Antiques Freaks

Join us for a spooky exploration of 19th century spiritualists and magicians, wherein we REALLY earn that Explicit tag! Things get weird as we explain the antiques connection to A Haunting in Connecticut and how Victorian mediums channeled the dead through cheesecloth. Enjoy!

Or; How (Not) to Sell a Haunted Doll on Etsy!

Special guest Anthony Moss (Joint Chairman of The Antique Walking Cane Society, member of The International Society of Cane Collectors, and a regular speaker at Canemania) is here to tell us all about the history and collecting and canes! From glass canes to sword canes to squirting canes and everything in between and beyond, join us on our epic Cane Quest.

For more cool canes, check out Anthony's book, A Visual History of Walking Sticks and Canes, available now wherever fine tomes are found!

Special guest, brilliant author O. F. Cieri, joins the podcast to talk about antiquities, the looting of antiquities, and how Hobby Lobby came to represent the moral and legal crime of trading in looted antiquities! Plus, how museums work, the importance of antiquity repatriation, and MORE!

Creepypasta - spooky stories from strangers on the internet. Do they contain antiques? Yes! Are they any good? Remains to be seen! Thrill at the chilling tales of demonic kaleidoscopes, haunted dolls, and the forbidden episode of Antiques Roadshow!

Friend of the podcast Paris from Terrible Book Club is BACK AGAIN to help Dee explore the wonderful, wacky, and tragical story of Faberge Eggs! Learn how the experts identify the Faberge, learn how the not-experts spend too much money on the Fauxberge, and remember how dang cute Bartok from the animated Anastasia movie was.

A nautical history mystery where 19th-century whaling meets Dinotopia. Featuring cameos by the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror!

Friend of the podcast Paris from Terrible Book Club joins Dee for this episode on the ultimate glow-up - Uranium Glass! Learn to finally tell the difference between green glasses and whether or not the FDA thinks you should be grinding up and eating glass. (Spoiler Warning: Don't)

Tobacco is whacko if you're a teen - but tobacco silks are for everyone! As are satins, cottons, flannels, and felts. Masonic tobacco silk quilt, anyone? (Apologies for our neglect of the vaping community.)

Our friends Chris and Paris from the Terrible Book Club podcast join us once again for another thrilling adventure! Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, an Edwardian supernatural Sherlock Holmes, investigates a haunted ship in his most sensual escapade yet. Frankly, this episode isn't appropriate for anyone. Except, perhaps, the sea.

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