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In Obscura Antiques & Oddities a collector offers a mummified cat for sale, but is it valuable? Or just putrefying remains? Also: A playwright with a passion for straitjackets visits, while a seller brings in musket balls, only to discover their true origin is much stranger.
A model turned mortician comes to Obscura with a bizarre request; a shopper makes a purchase that puts Mike's gag reflex to the test; and Ersan thinks he has purchased fossil dinosaur feces for the store ... but the owners don't buy it.
At Obscura, Ryan is on the hunt for a high-end monkey skull to satisfy a picky new customer, Evan attempts to help a customer find the perfect item to prank his girlfriend, and Mike takes a big chance on an ancient medical concoction.
Ryan — passionate about the study of bones — tries to create an "exploded" (or Beauchene) skull, Evan meets a puppeteer in search of a prosthetic limb, and a customer has what appears to be a body in the trunk of his car.
A customer tries to sell what he believes is an ancient Egyptian artifact, but is it really a fake? Another brings in some of her "unique" artwork made from human nails and a customer brings in a medical bag that Mike can't wait to dig through.
In Obscura Antiques & Oddities, Mike and Ryan bet a client they can find a rare taxidermy piece: the elusive sloth. A seller brings a Victorian medical device that sparks fear in Cerd, and a pain artist wants Obscura's bloodletting kit to use on himself.
Ryan and Mike hunt for a vintage human skeleton to satisfy a rocker; a seller stops by Obscura with a failed Valentine's present, a pickled pig; and Evan tries out an old electro-shock therapy machine on herself to see if it works (it does).
Evan takes the challenge of finding the perfect gift for a customer's dentist, but after he questions her pick of a rare dental display, she finds that the hunt is going to be tougher than she anticipated. Later, the world's smallest escape artist has his eye on a coffin and hopes to get a discount if he gives the Obscura team a show. Finally, Mike and Evan get a lead on a huge collection of medical oddities from around the world, but after a long ride they find the owner may be more interested in show-and-tell than a sell.
A very particular collector stops by the shop with a sizzling request, sending Mike and Evan off on the hunt. The Cerd goes head-over-heels for a seller's two-bodied duck, but a doubtful Evan steps in for a closer look. Then, two magicians reveal the mysterious workings of a trick when they ask Ryan to create a very special piece of taxidermy for their show.
Thinking it's bound in human skin, a seller offers Obscura a bizarre book, which Mike excitedly brings it to a DNA lab to find out if it's the real deal. Upon arriving at a huge oddity collection downtown, Mike and Evan find that the prices are higher than they had anticipated, leading to some debate over the items each want to purchase. Later, an intriguing carnival performer offers to do a cutting-edge stunt with a light bulb for a store discount.
A seller stops by the shop to gather offers on what he claims to be a genuine shrunken human head; a composer of black metal looks to a dark inspiration for his craft; a performance artist offers up a concert on his unique trumpet.
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, shop regular Laura Flook stumbles upon a disturbing, mysterious tonic -- made with actual testicles. Meanwhile, when a customer can’t part with his beloved "pets," Ryan accepts a challenge to "rebuild" them from recently unearthed remains. He hits a serious snag when pieces of the formerly-purring pair are missing, forcing him to take some artistic liberties that the customer finds intriguing. Later, when a seller offers to part with what he calls a mummified human ear, Mike and Evan must call in their expert to find out if it’s the real deal.
When a seller brings three jars of grotesque, deformed pigs to Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike thinks they may be the perfect items for a restaurant owner up the street. When they are turned down for being "unappetizing" Mike and Ryan must scramble to find a replacement piece for the eatery. Meanwhile, Evan unexpectedly meets a kindred spirit: a customer who purchases one of her favorite, painstakingly restored pieces of Victorian hair art. And a mysterious artist who paints in his own blood makes a deal on a WWI blood transfusion kit, and takes Mike and Evan on a tour of his work.
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Jonathan Davis, of the band Korn, sends Mike and Evan on a hunt for some very specialized embalming equipment. They find a family-owned mortuary that has gone out of business, but will the funeral director be willing to let go of his family’s history? Meanwhile, a customer stops by in hopes of selling a huge piece of freaky Americana, but Ryan isn’t sure if Mike is going to appreciate the purchase. And Mike attempts to sell a Feejee Mermaid to a woman who has some amazing reptilian features of her own.
