I have no idea what this is supposed to be....

.. meaning, is this a museum? Is it an art exhibit? Or.. Is it something that was crafted from Hell to scare people into leading good, wholesome lives??

My money is on C.

Welcome to Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature.

This was probably the strangest, somewhat creepiest place I have been in years. And it isnt even supposed to BE creepy. It's the kind of place that when you leave, you feel like a curse has been put on you.

Whenever you go to a museum full of dead animals, and the things that MADE said animals dead, you come prepared to experience the ever present "all these dead things freak me out a little" vibe. However, myself being a meat eating man, the sight of taxidermy has never really bothered me. Most of the animals have been dead well over 50 years, and I guess its better to have them used for education at this point, than just thrown away, or done with whatever you would DO with a 9 foot long stuffed Moose.

It's when people create oddities, henceforth known as "Things that should not be" with these animals that I get creeped out.. Some of the things were normal.. Like C and this Polar bear....

However.. Some things I know will haunt me in my sleep until the day I die...

And when you look up from the above mentioned thing, you see THIS staring down at you....

This is literally the ceiling of the small room that the above monstrocity is kept in

To fully put this into perspective. the first exhibit is an "installation piece" which is a dark room with 4 movies playing.. All black and while. It was one of those " What are we inside of" experiences that chilled Courtney and I substantially. I took a video...  Let me break it down..

Video 1 - Thats not me moving the camera.. It was a jerky video of I THINK a treehouse...  Lots of zooms.

Video 2 - A locked off shot of trees? Thats all it was.

Video 3 - A slow motion loop of I think a dieing boar.

Video 4  - A small TV in a corner playing night vision footage of a hunter walking around at night.

Pay close attention to the music.. That was BLARING and was really intense.. It also echoed throughout the whole musuem.

Next was the gun and painting room. Literally every painting was of one animal killing and eating another one..

THIS thing was in a room dedicated to unicorns (???).. This is a creepy man made of what I assume is tree bark, with Antlers,... behind chicken wire. (where I assume an antlered tree-man should be kept)

Here comes the head room. There were no less than 200 heads in this room. See the picture below.. Try and spot the white wild boar.. (Hint.. Lower Right) This is important for later!

Other side of head room

OK. so remember that white boar head. Being of the last name "HAM" I have always found a connection to my 4 legged namesakes. So I thought, "Wow.. this is a cool boar head, I should take a photo!" Well, I walk over and take a photo, and then THIS happens....

There are over 200 heads in this room, and I choose the one that is possessed by the devil. Story of my life..

(You might not be able to hear it in the video, but aside from Oinking, it started yelling at us in scary 'record playing backwards' voices.)

Being a life long horror fan, I have been to all kinds of things and places that are actually built for the sole purpose of creeping you out, and NONE of them have ever had the effect that this place had on me! 

C and I left this place laughing and "Oh My God"-ing like we had just spent the day at an amusement park! Fun stop at an out-of-the-norm museum that most visitors to Paris probably never think twice about!