A TikToker says her landlord is struggling to hire out her home as a result of her decor consists of every part from a used coffin to a headstone

• Beckie-Ann Galentine posted a TikTok describing the explanations her landlord cannot discover a renter.
• Her house is full of a coffin, a tombstone, baggage of hair, toe tags, and hospital doorways. 
• Galentine sees these things as tales, however she realizes they may be stunning to strangers.

Beckie-Ann Galentine’s Victorian residence in West Hartford, Connecticut, is full of oddities. 

There is a tombstone in a single nook, a stack of vintage Ouija boards in one other, and within the coronary heart of her front room is a used coffin that is been changed into a espresso desk.

To her, the area feels “like residence,” she advised Insider.

However she’s afraid that is not true for everybody. In a number of months, Galentine is transferring out of the home, so her landlord has been internet hosting excursions for potential new tenants. 

Galentine, who goes by @mybloodygalentine on TikTok, posted a video on Tuesday highlighting the “causes my landlord cannot discover anybody to hire my place.” The video went viral and gained greater than 1.4 million views inside a day.

Whereas her gadgets will not be staying with the long run renter, Galentine stated the three individuals who have toured the home have been a bit jarred by the skeletons, toe tags, and human hair that fills her residence. 

Galentine stated she collects tales, not objects

Past the three potential renters, Galentine stated she’s spent the previous couple of weeks promoting gadgets as she prepares to maneuver.

Collectively, the strangers have had a combination of reactions — from curiosity to concern. 

Galentine stated one potential renter was peppering her and the owner with questions on her decor as they toured the area. One other rapidly requested the owner about different properties he owned, she stated.

When a pair landed at her entrance door to choose up classic attire from Fb Market, Galentine stated they determined to attend on the entrance porch as soon as they noticed the coffin and different curiosities in her residence. 

Galentine, who labored as an embalmer and grew up in an vintage retailer, stated it is not simply the objects that fascinate her — it is the tales behind them.

For instance, Galentine stated the used coffin in her residence was as soon as a delivery coffin used to move a physique from nation to nation. She added that they are sometimes discarded after use, so she acquired one and reworked it into her espresso desk.

The doorways in her entryway, however, had been as soon as a part of the Danvers State Hospital, a now-closed psychological hospital in Massachusetts. And the tombstone was initially designed for a pastor who moved to a different church. 

“Not one of the stuff is stolen, and every part has a narrative,” Galentine stated. “To me, I really feel like a custodian or a steward of the gadgets as an alternative of being a collector or proprietor.”

Galentine stated she hopes that the strangers coming into her residence and the viewers of her TikTok notice that. 

“I do assume it’s stunning to individuals,” she stated. “However I wish to reinforce the concept that this is not a morbid curiosity. It is concerning the individuals and their tales.”