The Oddities And Curiosities Expo Arrives In Boston

WBZ NewsRadio’s Jay Willett reports. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I saw a whole range of wholesale skulls and iaphinite specimen.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Two headed rabbit taxidermy gravestones and its bones, real bones
galore for the Boston stop of the Oddities and Curiosities Expo.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
It goes through about twelve different chemical baths that dye
the bones red and the cartilage blue, and then I
basically remove all the pigment from the soft tissue, so
that what's left over is a very colorful, pretty specimen
that you can essentially see through and it's.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Like a three D X rad Josh of Josh's Bone
Yard says it's like Halloween every time the expo comes
to town and is quote enjoying his time in Boston.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh, it's horrible. The streets are crazy and chaotic. There's
people walking in the streets and yeah, it's just crazy
out here over here.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
What straet jacket? Is that authentic? It is?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Where's that from?

Speaker 4 (00:42):
I went from Canada Company. Well, they don't make them anymore.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
From the Hines Convention Center. Jay will Lett, WBZ, Boston's
news radio