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, regular customer Edgar is looking for a very special desk lamp. When Evan presents him one made of a baboon’s paw, he feels it may be too spooky, even for this eccentric buyer. Then, Ryan gets a lesson in love a beautiful bone artist stops in to try to sell an articulated rooster skeleton. Ryan plans a romantic date, but things take a turn for the worse when he brings her to meet another bone artist -- and his flesh-eating beetles. Meanwhile, a seller tries to peddle teddy bears (made of her boyfriend’s sweaty belly button lint) to Mike and Evan.
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike and Evan are intrigued when a sleep-deprived customer stops in to unload a nightmarishly large bat -- and its huge fangs. Then, a buyer who turns century-old inventions into new, working technology with Victorian flair sends Mike and Evan on the hunt for a quack medical device that he can use as a video game controller. Later, Mike takes a chance purchasing a very creepy, mute "talking doll" created by Thomas Edison, then reunites the doll with its voice box to hear what it might have sounded like 100 years ago.
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike and Evan are speechless when they witness an artist boldly attempt to steal the store’s dust -- and then sell it back to them. Then, a high-end buyer wants Mike to create a massive piece of specialized taxidermy. Mike takes the challenge, but finds the cost to create it is way over the customer’s budget. Mike must decide whether to renege on the deal, or take a gamble on a potentially huge loss for the store. Later, an amazingly flexible grandmother falls in love with an adorable stuffed feline, and performs an incredible act of contortion to get a discount.
A bizarre medical specimen is sought for a photo shoot; an artist happens upon a corrective device; an impalement artist purchases a throwing knife once owned by Harry Houdini.
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities Evan and Ryan meet an artist whose favorite medium is bodily secretions -- but now she wants to go in a different direction, and needs something she can really sink her teeth into. Then, a sideshow performer requests a usable prop from Coney Island's heyday. Later, customers come to the shop with what they think is an old leather diving helmet, only to find that there is more to this helmet than they thought.
While on the hunt for items for Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike locates an old plasticized piece of human anatomy, and finds it to be more of an eye-popping experience than he expected. Then, Mike’s wife Kris recruits Evan and Ryan to find the perfect birthday gift for Mike. Later, Actress Chloe Sevigny wanders in, and finds a lewd old-time gag that she gets a rise out of.
Edgar Oliver is back at Obscura Antiques & Oddities looking to create a mad scientist laboratory in his new apartment. Then Mike attempts to birth a 2-bodied bird, and Ryan encounters a man trying to acquire body parts to use in his next movie.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities a patron tries selling 3 pickled hearts, but 1 may have a sinister past. Later Evan's friend Jonathan attempts hypnotizing her for a good deal, and a customer trades a peculiar item that has been traumatizing his daughter.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, a new customer finds himself trying to escape from a rare set of handcuffs and Mike & Ryan scramble to find the skeleton of a little racecar driver. Later a mother invests in a very hairy piece of shop real estate.
It's the oddest shopping season of the year at Obscura Antiques & Oddities. A yogi twists more than an arm for a discount, Mike & Evan dig up some (road) killer taxidermy for Laura's holiday party. The toe nail artist returns with a new product line.
It's a trip down memory lane with Mike & Evan as they relive the very best of everything odd from the first 2 seasons. It's a look back at the the curious customers, most amazing items and freakiest sideshow performances at Obscura Antiques & Oddities.
Sparks fly when Mike and Evan meet an evil clown and his power grinder; Ryan opens an old wound with Mike when he falls in love with the shop's new piece of freak taxidermy; a customer is left holding a smoking lung.
A horned patron looks to rid himself of a possessed dummy; Ryan must create a new preparation of exploded skull, but finds the process really stinks; a woman with 18-inch fingernails bonds with Evan over the prostate.
A customer receives a two-fer on a pickled pooch; Mike and Evan find a rare helmet designed to cure the insane; and a customer seeks an alternative cure for her nasal problems.
A customer brings in what appears to be an unexpected appendage from a Mummy, but is it the real deal? Then, a customer gets a crack to the skull when he tries out restraints made for a child, and a man stares Ryan down with a one eyed pig.
A burlesque performer has Mike and Evan seeing scars when she asks them to find a very special item. Then, Evan tests out a rare glass mortician table, and Ryan finds his inner Buddha when he hears the sweet sound of a human skull drum.
Mike and Evan lend a hand to legendary Toxic Avenger director, Lloyd Kaufman. Later, a chainsaw wielding performer flips out on the team, and a customer reveals a taboo piercing kit that isn't used to put holes in ears.
A boy wants to sell his hamster, but it's not what Mike and Evan were expecting. Then, Ryan and Monique get wrapped up in their second date -- and this time, they consult a sorceress. Later, Mike & Evan brace for Adventure.
