Zak Bagans, the star of Ghost Adventures, recently paid $2800 for a “25 gallon cauldron” which Ed Gein – yes, that Ed Gein – used to discard his victim’s entrails. According to TMZ, “The thing had been sitting in a Wisconsin woman’s home — used as a flower pot — ever since Gein’s 1984 death in prison.” Read that sentence again. Did you notice how “flower pot” just popped up out the blue like The Exorcist’s seminal “we-hate-Tubular-Bells” soundtrack? Someone actually planted roses/daisies/ghosties in one of the scariest murder-pots in history.
A souvenir is defined as “a thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event”, i.e. “Let’s spend a billion dollars on a postcard!” Souvenirs are poignant reminders of special times gone bye-bye. They come in all shapes and forms: dusty postcards from grandma, shimmering snow globes from Uncle Oompah, an American flag from a friend in China, a crystal ball from Madame Bob (Celeb Dirty Laundry’s resident psychic), and even a serial killer’s cauldron- Wait. What?
The local botanical club must have died from laughter when they found out about Miss Daisy’s little secret. What a bunch of old leather-faced backstabbers! Long story short: Miss Daisy died and left the cauldron behind. In a basement. On Halloween. In Texas. Where her son found it. He cried “Curse!”, because murder-pots are known to be cursed, and we all know what a curse does to the cursed, e.g. the entire Grimaldi family. Since no one knows how to remove a curse, Miss Daisy’s son had no other choice but to sell the damn thing to the highest bidder.
Zak Bagans (bay-guns/bah-guns/bay-geins) is an avid collector of all things scary. He calls the cauldron a “nice conversation piece for guests”, because Zak’s guests hate talking about politics and religion.
Flowers for Algernon just took a really weird philosophical turn. As the saying goes, “Never judge a pot by its flowers.”
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