in a jar. I still can't believe how big they were.

[Nikki1989]

I have many skulls with varying degrees of creepiness.

[Jamie05rhs]

Haha I don't own anything creepy. I wouldn't want anything like that in my house!