Haunted Dolls.

[Desie]

There is probably no one reading this who has not had a disturbing experience at one time or another involving that most simple and supposedly benign object, a child’s doll.

Ask around at any party where the conversation turns to the supernatural and someone will inevitably pipe up with a creepy story about an encounter with a doll that seemed to have a life and will all its own. Invariably, the doll was the object of fear and loathing in someone’s home until the children were old enough to abandon such things. If they were lucky, the doll was given away – maybe it was passed on to some unfortunate cousin; if they weren’t so lucky, the doll was relegated to storage in the labyrinthine darkness of the attic where it often became to object of even more terror.


Dolls, simple child’s playthings, primitive or highly stylized, have been around for centuries. Every culture seems to create these little imitations of humans and all seem to do so for the same purpose: to provide companionship, entertainment and comfort to our children.


With such innocent and well-intentioned origins, what could possibly bother, or, in some cases even terrify us about these loving childhood companions?

For reasons unknown, dolls seem to attract spirits. More troubling, dolls seem to become easily imbued with the spirit of the child to whom it most closely connected. And there is ample evidence to at least provoke suspicion that some dolls stay connected via this childhood link for years, even generations after their childhood playmate has grown to adulthood or succumbed to early death.


Other dolls are created for the enjoyment of the collector, and although they are never “played with” in the traditional sense they still can become objects of devotion and even obsession. Any avid doll collector will tell you that it can be hard to pass up the opportunity to purchase or obtain a beautiful, desirable doll. These dolls are no less loved and the emotional connection is no less intense; often these collectible dolls are the objects of the most terrifying haunted events.


Author Anne Rice is one collector of such magnificent dolls and they can be seen on display at her Doll Museum in New Orleans. Once the site of the St. Elizabeth’s Orphanage, the building now houses Rice’s vast collection and other artistic works. It is interesting to note, however, that Rice once stated that she moved her doll collection to the centralized museum location because it basically bothered her to have them around her house. Prior to the opening of the museum, when she and husband Stan Rice were making one last walk-through, Rice is quoted as having said she “wouldn’t like to be locked in here all night with all of them [the dolls].” Not only are most of the dolls allegedly haunted, they are now housed in a verifiably haunted location.

Haunted dolls are also extremely popular items at online auction sites such as eBay and bidZ, however, not every doll or toy featured on these sites can be verified as truly being haunted. Granted, some of the more beat up models featured are disturbing in their own right, whether or not they are actually haunted, but it should be obvious to the discerning reader that some dolls are so decidedly bogus you can practically smell it over your broadband connection!


This is not to suggest that the haunted authenticity of every doll or toy presented for sale is to be questioned. Many legitimate paranormal investigators and ghost hunters often place items up for sale that they are willing to part with for the sake of furthering research and study. Others, it is true, are quite obviously victims of hauntings who have unknowingly come by a doll or toy, often through inheritance or estate sale, that has proceeded to haunt and otherwise terrify its new owners. These people genuinely want to get rid of the item and will usually place only a small reserve on it, willing to part with it the moment the auction time is up.


But obviously there are many others who for one reason or another feel it necessary to either bilk individuals out of hard-earned cash or make fools out of paranormal enthusiasts. These are the folks with the long, meandering, “true life” stories of “real hauntings” by the doll and who have to get rid of the dreaded object “at any cost,” so long as it’s high.

They continue to get away with it because, after all, you can’t really PROVE a doll or toy is haunted. Or can you?

[Carrie]

well i've never had an experience with doll hauntings. although i've got like 40 different dolls in my room from around the world but they've never turned on me, or haunted me. i take good care of them...haven't played with any of them though (ever there collectibles) but there in good condition.
carrie

[disneydellsdude]

That's why I get more scaired when I ride "it's a small world" than the Haunted Mansion.

Or maybe it's just the song...

