The Witch's Door - Ryan Matthew Cohn and Regina Marie Rossi

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this special spooky season episode, Hallie interviews Ryan Matthew Cohn (Oddities) and Regina Marie Rossi (Oddities Flea Market) about their upcoming book The Witch's Door. They talk exploded skulls, provenance, ethical collecting and more! The book is part personal history and part examination of specific objects from their massive oddity and curiosity collection.

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0:00.0	Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
0:18.0	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has
0:24.1	gripped millions of people throughout the ages.
0:27.3	I am one of those people.
0:29.7	My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.
0:43.7	As part of our celebration of spooky season, the MCP is proud to present a special interview with Ryan Matthew Cohen and Regina Marie Rossi, curators of a vast collection of
0:49.6	oddities and antiquities, the mines behind the oddities flea market, and authors of the witch's door,
0:56.1	oddities and tales from the esoteric to the extreme. The book, which is a combination memoir
1:01.7	and exploration of their vast collection, comes out on October 1st. I'd also like to apologize
1:07.6	in advance for my voice. It's spring in Melbourne, and with all the weird and beautiful flowers popping up, the pollen count is insane.
1:15.9	Without further ado, let's dive into it.
1:20.1	Hello.
1:21.5	Hello.
1:22.8	Where are you at home?
1:24.2	Australia, rest.
1:25.4	I'm in Melbourne, yeah, Australia.
1:29.6	Welcome to the Morpid Curiosity podcast. Thank you. Thanks for having us. You have a very beautiful podcast voice. Oh, thank you.
1:36.5	Actually, do you, Regina, remember contacting me six years ago? You sent me a DM.
1:43.1	What did I say?
1:44.9	You said, I think you were on a road trip and you said you were listening to the podcast
1:49.7	and then you were using it to get to sleep.
1:52.6	That sounds about right?
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