The Supernatural Theme is one of the most flavorful among those available in Two Point Museum. Between the haunted hotel setting of Wailon Lodge, the wide assortment of Cursed Objects, and the ability to actually display real ghosts for your guests, it’s possible to make your museum the creepiest place in Two Point County.
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Lots of the Supernatural Exhibits are unsettling, to say the least, but if you dig a little deeper there’s often more than just a quick gag behind the items on display. We did some digging and found the legends that make Two Point Museum’s hauntings so effective.
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Faulty Phone
Voices Of The Dead
Any time a new technology takes hold, you can bet that unease with the change will manifest as ghost stories sooner or later. Lost souls have supposedly been trapped in radios, then telephones, then TVs, and of course the Internet and smartphones. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of urban myths and ghost stories about getting a call from someone who was supposedly dead, or getting a broadcast from beyond the grave.
While “haunted phones” like the one in Two Point Museum are a staple of Halloween attractions and available with prerecorded messages online, one of earliest telephone-related ghost stories dates back to 1880. The town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, got its first telephone line to the state capital in Little Rock; the technology was still brand new, having only been invented four years prior.
Exposure to the elements caused a carbon buildup on the telephone cable, which allowed it to pick up sounds nearby and transmit them along with the signal that it was intended to send. As a result, people reported hearing voices, clapping, and fiddles playing over the phone. This led to the belief that they were hearing the sounds of the dead, when in reality it was just people going about their daily lives between Little Rock and Hot Springs. That didn’t stop Hot Springs (or “Haunt” Springs, as it branded itself,) from becoming a tourist destination for ghost enthusiasts to this day.
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Helping Hand
That’s One Big Monkey
Based on its name, the Helping Hand could be a reference to the infamous legend of the Monkey’s Paw. According to the tale, the mummified paw grants wishes – one for each finger, curling into a fist as it’s used up – but never in the way that the user intends, and always at a terrible, irreversible price.
Despite having made its way into the cultural zeitgeist, The Monkey’s Paw isn’t a traditional tale or fireside legend. It’s a short story by English writer W.W. Jacobs, and it was first published in the magazine Harper’s Monthly in 1902. In the story, a middle-aged British couple come into possession of the paw, and wish for an extra £200. The next day, their son is killed in an accident at work, and his employer agrees to pay them that exact amount in damages.
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Haunted Portrait
The Oldest Trope In The Book
There are a ton of supposedly cursed or haunted paintings, to the point where Wikipedia has an entire list on the topic. Whether the artistry gives you the feeling of being watched, or misfortune seems to follow a painting wherever it goes, there’s no shortage of cursed canvases.
The most famous such artwork in fiction is the titular Picture Of Dorian Gray, from the 1891 novel by Oscar Wilde. While the novel itself was, especially at the time of publication, a shocking story of murder and debauchery, it’s best known for its ending, where it’s revealed that Dorian has a portrait of himself that ages instead of him; when he destroys it, he becomes a withered corpse in an instant.
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Of the real-life “haunted portraits” referenced on the list above, the one closest to Two Point Museum’s face-shifting painting of Jacques O’Phantom is also the oldest. According to legend, a portrait of General Bernardo de Galvez, the namesake of Galveston, Texas, sometimes appears with a skull for a face if taken with flash photography, or if the General’s ghost isn’t politely asked for his permission before the picture is taken.
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Haunted Toilet
Red Or Blue?
The Haunted Toilet in Two Point Museum doesn’t directly reference any specific legend, but if you’re familiar with Japanese urban myths, or you’ve played the excellent World Of Horror, then you know at least one ghost that haunts the porcelain throne. Aka Manto, or “Red Cloak,” is a Japanese schoolyard legend dating back to at least the 1930s.
According to the tale, while you’re doing your business – usually in a specific, haunted stall – Aka Manto will appear and ask if you want red paper, or blue paper. The question itself is a trap, and he’s asking you to choose the manner of your death; red means stabbing, while blue means strangulation. The way to survive Aka Manto’s trial is to simply ignore him or refuse his question outright. Given the circumstances, you can probably be forgiven if you’re in a rush to leave and forget to wash your hands this one time.
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Haunted Doll
Don’t Say Anything Mean About Robert
There’s no shortage of creepy dolls in the world, from the Chuckys and Annabelles of cinema to the not-necessarily-haunted-but-definitely-very-creepy doll village of Nagoro. Whether it has something to do with the Uncanny Valley or their cold, lifeless stare, dolls – especially older, handmade ones – have an easy time convincing us that they’re cursed.
The haunted doll legend can be traced back to one particular specimen; Robert, a doll originally owned by Robert Eugene Otto since 1904, when it was given to him as a gift by his grandfather after a trip to Germany. Otto went by his middle name, calling the doll Robert, taking it with him everywhere and speaking to it as though it were a real person… even into adulthood. After Eugene Otto’s death in 1974, Robert was reported to move around the house on his own when nobody was looking, and people swore that the doll’s facial expression changed and bad luck came about if anyone disrespected it.
Robert was donated to the Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida, where he remains to this day. He even receives letters from fans, praising him and occasionally asking him to put curses on people… and in case you’re wondering, yes, there is a Robert The Doll horror film series as well.
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Seance Simulator
The Tradition Lives On In Two Point County
Like the Monkey’s Paw, seances as they’re portrayed in Two Point Museum aren’t some ancient ritual that goes back to the roots of civilization. While there are certainly cultural traditions across the world that are associated with communicating with the dead, the practice that we commonly refer to as a seance grew out of the Spiritualist Movement, which emerged over the course of the nineteenth century, primarily in the United States and Britain.
Usually performed in a small group, but sometimes done for an audience onstage, seances involve a medium – a person able to communicate with the disembodied spirits of the dead – relaying messages to the living. Skeptics at the time, including master illusionist Harry Houdini, would point out the lengths that some mediums would go to in order to set up the scene in advance – much like Two Point Museum’s Seance Simulator – to allow for flickering lights, mysterious noises, and other mysterious happenings to lend credibility to their performance.
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March 4, 2025
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Everyone // Mild Fantasy Violence, Comic Mischief