Speaking from his macabre curiosities shop in Essex in a recent YouTube interview, Scragg wears a shabby bowler hat, has tribal-style face tattoos and a ginger beard that descends into three pendulous dreadlocks. The shop, Curiosities from the 5th Corner, provides a backdrop that could be plucked straight from a Victorian penny dreadful: a foetus of conjoined twins floats in a large medical jar at Scragg's elbow, shelves of human skulls and a hybrid animal skeleton loom behind.
We have chosen not to show any human remains. And that is a push with a lot of different museums. For us it is a complex story because physical anthropology is one of the important departments.
Tiny kids were playing right next to literal bits of human arm. Another mum added: I've literally just had a baby, it's absolutely terrifying, we moved here to be safe we just don't know what to do.