Homespun Haints: True Ghost Stories

The Man Who Sells Dead People's Things

July 29, 2024 Becky Kilimnik and Diana Doty Season 6 Episode 22

Duane Scott Cerny, antiques dealer in Chicago, collects stories about the people, places, and things that pass through his shop. Some of those items, however, come with a ghost.

Duane Scott Cerny, antiques dealer in Chicago, collects stories about the people, places, and things that pass through his shop. Duane owns Chicago’s oldest and largest antique store: Broadway Antique Market. provides the very best in vintage furnishings, art, lighting, objects, fashions and jewelry from 75 top dealers. If you’re not local to Chicago, you can browse the potentially haunted antiques on his Etsy store. You can read the piece he mentioned that he wrote for the New York Times here. And here are his published books, Selling Dead People’s Things and Vintage Confidential: Retro Rattled, Tales Tattled—Confessions of the World’s Third Oldest Profession.


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