About 50 years ago, land was being cleared in London for the construction of a new quarter. Then several old mansions were demolished, including the house that once belonged to Thomas Theodore Merlin. Several thousand old sealed wooden boxes were discovered in the basement of this building...
Having opened these chests, the builders were horrified, because inside lay the skeletons of various mythical creatures(fairies, vampires, lycanthropes, horned hares, werewolves, and so on). People heard about some of them from fairy tales, others seemed completely unfamiliar and strange to them. In this material we will try to slightly reveal the secret of these creatures and tell you more about Thomas Theodore Merlin.
In general, the personality of this man is shrouded in various legends. It is known that he was born back in 1782. Merlin's mother died in childbirth. The boy was raised by his father, whose name was Edward. It was he who influenced the boy’s worldview, since he himself was very interested in esotericism.
Edward and his son traveled a lot around the world, collecting various artifacts. Thomas experienced the death of his father very difficult, but still he found the strength to return to scientific world. Thomas worked hard on the collected artifacts and regularly communicated with representatives of the then scientific elite. 
Thomas Merlin even tried to show his collection in the USA, but the local conservative public did not react well to this idea, and the tour had to be interrupted.
Over time, Merlin's mansion was given to the Tunbridge Children's Home, ostensibly on the condition that the basement not be opened. But in the 1960s it was opened... Now the Merlin Museum is located here. 
It is interesting that, besides the link to the website of this museum, there are no other sources telling about this unique collection. From this we can conclude that the story about Merlin is just a nice joke or, perhaps, a good marketing ploy, because any exhibit of this museum can be purchased... 
In the 1960s in London, while clearing a site for the construction of a new residential area, an old, long-abandoned mansion that had previously belonged to a certain Thomas Theodore Merlin was sent for demolition.
In the basement of the house, builders discovered several thousand small wooden boxes that were tightly sealed. Imagine their surprise when inside they began to find the corpses of strange mythical creatures that, it seemed, should only live in fairy tales.
Lord and Professor Thomas Theodore Merlin.
Sir Merlin was born into an aristocratic London family in 1782. His mother died during childbirth and the boy was left to be raised by his father Edward. His father was a military general, but soon after the birth of his son he retired and began to become seriously interested in esoteric natural history. Good investments in profitable commercial companies allowed him to travel around the world in search of various artifacts and unknown species animals and plants.
They traveled together for many years until Edward passed away. Thomas took the death of his father very hard. Seeking solace in his work, he became practically a hermit, collecting at home an impressive library and specimens of unseen creatures. However, he found the strength to return to the scientific world. During his long career, Thomas Merlin traveled all over the world many times. Earth, he was friends and corresponded with many famous scientists of that time. And, of course, he continued to collect his collection.
Once in 1899, he even made an attempt to show it to the world, going on tour overseas to America with a small part of his impressive collection. But the local conservative public reacted sharply negatively to the creatures that Merlin showed them. The tour had to be canceled before he could reach California. Surprisingly, even at his advanced age, Sir Merlin retained an amazing physical fitness. He rarely looked older than 40 years old. It even got to the point that some began to accuse him of occult practices that supposedly gave him eternal life.
These doubts were only strengthened in the spring of 1942, when someone posing as Thomas Merlin presented the deeds to the house and stated that he wished to transfer ownership of it to the Tunbridge Children's Home on the condition that the house would never be sold and the basement would never be opened. People who followed the work of Thomas Merlin naturally assumed that he had been dead for a long time, since in 1942 he would have been over 160 years old. But this man quickly disappeared and it was no longer possible to find him. The orphanage kept its promises; they never opened the mansion's basement. But in the 1960s they had to move out, and the house was demolished. Only after destroying it almost to the ground did the builders manage to find Merlin’s secret collection. And what was there is simply amazing.
