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In the summer of 2006, the London authorities decided to demolish a dilapidated mansion that had belonged to the Tenbridge Orphanage. In the basement of the old building, workers discovered a bricked-up doorway, behind which was a room filled with dusty wooden crates. When they opened one of them, the construction workers were horrified out of the darkness, the dead eyes of the hellish creature from the nightmare looked at them. In all the boxes were astonishing, unearthly creatures, either dried, preserved, or in the form of professionally made scarecrows.
The items belonged to Thomas Theodore Merrillin, a scientist who lived in the 18th century. The findings were numbered and began to wait for the heirs. The new owner of the collection didn't take long and showed up at the police with the appropriate documents. Unbelievably, he was a full namesake of the collection's creator: his name was Thomas Theodore Merrillin. The authorities gave him ancient crates containing baby dragons, mummy mermaids, and elves.