Cyn, you reminded me of something else. I have a full general surgery tray of instruments as well as three sizes of rib spreaders. A friend who worked in a different hospital than I, “acquired” them and gave them to me when I retired. I don’t know why. I’ve never used them.
Oh, and I have a piece of wood 3 feet long from a tree that came down in a mud slide a few years ago.
I do have a question for those of you that mentioned various rocks. Why would having rocks in your house be unusual? I have rocks everywhere, some are polished, some are not. Big ones and little ones. Do you mean… I’m odd? 
I received a spindle of the bannister from what was my grandparents’ house for Christmas soon after the house was eminent-domained and demolished. Why did I receive the spindle? Because I got my head stuck between two of them when I was 2 years old. I was given the same spindle they had to cut out and then reglue (which was there right to the end afterward) in place. I also got my head stuck between the leg and the divider of the dining room table in the same house, but I sadly had no room for the table…
A glass crab, the limbs are orange, the body is a clear spiral.
Photosonix Muse- A small device with headphones and glasses. LEDs mounted on the inside of the glasses flash in certain patterns based on the program you select. Various tones come out of one earphone or the other. This is supposed to alter your brainwaves
Wire recorder- funky looking machine which records sound on wire.
Most of automatic salesman- you step on the pressure mat and the little metal box gives a speech about the product. I’m missing the mat. But, we have a pretty good idea where it is and it is promised to me.
A calculator designed to look like an abacus
A Heath Kit flight navigation computer (looks like a colorful, scientific calculator of the seventies)
An elf bank, which due to the horrendously bad paintjob, looks like it is just waiting for a moment of weakness so it can eat you.
Bottle of Orbitz- that soda from the nineties that was clear with globs in it.
A four foot tall walking staff, the outside is clear plastic wrapped in frosted contact paper. A long string of LEDS run down the inside. The power is turned on and off by tapping the base on the floor. I need to make extensive repairs to this. It is not currently in working order.
A microscopic space fleet
Fluff
Peril sensitive sunglasses
Orders for the demolition of Earth
A button bearing the words “Don’t Panic” in large, friendly letters.
The final stage Thanatotropic emitter from a 1920’s Style Death Ray
<snip Doc Cathode’s extensive list>
I’d just like to be the first to note that, having met you, I’m not at all surprised by anything on this list…
And that reminds me that I forgot to note the gaylien that the good Doc gifted me and supervenusfreak with at the last Gettysdope amongst my weird stash…
Hey I have one of those too, well of my head not yours. That was all I really had to offer to the world of weird stuff. I guess it kinda lost its luster now 
Now I have to think of something else. This may take a while…
Well I suppose I have a supply of liquid latex and vasaline.
That could count, but really who doesnt own a jar of liquid latex 
Special tool for making twisted splices in stranded electrical transmission cables
1938 AAA Northeastern US Tour Book
Knuckles O’Toole and the Honky-Tonk Piano (monoural LPs-volumes 1-3)
Three Heathkit color console tvs, one of which works, and numerous tubes
Hallicrafters SX-42
Exakta VX-IIa SLR body, made in East Germany (Dresden) bottom stamped “USSR occupied”
Japanese wooden box with intricate picture inlay on all sides-opening the compartments requires manipulation of sliding panels in specific order
Boxes full of service manuals, microfiche and TSBs for Mosler, Diebold, LeFebure, Olivetti, Docutel and other makes of banking equipment
Antique vault door and safe timelocks
Tiny suede change purse in shape of lederhosen full of european coins. It was a gift from the nice elderly neighbor lady when I was a tiny peep. It has a Dr. Denton style fanny flap affixed with two snaps-if you unsnap the flap, inscribed beneath in German is the admonition “Don’t be so inquisitive”
Three 3" long titanium screws which were removed from my right leg
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Boy, I don’t know how I can compete with a lot of these items! About the most unusual thing I own is a gramophone horn polisher. It’s the size of a blackboard eraser; a block of wood that has had what looks like a section of carpet attached to it at either end. The top of the wood block has various Victor advertisements on it, and the name and address of the dealer who sold the gramophones and the polisher - in Toronto, I believe.
A cousin of mine inherited several wire recordings. I helped her find a place on the internet that (for a surprisingly low price) copied the recordings to CDs. The quality was pretty good. What makes it strange is that, while most of the recordings featured family members singing or playing instruments, one of the spools contained a couple of Hitler’s speeches.
I don’t have anything nearly that strange. I did inherit an interesting object from my father, who found it when we were cleaning out my grandfather’s garage. It’s a flat, heavy metal disc, 1.5 inches tall with a 5 inch diameter. It was probably used as a small anvil, but there aren’t many wear marks on it, and there’s no indication of where it came from.
I have an original Ford Edsel promotional brochure, complete with mechanical specs. It appears to have been meant for distribution at a dealership, but the place where the dealer’s address was supposed to be stamped isn’t marked. I have a similarly detailed (and unmarked) brochure for the Willys-Overland Aero. (I inherited the former, and purchased the latter for $5.)
Two of my wisdom teeth are in a small plastic container under a small table in my bedroom. The other two are still in my mouth, and don’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon.
In a ceramic “Precious Moments” container on my dresser is a beautifully machined stainless steel object that I have been told is probably part of a surveyor’s plumb bob. It was found in one of my Jeep’s tires after a blowout.
I still have my 8-bit NES (the original case style) hooked up to my TV, along with about 20 games. Everything still works, and I play it often.