Fairies
Newborn dragon Draco Magnus
Homo Vampyrus
Complete skeleton of Draco Alatus
Homomimus Aquaticus, or Icthyosapien - a distant ancestor of jumping fish,
which evolved into some kind of mermaid
Draco Alatus
Homo Vampyrus (Vampire) Homo Lupus (Lycanthrope)
Homo Lupus (Lycanthrope Cub)
Devil child
Adult male lycanthrope
Homomimus Dentata (Tooth Fairy)
Homunculi (Goblin)
Homunculi (Dwarf)
Nymph
Succubi (Succubus)
Lepus temperamentalus (Horned hare)
Sea monsters
Ceratopsid Dinosaur
Draco Fluminis
Mummified Vampire Child
Lycanthrope head
Important addition.
In order to avoid all sorts of misunderstandings, it is still necessary to make a separate clarification (although this is already obvious) that this entire collection is just a set of interesting miniatures created by artists that are in no way connected with reality. And the story about Sir Thomas Merlyn is nothing more than beautiful legend. In our pragmatic everyday world, sometimes you want a little secrets and riddles. Take it easy.
Thomas Merrilyn was born in 1782 into a wealthy aristocratic family. His mother died in childbirth and he was raised by his father Edward. His father was an army general, but after retirement he became interested in esoteric and natural history. He invested in profitable companies, to fund their travels around the world in search of various artifacts and unknown species that lived on forgotten continents or lost places, far from prying human eyes.
They traveled together for many years until his father died of sudden death. This event turned Thomas into a recluse, and he sought solace in his work. He studied in the large library at his home and also studied at University College London on Gower Street. Even then, he isolated himself from other students.
In subsequent years, Merrilin expanded the collection into geometric progression. He traveled all over the Earth, learned a lot, but he himself remained a mystery to everyone. He simply disappeared in 1942.
In the spring of that year, a man calling himself Thomas Theodore Merrilyn donated a townhouse for an orphanage. His only condition was that the house would never be sold and the basement of the house would always be closed. Thomas Merrilyn, photographed in a local newspaper handing over the deeds to the house to the new owner, looks forty years old, although he should be already 160 years old. They say that he quickly disappeared, leaving no trace of his existence.
IN orphanage They kept their promise, in the 60s it was closed and the existence of the basement was forgotten. The door, sealed behind two brick walls, could only be discovered by chance, which is what happened before the demolition of the building.
Alex CF explains that all these strange creatures and mysterious manuscripts are currently on display at the Merrylin Cryptid Museum and they are real. From a scientific point of view, their authenticity has never been proven.
The Merrylin Cryptid Museum collection is believed to be actually the fictional invention of Alex CF, a London-based illustrator, writer and sculptor with a whimsically twisted imagination and a flair for the mysterious. And now you can add to his merits the skill of a marketing specialist, so brilliantly he promotes his Merrylin Cryptid Museum.
Of course, such truth destroys the illusion, but this does not make his terrible creations cease to be amazing.
A few days ago in London, builders began demolishing old mansion, which previously belonged to a gentleman named Thomas Theodore Merlin(Thomas Theodore Merlin). As soon as this house is demolished, they plan to build a new modern residential quarter in its place. But when the workers went down to the basement of the mansion, they found there a creepy collection of skeletons of many unknown creatures. Experts have already recognized it as the strangest and most unusual private collection V modern history London.
A collection of creepy monsters was found in the basement of a house in London.
Thomas Theodore Merlin was born into an aristocratic family in London in 1782. He later became a highly respected scientist - naturalist, zoologist and archaeologist. Hidden in his dusty basement were several thousand small wooden boxes, each tightly closed. When they began to open the boxes, they found in them the remains of some bodies that, it seemed, could exist only in the darkest fairy tales. 
During Merlin's lifetime main passion was the study of esoteric natural history. He constantly traveled to the most unusual and strange corners of the world in search of mystical artifacts and plants. Perhaps the result of these trips was this monster collection in the basement of his house.
British builders in the 60s accidentally during renovation orphanage discovered a basement with boxes containing the remains of mysterious creatures, and scientists immediately assumed that it was the collection of Thomas Merlin. Their colleague devoted his whole life to searching for cryptids, the existence of which he managed to prove.
