Moment £12k skeleton was despatched flying throughout empty room at ‘haunted museum’

On Oct 15, 2024

Spine-tingling CCTV footage has captured the moment a 16th-century skeleton mysteriously shattered in an empty room in the dead of night.

The Museum of Curiosities, which boasts a vast collection of allegedly cursed artefacts and oddities, is now considered one of the country’s most haunted sites. Staff at the Nottingham attraction are too afraid to work night shifts due to the sheer volume of paranormal activity, some of which has been caught on camera.

Chilling footage shows a 400-year-old human skeleton, valued at £12,000, crashing to the ground and shattering into pieces, despite the building being empty at the time.

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Another unsettling clip reveals the same room filling with an unexplained mist, triggering the security alarm, only to vanish into thin air.

CCTV footage from Steve Wesson's Museum of Curiosities shows spooky goings on including mist rising from the floor — CCTV footage from Steve Wesson’s Museum of Curiosities shows spooky goings on including mist rising from the floor

Museum owner Steve Wesson, 52, claims it’s not unusual for the alarm to be triggered by “ghostly activity” in the middle of the night, with objects often being moved around by unseen forces.

The former paranormal investigator has spent years accumulating a vast collection of thousands of creepy collectables within his “house of horrors.”

He said: “When you get a collection and it gets too big, it turns into a museum.

“I used to go ghost hunting. As we went around, we collected bits and bobs, oddities and weird stuff. Now we’ve got four floors full of it.”

Paranormal investigator Steve Wesson displays his incredible collection of ‘haunted’ and unusual items in his museum

The museum is home to at least 50 real human skulls and features a bone library full of human skeletal remains as well as creepy dolls and mummified animals.

There’s also books from the Enfield hauntings, paintings done by serial killers, movie props from The Exorcist – and even the UK’s largest ouija board.

Paranormal enthusiasts have come from all over the country and a film crew from the USA made the trip over for an episode of World’s Most Haunted Places.

The building is a former cinema that houses a graveyard inside, and just a few doors down was Nottingham’s main morgue.

The Museum of Curiosities lays claim to being one of the most haunted places in the country

Steve, who has run the city centre museum for nearly two years, added: “The security alarms always get set off in the middle of the night for something. It was going off two times a week at one point and it contacts the local police.

“There was stuff moved around the museum while it was closed, stuff does get moved around a lot.

“The mist video was in June and only lasted 30 seconds and it triggered the alarm. The mist was around the whole room, there’s no draft in there or anything.

“The mist has happened around three or four times since we’ve been there.

Staff at the Nottingham attraction now refuse to work night shifts

He added: “The skeleton that smashed was a 16th century skeleton in the corner, it just blew up it into little fragments all over the room.

“People said did we do that, we don’t smash £12,000 worth of displays. It shattered for no reason.

“The staff won’t stay there after dark any more. Some people have been pushed down the stairs.

“It’s a really bizarre place.”

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