Even if you don’t have a ridiculous amount of money to blow on stupid garbage, everybody loves a good auction of pop culture memorabilia. Where else can you get a shirt with a bird on it that was worn by a guy on TV, or a stapler you may have seen in the background once, or an opportunity to be buried in a famous grave? An auction of TV props is going to happen at the beginning of next month, and while it doesn’t have a famous gravesite or a bird shirt, a single item makes this one of the most absurd/cool/absurdly cool memorabilia auctions in a long time. That item, as spoiled by the headline of this story, is none other than Laura Palmer’s casket from Twin Peaks.
Yes, for a starting bid of only $1,000, you could have one of the weirdest, most bizarre things that anyone has ever bought in the history of buying things. Remember Laura Palmer’s funeral scene in the original show, where her father jumped on top of the casket as it was lowered into the ground? This is that casket, and now you can jump on top of it and pretend you’re Leland Palmer, like some totally normal person who we would never even think about judging for buying such a weird thing. Seriously, though, what would someone do with it? Unless they own a TV museum, would they just keep it in their living room and constantly explain to people that it’s from Twin Peaks? We’d really like to know, but also, we really don’t want to know.