Evan and Ryan must locate a body modification item for a tattoo shop. Then, Mike and Evan get drilled by a blockhead looking for a piece to stick up his nose, and a traveling museum finds a WWII parachute that didn't drop troops.
Mike considers buying a bizarre baboon that begs; a customer is looking to unload a creepy cauldron used in the practice of black magic; Ryan feels the heat when a performer nearly lights the shop on fire.
The Obscura Antiques & Oddities team goes to LA, where Mike & Evan are commissioned to find a macabre item for The Mistress of Darkness! Ryan stops by rock star Wes Borland's incredible skull collection, and later finds out that you can actually buy a brain!
A beautiful woman brings in bizarre jewelry made from some not so precious stones. Then Mike and Evan hunt for a mummified human body part, and a horror producer straps on an item made to stop her from eating her own hair.
A woman hires Mike and Evan to procure vintage autopsy equipment for her grandfather's body; a human pincushion visits.
Evan and Mike deliver eyeballs to a woman who makes art from animal tongues; Mike obtains a set of vampire fangs; Brent Hinds from the band Mastodon visits; Evan gets ready for a steampunk party.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, an artist flips for Evan's look and wants to create a life sized wax model of her. Then, Ryan calls an expert to figure out what a torturous looking item really is and Mike gets a very disturbing look at life as a sailor.
Obscura Antiques & Oddities heads to Texas when an astronaut sends Mike and Evan on a mission to keep his Austin home weird. The challenge puts the two in contact with a mummy, a man who lifts incredible weights and an unpredictable Black Scorpion.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities tensions mount as Ryan and Mike compete head-to-head in an annual taxidermy contest. Then, Judah Friedlander stops by and finds his calling with Mike & Evan. Later, a huge customer starts ripping things apart in the store.
Mike and Ryan conspire with Evan’s husband Johnny and a wax-working artist to bring a surprise twist to their Holiday Solstice party. Then, a tattoo fan needs a scary Secret Santa gift and Evan gets tongue-tied by an Evil Santa.
Mike and Evan take a look back at the best moments from Oddities. They recall the most amazing items they’ve ever come across, the incredible customers that bring them in & the freakiest sideshow performances!
Mike, Evan and Ryan journey to Los Angeles where they uncover the weird side of the city and meet with a unique variety of clientele; highlights include a piece of expert bird taxidermy, the world's fastest talking man and a bunny museum.
Mike, Evan and Ryan search for a centerpiece that is weird enough to celebrate their new space. Also: psychedelic medicine; a reanimating baby.
A collector who kept the titanium rods from his mother's spine after she died; a customer with an unusual therapy device.
An odd flower vase is pitched to Ryan. Also: A photographer wants to use a skull-camera hybrid to shoot Mike and Evan.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities an urban elf seeks a ouija board for her celluloid séance. Then Mike & Evan try to obtain an ear, nose & throat for a doctor who saved their customer's life, and Ryan learns why you don't stick your tongue out at strangers.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, gangrene attacks when a customer hires Mike & Evan to find something stranger than his scars. Then, a walking monster sees what it's like to be scared to death, and Ann exercises another dose of quack medicine.
At Obscura lizards run wild when a reptile specialist adopts a new pet. Then Mike & Evan are hired by a TV producer to breathe life into the undead for his zombie hunter series and a customer gets a token for his friend's parasite of an ex-wife.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities bar and taxidermy owner Nic hires Mike & Evan to find him a unique stuffed animal. Then a patron goes nuts after realizing he did not grab the bull by its horns, and a customer catches Ryan's ear while playing with saws.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities Mike bugs out seeking the ultimate insect for a customer's diorama project. Then Evan & Ryan pitch a TV host items that'll leave his audience cringing with glee & Ryan gives a steampunk captain a window to nether regions.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, anatomical blast from the past Slim Goodbody enlists Mike & Evan to find him an awesome educational prop. Then eyes pop when a customer seeks ocular inspiration, and Ryan braces for trouble as he meets a village idiot.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, a patron who tried selling a fake mummy phallus returns claiming now he has the real thing. A customer discovers her 9-banded armadillo is missing some bands. Ryan is confronted with a test of strength.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities Ryan's artistic protégé seeks the biggest skull he can find. Then Mike & Evan brace for the end of the world when a customer forces them to break out emergency supplies and another proves that a two-headed cat is real.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities Laura gets the shop scouring Philadelphia to decorate her vampire themed party. Then Mike & Evan meet a strange ventriloquist, a coffin dealing couple & experience what it was like to sit on Al Capone's porcelain throne.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities a quirky couple with a jaded collecting appetite hires Mike to recover something so rare it's extinct. Then Evan & Ryan join a real life batman's wildlife preservation fight, and Evan gets a dose of therapy from a microwave.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, Mike encounters a customer who loves blowing his own horn and Evan gets a little heartburn in the shop with Dr. Dave. Meanwhile, Audra & Wednesday of Loved to Death, stop by to get help finding an Egyptian item for a client
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, Mike & Evan take a hack at finding a horror prop for renowned B-movie producer Lloyd Kaufman. Then an Aussie buys a gift from six feet down under, and an exterminator tries to unload something from an infested funeral home.
