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KIDS CORNER
BY TASHI MCQUEEN For Harford Magazine
Prepare to be amazed
First Call Paranormal
& Oddities
Museum full of
weird amusement
Looking for a fun new activity
for the family this summer? You
may want to try the First Call
Paranormal & Oddities Museum,
coming to Havre de Grace.
The museum intertwines geologically relevant fun facts with
well-known fair attractions.
Locally-tailored exhibits will
allow visitors to learn more
about Havre de Grace’s own
poisonous resident — Hattie
Stone — who purportedly killed
five members of her family using
strychnine; evidence of Chessie,
the Chesapeake Bay sea monster;
and the origins of the mysterious
Ouija Board, which was patented
by a Bel Air native and produced
in Baltimore.
Step into the past with the
museum’s historic relics, such
as a lock of hair from Harford
County’s own infamous presidential assassin, John Wilkes
Booth, and a letter handwritten
by Baltimore’s master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe — who,
just days before his death, was
found on a train passing through
Havre de Grace.
“Not your typical museum,”
their slogan reads.
From the one-time Guinness
World Record champion for the
biggest rubber band ball, to the
horrifying Devil Man, who once
graced the cover of The Weekly
World News, you can expect the
unexpected.
If you want a sneak peak,
visit 2014 N. Washington St., for
a weird and wonky display of
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Brian Goodman, founding member of First Call Paranormal & Oddities Museum, with the Washington vampiress in a
coffin with cloves of garlic. The museum will open this summer. PHOTO BY KIM HAIRSTON
what’s to come. In it, you can
view artifacts and print ads for
acts like the “South Sea” dancing
girls and “Korianna” the snake
charmer.
“Not only will we be offering
packages and specials for hosting
birthday parties, weddings and
other special events in the museum, but we are also specifically
designing some of our exhibits
to be of interest to visitors of
all ages. It will be weirder than
you can imagine,” said Brian
Goodman, founding member of
First Call Paranormal & Oddities
Museum.
“We’ve got a stockpile of
mermaids and monsters that
are getting antsy to make their
public debut,” said Goodman.
First Call Paranormal & Oddities
Museum
202 Congress Ave, Havre de Grace,
1-844-463-3489,
info@odditiesmuseum.com,
odditiesmuseum.com