For many centuries, experts have tried to prove the reality of the most famous monsters described in the stories of eyewitnesses of the events. This concerned Bigfoot and a monster from Scotland, but no one found any compelling arguments confirming their presence in the world. It’s worth adding right away that these animals are called cryptids, and the scientists involved in the search are sure that there are hundreds of unknown species on the planet, hiding in hard-to-reach corners and known only local residents or described in their legends. Until the 19th century, the gorilla or giant panda was also classified as one of these species not found in nature. Lakes and seas are the most common refuges for mysterious monsters, because they are only 3% explored and can bring sensational discoveries scientific world.
Ancient sailors often described encounters with terrible creatures capable of dragging ships to the bottom. Krakens really were in real life and are mentioned in 12th century chronicles, where some people described them as octopuses or crabs. Such monsters can be found not only in the depths of the sea, since Americans from Oklahoma have also repeatedly noticed a giant monster with tentacles attacking people in the waters of lakes. Therefore, there are much more deaths in this area than in other bodies of water in the country. Mysterious fish of incredible size were also found. Many residents of the South African city of Margate in the 20s witnessed an incredible fight between such an individual covered with fur and killer whales, but no one else saw it.
Also, scientists cannot classify the inhabitants underwater world, living in such places, so Nessie is still considered a type of dinosaur or warm-blooded creature, but most experts find it difficult to answer this question. Skeptics used to say that they simply did not exist, but it was only after the 18th century that the sea cow was recognized biological species, and until that moment only sailors had seen her while sailing. This refers to flying monsters, striking in their resemblance to ancient extinct pterodactyls. Pilots flying over Papua New Guinea have seen a ropen with 10-meter wings, a reptile-like beak and a crest on its head. The Indonesian jungle hides giant akhuls from people bats, going out to hunt at night and having 3-meter wings. They were first discovered by scientist Ernest Bartels, who explored these areas in the 20s, after which he described that these individuals are covered with thick hair and feed on caught fish. Latin American Indians even have legends about mice with human heads that drink the blood of people and still live in mountain caves.
Many cryptids appearance resemble a monkey, so the Kenyans were absolutely right in talking about a monster who steals sheep from villages for his dinner, but is afraid of the sound of drums. Big foods are also often mentioned by Americans who have seen their large footprints and also describe these creatures as three-meter giants covered with fur, with a small forehead and weighing 200 kilograms. They are capable of not only frightening a person, but also hypnotizing him with the help of superpowers, and also suddenly disappear from view, passing through a time portal. Mapinguari also looks like a primate, only it moves on two legs and emits a strong stench after death, so the hunters were forced to immediately bury the corpses in the ground. This includes the yeti, which is similar in appearance to a person and lives in the mountainous areas of Pakistan and Nepal at high altitudes.
The most known species The cryptid became a Tatzelwurm, living in the Alps. Scientists consider it a type of reptilian, and the first mention of such an unusual dragon can be found in chronicles of the 15th century. At that time, many people variously described the creature, reaching 4 meters, and having a sharp crest on its back, covered with scales or warts. It then disappeared from view until 1850, when temple parishioners were able to contemplate the remains of the murdered monster for the first time on public display. Then they decided to destroy them, and already in 1914 in Slovenia, a military man caught such a monster and made a stuffed animal out of it. Then came the turn of falsifications, when instead of a dragon they showed an American lizard and photographs of a figurine, and on the first day of April Europeans were already accustomed to perceive every new sensation about the discovery of a creature as a joke.
But what did the legendary collector, who himself was also a mysterious person? Thomas Merlin was born in 1782 and then spent his entire life traveling around the world in search of mysterious exhibits, and then decided to show the Americans his collected collection, only in 1899 did no one appreciate such a great discovery. Then the scientist crossed the 117-year-old mark, but his contemporaries described him as a 40-year-old man, after which the strange features of the body began to be considered witchcraft. No one wanted to communicate with the man who had disappeared along with his rarities, but in 1942 he suddenly appeared in the British capital and showed original documents for his house, transferring the building to the orphanage on the condition that it would never be sold. Then his age was 160 years, but the scientist mysteriously disappeared again. The collection of unique cryptids was partially mummified, and there were also ancient manuscripts proving the authenticity of the exhibits. Now 800 specialists from 20 countries have created an alliance to find traces mystical creatures and people are still waiting for new future discoveries that can revolutionize current scientific theories.
Reshetnikova Irina
