An Antiques Roadshow expert had a nasty surprise after he chose to drink from a 180-year-old bottle someone had brought in to be appraised.
Now, I don't know about you, but personally I wouldn't be rushing to drink anything that's been bottled up for 180 years, let alone when you don't know what it actually is, but that didn't stop one antiques expert doing just that.
During one 2016 episode of BBC One's Antiques Roadshow in the UK, expert Andy McConnell was handed a bottle that had been brought in by a man named John.
John had found the 180-year-old port bottle in his home and had brought it on the show to find out more about it.
Upon seeing the ancient bottle, Andy was delighted as it is apparently very rare to find them the contents "still inside".
Now, most people would happily leave said contents where they've happily resided for almost two centuries, but Andy decide to go a bit futher.
Using a syringe, he extracted some of the liquid from inside - you might think in order to send it off to a lab for analysis.
Examining the liquid in a glass, Andy commented: "It's very brown," before dipping his finger into it and licking it off in front of the horrified audience gathered around.
He guessed: "I think it's port... port or red wine... or it's full of rusty old nails and that's rust."
Unfortunately, even rusty nails would have been a slightly more attractive prospect than what was actually inside...
...which was urine.
See the moment from 9:54 below:
The host, Fiona Bruce, revealed that the bottle, which had been found buried upside down in the threshold of John's kitchen, was actually a witches bottle.
She revealed that it would have been created as a talisman to protect against "witchcraft, against curses, against misfortune coming into the home", and had included a variety of pretty gross things.
Addressing the incident, Andy declared: "It was too good of an opportunity to miss," before the bottle was sent off to Loughborough University for further testing.
Fiona confirmed: "Now, you thought it might have been port or wine... That would've been nice...
"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."
Thankfully Andy took it in his stride, joking: "Yummy."
Luckily, it doesn't look like it caused him any lasting damage but it's probably a good idea not to drink unidentified liquids found in bottles buried in your home in case they contain the pee of a long-deceased witch.