00:00A Liverpool man says his four-bedroom home is so packed with paranormal and horror objects that he cannot get
00:07into two of the rooms.
00:09Michael Diamond, 55, estimates his collection is worth more than £50,000.
00:15His fascination began aged eight when he spotted a Balinese devil mask in his shop whilst on holiday.
00:21More than 45 years later, he has around 500 items collected over several decades, including century-old Ouija boards, skulls
00:31and an executioner's sword dating from the mid-1700s.
00:36One of his best-known possessions is a ventriloquist doll called Mr Fritz.
00:40Michael says it was made by an American prisoner of war in a German prison camp during the Second World
00:47War.
00:47He said the maker was a children's entertainer who named the doll as a joke about the Germans.
00:53The doll eventually reached America and later appeared in an antique shop.
00:57He says he also saw its eyes and mouth move and recorded footage which appeared to show this.
01:03These claims have not been independently verified.
01:06Michael says his collection grew quickly after he and his wife bought their house in 2000.
01:11Some visitors are uncomfortable with it and even his own wife insists.
01:15The ventriloquist doll is kept chained up and covered with a blanket.
01:19Michael says his three favourite items are the doll, a Tibetan kapala and a Chinese executioner's sword, said to date
01:27from the 1890s.
