# Creepy (or downright disturbing) souvenirs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782 "2005-11-12T23:45:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/1 "2005-11-12T23:45:55Z")
I was going through a box of old vacation stuff the other day and came upon a brochure for the World Trade Center. On the front, there’s an aerial photo of the buildings, and above the image is the phrase: **The closest some of us will ever get to heaven**. Now, you gotta admit, that’s pretty creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/2 "2005-11-12T23:54:41Z")
A friend of mine visited NYC and sent me a postcard of the WTC. It’s postmarked September 11, 2000. Dum dum DUMMMM!!! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/3 "2005-11-13T00:05:33Z")
My brother bought something at a shop in the WTC on the way home from work on the evening of September 10, 2001. I think he still has the receipt. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/4 "2005-11-13T00:11:26Z")
I don’t know for sure if this is what you’re looking for, but my sweet little flat contains: A small collection of “instant disaster books” on such happenings as the Johnstown Flood, the Iroquis Theater Fire, and the Gen’l. Slocum Fire; A sheet of Nazi food stamps my father brought back from WWII; A framed photo of The Ugliest Dog in the World; My dead cat’s ashes in a tea-tin with a photo of her atop it. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/5 "2005-11-13T00:44:58Z")
My mom owes a genuine, powder-blue baby coffin. I think she plans to incorporate it into the nativity scene she sets up in her front hall every Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/6 "2005-11-13T00:56:18Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > My mom owes a genuine, powder-blue baby coffin. And if she doesn’t pay it $50,000 by next Wednesday, her knees aren’t going to bend right anymore. What? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/7 "2005-11-13T00:59:47Z")
I admit, I don’t get the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/8 "2005-11-13T01:57:26Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I admit, I don’t get the joke. **Derleth** was goofing on the fact that you typo’d ‘owes’ instead of ‘owns’. Yeah, it’s kind of creepy to owe money to a coffin, how did that come about? ---
**Author:** ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/9 "2005-11-13T02:00:26Z")
We buy the obligatory piece of tourist tack wherever we go. We have a small WTC statue sitting on shelf nearby. We were up about a year before they fell… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/10 "2005-11-13T02:40:13Z")
> [@The Sonoran Lizard King](#): > > **Derleth** was goofing on the fact that you typo’d ‘owes’ instead of ‘owns’. D’oh! :smack: > [@](#): > > Yeah, it’s kind of creepy to owe money to a coffin, how did that come about? Well, typos aside, there was an element of debt involved. My mom’s a banker, and she arranged a largish loan for a funeral home. She asked them for a child’s coffin after the deal was closed. Why? Because she’s a freak, as near as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/11 "2005-11-13T03:20:20Z")
My mother has the 7-day candle glass from my aunt’s shiva. Thankfully, it’s at her house. Robin ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/12 "2005-11-13T03:27:23Z")
A friend went to Alaska, and came back with a petrified walrus penis! Now that’s disturbing, especially for the walrus. :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/13 "2005-11-13T04:42:35Z")
> [@sneezy5660](#): > > A friend went to Alaska, and came back with a petrified walrus penis! Now that’s disturbing, especially for the walrus. :eek: 😃 I’d bet that’s actually a [penis _bone_](http://www.skullsunlimited.com/baculums.html) rather than a petrified penis. You can find that sort of thing [all over the internet](http://search.ebay.com/baculum_W0QQfkrZ1QQfnuZ1QQfromZR8). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/14 "2005-11-13T04:46:53Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I think she plans to incorporate it into the nativity scene she sets up in her front hall every Christmas. Jesus Christ. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/15 "2005-11-13T04:59:10Z")
I don’t know if anyone else would find this creepy, and it may not actually be a souviner/ I found an animal [claw](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/picunurse/claw2.jpg) in a drawer. I don’t know where it came from. The claw is a bit over an inch long. There remains about 1/2 inch of leathery tissue with a few hairs, and its mounted on a piece of wire to make it wearable. Hubby swears he’s never seen it before. He’s a very gentle type. He doesn’t hunt. No one else lives here. Visitors wouldn’t have access to that particular desk 😕 ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/16 "2005-11-13T05:05:42Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > My mother has the 7-day candle glass from my aunt’s shiva. Thankfully, it’s at her house. > > Robin Psh. My mother, for some unfathomable reason, buys those Jewish memorial candles in bulk and uses them to light up/keep bugs away from the deck in the summer as she sits out there and reads at night. **Miller** , your mom is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/17 "2005-11-13T05:54:02Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > My mom owes a genuine, powder-blue baby coffin. I think she plans to incorporate it into the nativity scene she sets up in her front hall every Christmas. It’s a whole new take on Nietzsche. ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/18 "2005-11-13T09:08:14Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > My mom owes a genuine, powder-blue baby coffin. I think she plans to incorporate it into the nativity scene she sets up in her front hall every Christmas. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Jesus Christ. Yeah, he’s probably involved. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/19 "2005-11-13T17:27:46Z")
Man, I was really hoping that someone had a shrunken head to share with us. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782/20 "2005-11-13T17:35:20Z")
My dad carries his kidney stones around with him in a pillbox. For luck or something. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-or-downright-disturbing-souvenirs/330782.md?page=2)