Antiques Roadshow viewers sickened as expert drinks urine mixed with human hair in revolting scenes

ANTIQUES Roadshow viewers have been left sickened after an expert drank urine mixed with human hair in revolting scenes.

Sunday night saw a What Happened Next? episode of the BBC show repeated, and at one point expert Andy McConnell was presented with a bottle dating back to the 1800s.

Andy was intrigued to discover the bottle still contained some liquid, and so he decided to plunge a syringe in the bottle’s cork.

Owner John had brought the mystery tipple with him to the roadshow in Trelissick, Cornwall, in 2016 after finding it buried in the threshold of his house.

But even he was taken aback when expert Andy tasted some of the dirty liquid despite remarking beforehand: “It’s very brown.”

Clearly repulsed by the taste, he said: “I think it’s port – port or red wine… or it’s full of rusty old nails and that’s rust.”

And it has since emerged that Andy was right, as host Fiona Bruce went on to reveal during the episode that the bottle was filled with human urine along with other unsavoury items such as a human hair.

It transpired, much to the expert’s embarrassment, that the disgusting concoction was put into the house’s threshold as a way of warding off witches.

Speaking to Andy about the previous moment, Fiona explained as she held out her hand: “Inside were these brass pins, all of these dating from the late 1840s and the liquid – urine, a tiny bit of alcohol and one human hair.

“And a mysterious little creature called an ostracod, which is like a little cockle. So what this was was not a bottle of port or wine but a witches bottle.

“So buried in the threshold of the house as a talisman against witchcraft, against curses, against misfortune coming into the home. So you glad you tried it?”

Taking the news in good spirits, Andy replied: “It was too much of a good opportunity to miss.”

However, viewers were horrified, with one writing on Twitter: “The look on Glassman’s mush when Fiona told him the contents of that witch’s bottle was priceless.”

Another wrote alongside a gif of someone being sick: “Glassman using the bogs shortly after his wine tasting!!”

Antiques Roadshow is available on BBC iPlayer.