The British Museum's Spookiest, Goriest, and Most Unsettling Objects - A Fully Guided Tour

In this video, Jessica the Museum Guide (that’s me!) takes you guided tour of the British Museum's spookiest objects. Today we’ve got severed heads, human sacrifices, wrathful goddesses, instruments made of human bones, evil demons, bog bodies, and even more human sacrifices – not to mention some supposedly haunted objects.

This isn’t my first video about the British Museum, and I am sure that it won’t be the last. And by the way – if you want to learn more about the controversial nature of this museum and explore the debate around repatriation of stolen items, I have a video just on that topic. But for today, let’s just escape into a world of spooky, gory, and uncanny stories.

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VIDEO SUMMARY

0:00 - Introduction to the tour
1:56 - Aztec Sacrificial knife and Cuauhxicalli Heart Jar
5:39 - Aztec Human Skull Mask - Mictlantecuhtli and Tezcatlipoca
8:04 - Mayan Bloodletting Lintel
11:28 - Tibetan Skull cup (Kapala) and human thigh bone trumpet (kangling)
13:59 - Kali and Chamunda Statues
18:27 - Cremation Lord Mask, Chitipati, and Phur Bu Knife
20:06 - Italian Organ Votives (Ex Voto)
20:58 - The Missing Mummified Heads in Enlightenment Gallery
23:08 - Dr Dee’s Shew Stone
24:59 - Memento Mori Skulls
26:54 - Mary Davis’s Horn Portrait
28:21 - San Spiderweb Hat
29:12 - Kozo the Nkisi Dog
31:03 - Jericho Plastered Skull
32:52 - Crushed heads – The Great Death Pit of Ur
37:05 - Liver Divination (Haruspicy) and Humbaba Mask
39:31 - Pazuzu Amulets and Lamashtu
41:42 - Unlucky Mummy
44:17 - Egyptian Mummy Amulets
46:16 - Ptolemaic Mummy
47:42 - Lindow Man Bog Body
51:07 - Napoleon’s Death Mask
51:31 - Viking Seeress Divination Hook
54:02 - St Ode reliquary and Saint Ursula’s Virgins