It is hard to believe that in the tiny American town of Elmwood, with a population of just over six hundred people, someone managed to collect many valuable artifacts from all over the world. In this village in southwestern Nebraska, a museum called the Museum of Shadows recently emerged, containing several hundred items with mystical properties. The name of this institution is translated into Russian as "Museum of Shadows".
About museum artifacts
In the "Museum of Shadows" you can contemplate cursed things, paranormal artifacts of terrestrial and alien origin, objects in which spirits have possessed, and much more - mysterious and inexplicable. This is possibly the only place in the United States with such a large collection of paranormal artifacts. Some of them seem funny, others are downright strange, and still others are truly creepy. According to the administration, new exhibits are added daily.
Artifacts are sent to the "Museum of Shadows" from almost all over the world. Some of these objects have a dark past, some seem to be animate beings and live their own lives. Visitors to the institution, as a rule, are people who are not indifferent to all the wonders of our world, but there are also materialists who come here to laugh at human superstitions or, in their best understanding, delusions. Nevertheless, even the most hardened skeptics rarely leave here without expression of embarrassment and bewilderment on their faces, since unusual artifacts invariably make a huge impression on everyone.
About the building and organizers of the unusual museum
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The building itself, where the museum is located, has the glory of an unkind place. It was opened in 1890, and at first it housed a pharmacy. The staff and customers noticed how furniture spontaneously moved around the premises. Lights blinked over the heads of visitors, and doors opened and closed without assistance. Some people heard ghostly voices in the pharmacy and even saw vague human figures dissolving into thin air.
The organizers and owners of the Shadow Museum are Nate and Kayleigh, known as experienced supernatural researchers. The couple periodically gets on television and helps their compatriots to cope with this or that devilry. According to the lovers, their institution aims not to frighten visitors, but to give them the opportunity to get acquainted with the side of life that is not talked about in schools and scientific programs. By the way, Nate and Kayleigh are now working on their own program, which will also highlight outlandish artifacts.
The most remarkable exhibits of the museum
One of the most notable exhibits of the Museum of Shadows is a porcelain doll named Kathy, which has the ability to blink, sitting still, and see off people with a terrible, meaningful look. Here you can also find the red mask of the devil, whose paranormal power is so great that the organizers of the museum do not even dare to show the whole object to the visitors. Part of the mask is covered with a scarf, and only a fragment of it can be seen in the museum's photographs. It is believed that any person who looks this “devil” in the face will be cursed during his lifetime, and if he puts on a mask, then his soul will be forever cursed.
How do you like a gramophone that periodically plays some old-fashioned song without electricity, without winding the spring mechanism, and even without a record? In addition, here you will find, presumably, an alien piece of metal in the form of a kind of thicket, from which water not only does not evaporate, but does not splash out, no matter how you pump it. In the farthest corner of the hall, you can find a stuffed cat, which can shine with its eyes in the twilight, just like a living cat, while the eyes begin to move, as it were, as if the animal was actually coming to life. And the old wooden clock is notable for the fact that its hands go backwards, but Nate and Kayleigh do not tell anyone what the secret of the strange mechanism is: this is another secret that cannot be fully revealed in order to avoid bad consequences. True, many admirers guess that there is something to do with time,jokes with which are really bad …
Go to the museum and become smarter
The owners of the museum monitor each of their exhibits, and potentially aggressive artifacts are fenced off from the inhabitants by special energy barriers that ensure the safety of visitors. According to Nate and Kayleigh, only they can handle so many magical items without endangering other people's lives.
The Shadow Museum is open from Wednesday to Sunday, from 9 am to 5 pm. If you ever find yourself in Elmwood, be sure to visit this amazing and unique place. Such a visit is not just interesting and informative. Judging by the reviews that visitors leave, the museum simply changes people's perception of our reality. It's like that rare case when a person encounters something paranormal in life and becomes completely different after that. And here you don't even need to wait for a happy accident, go to the museum and, as they say, be surprised and become more reasonable …