Many of us dream of quitting our jobs to stay at home practising a weird hobby every day, and a taxidermist and horror-lover from south Wales has done just that. Father-of-two Dave Roberts opened his Morbitorium in 2018 in the house which neighbours his partner’s property in the quiet village of Pontywaun nestled between Cwmcarn and Crosskeys.
He knocked through the wall to connect the two small houses and has stacked the building with curiosities he’s collected over the last decade to create what is surely one of the strangest places to visit in the country. His house of horrors is something to behold on the otherwise unremarkable street and the villagers love him. They even offered to have a whip-around to replace his lifesize skeleton Mort when he was broken by vandals.
The house, which is free to enter and where visitors can purchase most of the weird objects, has become so popular that last year the 51-year-old ex-IT worker from Penarth handed his notice in and decided to become a full-time master of the Morbitorium.