At Obscura, Laura Flook shows how shopping for a baby can be like pulling teeth. Then, a painter looks to trade Ryan his elongated skull for something more mesmerizing, and a doctor diagnoses one of Mike & Evan's most mysterious items.
Mike and Ryan have a bloody good time tracking down pieces for a Jack the Ripper-themed haunted house. Then a customer sells Mike a mysterious specimen that’s more gooey than hooey, and Evan trades for twisted twins.
Evan goes through X-rays and ear abuse before settling on the perfect anniversary gift for her husband Johnny. Then the bad nurse is back, seeking another eye-gouging gag, and a mentalist gets into Ryan and Mike's heads.
The Obscura Antiques & Oddities gang heads to the Big Easy where Evan meets the bassist for White Zombie & a puppet group rumored to do human sacrifice. Then Ryan & Mike meet zombies of their own, leading them to a spirit whisperer & ancient sarcophagus.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities a pro wrestler gets the shock of his life and Ryan brokers a deal with a competitor to get a vintage hair removal apparatus. Later, Mike & Evan go nuts hunting for the ultimate symbol of masculinity to please a customer.
Mike encounters a singing siren hunting for something of the sea variety and Ryan takes on a huge challenge, articulating a full-size skeleton. Then a surprise visit by Gwar may lead to a purchase of a one eyed creature.
A customer asks Mike and Evan to breathe life into his creepy 100 year old automaton and Ryan meets an artist needing disgusting props. Later a man who chased Mike with a chainsaw reappears and wants something from him and Ryan.
An explosion shakes the shop when Mike gets a hold of an old detonator; Ryan is contracted to articulate the skeleton of a chimera.
It’s holiday time so Mike, Evan and Ryan hold a festive show & tell dinner party for their quirkiest customers, including Robot Mike, Laura Flook and Andy Animal. But first an evil clown jams some metal into his face and back.
A customer tries to sell a baby he found while dumpster diving and a wrestler wants something to intimidate his opponents, so Mike goes on the hunt for an item so disturbing it leaves his customer tongue-tied.
Ryan cooks up an alternative recipe to make a shrunken head replica. Then Mike gets the shock of a lifetime when he sticks his pencil where it doesn’t belong, and a couple tries to sell Evan an antique skin grafter.
The Obscura gang heads to the Big Easy where Evan meets the bassist for White Zombie and a puppet group rumored to do human sacrifice. Then Ryan and Mike meet zombies of their own, leading them to a "spirit whisperer."
A pro wrestler gets the shock of his life and Ryan brokers a deal with a competitor to get a vintage hair removal apparatus. Later, Mike and Evan go nuts hunting for the ultimate symbol of masculinity to please a customer.
At the shop, Ryan’s friend arrives to sell a mysterious organ he cannot name. Then Mike and Evan head to one of the largest flea markets in the US when a customer hires them to decorate his converted jail house in Salem, Mass.
The Obscura team takes their business to Chicago when a world-class collector requests death-related items. The team soon finds a Second City filled with cadaver tools, off-the-wall wildlife blood and head-splitting sideshow acts.
A British customer tries selling Ryan a kettle that definitely doesn't pour tea. Then an artist enlists Evan to find medical instruments for his insane mechanical sculptures and Mike and Ryan encounter an elephant in the room.
A customer asks Mike and Evan to breath life into his creepy 100-year-old automaton, and Ryan meets an artist needing disgusting props. Later a man who chased Mike with a chainsaw reappears and wants something from him and Ryan.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, Mike encounters a singing siren hunting for something of the sea variety & Ryan takes on a huge challenge, articulating a full-size skeleton. Then a surprise visit by Gwar may lead to a purchase of a one eyed creature.
An explosion rocks the shop when Mike Sullivan gets his hands on an old detonator. Then Sean Lennon contracts Ryan to articulate the skeleton of a chimera, and Mike and Evan get an extreme dose of oxygen therapy.
