Top 5 Creepiest Museums in London

Calling all horror fans who love to feel freaked out or disgusted by terrifying things. Have I got the museums for you! If you love the atmosphere of repulsion and fright (or find it funny watching those who don't) then listen up. In these places, you're able to sense the spirits that lurk behind and the meanings and emotions attached to every object. And one last thing: good luck with the nightmares!

NUMBER 5: THE CLINK MUSEUM

http://www.clink.co.uk/

If old-fashioned torture methods and dingy prison cells are words that prick up your ears then here if where you need to go. The prison dates back as far as 1144 meaning many lives were trapped behind these walls for many, many years leaving their souls behind. One example of torture equipment that is on display is the Scold's Bridle. This was similar to an iron muzzle but for women. It clung to her face and projected into her mouth with spikes to inflict pain whenever she went to speak. This torture method was used when a wife was a suspected witch. This is not the only piece of torture equipment in the museum, so if this interests you then you'll need to go there to find more.

NUMBER 4: THE OLD OPERATING THEATRE 

http://www.thegarret.org.uk/

Back in the days before local anesthetic, there was a time when operations were... more painful to say the least (just think for a moment: Samuel Pepys survived removing kidney stones.) One thing I found was that the old-fashioned pregnancy test was by injecting a woman's urine into a female frog's hind legs and if the frog became pregnant it would show that the woman was pregnant! So if you ever wondered what their equipment looked like or their toxic 'medicines' were like then this is the perfect place to go.

NUMBER 3: THE HUNTERIAN MUSEUM

http://www.hunterianmuseum.org/

This is probably one of the most grossest museums out of the five. It has preserved foetuses of all kinds of mammals at all stages - even human if I remember correctly! This place is not for the squeamish. It has body parts of all kinds of animals dating back to the Victorian era where X-Ray were not invented and the only way seeing inside was by cutting it and taking a look!

NUMBER 2: THE JACK THE RIPPER MUSEUM                                                                           

/http://www.jacktherippermuseum.com/

Although controversial when it first came about for potentially glamorising the deaths of women this place is still creepy as hell. I don't personally agree with the idea that this museum 'glamorising' this, however. It focuses more on the victims' lives prior to their death. Which makes this museum haunting. The rooms are set out how they would have been back in 1888: the detective's corkboard and what a victim Mary Kelly's bedroom would have been like. The thing I found creepiest about this museum was that in the victim's bedroom they were playing a tape of a woman singing a song on repeat. Supposedly, this was the last song Mary Kelly sang as she merrily walked home from the pub drunk. You can really get a sense of her soul that you couldn't just be read about her in a book.

NUMBER 1: MUSEUM OF CREEPY CURIOSITIES

For more information about the museum click here

If the Hunterian Museum was the grossest museum out of the five then this is the strangest, deranged and CREEPIEST out of the five. This place has objects from taxidermy monkey mermaids to condoms used by the Rolling Stones. It does not only have creepy objects but a lot of sexual objects like penis ornaments and guides such as 'Anal Riders' which may make the picture below a bit clearer. But this does not make this place not creepy. OH HELL NO. It's terrifying. Life-size puppets that looked as though someone was inside waiting for you to get close and pounce on you. I loved it. Also, it is a bar which makes the outing complete.

The sign on the door of the museum 

There are the top five places in that have made me shit my pants. I hope you enjoyed reading about and going to these freaky like worlds planted in London. I recommend going to all of them! Good luck sleeping tonight.

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Delicious Lamb Pinwheel Recipe

If you fancy trying something new, experimental and elegant here is the meal for you. This will impress your guests at dinner or encourage the kids to learn how to cook. This fun recipe in parts can be a bit tricky but the taste at the end makes it all worth it. I paired this with sweet potato mash and gravy. Yet, the lamb pinwheels would also suit being with new potatoes or salad. Maybe even stir fried spinach and chestnut mushrooms. Whatever takes your fancy!

Ingredients:
- Lamb mince (I bought a 500g pack yet not all of it was used)
- 4 cloves of garlic (chopped up)
- 1 red onion (Sliced and diced into small pieces)
- A lamb stock cube
- Fresh mint (chopped up)
- Puff pastry
- Little bit of corn flour
- Little bit of plain flour
- 1 egg

1) Soften the red onion in a frying pan with olive oil in it then add the chopped garlic.

2) Next, stir in the lamb mince and fry it until it turns brown.

3) If you wish you can drain the oil that will come out of the lamb - yet this is optional.

4) Add some boiling water (I believe I added half a pint) which has lamb stock dissolved into it. Also, add the fresh mint.

5) Fry the lamb for twenty minutes.

6) Thicken the lamb with cornflour and water to make the mince stick as rolling it into the pastry will now be easier.

7) Spray a thin layer of plain flour on a surface and roll out the puff pastry. Make sure it is rectangle shaped and half a pinkie thick. Kind of reminds me of the shape of toast.

8) Next, put a thin layer of the mince mix on top - I didn't end up using all my mince mix.

9) Roll it upwards carefully - this is the tricky and messy bit!

10) Using saw motions cut the roll of lamb mince and pastry an inch at a time. You may want to wait until the lamb is cold as I didn't and the pastry melted inside making it messier. Once you cut an inch off lay it on a greased baking tray.

11) Beat an egg and then spread it over the pastry to get a golden brown colour once cooked.

12) Cook the lamb pinwheels for twenty minutes at 180ºC

And then you're done! I hope you enjoy and feel free to comment below if you did!

Pet Sematary - A Book Review

Despite the fact that this is now my favourite book that I've read by Stephen King, it is evil. It ripped my heart apart. It will rip yours too. And it is for the people who are dead brave. King picks at the natural instinct inside of all of us to protect small children. Then he makes us face a raw and realistic nightmare with a hallucinogenic twist. Even King, himself, finds this story to be his scariest yet. 

Death is an obvious theme of this book as it teaches us that sometimes the dead are better off staying dead. This is no zombie story in spite of the way it sounds it is far more than anything of that category. The time taken to get to know these characters is lengthy but once they face hardship, as part of the family, so do you. So prepare to laugh, cry and feel as though insanity is calling your name.

The further I got into this book the more I did not trust the narrator, Louis Creed. In the first section of the book, Louis' dreams and reality are merging together. The divide between the two gets blurred. So as I read the rest, I thought to myself: is he half dreaming all this or is it really happening? 

I loved this book so much that I wanted the ending to be longer seeing as the rest of the book was building up to it. Nonetheless, the ending was a tsunami of emotions and worth the read. If you want to read this, which I recommend, then I have a challenge for you. In the book, I found two references to his other books. See if you can spot them. 

I dare you.