Exhibit 28: Tulpa Coat Rack

[Archivists note: The following is a transcript taken from an engraved plaque at the Purcell O’Brien Museum of Cursed & Sacred Artifacts in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was rubbed with charcoal onto the torn out page of a Hilroy Notebook, 10-1/2” x 8”, graph paper. According to the museum’s website, the Tulpa Coat Rack has been missing as of 14/09/2020, when it “vanished in the dead of night from its permanently sealed enclosure with no sign of forced entry.” 

We should note that many argue this “disappearance” was nothing more than a viral marketing stunt, and the coat rack was never the original to begin with, only a well crafted recreation based on witness testimony and urban legend. The empty enclosure is still on display. Posted here on 04/08/2026.]

Age: Unknown.

NO PHOTOGRAPHS ALLOWED

Before you stands the crown jewel of our collection. The Tulpa Coat Rack is among the most cursed objects in the world, arguably more dangerous than the infamous Annabelle doll in Monroe, Connecticut. It is said that looking upon the coat rack for longer than three minutes at a time invites great evil into your life. Because of this, you will notice our automated curtain system, which lowers every two minutes and thirty seconds to hold for a duration of ten seconds before raising again. 

This enclosure is made of 4-inch thick acrylic, the same material used for deep sea submarine portholes. The coat rack itself is made of varnished oak. Along its spine a morse code inscription is etched, likely carved there with a knife:

. .- -.-. .... / .-- . . -.- / --- -. . / ... - . .--.

We should note that a small, albeit vocal minority, believes this object to be sacred rather than cursed. To that we simply invoke the age old saying: one man’s Devil is another man’s God. 

Donated by an anonymous collector on 22/12/1992.