By Tim Binnall
A new museum celebrating the strange and unusual has opened its doors in Savannah, Georgia. The Savannah Paranormal Museum is the brainchild of Chris Soucy and Megan Jones, who describe the establishment as a place "where history, legend, and the supernatural collide." The site, which held its grand opening on May 1st, features an array of over 150 eerie artifacts that the curators have amassed from "private collections, museums, paranormal investigators, and hapless recipients of haunted items."
In addition to possibly possessed objects and exhibits on notoriously haunted spots in the city of Savannah, the museum also features "life-sized representations" of famed cryptids Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and "a mysterious shape-shifting spirit of the Lowcountry" known as a Plat Eye. Ultimately, Soucy told a local TV station, he hopes that visitors "will leave with a broader vision of the world, whether it be understanding how other people are influenced by objects or whether it is connecting your own spirituality with the idea that there is something more or something grander or beyond."
To that end, he mused that the location serves as "a place where you can explore that in a safe area where you don't have to worry about judgment if you get the heebie jeebies from something because these things are kind of designed to give you the heebie jeebies." The Savannah Paranormal Museum is open Thursdays through Sundays, with plans for spooky after-hours events and ghost investigations featuring local storytellers and researchers.