[kathyghosthunter]

A lady I know told me she some how picked up a little girl spirit dressed in Victorian clothes. She said she was not bothered by having a spirit present and liked the little girl. She would keep me updated on what was happening in her home, like seeing the spirit or hearing her. I asked her how long has she noticed her with her. She had told me that she was with her for about 10 years and she figured she must have picked her up from one of the places she lived in. I asked her of the spirit moved with her to other places where she lived and she said yeas. I asked her if she (the spirit) went with her on vacations with her she said no, not that she noticed. I knew it was a very rare thing that a person would be haunted so I noted the things she would tell me to se if I could figure out how this little spirit connected to her.
One day she was quite upset. She had told me that she didn’t mind the little spirit, but she did mind that the spirit is moving things around. I asked her what she was moving and she told me that she would come home from work and would find one of her dolls moved. (dolls I thought, this woman was as old as I am, what was she doing with dolls?) I asked her if it always was the same doll and she said yes. She was afraid that the spirit would break it. I asked her what kind of doll was it and she told me that it was an antique porcelain doll. I quickly put 2 and 2 together, but just to make sure, I asked her how long has she had the doll. She said about 10 years. She had gotten it at a estate sale. I asked her if that was the time she started to notice the little spirit, after some thought she said it was about the same time.

[stevenro]

Hmmm reading all this a thought came to me.... What if the ghost/spirits are not connected just to houses but to the most precious thing/object they had. For an adult an old man the house is the most precious thing in 80% of the cases. But for a child the most precious object I think its their DOLL especially on the old days when there was no television...So I think a radical change in their objects could start the vicious haunting.Like a bit above Kathy said a move from one place to other of that DOLL could be a big change. I heard that fact that in some hauntings the spirits get mad after the new owner renovates the old house. I heard just here on the site that there could be a haunting by a picture... why not? if that was the spirits most important thing...
Think about it.....

[Carrie]

hhmmm thats an interisting thouhgt i wonder......
carrie

[kathyghosthunter]

There is another category of spirits that really hasn’t been talked about too much and that is “Walking Spirits”

Most spirits are attached to a house, object, or land. However, there are “Walking Spirits” These spirits seem to roam around from place to place. I knew about these spirits years ago but I haven’t been able to prove it. I am however finding more and more evidence of their existence. Other ghost hunters have also noticed them but they have been calling them tramp spirits or vagabond spirits and label them as not nice. I however and finding that they are just normal spirits of men women and children that don’t seem to be attached to anything.

[Carrie]

you mean like that they roam around not really noticing that they're dead or alive? i always assmd that they never noticed that they had passed away.
carrie

[kathyghosthunter]

The ones that I have ran into knew that they were dead. However I am sure that there are some who don’t know and don’t understand what is happening to them and why people don’t see them. That has to be very disturbing. I have gotten many voices on my tape recorder asking for help.

[Carrie]

oh poor ghosts!! but how could you not notice that your dead?? that's what im curious about.
Carrie

[darknessfalls]

I can't help but be slightly freaked out because 1) i have a bunch of doll in my room 2) Im VEEERRRYYYY paranoid and 3) i HATE it when inaminant objects stare at me ecpesialy dolls!
www.scaryforkids.com/scary-dolls/ check out this link theres one particular doll that scares the sh*t out of me O__o its that baby doll doll with the weird teeth *shivers* when i first saw it my heart skipped a beat and i had nighmares for a week! *rocks back and forth in featle position* O_________o

[Carrie]

lol!! yeah i have a sh*t load of Brazillian and European dolls in my bedroom. but they don't freak me out because i keep them in good condition so if they do ever come alive they won't rebel against me!
Carrie

[darknessfalls]

jesus i just looked at my link again and now matter how many times i see that picture i just get a uneasy feeling and my heart beets really fast its weird

[Carrie]

wow!! i just looked at the link!! freaky!! my friends' aunt has the chucky doll!! when we were little her aunt used to live with them and at night she would sleep with the freakn' doll!!!!!!! and when she would watch a scary movie she would watch it with the doll!!! oh btw it was the chuckie doll!!
Carrie

[sugarysweetgirl]

I remember when I was little, I had troll dolls. Remember those? They didn't bother me, but there was one in particular that gave me an uneasy feeling. It had red hair and wore a cute devil outfit. I decided to get rid of it because it freaked me out, so I picked it up one night and said to it, "You're gettin' outta here. I don't like you." And as I started to walk out of my room, my TV turned off. I just kinda froze for a second and I kidd you not, as soon as I put that d**n doll back on my shelf, my TV turned back on. I was so freaked out after that that when we moved, I asked my mom to get rid of all my troll dolls.