I have an impressive knife that I inherited from my father, who had probably inherited it from his father. Not much is known about the history of the knife, but I’ve been told that my grandfather obtained it in Korea or Vietnam.
That could be a studio original! That is, a recording made live in the studio, for delayed re-broadcast later! They did that with Hitler’s broadcast speeches, partly for security reasons.
Secure this, & contact an expert, perhaps at the Smithsonian.
If you give me a description of it or, better yet, post a picture, I may be able to tell you something about it.
But if it had been of my head, wow… how freaky would THAT be!
A 70’s Smith-Corona typewriter, not sure what model. I think I also have a couple ribbon cartridges lying around, too – that thing gave me hours of entertainment when I was little, typing up what I fondly imagined were priceless documents or the next Great American Novel. I was a two-finger typist, though. That smell of ink, metal, and ozone is something that’ll always send me back. I insisted that I had to have it, so now it’s sitting in the back of my closet at home.
A wee wooden idol thingy with a detachable ‘sword’, about the size of my thumb – I got it from a friend of mine who went on vacation somewhere. Unfortunately, when I saw it, I laughed like a drain for several minutes straight. Because the position of the sword was rather, ahem, suggestive.
My dad has an old microscope that he used to use for his office (he’s a GP). It comes with its own wooden case. Again, hours of entertainment with a cheap set of pre-prepared science slides with assorted bits and bobs of plants and the odd fly or two. I think that’s still in the shed out back at my parents’, and they certainly won’t object if I abscond with it.
A complete collection of “My Book House” books, of an age old enough to still include a very un-PC version of Little Sambo being chased up a tree by two tigers that subsequently turned into ghee. I really need to figure out how to get those up here without paying my left kidney for shipping…
Trinitite : a piece of sand that was fused into glass at the trinity atomic bomb test.
So that’s where it went!!!
Two small wooden statue of men with pot bellies, big butts, and the heads of dogs.
Small wooden bas relief depicting a robed man. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be a saint, a Biblical figure, or wizard.
Clay pipe-Aztec, Inca etc one of those. A man is on one edge of the bowl. The stem protrudes from between his legs. The end of the stem is not the head of a penis, but the head of a snake.
Bronze statuete. This looks to be Olmec. I don’t know if it’s authentic or a knock off. My mother bought it a garage sale.
An African fertility figurine. It’s a toothpick holder.
My various toy and plush bats are not unusual in themselves. But I do have them clustered together, hanging upside down on a corner of the hallway ceiling
A pair of shoes containing pop out rollerskates. These are not the current Heelies, but a design from several years back.
A unicycle- It needs repair. I still haven’t learned how to ride it.
Lava Lamp
Two plasma balls
Ball O Fire (the filiment sways rapidly)
Cyclone lamp
Lighted Bates Motel sign
Hmmm. Strangest? Probably these:
A cannibal fork from Fiji. One of the small ones for eating brains and eyeballs.
A sitting kangaroo statue designed to hold an open bottle of wine in his pouch.
A short sword made in the Philippines from the leaf spring of a jeep.
Wow! I hadn’t considered that; I’ll contact my cousin as soon as I can.
Here is a picture. Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
A transparent plastic ear signed by David Lynch right after Blue Velvet came out. He laughed and enjoyed signing it.
A plastic fish signed by Kurt Vonnegut. He was perplexed, but signed it anyway, twice, too shaky on the odd surface the first time.
Stuffed toad playing a little trumpet, from Mexico.
A collection of plastic Frilled Lizards, a popular motif 15 years ago for toy reptiles.
Jars of fossilized shark’s teeth.
Jars of white buttons, that my forebears saved on their move out West late 1800’s. So poignant to me: that buttons were that precious, and they saved them for making new clothes. Some are well-worn old shell buttons. I take em out occassionally, and rub them between my fingers, thinking how my forebears fingers buttoned up simply, every day. Nice connection mojo.
A costume from some African country; a blouse and long skirt, bright blue with printed patterns, starring a photo of a chief politico, circa 1960’s, horn-rimmed glasses, with the banner above the photo print "Happy Birthday President (last name, can’t remember, might be Taubman) It’s really weird looking.Wore it a couple of times.
A strange 11x14 sepia toned photo in an antique oval frame. Two photos, taken in South America, looks like 1900. One photo is of two muy macho looking SA native guys, toasting each other with large steins of some milky looking alc liquid in front of a tavern, with a third guy totally passed out standing against the bar wall. Second photo is of three Native people, plus baby, in front of these weird thatched roof mud hut buildings that look like giant mushrooms. All professionally framed, old, with sealed backing, so I guess it was family photos. Very entrancing.
Sausage Creature That scabies description was amazing!
Doc Cathode You have led an intricate life of collection.
Your knife is a souvenir knife. Some were made by GI’s, others by natives; but they are to be found across all theaters where GI’s spent any amount of time. Typically, they are made from scavenged materials, regardless of who the artisans might be. Blades are quite often fabricated from vehicle leaf springs. In my possession, I have a pair of short swords from WWII Philippenes that are made from deuce and a half springs, for example. Large numbers of souvenir knives came out of the various Asian conflicts, so they aren’t worth staggering sums of money, generally. Knowing what little you’ve been able to supply, the example you have looks more like a WWII-style example than something from the Vietnam era. When you say grandpa brought it home from Korea, could that mean the Korean war?