The Eclectarium of Doctor Shuker

  FULL COVER OF MY OFFICIAL SELL-THRU VHS VIDEO OF BLACK LEATHER JACKET (© NICK MEAD/PAUL COWAN/MICK FARREN/CHANNEL 4 TELEVISION CORPORATION/POLYGRAM MUSIC VIDEO – REPRODUCED HERE ON A STRI...

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'ORFEO NEGRO' – BRAZILIAN PUBLICITY POSTER FOR 'BLACK ORPHEUS' (© MARCEL CAMUS/TUPAN FILMES/LOPERT PICTURES) Over Christmas last year and the early part of the New Year, I fulfilled a l...

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HAND-COLOURED 19TH-CENTURY ENGRAVING OF THE PORCELAIN TOWER OF NANKING (PUBLIC DOMAIN) Most people can name at least some of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Far less familiar, c...

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ShukerNature: CREEPY CREATIONS AND CRYPTOZOOLOGY – MONSTROUSLY-AWESOME ARTWORK FROM SHIVER AND SHAKE : The Turkish Turn-Eyed Twitter – one of my favourite Creepy Creations (© Kevin Reid/IPC)...

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ShukerNature: THE BIG GREY MAN OF BEN MACDHUI - BRITAIN'S VERY OWN BIGFOOT? : Ben MacDhui’s principal claim to fame is that, at 4296 ft (1309 m), it is the highest mountain in the Cairngorms ra...

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VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT, P. 32, DEPICTING UNRECOGNISABLE PLANT FORMS (PUBLIC DOMAIN) NB - PLEASE CLICK ON EACH PICTURE IN THIS ARTICLE (AND ALSO IN ALL OF MY OTHER BLOG ARTICLES) TO OBTAIN AN E...

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ShukerNature: REMEMBERING MY MOTHER : Mom, wearing the beautiful protea-decorated coat that she purchased in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2008 (© Dr Karl Shuker)

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MY SHERLOCK HOLMES TOBY JUG CONFRONTS THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA! (© DR KARL SHUKER) When I first opened my Eclectarium, I promised that it would include some Sherlockian exhibits, and I am...

https://eclectariumshuker.blogspot.com/2014/03/sherlock-holmes-vs-speckled-band-and.html

THE STRAW BEAR OF WHITTLESEY, 2008 (KEV747/WIKIPEDIA) What do dwyle flunking, goat crowning, straw bears dancing, a village packed full of human-sized faceless scarecrows, and fireball fli...

https://eclectariumshuker.blogspot.com/2014/03/my-top-ten-most-eccentric-festivals-in.html

Edith Griffin with her great-nephew, Dr Karl Shuker, aged 7 months (Dr Karl Shuker) Until now, my Eclectarium has remained closed throughout the present year, and this is why. Quite simply,...

https://eclectariumshuker.blogspot.com/2013/05/when-my-great-aunt-sent-feathered.html

Like many others of my generation, I first learnt of the term 'Nephilim' via the superb English gothic rock group Fields of the Nephilim, formed in the mid-1980s, but when I began to invest...

https://eclectariumshuker.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-nephilim-biblical-mystery-of-giant.html

If we are to believe the medieval chroniclers, during the Middle Ages Britain was a land not unaccustomed to the appearance of many extraordinary marvels and miracles - but few were stranger...

https://eclectariumshuker.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-green-children-of-woolpit.html

No-one knows what the future holds, but down through the ages humanity has done its utmost to find out - by devising and employing an extraordinary panoply of divination rituals, ranging fro...

https://eclectariumshuker.blogspot.com/2012/10/is-divination-more-than-just-smoke-and.html

EASTER ISLAND BIRDMAN ON FESTIVAL POSTER (DR KARL SHUKER) Not so long ago, in a magazine and internet survey to find the world’s most mysterious, paranormal locality, the runaway winner wa...

https://eclectariumshuker.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-visit-to-easter-island-land-of-stone.html

PYGMALION AND GALATEA, AS PAINTED BY JEAN-BAPTISTE REGNAULT, 1786 Inside any cabinet of curiosities – and especially inside the Eclectarium of Doctor Shuker – anything is possible, even l...

https://eclectariumshuker.blogspot.com/2012/08/living-statues-and-other-animated.html

'Pando's Box' (Robert Owen) I've always been fascinated by clowns, jesters, and their predecessors, the characters of the Commedia Dell'Arte, so accompany me now as I explore the colourful hist...

https://eclectariumshuker.blogspot.com/2012/07/be-clown-be-clown-be-clown.html

'LOVEHUNTER' - WHITESNAKE (CHRIS ACHILLEOS) Back in those far-off, antediluvian times that marked my youth and when I first got into motorbikes and tattoos, I was also a bit of a head-banger �...

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TAPESTRY COMMISSIONED BY LOUIS, DUKE OF ANJOU, OF THE THIRD ANGEL AND WORMWOOD To some, coincidences are nothing but random incidents impinging upon one another merely by chance, and therefo...

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Sketch by eyewitness Bill Bartlett of the Dover demon, as featured in various newspapers during 1977 (Bill Bartlett-Wikipedia) Here's a very interesting email that I've received from Heather...

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TRITON AND A NEREID (MAX KLINGER, 1895) In his compilation volume Tornados, Dark Days, Anomalous Precipitation, and Related Weather Phenomena (1983), veteran anomalies chronicler William R. Cor...

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Back in medieval times, the basilisk was one of the most feared beasts that never existed. This fictitious creature was widely if erroneously believed to be real - a greatly-dreaded monster or...

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I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert....Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrin...

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CREATING A HOMUNCULUS VIA ALCHEMY Even today, the alchemists of medieval times remain famous for their supposed (but unconfirmed) ability to transmute base metals into gold, using the fable...

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Somewhere out there is an unnerving diversity of treacherous technology that seems to possess (or be possessed by?) a veritable life of its own! Independently-minded machines boasting seemingl...

https://eclectariumshuker.blogspot.com/2012/01/ghosts-in-machines-haunted-hardware-and.html

FATHER CHRISTMAS, GARBED IN BLUE AS TRADITIONALLY DESCRIBED, BRINGING A LITTLE MAGIC TO MY BOOKSHELF! (DR KARL SHUKER) It is nothing if not timely today to blog about the most elusive crypto...

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