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Mike Flanagan collects movie props. Not a huge surprise, right? The man has been on enough movie sets that he could be swimming in them. But at New York Comic Con 2024, the Doctor Sleep director revealed that he's got a prop at home from a movie he had nothing to do with, and let me tell you, it's quite a get. Put this through your brains, moviegoers: Mike Flanagan is the current owner of Raccacoonie from Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Let's take a step back for context. This reveal from Flanagan came out of NYCC's Fall of the House of Usher panel, which also featured Kate Siegel, Rahul Kohli, and Carla Gugino. It was moderated by Happy Sad Confused host Josh Horowitz, who asked the entire cast and crew if they collected anything.

"I collect movie props," said Flanagan. "From other movies. I've finally gootten smart enough to steal from my own movies now; it took me way to long to figure that out. But no, I've got one of the baseball bats from The Natural, I've got Raccacoonie from Everything Everywhere All at Once."

If you don't know, Raccacoonie is a riff on Pixar's Ratatouille, a raccoon that controls a chef from under his chef hat. The name was, at first, just a case of Michelle Yeoh's Evelyn getting Ratatouille's title wrong, but eventually the characters slide into a multiverse where Raccacoonie exists. And now, that reality belongs to Mike Flanagan. At least, its main character does.

It might seem like a silly souvenir for a director who's delved into the darks that Mike Flanagan has, but it does make a little bit more sense if you know how Raccacoonie came into being. According to IGN, Raccacoonie designer Jason Hamer based his lovable puppet on a real, taxidermied raccoon corpse. 

So while Mike Flanagan doesn't have an actual furry Frankenstein in his guest room, he pretty much has the nexty best thing. You'd think that a person with so much experience in haunted fiction would know a ghost-beacon when he sees one but, hey, what do I know? 

I know I'm not going to Mike Flanagan's house, is the answer.

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