The most cursèd home I have ever stayed in
Taxidermy EVERYWHERE!
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When I was in high school, my cousin got married in the mountains, and that’s lovely. Good for her! She had the charming idea of renting a house for the family members to stay in together for the weekend, and that was a lovely plan in theory.
The problem was the rustic home itself, which the confused maid of honor described as a cross between “a taxidermist’s office, a Renaissance fair, and a flea market.”
![](https://www.friendmendations.com/content/images/public/images/43c35c73-4c27-44ee-997a-5fff43209c17_604x453.jpeg)
Here are some of the things we encountered:
a fox mauling a bird
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a bellowing moose next to a portrait of hunting dogs mauling monks
![](https://www.friendmendations.com/content/images/public/images/388a2440-a3fe-41fe-8920-95d01fadb28a_453x604.jpeg)
an iron dog riding a unicycle while fishing
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a plate depicting a horse beating a man with a hammer
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peeakboo dead bear peering from the second story loft
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demonic rocking horse
![](https://www.friendmendations.com/content/images/public/images/4333391b-4998-49e1-98df-78191df42f4b_604x453.jpeg)
an office for a bear in a hat, hard at work
![](https://www.friendmendations.com/content/images/public/images/af31e1d1-91ef-49d5-98b7-44843545898c_604x453.jpeg)
(he was tame)
![](https://www.friendmendations.com/content/images/public/images/d65b99a8-517f-402c-aead-3f6077ad1645_604x403.jpeg)
decapitated deer in the backyard
![](https://www.friendmendations.com/content/images/public/images/23c89778-7bef-4cc5-a6af-e1fbe231d539_604x453.jpeg)
bear ottoman
![](https://www.friendmendations.com/content/images/public/images/4edc5742-3491-4fc3-a831-a60c1cfacad3_604x453.jpeg)
flat cat
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jackelope and trompe l’oeil books
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pheasant arranged especially to create the illusion that it might swoop down upon the bed’s inhabitant in the night and peck her eyes out
![](https://www.friendmendations.com/content/images/public/images/a0585984-c001-4c61-864f-9234c21e4141_604x403.jpeg)
skulls n’ Santa
![](https://www.friendmendations.com/content/images/public/images/6e2061db-cb6e-422e-8f6d-5ff7b6249b0b_453x604.jpeg)
table 4 elves
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reclining gent with slaughtered deer and curious little pup sniffing its corpse
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patriotic fire hydrant
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It was a weird time.